SleepingSilence

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

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@Inkarnate

*awkward cough* <.<

Hmm...

Happen to know what font that is?

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

@SleepingSilence what the hell are you talking about. I’m thanking them personally for giving me info about hyphens and dashes because I’ve been using the latter incorrectly.

I am replying to them directly because I value their info enough (more than all your contributions to this thread, you passive aggressive whiny pre-teen) to warrant a more personal thank you as opposed to clicking a button. The fact you cannot comprehend this shows just how socially incompetent you are.

But please continue [@]ing me personally so you can insist you are right.

@Odin

(To save me getting in trouble, for you going out of your way to insult me, because that's how the forum rules work now. I'll end with this and still will talk to you in a civil as possible manner. Not that anyone else bothers to return the favor.)

That is the most bizarre attempt at a denial comment I've ever seen. (And since it's not in bad text speak, I can only assume you aren't baiting and you're being serious.) If you wanted to feign appreciation or actually focus on that, the whole 2nd part of your comment contradicts that entirely and only makes me have more evidence against you, that you meant it exactly that way, because you make everything personal. You also could have at least, edited my (name) @'ing out of the comment then, if you're going to complain about being quote @'d (You literally just did that to me.) Really wouldn't be that difficult.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

thanks for this

@Odin

Great worthy addition, that the emoticons at the bottom totally couldn't serve the same purpose. Maybe you could also read my reply saying, yeah actually I didn't do what they thought I did. But I still agree with what was said. Aside from the "Pushing your style on others, or giving bad advice doesn't seem like a good thing to do to a community of writers." which I could easily interpret as something else more negative, but I'm good with giving people benefit of the doubt. :D

What Are You Listening To?

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

@KoL I did say I suck at this. Perfectly fair to let the difference slide, it certainly is a bit needlessly complicated. (TIL Another way to make a dash.) But I was intentionally representing what someone else did with them. I actually do know what it is/use a hyphen for their correct purpose. So I might have unnecessarily jumbled my words to make that point. But I wasn't knocking people for using hyphens over dashes. But using commas and hyphens (which people use for dashes) interchangeably, which I think is a fair point.

Edit: You hold the Alt key on your keyboard. Use the number keypad (won't work with regular numbers.) on the right side of your keyboard, than type 0151 —

@Fabricant451 Still, it's still a color that often is used for error or serious bluntness. (If color is used at all. Some people just don't like color, as previously described by others in this thread. I just wanted a way to show examples without someone telling me I made mistakes that were intentional ones.)

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

@Mara The way the cookie crumbles sometimes. But it was made red on purpose, errors in school papers or otherwise were often done in red for a reason. #Colorchoicesmatter :P (Just for possible interest.)

"A result that suggests, say the study’s authors, that the red pens make “the concept of errors and poor performance more cognitively accessible.” "The volunteers were told to mark any errors in punctuation, spelling, grammar and word choice. Those wielding the red pen marked significantly more errors than their blue-pen peers."

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Music Appreciation Thread

@Ejected I believe he has some very dumb opinions at times, but he's an actual rapper and he does like the genre and speak passionately about it when he enjoys something, he just focuses on being humorous. He's not worth taking that seriously. ;P

As for this song, the instrumental is very much background music feeling for me, albeit pleasant enough. Which on it's own isn't a good or bad thing, but it does make what the artist is saying and his lyrical content stick out. So they need to be a good lyricist. But yeah every song I've heard from Joey Badass (still groan when people use $ signs) shows he's pretty good with wordplay/rhyming/flow. He makes it enjoyable to look at the lyrics while listening, to appreciate the effort put in his craft. And while I'll always prefer serious/heartfelt emotional rap to punchline/brag rap. I still like well crafted lyricism. 7/10

Starts at 1:18. (yeah I'm never a fan of music videos like this either.)

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Okay, the most mild of rants/critiques that I'm almost positive absolutely no one gives a damn about besides me. Because it's never brought up by anyone else. (at least in general) People seem to like the content regardless of presentation. But here's something that clearly defines a purely roleplaying thread related problem, that's easily fixable and perfect to mention in this thread.

Please, put effort in clearly and cohesively structuring your written post. You have all sorts of unique tools at your disposal that novels just don't have. Make it clear what they mean to you, when you're using them. Unless you want to confuse your reader unnecessarily. Using hiders, colors or anything else. The more obvious you can make what the purpose of including it is, the better.

I did this myself, I personally and often use italicizing to show a person's dialogue is in their head. But without making that clear, I confused my partner. Apparently, the coloring choice I used made it hard to even tell the difference. Simply because I didn't add a little clarification. So not blameless, but I really do wonder how many people even skim after they finish writing their posts.

What else do I mean? Just stuff you should be able to catch, if you read what you wrote, after you posted it. (Red text is used for highlighting examples.)

Stuff like this, when you're simply copying and pasting your work into the thread from
somewhere else and you clearly have an unnecessarily long cut between the lines that happens nowhere else, making it just distracting and jarring to look at.

Or...

"Tabbing for text, like a novel would..."

"But only sometimes."

"Which is just obnoxious for the eyes."

Being a couple examples that literally take seconds to correct and it really does make all the difference to show effort was made. So please, after you post something, double check it...

Also secondary critique. I'm sorry, it just personally bugged me to no end. Even as someone who just kind of sucks at using proper punctuation in my writing. The "-" and the "," aren't interchangeable things, or at least shouldn't be. The comma is used for separation, so certain sentences aren't confused like...

I love my parents, Kylie Minogue and Kermit the Frog.

I love my parents, Kylie Minogue, and Kermit the Frog.

It's not for dramatic pauses and you don't use "-" for random sentences. Because if you - did you'd have to stop- reading like counting 1,2 - 3. Seriously it's obnox- ious. (So is occasionally spacing out punctuation and then not doing it. Yes I did that on purpose. Consistency matters. I only often see it used for stammers or pauses in dialogue and it's probably for the best when used sparingly. Also, it makes it seem less like your punctuation is interchangeable, when you don't have stuff like :; or -, in the post. Typos that would be fixed with basic editing, just drive me up the wall.

Hopefully, everything I wrote happens to be cohesive...

Music Appreciation Thread

@EjectedI listened to this last night, but decided not to rate it, however I cannot pass on the opportunity to show where I first heard the song.

@Exit Alright. The only line that made me do a double take was "Brown hairs like Chewbacca." But the 2nd half of his 2nd verse was at least had some heart/emotion on the track (and the first line was a decent start to the song about him growing up) Musically, very mellow, easy listening rap. So, I'm sure anyone who preferred easy listening rap would like this song more. But it sort of went in one ear and out the other for me. I appreciated that the chorus had no auto-tune and was more than one phrase/or word over and over again. 5/10

Here's a rock band I didn't know existed, but now that I do...

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

@mdk Wow. One of the few times I've actually chuckled at meme pictures on this thread.