Vilageidiotx

Roleplaying 'Productivity' Applications

Yea, I more or less agree with what Terminal said. There does come a point where people are spending too much time writing lore and not enough advancing the plot. Because ultimately, the story is about the characters, with the lore being the backdrop. This is why I tend to develop lore in the IC and leave footnotes in the OOC.

@BrokenPromise

I think lore needs to be brought up in IC before it is accepted. Because yeh, it's obnoxious when everybody hypes their ideas OOC but never writes posts to forward them.

The Fourth Horseman Came - a Post-Apocalyptic NRP

@Vilageidiotx

tfw it's only us.

Come on, the interests of this section can't all be invested in the same old space operas as before.

@Dinh AaronMk

Edit the title to explain whats going on. Also, preface the entire thread with a three or four sentence tl;dr.

Marketing 101: People are lazy and you gotta do the work for them.

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Quoth the @catchamber; "Nevermind"

Roleplaying 'Productivity' Applications

Word Counter: I use this to keep track of how long things are. For RP's I prefer to make posts 2k words in length, so I use this to see where I am landing. It mostly just keeps me paying attention to wordcount. It does have a lot of other useful stats though, and my second favorite feature is keeping track of most commonly used words. I use that to make sure I am not flooding my post with any specific noun.

Hemingway App: Mentioned in the OP of course, but I got into using this one recently. I don't necessarily take it as gospel, but it is good for showing you what parts you should reconsider.

I also use a text to voice add-on for Firefox. It isn't perfect, and it is especially bad with names, but I think having text read out to you not only helps you catch errors, but is also good for double checking dialogue.

Weirdly enough, I actually prefer writing posts in PMs to writing them in word processors. I never particularly liked Google Docs, and though I have Scrivener for organizing my many half-baked attempts at serious writing, I don't like writing RP posts in it. I have a specific self PM I use for storing notes and writing drafts, since my style nowadays is to write a little bit at a time.

The Fourth Horseman Came - a Post-Apocalyptic NRP

Why it so quiet? I wanna get my end of the world on.

The Fourth Horseman Came - a Post-Apocalyptic NRP

Could we maybe get a more specific timeline for use in making an app? That way we know how old people should be exactly.

The EC hasn't yet met what are your predictions for what decision our Humble Benefactors will make?

mmmhm, them yellow states

The EC hasn't yet met what are your predictions for what decision our Humble Benefactors will make?

ITT we don't talk, we just post photos of piss colored states.

The Fourth Horseman Came - a Post-Apocalyptic NRP

Reserving Washington DC and environs, as show on this map.

Also reserving the presumed fate of the US government as a natural consequence of that choice.

One weird trick that will win you any argument.

The thing about mental health is it is mainly for describing people who have serious trouble in society. You see this with homosexuality, which one hundred years ago was considered disordered because the nuclear family was not just a primary method of social organization, but also an economic one, so not naturally fitting into that pattern would make life difficult. It took changes in the economic and social patterns for people to look and say "Well, at this point we are making life difficult for them on purpose, if we let up they'll fit in as well as anybody." and bam, homosexuality drops off the DSM.

Go forward 100 hundred years into a time where education is critical and your ability to do the work is integral to your future, and ideas like ADHD appear. One hundred years ago somebody who had trouble focusing in school could drop out in the eighth grade and still get a good job without too much effort. 200 years ago school wouldn't even be an expectation. But now, school is pretty damned important, and having trouble concentrating school can be considered disordered.

As the requirements for living a standard life become tighter, so do our definitions of disordered.

Also why, though we all know politicians and successful businessmen tick off the boxes for antisocial disorders, we don't usually toss them into that category in a real way. Sure, they are psychopaths, but we as a society seem to accept psychopathy as necessary among the aristocracy. If it fits in with the model of social organization we've decided to go with, we just don't considered it disordered, even if those exact same traits would be considered disordered among the general population.