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Post a Random Thought written May 11, 2019 22:27:33 GMT
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May 11, 2019 20:12:06 GMT said:
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May 11, 2019 8:14:11 GMT said:
You know you're in for a trip when you accidentally find out that apparently everyone in a random RP hub discord believes in some sort of massive Catholic world conspiracy to pretend they actually exist in large numbers and are even the majority in some countries but really they aren't because they don't exist.

I've legitimately never heard that one before. I'm both intrigued and appalled that they seem to regard censuses and other demographic lists as the work of evil and not to be trusted, but am wondering what the next step is and what they believe the endgame is for this grand conspiracy.

Tricking people into giving them bread? Getting more flowy robes? World domination? Seeking the Apple of Eden like this is Assassin's Creed? I can't wait for them to let loose their secrets.
I love this type of stuff. It's so generally batty that it's fascinating. I honestly ended up watching over 40 hours of a conspiracy group's videos. Not because I'm remotely a believer but understanding them is like, I want to? I've actually heard of this theory before but nothing concrete, and mostly about religions in general (Including chem trails in the sky) so if you actually know of any of their hubs - I would love to learn more about their views. Fascinating really.


It turned out to be just one really zealous person, but the community doubled down really hard on it so I ended up just leaving because it wasn't a cult like I had initially hoped. I tried engaging a bit, but the next day all of the sources I listed were deleted by moderators. At first they said any source that wasn't from a particular country was bunk and fabricated, so I listed a bunch of sources from that specific country and woke up to find a few pings in #general about how I was being misled by the Catholic World Order or whatever who control the internet and also the governments and that I should DM them if I wanted to know more.

I never DM'd them and don't plan to. I feel like that road can only end badly. I am instead going to headcanon that I met some IRL Assassins who are fighting the Templars into the present day. The last thing I want to do is convince them that I'm secretly a Templar agent and have some hooded hooligan bust through my window next week.
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You know you're in for a trip when you accidentally find out that apparently everyone in a random RP hub discord believes in some sort of massive Catholic world conspiracy to pretend they actually exist in large numbers and are even the majority in some countries but really they aren't because they don't exist.

I've legitimately never heard that one before. I'm both intrigued and appalled that they seem to regard censuses and other demographic lists as the work of evil and not to be trusted, but am wondering what the next step is and what they believe the endgame is for this grand conspiracy.

Tricking people into giving them bread? Getting more flowy robes? World domination? Seeking the Apple of Eden like this is Assassin's Creed? I can't wait for them to let loose their secrets.
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Suspicious vagrant seeking temporary shelter written May 11, 2019 7:06:13 GMT
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Starting off by unfortunately declining as this level of historical has never captured my muse for very long at all. My interest always putters out at some point very early on because I find myself clinging to fantasy elements in most games. I study a lot of history in real life so find myself treating it more like a history class outside of my general area than a roleplay basically from the get go which leads to near instant burnout.

With that being said, I can honestly say that this site is in the top tier of historical sites along with AeRo and BTM, because holy moly like literally if anyone is reading this and wants an ancient era historical site with some mythological elements thrown in this is the place you should be looking at. Transparency, extremely well done lore, very clever mechanics and new spins on old ideas. 'The Drowned' account in the factions list is the epitome of this, basically removing the ability for people to metagame in intrigue plots which is super neat. The amount of effort and care that went into this project is really staggering, frankly. Just not a compatible genre for me specifically, unfortunately!
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Post a Random Thought written May 10, 2019 5:18:35 GMT
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May 9, 2019 20:38:39 GMT said:
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May 9, 2019 17:44:53 GMT said:
I'm really out here researching the occult for a fantasy world I'm building, tryna figure out the ins and outs of the cultures of these hoe ass kingdoms idk if I'm thorough or being extra
Me with literally all my lore.

every single time


It's so difficult to not fall into that rabbit hole of 'just one more thing'.

That's how you end up with 200 pages of lore and a never launched site. I still have docs from years ago with dozens of pages of worldbuilding and sometimes even maps and organizational webs and demographics and all sorts of other useless junk that was never relevant for concepts that either never saw the light or day or were so niche/poorly run that they didn't see the light of day for long.

It's why I do fandoms now, they do all that shit and I piggyback.
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Suspicious vagrant seeking temporary shelter written May 10, 2019 2:37:06 GMT
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Hello friends!

I remember on one thread or another here the idea was floated around that when people had a lot of time on their hands they might try to join other sites for short runs, maybe for an event or for a short character arc. I said at the time it sounded super cool, and I figured since I'm newly on summer vacation it would be fun to see if I could put into practice at least once.

I want to help move a plot along, but I want a specific role. I find that in the roleplaying world that simply put villains aren't allowed to do anything that people actually dislike. Sure, they might be mean to some people or think mean thoughts or if a site is particularly edgy they might even be responsible for thousands of off screen deaths like they were trying to get a medal for some sort of murderer Olympics. I'm really not interested in edginess for the sake of edginess, but I am interested in giving someone some credibility so here's the deal.

I want to make a hero type. It may change when I see the setting or write the application but right now I'm thinking someone young who is jaded but not enough to be stuck in their ways. A real knight in sour armor type, but they start to come around. They meet some friends who they learn to trust completely and get out of their shell a bit more and regain some of that idealism that they lost. And then you're going to murder them. It'd be ideal if the villain was one of those people who gathered this character's trust, but not really fully necessary if they have the trust of another true companion. The point I want is I want my character to die playing the hero in order to elevate a villain.

I only plan to be on the site for two to three months maximum and that's a hard line. I run my own site and go back to full time graduate school in August, so I will only have time to focus on my own site after that. For the summer, though, I'm a doomed hero for hire and would love some pitches in case anyone was interested in this sort of thing.
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Staffing Confessions written Apr 23, 2019 18:50:52 GMT
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Yeah, honestly appealing to guests who expect constant showers of attention and handholding is never going to cause you anything but stress.

There's an expectation to be accommodating, sure, but there are also unreasonable requests for accommodation. I'm not going to approve your application line by line as you write it over the course of like 5 hours straight because someone is too impatient to wait or is so self-conscious they refuse to post up a finished application. It is also not my job to resolve someone's boredom every five seconds.

It is also not my job to spend hours going over the Required Docs when the answers are clearly marked. If someone comes in with 'Hey, I have a question about <literally anything in the doc>' I'm going to respond and likely point to where the exact verbiage is. If someone asks about the combat system and I link the combat system... and they ask a bunch of questions that are bolded and on the top of the combat system doc I'm just going to link the combat system again and say it's in there. It's not my job to enable someone disrespecting my time and the time of my members.

At the end of the day RPers are petty as hell, myself included for the reasons they choose not to go on sites. The skin's too bright, the skin's too dark. Too many races, not enough races. This site won't let me play a robot with 5 arms wtf control freak I leave. This site's admin has a bunch of FCs that give me horror flashbacks from previous bad RP experiences so I can't do it. I recognize Bob from this site and Bob was a jerk so I leave to avoid confrontation. Bored of genre. Not interested in genre. Skin too wide. Everyone has ugly posting templates. Everyone has too pretty posting templates. Text size too small. Text size too big. Application too short. Application too long. My power is on the banned power list. My power is taken already. The canon I wanted is taken already. Staff groups are the wrong color. Discord too dead. Discord too active.

If you sit there and beat yourself up because of all the reasons above, some of which border on nonsensical but are reasons why most of us have held off on sites in the past you're going to go insane as a staffer. People don't join and fuck off for no reason at all sometimes. People just join discords, never post, never interact, and forget about it all the time. Some people will shitpost semi-actively for weeks or months but never join your RP because they wanted a social group rather than an RP. RPers are weird as hell, and trying to blame yourself somehow for all the weirdness that happens will only lead to frustration.