what r full sentences

-> the power level thing sounds neat but i think you'd have to tie it to a requirement of active participation in the site plot or you'll just end up with the majority of people signing up for the system b/c they want the pretty bar under their user profile to be filled in and they like the idea of their character being involved in heavy plotting at some point, but gee wizz they're full up on SoL threads at the moment.

-> similarly, it also might be beneficial to require similar levels of site-plot involvement with site canons. lolgoodluck trying to moderate this in a fair way though. also, if you did this, you'd still run into the issue of "noncanon character placed on a pedestal equal to canon character" but if they're just using their character's mafiagangevilguy influence to meet cute for a ship i think that's? fine?? idk

-> the infamy thing kuroya mentioned is also real interesting. i remember on leap's revo a while back there was a system where if a character had an infamy above "X" level, threads outside of specific "safe zones" would have a chance of being "invaded" for lack of a better word by npcs -- so someone with a high level of infamy might find themselves being raided by police, or targeted by an assassin, or what have you in a thread. i didn't stick around long enough to see if that system works or not, but something similar might be cool and could at least be used to make sure ppl taking canons/influential characters actually participate in the site plot. you'd probably have to create a randomization system and make it public for people to not cry unfair tho -- and like all other systems, this ends up being more staff work.

-> i do think an official launch will help with this problem, because you'll get people coming in interested in the new shiny site who might be more interested in progressing the plot than someone who's been there for years and is settled in w/ people and character dynamics.

spitballing in list bc lazy:

-> imo as Someone Who Has Absolutely Never Staffed And Never Will, "look, our canons need to be the most powerful/influential/whatever characters on site for the plot to function properly, so you should read the bios of established canon characters and make your characters have less of those traits or you might get a pend" is an absolutely acceptable boundary for staff to have. some people would have an issue with this, but i think they'd be in the minority -- in my experience, the majority of the RP community wants to play nice with one another. (and honestly, if said site you're talking about is perhaps in a beta test or soft open, it's...at most rude but understandable to ask people to walk characters back before official launch if you're transparent about the reasoning.)

-> could give every member one(-two?) non-canon "influential character" slot(s?) for characters which have a quote-unquote power level just a step below canon characters. i'd make this an "as you register" benefit rather than a purchased one, since if fuckhands mcmike wants to start off as their kool hitman but also wants to make their barista later down the line, they're gucci.

-> oddly enough, this post made me think of an anecdote valka mentioned a long ass time ago (aka valk pls if you're lurking don't smite me if i paraphrase u wrong from a post i'm pretty sure you wrote on wicked wonderland in 2018) where she was talking about how cherry city riot/chaos theory was originally penned as a larger heaven vs. hell site which coincidentally also had open races. members really, really liked the open races bit and tended to favor the "slice of life" side and, after a while, the site plot shifted to accommodate, and the site ran for quite a few more years.

tl;dr bitch get to the point if the memberbase is showing a tendency to prefer political intrigue over slice of life, it could be beneficial to try and take a look at powerbalancing through the lens of "we're a political intrigue site with slice of life elements" in place of "we're a slice of life site with political intrigue elements". obviously, you shouldn't transform the site into something you wouldn't like enough to staff long-term (because nothing kills a site dead in the water like unmotivated staff) and if you really, really don't want to staff a site like that, hey -- that's 100% justifiable. but i think considering the tendencies members have shown in their characters & plotting in regards to power balancing might be beneficial and could certainly help out a lot in the pr section.

you know what fuck it yeah andrew "I THOUGHT HE WAS JUST AN EBOY NOW???" hussie is creating a new visual novel, yeah im going to take psychic damage from the aesthetics of video, 2020 may as well end like this i guess

something about ppl drawing art for me just makes me W E A K and especially w/ rp stuff like if anyone ever draws me anything remotely related to rp my reaction on the other side of the screen is just

and i will periodically look at it every month after the site has died and extract serotonin

every single time i learn something new about display: grid; i subsequently become enraged about how many hours of my life i could have saved if i knew how to use display: grid;

anyway learn css grid

thinking about skinning vs. actually skinning

"patron homestuck troll" is really the only extra character detail that needs to be included on apps and we're all just cowards who can't admit it

ya u might say im a bit of adrenaline junkie...........sometimes im the first to message a person on discord.........im a bit of a bad boy yasee

i finally finished the skin 4 my testing site and i'm posting preview here cuz i spent too long on it and no one will ever see it besides me fite me

admin view:


guest view:


live preview is here if anyone wants to poke around thassit bai

requesting ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ as a custom title for 80 bucks pls n ty <333

personal perspective:

1) click button
2) number go up, background go blue
3) monkey brain go

ive been in the "just about to start shadowbringers" stage for a solid month and a half so far && it's 10/10 would recommend

who needs msq when you got hildibrand quests

tangentially related to this but god if i'm not looking_respectfully.jpg at panfandoms bc GOD why do i want to write ff14 nashu SO BAD

honeybee icons: *understandably changes hosts like a reasonable human being*

me w/ like 40239843902 "self-hosted UWU" f2u templates i now gotta update: