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what's on your mind: RP Edition written Feb 13, 2024 23:49:18 GMT
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...I was quite exhausted when I posted that, I had forgotten entirely about MyBB, which is funny since I think I've even mentioned it somewhere on PP before? it is the closest to what I'm talking about, huh
I've used it before, one time when Icyboards still existed, and I've played on sites hosted on MyBB for a while, since I started forum RP with mostly Animal RP

Animal RP is and was something so entirely different in terms of general feel, I do miss it
I'm reminiscing now but way back when, I remember all of the people who would offer hosting services for the Animal RP community. One of my early RP sites even had someone show up and offer to host the site for me, which I declined for various reasons but it was so kind of that person :sob: ...the Animal RP sphere is such a different beast, honestly. I check on some active sites sometimes and feel like I may one day return to it. It's great seeing people I used to write with still active and making sites, and wow, those sites look lovely too!!

But yeah, the overhead costs and the learning curve is intimidating and less accessible, in trade for the customization and freedom. But I'd love to see more anime-manga art or general art or artless humanoid-based sites built on MyBB, as I only really think I know of two? right now. I'm thinking about it now but I don't have the time etc. justifiable for it at the moment 
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what's on your mind: RP Edition written Feb 13, 2024 0:59:01 GMT
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there's been attempts before (that I havenโ€™t heard updates on for a long time, but maybe theyโ€™re in good states), and while jcink is pretty tailored to RP because of how John has listened to the RP community over the years, but I really do wish there was a forum software designed with RP in mind first, like how people who do voice RP wish for a game designed for voice RP first etc..

I know we can make up for a lack of features by coding it in, even a rudimentary understanding of javascript can go a long way for so many reasons, but thereโ€™s so many ideas where Iโ€™m just...if only this was built-in/etc, yโ€™know? what we already have works, is far from broken or unmanageable, and can be modified...but a not-guy can dream, yeah...

and I mean, there is something to be said, by someone much smarter than I, about how limitations surrounding forum software have moulded the forum RP community, about its structure and such, and how sometimes this has been a spring-board for someone's interest in coding or design, by working around these limitations or learning ways to live with them
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Coding Confessions written Feb 13, 2024 0:13:09 GMT
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the skin of Forum I Will Never Open makes use of my art + public domain art and photos, which works with the overall theme of the site and such. It's old now and I want to redo most of it (a big reason why I haven't even shown any friends is because if they use Inspect Element I will lose a bit of what remains of my soul). but wow! Bless the public domain (and other licenses too that allow for modification etc.)

I think it's good to have an on-going coding project, even if it will never see the light of day. I have an idea for the IC boards map that really makes me excited to get back to working on it, whenever I have more time for it again
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Post a Random Thought written Feb 13, 2024 0:04:27 GMT
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so glad I learned to stop putting the poison in my mouth in the way of no longer entertaining discussion with people who operate in bad faith, or paying too much heed to communities that thrive on gossip and accusations, and just stopping myself from doomscrolling by simply barely using social media anymore, and so on. This all gives me more time for whatโ€™s truly important: drawing characters in cute outfits and playing roguelikes
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Post a Random Thought written Feb 11, 2024 0:53:42 GMT
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2 months into 2024, been careful (but I cannot account for the people around me), and I have been sick both months so far, not to mention the chronic illness flareups. gotta hate having that sickly Victorian child disposition, huh

on a better note: have done a lot of fun doodles lately & my friend and I are about a quest or so away from finally completing BG3 for the first time

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gamer confessions written Feb 11, 2024 0:40:34 GMT
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Dragon's Dogma 2 waiting room. I gotta finish my latest playthrough of DD /soon/ because I wanna see if they do anything fun with cross-saves

Unhappy that there doesn't seem to be physical versions for PC up yet. Likely never, huh
god please im sitting in this room with you, tapping my little toes. it can't come fast enough, seriously.
I'm so sad there was never a translation of Dragon's Dogma Online, and that it was never finished :sob:
But I'm just so excited to see Dragon's Dogma with the budget it deserves, and to see what pawn dialogue gets stuck in my head this time
eeeee and it's running on the RE engine, so odds are that it will run really well, we'll see
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gamer confessions written Feb 10, 2024 14:34:23 GMT
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Dragon's Dogma 2 waiting room. I gotta finish my latest playthrough of DD /soon/ because I wanna see if they do anything fun with cross-saves

Unhappy that there doesn't seem to be physical versions for PC up yet. Likely never, huh
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what's on your mind: RP Edition written Feb 9, 2024 0:06:24 GMT
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Talked to a friend about the age-old discussion regarding stories set in places that are not Earth and how thereโ€™s so many ENG words that are very specific to Earth and itโ€™s hard to eliminate them all. I learnt a few new things also, as he pointed out that even a word like โ€œcopperโ€ has very specific origins, and that cologne is named after a city, and so on!

This ended up leading to said friend making an observation about my writing โ€” not even a directed compliment, though it wasnโ€™t negative, and talking about writing + that observation + talking to a different friend about one of my RP characters pulled me out of a slump I have been tumbling towards for my RP writing. I thought I could get away with writing less as new video games have a lot of RPersโ€™ attention, and breaks are fine, but it really was more of a slump than an intentional break, unfortunately

Recognition goes a long way, huh!! I gotta remember that, especially for the sake of people I write with.
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What's Your Highest Postcount? written Feb 8, 2024 4:25:55 GMT
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The honest answer: I don't remember. This is partly due to bad memory and partly apathy, maybe?

The first internet forum I have ever been on I had a ton of posts, we're speaking six digits here, and I used to RP there too, but I'm not about to comb through that post history to figure out which were in the RP forums or not. @.@ every day I'm pleasantly surprised that the forum is still up !
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where do you write your posts written Jan 28, 2024 19:10:29 GMT
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Libre Office/other word processors. I'm used to it, it's cozy and I have keybinds there due to novel writing/editing/etc.. I use various notes programs for related things and can have 8+ instances of those open at a time, and sometimes I'll write shorter posts there but...rarely, really. Plus, using word processors doubles as having back-up and makes backing up posts easier.

Sometimes I wrote on-site on forums that had a draft system, I don't tempt fate with early IPB and other software without built-in draft history. SO many brave people in this thread . Respect 
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re-playing/re-apping characters written Jan 17, 2024 23:56:22 GMT
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I donโ€™t play the same character on multiple sites at a time, but sometimes when they die, or if their story doesnโ€™t end on the site I previously had them on, Iโ€™ll play them on a different site. I havenโ€™t done this yet but Iโ€™ve had this whole idea of having a character die and having their โ€œretirementโ€ being joining a SoL site and having them hang out there.

I like to make fresh characters that specifically fit settings but for previous characters I wanna re-use I will edit them to fit a setting more โ€” a friend who does this likes to make alternate universe versions of the same character over and over again. I donโ€™t think Iโ€™ve played a character the exact same way even if I use them again, I like to change a bit around, reverse or push some development, and so on.

So usually my motivations for playing a character again are either/or/all of: 1) I just really wanna write them more 2) didn't get to complete a story for them 3) I wanna put a new spin on them 4) idk, just for fun 5) other reasons I can't think of
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Faceclaim Confessions written Jan 17, 2024 23:47:03 GMT
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beyond any self-confidence issues, one of the struggles about making art for characters is that it can take a bit for me to decide on a design and draw anything I wanna use, which is one of the reasons why I can understand that using face claims is easier. Iโ€™m fighting my own feelings of inadequacy and the fact that thinking of new designs and making art isnโ€™t easy, no matter how many years of experience I have, which slows me down quite a bit. Oh, and the infinite exhaustion and whatever health issues Iโ€™m currently dealing x.x Making art isn't easy, nor is character design, but I still love to see it and will always encourage it, but I know how fcs can be more practical, since we're all mostly exhausted nowadays, ya?

I miss it when not requiring any face images at all was more common, I have a soft spot for appearance descriptions. I hold no strong dislike over fcs at all but I still feel like I live/have lived in a completely different world considering some of the mentalities I observe about them in general.

Most of the time I wonโ€™t recognize where fcs are from since I live under a rock, so amusingly these characters become [character name] for me. And it wonโ€™t stop me from drawing art of my collaboratorsโ€™/friendsโ€™ characters, whether or not theyโ€™re using fcs or not, since I just love giving gifts whenever I have the inspiration and energy for it. + I have fond memories of when I used to edit face claim images for my friends to fit their detailed appearance descriptions better.

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