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Post a Random Thought written Nov 7, 2024 21:54:29 GMT
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Nov 7, 2024 19:28:28 GMT said:
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Nov 7, 2024 11:25:10 GMT said:
okay but if we're wanting to blame someone, we should probably start with the people who actually voted for him in spite of (or in many cases, because of) all the reasons not to
yes that will always be mind-boggling for sure. but many people abstained from voting. i feel there were concrete reasons to vote for the other candidate, even if she wasn’t ideal to some. i think there’s a lot that went wrong, in the end, though at this point i feel numb. what’s wrong with this country is deeper than these initial thoughts. (i won’t reply more, sorry if this is derailing the thread)
yes, its easier to rationalize the results if you look at the numbers. compared to the previous election roughly 10 million americans did not show for the democratic candidate. gen x swung more red than any generational shift in the mid century mark. perception about the economy and immigration drove the working class to the right. unless you're a joe rogan bro, gen z didn't vote at all.

its exactly how bernie said. the democratic national committee and their neoliberalism policies abandoned the working class decades ago. now the working class has abandoned them, because understandably (albeit foolishly) right-wing populism is better than the current status quo.

their candidate was given a unique blank slate and they fumbled it. if they had run more progressively on left-wing ideas (like student debt relief and raising the minimum wage gap) they would've won it. instead they slapped their base across the cheek by embracing moderate republicans.

not to get r/political on p2 but i think its important not to blame any one voter base. this is entirely on the dnc.
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Post a Random Thought written Nov 7, 2024 3:55:57 GMT
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they had all the reasons not to vote for one candidate but no reasons to vote for the other... it should come to absolutely no surprise, and yet i am disappointed
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What are you reading? written Jul 27, 2024 4:11:22 GMT
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Recently I've been reading non-fiction, particularly The Storm Before The Storm, by Mike Duncan (just recently started) and Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic, by Tom Holland.

Maybe I like Roman history, maybe I'm feeling very existential about democratic republics in this day of age. Or maybe I love Pompey's quiff a little too much. But what I find most poignant between these two books (so far) is thus: stability will always provide freedom from violence, so long as constitutional norms are protected and not eroded by any one's individual ambition. 

ALSO Mike Duncan has a really great podcast series on Revolutions (French, Russian, American.... etc), which goes into great detail about how quickly an equilibrium can break (rn i'm on the Reign of Terror.)


my next book will be Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver, which is a totally different vibe and reserved for next month
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what's on your mind: RP Edition written Jul 23, 2024 2:12:38 GMT
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Jul 22, 2024 15:37:26 GMT said:
I just don’t see the faces as a problem. If somebody asked me to share (and I have offered for example to let somebody play the younger version of a face I use) then no issue whatsoever.

It’s the sheer number of characters made vs how many are actually written. I just am baffled by how many people need to make 13 right NOW but then when you give their accounts a Quick Look, they are only writing actively with one.

Now I don’t expect anybody even with 2 characters to always have muse, time, or plots for every character, ALL the time. So don’t get me wrong. I absolutely make room for life and breaks.

But it’s baffling to make all your free characters AT ONCE. With no intended plots and no seeming intention to write as them any time soon?

If the only reason for this is “I wanted to make sure I got x face” then I’m believing I might end up making a no claims site next time.

i think this is a pretty solid argument for a limited number of free character slots, especially when its clear that characters are treated with a 'gacha' effect but aren't really effectively active whatsoever.

idk, i'm the type of rp shopper who likes to look at member lists first, and if i see people making 10 characters within a span of days and not posting i may start to believe the site is not lived in at all. 
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what's on your mind: RP Edition written Jul 21, 2024 0:33:03 GMT
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Jul 20, 2024 23:19:19 GMT said:
To me, the main reasons for limiting app creation are basically:

  • Preventing FC/canon hoarding.
  • Prioritizing a cast of active characters vs a bloat of inactive characters.


These issues can also be solved with regular activity checks, but can take more admin labor the more characters need to be pruned each check.

I will say I think the limit is good in communities that move at a quicker pace, because it is harder to manage a larger cast in a high-paced setting. It's also smart to do this for communities that plan to limit character participation in events (ie, 'two characters per writer may participate in this raid').

It really depends on your community and the member base you're trying to retain.

That being said, I am so far from being a serial character creator that I find the impulse to have 20 characters difficult to understand. I can barely handle two to my satisfaction. Which is to say I can only handle one.

i agree although: the prevention of face claim 'hoarding' tends to be a lot more nuanced than the management of character creation.

it often comes down to whatever is popular in the current mainstream. that is to say - there's a difference between one member hoarding 100 mihoyo face claims, versus one member using 100 touhou claims (and both not posting!). nobody will care about the latter, but most people would kill for black swan or robin or zhongli.

now as a writer i can't imagine managing 100 characters, let alone a number more than two - but i empathize with the admin who wants to prevent fights between members, let alone reinforce the rules that they established from the very onset.

that said i believe was talking about member time management, not the admin managing their members' time lol

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explain your username and avatar written Jun 25, 2024 16:29:45 GMT
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what started as 'seraphim' (circa 2008) turned into phim, phimberly, and now phimbo as shorthand nickname.

never truly shook it off nor desire to change it due to the online relationships i've made under the same pseudonym. for better or for worse.

current avatar is prospector / norton campbell from idv and is currently my fav gremlin :-*