Stayed up past my bedtime so I can finally 100% Octopath 2. Months of grinding to finally get to this point and it feels good to have it pay off! I can now finally retire this game and ponder over the eternal question of "what game should I play next, as I stare at my expansive Steam library of unplayed games?"

a steampunk/roaring 20s/prohibition era/jazz age/avant-garde roleplay with the following features:

• takes place in a fictional world (but draws parallels from our own)
• a simplified/restrictive magic system
• site plot focuses around one large metropolis and its inner workings & intricacies, but players have the option to go continental
• old empirical traditions meets new-world revolutionists
• themes touching on the peaks and pitfalls of industralism and capitalism
• old money vs new money, pauper vs prince
• mafioso. that is all.

I do and I still rant about how rollerblades can be weapons of mass destruction sometimes to non-consenting passerbys

This whole video as a site is a vibe right now.

May I ask if this is being hosted on Jcink or Proboards?

Someone in the JCC discord had already managed to get ChatGPT to generate forum layout designs (just images) so the first step had already been taken.

Update: I found the other poster.

I think the more and more I try to indulge in this hobby, the more and more I'm starting to think that maybe for my own mental well-being that my own sites should just be semi-private and set to invite-only. There's an exhaustive list of reasons why I want to curate my space, and I don't want to waste anyone's time; mine included. I don't think it's selfish for me to only want to have threads with just my friends, even though I do enjoy meeting new people and being in awe of their writing... time these days are scarce, and it isn't boundless.

Maybe in the past I would've been hyped and motivated by how well/popular sites are doing but these days the large crowd ain't worth it. If I can sit down and write out a character's story the way how I envisioned it from start to finish, with an epilogue of new surprises waiting for me, that'll be all I want. 

Note: I also want to say, automation scripts these days are definitely easing the burden of staffing, but dealing with members in an HR manner and trying to moderate discord channels is a pretty thankless and exhausting job. 

I went femme because her JP voice is Ishikawa Yui, I'm pretty sure, and I'm a sucker for 2B from Nier.

tw: self-harm

I'm so glad Suga remained my bias all these years. Look at this talented man. Everyone go listen to his new album D-DAY/Agust D.

Do It For Her, Nahida version. She deserves everything, aka my wallet

As someone with almost virtually little to no experience with panfans, what constitutes a panfandom as 'non-isekai'? I thought the panfandom genre itself is synonymous to the isekai concept (characters from series being pulled from their respective worlds into another one) so I'm genuinely wondering. Is it like re-adaptation of existing canons and re-writing their lore to fit with the panfandom's world?

For my own 'sites I want to see' confession, I no-lifed Octopath Traveler 2 and it's got me feeling certain vibes again.