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How much minimum explosions do you think you need to make an explosive intro?


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Ever since the dawn of the industrial revolution and, I imagine, even before it, humanity has had this stupid attitude of exploring people, sparing dimes by giving people with less power than you worse conditions. Historically, though, more successful businesses are the ones which offer good working conditions and incentivize progress and working to reach your maximum, rather than punishing you for not meeting the minimums.


I see this way too often applying to GMs too, though, the impulse to explore people. Heck, I probably even do it myself without realizing it sometimes. But what I see is that many GMs take the groups they form as if pieces, who have to fit THEIR schedules and THEIR arbitrary senses. While RPN has a positive attitude of not trying to meddle too much into how GMs run their threads, it´s painfully obvious to see that many just don´t put two seconds of thought on how things will look and feel like from the player perspective and have either no future plans or future plans that read like a half-baked book rather than potential for cooperation.


To any GM that reads this: remember to respect your players. I know you´re probably thinking you already do that, but think of every single privilege you ever take from any player. up to stuff like why you don´t just spoil all your plans from the beginning, and really think about why you are doing each of those things. Odds are that if you take it seriously, you will see a bunch of rules that don´t make sense. A bunch of decisions you made that were based on your mood or gut feeling of that day and don´t hold up to any serious inspection. Remember that your rights as a GM exist so you can run your RPs better and more creatively, not so you can create rules that favor your experience at the expense of that of others.


my apologies for the rant, good look to all GMs out there and all the other roleplayers as well.

Happy  Year Everyone! I wish I could make a GIF and send it to everyone working and wishing it like I did with Christmas, but my family happens to be awake so I can´t! Nevertheless, know that in this new year, you are not forgotten, and I wish EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU a Happy and Fruitful New Year!

my apologies everyone, but I will basically be off all night and possible a good chunk of tomorrow too. New Year and going back home are busy stuff.

Why can´t I stop procrastinating on making my VRMMORPG?


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Whenever I see an anti-religion video which attempts to present some form of argument, with due exceptions of course, all I see are pretentious people spewing stuff that I already refuted to pick on people who aren´t actually part of the religion they are criticizing or who clearly have mental disabilities.

Huh...124 followers. Another funny number 124

If CRISPR has as much potential as it seems, it may be at once the scariest and most awesome thing I have heard about in ages.

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123 followers. That´s a funny number. 123.

It's a miracle! I wrapped up all of my RP responses!


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Oh, of course, I almost forgot this, if you´re interested in any anime reviews by me, then surely you will be interested in the latest blog entry I have made for the "Pun Tyrant Times", where I detail the process by which I will review them and my own general taste in terms of anime.

Classes are the real-world equivalent of exposition dumps

The most common misconception is that common misconceptions are unusual.

I'm going to bed now... My computer refuses to work anymore...

On the bad news , my wifi decided to go haywire. Anyone I owe posts or anything else to, don´t expect me to be able to deliver them. My apologies.

I don´t know how or when it happened, but I seem to have regained my lost follower or gained a new one! Yay!


Whoever it is, I want to thank you for it. I would post it on your profile, but since I don´t seem to have gotten a notification over it for some reason, I have to hope you see this (since you´re following me).

-huggles- I wuv you! I wuv you!

Iz limitdx spots something that makes you not join rps?

There is a certain paradox I tend to find when I make characters with abilities. Often, the most interesting characters are the ones where I don´t feel like I have to worry about them having any competitive value or where I can make specialize in something weird and unusual. However, unless I make my characters competitive, they can easily be left behind in the story and it´s harder than one might think to get into a proper interaction without being someone who is imposing by nature, in RP.

Awww! Cute profile pic!

Everyone watch this!


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I feel so embarrassed that I don´t know who the person who died is.


I also feel bad that I lost a follower.  

It´s a recurring theme I see: people make a few interest roleplays,  they end up failing and then post something about how they suddenly feel unmotivated to keep trying. A few bad experiences and suddenly they wanna quit roleplaying or quit trying to create new roleplays. Often people specifically mention how others are not replying anymore or suddenly vanish.


It´s a common misunderstanding that "fun" is a constant in order to exist. If you can´t have fun putting in effort, then it´s not the process, but the results that define why you do that thing in the first place, but the results are also better depending on the effort you put in earlier.


I think a lot of roleplays die off because there is this mentality in people that "it takes work, so I won´t do it". Or "I don´t like it as much right away, so it´s not worth it in the long term either". But that´s at odds with how entertainment works. Investment is a fundamental aspect of any great work, not just in the person making it, but also those witnessing it. It´s absurd to claim that something has to start out absolutely fun to ever be fun, or that there can´t be down moments. On top of that, such a mentality creates an constantly fleeting, lazy and unthought way of going about things. People don´t bother understanding that sometimes, sacrifices have to be made of minor things for the greater scheme. And that that fact isn´t a bad thing, but a good one, as those sacrifices are also at the root of variety.


There is a lot more I want to say on this subject, but the rant is big enough as it is, considering I have other stuff I need to do, but I can´t stress this enough, a change in mentality and approach is necessary.