RPG fan, who gets to attached to his characters

[redstonedust]

i wish i could point at my mom and be like ah yes thats the tool that gave me social anxiety but comically my parents were actually fairly chill. like i was never threatened with punishment but kid me decided to construct my own rules and then lived in constant fear of breaking them. like girl at least it makes sense when the catholics get haunted by guilt. what was my excuse.

[nexus24]

Same here I guess

[nexus24]

Still feels weird to admit it, but I was introduced to undertale through yandere simulator.

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[nexus24]

The holy grail of tumblr posts

[nexus24]

Yesterday I was in a seminar on body horror in horror movies and amongst the shown scenes for analysis, we looked at the transformation in "an american werewolf in london". While everyone else was saying "oh, i feel so sorry for that guy. That must be horrible to go through." The only thing I had in mind was "damn I am jealous."

If only I was confident enough to say that.

[inkskinned]

they could have said, like, "we made a new wolf morph, which shows how far genetic science has advanced". they could have said, "we're calling them direwolves out of a love for the extinct species." maybe too much to ask for but would have loved it if they'd pointed out some kind of ecological niche they were theoretically intent on resolving - like, "wolves are having trouble adapting to human sprawl and we are hoping that our research into the past will help us save wolves in the present."

but alas they did not do this. and see this sucks because i want to be hype about new bigass fantasy wolves. there is a 7th grade version of me that would be ecstatic about this. she would be obsessive.

unfortunately, due to capitalism, now i gotta have beef with puppies. can you imagine.

[a-buge]

yea that's the thing I keep thinking about, they are doing actual interesting genetic research, but because they marketed it like this they now look skeevy as hell

[nexus24]

I don't know if anyone is ever going to read this (I doubt it), if however anyone does, I wish to ask a question (warning for depressing thoughts or something).

What makes you desire to continue living? What makes you go through every hardship in your life today, however big or small, and still say that you are going to continue? What makes you think of every problem you have in the future and say that living is worth it?

I would like to know

[drawglodyte]

unknown forces compelled me to draw this

[nexus24]

Am I weird for having no strong opinions at all?

[nexus24]

Only now did I realize, that my first meal of the year was a can of beans.

[anglaised]

a gnat just beat me up and left me in a ditch

[nexus24]

Today was the first time I saw myself in one of those Tumblr ai-voiceovers on youtube. That felt extremely weird.

[bicinno]

Reblog if it's OK for other artists to draw your OCs

Sometimes I get too timid to send asks to ask. I want to see how many people are ok with artists drawing their OCs!

[nexus24]

Please, put them to paper. I can't.

[hexiva]

Roleplay Is Not Dead Nor Doth It Sleep

There's a post going around about how text-based, freeform roleplay is dead, and I was typing up a huge response to this, with an accompanying guide on how to find roleplayer in 2024, when I realized it might have a bigger reach if I made it its own post. So here's that guide.

I hesitate to say that there isn't a problem with the new format of social media making roleplay more difficult to find, but in the desire to make that point, the OP of the original post has left people with the idea that there's no way for them to get into freeform text roleplay in 2024. Which just isn't true! Here, look at all the ways.

Forums

The link to RPG-Directory to find roleplaying forums is a good start. Once you've found a forum RPG, even if you don't join, there's usually an 'advertising' section on that forum where other forum RPGs post their ads - this may help you to find forums that don't advertise on RPG-D.

Another really good forum to find roleplay on is Barbermonger. Barbermonger is focused on connecting people for one-on-one roleplays.

This last one's going to be weird, but it turns out that there are still people seeking roleplay on the Gaia Online forums after all these years. I think this is delightfully retro and then crowd there seems a little older than average. No pre-existing knowledge of Gaia required.

Tumblr

You can also find forum roleplay groups (as well as tumblr and Discord groups) right here on Tumblr. Usually, the thing to do is to use the search function - search for "[genre] rp" or "[fandom] rp" and sort by "latest." (If you sort by Top, you are likely to find dead RPs.) For example, here's fantasy rp, historical rp, and marvel rp. You can also try jcink rp, as most roleplay forums are hosted on Jcink these days, or discord rp, depending on your favored platform.

There are also tumblr blogs specifically dedicated to advertising roleplays. I'm not super familiar with these nowadays, but just in the process of searching those tags above, I found these:

Jcink Tinder

RPG Adverts

RPings

There are more, I just don't know them off the top of my head.

Reddit

Listen, don't run away, I swear it's good now - I swear Reddit is good now -

Reddit is a good place to find Discord roleplays. It's a little heavier on smut-only roleplays than other platforms mentioned here, but it's not impossible to find sexless, plot-based roleplay here either. Most ads are for one on one RP, but you can find groups mixed in here too. The big subreddits for text-based freeform RP seem to be:

r/DiscordRP

r/RoleplayPartnerSearch

r/roleplaying

r/Roleplay

Some of these have weird rules about what you can put in your ad, and I don't remember which ones, so read carefully and don't get discouraged if your ad is initially removed.

Discord

In 2024, Discord is by far the biggest and most popular platform for roleplay, and it has its own native roleplay advertising hubs. Here are a bunch:

roleplay partner hub

Rockin Roleplay

The Roleplay Garden

roleplay help

the roleplay connection

RP Central

Roleplay Central

Roleplay Hub

Barbermonger also has a Discord server

Roleplay Meets: Reborn

RP Hub

The Scribes Guild

DM Rp Village

cherry blossom! roleplay hub

DM-RP

Roleplay Round Table (21+)

The Historical Syndicate (specifically for historical roleplay)

The Roleplayer's Directory

If you can't find the Discord roleplay you want on here, you can also try Discord hub websites, like Disboard. These work similar to tumblr tags - search for [genre] rp or [fandom] rp.

Other

The original post specifically mentions that 'all the old "omegle but for role play" type websites died out ages ago'. This is mostly true, but not quite! There's still Rolechat. It's a little janky, but what it needs more than anything is a bigger user base. Their Discord server is also a good place to find one on one discord roleplay. It is, of course, free, but if you want to support its development, they have a patreon.

Please reblog this post, and add your own tips on how to find roleplay!

[entrancedsnow70]

So I open my laptop for class and i think it's all business as usual. But I look at the taskbar and see something odd.

I see this. I do not recognize this symbol. I right-click to see what it is. It's fucking CO-PILOT!! I still have windows 10. It's been yelling at me to update for a year now. And they just. Fucking downloaded Co-Pilot onto my laptop with no notice, warning, or consent. I literally looked at my laptop last night and it wasn't there. Now! It is! And I didn't turn it off I just put my laptop into sleep mode. So heads up everyone I guess because what the fuck!!!

[vexic929]

I think a lot of what pro-AI people are really wanting is stuff that already exists but they don't know it's out there like

can't format a work email? templates

don't know how to write a resume? templates

writing a thank you card or a condolences card or a wedding invitation? templates templates templates

not sure how to format your citations in MLA or whatever format? citationmachine.net

summary of something you're reading for school/work? cliffnotes.com

recipe based on ingredients in your fridge? whatsintherefrigerator.com

there's a million more like, guys, we don't need AI, we never needed generative AI

[nexus24]

I currently have to do research on AI (Data science class) and I absolutely despise every single search result. I search for practical uses of generative AI and amongst twenty pages I find three times "this is how to use AI for things we know how to do better for decades", six times "you can stop paying people for work" and only once I got information on the use in medicine that is actually useful. The rest is "best AI art generator 2024" and "how to get the best results with YOUR AI art!"

[eyecantread]

[psychotic-gerard]

?

[psychotic-gerard]

this is how it feels to talk to my parents about my mental health