an opinion heavily biased by the fact i came in through RPE/I MUDs and TTRPGs rather than trad writing

but also i fundamentally reject trad novelists who get bent out of shape about present tense. and philip pullman is one of the last people who ever should talk about "taking charge of a story"

not to bag on this scale in particular, it just makes me reflect on the weird sensibilities of XIV roleplay

like. thought experiment: which is more damaging to lore integrity? alexandrian in a car doing pizza delivery in the housing districts, or replacing the time bubble with real time progression

if you're a 10 then the average alexandrian is sitting at a solid 13 and people porting in their wow characters wholesale are like a 57

honestly i'd question any scale that'd put you beyond like a 4 at most

there's not a lot in the way of majorly -redefining- anything, and i don't think filling in empty spaces counts as lore inaccuracy unless you're warping things to make it fit

the game itself is less historically consistent lmao

love to change my rotation every time i go up or sync down 10 levels

but i'm also someone (read: ADHD as fuck) who locks deep into a mindstate best suited for doing Whatever Given Thing and i always need some transition time to switch mental gears

wonder if it's not similar from a different direction. brain pre-emptively locking in for what it Expects to be doing

hits me hardest when there's something i -want- to do much more than anything i am actually -able- to do

(often, RP. the urge to write rarely comes with the urge to Go Meet Random People, to my dismay)

there's a certain strength of desire that just overrides everything else for whatever reason

i was gonna use both of the twins but i ran out of steam after the third hour of minute bone adjustments 😔

back of the cereal box trivia puzzle: there are actually five visible actors in this scene and at least one broken bone. find them all

i lied

personally i'm relieved i'm not the only one who had to suffer this mental image

[flips open notepad, bites cap off pen] what would you say the company culture is like in this fleet. how's the benefits package? vacation days?