Oh shitty Pern Sites, I have missed you

Feb 16, 2018 14:32

One of my mods passed this place to me because she was understandably bothered. Old site trying to reboot, something something ice ( Read more... )

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blot February 17 2018, 05:16:13 UTC
Gotta love Pern.

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kaliedosock February 18 2018, 03:44:50 UTC
I gotta admit, I do like laughing at a bad Pern site. I've kinda missed it.

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blot February 19 2018, 01:05:06 UTC
Same. There's just something special awful that breed at bad pern sites. The fandom's been in decline though.

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kaliedosock February 19 2018, 07:11:28 UTC
Yeah, the sites that are around are sticking it seems, but there's less new sites coming up. I'm hoping there'll be a new wave with the new book coming out, but I'm optimistic.

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gizzybiscuits February 17 2018, 22:04:29 UTC
between the 'really young weyrwoman' and 'all of the angst haha ecks dee' it makes me wonder if the player is pretty young? I know as a teenager I'd just heap the angst on in IM Rps because well, kids aren't the best writers, at that age you're sorta coming into harder content ratings and are curious about angsty mcterrible shit on top of sexual everything else I guess - so you just end up with a convoluted mess of 'Oh No The Bad Thing Happen Again' because you're using xtreme content as a...shorthand? shortcut? For development/feels and it just doesn't really cut it obviously.

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kaliedosock February 18 2018, 03:47:51 UTC
I have no idea. My mod knows them better and has played with them before, and was invited to the reboot. Unfortunately when she politely declined to join, because she did not want to bring her happy, cheery old Pern characters from the previous incarnation in, the admin responded with (direct quote):

"too dark? xD we had the hatching caverns collapse, flood and kill half of not one but two clutches lol"

That's... not great? Why would this be a bonus?

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volare February 19 2018, 00:01:43 UTC
yeahhhhh... that's about where I'd bounce. what appeal??

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kaliedosock February 19 2018, 07:14:04 UTC
Right?

I saw a Pern MU* years ago that always seemed to need players, but they always were advertising that you had a 50% chance that your candidate was going to die, or your new weyrling pair would die. Why would I join a place where there are guaranteed deaths without my permission?

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