Episode ★ 7 ★
TONIGHT on the Report...
[ Dressing On the Side, Please ]
I delve into the skeleton closet known as "Dressing Room Roleplays". I will not be intimidated by the female version of me being played by a 14 year-old. I will not.
[ Even Stephen? ]
Newsflash! kingdom_crack has the best thing since sliced bread: me.
My guest tonight was not only notified in time for the show, but I'm sure also has someone to type on the human-made keyboards for them. The Cloverfield Monster from daisychainrpg. It's a good thing these interviews are done over LiveJournal, because I don't think she would fit in my living room. We just got new carpets installed too.
Wake up, Nation! It may be the end of the week, but it's only the beginning of my mind. This is The Colbert Roleplay Report.
Welcome to the Report, Nation. It's Friday once again, and for that you should thank God that Fridays and rotation of the Earth exist. But I have a Thank You I need to send out: Thank you OP of yesterday's roleplaysecrets post's secret #19. The fact that my words are going beyond the Roleplaying Community through a report aimed at the Roleplaying Community is like waking up to breakfast in bed and a healthy side of bacon. The world needs to know what I have to say, and this secret gives me hope that it's working without me having to do any extra work. And that is the greatest gift of all. (For the real Greatest Gift of All, buy my Christmas Special on DVD! Never too early to start shopping.)
But do you want to know what really makes me happy about that secret? By clicking that LJ Cut, you do. It was about me. I've been asking you to start making more secrets about me, because let's face it, folks, there is nothing more satisfying than seeing a photoshopped picture of your head and some praising text next to it. That, or an Emmy. So follow suit, viewers! I want to see a secret about me at least every week.
Moving on.
★ DRESSING ON THE SIDE, PLEASE
If you've been in the Roleplaying community for more than one LiveJournal day (seriously, what time is it now? I don't get UTC), then you have heard the term "Dressing Room". Now, I'll admit when I first came upon that mysterious term I thought it had something to do with Ranch, or maybe Thousand Island. I was a little disappointed when I learned the use of "dressing" had nothing to do with making lettuce more appetizing for our human palates, but it made sense. "Dressing" refers to putting on a costume, as if "dressing up" to be a certain character. Like you "dress up" to be a certain character. Now, that is a term known as "cosplay", and that would warrant a whole extra Report Com.
The basic point of a Dressing Room is to Roleplay without having to put in an application for that character. Applications can be long and tiring, and depending on the Roleplay you're applying at, they may not even matter as long as you know the people running the game. Now, I've never had to put in an application to a Roleplay or joined in a Dressing Room before, but I sure have a lot of opinions on both.
Applications. They are necessary. Just like applying for a job, there needs to be some measure that you are good enough to wield a new username and plus account. How are we supposed to know if you're a player we will want to embrace or avoid if we can't see your application first? I don't like that level of uncertainty. Applications make Roleplay serious business, and the application process can be grueling. If you want to look at the Mother of All Applications, take a look at damned. That application not only is freakishly long and detailed, but they only accept apps in certain application periods. Now that demands quality.
On the other hand, you have Dressing Rooms, which only require that you pick a character and go. That means anyone can pick up any character and Roleplay. Where is the fun in that? How do you know you're not starting a thread with someone that has horrible characterization, or worse, wants to have "buttsex" with your ambiguously straight leading man? That is a risk that I am not willing to take. That is why you are going ON NOTICE Dressing Rooms!
But first I have to make room. Let's see...Frank the Goat definitely needs to stay on there. He still promotes Communism. Don't follow Communism, folks, Communists worship blue jeans. I still don't like expiration dates...and I Can Has Cheezburger is staying on notice for this:
First of all, that's not even a cat. Second of all, that is one loaf of bread I would hate to bite into.
I guess I'll take off Spambots, thanks to reCAPTCHA.
There we go. Let's do this proper.
Dressing Rooms, consider yourself ON NOTICE.
★ A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS...
If you're like me and the rest of America, then your room has four walls. If you're like me, then your room has at least a door in it to let you out down the hall to the kitchen for a sandwich, but if you find yourself without a convenient doorway, then we have the answer for you. thisisarea42 will take care of that Fourth Wall for you. Don't get stuck in the box of not knowing what the world outside your little fictional room is, expand your view. And by that I mean be able to see how nice the golf course across the street looks. Join a Country Club, while you're at it. So if you're stuck in a room and want to take part in the rest of the world and be able to go 18 holes like the rest of us, call thisisarea42 Construction Today, and break down that Fourth Wall. Metaphor? That depends. Look it up on Dictionary.Com and let me know.
★ EVEN STEPHEN?
kingdom_crack is a Kingdom of Crack. Really. It's a Multifandom Roleplay that incorporates anything you can think of with a healthy dose of "WTF" that we know as Crack. I really have no idea what it's about, but I don't think anyone in the game understands it either. It's a Kingdom of Crack, so I appreciate the fact that the username is not misleading. But that's not what I care about.
What I care about is that my word reaches into the lands neighboring the Colbertnation, which apparently is kingdom_crack. And it does.
As of February 20th, 2009 A.D., I am officially noticing on kingdom_crack, and I didn't even realize it. Now I've spoken to myself before, but this one is a surprise. Though I'm not sure what I'm apparently putting people on notice for, I support my quick decision to put EVERYONE on notice. It's good to cover all the bases.
But what's important here is not that apparently eggrolls offend me (which is something I didn't know, though that may be from the indigestion I got from the Chinese food last night), it's that this is just one more place where people will get the opportunity to hear the Truth. From me. So I salute myself for breaking into yet another aspect of the Roleplaying Community. What I'd like to see next from myself is some preaching with those accusations. Let's give them something to remember, me.
This just supports the idea that me, myself, and I are going to change the world. One LiveJournal Community at a time.
My guest tonight is the Cloverfield Monster cloverlovesit from daisychainrpg. Giant city destroying, man-eating monsters scare the average American, but as long as it doesn't go by the name of "bear", I will put my internet connection on the line to find out the answers to the questions that I want to know. So let's see what our giant monster representative thinks about me.
[ Dressing On the Side, Please ]
I delve into the skeleton closet known as "Dressing Room Roleplays". I will not be intimidated by the female version of me being played by a 14 year-old. I will not.
[ Even Stephen? ]
Newsflash! kingdom_crack has the best thing since sliced bread: me.
My guest tonight was not only notified in time for the show, but I'm sure also has someone to type on the human-made keyboards for them. The Cloverfield Monster from daisychainrpg. It's a good thing these interviews are done over LiveJournal, because I don't think she would fit in my living room. We just got new carpets installed too.
Wake up, Nation! It may be the end of the week, but it's only the beginning of my mind. This is The Colbert Roleplay Report.
Welcome to the Report, Nation. It's Friday once again, and for that you should thank God that Fridays and rotation of the Earth exist. But I have a Thank You I need to send out: Thank you OP of yesterday's roleplaysecrets post's secret #19. The fact that my words are going beyond the Roleplaying Community through a report aimed at the Roleplaying Community is like waking up to breakfast in bed and a healthy side of bacon. The world needs to know what I have to say, and this secret gives me hope that it's working without me having to do any extra work. And that is the greatest gift of all. (For the real Greatest Gift of All, buy my Christmas Special on DVD! Never too early to start shopping.)
But do you want to know what really makes me happy about that secret? By clicking that LJ Cut, you do. It was about me. I've been asking you to start making more secrets about me, because let's face it, folks, there is nothing more satisfying than seeing a photoshopped picture of your head and some praising text next to it. That, or an Emmy. So follow suit, viewers! I want to see a secret about me at least every week.
Moving on.
★ DRESSING ON THE SIDE, PLEASE
If you've been in the Roleplaying community for more than one LiveJournal day (seriously, what time is it now? I don't get UTC), then you have heard the term "Dressing Room". Now, I'll admit when I first came upon that mysterious term I thought it had something to do with Ranch, or maybe Thousand Island. I was a little disappointed when I learned the use of "dressing" had nothing to do with making lettuce more appetizing for our human palates, but it made sense. "Dressing" refers to putting on a costume, as if "dressing up" to be a certain character. Like you "dress up" to be a certain character. Now, that is a term known as "cosplay", and that would warrant a whole extra Report Com.
The basic point of a Dressing Room is to Roleplay without having to put in an application for that character. Applications can be long and tiring, and depending on the Roleplay you're applying at, they may not even matter as long as you know the people running the game. Now, I've never had to put in an application to a Roleplay or joined in a Dressing Room before, but I sure have a lot of opinions on both.
Applications. They are necessary. Just like applying for a job, there needs to be some measure that you are good enough to wield a new username and plus account. How are we supposed to know if you're a player we will want to embrace or avoid if we can't see your application first? I don't like that level of uncertainty. Applications make Roleplay serious business, and the application process can be grueling. If you want to look at the Mother of All Applications, take a look at damned. That application not only is freakishly long and detailed, but they only accept apps in certain application periods. Now that demands quality.
On the other hand, you have Dressing Rooms, which only require that you pick a character and go. That means anyone can pick up any character and Roleplay. Where is the fun in that? How do you know you're not starting a thread with someone that has horrible characterization, or worse, wants to have "buttsex" with your ambiguously straight leading man? That is a risk that I am not willing to take. That is why you are going ON NOTICE Dressing Rooms!
But first I have to make room. Let's see...Frank the Goat definitely needs to stay on there. He still promotes Communism. Don't follow Communism, folks, Communists worship blue jeans. I still don't like expiration dates...and I Can Has Cheezburger is staying on notice for this:
First of all, that's not even a cat. Second of all, that is one loaf of bread I would hate to bite into.
I guess I'll take off Spambots, thanks to reCAPTCHA.
There we go. Let's do this proper.
Dressing Rooms, consider yourself ON NOTICE.
★ A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS...
If you're like me and the rest of America, then your room has four walls. If you're like me, then your room has at least a door in it to let you out down the hall to the kitchen for a sandwich, but if you find yourself without a convenient doorway, then we have the answer for you. thisisarea42 will take care of that Fourth Wall for you. Don't get stuck in the box of not knowing what the world outside your little fictional room is, expand your view. And by that I mean be able to see how nice the golf course across the street looks. Join a Country Club, while you're at it. So if you're stuck in a room and want to take part in the rest of the world and be able to go 18 holes like the rest of us, call thisisarea42 Construction Today, and break down that Fourth Wall. Metaphor? That depends. Look it up on Dictionary.Com and let me know.
★ EVEN STEPHEN?
kingdom_crack is a Kingdom of Crack. Really. It's a Multifandom Roleplay that incorporates anything you can think of with a healthy dose of "WTF" that we know as Crack. I really have no idea what it's about, but I don't think anyone in the game understands it either. It's a Kingdom of Crack, so I appreciate the fact that the username is not misleading. But that's not what I care about.
What I care about is that my word reaches into the lands neighboring the Colbertnation, which apparently is kingdom_crack. And it does.
As of February 20th, 2009 A.D., I am officially noticing on kingdom_crack, and I didn't even realize it. Now I've spoken to myself before, but this one is a surprise. Though I'm not sure what I'm apparently putting people on notice for, I support my quick decision to put EVERYONE on notice. It's good to cover all the bases.
But what's important here is not that apparently eggrolls offend me (which is something I didn't know, though that may be from the indigestion I got from the Chinese food last night), it's that this is just one more place where people will get the opportunity to hear the Truth. From me. So I salute myself for breaking into yet another aspect of the Roleplaying Community. What I'd like to see next from myself is some preaching with those accusations. Let's give them something to remember, me.
This just supports the idea that me, myself, and I are going to change the world. One LiveJournal Community at a time.
My guest tonight is the Cloverfield Monster cloverlovesit from daisychainrpg. Giant city destroying, man-eating monsters scare the average American, but as long as it doesn't go by the name of "bear", I will put my internet connection on the line to find out the answers to the questions that I want to know. So let's see what our giant monster representative thinks about me.