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I was reading the SV thread and thought we'd have a version here.

I'll start.

* WH40k.
Death Korps protagonists who don't act like Kreigers.
They're supposed to be deeply mentally scarred, fanatical almost-automatons, not edgy Cadians.

* Fics in general.
Having protagonists from grimdark settings do reprehensible stuff during the fic. Yeah, I get it that a tech-priest wouldn't have a problem with vivisecting Xenos children; don't have him kill Asari kids during your fic. That's an easy way to kill any sympathy for your protagonist.

The PPC always struck me as a community where its smallness and tightness was one of its most important parts. At least, to the extent that if we started publicising it, attracting heaps of people, we'd need to change a lot about it to make it work, and, well, that theoretical community is just very different from what we have now, ay?

Need to change the site, change how we deal with issues that pop up (probably a bit harder voting for such things and being all loosey-goosey with it if you've got a thousand people spattering out their thoughts!), maybe even change the permission system, and so on and so forth.

I mean, I dunno, I'm sure it'd still be a nice enough place, but I quite like it as is, too, ay? And we're hardly in danger of running out of newbies or such.

And, yeah, trolls, attacks, so on so forth. There'll certainly be a lot more kookiness with new people, for sure.

(Dangit, it doesn't look like anyone's done any pranking or even a running joke like last year, so I probably can't pull my idea on y'all.)

But anyway, below my signature is a link to an article on Snopes about all the April Fools' Day jokes that have been spread around and subsequently fallen for this year. Hope you enjoy!

-Twistey
https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/04/01/2018-april-fools-day-roundup/

Shouldn't we talk about this? You could be opening us up to terrible stuff!

-Twistey ;)

The main reason for "please don't vote here" is because I wanted to make it easier for the lurkier folks easier and sot hat we could keep this thread to a small affair affair with arguments in favor (or, if it was needed, against) of people.

So yeah, please nominate people if you have any suggestions.

- Tomash

The song is Mama, and is by a Ghanaian band called Dark Suburb, Scape put some of their music on Discord a little while back. Here's a few more of their pieces:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfYYUsA9VpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL6CDFn2i3I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTSA_sWGM44

I'm curious, which song did you use in that? It was a pretty beautiful trailer.

I've said this before (the topic came up years back and kind of dropped), so I'll just say briefly:

My worry in having too much publicity is that we'll attract trolls, or other people who want to attack us in some way. I think we're at a good place "enrollment"-wise, and don't need to stick our necks out towards the internet at large.

—doctorlit, boiling pasta

Happy Easter, everybody!

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7randomdoublesbattle-726447343

But it's also a good look at synergy between two pokemon.

First video for the PPC channel is right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Tell me what you think.

Novastorme

I know from personal experience that looking at a thread where a dozen people have already wildly agreed with a candidate is a strong disincentive to proposing your own. 'It's not like they'll get the same number of votes, so why bother?'

Which I figured was the reason behind the 'please don't vote here' part, but that... kind of didn't happen, so.

Anyway: I can't believe for a moment that Akrinor is the only possible mod for the Discord, or that Larfen and Hieronymus are the only conceivable Permission Givers. Folks, if you've got someone in mind, nominate them! Someone has to be the first.

hS

It looks like there's not that many candidates running around, so feel free to just stick your +1s, objections, or whatever else you have to say either all at once as a reply somewhere or as replies to each nomination. Since we're not dealing with too many nominations, we don't really need to bother with the second thread, I think, and we can just vote here.

- Tomash

Remember when I said the PPC should have a YouTube channel, or that we should start making PPC animations and post them on YouTube?

Even though that idea didn't have much effect and didn't spread around much (fortunately), I'm starting to think that one over a little.

YouTube is huge, and somewhere out there could be the person who wrote the badfic, or one of their friends, or an equally bad author who wants to stand up for the person, or someone who likes niceness culture, or something like that. That could be dangerous. We could get a flood of demands from these people. That would be bad.

So I figure that that's a bad idea and it shouldn't be done, or at least should be limited to interludes, joke fics we write, sporkings of our own stuff (old/joke fics), and other stuff that happens here that doesn't have to do with anything any outsider wrote.

But may I ask y'all this: What is your stance on the PPC and Internet publicity? How much should we broadcast ourselves on the Internet and in real life (likely answer: not much), and/or how much should we attempt to gain new members (likely answer: also not much)?

Not that what we're doing now (just being where we are and letting ourselves be found) is bad, in fact, it's pretty good, and as of late, the only banworthy newbies showing up have all been zdimensia destroying yet another username before anyone else can use it. (I may be wrong on that one, but don't correct me, or else this thread will be thrown off-topic, I just know it.) However, I like to take things to various next levels if I can, and I have already made several tries at doing so on Scratch (with varying degrees of success), so if there's any new ideas regarding these things, I'd love to hear them.

Can't wait to hear your thoughts on this!

-Twistey

In fact, it's healthy to let your IRL life take priority over anything on the internet. In most cases. If you need somewhere to vent, we can be there for you if you want. But if you just want space and privacy, we won't pester you.

-Twistey

and I finish the fic in a Google doc to post next year! Yay!

-Twistey