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Hero's Return Edition

ITT:
>We discuss Current, Finished and Upcoming CYOAs.
>Give advice on CYOAs
>Pitch ideas
>Get critique
>Trade art
>Wash away the anger

List of stories: http://anonpone.pineapplecomputing.com/

Read this advice first:
http://anonpone.pineapplecomputing.com/advice
http://www.tgchan.org/wiki/Advice

>What day is best?
http://strawpoll.me/5151810
>What time is best?
http://strawpoll.me/5151833
>What genre are you interested in?
http://strawpoll.me/5151994
>What if I cannot into art?
http://strawpoll.me/5207921
>What race would you play?
http://strawpoll.me/5498136

Remember: Out here only the strong survive.

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>>25444415
First for rising
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Reinder that Treads is for bully and bully only
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finished it
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>>25444415
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16 of the 30 in the OP pic are kill/hiatus
8 are active
8 are finished
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>>25444406
No.
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>>25444494
Who's knocking?
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>>25444494
have a shitty color
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Everyone below this line will never see the end of his favorite CYOA he's currently participating in

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The person above this line is lying.
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>>25444945
>>25444964
Sick counter.
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>>25444920
Choosie is too innocent for such language
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>>25444920
i liek it
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>>25445103
Yes. Choosie is young and naive, so full of hope and optimism.
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>>25445303
Punished Choosie when?
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>>25445103
Choosie has to deal with a lot of shit from her friends.
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>>25445103
>imblying i care for innocence
you clucks are gonna enjoy what i got in mind
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Choosie needs to find a nice stallion to ensure that cyoa pones are around for generations to come
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>>25445390
>not knowing she's with rits
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>>25445395
She thinks he's nice if a bit loud sometimes.
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>>25445390
anon pls, RITS and Choosie OTP
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>>25445395
>>25445422
>>25445426
>Wanting foals that are going to grow up to be a burden on /CYOA/
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>>25445471
Don't be silly Anon.
RITS is a kek.
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>>25445500
who isn't a kek these days?
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>>25445525
Either no one or maybe asexuals I guess?
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Active threads

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Qoltquest: >>25427966
Curwhibbles: >>25223082
Muffin Top: >>25436531
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Urban Survival: >>25401462
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>>25445789
>Forgetting Sunshit
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>>25445837
Why would I care about shitty, barely horse quests?
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Alchemy returns >>25445919
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>>25445867
All quests, good and bad, deserve equal rights
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>>25445967
Even Coltshan?
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>>25445967
lel no
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>>25445967
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>>25445967
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>>25445967
OiE guy, is that you? Because you're as wrong as he is.
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>>25446003
>>25446009
>>25446020
>>25446046
>>25446060
Sunset and Coltshan have just as much of a right to be here as Nips and Hijacker because no mater the quality, a quest is still a quest
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>>25446146
This is how I imagine Choosie's attitude.
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>>25446161
This is why Choosie is a bleeding heart liberal with no grasp on reality
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>>25446161
Choosie, like Fluttershy, understands that sometimes something has to die so that something else can live.
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>>25445867
Curwhibbles gets to be on there.
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>>25446146
>>25445967
I agree with these. Maybe not equal praise, but certainly the equal right to fail or succeed.
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>>25446188
Yeah, because there are horses in that quest and despite the low response rate the quality is magnitudes better than Coltshan (or sunshit)

>>25446146
They only have a right to be on the board. They have to EARN the PRIVILEGE of being appreciated by the people in here. Or at least being memed about.
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>>25446177
We need a picture of Choosie mourning at the CYOA graveyard.
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>>25446270
We need more pictures of Choosie in general.
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>>25446300
Need a pic of her being punished
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>>25446161
So she doesn't like RITS and just pities him?
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>>25446239
Well, Coltshan proved multiple times that he can only fail and not really learn much from his mistakes.
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>>25446146
>>25446239
I agree. This is not a closed off circle jerk r-right?, so
>everyone may come here
>nobody should expect anything
>you're nothing special, just because you're a QM
>no QM is entitled to an audience or to critique
>an audience has to be earned and sustained on his own accord
>you're entering a saturated market - swim or sink, the waters are deep
>everyone here is a faggot
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>>25446370
Oh she can like RITS, but she doesn't have any delusions about his questing ability.
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>>25446300
gotcha covered senpai
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>choosie oversees all the cyoas
>rem takes care of the pones when they're foals
>similar color
Hmmmm
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>>25446413
Choosie, n-no
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>>25446398
>She has to provide for the two of them because RITS just can't hold down a cyoa job
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>>25446413
hue
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>>25446451
Ah, Choosie doesn't mind really.
She's crazy rich from all that memebux.
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>>25446468
>Taxing meme barons for income
Genius
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>>25446468
>She
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>>25446519
>has
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>>25446519
>
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>>25446527
>teats
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>>25446527
>no
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>>25446545
[source needed]
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>>25446413
So you think that you are something better, simply because you can do art.
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>>25446557
Yes.
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>>25446557
I also think other QMs are better because they can actually do art or passable writing, not bad one like Coltshan/Sunshit QM.
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>>25446557
maybe
lmao :^)
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>>25446611
Yes, this is true, but there is a difference between knowing it or expressing it as anon, and expressing it with a piece of art or a name up. That difference is the difference between a boasting dick and a normal anon.
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>>25446663
ebin :D
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>>25446545
Need more CYOApone teats.
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>>25446689
>tfw no /cyoa/-drawfag can draw decent crotchtits
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does Choosie bully Treads?
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>>25446760
She doesn't even bully RITS, so she's basically a saint.
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>>25446778
>She
>she
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>>25446729
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>>25446795
>Has
>has
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>>25446795
Yes anon, those are pronouns.
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nah but, I hope you mates enjoyed the choosie stuff
until next time
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>>25446826
Your art is cute
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>>25446814
>Testicles
>testicles
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>>25446826
bye
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>>25446826
You bastardized a character to make three mediocre jokes. Also you're a dick.
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>>25446847
#triggered
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>>25446847
wow rude
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>>25446826
I hope never seeing you or your mediocre "art" again.
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>>25446847
>>25446859
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>>25446826
See you again! Please come again soon, I alredy miss you xD
<3
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>>25446847
>>25446859
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>>25446859
but it's a drawfag, you gotta suck his dick. :(
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>>25446847
>>25446859
>bastardized a character
>'MUH HEADCANON'

>Being this mad.
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>>25446729
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>>25446854
>>25446855
>>25446870
>>25446882
He has toxic attitude, you think it's good to shit on "bad" QMs, but in the end the more mediocre QMs will read it and think it's also affects them.
We already see how frail the self esteem of those people is. Do you really want Bathwater, Craft, Hero, or any other QM who already had problems, to quit because they feel like they are shit and don't deserve it?

>>25446924
>Thread is literally talking about her character based on things we already established a long time ago.
>Fuck you guys, it's just head canon, I want to be snarky and a dick so this character is now too.
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>>25446984
>Do you really want Bathwater, Craft, Hero to quit
yes
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>>25446984
>toxic
Is that you LGG guy? You're going to have to try harder if you want to stir drama.
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>>25446984
>toxic
nips bringing in the tumblr
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>>25447002
Not that Anon, but
>y-you have a different opinion? Haha, y-you gotta be some troll, right?
is stupid, too.
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>>25446984
>mediocre QM's
>bathwater
>Hero
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>>25447031
>different opinion
>getting triggered over literally nothing
lmao desu senpai
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>>25445961
Sweet Alchemy!
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>>25446984
I don't ever recall us actually establishing anything for Choosie.
Quit getting worked up about and OC.
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>>25446984
Choosie never had a character. It took us like a month to decide a name.

>Criticizing bad QMs is bad
Go find your hugbox somewhere else. Right now you're just encouraging people to shit worse on bad QMs.
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So, how do you guys picture Choosie's personality?
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>>25447146
Pone
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>>25447146
She's gone mute from watching all our shitty decisions.
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>>25446984
calm down m8, it was a couple of jokes
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>>25446984
>we already established
>multiple, contradictory opinions about the character in the thread
>Didn't decide on most things
>'The option I liked was the one that we chose though, I promise, so stop bastardizing muh character'

Wew, being this mad about an OC

>>25447044
It's not like they're great. Not bad, but not great.
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>>25447146
A mixture of Milky, Nyx and Rainbow Dash
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>>25447146
total edge lord
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>>25447164
>It's not like they're great. Not bad, but not great.
What active QMs are great then?
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Need scrunchy Choosie
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>>25447182
Not a single one I'd say. But a lot of them are entertaining. It's like playing 7/10 vidya games, pretty fun, but ultimately not great.
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>>25447146
Motherly, encouraging and energetic.
She sometimes comes across as innocent and naive, but she's not.
Choosie knows exactly how things work, and exactly what to say when something needs saying.
She knows when to pull the plug.
She visits their graves every week.
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>>25447205
>spoiler
fug
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>>25447182
None of them. Most of them are average, some of them are good, but if they were great then they'd have better things to do. In fact anyone dedicated enough could make a great case for why any given one of them is complete shit.
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>>25447146
>>25447205
This.
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>>25447224
So the ultimate lesson is that nobody is perfect?
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>>25447146
Snarky and cynical most of the time, but when a cyoa pone comes to her with a serious question she sits down and has an in depth discussion with them. Then she slaps them in the back of the head and tells them to stop fucking up.
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>>25447224
>if they were great then they'd have better things to do.
What better things are there that share a skillset with QMing?
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>>25447002
I'm not LGG guy, he seemed like he simply disliked this thread. I don't want this thread to turn to shit.
>inb4 it's already shit.
How would you call something that by it's mere presence possibly kills established QMs.

>>25447044
>opinions
Both have expressed self esteem problems, that's the only thing that's necessary.

>>25447101
>strawmanning this hard.
I never said to not shit on bad QMs, at least don't do it with your fucking name, or art that indicates who you are. It's a difference if some Anon shits on you, or if Nips shows up with his name and posts three picture that basically state that all other quest are shit, but I already said that.

>>25447101
>>25447164
At least none of those opinions made her a snarky self-centered bitch. You guys realize that writing in character is something a QM should be able too do? It's ridiculous that this guy is thinking he is so much better while he isn't even able to do that. That is the only reason why I brought Choosie into this.
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>>25447146
Completely brain dead. Unable to speak or think. Body has been taxidermized and preserved. Fleshlight installed in back so people can try to fuck her in hopes of feeling what they used to feel.
But it doesn't work.
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>>25447261
No really, it's time to stop.
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>>25447261
>I never said to not shit on bad QMs, at least don't do it with your fucking name, or art that indicates who you are.
So who was it then.
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>>25447261
>being this assmad about an OC
>writing a whole post to defend your headcannon

shiggydiggy
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>>25447261
You brought a poor innocent mare into this because you don't like thing. Think about how she feels, you butt.
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>>25447261
>at least don't do it with your fucking name, or art that indicates who you are.
You're messing up the hot opinions meme. It's so QMs don't have to deal with the fallout of stupid opinions. If they don't care they're free to post whatever they like under whatever name they like.

>You guys realize that writing in character is something a QM should be able too do?
You do realize she doesn't have a character and can be anything anyone wants her to be?
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>>25447327
Choosie the Changeling
W H E N ?
H
E
N
?
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>>25447365
She feeds on the love people give to CYOAs. All the MCs are her drones.
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>>25447365
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>>25447261
You make Coltshan look like a bastion of intelligence and wit.
Please stop.
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>>25447261
>Having a reaction like that.
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>>25447443
FOE 2 is back.
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All I wanted was to make sure the quests I like keep running and express how much it actually hurt myself as QM when he posted it.
I'll stop now.
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>>25447556
>cant handle the bantz
wow.
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>>25447556
I sympathize with you, I didn't like his attitude either.
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>>25447556
>baaaaaaawwww
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>>25447577
>QMs being little bitches.
Nothing new.
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>>25447556
I still dont get why you care about some random artfags opinions
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>>25447556
Dude, all he did was draw a couple of cheeky pictures. I was the post in this picture >>25446413
And I thought it was hilarious
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>>25447556
I think that your problem is that you thought the artist who drew Choosie here is Nips. I'm pretty sure it isn't. You then interpreted this artist's sick bantz as if it was Nips shitting on other quests, which even if this is Nips, you know isn't true.
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>>25447646
Sure thing, Anon. ^:)
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>>25447556
I'm a shitty QM too. You're making us look bad.
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>>25447556
The method you went about the conversation turned it into your butthurt and headcanon instead of whatever you actually wanted it to be about. And taking things personally on 4chan will and should always result in mockery.

Here's a tip: When speaking about your own butthurt, it works better to speak in the generic instead of reacting like you're butthurt.
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>>25447686
Also a shitty QM. Please, please critique your favorite CYOAs. That's how they become less shitty.
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>>25447646
I'll shit on whatever quest I fucking want
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>>25447727
It's the match of the century, Nips vs Storyteller, who will come out on top?
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>>25447749
There can only be one!
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>>25447749
Nips is dead
ST is dead dead
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>>25447786
Go home, you're not relevant anymore.
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>>25447749
No matter who wins, Inept's gonna cash in on money in the bank.
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>>25447749
RITS
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>>25447749
Wait, wait, what is this? Could it be? LowKey is coming in to wipe these babby QMs off the map!
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>>25447749
>>25447818
>Just more corpses of dead QMs piling up in the ring while the commentators spass out.
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>>25447854
>RITS, Coltshan, and OneLiner are just cannon fodder that the fight organizers put in there to highlight incredible hits
>Nips is beating the shit out of another QM, but before the job is finished, he gets bored and runs off to hit another
>Storyteller quietly disappears into the background and forfeits
>Inept is just torturing vulnerable QMs instead of fighting
>Res and Craft squaring off against Space Horse and Space Bug
>Hero getting bashed over the head by a mob of unidentified shitposters
>Hijacker gets knocked out and immediately demands a retcon
>Lurker rubbing his hands with a smirk in the shadows of the background
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>>25447854
Let the bodies hit the floor
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>>25448001
but what would the entrance themes be?
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>>25448001
>"At least that's what would happen >ladies and gentlemen"
>"If all the QMs weren't dead before we put them on the ring"
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>>25448006
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>>25448001
So who would be face, who would be heel?
What are the gimmicks of each QMs?
Who are the A listers, the mid carters, the low carters?
Who is the biggest jobber?
Who gets pushed despite being shit?
Who deserves a push?
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QM egos are horses with butterfly wings as legs.
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>>25448064
That sounds interesting, why has such stuff never showed up in any CYOA?
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>>25447205
>>25447381
>>25447179
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New vampony thread when
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>>25448084
oldAssMare.jpg
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>>25448093
Didn't you read Anomango's post?

Vamp is done.
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>>25448101
Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Bathwater didn't hijack it.
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>>25448084
You need to it little pone. You must prove yourself.
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>>25448084
Das about right.
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>>25448114
Nowhere.
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>>25448084
Choosie knowing whats best
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>>25448084
barbed cat dick will give you cyoa fame.
and hippogriffs.
but mostly cyoa fame.
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>>25448155
>tfw no hippogriffs in any cyoa
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>>25448062
>Biggest jobber
Coltshan so far. 0 successes at all, multiple 'matches'.
>Who gets pushed despite being shit?
You know who, senpai :^)
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>>25448167
Coltshan had a hippogriff
Not that it mattered, of course.
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>>25448167
Gis can arrange that
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Threshold died and I'm too lazy to make a new thread, so Muffin Top and the Temple of Boss Rush concludes now!
>>25436531
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>>25448195
Super's running
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>>25448202
Shit I missed a thread.

>>25448093
>>25448101
>>25448114
It's not over, I just need a break. I'm waiting for a different QM to start up.
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>>25448188
We need that SteelGwill armored-combo-monster offspring though.
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>>25448084
Pen's dick barbs are ready
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>>25448227
Would a Hippogriff have a cutie mark?
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>>25448378
no
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>>25448378
I wanna say possibly, since the rear end bit is the horse part
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>>25448378
Ass is pony ass, if satyrs get cutie marks hippogriffs should too.
I don't even know if satyrs get cutie marks.

In the end it's a non canon race, so you can do what you want.
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>>25448378
Depends on how you imagine them.
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>>25448205
From what?
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>>25448492
Heroes, probably.
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>>25448492
ur mum lol
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>>25448410
Satyrs don't get cutie marks
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>>25448529
wow rude
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Someone didn't bump Jad while everyone was asleep
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>>25448621
Yes Chrysalis, we know.
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>>25448621
We're aware Chrissy.
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>>25448639
Shhhh.... I had random pic I didn't know about attached
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which cyoa pone is the absolute madman
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>>25448678
So I told Gar to tun into a bat and he actually did it! The absolute madman!
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>>25447686
>>25447704
Another one shitty QM.
Just kill me lads.
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>>25448725
All QMs are shitty, some are just better than others at hiding it.
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>>25448621
We were about to do some hard core capitalism as well!
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CYOA is death
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All cyoa griffons need to hold a squat competition at Pen's favorite bar
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>>25449131
Gisela vs Pen Drinking competition when?
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>>25449144
Pen's Russian, no way he's gonna lose in a drinking contest.
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>>25449144
>Lightweight canary vs seasoned bird Slav
Gis cant even shoot straight sober
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So is Vamp dead or did I miss something
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>>25449195
>>25449163
>>25449144
>>25449131
>Best alcoholic catbird
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>>25449250
I have no idea what's going on, but that's a lot of stupid
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>>25449250
wat
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>>25449293
M&M up
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>>25449360
It's still quiet on the Northern Front
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>>25449250
Who?
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>>25447000
I'm sorry that I'm so fucking shitty. Maybe some day I can produce something good enough to be worth existing. I'm sorry that your life is worse as a direct result of my presence.

Also, all you people talking about Choisie being misrepresented. It's like you've never seen the pictures of her getting raped.
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>>25449483
>all you people
>litteraly one person
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>>25449483
I've never seen the pictures of her getting raped. But it may be because I don't usually look for this kind of shit.

You are not fucking shitty. You draw.
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>>25449483
I was just shitposting. I don't follow your or their quests and I don't know who exactly you are and how well you conduct your quest.
Holy shit.
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>>25449483
I can't tell if you're being a parody of yourself at this point or not.
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>>25449521 Back for a (hopeful) finale Thank you again based artfag for the picture
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>>25449483
This has to be somebody posing as him. There's no way a human being can hate themselves this much.
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>>25449483
I don't see how she getting raped is any prove or disprove of any personality argument.
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>>25449573
>There's no way a human being can hate themselves this much.
Ya think?
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Anyone ever try a CYOA where you play as the bandits or similar to Robin hoodesque kind of outlaw's?
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>>25449266
>>25449277
>not playing NV
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>>25449641
No

>>25449648
Sorry I don't care for fallout m8.
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>>25449648
What does that have to do with drunk Griffons?
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>>25449648
>playing toddout
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>>25449694
fallout guy has a totally unrelated griffon oc he likes to force.
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>>25449648
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>>25449697
>toddout
>not made by toddthesda
Brave Anon
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>>25449525
This is the response I get every time I apologise for being shit.
>>25449517
Just because I draw doesn't mean I'm not a shitty QM or person in general for that matter. It just means that my quests have a much higher ease of access for new players since there are pretty pictures to distract from my low level of writing which has been described as incoherent.
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>>25449852
And nevermind that you are way above of me, completely out of my league, because you draw. I also assume that you are better at writing, and I have a good reason to assume this one thing. If you think you are shit, just look at those who are more shit than you. I'm pretty sure there is a variety of people to choose. It doesn't help all that much, but it's better than nothing, I suppose.
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>>25449852
It's probably because I like doing shit like that and you fall for shit like that every time again and again.
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who else saw the master controls behind keys during the last update
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>>25449919
Pls. Even without seeing it, it was obvious as fuck there was a way to turn the detector off and Keys was just being a huge pervert.
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>>25449919
Are we sure Tara is the lewdest horse in the room?
Keys is stepping up her game.
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>>25449919
Sleep tight, Sleepyslut.
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Where le JAD?! I want le chowder to le blow sphyxs le taste buds!
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>>25449919
Get rekt, little shit
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>>25449919
Had myself a giggle. Well done, Keys, you're learning.

Sleep tight, Sleepyslut.
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>>25449919
Im getting sick of all this lewd derailment.
Im fine with a bit of lewd and yeah sleepyslut is a perv but we just had a scene with them jacking Steel off.
Can we get back to the actual interesting shit pls.
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>>25450037
People send him the wrong messages. So far whenever he did some shit, like railroading to hard, he apologized with lewd. Now he is railroading towards lewd, which will create a endless circle of railroading and lewd.
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>>25449980
Poor jad didn't get bumped during the time everyone is asleep.
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>>25450073
Shut up Chrysalis
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>>25450037
if you care, you need to participate.

no one spoke up about pervert skellie, and now we get to have steelie strip
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>>25450089
How did you even know I was the same poster, I call hacks
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>>25450117
You're not that sneaky, Chryssie
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>>25450099
The entire thing was set up to get Steel naked. It wouldn't have mattered what I posted.
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>>25450037
>literally in a room with camera feeds
>didn't ask to look at the cameras
>LITERAL SWITCH TO SHUT OFF THE DETECTORS
>"It's all a setup for lewd!"

wew lad
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>>25450143
What's with this mindset recently? "I actively didn't volunteer my opinion but I'm going to bitch when it happens anyway" Hijack and Coltquest now. If you don't volunteer your opinion then I don't give a shit what you're complaining about.
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>>25450117
Goddamn bug-horse stealing muh goddamn job an muh goddamn identity an muh goddamn car an muh goddamn friends, an getting more goddamn sex than me an stealing muh goddamn money an... ...
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>>25450195
Careful Anon. You're hitting too close to home to that one M&M player :^)
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>>25450200
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>>25450200
DEY TERK ER JERBS
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>>25450171
>>25450195
Please the entire scene can be boiled down to

>press this button for no lewd

Like fucking anyone else is gonna press that.

Like I said I don't mind lewds but when it get to the point where you actively have to stop the QM from putting lewds in it becomes a problem.
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>>25450250
>There was a prompt to do something. I didn't reply, but I want things to go my way anyway.
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>>25450276
No I just don't want every Scene from now on to be.

>Hey do you guys want some lewds
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>>25450301
Pretty sure that's what I said. You're above giving input, but the quest needs to bend to your wants anyway.
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>>25450250
>you actively have to stop the QM from putting lewds in it becomes a problem.
uh...

a few people WANTED tara to tell steel to strip downso they did waht was necessary and POSTED

hell, one guy even made a diagram of how to proceed based on the picture.

I mean from what was previewd, the next scene isn't going to be terribly lewd, either

>>25450301
then fucking post, holy shit

bitching after the fact is only going to prompt hijacker to ty and 'fix' it and we all know how that pans out.

be proactive
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>>25449705
Is he a guy? I figured he was a grill because of the whole 'Princess' trip
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>>25450329
>a few people WANTED tara to tell steel to strip downso they did waht was necessary and POSTED
>hell, one guy even made a diagram of how to proceed based on the picture.
This. I didn't tell Steel to strip because HURR DURR LOOD, I did it because it was a viable solution to the problem we were presented.
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>>25450329
>then fucking post, holy shit
This. I don't really mind if people missed the opportunity to give input because they weren't there and complain. But as soon as you say "I actively didn't give a response" I don't care what you think.
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I can't B E L I E V E you guys agreed to work with NotTrixie.
Like, wow, I didn't post my opinion or anything, but what even is the point when we're clearly being railroaded towards fighting cats.
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>>25450396
What part are you angry about? The fact that Azura is bad luck?
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>>25450396
I can't believe you faggots slept with the Canterlot unicorn. It was so obvious that she was a spy from the beginning. I was there and didn't stop it along the sixteen decisions that led up to it, but come on, you should have been able to read my mind.
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>>25450323
>>25450329
>>25450329
>>25450354
>>25450360

Jesus Christ I don't give a fuck about if the other posters want to jerk it to steel stripping or not.

I'm talking about Hijack switching from people having to ask for lewds to people having to ask to stop lewds.

Im not saying you should'nt have ur damn precious lewds. I just don't like how focused on the lewds its getting.
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>>25450423
Pretty sure people knew and went along anyway.
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Wow, you guys seriously found a CHANGELING in your bedroom and you adopted her?

I mean, I was there and didn't post anything, but this is BULLSHIT, and I demand a retcon.
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>>25450396
Well we need to help out local business and start a good relation with them to be able to improve their goods and services.

>>25450423
Pussy trumps traps

>>25450445
I know you are joking, but you should feel bad anyway
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I can't believe you faggots fell for that trap and broke our hoof, I saw that pit and didn't say anything because I wanted to see if you faggots were dumb enough to not see it.
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>>25450459
>Pussy trumps traps
This is demonstrably incorrect considering the latest lewd.
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Come on you guys, why would you go and release the thing with the GOD SIGIL?

I didn't bother posting since I knew you guys would just release him anyway!
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What the fuck guys, you trusted a random unicorn? It was obvious he was the big bad from the very beginning. I didn't post because you wouldn't believe me but come on.
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>>25450469
But I did post not to release him.
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I can't believe you guys got QUADS.
Seriously, I didn't say anything but what did you expect would happen?
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>>25450487
I expected a random patrol, not... THAT.
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>>25450487
I can still hear the screams.
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>>25450478
Wait what one is that?
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>>25450496
You're so dumb and bad
it was OBVIOUS
but noooo you just had to railroad towards quads
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>>25450505
This is actually a spoiler if you haven't read it.
Renne Quest
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I can't believe you guys didn't take the shiny thing, I was about to tell you all how fucking stupid was that but I thought the QM wouldn't actually let you ignore it.
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You guys voted to play with uncle lucky?
Are you retarded?
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>>25401462
Enrichment is here
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>>25450445
>>25450466
>>25450469
>>25450478
>>25450487
>>25450528
>>25450534
Is this the birth of an epic new Meme?
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Why did you guys trust that colt? I know you're not going to believe me but I saw this coming. I didn't say anything because I knew others would say "what? that's crazy and you're being paranoid." so I just let it happen to call you idiots.
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/thread
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>>25450574
What if you can't lewd?
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>>25450459
>Pussy trumps traps
After what happened I must say that is the most incorrect thing I've ever heard.
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>>25450556
>Why did you guys didn't go X? I know you're not going to believe me but I saw this coming. I didn't say anything because I knew others would say "X" so I just let it happen to call you idiots.

Here's a template for all your meme needs guys :^)
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>>25449852
That's because people like to banter in here and getting someone caught on your hook is a feeling like no other, senpai. Shitpost is love, shitpost is life.
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What do you mean you spared the unicorn in our fight?

I knew he would be up to no good later but I just wanted to see.
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so im going to be practising drawing again tonight, any ideas of what to draw?
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>>25450610
What do you mean you spared Carver? I knew with the whole pinecone thing she was just going to be a piece of shit, I just wanted to see you all suffer.
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>>25450644
Death and suffering.
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>>25450644
Drinking griffons
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>>25450644
draw them doing pillow fort things
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>>25450644
Dank Memes
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>>25450644
Scrunchy pones
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>>25450580
Then you are already dead.
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>>25450644
Anything with Sundance
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>>25450648
But i did that yesterday for my warmup.
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>>25450673
Shit, I knew it. Shame it's too late to get drunk.
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>>25450644
Hype on a date with/hitting on Harvest, because he can only have the worst of luck with mares.
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>>25450684
STAGLE NO
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>>25450644
Shiny on a date with a blind mare.
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>>25450644
If you're drawing more JAD, how about that broken table dancing scene?
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>>25450717
How about wispy in the spider web or the touching scene with hugging covered in goo afterwards?
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>>25450644
Sundance and Patchwork doing whatever this is called. Who is the bigger mare?
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well, thats a lot of suggestions. ill be busy.
streams on but you guys should probably watch nips instead.

>>25450717
I don't think I've ever drawn JAD, I don't read it. Sorry. If you find the scene i can maybe try.
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>>25450684
Draw more death and suffering. There's never enough of it.
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>>25450750
>whatever this is called.
From everybody's looks, depressing.
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>>25450750
Sundance with the strap on of cause
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>>25450750
Who the fuck is Patchwork?
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>>25450773
From unique
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>>25450773
Fourth from the left.
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>Super right now
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>>25450713
That got a chuckle.
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>>25450826
>Super right now
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>>25450752
Sorry, thought you were the same one from last time.
http://anonpone.pineapplecomputing.com/anotherday/25003133#navbar
http://anonpone.pineapplecomputing.com/anotherday/25003481#navbar
http://anonpone.pineapplecomputing.com/anotherday/25004040#navbar
http://anonpone.pineapplecomputing.com/anotherday/25004443#navbar
The actual scene is the last two.
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>>25450945
Saved, awesome to have a big version
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>>25450656
okay.
getting started.
https://picarto.tv/Pandacraft
but like i said, go to nips if you actually want art.
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>>25450945
>you will never write like Innkeeper
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>>25450945
sunny and ember are my favs
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>>25451008
eh, everything takes time.

im sure innkeeper has written before.

r-right?
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>>25451011
I love that Pot would fit right under one of the woods.
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>>25451008
>>25451015
Innkeeper being perfect again
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>>25451031
Don't forget sundance
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>>25451031
We could find out for sure...
If only a few more anons were interested in them.We hardly know anything about them
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>>25451032
So perfect that JAD died last night :^)
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>>25451061
The Woods would be snug, Sundance isn't big mare enough.
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>>25451078
Shes big where it counts
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>>25451032
I'm not praising the guy, I'm just stating the obvious: being utter shit.
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>>25451103
But we haven't gotten her a strap-on yet..
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>>25451073
I do wish he would start earlier like he use to, i miss the second half of the game.
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>>25451192
Its been quite a slow weekend. There's more lurkers at the very least. With Fallout 4 just being released, and all that stuff in Paris? I'm not surprised.
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>>25451243
Pen was the hero Paris needed
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>>25451279
They didn't deserve him though.
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>Things you can say about Nips, but not your gf
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>>25451342
Very suggestive name
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>>25451342
You're nothing but bone
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>>25451342
Always leaves before I'm satisfied
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>>25451342
You're the only one that I care for
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>>25451342
Exists
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>>25451342
You exist.
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>>25451376
>>25451377
>implying he exists
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>>25451342
Never lets me finish, always denied.
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I wanna _______ Treads
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>>25451421
I want to stomp on Treads' box and tell her her dreams are a complete illusion.
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>>25451376
>>25451377
First suicide hivemind, then feels hivemind.
I am cursed. I'm bound to fail, it seems.
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>>25451433
I want to rip Treads' little star plushie apart and tell her that no one will ever be her friend
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>>25451463
That's over the line anon.
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>>25451433
>>25451463
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>>25450752
>streams on but you guys should probably watch nips instead.
nigger, fuck that tumblr stream
get me some of dat dank kush your streams got
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>>25451463
>>25451421
I want to kiss Treads.
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>>25451566
ow the edge
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>>25451557
Drinky birds > rape
It's been proven.
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>Muffin Top is going to conclude now you guys
>Nevermind everybody went to sleep
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>>25451603
Inept's been saying that Muffin Top's almost done for at least the past month.
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>>25451603
Muffin tops been "concluding" for the last month or two.
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>>25451603

I'd like to marathon the thread we've got now until the game's conclusion (as opposed to this once-a-week shit which sucks for accomplishing things), but I can't exactly do a lot if nobody gives any instructions.
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>>25451638
Looking at it, it doesn't seem like there are many instructions to give.
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>>25451664
I'm gonna agree. The prompts were really weak.
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>>25451670

I don't understand what you mean by 'weak.'
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>>25451721
I mean, you've not made it clear whether or not input is even needed.

Far as today went, the solutions were, 'leave, go back, run, run, run, and run some more.'
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>>25451721
He means your chi is out of balance.
You must focus your mind and achieve a strong flow.
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>>25451721
>Uh oh, looks like the place is shaking.
>Run
>Oh no the temple is shaking even more!
>Run
>OH GOD THE TEMPLE IS COMING APART AND NOW THE BAD GUY IS TALKING!
>3 letter word; to move swiftly
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>>25451755
cum?
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>>25451744
>>25451755

Oh. Would it help if I said I wasn't expecting the players to keep running another two of three times when they were out of immediate danger? I didn't really know where to put them, so I just kept having them gain distance until they gave me a destination.
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>>25451861
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>>25451861
it helps to have a significant change to help indicate when running is or is not no longer needed. or you could just have her need to catch her breathe or something, anything to indicate that some sort of different prompt is required.

or just do longer posts than usual for your epilogue if multiple posts would result in the same command.
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Hero actually argued that Gis should be losing, don't blame me.
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>tell me your secrets, anon
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>>25451896
>>25451987

Alright I'll keep that stuff in mind. Funny enough, I was being told to NOT do that sort of thing a year ago.
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>>25452181
I don't regret it.
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>>25452183
Speaking of, what would you say are the biggest changes in your players over the last year Inept?
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>>25452183
It's a fine line. You rush your conclusion and you might rob players of choices and oppertunities, but you offer too many chances for input and it bogs down.
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>>25452181
I'm working on a CYOA
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>>25452181
I'm working on a CYOA that I'll probably never run.
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>>25452181
I was seriously worried I'd have to bad end the quest.
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>>25452203

They exist now.

Okay, serious answer: They're more interested in characters and story than they used to be. That's a big part of why Threshold is so much different from the other PQ's in how it's laid out.
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CYOAs are for shovels.
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>>25452181
I am conflicted. I don't know what happened to my drive. Ideas are coming to me like never before and I hardly even care.
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>>25452329
>tfw I planned out a quest involving a magic shovel years ago but never went anywhere with it
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>>25452333
ah but you found some trips there anon
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>>25452319
Sounds about right. I think the reason that shifted so suddenly is that more of the same people stayed from quest to quest, where before each were more of a random gathering.
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>>25452329
>that time Harvest fucking brained that pony on the boat with a shovel
wew
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>>25452359
>Rare Farages
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>>25452181
joke cyoa is gonna tie into overarcing canon
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>>25452181
I tell people I hate everything, but I don't actually hate everything.
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>>25452371
>mfw we used a fucking shovel more than the giant magical fire sword we had
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>>25452354
Too bad anon, you've been beaten to the punch.
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Sloth plz

lewd when?
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>>25450661
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>>25452181

There's something big hidden in my CYOA that nobody has found yet.
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>>25452848
is it a penis?
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>>25452834
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>>25452834
nice work craft
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>>25450678
sorry about her face.
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>>25445967
>>25446146
Honestly, there aren't that many CYOAs that aren't archived in the first place. Most of the ones that people actually follow are archived.
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>>25449483
Jesus Bathwater, just go see a therapist already.
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>>25453388
shes pra-tay
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>>25453388
Great stuff man
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Should you let your mood affect your CYOA?
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>>25450604
I'm sorry, I don't actually want people to worry about what I say because I know I'm not worth it. Which is why I don't complain about how I actually feel with my public persona anymore. Because people have enough shit to worry about without my stupid shit.
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>>25453388
Sunny is best pone
>>
I wonder if Innkeeper is going to post today? Hope he's not busy with work or something
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>>25453572

Should you let your CYOA affect your mood?
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>>25448215
Doubt that's happening only guy running beside you was vamp anon and AFAIK he dropped vampony
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>>25453826
Maybe it's time I took a shot at running it like I've been thinking about since the second thread.
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>>25453730

Nay. I have some of shit that needs to get done. Also why my starts had been later than usual these past few weeks. Hopefully it'll all be done before the week's over, or at least the most time-consuming chunk of it.
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>>25453836
Go do so! I slowly come back from the grave, hopefully, but I am not quite there just yet
>>
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>>25453836
Do it, and have fun anon.I believe in you.
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>>25453881
Wow.
I'm legitimately hurt by this.
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>>25453836

Don't let your dreams be dreams.
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>>25453836
go on, bae

JUST
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>>25453847
Alright then. We'll just wait here.

>>25453836
Anything worth doing is worth doing once. Try it. And give a link.
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>mfw woke up at 8, which is actually 12 EST
>okay hosting time, the journey has its time within us and all thatno it's not Ace Combat x MLP I'm sorry
>nope, get distracted by EYE Divine Cybermancy
>15 hours later, contemplate suicide

In the end I fucking hated that game, too. So much for this weekend.

Weekday questers, how have your numbers been?
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>>25453905
>it's not Ace Combat x MLP
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ace combat 4>zero>5
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>>25453890
>taking a pic that hero requested seriously
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>>25453931
Zero is at least equal to 4, Anon.
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>>25453905
not bad.

questing overall is pretty consisten through the week.

though some days are just destined to be ded.
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>>25453905
Can't say for player activity, QM post rate holds steady for mots of the week. The Sunday and Saturday increase is surprisingly minor.

Percent of QM posts by day.
Mon: 13.8%
Tues: 12.6%
Wed: 13.4%
Thu: 13.3%
Fri: 12.6%
Sat: 16.5%
Sun: 17.9%
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>>25453836
You go anon try it atleast and see how anons respond if you make a mistake you can always learn from it
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Any QM's want me to read and then critique their stuff?
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>>25454114
Are you willing to read 100k+ word stories or are you just doing snippets and shit?
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>>25454114
yes, all of them.
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>>25454114

All of us.
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>>25454114
"Yes" - Literally Everyone 2015
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>>25454114
Where am I fucking up?
I need to know!
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There's a couple new updates

Downloads are back.
You can download CYOAs by thread or by the entire CYOA, with or without images.
Images are named by their post ID, lewd alternates get "-lewd" attached to their name. Fanarts are also downloaded and where appropriate are named by post ID and "-fanart".

References are gone, they're replaced by fanarts.
So I finally figured out the problem with References. They rely on me to do something, which is always a problem. So the solution is that anyone can now upload images to the fanart page of any quest they want to, which gives everyone a variety of easy to access references.
Good references, like JAD's, will be pushed to the top, otherwise it's sorted newest to oldest.
Images of scenes in CYOAs, or good character refs, can be assigned a post number and get displayed as a tab on the CYOA main.

Fanart is a slight misnomer in that I intend to include non-canon images/lewd and references from QMs as well.

http://anonpone.pineapplecomputing.com/anotherday/fanart
http://anonpone.pineapplecomputing.com/anotherday/25026519
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>>25454325
>Images of scenes in CYOAs, or good character refs, can be assigned a post number and get displayed as a tab on the CYOA main.
for that post*
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>>25454325
>good references, like JAD's
Just another thing JAD is god-tier at :^)
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>>25453826
If no one starts a thread I'll probably make one next weekend.

>>25453836
Please do.
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>>25454358
Thank No.35 for that.It wouldn't be the same without his art.
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>>25454389
Why not run this week
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>>25454247
Your protagonists have weak characterizations. Their personalities are vague or inconsistent, and they don't have any unique personality traits.
I think this is largely because your MC's are just a direct vehicle for player suggestions. They lack an opinion or identity of their own.

If I had to list every personality trait of 11-54, it would go something like this:
>pragmatic
>willing to do anything for her and her friends to survive
>brave
>cares for her friends
That's about it.
Every single one of those personality traits is the result of how the players play the game. 11-54 is pragmatic because the players are pragmatic. 11-54 cares for her friends because the players care for Spearmint.
There's no fluff to 11-54's character. Her personality is whatever the players want it to be at any given moment.

Now, lets take a look at Rem from Northern Excursion. She's...
>insecure about her age
>jealous of younger ponies
>confrontational
>skeptical
>horny all the time
Rem is skeptical because the players are skeptical. She's confrontational because the players made confrontation suggestions.
However, even if you removed all of the player input, Rem would still be insecure about her age and jealous of younger ponies. She has things in her character that are independent of player suggestions. It's these traits make her interesting and unique.

Let's now look at Sunny Days. She's...
>pragmatic
>willing to do whatever it takes to survive
>caring about others
>brave
>horny
Sunny is horny because the players are horny. She's brave because the players act brave.
If you remove all the player input, then what is Sunny left with?

Now we'll examine Goof Cobbler from OMP. He's...
>Irish
>an alcoholic
>obsessed with beer
>fun at parties
The players are probably none of these things. So, while the players do control Cobbler, he still maintains a personality independent of their suggestions.

Ask yourself
>If my MC was an NPC, would they still be an engaging character?
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>>25454739
In the last thread, I mentioned how Mendacity doesn't have interesting characters. Craft made an interesting response:
>particularly for the main character, whose personality profile i had written up was: 'guess i'll find out'. I did not establish anything for him because i was hoping something would emerge from the playerbase, didn't happen and now he's kinda cardboard
I suspect this is the same mistake you make, Bathwater. You leave the MC's personality entirely in the hands of the players.
This approach almost never works out. The players will not adopt and stick to an interesting personality for an otherwise blank slate. Even if players can agree on a general temperament of an MC, they won't develop those finer details and personality fluff that really brings a character to life.

However, if the QM establishes a personality for the MC, then the players will usually work within that personality. They will give commands that fit the MC's unique traits.
In the first Northern Excursion thread, the players immediately gave suggestions that fit Rems jealous inferiority complex. In OGP, the players immediately gave suggestions based on Cobblers unique perspective of the world.

QM's can't just entirely leave the MC to the players. The players might control what the MC does, but you control how and why they do it.

For example, let's say the players give the following command:
>"Drink the beer."
As a QM, you can implement and interpret this suggestion in many different ways.

Firstly, you can use that command literally and with little embellishment.
>"You drink the beer. It tastes good."
This is neutral response. It doesn't showcase or develop the MC's personality in any way.
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>>25454745
The second way a QM could respond to that suggestion would be something like this:
>"You consider drinking the rest of the beer, but then decide against it. Beer is an uncivilized drink, and you'd much rather have a glass of fine wine."
In this response, the MC's personality is on display. This MC is clearly a little snobbish and elitist.
In this example we're faced with a new problem. The players have lost control of their character.
You shouldn't force your players to act within a specific personality. You shouldn't refuse to accept suggestions that don't fit with the MC's established character.
But this raises the question; how do you give your MC a personality without removing player agency?

The trick is to filter the player suggestions through the psyche of the MC.

Using the same snobby MC, let's give another example:
>"You uncertainly raise the beer to your lips and take a tentative sip. It's disgusting. You wish you had a glass of fine wine to wash away the foul taste."
In this case, the QM has followed the player's command while simultaneously showcasing the MC's personality through the use of embellishing fluff.
It's these finer details that let the players see the world from the MC's perspective. It puts in the players into their characters shoes. It's these small but frequent details that make a character feel real. It only takes a few immersive lines of fluff to develop a personality.

For the most part, your quests lack these character moments. 11-54 and Sunny will do whatever the players command without any reflection or hesitation, even if those commands are something extreme like masturbating in front of others. They don't seem to have an opinion of their own.
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>>25454756
To some extent, you do seem to aware that your MC's are flat. There are a couple of moments in Entrapment and 11-54 in which the MC breaks down and starts crying over something that just happened.
To me, these random acts of emotion feel like forced melodrama. They aren't developing an interesting personality trait, they're just establishing that the MC's aren't complete cardboard cutouts.
It's not sudden bouts of tears or yelling that makes a character fun or engaging, it's the small day-to-day interactions. In that regard, your MC's could use improvement.

This all being said, I'm actually a little behind in 11-54, so perhaps things have changed since I last took part.
Also, please don't kill yourself or anything. This complaint isn't a big deal. I'm not calling you a shit QM. There are plenty of other QM's that have the same problem. This is just a minor critique, even if I used a lot more words than I needed to.

Seriously, I'll be pissed if I see one more post from you lamenting about how shit you are. You're not shit. Your self deprecating posts are like listening to a professional chef whine about how his crème brûlée isn't the right shade of brown.
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>>25454756
>>25454777
I feel like Bath's MCs are light on character partly because the quests are heavy on action. There's a limited amount of character interaction in safe, neutral environments, which hinders both Bath's ability to demonstrate character and the players ability to add or build on it.
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>>25454739
>>25454745
>>25454756
>>25454777
Say you have a blank slate MC and the quest has been running long enough to establish that character as a blank slate MC. What do you do then? Is it too late to give form to the character? To give them something beyond generic MC personality? Could you reasonably add filters to commands where there was none before?

Pointing out that an MC is a generic blank slate does very little if they are at a point where doing or being otherwise could be construed as out of character. It's great advice for anyone looking to start a quest and building a character, but what can you do when that has essentially become their character?
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>>25454842
Introduce a new element that forces the MC to react.
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>>25453847
That sounds awesome
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>>25454851
Something that doesn't just reinforce
>pragmatic
>willing to do anything for her and her friends to survive
>brave
>cares for her friends
?

As said, the players will play according to the character. If the character is already established to have the above traits, the players will react accordingly.
Otherwise, you get into the second problem he described: if the QM makes the character react a certain way not in line with the commands, the players have lost control of the character. So what kind of filter could one possibly introduce to an established cardboard character that would not be considered out of character?
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>>25454839
In both Entrapment and 11-54 we've spent more time with company than without. There's been plenty of time to build character.

>>25454842
>>25454851
>Introduce a new element that forces the MC to react.
Basically this.

You could have some event that changes the MC's personality into something more interesting.
The most cliche example would be the MC's lover dying, so the MC becomes edgy, bitter and obsessed with revenge.

On the other hand, you could introduce something new that reveals a previously unexplored aspect of the MC's personality.
For example, perhaps the MC is deathly afraid of spiders. Whenever he sees a spider he screams and acts like a little girl. This wasn't relevant to the story earlier because there weren't any spiders around, but now the MC has to venture through the town of Webville in the country of Arachnistan.

You can use anything as a catalysts for character development. Even a cheap gimmick can give an MC depth, like Indiana Jones and his fear of snakes or Starlord and his walkman. It doesn't take much to humanize a character.
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>>25454873
A new element. A situation that forces them to make decisions with outcomes ill fitting of their usual character.
A character that they need to work with who upsets their friends. Have being brave and pragmatic leads to a friend doing something risky. Anything that will take their usual traits and play them against each other.
Then, once you've created this new internal conflict, have the MC react to it. It's new, and so you can introduce a previously unseen trait in them.
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>>25454898
>In both Entrapment and 11-54 we've spent more time with company than without. There's been plenty of time to build character.
Yeah, but characters don't stop and chat because they're in a tense survival situation and everything beyond survival is largely ignored until they feel safe. People are brave or cowardly in survival situations, but not much else.
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>>25454325
Neat! I liked how you added a bunch of fanart after RGS ended and I always thought that should be something other quests had. Glad you thought of it without me.
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>>25452181
>>25452419
I tell people everything is fine, but in fact I'm dying inside.
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pls no bully
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>>25455119
CYOA is for bully
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>>25455119
Bullying you, Treads.
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>>25455119
i bully u
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>>25454985
I better hug you to help the pain stop and make you smile.
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>>25455312
>>25455119
GOD DAMNIT
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>>25455312
Aww that's nice anon
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>>25455312
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>>25455312
Thanks, I guess.
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>>25454739
>>25454745
>>25454756
>>25454777
I definitely agree with you on this. Honestly with the way Sunny acted I'm pretty sure that she had some kind of mental issue that should be addressed if she pops up in a future story long enough to become antiquated with a future player character. I would talk about my plans to fix this problem in Ascent and Symantec Error but I'd like to wait until they start to go into any detail, So after the current 11-54 thread we'll see. Although I should help that I've actually written more of a backstory for the MCs of the two quests I haven't started yet than Sunny's: I know the names of your parents and that your father was drafted and went missing before you saw mother die, also I know the name of your home town. or 11-54 or Pepper's backstory:You where just born, No memories.
So hopefully they'll seem a bit less hallow.
Note to self having the MC emotionally break down on the players doesn't help the story. Stop having MCs cry in place of actually trying to make a character out of them.
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If this thread reaches page 10, Treads will be free.
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>>25454745
>I suspect this is the same mistake you make, Bathwater. You leave the MC's personality entirely in the hands of the players.
That's only a mistake if you use it as a lazy out to not detail the personality the players give them. Chalk Dust from Unique, for example, was a blank slate initially. But as the players played her and gave her personality direction she kept the direction without the players having to say it every time.

As you mention later, it's used as an excuse to not have to give character moments.
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>>25456228
She may be free, but she will never be free from her own mind.
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>>25456700
Coltquest is back.
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>>25456772
lel who cares
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>>25456778
Coltquest not Coltshan.
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>>25456801
kektus
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>>25456801
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>>25453388
>I came here to laugh at you.
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>>25453388
It looks fine aside from the mask not bending on the nasal ridge.
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>>25454928
That's where you're wrong though. They can be many other things.
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>>25457022
Care to elaborate?
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Alchemy continues >>25457394
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>>25456801
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You know that quest you read?

Why aren't you posting in it?
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>>25457663
Because it won't be back for a while.
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This is a dumb ass site
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>>25457705
Hi bob, how's Marta?
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>>25457663
Because it's over. And I was comfortable with lurking.
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Guys? We may need to do something.
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Trottingham comes back with hungover horse:
>>25457965
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>>25457663
Because it's not up that's why
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>>25457939
What would earth pone and unicorn engineering look like?
What about Griffin or minotaur?
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>>25458182
forgot my ponka
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>>25458182
Unicorns seem to be the most scholarly, so their engineering would be super advanced but overly-complicated/prone to break. You can bet that a shit ton of magic is involved.

Earth pone engineering would be simpler and probably not as efficient, but very robust. They'd specialize in fields that involve metal.

Pegasi would just make something out of clouds. :^)
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>>25458477
There is a significant lack of cardboard and pillows in this post.
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>>25458529
Earth ponies have the wood for cardboard and pegasai make pillows out of clouds.
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Treads storming Blitz's pillow fort when?
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Shit.
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so now that we have a fanart section on pineapple, when do we get dem stats?

most fanart
most prolific artist
widest range artist [aka: the nips award]
Quest with the most fanart views.
etc.
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>>25458677
There is a lot of fanart missing still I don't think we can get good stats until Amm gets around to filling the fanart sections of the entire catalog.
Besides, I expect that we've also lost a good amount of fanart to time and apathy.
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>>25458677
Yeah, and some ebin LIKE or UPVOTE buttons!!!
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>>25458715
>until Amm gets around
Its user uploads actually.
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>>25458717
I oppose that motion, even if it's bait, in which case I oppose that bait
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>>25458677
- urban
- nips
- chibi guy
- whatever quest has the most views going forward.
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>>25458653
Its shitstorm proof no way Treads could breach it.
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>>25458739
How else am I supposed to liek camant und subscroob?
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>>25458759
>forgot to favourite and follow on twitter
it's like you hate free content.
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>>25458677
>when do we get dem stats?
Someone else will have to collect them. Beyond the idea of encouraging a competition where there shouldn't be any, the duplicates across quests and same artist uploads would make any stats generated invalid.

>>25458715
>>25458736
While I'll upload the refs I had up before, among a few others I have anyway, this is correct. It will probably mainly be user uploads. Relying on one guy to notice when new quests appear is do-able, I'm not going even pretend that I'll notice all the fanart.
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>>25458814
You just need to come here for your daily dose of new quest, Amm-chan.
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>>25458814
Are you telling me you want my rare Whispens?
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>>25458840
I'm waiting for the RGS flood.
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>>25458739
How should I have made it any more obvious that it's bait?
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>>25458859
Well. Not bait, but idiotic sarcasm to point out that some of these things could easily go into that autistic direction.
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>>25458873
>not trusting the gatekeeper
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>>25458885
>Not having each citizen do its part to be aware of the communities he's in and voice his mind resonably
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>>25458885
Are you the keymaster?
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>>25458854
Might as well get the Urban ones out of the way first.
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>>25458854
Wouldn't it be more accurate if you said... Amm waiting for the RGS flood?

I'm so sorry.
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>>25459049
No you're not.
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Not that I want to get too much attention again? but I'm rather uncertain about continuing what I've started.
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>>25459098
Are you having fun?
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>>25459098
okay.
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>>25459098
Do you enjoy running your CYOA?
If the answer is ever no, then stop until it's yes.
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Do you think I'll get banned for image spamming?
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>>25459159
Banned for image dumping on 4chan?

Unlikely.
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>>25459179
That's good to hear.
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>>25459159
If you're dumping for link just use imgur. You'll probably also want to make sure it's not already up, like that particular gif.
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>>25459201
That sounds a lot easier. I'll probably post it in the next thread then.
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It's a little weird thinking of stuff done by the author of a CYOA as fanart.

Also, do yous guys think someone will dig through all of the GC shit and upload the post Cuti-Clash Owl Eyes?
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>>25459308
like non-canon stuff? eh, what else would you classify it as?
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>>25459308
If you can think of a better term I'm all ears. Fanart was the only thing I could come up with that would get people to understand what it is from a link.

Just to get it out of the way and keep out duplicates, I want to note that I just uploaded all the pixel stuff from a few threads back.
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new bread when
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>>25459341
you seem to have duplicate file detection.
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The no-really-I-swear-this-time-it's-really-the-conclusion of Muffin Top and the Temple of Darkandedgy continues!!
>>25436531
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>>25459361
It's duplicate link detection. Duplicate files can still get in there. I should probably actually add in duplicate file detection in it's entirety.
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>>25459135
>>25459118
I honestly don't know anymore. I usually like writing, but well, either my player[s?] are busy, which is absolutely fine and okay, all of us have lifes, or I'm losing them because they realize that I'm utter shit even if I try. I'm not trying my best only because your language prevents me from doing so. If the latter is reason, what's the point of bringing it back?
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>>25459346
Now >>25459461
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>>25459430
Almost Nobody is successful automatically. If you're worried about how shitty you are ask for criticism, and read what people say about what you need to work on.
Most of the currently successful CYOAs aren't the QM's first.
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>>25459499
But what if they say it's fine? Is it really fine and I shouldn't always assume worse or they prefer to withhold their opinions? I don't want to contaminate new thread with my shit, that's why I'm asking here.
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>>25459541
You sound like you've been listening to BathWater. Don't be a BathWater. That guy is a fucking idiot.
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>>25459580
He is wasting precious internets.
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>>25459580
At least he draws.
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>>25459499
JAD was automatically successful.
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>>25460087

It wasn't my first though.
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>>25459499
>If you're worried about how shitty you are ask for criticism, and read what people say about what you need to work on.
but i'm scared of what they might say
not to mention all the feedback I already receive.

>>25459580
dont give bath ammo

his only weakness as a person is that he is more apt to bullying himself than just rolling with the bantz. He's prone to flogging himself more than anyone else.

>>25460087
probably not his first rodeo, judging from the writing quality.
he also talks his shit out regularly iirc
I also have reason to believe the artist for JAD and the writer talk to each other on a regular basis.
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>>25460109
JAD was still automatically successful.
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>>25460109
Mine neither was, I'm a GM with pretty long time of improving. I don't even have problems with multiple players controlling one char. I just want to describe so much and I simply cannot, I'm like child lost in darkness, for all my experiences were in my mother tongue. And I am not able to draw what I see in my mind.
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