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First of all, when I did a search this1 came up, which confused me, so I tried this2. That wasn't a good first sign-- in fact, it's more like an omen. When roleplay is only stated as 'role play' it usually indicates a community that lacks high quality roleplayers. From my knowledge in the field, this is what separated boys from men. But that's not evidence, it's just a hunch. There are eighty four topics3 that have the word 'role play' in it and most of these have 'play' before 'role', so a substantially smaller portion of this list is actual roleplay. What I first stumbled upon was this account4, not exactly roleplaying, but I consider any writing in the milieu Gosho offers as 'roleplaying', because you're trying to play the role as a character in the setting. The second topic was one made for roleplaying with other people and this time it leads to another forum to do said roleplay. To be honest, these guys pumped out 849 posts over 10 topics. That's not bad at all, in fact that's awesome! Once I started looking into the posts, I realized there was a great trend to post OOC in an IC thread. OOC means out of character, and IC means in character. The fact that the fluidity of the story is interrupted with the OOC posts, questioning events in posts and just existing, makes for low immersion. I'm actually pretty disappointed, but we should take what we can get. Afterwards I found this post5, and in an attempt to find a connection, looked her up on the roleplaying site6. Next up is DCW IRL7; some of you may actually be familiar. The concept of DCW IRL is kind of weird, especially from a heavy roleplaying context. You usually try not to get too attached to your character, so you definitely don't make yourself! However, it's a novel idea for a world like DC, because the good guys-- especially the kids-- never get killed. So therefore, you never have to worry about the trauma of character death. I honestly don't think I would join this roleplay, but that's just my personal preference. I didn't dig too deep into DCW IRL, but what I expect happened is that the original post served as both IC and OOC, then it got so big they made another round, all the way up to fourteen. Like the first forum, the IC and the OOC intermingle. It's not really just a pet peeve, it's just that the separation of OOC and IC is important. How is someone going to follow the story if there's OOC in the IC? Just make two seperate forums. Which brings me to the next topic: A Roleplay Subforum?8 This was a really, really terrible idea. It just underlined the sorry state the roleplay community was in here. They have the energy, they really want to make roleplaying a big thing here, but they don't understand they need to make a community that deserves a subforum. They need to use what they have and clutter up the chatroom with so many roleplay threads that the GM's just make a subforum to make it more convenient. YOU HAVE TO EARN IT!! That's just my take on that topic. Also, Kyuu, I really love your toxicology topic, but I interpreted your input in this thread as really negative and sometimes hostile. If a moderator thinks that it's inappropriate for me to point this out, I have no problem with this paragraph being deleted out. I have actual arguments for what I specifically disagree with him about, but I'm not going to get into that here. If you really want to know, just post below and I'd be glad to share. This is the next thing I found. . .oh jackpot9! So the forum here is still active, but here everything is dedicated to one RP. Maybe this goes to show that having sub-forums leads to a superior roleplaying experience? You could really put this all into one topic and keep everything consistent. I'm gonna check out this site a little more, they might need some help. The problem I see with this is that this topic is buried back into 2013, and it might be for a good reason. Also it looks pretty cool10. The actual roleplay is here: http://detective.ethereal-visions.net/phpbb/ Pictures and Topics 1 -> http://s10.postimg.org/vh7dh2ca1/CONAN_ONE.png 2 -> http://s10.postimg.org/m361b0lgp/CONAN_TWO.png 3 -> http://s10.postimg.org/613i4mlrd/CONAN_THREE.jpg Just wanted to make sure. . . 4 -> http://s10.postimg.org/6t663tpyh/CONAN_FOUR.jpg 5 -> http://s10.postimg.org/mjmnjpju1/CONAN_5.jpg 6 -> http://s10.postimg.org/ymrz79uw9/CONAN_6.jpg 7 -> http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1689-dcwirl/ 8 -> http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/4341-a-roleplay-subforum/?hl=%2Brole+%2Bplay#entry288292 9 -> http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/4702-detective-conanmagic-kaitou-role-play-anyone/?hl=%2Brole+%2Bplay 10 -> http://s10.postimg.org/v5px4avu1/CONAN_7.jpg and http://s10.postimg.org/bqjqoxrxl/CONAN_8.jpg After that, there's no more roleplaying. DCW IRL died around the 30th of May and I cannot find out why for the life of me, other then the interest just dissipating. Roleplayers here need to learn and adapt to their environment and try other kinds of roleplaying, but the interest just doesn't seem to be there. No one wants to step up to the plate. This is your forums situation on roleplaying, and to be honest, it kinda sucks. I've been lurking a lot lately and this is an awesome forum, so I think it deserves a better effort. The only problem with roleplaying is time; it consumes a lot of it. So if you're thinking of starting a roleplaying forum, try this next time: Make a time limit stressed on the players to maintain discipline; a post every week at the minimum and on the regular try to find a comfortable and consistent posting pattern. What DCW IRL did was great, check it out. Open up the role of Conan (and everyone else) for each game, so that everyone has a chance to play him. Find people who are good at certain things; if someone plays Conan well then reward him with more attention and opportunities to play the character. This is how the RP should be structured: Player One → All the suspects, witnesses and any character you couldn't find a role for. This is basically the game master, because he sets up the situation that the rest of the characters will play in. Player Two → Any characters chosen by the game master that is a minor character; this way the killer could either be a player one or player two. Feel free to have multiple players play minor characters, to keep things fresh. Player Three – The police, everyone. If this guy can find people to play specific characters from the police, that's OK, but someone has to utilize the grand structure. Player Four – Conan Player Five – The Detective Boys, Ran, Kogoru, Dr. Agasa; all the major characters. Like Player Two and three, if you find a person willing to take a character off you, then you should do so! You don't need different people to play each part. That's going to slow things down sooo much and most of the time you can't find everyone to fill every role. The point is to create a story based on the world Gosho has shown us. If we can get multiple RP's going, two people on the forum can play as Conan at once! (Apparently that never happens!) Also, when it comes down to the BO, I honestly think it's in poor taste to RP with them until you've proven you deserve it. BO plots are really rare in DC so you should reflect that quality to get the best feel of the show and the world Conan lives in. I kind of judge because I'm still on episode one hundred fourty one and I have no idea who Akai is or what silver bullet means, but that's still not the point. If you start your own RP on here, please make an OOC topic where you can goof off and ask questions and an IC topic so that the story can be kept in one place. In an RP where information is critical it's important to have it organized. Also, if you do it, take emergency measures to keep the topic alive. Once someone disappears and doesn't come back, replace them. The RP takes precedence over the players, it's a dog eat dog world but you can't just cry about it. Also, don't be super dramatic or take it personally if someone disappears, or if you're not good enough to play Conan but you REALLY want to. Don't be selfish; the story is the important part, not who you play. You have to be a very good and persistent roleplayer to do the major roles, it's just the nature of the game. I would also use piratepad.net or titanpad.net or google documents to do more dialogic passages. You can all join the pad and start roleplaying there, then post the results on the forum. I think this would be really fun for Detective Conan specifically. I need to point out, that the wiki would be used in a new and inventive way if people began consistently roleplaying. Game masters can use it to find minor recurring characters and weave them into the story and roleplayers can use it to check for consistency in theme. So there you go, that's the situation you guys are in. I think a lot of people don't care, and I'll probably find that out with the next few comments (or lack of comments. . .)

The “Sera not an enemy” text and translation should be for the postcard above it. “The mystery child's voice actor Part 1” the picture should be swapped with the one in Part 3. I noticed jimmy_kud0_tv2 has a few more on DCTP. I think a few of his translations are wrong. I’ll go through them when I have time probably tomorrow.

Here is a sneak peek on the cover page of my current manga I'm working on! Look forward to it, and btw, as soon as I finish the first chapter, i'll complete the voted drawings! [and don't forget to vote for the FIFTH drawing! If u have problems with voting ''again'', delete your last vote and vote again for the fifth drawing you want to be made!!] Fan Manga Progression:http://meitanteixx.deviantart.com/gallery/53451787/DC-Behind-the-Black-Curtains-Vermouth-Part-1

Haha, I've been following this thingy for a long time now. What it's like to live on other planets? --- Also, The Origins of Unluck Friday/ Friday the 13th

Average weather like cloudiness (clouds are interesting but them just chilling in the sky not really doing much is kinda boring) and clear days aren't too interesting either (at least not to me) but storm cells, man... Whenever it storms I always end up sitting in front of the largest window in my house with laptop in front me trying to figure out where the most severe part might go and watching just how fast the clouds are moving in real time compared to how fast they move on the radar. And there's tornadoes and waterspouts that are essentially just unstoppable, high speed funnels with no regard for anything in their paths. The fact that you can see the rotation on radar images too , , they're so terrifying they're fascinating And thank you! The snow predicting models..? equipment...? (not quite sure where they get the accumulation numbers from..) are off from time to time. Hopefully that'll improve because there's few worse feelings than being told like 7 - 10in and only getting 4 - 6in. or vice versa. I'm sure in a couple years the technology will be better??? I hope it'll be more accurate at least