#(It worked!)

[ghostly-omens]

Anyway Quackity was one of the people on DSMP who was most involved in and invested in lore. Las Nevadas and the Butcher Army and the Red Banquet and everything with L'Manberg. He clearly loved telling the story he wanted to tell and playing on a roleplay server.

But a lot of creators have pointed out that the most fun they had on the server was when they were doing improv, when they were reacting to things that happened and building the story naturally that way. When things got scripted, when creators had to come up with and write and execute their lore basically on their own, when it stopped being playing and started being acting, that's when you got players disengaging and losing interest and motivation. By the end, literally every bit of lore was scripted. Most of it was prerecorded just so it could end up telling a complete story, instead of starting a dozen plot threads that had to be abandoned when the other people involved didn't answer your DMs or the big lore day that was meant to move the whole server's story along didn't happen. The last big, whole-server lore event only happened because Technoblade was dying. Communication was so bad that was the only thing that could get everyone to get organised enough for a single day of lore, a story event that had been set up for months.

And so when Quackity comes up with his own server, he wants it to have a strong roleplay element (if that's what the other creators involved end up wanting). Quackity loved his roleplaying on DSMP. But he wants it to be fun for the creators as well as for the fans, and the way lore was fun on DSMP was for it to be improv, not for it to be creators acting out a script. But things got scripted because once they set up a story, it had to escalate in a specific way in order for it to be narratively satisfying, which made it less fun. A single arc is fine, but things just won't work for more than that without at least a loose script. By the end DSMP wasn't roleplay, it was acting. Some creators managed to tell satisfying stories, but it wasn't the same as when it was a bunch of friends messing around doing Hamilton Breaking Bad improv because it was fun. The DSMP, for a good chunk of its life, was not fun to play on. So people didn't.

But how do you set up satisfying, coherent stories over a long period of time while also maintaining the fun roleplay element? Someone needs to guide them and develop them, but it can't be the creators on a server if you're going to keep the fun roleplay element.

Hence the admins, and their role not just maintaining the server, but in developing and guiding the story. Their role is basically a GM, in tabletop roleplaying terms, and the creators get to be player characters roleplaying in reaction to that. Creators don't know much more than we do; how many times have creators said they don't get told shit, have they been told to log on and been faced with huge big developments they didn't see coming and have to figure out how to roleplay that? QSMP works kind of like Dungeons and Dragons but in Minecraft. Keeps the story consistent and escalating, without the need for creators to sacrifice their own enjoyment of their content.

I don't know how stuff like Karmaland works, maybe Quackity got it from there. But as a former Dream SMP fan, I see Quackity taking the best part of DSMP and finding a way to make it work for something a lot more sustainable and ambitious, keeping it fun and enjoyable for both fans and creators.

#qsmp #he saw something good that didnt quite work and he made it better! #good for him! #i had a lot of feelings about how qsmp is set up so thoughtfully okay #its designed to be fun and enjoyable for everyone that was quackitys approach! #it worked!

[haunted-xander]

Guilt

#this is the result of me fucking around to combat art block #it worked! #urianger augurelt #final fantasy #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #ff14 #ffxiv #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

[magicratfingers]

Ok I did the math (trains + nature= gimme) imma move back to the PNW

#posting this to make sure I do it #I once had to get a tattoo to remind me I wanted to go back to school #it worked!

[probably-not-a-rutabaga]

Trolley problem vs Big Bandaid

#rutabaga answers #it worked!

[stardryad]

Rest 🦊🍃

#the new challenge of 'im gonna draw a little animal so this temporary stress will go away' #it worked! #didn't really overthink this one thus why i relaxed #so. ta-da 🎉 #woodcore #cottagecore #mosscore #fox #digital illustration #art #cozy art

[tokyo-daaaamn-ji-gang]

I’m totally alone in this, but Akashi Takeomi, will you be my valentine?

🥺👉🏾👈🏾

#tr valentines asks #it worked!

[samssims]

Cured.

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#ts4 #Sims 4 #NSB #Not So Berry Legacy #Not So Berry #NSB Gen 2 #NSB Gen 1 #NSB Ruby #Sims 4 gameplay #it worked! #and in some future Gen we might just see how they did it ;)

[princelancey]

"AND LANCE STROLL" so true Alex

#f1 #lance stroll #formula 1 #aston martin f1 #I was screwing like a madman at my TV willing him past Val #It worked!

[theblackestofsuns]

"It Worked!"

Fantastic Four #99 (June 1970)

Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott

Marvel Comics

#Fantastic Four #Stan Lee #Jack Kirby #Joe Sinnott #Marvel Comics #Great Comics #Great Comic Art #It Worked!

[cloth--mother]

tried to get pics of a cat I met

#it worked!

[kitties]

#it worked! #behold!

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

I haven’t read this section of Feeding Habits in probably 3 years & tell me how I wrote ALLLL of this before I watched Hannibal

The confessional smells rank, like rotting paper and expired cologne, its corners seedy with overuse. Scratches mar the fabric he rests his elbows on, like someone clawed into it while reliving their sins, track marks on the floor from a rainy day. He can’t imagine anyone else but him in this small box, caged in by the lattice, mumbling incoherent sins to the priest he hasn’t even committed. Stealing a set of glass eyeballs from a garage sale. Forgetting his wedding anniversary. Missing Easter Sunday mass to go whale watching. He doesn’t sign himself at the right times or speak at the right times or thank the priest at the right times. He lies when he’s asked if he’s lied since his last confession. He mentions nothing of drinking with Anya, of not saving the sheep or the bunnies even though he knew the outcome of their lives without finishing the program. Of being a wicked child, of knowing wicked children, of not knowing the difference between wickedness and innocence, and which one he learned first. He says his name is Luka. He works at a law firm. He’s married to a Harriet, a seamstress or a stock broker or an antiques trader—he doesn’t know. He likes golfing, parcheesi, drinking martinis on yachts. He’s never overindulged, he’s loyal to his woman, he wants three kids and a house with finished floors and no neighbours. He’s a good father, a gentle father, a careful father, no wickedness, just an empty shell of goodness, like a father should be. His father is retired, and visits him on weekends—they play checkers, paint birdhouses, keep a distance but toast with spirits he can’t pronounce. Everything is good—it’s all good, all good. That’s not a sin, the priest should say but they laugh—it’s good to be good. Children are good, marriage is good, fathers are good, everything an iteration of good. By the time his confession is over and he’s well on his way out of the church mumbling I am heartily sorry, he believes his lies are true—he’s absolved into someone new, Luka married to Harriet, three kids, an empty shell, dreamily stumbling through a house with finished floors that’s actually just the sidewalk until a woman passing by with two small children has to help him sit on the curb.

She asks if he needs something to drink, if he needs someone to call, and emerges with a half-empty bottle of sparkling water and a cell phone. She asks what’s wrong with his eye, and he doesn’t know what’s wrong with anything—with eyes, with children, with sins, with confessions, with baptisms, with orange juice, with madeleines, with wickedness, with practicing how long he can breathe underwater because he knows it’s possible just like walking on it.

One of the children, hair pulled into two plaits secured with pearlescent butterflies, pokes at her mother and asks if he’s crazy. Her mother shushes her at the same time her older sister shows him a cool trick she learned with a toy convertible. Its wheels whir. Lonan gasps. The girl says, “Even crazy people think I’m gifted,” and wheels the car again. People stop to watch. Church bells gong an elegy he’s sure he’s heard before. The woman’s sparkling water dribbles from his mouth and dampens his dress shirt. Sun eclipses his face and eats at his throat like a parasite, like it knows all the unclean things about him, a watcher, an eyeball, a scorching little thing that bullets through his neck like the tooth of a wolf. The woman shushes her children and asks if he’s got a health problem, a drug problem, any problem, and he could say yes to all three but instead keeps repeating I am heartily sorry, I am heartily sorry. And when she does call someone, no one he knows, he leans against the cool pavement, cranes his neck to the sky, and parts his lips so the sunlight fills his mouth.

#I forgot Lonan has FH chapters LOLLLL #knowing now that this canonically comes after Hallowed Bodies is so exciting to me #LIKE YEAHHH HIM RETURNING TO A CHURCH AFTER GOING TO CHURCHES ALL SEPTEMBER #anyway the lack of paragraph breaks is giving garth greenwell #I WAS 18 WHEN I WROTE THIS??? 18???????? #does anyone remember this lol he’s so epic fail to me #ALSO HARRIET LOL hey girl 💅💅 #if we’re curious I watched Hannibal after writing the first scene of chapter 3 LOL I couldn’t get thru a scene and was like #I wanna look at hugh dancy #it worked! #also Lonan being ‘crazy’ is something I did not realize was pre established before HB but like duhh #everyone has been concerned for his well-being since like 2016

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

i also set a new record for my longest wordle streak yesterday at 17 days :-) going for 18 nowwwww

#i actually fell asleep before midnight without completing it on like thursday or friday but i was determined this time #so i straight up changed the time on my ipad to the previous day at 11pm and did it lol #it worked!

[beautyqueenproblems]

Sleep in those rollers and get big hair in the morning 🤷🏻‍♀️

#me #selfie #morning hair #roller set for the win #sleeping in those were a bitch #I literally wrapped a t-shirt around my head #it worked! #too much curl for one girl/person

[joyridingmp3]

avoided my boss all day today ✅

#after monday he said he'd follow up with me on wednesday #and believe me i was dodging him like nothing else #it worked! #mine

[6ad6ro]

#street fighter #street fighter 6 #beta #steam deck #gaming #it worked! #photo #mine