Quote from: Tachikoma on June 28, 2020, 10:11:15 am

i don't understand why some people get so upset about gimmicks

Gimmicks are very hit or miss. It's good to have variety and fun instead of the same old conversations, and they usually allow an easy jumping off point, but they can run into a few issues. Namely:

1. If the gimmick is laid on too much that it becomes impossible to talk to the person, not just "oh I need google translate" or whatever but make people have to do a lot of work to understand. If you can't communicate, you can't connect and you can't plan.
2. If the gimmick becomes too much of it's own thing. Having one is fine so long as you can show some of the person underneath but if it feels like all you are doing is talking to a gimmick and not a person well, how can you expect to trust it? You can't be sure what lies underneath.

gus here speaks the truth

also this forum software is spiffy.

Maybe this is secretly Furvivor

mafiascum was a mistake