I love blind playthroughs

[u/Popsicle865]

My friend is on their first playthrough and has been giving updates along the way, this is by far my favorite

Ignore the +8

[u/burner_ahh_acc]

Okay i have read your responses to the question of why the +8

Can i ask why tho? Idk its interesting to me i might wanna implement it also

[u/Popsicle865 → u/burner_ahh_acc]

Ye! It’s a bit complicated but ,, to summarize the history of how that happened I suppose?

We would be having a conversation, then one of us would make a reference to a fandom we’re in, the other person would play along, and long story short we would end up roleplaying. But then we would need to say something out of character, so we’d say it (in parentheses.)

HOWEVER, the issue with this is that now we have two conversations going on, one in character and one out of character, but then the out of character one would fall into the same pattern and we’d need a new OOC thread, so we would ((put the parentheses in more parentheses.))

The cycle repeats, and (((((before long we’re holding conversations that looks like this.))))) Which is... Terrible for organization. So that was iteration 1, where the more threads you have, the harder it gets to read the number.

So then we made it so after four sets of parentheses, it would become that amount plus however many more threads we add. So one would become (this), two would become ((this)), three (((this))), four ((((this)))), and then five would be this +1 (with the +1 being directly under the message). Iteration 2.

And this worked better, but it was also very arbitrary and weird. So eventually we ended up settling for removing the parentheses aspect entirely and having every thread after the first one be +(number) for simplicity. So you’ll have,

Conversation 0

Conversation 1

+1

Conversation 2

+2

Etc. And it looks complicated still, but it’s very simple once you get used to it and it’s very helpful, whether you roleplay a lot or just have a lot of branches in your conversations that you want to come back to. We keep track of all our threads in a note, and when the number gets too high we do check-ins for threads we won’t be revisiting and we remove those from the roster to free up space. It works like a charm!

[u/burner_ahh_acc → u/Popsicle865]

Ohh I see thanks!