#MapleStory Fail

[angelictactics]

got emotional about kao maplestory again girlies

[gacha-incels]

Unlike most people in the west, I actually remember when this controversy first blew up there were analysis talking about the ramifications of this matter if Project Moon doesn't go after the incels and how there would be further consequences for women in the game industry under such pressure to become more normalized if nothing is done.

And cut to almost a year later, and we've been seeing stories of misogyny prop up a lot more frequently and companions kealing over to these incels' insane petty demands.

There's a damn good reason why this situation was so important there domestically and it's honestly frustrating that the so-called progressives in the west defending this company are failing to realize this. :/

Yeah you give them an inch and they take a mile. Your game will always be under the highest delusional scrutiny after caving to them, just look at the ridiculous shit they do in maplestory now. Censoring cheetah print. It was absolutely an event these misogynists considered a significant “win” and emboldened them.

[bts-trans]

220818 Weverse Translations

Jin's Post ❇️ 

이번에 ppt 발표 해보고 ppt 하시는분들 모두 존경하게 되었습니다ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 의견 10개 이상은 있었는데 3-4개만 나가서 아쉽긴 하지만 그래도 하고 싶은 말 많이 해서 후련합니다 우리 아미 여러분들도 언젠가 하이브와서 ppt하는 날이 오길 기대합니다 생각보다 후련하고 재밌었어요ㅋㅋ 그리고 제 부족한 의견듣고 ppt 함께 만들어주신 우리 회사 사람도 감사해용 출근용사 김석진 (https://weverse.io/bts/artist/2-103308645)

I did my very own ppt presentation recently and I developed a lot of respect for people who do ppts hahahaha I had more than 10 ideas but only 3 or 4 ended up in the final thing, which was a bit sad, but I said a lot of the things that I wanted to and I'm glad that I got it all off my chest. I look forward to the day you guys, our ARMYs, might come to Hybe and give presentations too. It's surprisingly fun and satisfying haha Also, thank you to the people at our company who listened to my flawed ideas and helped me make the ppt.   Office Warrior Kim Seokjin

Trans cr; Aditi @ bts-trans © TAKE OUT WITH FULL CREDITS 

Jin's Comments 💬 on ARMY's Posts ❇️

💜: 시리즈 영상를 다 보고 후에 정말 재밌었고 PPT와 발표도 진지하고 많이 신경썼다는 것을 알 수 있었어요. 석진이 정말 잘했어요. 퇴사하지마용 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ(♡ω♡ ) ~♪ J: 연봉 협상 실패해서 쫓겨났습니다 빅히트만큼만 달라고 했거든요 (https://weverse.io/bts/fanpost/3-102547775?anchor=3-173812311)

💜: I really enjoyed watching the whole series, and I can tell that you were serious and put a lot of thought into your PowePoint presentation. You did really well Seokjinie. Please don't quit hahahaha (♡ω♡ ) ~♪

J: I got kicked out because I failed at negotiating my salary. I asked for as much as BigHit.

Trans cr; Ali 

💜: 이제 석진이가 왔으니 다시 한 번 말하고 싶다. 언제쯤 석진이 연기를 하실 건가요? J: 글쎄요.. 요새 저 연기 한다고 소문 났던데.. 계획한게 전혀 없습니다ㅠㅠ 아직 내키지도 않고요 (https://weverse.io/bts/fanpost/3-102548109?anchor=0-204068820)

💜: Now that Seokjinie is here I want to say this one more time. When are you going to start acting?

J: I'm not sure... Recently there's been some rumors that I started acting.. But I haven't made any plans at all ㅠㅠ And it's not something I'm even interested in right now.

Trans cr; Ali & Aditi

💜: 진 솔로곡 한번 내는거 어떻게 생각해? J: 웃음 이모티콘 (https://weverse.io/bts/fanpost/1-103322766?anchor=4-173811061)

💜: Jin, what do you think about releasing a solo song?

J: Laughing emoji

💜: 석진에게 돈을 보낼 수 있어요 ㅋㅋㅋ J: 감사합니다 계좌번호는 9************** 김석진 입니다 (https://weverse.io/bts/fanpost/4-102549541?anchor=3-173819038)

💜:I can send you money hahaha

J: Thank you so much. My bank account number is 9************** Kim Seokjin

💜: 넥슨 퇴사하고 위버스 출근하셨네요~ 출근용사 반응 엄청나던데 시리즈가시나요? J: 유저분들이 좋아해주신다고 얘기들어서 기분이 좋습니다 더 배워서 아미 여러분들이 좋아할만한 일들 해야죠 이제! (https://weverse.io/bts/fanpost/4-102554478?anchor=3-173822789)

💜: I see you've quit Nexon and have clocked in to work at Weverse~ “Office Warrior” was a big hit, so are you going to make it a series?

J: I heard that the Maple users really liked it, so was happy about that. I now need to learn more and do work that ARMYs will like!

(T/N: "Office Warrior" is the name Jin was given in his collaboration with Nexon where he interned as a game planner for the game MapleStory.)

Trans cr; Ali & Aditi @ bts-trans © TAKE OUT WITH FULL CREDITS 💜: Jin, what do you think about releasing a solo song?J: Laughing emoji

[lordtheodorexiii]

Ever since PSO2 died I don't have a game to "default to" anymore and I've been trying to fill that void to no avail.

I played MapleStory but progression is slow there and bosses are the focus, which generally don't pass my vibe checks. (The monetization doesn't help) I'd play MonHun but the weight behind character movement and stamina meter feels like there's concrete in my character's shoes, regardless of class/weapon/wirebug. I played a bit of Elsword and Mabinogi but those failed to keep my attention. I have Black Desert Online but the mixed reviews are a big push factor. I played Vindictus on a potato and maybe I should try again...

The FPS games I play don't scratch that itch either since they're all PVP.

And I'm not paying routinely for FF14.

[lawain-dimensional-heroes]

🔥 + rules pages / Google docs

Send me a “ 🔥 “ for an unpopular opinion.

Okay, this kinda goes with another topic I had in mind, but Imma say it anyway.

ACCESSIBILITY...Do some people not understand that at all?

I understand that finding the right theme for your muse's aesthetics is something we all want at some point and I completely understand and consider it a valid reason to look for. What's not okay is to make it harder to access for your fellow mutuals. I've seen some roleplay blogs with themes that on paper it seems very aesthetically pleasing, but accessibility speaking: they're awful-- downright terrible even.

I get that you like to want to make it fit the aesthetic as much as possible, but when the aesthetic makes it harder to perhaps downright impossible for your mutuals to look for the proper information without your help, that's where the theme fails in my opinion.

And that's not even me saying it for those who have issues regarding anything to do with sigh, it's just how some themes make the buttons blend in the theme so well that it just seems like either part of the theme itself or looks more or less like art rather than actual clickable buttons.

I've seen my fair share of people who have themes that go way overboard with the aesthetics rather than the actual accessibility for their mutuals. One time I had to genuinely ask a mutual back in my early years of being new to roleplaying for help cause I couldn't find the god damn button cause it blended way too well with the theme. And the sad thing is: I still see blogs who prioritizes their aesthetics over easy access to informations. I will admit I had my own issues with themes when it comes to easy access.

That and the whole accessibility thing is a big reason why I changed theme on my Maplestory blog, cause while the theme does look nice, I really want my mutuals to be able to easily see and access the rules, the bios and what not. It's one of the reason why I kept my current theme to this very day: so that my fellow mutuals can get easy access to information they need.

Why am I talking about accessibility and all that when the topic is rules and google documents? Well those things aren't only important to roleplaying as well, but if you cannot get easy access to a google document or a rule page or hell, even a bio page then that makes roleplaying with them a lot harder.

Another thing and I might be asking a weird question, but why hasn't everyone just agreed on what the standard rules for all roleplayers are? Most rule pages are mostly the same with some differences here and there and while it is standard, I think that's one of the reasons why roleplayers don't really read the rules, but I'm just one person thinking about it. What's your opinion?

[kocelot-gaming]

Modern MapleStory

Pre-BigBang = Too hard. Post-BigBang = Too easy.

Nexon failed to find the sweet spot.

Also, the pics below are from a Private Server for MapleStory (Pre-BigBang) with 3.2x EXP, Meso and Drop Rates.

[thenighttcat]

Losing interest

Maplestory was all the rage when I was 11 years old. Every day after school, my friends and I would return our individual homes and log into the virtual world. We were part of what they call a guild, a band of brothers and sisters, and together we'd roam the magic forests and barren mountainous landscapes, demolishing any monster that dared stand in our way.

Seeking to recover that same thrill tonight, I decided to download the mobile version on my phone. It's a clunky app and it took forever for the game resources to load. When I had finally gotten through, I created my character, attempted to understand how everything worked, failed to understand how anything worked, got bored, deleted the app. All within 5 minutes.

The whole fiasco made me realise that there may come a time when my present obsessions will no longer matter a single bit, that what I care intensely about now - my dreams, my hobbies, my longings - will one day become...well, lame. Just like how it is with Maplestory now. It's rather disheartening if you think about it. Perhaps the one thing worse than losing your treasure is for that treasure to cease even being one at all.

If there's something to be learnt from this dismal reflection, it would be to seize the day. Because when night falls and all light disappears, there will be nothing left to seize. At that point, you would reach out to grasp but find nothing but thin air, and how disappointing that would be.

[starswallowingsea]

Ideologically I don't agree with Lucid but she did kind of go off on the aesthetics

[tastycitrus]

Dawn Warrior: ...

Thunder Breaker: ...

Night Walker: ...

Thunder Breaker: Night Walker, I thought you were supposed to be GOOD at dodging.

[nanintell]

Me : *did weekly and daily boss run in 2 hours*

My arm : i'm outta here

[kanonffa]

Wow...

Something will happen here...

Someone is going to get big soon ¬w¬

*insertar risa malvada*

[1-beadyeyes]

[lele37]

Everybody be thirsty for the Black Mage and the Commanders

meanwhile I’m trying to nope real hard out of the fandom

[its-toasted]

A 20XX brick about everything

I ripped out the pit and she posted a picture of tacos. Just kidding. Like that did happen, but it's not representative of anything, except the culture at the time. Like I'd like a medley stream of pictures while I'm crying, that would help, yes. Yes it would. I heart this post, and I know my mutual feels me, in all this fullness, u, across the universe with blanket and hot drank, for me? Fuck, I'm touched. Just lock up my energy into a bar then it's bearable, otherwise I'm a bit lopsided.

I guess I'm always lopsided to you. Normally if we talk -- you and I, not the her-you, which I do sometimes, but the you-you, yes, your faceass, that is correct, I am clairvoyant. Uh I guess normally I would let you know what stage of life I'm in. Just off the strength of setting or scene or something childish and unmistakable. But this time I think it just works better this way.

.

There was this chick, and it was real and we were the best. That was a test, and I don't know if you failed it but I judge you accordingly. It was an old iconic tumblr photo from back in the day, so if you're not up on that you've been respectfully weeded out. Another gem went like -- Caroline, you are my working week my sunday rest, blah blah blah and sunday best, north east south west bitch, chiseled into the tree bark. That can't be right. This place is for saps. This place has always been a part of me, I do have tacit love for that, being of here, much as the XXX, or xxco, or college park, or home court, or a dark night on the road. I've been posting bad music here since 2011 man, and 11's my favorite number, so preeetty sure it's my year. It early

This place is origin, like I grew up reading books and playing ball and falling in love until what, about 21. And coming back to dream here, even after years. What was real before the page, before I was 14 and thinking in song and synonym and sheet music? Or when I first saw Miles Hodges and Andrea Gibson and Mac Miller flutter with a pen. This box is a makeshift sanctuary for me, it often has been. I have a theory you get ghost-banned because you saved way too much shit in drafts, or are otherwise just a stupid large load on staff resources, but if you ask nicely enough they may pity you. They roll a die. May will be here in 3 weeks, and that means there's only 5 months until Cam's wedding, and I'm worried I won't fit. Nah that's clown talk. We just booked tickets to Colorado, the one time I went it was May too.

Do you know the odds of being for someone? I think about so much in odds, maybe that's from being naturally smooth with the math as with english as a yung back in the day u know me. Uh or scrolling on maplestory, or playing what are the odds with Cam in pews and halls and terminals and drive thrus, and having to put my tongue on some unpleasant fucking shit. I'm not great at math anymore, but still very good at the basics. And estimation, that's what I mean, I never want to know the truth. I'd like to guess and then be moved, you feel me. No you don't, since that sounds dumb, but it's true. I'd love to learn so much that I'm a burden, because I was always really good then.

With this girl, lol I've built up this anticipation like charging the sun, and for what huh. Here it is, and it's the same as per uje. How I crave more than anyone is able to give, because I chase loving that needs me to be more than I am, and I can't be, so you see it's a stand-still. She was so different, and it still wasn't different with her. If I'm not drawn out of the bad parts of me it won't last. I've been a lot of boys, like cold and loud and proud and hard, but none of those are nature. I guess the second likely was. And the first is becoming, I hate that. I won't say there's a better way but I do fight it, though. I do see why most end up with another from home, who else could know you

[sadydoodle]

Inktober day 6: sword

[grandathenaeum-scenarios]

as you wish

pairing(s): mihile x empress! reader (the princess bride inspired)

post: 15

warnings: none

w/c: 609

a/n: my fiance and i are westley and buttercup for halloween so i started thinking about a maplestory x princess bride fic ! and who fits better than our good blond boi mihile

Many bonds are formed by happenstance, and, more rarely, those bonds find themselves being deeper and stronger than others— made of platinum instead of gold. Mihile happened to be your very first commander. The very first person to lead an army into battle in your honor.

"Stock boy," you would affectionately call him, as a reference to his humble beginnings. He would turn, and a smile spread across his lips at the sound of your voice.

"My liege?" he would reply, and you would tell him of your wishes. "As you wish," he said. Your heart flooded with butterflies each time, without exception, and sometimes you would request the most mundane things in order to hear his voice utter that phrase. And without fail, he would cross his wrists behind his back, slowly nod, and back away with his bright blue eyes sparkling. You couldn't even think to smile back most times, as you were too busy getting lost in his irises.

Mihile looked forward to each of the little, occasionally ridiculous quests you would send him on, because, at the end of each quest, you would ask him to lean down in order for you to place a peck on his cheek.

"Stock boy, fetch me some water, please," you said one day.

"As you wish," Mihile said with a smile, and off he went, whether or not he was in the middle of something. You had a moment of epiphany while looking at Mihile's dreamy expression as he handed you the crystal glass, and realized, when he said as you wish, he really meant I love you. And you were even more surprised when you realized that you truly and completely were in love with him as well.

Mihile patiently waited for you to say the usual magic words, but you faltered for a moment before telling him to lean down. His eyes widened as your lips were placed on his own instead of his cheek, and his armored hand found it's way to the gentle curve of you face. When you parted, you frowned, apprehensive of Mihile's reaction to your sudden kiss. But his expression was the same as when he would say as you wish— one of undeniable love. And then you were absolutely sure of your affection.

You had never felt less alone since then. Nights in your grand bedroom felt less lonely with lengthy midnight conversations, and parting with Mihile before his missions were full of sweet words and long hugs.

His favorite thing to do was rest against a tree and watch you twirl and dance around the garden with your flowy white dress that flit in the wind, trailing your form. Oh, how you would laugh and hum, and he would watch with a grin and listen as you talked about your hopes and dreams. Mostly, you talked about your future with him, like what you would wear for the wedding, and the names of your future children, or how you would help Mihile down the steps when he got old and hobbled.

You would leap over his crossed legs, and playfully, softly whip your dress against his face, and he would jump up to chase you. You never tried very hard to escape, because your favorite thing was when he would catch you, fall to the grass with you on his chest, and you could lean down to kiss him.

"Stock boy," you said, tracing your finger over the golden edge of the metal armor that framed his face. He hummed in response, smiling at his nickname. "Love me forever, won't you?"

"As you wish," he tenderly said.