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justsaydrugstono) wrote2021-04-24 10:31 pm
justsaydrugstono) wrote2021-04-24 10:31 pm
Opt-In, Opt-Out, Etc.
Hey there friends. This is a general post for opting in and out of stuff. There is a Lot of Stuff. Comments SHOULD BE screened.
EDIT 8/10/2024: Not all of this is 1000% applicable to Limelight but it's close enough that I'm leaving it as-is! LMK if you have specific questions about what is different
OPT-OUT
There are a lot of triggering topics in Disco Elysium, and also it's a mystery game, so there are plenty of reasons to opt out of playing with the detective, or request that certain topics never come up. It should be pretty easy for me to completely avoid topics while still playing with you, so if it's just something specific you'd like to dodge, that's great for me to know!
Here's like, an incomplete list of things you might encounter with him that may be unpleasant to many people. For the record, I do not want to drop any of these out of nowhere, but, things come up sometimes.
OPT-IN
The detective has limited psychic abilities. These usually come in the form of vague hunches. For example, if your character was a dog trainer at home: "Something is missing. This person is missing a loyal companion." These are mixed in with other hunches that are not necessarily correct, but if you would like to opt in to psychic vibes, you can do that here.
If your character is a cop by any loose definition of the term, the detective can more easily read your character's mind. That's just how that works. So you can also opt into that more specific category. For example, if your character is a cop dog trainer who trains cop dogs, it's more like: "This man has proudly served for ten years on the force. Training effective police dogs is no easy task. But now, he has the free time to worry about home decoration instead." This one definitely needs the opt-in component.
Also he's pretty good at detecting lies and stuff in a normal, mundane detective way too. He's by no means infallible at this, but he's a trained lie-detector who can only be beaten by trained liars, pretty much. I don't want to abuse this, so I'd appreciate the permission so I don't come off godmodey.
EDIT 8/10/2024: Not all of this is 1000% applicable to Limelight but it's close enough that I'm leaving it as-is! LMK if you have specific questions about what is different
OPT-OUT
There are a lot of triggering topics in Disco Elysium, and also it's a mystery game, so there are plenty of reasons to opt out of playing with the detective, or request that certain topics never come up. It should be pretty easy for me to completely avoid topics while still playing with you, so if it's just something specific you'd like to dodge, that's great for me to know!
Here's like, an incomplete list of things you might encounter with him that may be unpleasant to many people. For the record, I do not want to drop any of these out of nowhere, but, things come up sometimes.
- Substance abuse (I am playing him as recovering but he has a deep, deep history with it)
- Suicide/suicidal ideation (ditto)
- Really rough breakups and feelings of loss over relationships
- Political debates that may mirror real-world politics
- Depression and schizophrenia-style mental illness (I OOCly am not diagnosed with the latter and don't have close experience with it)
- Police brutality/corruption
- Spoilers for Disco Elysium, a great game that you should play, while keeping in mind the above trigger warnings, and also additional warnings for things such as child abuse, rape, racism and misogyny that don't apply to the main character so much unless you play him that way, which I don't
- You can also just ask me to stop putting his internal dialogue in my action tags
OPT-IN
The detective has limited psychic abilities. These usually come in the form of vague hunches. For example, if your character was a dog trainer at home: "Something is missing. This person is missing a loyal companion." These are mixed in with other hunches that are not necessarily correct, but if you would like to opt in to psychic vibes, you can do that here.
If your character is a cop by any loose definition of the term, the detective can more easily read your character's mind. That's just how that works. So you can also opt into that more specific category. For example, if your character is a cop dog trainer who trains cop dogs, it's more like: "This man has proudly served for ten years on the force. Training effective police dogs is no easy task. But now, he has the free time to worry about home decoration instead." This one definitely needs the opt-in component.
Also he's pretty good at detecting lies and stuff in a normal, mundane detective way too. He's by no means infallible at this, but he's a trained lie-detector who can only be beaten by trained liars, pretty much. I don't want to abuse this, so I'd appreciate the permission so I don't come off godmodey.