Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26809367-20160721155022

Today I'm going to point out a few things on something you often see in episode threads- the off-topic.

Now, from all we know, you often see me joke about the "Ultimate Weapon Off-topic" and such, because I admit it myself, when a random, casual and un-important episode goes off-topic it mostly ends up in comedy or such xD.

However, there are times when off-topic is highly annoying for who needs to do something important in an episode. I'll give you an example.

The episode is an important part of a character's arc. YOUR character, let's say. You know you're close to the climax and are hoping to surprise the other users with an interesting plot twist, BUUUUUUUT this user jumps in and their characters randomly spawn in the scene and make the whole conversation or scene go offtopic.

Let's say this user came in and caused a vase to be broken or something, and everyone starts talking about the vase and your characters are FORCED to follow the topic if they don't want to be ignored.

This commonly happens, wait no, it happens in ALL MY EPISODES. I'm not blaming anyone.

I've been shutting up about this all the time, but you know, in my recent episode SOMETHING IMPORTANT was happening and then this character barged in almost- wait, TOTALLY making the whole conversation go on another topic and I won't have any other chance to bring the topic back anytime soon.

IT'S VERY ANNOYING. Especially when this happens whenever I try to make an arc for my characters.

OFF-TOPIC CAN CAUSE COMEDY OR SUCH IN AN EPISODE, AND CAN BE ENJOYABLE AND FUN. HOWEVER, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN IT'S NOT APPRECIATED.

(i'm not telling btw just making that stick out)

If you don't know how to reply to an episode, there's a very simple thing you can do. That is, IGNORE THE EPISODE. DON'T MAKE THE WHOLE THING GO OFF-TOPIC IF IT'S AN IMPORTANT TWIST.

I'm pretty sure you all would be annoyed if that happened to your episode.

Let's say this, if this goes on I'll butt in the episodes of who keeps doing this (not making names but if you did and are reading this you probably realized it's you.) and bring in a stupid situation to go off-topic.

I'm not angry, I'm just annoyed. This needs to stop. There are times when you CAN'T barge in an episode when it clearly is important. 