Sally's Journal

I need to write a proper blog post on the important of PING in LRP.

This is mostly because I’ve realized that about 80% of my ‘I’m having an issue with X LRP’ comes down to me really saying ‘I don’t have any PINGs and don’t know how to get them’, just in longer sentences and pretending that I’m all about the art or something. When really I mean “I don’t fucking care if I just picked 100 fucking flowers. Why will no one give me validation for that? GIVE ME PING!”

(World of Warcraft has a lot to either be thanked for or answer for. I’m not really sure)

And I never did write the blog post, but I did explain at length what I meant in the comments. Which I’ve since had to hunt down repeatedly when people asked me to explain my theory of PING. And now I’m basically compiling all my notes into one single piece for reference. The Sally Theory of PING.
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