RAR!
RAR! is a prominent board meme coined by Mayabird in responce to Zor's Hypothetical scenarios.
What is a RAR!
A RAR! thread refers to a thread with an unconventional hypothetical scenario, originally it was a purely derogatory remark (and is occasionally still used as such). Now it is a somewhat well known facet of SD.net Culture and has taken on the role of simply describing a hypothetical Scenario that may or may not be stranger than your usual ones. Mere verses Threads are not considered RAR!s, however RAR's Can include verses Elements inside them, RAR!
Types of RAR!
Here are a list of the major subtypes of RAR!. Please note that for the most part they are not mutually exclusive and they do often cross over one another quite often.
Alternate History RAR!
This is among the most basic of RAR!s. AH RAR! threads are Alternate History Scenarios that can involve both conventional PoDs were something happens diferently or ones of supernatural/exotic nature.
Island in the Sea of Time (ISoT) RAR!
A subtype of IToS RAR! Generally involving taking a nation/province and throwing it back in time.
King you RAR!
Lucky you! You are now the Ruler of a small Kingdom/Extrasolar Colony/AK-47 toting Army in the middle ages. These focus on your decisions with how you run your new empire. Very often linked to Alternate History.
SD.NET has da Powah RAR!
Related to King You RAR!, In these RAR!s the entire population of SD.net (barring people who are banned, most often inactive users and small count posters) is sent back in time to a feudal village in France or Middle Earth, to rule over a small nation in the Star Wars galaxy or to rule over a nation in the Pacific as nobles in the 1500's. Not to popular as most of the board's population ends up dying from starvation, being conquered, enslaved and other nasty things along those lines anyway.
You get something RAR!
You have just received an odd object; a set of abilities or have changed in some way physically or sent to some society. This can be something like a watch that changes your gender with the push of a button that you can keep in a drawer for the rest of your life or you can't refuse or you have to chose between two good/bad outcomes.
Worldwide RAR!
Set in the here and now, a very odd event happens hitting the world like a ton of bricks. On the Market are introduced Watches that switch people's gender, a race of extraterrestrials offers us membership in their interstellar federation, at a price of the loss of some freedoms or a not so nice extraterrestrial race deciding to ad Sol System into their interstellar empire. The consequences of such are about the effects of this on the world and on you.
Serious RAR!
Serious RAR! is a serious event that could conceivably happen to us/the world in the future, including political and social events. Generally a worldwide event.
High RAR!
High RAR! can be any of these. High RAR! is a level above mere normal RAR!s, it must have large amounts of detail fleshing out what goes on in the scenario, trying to create a very high quality background and setting for the scenarios, and to answer questions that may crop up in the creation.
Note
RAR! is not a Acronym, so stop asking what it stands for. It is believed to be an onomatopoeia on the caricatured sound of a small or medium cat's roar.