GWG, if you haven't noticed, but 90% of OOC in here is akin to "rapid-fire chatter" in its content and in its looks.
Just the looks; actual typing speed is optional. When I IRC for A World Asunder, I usually have a few new comments or whatever they're called up between what I'm replying to and mine. It's annoying. On forums, you can just quote...not an option on IRC.
Besides, coordiantion of the game and discussion can be had in real time.
If you understand what everything's referring to. I'll do an experiment if you like: a post replying to someone a few posts back with no quotes at all. See how comprehensible it is.
Also, I don't see how it inhibits your ability to partake in other games. Unless you have real trouble with attention span and keep forgetting everything every 5 minute,s haivng one more window open ot chat with others in real time shouldn't kill you.
You left out the possibility of me being long-winded, which I...may be...and which is worsened by me being on a tablet, which leads to my rapid-fire-attwmpted typing causing typos every sentence that I need to fix. Which is, incidentally, another reason I am avoiding IRC ATM.
And lastly, there are clients for IRC that let you keep track of things, save logs of conversation and other.
But not verifiable ones. And not ones I'm aware of.
Also, I don't see how it inhibits your ability to partake in other games. Unless you have real trouble with attention span and keep forgetting everything every 5 minute,s haivng one more window open ot chat with others in real time shouldn't kill you.
Tablets, especially lower ends ones, don't do much more than one thing at a time. Hell, mine doesn't do much more then minesweeper.
Also the timezone problem and such.
In that case I'm sorry to the tablet people. it still does not preclude your participation on a normal computer or a laptop
Which I don't have access to. And what about time zones, or real-life concerns? Do I need to have a record of the IRC channel 24/7 just in case that's when the GM finally answers my question? Forums are nice because they keep all those posts, even when you can't be at the computer.
Not everyone is javier, you know. Some of us need to eat/sleep/shower/work/go to class/etc, and some of us even have lives outside the internet. (Fyi, this is in response to Javier claiming he's always online, not an attempt to insult him.)