I've become particularly fascinated with the mechanics of a certain game. So much so that I went looking to find it myself. To my surprise, it was not hosted on Steam, Itch.io, or any other big company launcher. No, it was hosted on B.Y.O.N.D., or Build Your Own Net Dream.
In a game old enough to buy alcohol, activity is far and between. Many active servers in the game (Yes it's by servers) are run by small groups that require some form of assurance that you won't blow up the ship upon spawn. Very very fair.
But being as I'm intimidated very quickly by anything even remotely 'role playing', to the point of turning off all my electronics in fear, the ask that some servers have for only HRP or 'High Role Play' is very frightening. I can be accused of low quality role playing for not voicing actions enough? What a strangeness. As someone whose last role play attempt in earnest and not fear was when he was 13 on deviantart* and it lasted all of five exchanges, I'm how you say, rusty. Big expectations out of the gate are sure to result in failure and an even bigger fear of trying again.
I've thankfully found some much lower stakes server options in Goonstation, a group whose name has always been about the henchman type. Though I haven't attempted a round yet and have mostly been reading wikis that have yet to tell me what button to push to activate something, it feels leaps and bounds better than it expressing the request that I pretend to fully immerse myself in a little 2d guy who is just gonna get sucked out into space.
*I was a part of a more casual rp group once that was basically just a bunch of people pretending to be adults in a harvest moon (I have never played that game) type setting. I played a priest with a big ol cross earring. It was really earnest at the time.