Flux

Happy Birthday!

I'd recommend Ori and the Blind Forest. Good story, good feels moments, enjoyable characters, very pretty, GREAT soundtrack... All in all, it was a blast to play through. It's a action/adventure/platformer game and it's reeeeally good. It's not that expensive either.

Name: Flux Gender: Male

Welcome to Reborn! As you can probably tell, I'm a huge fan of SAO so you have the Flux seal of approval on your life choices you're starting off on a good note! As others have said, don't be afraid to ask if you need help with something and have funnnnn~

ALL HAIL SNOW COW

What genres are you interested in? What kind of setting do you like? Does difficulty matter? Do you prefer big titles over indie games, vice-versa, or not really have a preference? Multiplayer games vs single player? It'll be easier to give good suggestions with some more information.

Here are some Reborn forum themed Arena events for you. ...Hopefully those are useable and in the correct format. If not, just let me know~

...Part of me was tempted to draw this for a moment. I don't know why.

New patch came out today! Patch 0.0.8 is live, introducing the new character, Absa! Absa is a Pan-esque character appearance wise, though she fights using electric attacks. She has a very strong ranged game while still being competent in close quarters, and seems like she'll be somewhat reliant on using the clouds she can set up effectively. I'll give the brief run-down of her moves. That's pretty much the gist of it. I might add pictures later for each of the moves if I feel like screenshotting them, but I think most people reading this will just test for themselves. If there's anyone without the game that would appreciate pictures I'll be sure to add them, just let me know. Besides Absa, this patch also has a few balance changes (such as Maypul and Wrastor nerfs) and introduces Developer Mode, which allows players to attempt to balance characters themselves. Developer mode obviously only works in offline modes though. Anyway, the patch is out, so be sure to go play it! Release message: http://steamcommunity.com/games/383980/announcements/detail/38640603417823023 Patch notes: https://www.reddit.com/r/RivalsOfAether/comments/3tep2k/update_008_the_storm_arrives_patch_notes/

Speaking of which, I edited the parts that you suggested editing. It's ready for a second look. ^^

Disprove this. Explain why you think a show which people call "best anime of the season" or "of the year" or "ever", while shitting on pretty much everything else currently airing or that aired recently isn't overrated. You're not allowed to answer with "because it's worth the hype", in which case I can just mention 3 shows this season that are worth as much if not more hype. You're also not allowed to say "because the humor is good", as that is nothing but an opinion. To me, the humor is average structurally and relies entirely on being "different". Calling that sort of humor good would be like calling comedy anime shorts and shitty sitcoms like the big bang theory god-like. I'll let you two dish this out, but I can't help but point out the flaw in your argument structure here. You're asking him to disprove an opinion (Which first of all is pointless to try to do), but then you go on to say that he can't say the humor is good because that's "nothing but an opinion." You can't ask somebody to prove or disprove an opinion and then forbid them from using opinions to do it. Almost every point that can be brought up for either side for this topic is opinionated. It's an inductive argument. You can't prove either side; all you can do is strengthen your support, for which you need to be able to use opinions. Of course, those opinions need support of their own to be proven strong or weak, otherwise you get into the "It's good because I think it is" or "It's bad because I say so" arguments. -Flux out

I think you're just too picky about random things...

I'm p sure anything above 100 is pretty much just there as a joke. That's the height of possibility that I can see for a post's rep, and even that has never happened to my knowledge. I support the joke, but I'm pretty neutral about the whole rep filter thing. It seems kind of random, but I never even knew we had the feature. I can say that you'd miss out on a lot of posts with that filter on though, which is why it seems so weird to me.

Well, for me personally, it doesn't really make a big difference. The Hilda we've been around is still you, just with a different name and gender now. Though that's under the assumption that all of the things you've said so far are actually the things that you were thinking, and not just things you made up for the alias of Hilda. If indeed they aren't your thoughts, then I suppose we'll just have to get to know you all over again. This was quite a surprise for me at least, but it's nothing so terrible that we should let anyone shun you for it. That being said, I do have a nagging question... Who's the person whose pictures you post in the "What do you look like?" thread then?

I can't tell if the pitch was off purposely or not, but it was still pretty funny ^^

So I'm gonna be the guy who shows up late to the show here. Anyway, I've been keeping up with three of this season's anime, being One Punch Man, Attack on Titan: Junior High, and Asterisk War. My opinions on them are as follows: One Punch Man Episode 1 starts off reeeally slow. At first it got me wondering why everyone liked this show so much. The first episode was bland and uninteresting with little humor, and it appeared to be setting up a series where battles would get really boring after a while. ...And then the rest of One Punch Man happened. Needless to say, the show is hilarious, and the first episode really doesn't do it justice. It's the anime that I'm most excited for new episode releases for this season. Attack on Titan: Junior High This is an anime that relies heavily on its mother series for humor. Pretty much all of the jokes/funny things will be missed if you haven't watched/read the first season of Attack on Titan. Needless to say, if you have seen it, the show's great. I love how they use the original dramatic tracks from the OST to provide melodrama for the most ridiculous things. All in all, I've been enjoying this one a lot as well. Asterisk War This anime... is in a weird spot for me. I generally don't mind the harem/ecchi aspect of anime. But for whatever reason, it just seems rampant to the point of being intrusive in this anime. Not to mention that the girls seem to randomly be in love with the MC for no reason at all. (Some of you may say, "But hey, you're a SAO fan! That harem comes out of nowhere too and the anime sucks!" But honestly, even SAOs harem makes a hell of a lot more sense to me than this one and I don't care if you think it sucks. To each their own.) I feel like this anime could be a lot better if the ecchi/harem elements were just removed or toned down a bit. I know there's been the argument in this thread already about how it brings nothing unique and yadda yadda and I don't want to revive that argument, but honestly, why do things have to be unique every damn time? Seriously, cliches exist because they're things we enjoy so much that we tend to repeat them. Character types exist because inevitably, almost every character falls into stereotypes. But everyone acts like just because I can say "x character is x type of character," then the character is automatically uncreative and garbage because you can put them in some class. Now granted, I'm suuuper tolerant and not picky at all when it comes to anime. SAO is my favorite anime yet, which goes to show that I could care less about stereotypes and flaws. If it's more entertaining than what everyone claims to be good anime, then I'm gonna watch it and love it anyway. Anyway, semi-rant aside, I will say that Asterisk War is overall pretty meh to me. It's not great by any means, but I don't think it's terrible. Maybe I'm just being overly tolerant again, but it's hard for me to ever dislike an anime so much that I can't enjoy watching it. Asterisk War irks me at times, but overall I still enjoyed watching it and will probably finish it. The opening animations are a work of art imo, and the character designs are appealing for the most part, barring a few that are meh.

Anyone good for some games? I've got some time right now.

Happy birthday Azery! You were my ally for the Hunger Games and didn't share anything, and while we may not have had much contact, I wish you the best! Have a good one~

Just as the title says - Are you the hardcore gamer? The completionist? The Achievement Hunter? The competitive gamer? Do you just play casually for fun? How do you go about playing most video games, and are there certain types of games you tend to lean towards? I personally would fall under competitive/completionist. If a game can become competitive, I will make it competitive. Single player game? Ok, which one of us can make it farther? Who can kill x boss faster? Multiplayer? Ok, let me beat you at it. I generally tend to lean towards and prefer games that require a lot of technical skill. The more options you have and the deeper and faster combat becomes, the better for me. A great example of this is my HUGE preference of Super Smash Bros. Melee over Sm4sh. The game has so many more options and requires more dexterity to play, and overall it's just a lot faster, which is my cup of tea. Not to say Sm4sh isn't fun. If Melee didn't exist, I'd probably be crazy over Sm4sh instead right now. But anyway, I like to be able to prove my skill at something, and the best way to do that for me is by playing something difficult. That also leads in to games like Dark Souls, which in turn leads into the completionist aspect of me. If I'm not playing competitively, I'm probably playing as a completionist. I'll only do this with games that I really like, so it doesn't happen every time, but once I get going, I'm going. In Dark Souls 2, for example, I've made it my goal to collect 2 of every weapon and shield in the game (Just in case I ever want to dual-wield them), one of every armor piece, one of every ring, every spell/hex/miracle, and every item. Despite the fact that this takes numerous playthroughs to do, it's something I have fun doing, and I still find stuff that I don't have even on NG+++. Another good example of this is Final Fantasy X. In order to get the ultimate weapon for the main character (Who happens to be my favorite character in that game, which is part of the reason why I bothered doing this), you need to enter a race and finish with a time of zero seconds, meaning you have to do the race absolutely perfectly to collect the time-reduction items fast enough. It's very difficult and tedious, but I did it. Surprisingly, despite being a completionist for many games, I don't really care about achievements. In Dark Souls 2 for example, I think I have under half of the total achievements despite owning well over half of all the stuff in the game, having beaten every boss, and having completed the game 3 times. Part of that is due to the fact that Steam won't reward them in offline mode, so there are a bunch I should have but don't, (Like the one for maxing out a covenant or learning all gestures, both of which I finished offline), but it doesn't really bother me. I suppose I have my own criteria for completing the game rather than what the achievements say. Anyway, how do you play games? What types of games do you tend to lean towards because of this?

Happy Birthday!