Tomas Elliot

Great. Now I want to see a Pokemon game with CGI, voice acted cutscenes...

Of course of course. You are absolutely right but, well, when I start wondering about something I tend to obsess over it, so I just had to ask. Ido realize that it was probably pretentious on my part to do so but hey, that's the way I am. In that, I do thank Hunter for addressing my post and explaining, at least partially, the situation.

COREY'S SUICIDE. I have said it before and I will say it again, that scene is absolutely masterful, the single best moment in the game bar none, and proves just how good Ame can be at deconstruction when she wants to be. Which is why I have often been so harsh in criticizing other passages that are not as well developed: once you have seen the peak of someone's talent, you start wishing that they would ALWAYS be at that level (specially if you have sincere admiration for the person, like I have for Ame).

Now while I was asleep, this discussion has developed a lot, and in directions I am not really qualified to comment on. However, I would like to piggyback on something Wes said, to voice my opinion on an aspect that hasn't been really dissected so far. So, I read that Hunter, while in the Hilda persona, started one or more "relationships", and people are criticizing the way he lied to those involved. Now, I know nothing about these "relationships" nor about the people who were in it but... How the hell do you start a "relationship" (something that, by definition, is based on trust) with someone you know absolutely nothing about, to the point that they can lie about their friggin' GENDER for so long? How the hell do you cultivate a "relationship" without ever meeting in person (because well, I assume one would be able to tell the difference between a girl named Hilda and a guy named Hunter, if they were to meet in person)? How do you trust so much someone you cannot even look in the eyes, specially considering that, as Wes said, this is the internet and cases of internet scams happen daily? Maybe I am a bigot, maybe I am short-sighted, maybe I am speaking without knowing the full extent of things, but building a "relationship" on such basis seems like a very irresponsible thing to do. Which brings me back to the contraddiction I was dissecting with my OOTS reference; a topic in which the OP states he is going to be sincere by proclaiming himself a consumate liar essentially proves nothing, except the fact that this is the internet and everything could be a lie. None of us has any reason to believe anything that has been said in this topic (or in any other for that matter), outside of the concept of "mutual trust"... Which just took a massive blow courtesy of this very topic. So again: how the hell do you build a "relationship" in such circumstances? Last time I checked, knowing the other person was a fundamental prerequisite for any "relationship", to the point that the phrase "let's try and get to know each other better" was a classic (if somewhat cliché) way to get a "relationship" started. And those who built a "relationship" with this person overlooked this very prerequisite, trusting a person they knew absolutely nothing about. How the hell do you do that? How do you up and decide to trust someone so easily? Because make no mistake about it, this IS the case: none of you knew anything about this person. All you knew about him was what he said in the forum... WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE A BUNCH OF LIES. Which, again, means that "relationships" were built on essentially nothing. Again, that seems like a very irresponsible thing to do. I know I am probably going to get some flame for this, but I just couldn't keep this to myself because... Well, because it strikes me as weird. Everyone is bashing this guy because he betrayed the trust people gave him, but nobody is talking about ON WHAT BASIS THEY DECIDED TO GIVE HIM SUCH TRUST TO BEGIN WITH. And maybe it is for the best that I, a stranger to such matters who barely knows anything about how things went, am the one to ask this question, because at least my vision of things is completely unbiased. I am not condemning Hunter for what he did, nor am I saying that those who trusted him are the ones to blame (the "it's your fault for letting yourself get tricked" cliché is just that, and I personally hate it). I am simply asking to know how things really went because, the way you people are making it sound right now, it seems to me that a lot of irresponsibility was involved, on both sides (because coming up with such a convoluted lie and keeping it for so long is an irresponsible thing to do, but believing in it on no basis is equally irresponsible if you ask me).

To clarify my previous post: I am not accusing you of anything, I am simply putting you in front of the consequences of your own logic. People lie on the internet, it is an established, well-known fact, and this means that in theory people shouldn't trust one another on the internet. My own story could be a lie. Hukuna's story could be a lie. Heck for all we know Ame's story could be a lie and yes, if we bring this logic to the extreme consequences, this very topic could be a lie. The internet is made of statements posted without the support of facts, meaning that in theory, everything could be a lie. We choose to ignore this truth when living this extraordinary community named Reborn but you, with this topic, are forcing us to see it, you are pointing at the elephant in the room and shouting and pleading for us to look at it. I do not blame you for this. I do not think for a single second that you are a bad person for it, or that you "deserve the worst". I am simply pointing out that, although it probably wasn't your intention when you started this topic, you have ended up exposing a simple, yet oh so hard to swallow fact. The fact that people lie on the internet. And the lack of general outrage in this topic (with a couple of exceptions but hey, I am looking at the majority now) proves this very point: deep down, we all know that people lie on the internet, so even if we routinely pretend it is not the case, we all knew that one day a topic like this would be posted, and a case like this would be exposed. It just happened to be you but hey, this doesn't make you better or worse than any of us and in fact, it doesn't make you any better or worse than you were in your previous persona. It just makes you another internet user.

I haven't known you long or deep enough to find this shocking but... Welp, it's difficult to comment: do I chew you out for lying? Do I congratulate you for at least being sincere now, instead of just vanishing without an explanation? Because you see, the problem here is that, by coming out, you are essentially exposing an elephant in the room here. A big fat smelly elephant that has been sitting right in the middle of our community this whole time, and we all kinda sorta ignored untill now. And the truth is, we would be much happier if we could just keep ignoring it, so you are bound to be resented for shattering the illusion. Here is the thing: people aren't people on the internet. You are an username and a bunch of written lines, not a person. The person is behind that username, behind those written lines, so nothing forbids that... Well, that everything is just a bunch of lies. People lie on the internet, it is a fact. But in this community, people build relationships that are deeper than in most communities. We share problems, we give each other advice, we have come to a point where we almost consider each other family but this, on the internet, is dangerous. More precisely, it is unstable, it is a fragile balance built on the assumption that people are not lying. We know other might lie, but we ignore the possibility and just assume everyone is being themselves. In this context, you declare that you are now going to be completely sincere. And the first thing you do with this sincerity is... Proclaim that you are a consumate liar? Uh. Roy, want to be the one to say it?

+1 for the effort of quoting every single post in this topic in one go

Well generalizing all forms of media as crap based only on country of origin doesn't sound like a good thing to do. I can testify from direct experience (on the account of being italian) that Italy produces entire oceans of crap, but still, the many great movies and the occasional semi-decent TV program (not to mention books, which are also media) prevent me from labeling everything as crap. I find it difficult to believe that a country as big and as diverse as USA is unable to produce a single saving grace in all forms of media, and this comes from someone who isn't a big fan of USA to begin with. If your comment was sarcastic and/or continuing on the previous reference, and I am still utterly failing at getting the point of this topic, I apologize ;-;

You are right, I apologize. It's just that I was kinda sorta following at the beginning, but then I lost you. Again, I am to blame for not getting the reference ;-;

I... I am greatly confused by this @.@

Good, thanks a lot

Already done. And that is off the table as of now. So I was looking for alternative solutions is all.

I mean, this topic has reached page 80 before we even released the game. I am kinda scared of what would happen if we were to do the troubleshooting here, mixing the help requests and the inevitable "I love this game!" and "look at what I caught!" posts in a topic that is already a mess to begin with... This is why I was planning to keep all the casual posts here, and have a topic strictly for troubleshooting.

You are deforming the page, cut some of those m...

Wait wait scratch what I said earlier: Before the SNES, there was The Secret of Monkey Island on my mom's PC! How the hell could I forget Guybrush Treepwood?

So today is Azery's birthday, which somehow turned into an excuse for EVERYONE in Se7en to slack off. Anyway happy birthday Az!

Ah yes, there are in fact a series of good Pokemon games in which equipments exist as a game mechanic. It's the Digimon Story series for the DS.

Hey it could be worse. You could have a political party that based their previous exploits in elections on the population's fear of "immigrants", and that are now going around saying "we told you so", as if the events of Paris proved that "immigrants" are evil. That's pretty much what is going on in Italy as I type this.