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  1. Aight, played the demo, I've only done the one last night with Marcello, intending on going back to retry some stuff but for now, my thoughts.

     

    Spoiler

    Ok, I absolutely loved this, adored it, Rhythm based gameplay and TRPG trappings? Wonderful.

     

    I'm gonna go through what I really liked and then go through what I feel merit some attention.

     

    The good

    Spoiler

    -Character designs. Love 'em. They've got this mix of punk and chic style aesthetics that does a lot to make the cast stand out. Their individual designs do a lot to tell us a lot of information about the characters if you're looking for it and all of the main character stand out. Shoutout to the sheer variety of audience members too, lots of individual sprites, that was cool.

     

    -The shapes and how you use them in the UI. Circles, split rhombuses, rotated squares, it's nice to see when most trpgs are stuck in rigid square grids and the UI does nothing to get away from that. Visually it's fun and really helps out something I'm gonna be looking at for most of the game.

     

    -The actual combat. Even just in this demo, which as I understand it is early in the game and before things begin to ramp in complexity, there's a LOT to break down here but the fundamental understanding of it means nothing is unreasonable. Ultimately, barring the ranged combat but we'll get to that, it's a rhythm game and that's my SHIT. With the difference between arts and melee, the way the bars change according to stats, character passives giving the opportunity to parry, counter attacks, crits, there's so much to learn and keep in mind that I can see this being an intensely addictive game. This gets even better with...

     

    -Cores! So obvs everything is static in the demo but that didn't stop me speculating about the core system and the various traits and from what I've been given to speculate over, I could see it being a delightful mix of the fire emblem ability system and the Orbment system from the Legend of Heroes games, particularly the later games that involve a master quartz very similar to what the cores seem to do as a kind of playstyle enabling piece of equipment. Combine the amount of things in combat with even a moderate amount of ways to change up your units and this game will be a theorycrafting, min/maxers dream.

     

    Also I'm guessing the NVC Warhead text and other similar things under the cores are their manufacturers, put that together when Nova's core said Custom.

     

    -We're gonna bring it back to combat, specifically the ranged combat. I FUCKING LOVE THIS. Hi, hello, fps friend here, this is the first mechanic I've seen in an rpg ever that gives me the same sensation as trying to flickshot someone. The small window of time and the way you have to drag the bar over clicks the same part of my brain as when I'm playing siege and for a mechanic for guns, it's fucking phenomenal. Love it.

     

    -Story content.  I'm talking about characterization as well as the actual plotting of events and dialogue. This is a lot harder to talk about because I'm lacking a lot of dots to connect and a snapshot isn't something I can fairly judge. What I'm picking up on though is the beginnings of an interesting cast of characters and very blatant themes of class divide, how much a life is worth, self harm, violence as a transformative force and toxic masculinity (Fuckin' looking at you Zaharald) all being explored with a fairly cynical tone set by our protagonist Star and supported by other bits and pieces of dialogue.

     

    This tracks with what I expected, I'm on board for this and excited because unlike Reborn where this brand of storytelling suffered from the difficulty in making the sprites emote, SD has a fucking HUGE advantage with the actual character portraits as obvious as saying it may be. I really, really hope you get creative with the portraits and expressions because selling the emotions and feelings of the characters is gonna be so much more effective here and imo has a lot of potential to achieve what sometimes Reborn felt like it struggled to do. (That's the last of the Reborn comparisons I swear.)

     

    Also, I loved the attention to detail. Especially the snack cart even getting an overview description. Things like that seem small but over time really make a difference and adds levity that's vital when you're in deep thematic waters here.

    What I'd like to see improved.

    Spoiler

    Thankfully this is going to be a much smaller section. My main concerns are about the UI and a specific element of the ranged combat. When combat starts and all the numbers, damage, times you need to hit etc, it's incredibly difficult to see them. I really think that information would benefit from a bright font to contrast the dark background, it'd mostly make it stand out and easy for the eye to find immediately. I never looked at it because I didn't want to look away and spend a couple seconds finding it only to gimp myself when also paying attention to the combat.

     

    My other issue is the start of the ranged combat. There's the delay to let you get ready but the actual instant it starts doesn't feel like it's communicated at all, which hurts the ranged combat as the only part of combat that has a fixed timer and YOU have to be the one to act, it doesn't feel great at all to me. It's a very minor thing but maybe if the timer bar has an animation where it fills up, that'd give the player time like the pause but comes with the visual indicator of when the interactive portion starts.

     

    The last thing I want to mention is a little too subjective for me to consider it a legitimate criticism but in regards to Star, naturally she's meant to be abrasive and ruthless as well as somewhat condescending and cocky whilst also having enough of a conscience that she's not willing to leave Sephany and Karus alone.  That's the characterization I was picking up on. This character is fine for a major supporting character like the comparison I've heard, Titania. It's not my cup of tea for a protagonist though and I think, in moments like when she decides to stay and fight a little less reluctance and a little more sympathy or a few more attempts to endear her to the audience would go a long way to make her a character I want to stick with. That said, I see the intent, the way she's written is clear, I get it if you think I'm missing the point in my limited knowledge.

     

     

    Fuckin' great.

  2. Aight, so this topic is a multipurpose exercise in masturbation, expression and simple demarcation.

     

    I’m “leaving” reborn, in so much as anyone still waiting on the game and Starlight can really leave Reborn. Backing out of the community, so to speak. I’ll still be in Reborn adjacent communities, Chances are anyone who cares to will still be able to get in touch.

     

    I’m massively downplaying the actual cutting of the ties here, so you’re probably wondering why I’m leaving, if you even recognise me. I’m sure anyone browsing the forums will not. Discord’s my jam, or rather was.

     

    But why? Why the topic, well, that’s where the masturbation comes in. Get it- cu- Ok basically a part of me wants the melodramatic exit, the flourish at the end of my existence here. It’s six years of my life. Even when I’m sixty, that’s a tenth of my life spent in Reborn. I can understand in part why people made these posts, why some people made them several times. But that’s only half of it.

     

    Quite simply, Reborn does not fit me anymore. As a place to talk, chill out, lurk, Reborn was a really cool fuckin jumper. It was snug, warm, comfortable and most importantly familiar. Which was crucial during my first year of uni. I came here when I was 15. Over six years I daresay I’ve grown enough that the whole question of theseus’ ship, where you ask if you’re the same person if every part of you has been replaced, might apply. I’m not the only one either. The community has changed and grown and gone through several generations of regular users with their own dynamics, in-jokes, cliques.

     

    As time went by, I otherwise did my own thing. But recently I’ve found the current state of Reborn to simply not be to my tastes. To be clear, this is okay! People can talk about, do as and meme about as they like and far be it from me to demand they change that if everyone is happy. All it means is that Reborn isn’t the place for me. Which is fine, because I have other friend groups, IRL and in other servers, to talk to and spend my time with. 

     

    So, there’s that. I don’t mean to judge or shame anyone, which is why I’m not giving any examples. People do people. What’s more important to me now is this last part.

     

    15 is a stupidly delicate time in a guy's life. With the amount of time I was spending online, it would be ridiculous to suggest it didn’t have an effect on me, negligible or profound.

     

    I met so many people. Funny, odd, irritating, boring, infuriating, adorable, eerie, give me an adjective and I bet I could give you a person. Not even ships in the night randoms as you’d imagine on the internet. People who spent months if not years in the community before going their own ways.

     

    Good GOD, the petty dramas were fascinating and intoxicating to a guy excluded from and oblivious to most of that in school. The forums would fuckin hum with activity when people got a bee in their bonnet, whether it was incredibly tense and serious discussions on real life race related politics and tragedies or misguided attempts at a nuanced discussion of lolicons and paedophilia. Seeing how people conducted themselves, why the rules we have are in place, the things that resulted in, the toxicity and the shitty, shitty people. It was fascinating and in retrospect a very mundane kind of horrifying. I should not have been involved in a lot of it, I feel.

     

    Reborn was my first real interaction with members of the LGBTQ+ community. It was the game and community that first introduced me to the concept of non binary people. Trans people were no longer the punchline in a sitcom here. I became more comfortable with my own forms of expression and broke away from what I was allowed to like and dislike in my real life circumstances. Eventually, recently, I determined I was bisexual, something I’m not sure I would have considered anywhere near as early without these experiences.

     

    Reborn is an imperfect, glorious, surprising piece of the internet that I fell into and, I hope, somehow managed to come out a better person than I might have been otherwise. This last post, which might be pointless if my own refrain of “they always come back” is true, I at least want to end on a single note. One of gratitude.

     

    One of my favourite things I helped to do in this community was a christmas card for the auth, presented during one of the showdown christmas parties. So the link below and the last thing I post is going to be that card and the old words of so many of the people I’ve met here.

     

    Thank you very much for bearing with me.

     

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1enHAe5D3ssjX4Ei72AiMjnIC8x_-sJX9VdYqsuPPsq4/edit?usp=sharing

     

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  3. image.thumb.png.bd81d7017e686ad9e13de6aebc7d98a8.pngValor mountain B1F, only happens in neutral mountain mood. Completely stuck there in the screenshot.

     

    Also when going to the same place in the cold mood to find Amber she isn't there, no event starts, nothing interact-able to start an event but I can leave the area.

  4. also

    /knuckle crack

    • Member of the Year
      • The big, the classic-- this is for the member who's made the biggest splash with the sharpest shine!
      • Cass cuz damn when did you appear oh now you're running like half the show
    • Comeback of the Year
      • For the most beloved member who returned to us this year after a long absence!
      • Nominees:
      • Its the Jelly man
    • The Carmen Sandiego Award
      • For the face since missing in action that we'd most want to see in the crowd once more!
      • Nominees:
        • ROSE LIKE FURREAL
    • The Sugarpop Sunbeam Award 
      • For the member this year who's been sweeter than any candy store could hope to be!
      • Nominees:
      • Ama i wanna says something about hot cocoa but my brain wont do it, interpret it as you like
      • Caradius aka Colin he is a sweet lad with his gacha life
    •  
    • The Auspicious Auth Award
      • For the most helpful staff member who's been around to help out this year!
      • this is definitely not a thinly veiled performance review.
      • Nominees:
        • DreamBlitzX one day i will return to mobage my friend ONE DAY
        • does inuki count i want him to count he's cool
    • Memer of the Year
      • For the member who's posted the freshest, most crispy clean memes this year!
      • Nominees:
      • Im gonna hit the zumi with this memes on point
    • The Profile Picture Perfection Award
      • For the member who's had the best avatars around this year!
      • Nominees:
      • Abyss Reaper lookin kinda eyes emoji out here
    • Writer of the Year
      • For the member with the most compelling characters and dynamic language!
      • Nominees: BITCH IMMA HIT YOU WITH AN OLD NAME I DONT GOOD GOD GOOGLY DAMN CARE IF HE HASNT BEEN SPOTTED IN YEARS @Sutoratosu AKA STRATOS MY ANGSTY EDGY MAN WHO STARTED ME ON RPS I DONT EVEN CARE, IF YOU EVER COME BACK DOBBY REMEMBERS MY GUY- Cass I hope you copy and paste all of that
    • Archbishop of Banterbury
      • For the member with the best banter on the block!
      • Nominees:
      • A sneaky hellscythe nomination theyre cool idk what you want
    • The Hippest Himbo Award 
      • For excessive and unfettered flirtation on the community campus!
      • Nominees:
      • Can I nominate the character Cain? If not im sure theres a dedicated roleplayer out there
    • The Terra Pierce Award 
      • For being s000 randum lol xD penguin
      • Nominees:
      • Cool Girl. it's the xD that does it.
    • The Shelly Citra Award 
      • For the member who most definitely needs a lot of hugs immediately.
      • Nominees:
        • Can I nominate uhhhh everyone we're all a little fucky wucky
    • The Julia Wilde Award 
      • COFFEEEEEEEEEEEE
      • Nominees:
        • Viri i dont give a damn if theyre gone im still voting we've established this keep up yes?
    • Most Likely To Be Madame X
      • For the member who has secretly been the primary antagonist of Rejuvenation this whole time.
      • Nominees: im feeling 2tousent he's been gone for years doing something and i think its fucking with jans game
    • Most Likely to Become Auth
      • For the most helpful member who should totally be on the team!
      • this is definitely not a thinly-veiled screening process.
      • Nominees:
        • Ama like yes?
    • Most Likely to Become Champion
      • For the member most likely to take the ranks when another gym leader champion inevitably dies or something!
      • Nominees:
        • SKITTY AND KAM. I REMEMBER. PEPPERIDGE FARM REMEMBERS
    • Most Likely to Take Over the World
      • For the member most poised to overpower society as we know it!
      • Nominees:
      • kURO, with these capitals.
    • Most Likely to Gain a Gigantamax
      • For the member who's probably about to get banned by Smogon!
      • Nominees:
      • Bibs is gonna put on weight with all the honey memes
    • Most Likely to Start a Religious Cult
      • For the member you'd most quickly offer your soul to in a ritual of deepest darkness!
      • Nominees:
      • Avatar of Grima. HE HAD A CULT IN THE GAMES CMON PEOPLE.
    • Most Likely to Get a Regional Variant
      • ...look we don't really know how to put this. Decide among you who is mostly likely to join the ranks of Stunfisk.
      • Nominees: ame is personified in my head by an alolan ninetales with cat ear headphones, which is confusing when ive seen streams mind you, so like she wins that off the bat.
    • Most Likely to not be a Real Person
      • For the member who is just. impossible.
      • Nominees:
      • I think Frar is a bot programmed to ask bibs questions honest to god someone wants to know about that man.
    • Most Likely to Die First in a Killing Game
      • For the member most likely to stumble their way into last place!
      • Nominees:
      • Shanco. No im not justifying this.
    • Most Likely To Really Be Ferdinand von Aegir
      • They are Ferdinand von Aegir.
      • Nominees:
      • Ferdinand Von Aegir THEYRE IN THE DISCORD LIST SO ITS VALID
    • Most Likely to Win Third Place
      • Self-explanatory.
      • Nominees: I feel like azery is in enough noms he ahs the numerical best chances
    • Cna't Spel Awrad
      • Fro thh menber taht jsut dosnt kno hwo 2 wrods!
      • Nominees:
      • i have to admit defeat, if i can nominate myself then yes like you can spot so many issues in this post alone at a guess, ive corrected enough already

    AWARD AWARD NJAB GOGOGOGP

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  5. marc for dorkiest dork or pointiest dexter

     

    shadestrider for most likely to debate themselves this was an instant decision i knew made within my heart of hearts

     

    posty and kyle for cain larue, dirty little gremlins

     

    alex for the tsundere award not because theyre prickly but because theyd never admit they want to be nommed in public.

     

    I have given up with formatting, so i offer these feeble noms in small doses.

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  6. I'm so sorry you had to experience any of this. I'm sorry all I can do to help is read this and try to empathize with you. I don't know what it can do for you but my DMs here or on discord are 100% open if you want to talk to someone. I hope you can find some way to improve your situation, you've always been a fantastic person to have in the community and I was sad when your activity dropped around here. Stay safe and hope for the best, even if it's hard.

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  7. I'm torn between forcing levity and insisting you'll come back (they always do eventually!!!) and actualy not being a shit and respecting the spirit of the post.

     

    We haven't spoken recently but nevertheless I consider you a friend, an inspiration for personal growth and a damn nice guy. Your attitudes towards people and getting to kmow them has informed my decision on how to do so and I think I take the friendlier option more than I otherwise would have if we hadn't met here. If i helped your experience here be a positive one I'll consider it an honour and a pleasure. I was gonna call it a bloody pleasure but the expletive just sounds weird now.

     

    Looping back to the first thing I said though, even if you don't come back, so long as reborn sticks around you'll always be welcome. There's no end of members who've benefited from you being here and I can say with full confidence, from all of those people.

     

    Thank you for being our friend Arkhi.

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  8. The community is large enough and self sustaining enough that even in spite of a year plus between the main attraction of the site being updated, the community persists.

     

    It's arguably already died several deaths. Whole generations of users who came in waves over the years have left. Not just people hopping on to ask a question and go but regulars who took part in the old league and community events, stuck around and made friend groups, had drama happen. The site has actual history now but at the same time, we're going to lose that history as the community changes and the people who remember rotate out and we change platform. From pokemon online, to pokemon showdown, to discord, to the next platform that suits our needs at the time.

     

    You want something fancy to match the grandiose concept of existential dread? Nothing ever really stops existing, it just changes form. If nothing else, traces of this community will persist in the attitudes and memories that people take with them to other people and places. Even if it is as base and simple as a meme about an executor having a stupid long neck or jumping onto bandwagons.

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  9. I have no influence in this conversation, I hold no power over Vic's fate. What I'm about to say is pretty much just speculation trying not to get caught up in the parts of the story that don't matter.

     

    I think there's a couple phrases that sum up my thoughts. The simplest answer is usually the right one and there's no smoke without fire. I think it's more than likely that an influential, popular celebrity of an industry overstepped their bounds whilst interacting with women.  For that, he should naturally be taken out of the workplace he made toxic and learn to not do whatever he did. That's the very least.

     

    The main thing that muddies this thought process is that the whole sordid affair is scattered betwixt a series of 2,700 different political narratives from hard left people who want to drive Vic into the ground, hard right people who're coming out of the woodworks to counter the lefts public siege on Vic and then the chunky legal stuff that people go through long, expensive education to understand properly.

     

    With that in mind, this isn't a topic you can be active on. It's not a discussion that will benefit anyone by being had now when emotions are flaring from parasocial bonfires and information seems to be coming out to add fuel to that fire. This is the kind of conversation that will be best served in a few years, once the case is over, the facts are laid out and untwisted and a clear, supported narrative can be put forward. Whether that's a story on one man being cut down unjustly or a triumph over harassers. 

     

    Yes, Vic's VA career will probably be ruined, to be honest I'm not too heartbroken about it. He's had some of the biggest roles throughout anime and games history so I doubt he's in dire financial straits. Give it a few turns of the news cycle and he can probably transition easily into another part of that industry with public rage none the wiser. Vic will be okay, I'm confident in that.

     

    Now, aside from the case itself. What I find interesting is that it seems like a near perfect example of parasocial relationships causing this eruption of emotion. @Commander In your first post, the way you talk about him sounds like you're familiar, calling him a nice guy and what not. I'm not going to say whether you're correct or not but give this video in the spoiler a watch, you may already be familiar with the concept but I don't lose anything linking it. Maybe you'll see something new when you consider your stance on the topic with it in mind.

    Spoiler

     

     

    Sexual harassment sucks.

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  10. More and more i'm finding its just not worth clinging to a phrase or word i'd casually use because the word itself actually has some alternate meaning somewhere else on the web of the internet that just doesn't fly.

     

    To the people who are probably tutting about the choice in backchannels or thinking about writing up a long-winded post about why you should be allowed to use the one word with that context, maybe ask yourself how much it really matters when put up against people being able to feel ok about the community they're in.

     

    This from the guy who raised a stank years ago about being able to make gratuitous dick jokes in lobby a few years ago.

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  11. Looks like they're gonna get a second wind of sorts for enjoying the game. Their teams are steadily getting some power, there's a host of new characters they seemed to react to positively and the available power is only gonna expand as they go. Hopefully this'll whittle away complaints about boss fight difficulty now they're prepping better for it.

     

    Good god, a few of these fights are gonna ream em tho.

  12. Spoiler
    • Member of the Year
      • The big, the classic-- this is for the member who's made the biggest splash with the sharpest shine!
      • Nominees:
    • Rookie of the Year
      • For the most upstart and standout member who arrived this year!
      • Nominees:
        • Kyle
    • Comeback of the Year
      • For the most beloved member who returned to us this year after a long absence!
      • Nominees:
        • --
    • The Carmen Sandiego Award
      • For the face since missing in action that we'd most want to see in the crowd once more!
      • Nominees:
        • Zephy
    • The Sugarpop Sunbeam Award 
      • For the member this year who's been sweeter than any candy store could hope to be!
      • Nominees:
        • Ruby
    • The K-K-K-Kawaii Award
      • For the super-cutest member who's been around this year!
      • Nominees:
        •  
    • The Auspicious Auth Award
      • For the most helpful staff member who's been around to help out this year!
      • this is definitely not a thinly veiled performance review.
      • Nominees:
        • DreamBlitz
    • The Smelliest Auth Award
      • For the auth member who, regardless of conduct, most desperately needs to take a shower!
      • Nominees:
        • Lia
    • Memer of the Year
      • For the member who's posted the freshest, most crispy clean memes this year!
      • Nominees:
        • Bibs
    • Meme of the Year
      • Not to be confused with the above, for the member who is the freshest, most crispy clean meme this year!
      • Nominees:
        • Bibs, they're inseparable let's be honest here
    • The Profile Picture Perfection Award
      • For the member who's had the best avatars around this year!
      • Nominees:
        • --
    • The Illest Aliases Award
      • For the member who's had the best display and nicknames this year!
      • Nominees:
        • --
    • Artist of the Year
      • For the member with the most dazzling displays of visual vexation this year!
      • Nominees:
        • --
    • Roleplayer of the Year
      • For the member with the most compelling characters and continuities!
      • Nominees:
        • Swampellow
    • Archbishop of Banterbury
      • For the member with the best banter on the block!
      • Nominees:
        • Intsys
    • Biggest Grumpy of the Year
      • For the >:(est member around this year!
      • Nominees:
        • Joker
    • The Pointedest Poindexter Award
      • For the biggest NERD this year!
      • Nominees:
        • Arkhi
    • The Cain LaRue Award 
      • For excessive and unfettered flirtation on the community campus!
      • Nominees:
        •  
    • The Terra Pierce Award 
      • For being s000 randum lol xD penguin
      • Nominees:
        • Nyagisa
    • The Shelly Citra Award 
      • For the member who most definitely needs a lot of hugs immediately.
      • Nominees:
        • Bibs said "ur mum lol"
    • The Fern Sevilla Award 
      • For the member who most needs to stop.
      • Nominees:
        • Lowkey
    • Most Sarcastic Member
      • For the member who tooootally always says exactly what they mean!
      • Nominees:
        • --
    • Most Likely to Become Auth
      • For the most helpful member who should totally be on the team!
      • this is definitely not a thinly-veiled screening process.
      • Nominees:
        • Sardines?
    • Most Likely to Become a Gym Leader
      • For the member most likely to take the ranks when another gym leader inevitably dies or something!
      • Nominees:
        • Pyrr
    • Most Likely to Take Over the World
      • For the member most poised to overpower society as we know it!
      • Nominees:
        • fkn none of us lol
    • Most Likely to Gain a New Mega Evolution
      • For the member who's probably about to get banned to Ubers!
      • Nominees:
        • Commander
    • Most Likely to Start a Religious Cult
      • For the member you'd most quickly offer your soul to in a ritual of deepest darkness!
      • Nominees:
        • Kuro
    • Most Likely to be Added as a Smash Ultimate DLC Character
      • For the member most likely to smash into battle!
      • Nominees:
        • Godot
    • Most Likely to be Added to the Marvel Cinematic Universe
      • For the member primed to kick the most ass and still rock the after-credits scene!
      • Nominees:
        • Azery, only to get stuffed in the fridge
    • Most Likely to Have a Cameo in Detective Pikachu
      • For the member who's going to have to suffer that awful Mr. Mime for us... or make up for it.
      • Nominees:
        • ICSW
    • Most Likely to Die in the Last Episode of Reborn
      • For the member you know would be beyond doomed were they in the game!
      • Nominees:
        • Dan
    • Most Likely to Die First in a Killing Game
      • For the member most likely to stumble their way into last place!
      • Nominees:
        • Ikaru, too nice of a boi.
    • Most Likely to Have a Philosophical Debate With Themselves
      • For the member most likely to be edited over a well-known Gollum scene!
      • Nominees:
        • Chuckles
    • Member Least Likely to Understand the Next XKCD
      • For the member who is just not going to get it... or probably even know what it is.
      • Nominees:
        • Mael
    • Most Likely to win This Award Award
      • For the member who's most likely to win this award!
      • Nominees:
        • Posty
    • Member Most Likely to Never Give You Up
      • For the member who would never let you down, nor run around, nor desert you!
      • Nominees:
        • Hycrox
    • Most Likely to be Cancelled After Only One Season
      • For the member who deserved better, or just really, really didn't.
      • Nominees:
        • --
    • I-it's Not Like I Wanted to Win or Anything Award
      • This member isn't tsundere or anything, b-baka!!
      • Nominees:
        • no, i refuse to answer
    • Cna't Spel Awrad
      • Fro thh menber taht jsut dosnt kno hwo 2 wrods!
      • Nominees:
        • --
    • Award Award
      • Award award award award award award 
      • Nominees:
        • Alex

    mentions are broke as all fuck for me and Idek the forum names of like 90% of the community anymore so

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  13. I'd really like them to define what they think of as difficulty in pokemon. Apparently it's not high levels given their talks on Dark rising, it's not hax given all the complaints about serra's gym and now in this episode it's not encounters that force you to try different strategies and think about what you're doing.

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  14. It's all up in the air. You can have stories with a small handful of characters with very little exposure to the audience, see your typical ghost story isolated in X spooky place, that doesn't even have much happen. Instead it focuses on atmosphere. Or you can have slice of life that's just... not much happening. Just a cast of likable people doing things in their daily lives.

     

    I personally value a sense of progression within stories. You can throw as many characters as you like at me and I might get attached, depends on the individual character, whereas I'm almost guaranteed to dislike a slow pace where nothing really happens or something of note does happen but it's a small thing that didn't warrant x amount of time being spent on it. This in turn reflects whenever I write, I tend not to linger on a scene. Sometimes that fucks me over, something to catch in the editing process.

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