Kurotsune

Uh Honestly no one, but if it had to be someone, probably Corey. But hey I don't really have to do that do I And to the second question, the answer is obviously yes no

While I've worked in field effects, I haven't idealized them, but personally I think my reaction wouldn't be much more than mild curiosity. Field effects were already an expansion of something Pokémon itself already had (field effects already existing to a much minor effect within the main games) so if they decided to do something with it, I'd at most as to how that would be played out. I highly doubt it'd be employed in the same way that it is in Reborn, so its applications in the main game would be interesting to see.

Yes, something happened in december 2014. I joined. And then, I started my two-year-old plan to join and slow down Reborn Development to a halt so that I could eventually take over Pokémon Reborn. A plan that could only be foiled if someone made a chart for development time. Damn you! Jokes aside, I do also feel like I have a bit of a part to blame in that. I did join Reborn back in dec 2014, and I did join the development not a week after that (although that wasn't made public until like january 2015) and although I've done my fair share of work, I've also brought my fair share of complications. Amethyst and my biological clocks decided that we would both get crippling arm pain around the same time - Except mine was a pre-existing condition that worsened. Due to overusage of my right and left arms, I've developed a neuro-degenerative disease in both my median nerves, which causes me to have spikes of pain in my arms when they are used for too much time consecutively. That by itself already diminished my ability to work on Reborn by a lot, and considering that I've set progressively more ambitious objectives for the scripting portion - All moves by E14, full save backup functionality by E15, all bugs fixed (and a buncha other cool shit) by E16 and online up by E17 - means that the development cycle takes a lot longer because of my part as well. To conteract this, I've created the development team and set about training users to code and making them do several of these tasks themselves, allowing me to focus more on advice and management of resources. Unfortunately, my condition worsened by last year and I was forced to take a delayed leave of absence. Not only that, but training of these users also took it's own fair share of time. So all in all, as much as Amethyst would like to put it all on her back, it isn't. I've my share of blame as well, and I also believe there are a multitude of other reasons why development takes as long as it does recently - Hopefully, one of them is that quality has greatly improved from earlier releases, but I can't and won't attest for that. I just figured since Amethyst explained her side, I'd go ahead and give my own two cents as well.

uh Someone without makeup

I like it.

Bloody stream all the way.

She uses the pokémon he left behind. Eventually they become more "hers", though. "meh" More of the same. Show me something actually new and I might be interested.

As of right now, there are no plans of implementing said mod. If in the future we decide to do so, it'll most likely follow the approach of previous similar third-party code in which the development team took the code and used it as a base for building up our own system.

Well team Meteor is doing those things to get rid of the city. In their eyes, their pollution is a short-term sickness, necessary to remove a much larger, cancerous disease. (oratleastthat'swhattheyweredoingbeforeLintookover)

It's where he keeps all the Soul he steals. He's like really into Aretha Franklin. And larceny.

Okay. Debates for the sake of debates are fine, but I feel like there's a recurring problem here where the debate always seems to boil down to a discussion of the ethics and morality of the debate and the poster themselves. While that's an expression of opinion and expressions of opinion are not only fine but absolutely necessary when it comes to a debate, this quickly derails and destroys whatever discussion is proposed. The problem becomes that we have a group of intellectuals who would rather criticize the way the question is posed as opposed to answering and debating the question itself. A better way to phrase Chase's positioning is simply; Do you personally believe center politics are better when opposed to radical right/left wing extremists? What's your position within the Right/Center/Left Liberalist/Conservative spectrum? Why? Was it presented in the best way possible? No. Yet we are all equally flawed and prone to making silly mistakes. Intelligence is a dangerous thing. Whenever we show it, we're exposing ourselves to being branded ignorant or unintelligent. It is respectful to try and see beyond the words themselves and instead looking at their meaning, but it is also understandable to not do that. Personal understanding is also subjective and I even run the risk myself of having misunderstood Chase's original point with what I posit above. My point here is to perhaps propose a shift in focus of this discussion, from the semantics of its point to its point itself. For that reason, I will refrain from voicing my own opinion on certain matters exposed here, and I ask that for the sake of argument, everyone who is willing to does the same. If we're going to display immaturity every time a thread like this appear and start attacking each other, then these threads have no place here to begin with. Let's be honest - These threads always have the same frequent fliers, and you all greatly enjoy comparing brains among yourselves. If you want to keep doing it, play nice.

I originally dismissed this but I guess I felt like putting thought to paper on this one. Personally, I don't really feel anything in particular for my characters. There are usually several storylines going on in my head at once, and I'm more in-the-moment when I write. My favorite character tends to be the one I'm writing about at that moment - And I guess the biggest reason for that is how I write. Every character I write follows a simple trick - They embody a flaw of mine, a strenght of mine, and a characteristic which I idealize - Something I strive for. That immediately makes these characters interesting and appealing in my head because I can relate to them, and whenever I'm writing about any of them, I'm fully in that character. That said, I'm not particularly attached to any of them, neither do I find any of them memorable. I like some concepts and occasionaly reuse them - "Matthew Corwil" being a thing that shows up often in my actual work, but that really working as more of a calling card than an archetype, as "Matthew Corwil" has had many different personalities - but I usually tend to write off my characters and forget about them the moment a new storyline comes to mind. But I nonetheless find it interesting seeing people discuss what particular character they've written and how it has affected them. It's always a good reminder that the lines of fantasy and reality are blurred by imagination alone, and that things that aren't real can still affect us in good or bad ways.

I was gonna ask for an avatar but I found this thing and heeeyyy foxes and pokemon so I fit right guys am I cool now someone please love me

Sorry for the delayed response, but I do appreciate all the feedback. So there's three points I'd like to address: Out of 16 paragraphs, some only a sentence long, 7 started with "she". While sentences starting with "she" will, quite naturally, occur frequently, in the beginning it was nearly every sentence, which... Yeah, you know where I'm going with this. I agree. I wrote this in one sitting and I make it a point not to revise the writing too drastically, but that's certainly something to take note of for the future. "It was almost time…" for what? Haven't filled out your daily get-attacked quota? The narrator isn't the character, so it wasn't really something she was thinking. That said, that sentence does feel out of place for the narration, so again, something to take note for the future. And then the alcohol. I know I'm reading into this now, but the combination of her being in some kind of post-apocalyptic ruin, her lack of shower access and all... I just got the impression that drinkable water would be scarce. So why the hell is she drinking alcohol? Shit's dehydrating as hell yo. Think of your skin girl. I envisioned the world as one where the "apocalyptic" event has occured recently and eliminated a good portion of the human population - Hence why there's one isolated character in what is presumed to be a significant part of the city; Thus, supplies aren't really that scarce. The character also may be an alcoholic, I haven't really decided on that one yet,

"Doctor, I can't guarantee our agreement if you continue digging your own grave. I also can't guarantee my desire to maintain it should you continue." Blackseed quipped matter-of-factly, tapping the man on the shoulder as she walked past him and towards the others. "Miles. I need you to map the electrical signals and pulses from the man's brain so we can have a reliable backup in the scenario where he either dies or is deemed too much a liability to stay alive. As for the other two..." Blackseed turns to the terran simblings and gestures around. "This is a hangar; There must be information on trade routes, mechs, ships and other pirate crews that we can locate here. This information could be of great value both for our use and for sale, so I strongly recommend looking for it. I'm offering simply to give you the chance to profit for yourselves; The money is of no interest to me."

Wouldn't the most logical place for radio equipment to be be the command center/bridge/whatever instead of the living quarters? Who'd put broadcasting gear in your bedroom?

"I see. Well, you'll be coming with me, then." The woman unpockets a pair of silvery bracelets, twisting them open then, if allowed, placing one on each of the man's hands. After twisting a knob atop one of them, the bracelets would become highly magnetic, attracting each other and slamming together. Blackseed touches her communicator. "Are you functional? We're changing our mission to capture instead of elimination. We have the target and are ready to rendezvous and extract. Where can we meet you?" Afterwards, she turns to Kyle. "Commander, I assume the woman is dead?"

Blackseed stared at the man with hard eyes. "I killed him. Although I believe he was dead when I got here; He was bleeding and when I touched him, his body just slouched over. No resistance, which I'd expect from a man his size." She raises her hands in a peaceful gesture "Self-defense, you see. The man was clearly crazed and there was a corpse nearby. I wasn't taking any chances." She looks around the room, before locking her eyes to the cadaver in front of the man. "And they're not the only ones. The place is filled with corpses. There's still a woman alive, though she won't be for long. I have soldiers verifying her status, as well as the rest of the facility." She pauses for a moment, touching her comm. "Miles, report." She removes her hand and looks back to the man. "You said your soldier, so I take it you're the leader of this group? I'll be straightforward with you - My orders are to kill you." She tilts her head at him. "But things have clearly changed. Whatever is going on here seems more important than our mission - Not to mention, we didn't have any intel of this attack, and it happening simultaneously with our mission makes me suspect that we've both been set-up." She narrows her gaze slightly. "There's a possibility that a third party has influenced the events that happened here, and we were sent as either an escape goat, or to die with you." She rolls her shoulder, letting tension flood out of her. The Michi adjusts her body somewhat, taking on a more relaxed stance. "So I offer you a way out instead: Come with me calmly so we can debrief you, and I not only guarantee you your freedom and your life - I guarantee you safe passage to whichever system you'd like, although after we drop you off you're on your own." She shrugs. "To be honest, if you refuse, I'll just capture and torture you to get the information. But you may die in the process, or I might. If I do, you'll have to content with another ten trained soldiers before you're homefree, and even then, who knows how long you'll survive here without a crew. So all things considered, it doesn't feel like you have much of a choice."

"There's a contact." Blackseed calls out, loud enough for Kyle to hear but soft enough for the man not to notice. Afterwards, however, she steps calmly towards him, holding the weapon in one hand and waving with the other. "Hey! You! What happened here?" She peers around, glancing at the body warily, then signaling for Kyle to stay put. "I just want to talk!" She says, placing the weapon-thing at her feet as a sign of good faith.

I'd suggest using possibilites and providing alternatives, which I usually try to do, IE: "(...) Blackseed attempts to lunge at her opponent, delivering a punch to their face. Should she miss or they dodge, she'll attempt to follow up with a low sweep. Should she be blocked, she'll struggle and try to break free from her opponent's grip by kicking them in the shin (...)" Not only this helps the flow (so you don't have to do "ACTION!" "RESPONSE!" "ACTION!" "RESPONSE!" "ACTION!" "RESPONSE!" and you instead have a string of several actions and one response for whicever happened) it also gives the DM shit to work with. That said, it doesn't really make any difference considering the power scale we have going on right now. We've two close-range fighters who could frankly only survive more than five seconds through dumb luck in a realistic scenario, and a robot that kills people with their voice. Not being seen in the elevator is by and far not the highest in our least of "unrealistic" things to worry about.

You'll forgive me if I seem crass by just posting without doing an OOC. I feel like at this point in time the story would benefit more from being revitalized in a new thread following the current forum format, rather than simply picking it up where it left off. It has been three years after all.