Kurotsune

I felt a disturbance in the tags.

I can get away with stuff? That job description had nothing but lies. As a side note, Jan, you and I need to have a little talk about how the tags are my thing and I'm the only one who holds people hostage. As a side side note, I made your tags better for you. As a side side side note, congratulations on your position. I was heavily supportive of your choosing when Amethyst told me, and would actually have approached you about development had she not. I'm sure you'll do well in the tasks to come.

That's the background image I've used in Chrome since forever. I absolutely adore that image.

So I was feeling philosophical today and I figured "Hey, let's write another one of these." Odds are to the great majority of you this text will be purposeless, uninteresting, or even idiotic. Yet, if through these I can promote introspection, reflection and thought in a single person, then I consider them to have met their purpose. So I was thinking about ethics today. Namely, what constitutes ethic? What is ethical or unethical behavior? Well, ethic is a social convention, a particular set of ideologies that should be followed and upheld. Ethics seems like a simple concept that most people follow and open-heartedly uphold. Well, before we discuss that, I'd like to introduce you to someone. (Warning, this image, following it's explanation, may be disturbing to some. That said, there's nothing graphic within.) This is Douglas Alves Meira. Upon a first glance, you may imagine him to be asleep. The most attentive of you noticed the stain in his shirt, however, and the more textually-capable likely understood the implication of this picture coupled with the text above. To clarify, in January 1, 2015, Douglas was killed. The picture above was taken in Estaleirinho Beach, in front of a bar, where a new year's party was on-going. You may think the party ended because of it. It did not. The body was merely covered, and the partygoers continued their festivities. Before you judge them, however, I posit we discuss what happened. They were indifferent to the corpse. indifference, in it's simplest explanation, is not being different. In other words, remaining normal or casual in front of a situation; Refusing to acknowledge it's existence or occurrence. If you think this is a singular event, to note, it is not. Several similar cases can be found both through history and through the globe, happening often enough even in recent, more "civilized" times. Why does this indifference occur, however? Well, indifference is the indifference to human life. Thing is, even if the above is a glaring example, odds are you are guilty of this yourself. You, me, everyone at some point in their lives likely have exhibited a similar kind of indifference. Everytime you walk past someone sleeping on the street, a child in rags asking for food or coin, or an old woman clearly dying from famine and pestilence, and you do nothing, are you not diminishing their worth and the worth of their life to nothing as well? Are you not being indifferent to their status as a human being? Let me put it this way: We all recognize the poor need proper care and that taxes are paid to that extent and often not utilized towards it, but none of us in the great majority of the cases will go to the streets in a mad fury over their mistreatment. Why would we? We've been educated to not care. Educated to be indifferent. Not just that. The words to represent someone of a lower class are often pejorative in nature. Bum, vagabond, hobo, beggar. We've detached the meaning behind these words, and we've objectified the people they represent. Society has banalized poverty, and dehumanized the poor. This is one of three types of social indifference, or at least that's how I personally separate them. Well, I can't cite sources for this one, unfortunately, as it is largely my own idea. This said, I highly doubt it's never been thought of before, so if someone knows a source with a similar view, please send it my way. On that note, I've said, that's the first. Indifference towards the low or the objectification of the excluded is the indifference of those in higher classes towards those of minor classes, often failing to see them as people who deserve the same things we do. This happens often enough and it's the one type of indifference I say most here have committed and I'll be fairly straightforward when I say everyone here has enough social status to have committed this kind of indifference once based on a simple parameter: You've all access to the internet as you are reading this right now, implying you've some financial stability to be able to spend money on something superfluous like a computer for entertainment rather than essentials such as food or clothing. This is the indifference where the social outcasts are no longer seen as people, but as things. Something to avoid, dislike, be disgusted by. Something to not be different towards. In fact, I've met some who went as far as see them as a nuisance, something to be removed and hidden from sight, rather than to be cared for. This kind of indifference is glaring within society, even in places with low poverty rates. The second type of indifference I call the indifference towards the low or the objectification of the included. It's effectively the response of the outcasts towards the ones who excluded them to begin with. To those within the lower social castes, the people in higher castes are the ones to become meaningless, their lives being insignificant enough to terminate, say, for a shoe, or a piece of bread, or money. This indifference happens a lot in society as well. Ever noticed how both extremes - Poverty and abundance - are referred to in a pejorative manner? The upper class is looked upon with as much disdain as they do the lower class, and so continues our social cold war, where we isolate ourselves to a disregard to those who differ from us. This second type of indifference and the first have a symbiotic connection. As one intensifies, so does the other, creating a constantly growing rift between the classes. The last type of indifference is the indifference towards the same or the objectification of the peers. It's the indifference towards the ones like us. The indifference of the rich towards the rich can be evidenced by the various videos found online of people being stolen without anyone blinking an eye to the fact. The crime towards the other being ignored completely, and the values of the others being considered less significant than our own. So you likely realized that means we're pretty much indifferent towards everyone. Well, we kind of are. In VSAUCE's video "The Science of Awkwardness", posted below, Michael Stevens discusses the social behavior we call "awkwardness" and how/why it exists: In the video, Stevens comments two important citations I'd like to repeat today. First is a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: "You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you, if you realize how seldom they do." The second citation is the following: "From our twenties to our thirties, we worry about what others think of us. From our forties to fifties, we no longer care about what others think of us, and from our sixties to our seventies, we realize they never thought of us." Obviously, those statements - Like Stevens' entire video - are geared towards social awkwardness and the perception of social judgement, but they can just be applied to this concept. We are so worried about ourselves we detach ourselves from everything else. We see other people - Like stated in the video - as one-dimensional characters with a single purpose, with ourselves being the "protagonists of the universe". Well, when we do that, what are we doing if not being indifferent to them? Suddenly, their stories, ambitions and motives no longer matter. Only ours, what we want and what we do, is relevant. This is the objectification of your peers, the disregard for anyone else's story but your own, the thought that others don't know better than you do, and that you stand alone as the single martyr of the universe. If I exaggerate, I beg pardon. My usage of ad ridiculum above is merely to drive a point home: All of us, at some point in our lives, are guilty of indifference. None of you, myself included, is above this. Ethic is a constant struggle, something to never be disregarded or considered a simple concept. In fact, if we're to think about how I characterized ethics above, wasn't that the indifference towards ethics? Incidentally, indifference towards the very thing that maintains us morally correct, taking what is often the most misunderstood concept of morality for granted? If indifference is the disregard for others, then ethic is surely it's opposite. The regard for those around you, the understanding that everyone has a story, a struggle, that everyone matters, that everyone should be understood, not excluded, regardless whether they are above, below, or the same. And so we are back to Douglas Alves Meira. If ethics had been upheld, his death would've caused uproar. If indifference did not reign within our society, pushing away our sense of ethics to the point human life is no longer more meaningful as celebrating the new year, his death would've caused commotion. Instead, Douglas is one article among thousands. A victim of ignorance, left to rot among the margin of the road. A social outcast, if not before his death, then certainly afterwards. I ask that you help me break this cycle. None of us can stop to help every person we meet that needs help - Since then we'd be literally stopping to help every person we meet, but we can certainly assist all within our reach. When you meet someone, understand them before you isolate them. Do not judge them because of their actions before you've heard their motives. I could in fact point to a few instances where this has happened to myself upon my entrance to this very community, so I know for a fact Reborn is not without it's blemishes. Before you consider yourself above what I'm saying, I ask that you deeply reflect if you're truly so unblemished to the point you've never once committed this kind of behavior. Don't think you should be ashamed, however. No one is obligated to be perfect, and in fact that we can understand our flaws and act upon them to become a better person, the fact our mistakes are what causes us to be in perpetual growth, is exactly what makes us interesting, unique, human beings. But that's a conversation for another time.

Hi. I won't vote as, honestly, I can't play. No time. Also because of that, consider my opinion only a friend's advice. I'm not your target audience, neither should you appease me. That's all xe wrote. PS: As a side note In the interest of discussion, I'd like to point out that is a gross exaggeration. It seems to imply there were four carbon-copy characters, when all characters were simply mages that used a bow as a weapon instead of a staff - when a bow is actually a very logical weapon for a wizard to use. The characters also had different abilities, powers, and some (Wintershed) used the bow only as a weapon while others (Maya) used it directly as a catalyst for their spells and others (Roland and Ayla) actually didn't use magic at all. At the end of the day, it was the equivalent of me having a magic archer class and four people picking it. It's not a consequence of the system, it's a consequence of player choice. Nothing beats free-form in terms of diversity; Subclasses expand upon the diversity of the class system, but they are only a middle-ground, not a better choice (in terms of the possibility of character diversity).

Welcome! I hope you have a good time.

I could even comment how human beings commonly display initial signs of attraction by actually picking on and being competitive towards each other, and how that's actually a biological response to us as animals trying to prove we're worthy mates but instead I'll just leave this here and hopefully never read this thread again

The whole thing about this being a joke is kind of lost when you directly contradict your supposed humour with such an ignorant statement. While I don't play pokémon myself, I'll be brief. People regardless of age, gender or whatever else arbitrary measuring system you want to use, have the right to spend their free time however they want, and you're not entitled to judge them for it. Has it ever occurred to you that it is not in fact your place to determine how someone else should or wants to be treated, and you are not in fact entitled to dictate how said interaction goes? At least the other guy is fair enough to take gender out of the equation, rather than objectifying a woman, disregarding her opinion as "girl stuff" and saying she should be coddled and protected from the world with your big manly bravado. If you want any woman to respect you, let alone have feelings for you, start by seeing them as people. I know women who can shrug off backhanded comments like they weren't even said, and men who get far too hurt over them. And you know what? Both of them are just fine to me being that way. I'll finish with this. If you think being sexist is being a true guy, then you do not only have a skewed perspective of women. You've a skewed perspective of men, too.

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Aaand here's the gif that best summarizes my whole opinion on this thread:

Posers, all of you.

Nothing much, to be perfectly honest.

I'd suggest saving them in a different folder before starting a new run, yes, otherwise it'll just continue from where the previous number left off.

So, for a long time now we've had issues with save files. They've generally had a lot of issues, be that getting stuck, getting corrupted and losing all your progress, or maybe you just want an easier way to play through all the different save branches. Well, I've a solution for you. I've implemented a rather simple fix that automatically creates a new backup copy of your game everytime you save. This way, if your save corrupts, you can roll back to a previous uncorrupt version without any major loss. This is currently an unrefined system that we originally planned to add to the game in Episode 15, and odds are it'll be refined there, but I figure why not throw it out there so we can get feedback/suggestions on how to improve the system while we're at it? So, to emphasize, this is a fairly crude implementation as-is, with the sole purpose of helping those with the most recurrent and immediate save issues. While this won't, unfortunately, retroactively backup broken saves, it will immediately start backing up your saves as soon as you save for the first time (or the second, if you're starting a fully new game). As of right now, this script file is meant to go with the 14.6 release of Pokémon Reborn, so if you want to add this functionality to your game immediately, make sure to get that first. That said, to those who don't immediately want nor need such a feature, this script file doesn't add anything that's not already in 14.6, only adding the save backup functionality to the game. It's not even considered a patch or an update to the game itself, more like an add-on. This functionality will already be added in episode 15 in a more refined manner, hopefully, along with other additions and upgrades to the save system. Consider this a small preview. Thank you for your time, and as always, feedback is appreciated. Here's the two things that have changed: - All overwrite messages have been removed (Since all previous saves are backed up) - A new save file is created containing your previous save everytime you save (So if you save once, you'll have Game and Game0. Save again and you'll have Game, Game0 and Game1, and so on. The highest number is always the latest backup). Lastly, to change between saves simply rename game.rxdata anything else, then rename whichever numbered save you want (say game15.rxdata) to game.rxdata and load the game up normally. PS: To install this, download the script.rxdata file and add to the Data folder, in your main Pokémon Reborn game folder.

I don't know who you're asking but incidentally I haven't really played reborn ever since I started coding for it except when something needed testing. Much like anything else, once you know how it works behind the curtain, it loses it's appeal. C'est la vie.

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Stay away from me.

Peers at xyr own gender I'll let you know if I find anyone.

I may have to steal some or all of those.

Passes by Oh. Yoink! Suggestion for Zephyr:

We'll update it whenever we remember to.

"These pants/skirt are surprisingly itchy."