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  1. *Tries intensely to figure out for to pronounce OP's username*

    ... Is it like Mo (with a long O), and ceaum pronounced like "sea" and the "ium" suffix from minerals, or is it perhaps like eau in french... Perhaps it's ea (like the latin æ sound?) um, or can it be... 

    *Head continues to spin* 

  2. 6 hours ago, EliteFlyingTaco said:

    Banned for being named after a delicious condiment that somehow only goes well with like 3 foods.

    Sigh... Is this all people hear when seeing  my name, I've yet to see someone make the connection to Tartarus. Perhaps I really ought to change it to Mictlan to highten the connection to the underworld or something...

     

    Banned for misunderstanding my name. 

  3. 3 hours ago, mde2001 said:

    I'm way too boring to be like anyone in Reborn. I guess I'd have to go with Adrienn probably. 

    Whoa whoa whoa... The words "boring" and "Adrien" should not be used in the same sentence. You could've picked Hardy at the very least or Noel, perhaps even Vero if you wanted someone boring/conventional. Someone with the title "Visionary" shouldn't be considered boring. (Oh, and happy Birthsday, may you have a great day) 

  4. 8 minutes ago, ZEL said:

    Because stories about characters with no flaws and no struggles wouldn't be as engaging. I a character loses or gains nothing, never changes throughout the story, has nothing to learn and nothing to confront, personally I'd find that incredibly boring.

     

    I beg to disagree. It very much depends on the focus of the work. In fact, I'd say the majority of literary works and most people in real life are without the types of flaws present in Reborn's characters. 

    In fact, many of the greatest literary works of all time include characters without deep flaws, as the flawed hero is itself a relatively new invention. 


     

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    I would much rather read about flawed characters, so that I may root for and feel for them, so that I may relate to them or despise them, or anything that rouses my emotions.

    Real people are flawed. Real people aren't embodiments of virtue and righeousness and moral goodness. We've all got issues and depending on whose eyes we're seen through, different facets of ourselves will seem good or bad.

    I want to see that in characters, too.


     

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    I can't speak for the types of people you've met that have made you come to such a realization, but if I were to tell you that my experiences with different people have convinced me of the opposite view of people you see, with most people being inherently good and without major flaws, you'd probably not believe me. So, for now, let's agree to disagree on this point. 


     

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    I find stories about characters who are dealing with trauma and psychological issues to be very engaging and often uplifting.

    As someone who is dealing with such issues, I'd much rather see characters trying to pick up the broken pieces of themselves and putting things back together, than to read the story of someone who always achieved their goals, always succeeds at first try, never did wrong, never made mistakes.

    I find it especially wonderful when I can find characters I relate to strongly, and then read about the ways they work for and earn their happy ending. It gives me hope. That maybe, my own story is going to end well, too. Despite everything that happens.


     

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    Pardon me for saying this, I don't think you actually like reading about flawed characters as you claim, but instead how flawed characters come to grips with their flaws and seek to improve their flaws.

     

    Personally, I despise reading about miserable people who through inaction or their flaws create misery for themselves and those around them. Case in point, when I read Crime and Punishment the main character made me feel incredible discomfort and disgust at how flawed he was as an individual. Despite possessing incredible mental faculties and great people around him who desire to help him, his own self-destructive tendencies warped sense of morality compelled him to act in ways to hurt himself and those around him over and over. And after reading how he ruins his own life, and nearly drags his family down with him, he never once surpasses or overcomes his flaws (in fact, he never even tries :(). 

     

    Perhaps, you do in fact enjoy these types of characters, but every time I've stumbled upon reading self-destructive characters, or characters with no redeeming value, I've never been able to enjoy reading about them. Sure classical heroes always have a tragic flaw which is supposed to make them more relatable (case in point, classical Greek and Roman works), but for the most part, these serve as plot devices rather than as actual flaws. In fact, 

     

     

    I'm very happy that you find so much value in reading misery and suffering. But like you stated yourself, you don't like these aspects in and of themselves, but since they serve as vehicles to show how character better themselves and improve. In the end, I doubt anyone likes to read about flawed characters who remain flawed until the end. 

     

  5. 20 minutes ago, Amethyst said:

    i'm really not sure, but i'm thinking maybe ame? idk, what do you guys think

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    How would you describe the relationship between yourself and Amethyst, the character in Reborn? Is she an author avatar, alter ego or perhaps just another character with no relation to yourself?

     

    And Kurotsune would definitely be Lin. Because they're both tsundere

  6. 6 hours ago, Farnsworth said:

    We got E14 in 2014, E15 in 2015 and E16 in 2016. So it only stands to reason that we will get E17 in 2017, E18 in 2018 and finally E19 in 2019. So we should get it in the next 10 months, and the full game in the next 3 years! :P 

    I spent some time mapping the development time between episodes last year (and for some reason that thread has disappeared!?) but development has drastically slowed after EP11. Where at first episodes released every 2 months, it slowly became 3-4 months, until EP14 and 15 took 6 months to make and EP16 took a year to make. 

     

    Hopefully now that Ame is dedicated herself fully to the completion of the game, it won't take a year to develop each episode.

  7. Ame posted a formula to calculate how many days it would take to complete an episode 3 months ago, it went something like this:

    Time till next episode = 90 days + Amount of times people have asked when the next episode will release. 

  8. Honestly speaking, I don't know whether that development progress is indicative of how long EP17 will take to develop, as the 40% progress have primarily been from Ame working on adding Gen 7  content. New Content for EP17 like a continuation of the story and added side-quests haven't even begun. 

     

    In general I'd wager we're still 5-6 months away from the new episode. 

     

    Edit: And with Ame also starting pre-development of Starlight Road this may also hinder development of Reborn (?)

  9. 1 hour ago, baldr said:

    I don't get to play them regularly but sometimes I organise a meeting with friends where we play a few good board games. We mostly enjoy very complex games with minimum (or none) random things like cards/dices. From the top of my head Imperial 2030 and Terra Mystica are good examples. Can recommend more if needed.

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    Ahh yes, Terra Mystica should be among the best Board-Games ever made, though I personally haven't tried it, though the concept seems incredibly appealing to me. 

    Like Baldr stated, many modern board games completely remove the random element such as the use of dice that has been used in earlier times, and replaced them with systems that are entirely skill based with zero random elements, which is what makes many modern board games so appealing. 

     

    I would love to hear what else you've played, as you seem quite to have played many designer board games. 

    34 minutes ago, Arkhi said:

    I used to play Risk, Stratego, and Chess a lot as a kid. I've since stopped, since school has taken priority.

    Yeah, Chess is a timeless classic. And Risk and Stratego are quite fun, albeit eclipsed by many modern wargames like A Game of Thrones: The Board Game and Kemet which are primarily more skill based, but also more thematic with asymmetrical factions that play differently.  

    Though to me, whenever a board game meetup come up, I always cancel all other plans for that day, as I simply love the hobby so much. 

     

    14 minutes ago, ZEL said:

    Back when I still lived with my family and my sister still had more free time for this kind of thing, she often invited me and my then-boyfriend to play board games with her and her husband (then boyfriend) every other week. We'd usually play Risk, but also a lot of Settlers of Catan or Monopoly.

    Similarly, when me and said ex boyfriend hung out with his friends, playing board games/card games was also a popular activity.

    I remember our school had a number of different games and a few card decks you could borrow, so it wasn't unusual for us to do that during lunch breaks. I played a lot of Thirty-One with my friends, though we also had this huge Carcassonne phase. And Cluedo, sometimes.

    And last but not least, I still end up playing board games with my mom a lot when we can convince at least one more person to join in (usually my nephew these days). Usually Mensch ärgere Dich nicht, because that's easy enough for my nephew to understand. But he's also got this cute game called Chicken Cha Cha Cha.

     

    I have never once won a game of Monopoly against that ex :c

     
     
     
     

    Board games are quite a big hit with my family too, though we primarily play either Quiz games, or a new board game from last year called Codenames which has quickly become a modern classic the world over. 

     

    10 minutes ago, Ojama Brown said:

    stratego and chess used to REALLY be my stuff, but I havent played either in more than a year, rip

    It's kind of amazing how many have played chess at some point or another. I didn't realize it was that popular. 

  10. 3 minutes ago, Wolfox Glace said:

    does Yu-Gi-Oh! count as a board game?

    Most people consider card games such as Yu-Gi-Oh!, Magic and the plethora of smaller card games to be board-games.

     

    The definition of board-game is kinda vague in general. A game called Ultimate Werewolf is what's called a social game, where every player gets a single secret role card (Werewolf or Villager), and then with the help of a Moderator, play the game over the course of a number of days, where during the night phase the werewolves (who know one another) secretly decide to kill a villager, while during the day the villagers (who don't know one another) vote for who amongst them is a werewolf to kill them. Despite being a game about talking, and each player only having one card which they see briefly at the beginning of the game, it's considered a board-game.

  11. Most people primarily know Board Games as kids games like Monopoly, The Game of Life or Battleship. But today's board games are in truth amazing enteties that are fun, engaging and strategic, because in these past 10 years we've been in a board-game golden age, where board games have grown increasingly better to the point where board-games, at least to me, in many ways rival if not surpass even the best of video-games in many ways. Today we've got story-based board games that play like video-games, real-time board games where people compete in teams to fulfil objectives, puzzle-games that play like real escape room games and many other game-types that are actively invented.

     

    It's a hobby that has seen exponential growth these past years, and is quickly becoming a favourite for many people. And because of my own enthusiasm for the hobby, I was wondering, how many other people on here play Board Games? 

     

  12. Ahh, another engineer has joined our little group ~ Wonderful, another step towards global domination 

    Your presence and skills will greatly aid us on our path towards creating a new World Order for our great and almighty Lady Amethyst.

    increase the fun we can have on this forum! Now if only we can convince a nuclear physicist to join us...  Wait did I say that out loud? Please forget you heard anything, 

    And now my final words of advice, remember to praise Lady Ame's noble name daily, stay out of the Onyx Arcade and remember to hone your meme skills,

    (you're gonna need them. if you are to keep up with the madness going on, on this forum)

    Welcome to the forums. Petrol

  13. 8 hours ago, Amine elhedhili said:

    i don't think it was available in the past, someone traded it to me

    I that case, I was under the impression that not yet available Mons weren't tradeable (like Magikarp)

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