Q-Jei

"My limits start where my imagination stops."

Q-Jei

Hello Reborn folks!

I just wanted to let you know that I'm doing well. I hope you feel the same too. This has to be said, there used to be a period during which I was accepting the fact that growing up was like killing a part of our former selves. Like facing obstacles you can't avoid unless you sacrifice something you used to be attached to in the past but that you are now ashamed of or that you consider as futile or meaningless over time. This must still be partly true, but at that time, I literally felt like I had to clean myself up entirely out of self-denigration, even if it meant to blindly get rid off what I used to be proud of long ago for the sake of a fresh start. Yet, without exactly knowing why, I'm enjoying simple things more and more easily these last few weeks. Meeting new people, spending time with my grandparents, pampering my niece, hiking, sharing my passion for spriting, music and coding with curious spirits who are not familiar with these areas... It's giving me the impression to take charge of my life better than I did before. This also made me want to show you something positive that I have worked on with my cousin. For those whose life can be harsh sometimes and those who tend to feel lost in a world they don't understand, I wish you to find a reason to move forward, focus on stuff you like and keep contact with your relatives. That's what in my opinion forge a happy person proud of its values. And allow me to get you one last important thing straight: don't ever have in mind that because some people told you once you are pathetic or act pathetically, thus you are pathetic to the rest of the world and for the rest of your life. We're not good or ugly as a person when they tell us, but when we know it.

May your days be bright and keep your mind straight!

Cheers~

When you look attentively into the bowels of the scripts Rejuvenation, Reborn and Desolation are depending on, you can see how the code has evolved from one game to another and how each developer has its own way to make scripts work for one same functionality. As someone who feel inspired to work on its own project, this really got me. While they all have different mindsets, it feels like the developers of these three games are members of one unique family. Sadly, scripting isn't the type of thing people will see at the forefront when playing, yet it requires a lot of devotion and concentration most of the time, especially when you focus on scripts like "Move" and "MoveEffects". Scripts like those can include more than 10k lines of code and contain all the effects of move, how they are triggered, if the stats or typing are altered by field effects, crests, etc... This is crazy but also very fascinating and enriching when you want to make your own custom effects work and even more when you realize you've made it functional.

Kudos to you for your impressive work, dev teams! You all have a lot of talent!

When people count on you to do your best but you end up ruining it for everyone instead.

Yesterday, I was on a walk in my neighborhood and I met an old lady with her dog. She looked sad, so I greeted her. She replied with a smile and it made me feel good too.

Maybe it’s not that relevant but the simple fact of being kind to each other can be a step in the right direction to embellish someone's day.