Q-Jei
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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~
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Your words are really inspiring! I'm in the process of starting my own Pokemon fan game and it can get pretty grueling at times, especially with the other stressful things in life. But, when I share my tiny bits of progress with my dad or little sister it motivates me to keep on going. I hope your days will be bright too! :>
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What you described here is a good sentiment. I also have been feeling that growing up has just meant I have to sacrifice things that I used to believe in for the sake of survival or comfort. The more I understood about the world, the more I realized that being righteous is practically synonymous with being a hypocrite, since one cannot advocate for all of humanity at once. Being righteous in the eyes of a group will result in being evil to another, and every time one prioritizes oneself, one will be stepping on other people to gain what one wants... Not that I want to be negative nancy, but this is how I feel.
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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!
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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.
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When the darkness of a stormy sky interwines with the sunlight on the clear facade of houses across the street, the shots are even more mesmerizing!
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The music that keeps looping in my mind everytime I'm roving in the New World:
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Q-Jei's quote #3
"There are days like this when growing up feels like killing a part of your former self."
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Andre Gide's quote #1
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
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Q-Jei's quote #2
"Sometimes, later means never. If you want to do something, do it now."
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Q-Jei's quote #1
"Nobody is black or white, everybody is prismatic. And each side of our personality is a color. It just takes one situational change for unexpected colors to become visible."
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I like that comparison! Though I don’t think you can actually change colors with a prism…
Perhaps we could use a (white-light) Michelson interferometer instead… but then we lose both the poetry and the math joke (I don’t understand these links either but I know some people are excited).
Also, congrats on getting a four-figure reputation!
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Yes, I have to admit that the comparison I've made was a little flawed and not totally correct physically speaking!
No matter what you do, you will always see all the colors once the light refracted with a prism. For me, the prism is yourself, the ray of light is your personal experience and the colors are the different sides of your personality. They're a part of you as an individual, no matter what you do. Silently merged but never all shown at the same time. In the end, what the others see just depends on the viewing angle.
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Q-Jei's deep reflection #1
When you’re in need of love, what does hurt the most? Being hated by everyone or being ignored by everyone?
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That’s a frightful question. Part of me wants to say, like Candy, that hate is better… that attention of any kind is better than indifference.
But if a large group sent you heinous and hateful messages (in the true, gruesome fashion we’ve come to associate with the Internet), you couldn’t even talk to them about that. This is a kind of attention one can’t engage with.
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Hello everyone! This is Q-Jei!
I want to express my apologies about the music video I shared on Discord yesterday! I quickly noticed that it had shocked those who watched it and I got a warning later in the night. Today, I didn't feel good at ease because I'm afraid that people around me think I'm a doubtful or twisted person. I've lost sight that this type of content was not allowed on the server and I didn't think twice before posting it. Honestly, I was more focused on how fascinating and meaningful it was to me because it was correlating perfectly with my state of mind at this moment. I'm not trying to justify what I did because I know it's not defendable considering the fact that Ame and the moderators made clear in the rules that the type of content I shared had not its place on the server. They try to preserve positive ambiance there and I blindly trampled on one of the few places where I still felt good. Last week, I was in average shape, pressured and not in a satisfying mood overall. I finally was at the end of a work stoppage that originally was assigned to me after an accident caused by an epilepsy crisis in the middle of November. Yet, I've never been diagnosed as an epileptic in the past. The day it happened, I felt very tired and very sad because I thought I was going to lose my job. Two weeks before this event, my boss made me known that it was difficult to communicate with me and had expressed doubts about my reliability. Most of the things he expected from me were either not finished or not of sufficient high quality and I was more and more stressed to meet him because I didn't feel safe in my working environment anymore. But I don't think you need to know the rest of the details about this story. I just didn't totally mourn my previous job and there was a point where I progressively stopped getting into the mind of the others. I recently tried to do efforts to get over some inner demons and despite the return of beautiful days, I'm still crushed by the accumulation of poor results. This motivated me to post something that was correlating with these demons, let alone the fact that the lovecraftian style in this video was also very appealing to me. It's obvious that I should have given a detailed explanation about how I felt in the first place, or simply choose a lyrics video instead, which would have been more relevant and less shocking since the intepretation I had about the lyrics is the following: "You cannot let yourself get trapped in a situation based on pressure and can't let others influence your decisions". But I eventually thought too much about myself, and here I am now. I didn't want to offend anyone and I don't want to be considered as a dickhead either! Please accept my apologies and sorry for my lack of subtlety!
Take care of yourself better than I did with myself!
Q-Jei
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Happy birthday Oscarus!
Even if me and other people you used to interact with are less active than usual on the forum, I assure you that the rest of the community is very lively on Discord!
Please don't hesitate to give it a check sometimes, especially the art channels! You won't regret this
https://discord.com/channels/112443923003084800/693658573762461716
Take care and have fun!
Q-Jei
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I, uh, thank you...
Forgive my relative absence and all... but I'll admit that I'm bit of a social coward. And the last months have been, well... perhaps some of the worst in terms of stress-and-fear-inducing experiences.
Maybe I'll join; tonight (at least in Poland it is night), or tomorrow... but I don't expect to be as active as I used to be - it has been a very rough and tough ride.
And not worry about "being late" - just seeing you faring at least decently well is enough for me to be a little happier.
May the next months be better... as I'm finding less and less reasons to keep pushing forward.
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Happy birthday Evi, the brightest crystal of all! I wish you a great week, a great year and a beautiful life!
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Hello everyone! I know it's been forever, but I'm finally back now! After two years to deal with work, graduation and more personal stuff, I wanted to share the 21st episode of the written-run I've been working on. I can't lie about it, I didn't feel very comfortable because of how I depicted Flannery in the previous episode (The one that took place in the Mosswater Factory) and something told me that I had to take a break from my writings. I had this impression that if I didn't, the forthcoming events that were planned wouldn't have been as satisfying for me, the writer. And if I don't feel confident or proud of what I do, then there's no reason to push myself doing it anymore. So, here I am. I personally consider this episode more like a mix between a "make-up episode" and a way to keep the story coherent and worthy of interest at the same time. It also is the one that took me the longest time for the screenshot edits. Two of the pictures present in this episode are really massive. Will you manage to spot them?~ In the end, I just exposed my personal perception on this matter. What's yours?
In any case, Flannery is back and she's more determined than ever to cross swords with the foes of Reborn's land!
Enjoy the story and stay tuned for more~
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Just as Saphira said, I'm down but never out! So does, Flannery! I refuse to let it unfinished after all the efforts I've put into the story so far! However, the last screenshot edits where quite complex to make, so I hope no one will be mad at me if I take a rest until I start working on episode 22 ^^'
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It's been a long time since I didn't upload foxy pictures on my news feed, so here it goes!
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Thanks for Mathieu Labrosse, John Austin and Dawn Lusk for these amazing shots
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Hm, that might be a silly and useless statement but now that I think of it...
SpoilerIt could be highly possible that Sirius was in Devon Corp during the raid organized by Ame since it's been stipulated in Labradorra that he was the one who tore out the eye of Solaris (or Taka if you chose the Zekrom Route). That makes me wonder if what happened to Arclight could be Sirius' doing too. After all, he suffered the same fate himself as a response from Corey when he killed his wife in the past, so Sirius could well have reproduced this same practice on his new victims, Arclight included.
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Happy birthday Angelkitsune!
I hope you’ll have a good week and enjoy this new year
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Hey, I just noticed that the community release of Pokemon Reborn episode 19 was available since Saturday! This is great news
I can't wait to give it a try and discover what's new and different by playing it myself, even if there might be some bugs to report here and there!
Amethyst, Andracass and all the others must have done a titanic job! All of you deserve to be praised, because regardless of how the story unfolds, I'll always remember one thing that Ame has written long ago and that is still relevant today: "If you suffered, don't forget that I suffered first!".
Thank you a lot for this, you've brighten the start of my week!
PS: (I had some questions about technical matters, but since I didn't know if it was judicious to ask, I've put them into a spoiler as a precaution.)
SpoilerThis might be a silly question but will there be a way for players and modders to add custom battles in the future by using PBS files? I've noticed that the game now depends on scripts that are directly implemented in Ruby. Also, will there be PBS files available for the final episode of Pokemon Reborn on the forum shortly after the official release or an indication about how to add or edit trainer teams with the new files in the "Scripts" folder? I had some roleplay ideas in mind, so if I could keep them compatible with the updated version of the game, it would be fantastic!
I'll look forward for your reply! Thank you in advance, and most importantly, keep safe! Rest is never a bad thing after driving a hype train for so long
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It's been 20 years since the release day of what I consider to be one of the greatest electronic albums ever made.
Geogaddi from Boards of Canada, this record literally changed my life and my vision of music in general
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Hello, Reborn folks! How have you been?
It's been quite a while since I didn't share any good news on the forum, so I wanted to share some with you! After 130 hours of gameplay on Emerald Plus, it's finally done! I'm very cheerful of what I did yesterday which was getting every silver symbol in every battle frontier facility!Spoiler
I know it's not a big deal since I didn't get any gold symbol yet, but I'm already very satisfied of it, especially since I didn't use any true "meta" Pokemon in the game and exclusively built my team with Pokemon I love, which can make things harder at times. The only annoyance with Emerald Plus is, I felt a little limited with the Pokemon available in the three first generations, so I did a special mix with Dark Pokemon and other Pokemon I love who are not necessarily Dark-types. The final result was surprisingly effective and it made me love Sableye more than ever! I couldn't believe that I managed to sweep Anabel, Tucker and Brandon teams thanks to this little guy
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Vulpix/Female/Level 62
Nickname: Flannery
Nature: Timid/Ability: Flash Fire
Held Item: Charcoal
Moveset: Flamethrower/Hidden Power Grass/Will-O-Wisp/Grudge
Sableye/Male/Level 62
Nickname: Gemini
Nature: Bold/Ability: Keen Eye
Held Item: Brightpowder
Moveset: Feint Attack/Psychic/Calm Mind/Recover
Murkrow/Male/Level 62
Nickname: Peppone
Nature: Jolly/Ability: Insomnia
Held Item: Sharp Beak
Moveset: Drill Peck/Steel Wing/Shadow Ball/Fly
Sneasel/Male/Level 62
Nickname: Kharjo
Nature: Jolly/Ability: Keen Eye
Held Item: King's Rock
Moveset: Shadow Ball/Brick Break/Return/Aerial Ace
Alakazam/Male/Level 62
Nickname: Hakim
Nature: Timid/Ability: Synchronize
Held Item: Lum Berry
Moveset: Psychic/Shock Wave/Calm Mind/Recover
Gyarados/Male/Level 62
Nickname: Merlin
Nature: Modest/Ability: Intimidate
Held Item: Mystic Water
Moveset: Surf/Thunderbolt/Ice Beam/Earthquake
Honestly, it was a pretty amusing experience, as well as a little bit stressful during some specific fights, and I don't remember making it that far when I first played the end game content of Pokemon Emerald on my Gameboy Advance. If the devs didn't include so many hax strategies, it could have been even more enjoyable in my opinion. In any case, wish me luck for the gold rush
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In fact, Emerald Plus is a rom hack. Its goal consists in providing the ultimate enhanced Emerald experience to the player. Although there's no change that affects the main plot or the map, it contains a lot of improvements that the original version lacks such as the availability of all the Pokemon from the first three generations through normal gameplay. For example, some Pokemon that are supposed to evolve via trades can evolve through levelup or friendship instead. There are other quality of life improvements added such as a day-and-night system, the possibility to choose among the starters of the previous generations, reusable TMs, event-locked Pokemon that become available the further the player progresses in the game, EV and IV showers and the list goes on. Given the fact that I'm French and that Emerald Plus is a French rom hack, I couldn't resist to give it a try. Having that said, if I had to mention two similar English rom hacks to compare, these would be Emerald Final and Sigma Emerald. Anyway, I'm very happy of my progress because back in 2006 I could barely do anything after getting two silver symbols (The Luck Symbol in the Battle Pike and the Brave Symbol in the Battle Pyramid). And don't worry for Flannery, I gave her a Fire Stone shortly after writing this post. I just wanted to beat the League as well as enjoying some endgame content with her as a Vulpix because I found her more cute on her unevolved form. But it's ancient story now. Since the beginning of the week, she plays with the big boys as a big girl
PS: The Gold Knowledge Symbol is too damn upsetting to get (The one from the Battle Factory)! Even if you're aware of the IV glitch and you're familiar with the moveset of the Pokemon used by your adversaries, there are so many steps to make without failing and the Murphy's law can be in full effect at every corner in this facility!
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Happy New Year Reborn fellows! May you all stay healthy and be successful in everything you’ll undertake! From a fearless firehead
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