Amethyst

Well, here's where we're at: There's two or three major issues that I need to solve before I feel comfortable releasing ( I don't want to have to reupload 942834 times like with episode 9) so I'm going to be putting out a huge patch on the weekend for the beta. As soon as I get confirmation that all works, boom, release. I would like to get that patch out ASAP but because of school (and it seems like i have a different paper due every day this month) I probably will not be able to until Friday.

that feel when im looking out my window as i finish eating breakfast of (fake!) bacon and eggs, vacantly staring at our chickens and thinking to myself i just ate something that was in your body about twenty four hours ago

It is not! But I will fix that at.. some point before the official release >>

I'm not opposed to making EV training easier I guess, but that's not going to be a priority for now.

...Oh? I thought Sylveon required full hearts... ...oh well, eevee's cute, i regret nothing.

Reborn's debut Fairy Leader has been revealed! After a long and gruesome hangman game in which a poor random user was banned, the 18th Leader's name has been unlocked~ Although our 18th leader won't be joining the line-up until the league re-opens after we get our Duckletts in a row, we can find out now about... Adrienn~ However, Adrienn is going to require a bit more introduction than our other leaders. Why, you ask? It's a matter of identity and respect. As a matter of respect, I will be expecting that (although it may be difficult to adjust to at first) everyone in our community adheres to Adrienn's pronouns. Pronouns? you shout indignantly, Goodness gracious, Ame, I come here to play not to deal with this doof-doof English-crap! What in the seven hells is a pronoun?! Don't worry, I'll explain! A pronoun is a part of speech that substitutes for a person. We use them all the time! The most common ones are "he, him" or "his" for males, or "she, her" or "hers" for females. But did you know that there are other pronouns too? Just like Pokemon can be male, female, or have no gender, the same is true for people! Sadly, many people don't know this because it is not a very popular thing to identify as a non-gender-binary individual. However, Adrienn is one such person who chooses to identify as neither male, nor female. In otherwords, xe is genderless, or agender. We ask that as a matter of our community rule of respect, everyone please respect Adrienn's gender-identity. Xe is neither a boy, nor a girl, and as such, xe does not need to be referred to as either. For pronouns, as you will see me using presently, Adrienn asks that people please refer to xem using the 'Xe' set of pronouns. As such, instead of saying 'he, him,' or 'his', one says 'xe, xem' or 'xyr'. As Adrienn has said, "it's awkward if you're not used to it- but you'll get used to it." Adrienn will be available for battle as soon as the league restarts, but you'll meet xem even before that in an upcoming episode of Pokemon Reborn!

the best way to beat noel is to run up to him, grab nomos out of his hands and then hold it ransom for his badge

o. tku again luka~ This time I got surgeon shen- not that I adore the skin, but I at least play Shen and I didn't have a skin for him before

...Uh, either I'm misunderstanding you, or you're misunderstanding me. When I say E10 download will get everyone on the same page, I don't mean it'll change anyone's save files. I just want to make sure that everyone's copy of the game has the same physical files. For instance- I've changed around some music in E10 and normally the update packs only contain new music. If I were to do the update pack for E10 there's a chance that the person who downloads the pack might end up with a different song than someone with the full download. In order to avoid these problems, I'd rather just have everyone get the full download so that I know that everyone's files are properly up-to-date. Therefore an E11 update would be adding content to the E10 full download

Not at all. In fact, there won't be a separate 'update pack' for E10 like there has been for the past couple episodes anyway. Just delete your old Reborn folder and download the new one (remember, save file is saved elsewhere, so no worries!) I'll probably have an E11 update download but, partly because some people will have 9.5 and others won't, I feel it's necessary to sort of 'reset' every now and then to be sure everyone's on the same page.

I feel like an email update might be tedious, but if you want one what you could do is subscribe to the News forum. That will, unfortunately, give you all of our news updates, but that'll include the episode release I try and release an episode about every two months. 10 has been a little late because I also did the 9.5 revamp, and because I held off a little bit because of XY. ...I guess I'll go ahead and say it; Episode 10 is entirely done, and I'm currently patching it up from the first round of testing. It needs a bit of intense love before beta, though.

I got Hyena Warwick from Luka so um thanks I guess but I've literally never played Warwick (except in maybe like on ARAM...)

pajama sam memories returning

It also says they increased his windup speed, so it sounds like they made some changes to the animation and the aspeed buffs are supposed to account for that (or maybe they're to nudge AD thresh back into being a thing after his previous nerfs?? idk) i was intending to spam ahri and jinx tonight in ranked since they are my two best and two favorite champions and they're both about to get nerfed but #lol my keyboard broke because im dumb so much for that patch 3.12 i will miss you dearly

I feel like this is really indicative of what happens with a lot of classes, particularly foreign language ones. And like, I get it- Immersion is supposed to be the best way to learn a language. What those teachers aren't considering, however, is that students cannot be immersed in a foreign language when they are attending school in their native one (and even, English classes still!). I've done a lot of reading on immersion theory when I was taking learning Japanese more seriously than I am now- and from what I've read it is literally not possible to get what they are trying to do to work in the timeframe they have to do it. Now, that's frustrating for a teacher as well, but I think those teachers also need to consider how they're coming across to the students. This is the stuff that makes me sick. I was going to try and say something intelligible but I am actually speechless.

Let's continue this here: http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5735

I'm copying all of this from the Ranting Topic into its own thread to avoid cluttering that place. For the last couple posts, regardless of whose 'fault' it is- perhaps both students' and the teachers', as it does take two to tango- I feel like yelling is always an ineffective solution. It seems primitive, and I would very much hope that a teacher wouldn't feel it necessary to resort to that. If the teacher, an adult, cannot respect their students enough to speak kindly to them, why should the students respect the teacher?

no no no no not yet pls riot not yet

Oh? When you say 'reform', how so, and why does the teacher's union dislike that?

Relevant to this, I have a question of curiosity for any of our European users (I'm assuming Alatreon is from America? I can't remember atm, and if not this is going to be awkward)- and particularly anyone from the Scandinavian countries because I've heard no small amount of praise for that area's educational and social systems: Is the scenario described above familiar to you? As an American, I know it all too well but my first inclination is to blame it on our educational system. I can't speak for other states, but I've grown up with my mother as a teacher, and later working as a tutor for high school students- I've consistently seen both sides of the local educational system and to sum it up in a word, nobody involved likes the state of things here- teachers and students are both unhappy. Yet, I know that there are twisted values at the root of our educational structure that essentially corrupt it (its all about good scores on tests to get funding). But I will with some shame admit that I know little of the European educational system (aside from tumblr infographics that make me want to move to various northern-European countries) or the forces that motivate it- Is it as cankerous there?

It's not a true MMR detector; that site only uses your recent match history.