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  1. Shh, no words now. Only videos. After all, it's the start of the game so it's not like it's a spoiler or anything.
  2. and so are long-overdue wallpapers. Now you, too, can step into an eternity of darkness with Luna on your desktop. The infinite potential of the void has seen fit to produce wallpaper versions of all major resolutions, plus a mobile option so you can have a little bit of love with you wherever you go. This art was made by Bekkomi. May she grace your desktops with a beauty that none can see. View full article
  3. Well that was arduous and totally broke the theme for a while. Here are the changes added by tonight's update that might be relevant to you all: Smoother embedding for various types of things Two-factor authentication support for Authy Can drag and drop/copy paste right into post editor The 'Like' system has been expanded to include various reactions You can now sign in directly from social media Default avatars have been updated with the increasingly common trend of using the first letter of the username A device management addition will let you keep track of log ins from various devices Mods can now feature replies to a topic to make the most helpful responses more visible. Support for a certain other new system we may be announcing in the near future... and probably some miscellaneous things too. If you notice something off or broken, please let us know!
  4. it was a good meme but i ain' replying to 13 different topics the day after. ain nobody need to be drawin that much more attention to themselves unfortunate that i couldnt preserve the first post through merging... its ok, those who earn it will always have the first posts,, in my heart. <3 thanks to everyone for the well-wishes and dank memes but not for the budews. birthday is still cancelled btw. and i apparently named my firstborn child meowth... so that's... special........ as is unintentional tradition with my family my birthday will probably be celebrated slowly and bit by bit over the period of a couple weeks, instead of actually being all in one day, lol... but those of you who have seen my posts on the matter in the past will know that no matter the case, my state, or my financial situation (really, it's not that bad guys, pls), I appreciate having come this far especially with all of you so thank you all <3
  5. ill cry in so many different flavors
  6. Yep. It's imbalanced. Part of it is circumstance. Some of it in how they're portrayed is because of my own fault. For instance Bennett and Blake weren't really as douchey online as they are in-game. As a contrasting point, Julia was kind of a chaos queen online to the point of getting members wrapped up in her relationship drama. But for the game, I slotted them into various roles. I'm definitely guilty of creating the imbalance in how they're portrayed myself. Sorry about that. As one person said, I wasn't really aware of the pattern at the time I was planning the game out (and keep in mind that was like, 2012). And back then like, to be honest, I had kind of a misandrist streak. It's not like I was going out of my way to hurt guys or anything but I certainly didn't like them, and sometimes it bled through. This was such a case. In fact it's been kind of a running "joke" among some of my friends that I wouldn't make a positive male character if my life depended on it. That said, I do feel strongly that I've leveled out with that since then. Just because I added a non-binary character doesn't mean I'm not sexist. That absolves me of nothing. One good step doesn't erase past mistakes. Moreover, I'm not perfect. And nobody is-- even just with sexism. Or that's my opinion at least. I think it's next to impossible to really 100% truly not have any preconceptions about gender and race and such. But rather than not having any, what's important is that we challenge the problems they create and minimize or solve the negative effects there-from. In the case of how males and females are represented in Reborn, I failed to do that. The contrast is a problem. I will learn from it for future writing. As a final note, in regards to the number of important males vs females in the game without regard to their conduct, it's true that there are significantly more female characters. This is a large part of the aforementioned circumstance, and while I might not deliberately do it again... given how male-dominated video games have historically been, I'm not really concerned about this. People could stand to get used to a few (non harem/VN) games with female majority in return tbh...
  7. It's okay-- there are some people to whom my lifestyle might seem far removed and that's only natural. I'm looking out for myself too, and of course I intend to preserve my health as best I can. Even then, it's not as if my life is bad. Like Commander says, this is what I chose and I enjoy being able to do it. I know what sacrifices I need to make, and I don't regret it at all. I think Jazzy does have a good point as it would apply to normal or other people's situations too. However, I'm not concerned by it personally. As it is it's thanks to my patrons and to the community that I'm able to do this. Therefore it seems only natural to me that I should be upfront about my situation with everyone in return. I don't feel a need to hide anything. I know everyone here is just looking out for me, and thank you for that. At this point it might be best to let it go anyway though.
  8. I would not put much faith in US economics tbh... Anyway, I appreciate the concern. My expenses are as follows: Rent, phone bill, medication, site costs, food. Since I do not have a car, or insurance of any kind, or student loans, and do not go anywhere or subscribe to other services, I can keep it to these things. The cheapest rent in this city for a studio or 1 bedroom apartment is around $1000k. So the fact that I can even live on this is at all is a small miracle. My rent includes the cost of utilities and internet too. I switched my phone bill to the cheapest possible plan. Medication and site costs can't be helped. I usually buy food on markdown or clearance so I can get it half price. In addition to that I've figured most of my regular meals on a per-cent cost so I only eat things that would be particularly cheap. But it's true that just minimizing expenses isn't enough to make up the difference. I'm currently losing around $200 per month. I went into this prepared to lose a lot more than that though. The results have far exceeded my expectations and I've been so happy to be able to keep going like this. I had some amount of savings from my previous job that I was prepared to use all of if I had to (and I would have by now if not for everyone's help), and I also had a graduation present sum from my grandmother sitting in her bank collecting interest for the past couple years so I called that in as a safety net. In addition to those things, I'm naturally pretty good with money. I rarely buy anything unnecessary and I minimize extras where possible. For instance I don't usually use oil when cooking because ultimately the food can still be made without it. Because of these things and various other random sources, I have not had too much of a loss. Things like my tax returns, and money I got for my birthday, etc serve as a small bonus give me more months that I could do this in the worst case scenario. When I reach a greater stability, I can think about doing things for myself. In that worst case scenario I also have an empty credit card as a back up. At the point that I have to use that I'd probably look for a part time job again, but I'm hoping it doesn't get to that point. Hopefully this clears it up. Ultimately there's no need to worry so much, but thank you for thinking of my wellbeing. ^^
  9. about the domain, it's a temporary situation that old domain is still with hostgator from like 2012 so im transferring it over to our current registrar so we can finally be 100% gatorfree but it takes a bit to process apparently should be resolved on the 31st, according to the gatorlords but we all know not to trust them.
  10. hi whats up it definitely has not been two weeks but most y'all who saw the previous update status know why and for the rest of you who dont know why i'll tell you why it's because my computer died so like shit boi uhhh basically my motherboard had to replaced and also i had a corrupt RAM stick so that sucked and i lost all my data in the interim of me floundering about trying to fix it as if it were a software problem so that super sucks. but don't worry-- i didnt lose much as far as reborn is concerned: the project files for city music but i dont really need those anymore, and a few graphics for E17 which i'll have to redo...but i can do so. it could be much worse. so i had my laptop over the past two weeks but it's kinda dinky and without all the things i needed there was only so much i could do now i have my computer back and repaired and running back up close to full functionality! so we go back to development as following up from my last update, i have not gotten as much done as i would like to have for the obvious reason. but the intro was done (in just a few days, in fact), and the eventing for Fucktruck Desert is just about done. i will probably put up a video showing the redone intro soon. in the mean time i'll move onto the scrapyard, which has the only puzzle that i expect might actually give me trouble (and even then it's just the Very Tedious Inconvenience sort of trouble). after the scrapyard puzzle, the eventing is kind of a straight shot. you might also noticed i've dipped into the story a little bit. this isn't exactly a story-heavy episode, so that part might go quicker. however, split paths doubles work time. so oops. going to try a different way of handling that split this time though. we'll see if it's easier or not i must once more disappear into the void, but know that it will not disappear back.
  11. that's pretty much exactly what happened yepyep you could just start a new game and not save! i'll also be uploading a video it doesn't! fortunately. thank god. that was cloud-hosted, so it's all okay. the only things i lost were like graphics i hadn't put in to use yet.
  12. What I see here is you trying to bully yourself into moving on. I may not be able to tell you the way to move on from him, but I can promise you that this ain' it. All this is gonna do is add layers of guilt and negativity on top of the typical sourness of unrequited emotions in and of themselves. If emotions could be changed by us berating ourselves for them the world would probably be a much simpler place. We've all seen this sort of thing in others hundreds of times, but many keep trying it on ourselves. I think it comes down to a lack of self respect. If the situation was reversed, would you say those things to him? Do you really think you deserve any worse just for being the kind of person you are? Moving on from him is difficult... but this is definitely something that can improve the situation just by thinking about it differently. Please be kind to yourself.
  13. i came here to be upset about and argue that last post but honestly all i can argue in good faith is that the "no!" came before the "yes". that's regrettably accurate over all.
  14. i cant tell you where to find it in rejuv, but i can tell you that you'll be happier before you do. save yourself while you still can.
  15. please please please its ok it can wait until after you your stardew valley becomes a stardid valley my schedules open mostly please
  16. Server restarted; thank you for waiting!
  17. it's confusing but we can fix this! bi- = every two X. semi- = twice per x. bam bam done. idk how you've been merging updates but this is (more or less) confined to three maps or so so it shouldn't be too bad for you The Amplifiled Rock is a lot more thematic than Terrain Extender, and also more useful since it applies to Gravity + TR, so we'll be keeping it.
  18. hello! check that out! bi-weekly! what a concept! so my mapping is done, y'all. a glance to the right will show you that mapping on the whole is only at 85% but that remaining 15% is being taken care of by the generous mappers i introduced last time. they're so sweet. in my last post i mentioned i still had one more area to do-- and it is done. it was done in a 24 hour frenzy of motivation while listening to Melodrama on loop probably about fifty gabillion times. and it is great. its also gonna have a few hundred passability errors details. on the whole i really like how the new areas in E17 have come out. i hope you will all have as much fun exploring them as i did making them!* *this does not include the desert. although it had its moments, it was often not very fun to make. please have more fun exploring it than i did making it. please. also i would like to never see a sand tile again, js. anyway! we move into eventing next, but first we're making a pit-stop in the past. now that the desert map is done, i'll be redoing the intro. from day 1, i had wanted to show the player riding in through the desert on the train to grandview station, but as it turns out it's a little bit difficult to do that when you don't have a desert map to ride in on. therefore i'd planned for a long time to add that in when i did finally get tourmaline mapped. while i'm at it, i'm actually changing the intro completely (up to the point of station explosion). since it's literally the first part of the game and wouldn't be a spoiler, i will probably make and post a video of it when it is finished. the intro is not being accounted for in the eventing % though; it will be in the Misc Updates section, and is in fact the main item there. more soon. <3
  19. Sorry, those rumors are bogus. I've never heard of Pokemon Reborn in my life. e17 won't take nearly as long as 16. i knew from day 1 that E16 would take for bloody ever cuz of city rebuild. it is an outlier and should not be counted. if either E17 or 18 take that long please lynch me. 19... could be painful due to post game '-'
  20. ohhhh yeahhh no that was 50% because the other 50% was probably for sidequest areas like the spring, but in most cases things like, the leftovers quest would be 5 or the klefki thing would be 5, etc deffo not 50 separate ones, yikearoni and cheese im not going to put anything story-necessary in sidequests, but it is an extra bonus that can be used to reward people so i like to use that.
  21. ... in the form of a trusty Ice Cream Sand Witch coming around to aid the Reborn community with her spellbinding sweetness. As one of the most active and most positive members for a long time, we feel that she's certainly earned the spot, and with the community always growing, there are certainly spots to be earned. Please give her a warm welcome (but not too warm! we don't want her to melt) and congratulations! All of the mods work hard to keep the community running clean and clear and I'm sure she'll do great along side them. For her first magic act* she'll be making some discord channels disappear! It's been announced on the discord server already but the PSO2, BotW, SuMo, SU and Redemption channels will all be merged/rotated out as necessary to keep our channel list clean and relevant. Those channels could make a reappearance when new content makes them relevant again, but for now they're the stars of the vanishing act. Additionally, the void has been marked as a NSFW for Discord's purposes meaning users now have to click an agreement in order to see it. Despite this, please remember that the actual rules of what's allowed in the void have not changed. It is an area that permits r7 content unlike other public channels but it is still not for posting outright porn. Tread in your glorious filth with caution. *ICSW may not actually be responsible for these but she's still a witch so like, pretend or something, ne? Until next time!
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