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credit to @Hycrox for this quality img post When it's starting to get cold outside and the bitter wind chills you to the bone ... that's how you know it's time to warm up at the Reborn Winter Party! In spite of the disappointing news of the FCC's decision earlier today, we've decided to hold the Winter Party this upcoming weekend. As one bright star imparted upon us: "But being cheerful when it's least appropriate is when it's most necessary!" With that in mind, let's take a break from the looming internet doomsday comments to relax and enjoy the company of friends. When Party date is this upcoming Sunday, December 17th starting at 12p EST It is planned to continue until 12a Monday to accommodate the global nature of the community! Location This party is going to take place on its own server over on discord. Join us now over at https://discord.gg/wYtqV5 !! Scheduled Events This year we're trying a different approach! Instead of setting the schedule in stone, we've planned time for a new event and a few mainstays but left the rest of the schedule open. this should enable us to be flexible and adjust on the fly for activities people would enjoy rather than being stuck to a set list. We'll likely post the times for these events on Sunday. Reborn Royalty A staple event to end another year on reborn is electing three new members to the ranks of reborn's royalty! Jack Frost, Snow Queen and the Polar Monarch are vacant positions once more. As before, anyone may be nominated per any role though they may win only one position. Be sure to make your nominations in the thread and it'll be updated accordingly. New! [Yankee Egg Swap] With the community release of the new episode arriving recently, it might incidentally be the best time to try this new event format out! For those unfamiliar with the term, Yankee Swap is a kind of holiday gift giving event where people bring gifts meant for exchange. The pool of gifts is picked from in a randomized order, with each participant being able to trade his selected gift with someone who picked a gift before him. The person who chose the first gift is allowed their trade after all the gifts have been claimed. Some versions then allow people to trade amongst themselves afterwards too. We're going to try a version of this that works like so: Participants will be assigned a number and their trading partner will be selected at random. After each pair has done their trade, everyone will be free to trade amongst themselves for the eggs at their leisure! So get out your Magcargo and your Ponyta and make some rad eggs for some egg swap action! Returning Events A flexible schedule allows for us to be able to run or not run games or events based on what the audience is interested in, but the recurring events are on the table - queen's and king's game, story time, cah, reborn hunger games, and more. Who knows what we'll end up running .. it is a mystery! ^^; Feel free to comment with feedback or suggestions for events you'd like to see return to the party. Keep an eye out for this thread as more details and updates as the party fast approaches! ... because I'm tired and need to sleep now goodnight.

Over the course of Reborn events (and given plenty of time), the community has grown and changed greatly. We can see this in how Reborn's discord server has exploded in attention over the past several months, leading to it becoming a bustling locale full of activity. As part of this movement, we would like to welcome @Alex and @Slothpremacy to the team! Azery has had a colorful history with the community, but over time he's matured into a remarkable young man, marked by positive contribution to events and leagues alongside a net-tempered sense of humor. I'm proud to now be able to accept him onto the team. Alex is a former PO admin and an active contributor in reports as well. Their experience is valuable for the position, plus their continued demonstration of the extent to which they care and their passion for the community make them a welcome addition to the team. Their talents certainly help to round out the roster and support the ever-growing discord userbase! With eyes forward as Reborn continues to grow and gradually fill out as a more general gaming community, we're going to be shifting the Developing Games and Fan-game Exposé forums around to enable many kinds of game development discussion while still accomodating for our active Pokemon fangame creators, designers, and developers -- we're adding another section to Reborn's section on the forums to house the mods that the community has come up with. I know Ame had been wanting to have the game completed before opening this door but she agreed that it may be prudent to welcome them a little earlier. Stay tuned for more exciting changes as we continue to gain experience together and strive to bring the candor of our organizations to the next level!

Birthdays. It is a prevalent social custom in our society (a social construct, you could say) to share a wish of pleasant tidings onto those we care about on the day of their birth each year. It's a custom that I used to engage in more frequently earlier in life but as time went on and I left facebook things sort of shifted. It's there that I would frequently post birthday greetings to a large group of people, most of whom I don't really talk to on a day to day basis but felt the need and social pressure to answer the little notifications in the sidebar about Johnny's birthday despite not having seen him since before high school and so on. As time passed I sort of felt like it was worse to give such an empty wish to a person that I don't really talk to much outside of that. Thus, much like thank you cards and similar things, it started to feel like a cold, robotic formality rather than a warm, caring well-wishing. I eventually stopped honoring most of the birthdays for people that I know. I don't often write in birthday threads or even comment on birthdays as much anymore, even for people that I'm pretty close to. I feel somewhat bad for not trying to brighten up the days of people I care about with a simple little message, but I don't want to be fake about a part of their and my life that I don't invest much of myself into anymore. So it's pretty strange for me to be a number of words into a birthday thread, then, right? I can't really explain why I feel compelled to write this while I don't even post all that often on the forums to begin with. Maybe it's because I'm using your birthday as an excuse to write something soft and heartfelt. Maybe it's because I'm going all in on some community meme just to try and make you smile. Maybe I genuinely am one of those hopeless romantic types. Maybe you're really just that precious to me. Maybe none of those are important. Maybe it's because I recently got the chance to spend time with you and keep relishing in warm memories of the short but sweet time we spent together, even when we were doing nothing at all. I got to know a girl who was carefree but caring, nervous but excitable, a workaholic yet still just the right amount of bubbly fun. I don't mean to make a goofy caricature of you but I do think it's important to recognize the people who are special to you sometimes, when even your actions don't feel like enough to show someone how much they mean to you. Something you might hear me say once or twice is that we don't take enough time to tell the people we care about that we love them. In a whirlwind life experience where our time is short and we often take for granted those around us who mean so much to us, take time out of your lives to tell, show and live your love out loud for the people you care about. I love you, Amethyst Liddell. ♡♡ Happy birthday.

There are more than likely other updates, it's common for minor things to go unlisted even in the official changelogs at times.

Two Factor Authentication is like a second layer of security when logging in to confirm your identity. A common way to enforce it is to have you use your phone as well as a password in order to verify yourself.