Ironbound Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 No Scizor as a reward? Awww. Anyways, I doubt I can, because timezones and work and college and blablabla, but seems fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheep Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 No Scizor as a reward? Awww. What does Scizor have to do with the sun? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted User Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Ark you like music, petition to make this official partyday themesong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironbound Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 What does Scizor have to do with the sun? Scizor is a Steel type. Steel is made from iron. The Sun is a Star. Stars do nuclear fusion and keep continuing the process until they make iron, which is the last element which when fused releases energy. After it has made iron, there is no more energy available from nuclear fusion and it will die. So iron is the ultimate fate of the Sun. So Scizor is ultimate by extension. Also I'm obviously taunting. And yes, I deserve everything I get. I also deserve more steel types. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheep Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Scizor is a Steel type. Steel is made from iron. The Sun is a Star. Stars do nuclear fusion and keep continuing the process until they make iron, which is the last element which when fused releases energy. After it has made iron, there is no more energy available from nuclear fusion and it will die. So iron is the ultimate fate of the Sun. So Scizor is ultimate by extension. Also I'm obviously taunting. And yes, I deserve everything I get. I also deserve more steel types. An upvote for giving more than just "cuz I want more steel types" even if the explanation is a stretch. Pretty clever though and it made me chuckle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironbound Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 *bows and doffs hat* In all seriousness, though, I doubt if I can make it, but maybe, if my work and college allows, I could avail myself of a small piece of the π... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DashingStorm Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 The problem is that most of the people running the events and different parts of them are of the western hemisphere where these times are ideal. We'd much rather have a party that's run smoothly than one that's just left unsupervised. Disappoint. This is exactly the reason why people who aren't from the US are somewhat upset. There's a bunch of active members living in Europe, Asia and Australia, who may or may not be able to attend these because of certain timezones, or people who have to work on the Sunday afterwards. Not gonna say that I'm not upset, because I'd like to be able to be a part of this party, but guess what; Europeans don't really benefit from this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheep Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Disappoint. This is exactly the reason why people who aren't from the US are somewhat upset. There's a bunch of active members living in Europe, Asia and Australia, who may or may not be able to attend these because of certain timezones, or people who have to work on the Sunday afterwards. Not gonna say that I'm not upset, because I'd like to be able to be a part of this party, but guess what; Europeans don't really benefit from this. The number of active people here from the American time region far outstrips the number of active people from the European time region, which in turn is roughly equal to the number of active people from the Eastern time region. Given that it's physically impossible to set a time that benefits everyone, surely the logical thing to do is aim to cater for the largest group isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veterans Zumi Posted June 7, 2016 Veterans Share Posted June 7, 2016 The number of active people here from the American time region far outstrips the number of active people from the European time region, which in turn is roughly equal to the number of active people from the Eastern time region. Given that it's physically impossible to set a time that benefits everyone, surely the logical thing to do is aim to cater for the largest group isn't it? Pushing the start of the party 2 hours back really can't do a lot of harm though. If you started the party at 3PM, you'd easily be able to cater to both European and American timezones, not to mention that it's on a saturday, so a lot of people from the US would be able to join anyways, since I don't really think many people have to do anything during the weekend if everyone is on summer break already. Just pushing it back to 3PM would only already make it possible for the European users to join in for a few hours as well (since it would start at 8-9pm for most users), and you know what they say; the more the merrier, right? And to be fair... I myself would also like to not have to stay up till an ungodly hour to not miss an event I actually really want to attend. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosesong Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 The problem with pushing the party back is that the event coordinators might not be available earlier. For example, I get off of work right when the party starts, so the trivia event may end up pushed back slightly unless someone else hosts it for a bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veterans Zumi Posted June 7, 2016 Veterans Share Posted June 7, 2016 The problem with pushing the party back is that the event coordinators might not be available earlier. For example, I get off of work right when the party starts, so the trivia event may end up pushed back slightly unless someone else hosts it for a bit I told on skype that I can help supervising and hosting events if necessary since I'm free on saturday during the entire day, so all I'd need is instructions on what I have to do and I'd be able to hold the fort for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juniper Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 I stayed up until 5am for the Christmas party. Just eat lots of coffee ;-; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobalt996 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 COuld cater to European times by starting it earlier with more events for them, if there is someone available in that timezone to host. If not, Zumi should be able to hold fort for until Rose arrives, considering she's offering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tringus Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 What's this? A summer party? You already KNOW I'll be there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Odybld Posted June 7, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted June 7, 2016 This is not the only party of the year. The Christmas party is already geared to cater to the western hemisphere exclusively, unless you're living in the westernmost parts of Europe and decide to just skip sleep for a night, like Juu here who lives in the timezone that is one hour closer to EST than... France, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the scandinavian countries and more. I'm one more hour farther than these countries and two from Juu (GMT+2) and to make it to the start of the Queen's Game I have to stay up to 4.30. ...oh, in an exam period too. I didn't ask for any changes and I understand how difficult they would be, because quite frankly, and as Tacos too said, the vast majority of people involved in organizing the events reside in said timezones and it would be a complete pain to just try and change the time for a couple hours, much less to cater to another hemisphere That brings us to the realization that out of all of the auth team, only three out of the 16 members of the auth team (I don't include Ame and Clarice) reside outside the western hemisphere: Sheep(cat) and the fresher auth members that are Zumi and Mde. This is not an accusation of promotions being based on where anyone lives, but a notice of the auth team's natural weakness (barring very weird sleep schedules) to cover a large timeframe of non-US-based user activity. Personally I am not interested in the party all that much. I am much more interested to see the community be able to embrace its international composition and activity better, instead of continuing to be geared around the people and times of the US. The expansion of the parties from one to two a year leaving the same people out twice is not a good sign. I hope that the questions raised by the members here would be able to lead to some decentralization of Reborn's weight and power structure. That would hopefully hold it from becoming a community where a geographical majority gets the best part of the deal every time in the name of majority, while the not much smaller or less important to the community minority continues to get the worst parts of the deal. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godot Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Oh hey, this got publicly announced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbood2 Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 WOW this sounds like an awesome event. Odybld brought up some good points if only 3 out of 18 people are from the eastern hemisphere who are authority. I upvoted his post because I do believe that the proportion of western to eastern hemisphere authority should be improved because maybe more events could be accessible to the eastern hemisphere if eastern hemisphere authority was available to help manage and organize events. I'll be there most likely because a lot of those events especially the trivia sounds fun. I'll be sure to PM Rose but if the inbox limit is 100 won't her inbox completely fill up? Thanks for putting this cool event together and have a great day/night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosesong Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 My inbox won't fill; I've only gotten 10 people whom I'm allowed to make clues about so far. Plus, I'm keeping a hard copy of my trivia list on my computer. Trust me, I've thought several steps ahead, give me a little credit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyteverse Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 I'll be looking forward to these events :] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 >King's Game >Minor r7 >MINOR i think you have the wrong game 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juniper Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Excuse you, King's game is the mildest and most child-friendly game out there? It's named after Asgore after all. Asgore doesn't break R7. Does he?........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkhi Posted June 8, 2016 Author Share Posted June 8, 2016 24 hours and what feels like a tenth of a pound of parfait later, we've managed to create a European Summer party! Since this was created on short notice and the original party centered about North America, the two Trivia events- Member Trivia and Game Trivia- were omitted from the EU party, as the hosts will be unavailable for the intended time during the EU party. The EU party will begin at 5PM GMT and end at 12:30 AM GMT, meaning that the two parties (EU and NA) will overlap for two and a half hours. In this way, the geographically separated members of Reborn may mingle together during the party, if only for a little while. This new information is reflected in the original post, along with the following EU Party calendar. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juniper Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Wow that's super early for you yanks. On the other hand, now I won't fail physics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Honestly... I'll probably be there for both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ojama Yellow Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 auth team I just wish to put it out here but I love you all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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