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"It's hard to find the balance when you are in love.
You're lost in the middle cause you have to decide between mind & heart."
― Enigma
You're lost in the middle cause you have to decide between mind & heart."
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Please, Stop Writing Happy Endings
Ftr, I'm not saying that the idea behind "It's our responsibility" is completely devoid of merit. Sure it makes a great deal of sense on paper. Ponder about it all you want and rationalize it in any way you want: "Think critically", "Be considerate", "Do your best" All that nice stuff... On practice however, it starts to fall apart. At least to my understanding of the word "responsible".
Even your most carefully-crafted, well-meaning story could have unintended "consequences". Let's say someone does something bad "influenced" by a good message in your game. Are you "responsible" for that? I guess you could say you are, in some weird: "had you never made that game that something would have never happened" kind of way. But what I mean is: Should you be -held- responsible for that? To any extent or capacity? ...Should you be charged? shamed? boycotted? Should you feel guilty? or censor yourself? I think the answers for all those things is: "NO". So as long as we're on the same page on that, sure, whatever you say.
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Even your most carefully-crafted, well-meaning story could have unintended "consequences". Let's say someone does something bad "influenced" by a good message in your game. Are you "responsible" for that? I guess you could say you are, in some weird: "had you never made that game that something would have never happened" kind of way. But what I mean is: Should you be -held- responsible for that? To any extent or capacity? ...Should you be charged? shamed? boycotted? Should you feel guilty? or censor yourself? I think the answers for all those things is: "NO". So as long as we're on the same page on that, sure, whatever you say.
Should every work be "art"?
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Please, Stop Writing Happy Endings
I can appreciate a "sad ending". This is one of the reasons why I like Suikoden 3 as a whole, over Suikoden 2. Suikoden 2 is all about happy endings; It's about a clear(er) distinction between good and evil. It's about friendship, forgiveness, redemption, LIFE, etc. Suikoden 3 in the other hand is about conflicting world-views, temporary alliances, living with your mistakes, war, death... One of the most poignant scenes (for me) about Suikoden 3's ending is in Hugo's scenario, when he and Chris say their goodbyes. They pay each other their respects, but bow to not hold back if they ever meet again in the battlefield as enemies (In case you don't know. Chris killed Hugo's best friend). It is my belief that Yoshitaka Murayama designed Suikoden 3 as the anti-thesis of Suikoden 2 and your average rpg. However, I wouldn't say Suikoden 3 is better than Suikoden 2. It's just different. And different should not be held on a pedestal as "originality" or what have you.
And I'm 10000000000000000000000% against that whole "It's our responsibility to" Pffft! Fuck that noise! I'n not your baby-sitter. I'm not your role-model. My responsibility with my audience ends by saying: "This is an X rated game and contains X, Y and Z things. And if you're too much of an idiot to process this information and tell apart reality from fiction, get the fuck out of my story!". I'm tired of this preachiness that is co-opting every discussion of story-telling and game development... And you know what really grinds my gears? That if you exchange "happy endings" with "such and such depiction of women/minorities" (Yes, I went there) most of you would flip your script. fml
And I'm 10000000000000000000000% against that whole "It's our responsibility to" Pffft! Fuck that noise! I'n not your baby-sitter. I'm not your role-model. My responsibility with my audience ends by saying: "This is an X rated game and contains X, Y and Z things. And if you're too much of an idiot to process this information and tell apart reality from fiction, get the fuck out of my story!". I'm tired of this preachiness that is co-opting every discussion of story-telling and game development... And you know what really grinds my gears? That if you exchange "happy endings" with "such and such depiction of women/minorities" (Yes, I went there) most of you would flip your script. fml
April 2015 Podcast: RM2k3 Officially in English!
Haha! That melodious "alteregooo~" is going to be my new ringtone or something. %P ...Also, I vote for Dungeon Crawl! o/
RMN FEBRUARY 2015: Misaomblr and Bacon Jam
RMN JANUARY 2015: HAPPY NEW YEAR
So it seems this year will have a lot in store for us, right? right? xP ...Hopefully it will. It would be nice to see Games and merchandise being sold directly on-site. I propose we make a t-shirt design contest to build up hype for this feature. Maybe in the future we could even use makerscore to buy stuff (Like DeviantArt points) and only then will makerscore be life. xD
Another topic that got me excited was the possibility of another Rpg Maker coming out this year. I've titillating with other engines (Construct, Unity) but if a new Rpg Maker that was the love-child of Ace and Rm2k3 (And maybe IG Maker, because they're poly-amorous like that >_>;) would come out, I would be set for life. But I'm probably expecting too much from Enterbrain.
Personally, what I'd like to see this year is the implementation or at least and update on the "Give your impression" system, meant to work as a complement for reviews... As well as a more robust review system overall. There has been lots of suggestions over the years like: Review categories, or Not rating demos, etc. That we're long overdue to give proper consideration.
Anyway, I really enjoyed this podcast. You guys (gals?) should try to do this more often. =P
Another topic that got me excited was the possibility of another Rpg Maker coming out this year. I've titillating with other engines (Construct, Unity) but if a new Rpg Maker that was the love-child of Ace and Rm2k3 (And maybe IG Maker, because they're poly-amorous like that >_>;) would come out, I would be set for life. But I'm probably expecting too much from Enterbrain.
Personally, what I'd like to see this year is the implementation or at least and update on the "Give your impression" system, meant to work as a complement for reviews... As well as a more robust review system overall. There has been lots of suggestions over the years like: Review categories, or Not rating demos, etc. That we're long overdue to give proper consideration.
Anyway, I really enjoyed this podcast. You guys (gals?) should try to do this more often. =P
All Hallows' Event 2013 Podcast, Part 1
Cool stuff! I love listening to these... Btw, you guys should like, re-record part 4 of that one podcast or something... Do it! Do eeet! =B
RMN Fall Podcast (Part 3)
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I love you, alterego
Say what you will, but I didn't hear anything else in the entire podcast after that... *_*
This Week in Blogs [16/9 - 22/9]
Well, the kind of blogs I tend to report are those you're referring to, Liberty. One/two-line blogs that just go: "I opened rpg maker today" or multiple blogs that go: "version 1.0 out, version 1.1 out, version 1.1b out" I mean, c'mon! The fact that you're making a quick announcement shouldn't be an excuse not to construct your blogs well or edit previous ones... If you gave blogs like that a pass just this once then it's ok, i guess. Bad it would be if they were featured week after week. xP
This Week in Blogs [16/9 - 22/9]
And like I said, you have all that information in the latest blogs section. This feature's main objective was supposed to alleviate the problem of finding good blogs among a sea of crappy ones, but it didn't solve anything; It's just more of the same thing! There's even blogs in there that I've reported for being crappy, so right now I'm wondering if any of this is really worth it...
This Week in Blogs [16/9 - 22/9]
Heh; I don't know. I could go through the blog list and derive almost as much information from the titles alone...
I like this initiative but I think an article like this should focus on the best blogs only, and explain why they're considered good... The idea (I think) is to reward people who put on an extra effort to write blogs, and for other people to start recognizing the qualities that make a blog good. That way they can follow the example and get their blog featured the next time. But if all blogs are listed without discrimination then people will just continue doing their thing because they'll get their blog mentioned anyway.
I like this initiative but I think an article like this should focus on the best blogs only, and explain why they're considered good... The idea (I think) is to reward people who put on an extra effort to write blogs, and for other people to start recognizing the qualities that make a blog good. That way they can follow the example and get their blog featured the next time. But if all blogs are listed without discrimination then people will just continue doing their thing because they'll get their blog mentioned anyway.
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