oh shit long time no see
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honestly given how active i have been throughout this siteās history thats outright impressive
but hey another w for the brand standards
ā¦it was???
now this i dont remember at all lol
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this screams eevee to me
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oh or osie it could be her too
did
did you actually not know that
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i mean iāve changed names 2-3 times not his fault
Some other names that come to mind from back then: Icibalus, Celeste Ludenberg, Bluestorm. You guys know any of them?
celeste i think caught a ban
ici aka ella pops up now and again
bluestorm doesnāt ring a bell
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i might be mixing up celeste with margaret very possible
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Celeste became Margaret and was a professional ragebaiter
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I havenāt seen Icibalus in a while, but I remember her existence and she had been more active as of the end of Imperium42 / the beginning of FortressofLies IIRC.
Celeste Ludenbergā¦ is a Danganronpa character; it aināt easy remembering a username whose name derives from a character from a game I like. āthough if it is āMargaret Celesteā, then I vaguely remember I have a grudge against her for whatever reason from some sort of mash event in the old past. (How the heck do I remember this grudgeā¦?)
BlueStormā¦ is a name I have not heard since Imperium42. I donāt know what happened with that person, but all I recall is their usernameās existence.
as implied by ishmaelās comment i am a girl now. iāve mainly been active in blood on the clocktower and working on a murder mystery story, but i still have a soft spot for this old place and check in from time to time
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since itās been a while i have to mention something that i was too young to appreciate back in the day: ritual mafiaās feature of having some really flashy good abilities was super influential for how I think about game design, funnily enough. i still remmber some of the huge swings that happened during those days.
and it just made me realise that not only do i love games with powerful abilities, of course I do, but I really love games where that power doesnāt come from raw numerical advantages or just getting tons of small edges, but rather from a really difficult to use but really rewarding singular ability. and that was something i kind of took with me into more broadly thinking about what i value in art and design.
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this reads like me subtweeting throne of lies design and it is kind of me doing that but i do think throne of liesā approach of ājust make everyone a joatā isnāt Wrong, itās just not the kind of stuff that I really like
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Ah its nice to see you again. I was wondering if youād still remember me. Honestly Im surprised at how many people from a decade ago are still active here.
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Btw I just realized I havenāt told you guys what Iāve been up to lately. I finished my college career and then took a masters degree in computer science. I started learning Japanese though I still have a long way to go and am probably only at like N4 level. Sadly Iāve had trouble finding jobs related to my career mainly because I live in a smallish town and I would need to move to get a decent job, so I ended up working on a different field which I also ended up liking which was translation/interpreting (english to spanish, Im not fluent enough to try it with japanese yet). I got into visual novels and became a volunteer blog writer for Fuwanovel. I have been trying to get into game development lately and Ive done a few projects that sadly have never been finished. My days hosting FoL style games in here really made me realize that I want to become a game designer one day and am still working towards that goal which I hope to achieve some day.
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oh neato
grats on the degrees and work, never heard of this Fuwanovel but ive played at least a few VNs soā¦ close enough?
whats ur favorite and why
Clannad! But I also like Umineko, Muv Luv, FMD Muramasa and 9-Nine. Though most of those are super popular already, some less popular VNs that I really liked were Black Haired Girl Is Best Girl (I know the name sounds dumb but its good I promise), Kamikaze Lassplanes, Mamiya and Kanade,
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i have read a grand total of one of those xdd