General Discussion Mark II

I won't deny it, either. But I think I'll forget about any rant of my own that might have been forming in my head.

Basically, yeah, Haar, we agree for the most part. And the sad thing is, it's not just us being blinded by nostalgia, it's a genuine drop in quality.

Yeah, I tried to explain my reasoning as much as I could so as not to sound like a nostalgia whore, but it doesn't always come out quite right. I'm not saying by any means that there weren't stupid shows around when I was younger, or that there aren't good shows now, but I will say I can name more good kids' shows from the nineties than I can from this decade. That's really the only point I was trying to make.

So, yeah, sorry about that, it's just sometimes I hear something and then I start thinking about it and then before I know it I've been ranting on the subject for ten minutes and everyone around me is aggravated. So my bad on that one.

Here have some terrible voice acting

http://audioboo.fm/boos/1884147

… Wow. What just happened?

Idefk...

Ya know, even though I'm not even doing any RPing, I still feel an obligation to be connected to you guys. I mean, I've spent fucking years here. I don't really do writing anymore, but you guys are like... Like my internet family or something.

As weird as that sounds, I do kind of feel the same way. I like to think that's part of the reason for me starting Recompleted, aside from my own stubborn pride and desire for it to be better: the story that most of us wrote together deserves to be recreated in a way that everybody can appreciate.

I'd have to say the same. You guys were my first big family aside from my already huge family. You guys helped me grow as a writer and gave me that first spark, years back on TITAL. Hell, I remember when Yusei first got here and used emoticons half the time in his RP posts XD

Point being, while I hate the fact that aside from the Homestuck thing and General Discussion the site is dead, I wonder if there's any way we could get more prospective writers up in here while staying true to the TITAL way: fuck the established rules, we've got our own, come on in the water's purple.

Makes me wonder a little bit...would anyone consider a reboot? I mean, the current TITAL has big story arcs and involves bunches of people. Not only do those people need to come up with good stuff to write, but they also have to be around, so if someone's really busy, the topic kinda just has to die out until someone can come up with something to say. Org XIV is much the same, where there's often a big scene, and anything else coming in would make it feel really choppy and awkward.

So that said, would anyone seriously consider a reboot, not of everything, but of TITAL, at least? Just one with no real focus on story, just kinda what the topic was originally: What if all the characters of Kingdom Hearts lived together in one house? Not to abandon the old topic, but just for something to mess around with.

Or heck, if we could get Heart High up and running, we could use that, just include a bit of home-life rather than have all the classes in the school proper.

Would anyone be on board with that?

I kinda had a similar idea

I can't exactly vouch for how active I'll be, but I'm for the idea of a reboot. If Heart High comes back, it'd give me a chance to write Saïx again. Hell, I even remember the Alt code for the ümlaut i(137). Maybe it'd give me a chance to find a middle ground between silly and serious.

That said, RPing aside, I would like to propose an idea of getting together and playing video games online. I mean, video games are what brought us together in the first place, right?

That gaming idea though. If you guys would be okay with it, I'm sure with Skype or some kind of setup on my end I could commentate my LPs with you guys. I'd fuggin love to have y'all on, but I'm rather limited in my games. Though games like Persona and KH would be a lot longer and I'd have more opportunities for y'all to be in them. Maybe not the end-all idea but something to throw out there.

Group LPs would be awesome. I was thinking we could do some tournament type games, party games, team games, whatevers. I do know of an NES and an Snes emulator that you play in your browser, and can play two player online with, namely nesbox.com and snesbox.com, so that's a start.

Well I just found out you can use an interrobang in Word with Alt 8253. Doesn't work here, though...‽

I can see it, it's just not cohesive with the site-specific text effects.

AKeybladeYouSay wrote:Group LPs would be awesome. I was thinking we could do some tournament type games, party games, team games, whatevers. I do know of an NES and an Snes emulator that you play in your browser, and can play two player online with, namely nesbox.com and snesbox.com, so that's a start.

While I'd be interested, I can say with relative certainty that I would not be able to record stuff from my computer. Whenever I tried, it ended poorly. There was that one time I tried to record Megaman 3...it degenerated into me insulting the game, because...I was younger and kinda stupid.

That said, I'd avoid NES games, for the reason being that when you fail at an NES game, there's not much to say about it. If I were to fail at, let's say, Metal Gear Solid, it opens more things that I could potentially say as compared to if I died in, for example, Zelda II.

Also, you can see it because I copy-pasted from Word. If you try it here, it just gives you the equals sign.

I know that plenty of emus can do that, but require specific builds. I'm also curious as to how exactly the save files work. Because I do like my save states and all that.

Since it is a public server, you can only have one save state. If you have two people playing, player 1 sort of acts like a host. I'm pretty sure that. If you play just by yourself, then invite someone into your game and load your state, it acts like you just plugged in a controller.

Oh. We could totally do that. Live commentary is still something I'm working on, but if y'all have mics we could totally do that.

I don't have my headset yet, and it seems like it's going to be delayed quite a bit longer, but I do have a headset. It's just not in the state and I can't use it. The only way I can skype is with my phone which works alright, but I'd like to be able to do it all on the computer.

I've never done anything like this before. But since I've got my laptop, which has a microphone of its own, I could theoretically do this without having to purchase any additional equipment. But where would I go...? I would want to be somewhere with good internet access, but where I wouldn't be interrupted, and with little or no noise...

Well, on another subject, I kind of drew a picture back in December - which I'd started sometime in October - and I'd like some feedback on it. Thing is, it really only directly concerns people involved in Org.XIV, but I welcome comments from everybody. See, I wanted to do a group shot of a chunk of the cast, so I did, and it's meant to invoke the cover of KHII Final Mix+. I'm worried I got the characters wrong, since for some of them, I had fairly little to go on for their appearances.

I'm having trouble getting the image up directly, so I'll put a link to the page right here.

http://fav.me/d73imok

I will say that if you have a built in mic you may want to make sure that you cannot hear your air fan going. I didn't have a headset and for the longest time didn't realize what my friends meant by my laptop sounded like "a jet driving down the highway". If you can't help it, I can probably help with some kind of noise cancellation, or, bar that, run your audio through Audacity and reduce background noise for an upload, if a channel happens.

As for your picture, all i can say is that it looks well-balanced, it evokes the KHII logo fairly well, and it's high quality for your work. Good job.

I should be able to co-commentate at the very least. The laptop I have is not the greatest thing in the world, but I'm sure there's something I could play online with you guys. Though, I probably won't be able to record my screen.

FFSplit and XSplit work well, and they both have Twitch integration. I uninstalled my software after unsuccessfully trying to do a Let's play because it wasn't working for me, though.

I think for a group LP, while multiple views might be nice, if it's emulated games like Yusei said then it's not necessary for multiple views, unless we have a tourney going on. In which case, that might help.

Also, if it was something like Minecraft, that would also be something for multiple views. But I don't currently own it on my laptop, so...

All great suggestions guys. Wonder if I could co commentate with Admin over P3. He's been wanting to do one for a while now if I remember correctly.