Post by Red Hairdo on Oct 20, 2022 1:20:56 GMT -5
Sort of continuing from "Is this board still alive?", but with less pondering and more removal of all the dust and rubble. Also a place to have non-disappearing conversations, unlike the Shoutbox below. A "talk about anything and everything" thread. Spam talk. Serious talk. Ys talk.
I can at least provide some clarity/closure from my own end of things as to what led me to decide to just go my own way, circa 2014. At that time, I was busy beyond belief, with college, work, Italian classes, Hungarian classes, getting documents to live in multiple countries, as well as sorting out certain very important personal affairs. *ahem cough cough*
So last thing I could do was to come to a place and spoil the fun for everyone else who was still enjoying a series that, to me, had been vandalized and desecrated by not just terrible localization (got a bit better when XSEED no longer was involved -- nothing personal, Wyrdwad! I genuinely wish you happiness!), but also growingly even by Falcom themselves with complete disregard for lore, characters and world building as early as Ys Celceta (with traces of it, arguably, as far back as 2005's Oath of Felghana, but things only became ridiculously blatant with Ys Celceta).
So me having an opinion is one thing... But last thing I wanted was to clash with other people who are just enjoying their games in good fun. I wanted everyone to enjoy them without my crankiness. So with everything combined, I went off to attend and focus on my side of things. I also wasn't confident with the management of ALoY and the direction it was going, and I believe this sentiment was shared among others, as well. As much crap as some people would give Seldane for very small things, he shaped the culture of ALoY into the timeless, memorable place it became, and even with his absence, this culture persisted and continued to carry ALoY forward, but eventually the management problems would also catch up. And voilá, combine everything, and the place just couldn't really sustain itself as a place to keep coming back to, coincidentally not long after I took off. So people branched off into their own respective places, be it other forums or whatever else. And I thought "well, that is fine, too. May everyone take care of themselves and be well".
But hey, surprisingly, this place is still up. As in, the platform itself. I thought for sure ProBoards would have vanished by now, but I guess they must still have a role to play for all the big tech overlords out there. I mean, here we are using it, right now! So this place can still serve, it seems, as an occasional hub for discussion, if we see it fit. I do.
These days, I'm much more focused on using my time to address real world issues (I mean, we all saw what is going on since 2020, technically even earlier, but it really became stupidly-blatant ever since late 2021), such as the threat of geoengineering (military climate interventions in weather AKA climate engineering - see www.geoengineeringwatch.org for scientific sources, evidence, data etc. from actual meteorologists not afraid of being silenced), as well as more blatant issues that are honestly so blatant, they aren't even worthy of being directly addressed by me, here, anymore (since, thankfully, the people have become uncontrollable about it and now are very outspoken about it, including hundreds of thousands of doctors, which we can cite each, by name, individually. Thank goodness). But I guiltily admit that, on occasion, I still like playing a bit of my own stupid crap with a bit of that time. Like, a lot.
So for example just recently I was poking at Ys V (look at my posts as "Ys_Gamer" on GameFAQs, for instance: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/571413-Ys-v-ushinawareta-suna-no-miyako-kefin - I made some big discoveries about that game that I haven't ever seen covered in any language). I also got to try out the godawful "Ys VI Online" that, although it is unbelievably bad, has ONE COOL FEATURE that allows us to easily make, and spam (!), things like this:
Or engage in this:
So, that's me removing one portion of the Cleria rubble from The Ruins ofMoondoria ALoY.
I can at least provide some clarity/closure from my own end of things as to what led me to decide to just go my own way, circa 2014. At that time, I was busy beyond belief, with college, work, Italian classes, Hungarian classes, getting documents to live in multiple countries, as well as sorting out certain very important personal affairs. *ahem cough cough*
So last thing I could do was to come to a place and spoil the fun for everyone else who was still enjoying a series that, to me, had been vandalized and desecrated by not just terrible localization (got a bit better when XSEED no longer was involved -- nothing personal, Wyrdwad! I genuinely wish you happiness!), but also growingly even by Falcom themselves with complete disregard for lore, characters and world building as early as Ys Celceta (with traces of it, arguably, as far back as 2005's Oath of Felghana, but things only became ridiculously blatant with Ys Celceta).
So me having an opinion is one thing... But last thing I wanted was to clash with other people who are just enjoying their games in good fun. I wanted everyone to enjoy them without my crankiness. So with everything combined, I went off to attend and focus on my side of things. I also wasn't confident with the management of ALoY and the direction it was going, and I believe this sentiment was shared among others, as well. As much crap as some people would give Seldane for very small things, he shaped the culture of ALoY into the timeless, memorable place it became, and even with his absence, this culture persisted and continued to carry ALoY forward, but eventually the management problems would also catch up. And voilá, combine everything, and the place just couldn't really sustain itself as a place to keep coming back to, coincidentally not long after I took off. So people branched off into their own respective places, be it other forums or whatever else. And I thought "well, that is fine, too. May everyone take care of themselves and be well".
But hey, surprisingly, this place is still up. As in, the platform itself. I thought for sure ProBoards would have vanished by now, but I guess they must still have a role to play for all the big tech overlords out there. I mean, here we are using it, right now! So this place can still serve, it seems, as an occasional hub for discussion, if we see it fit. I do.
These days, I'm much more focused on using my time to address real world issues (I mean, we all saw what is going on since 2020, technically even earlier, but it really became stupidly-blatant ever since late 2021), such as the threat of geoengineering (military climate interventions in weather AKA climate engineering - see www.geoengineeringwatch.org for scientific sources, evidence, data etc. from actual meteorologists not afraid of being silenced), as well as more blatant issues that are honestly so blatant, they aren't even worthy of being directly addressed by me, here, anymore (since, thankfully, the people have become uncontrollable about it and now are very outspoken about it, including hundreds of thousands of doctors, which we can cite each, by name, individually. Thank goodness). But I guiltily admit that, on occasion, I still like playing a bit of my own stupid crap with a bit of that time. Like, a lot.
So for example just recently I was poking at Ys V (look at my posts as "Ys_Gamer" on GameFAQs, for instance: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/571413-Ys-v-ushinawareta-suna-no-miyako-kefin - I made some big discoveries about that game that I haven't ever seen covered in any language). I also got to try out the godawful "Ys VI Online" that, although it is unbelievably bad, has ONE COOL FEATURE that allows us to easily make, and spam (!), things like this:Or engage in this:
So, that's me removing one portion of the Cleria rubble from The Ruins of
