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TenorSounds

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  1. Bloodborne, last week. Oh man. So good. I needed to lie down for a bit after that one.
  2. Glad it finally got confirmed. Here's to a whole week of Steven Universe, hurrah!
  3. I can take my tea cold or hot, depending on the type of tea I'm drinking, and I generally drink my coffee hot but sometimes I'll have an iced-coffee to mix things up. In terms of additives though, I prefer my coffee black and my tea unsweetened. The black coffee started out as a health thing but it's one of the major reasons that I now like more bitter flavors than I used to, and I've always just preferred plain tea over sweetened.
  4. It takes me about 15-30 minutes to fall asleep, and I can't imagine it taking any longer. Sure, once in a blue moon I might be stressed and not be able to fall asleep as easily, but I don't know how I'd handle having to take more than an hour every night D: If I do find myself stressed while I'm trying to sleep, I meditate on my breathing. The only thing that keeps me from falling asleep during a normal meditation session is the fact that I'm sitting up straight, so if I'm lying down and actually trying to fall asleep it's like NyQuil.
  5. It's human nature, and I bet if you are as invested in film or cartoon as gaming you'd see similar things, I'm sure. People have a hard time understanding that all entertainment isn't meant to appeal to everyone, and just because you don't like something doesn't mean that someone else is wrong for enjoying it. There's a difference between critiquing games/entertainment, which I think is very important, and just bashing something because you aren't a fan of that type of game or what-have-you. I recommend finding communities/reviewers that like what you like, as that is where you'll find the most useful interactions. For instance, I love Musou games (Dynasty Warriors and the like) but they're a niche series that doesn't appeal to everyone. If I want to talk critically about the series, maybe compare contrast the differences between Dynasty Warriors 8 and Samurai Warriors 4, I'm not going to go to a general gaming forum because I'll probably get a lot of "they both suck" or whatever. I wouldn't see that as cruel, I would just understand that they don't like that series so of course that's not a discussion that's going to happen. I'll go to a Musou forum, where we can discuss how Blitz attacks changed SW4 for the better or how DW8 had a better character Roster. Basically, don't worry about people who are being toxic because they just haven't realized certain things about how entertainment works. They're the console fanboys, the movie snobs, the people who look down on "kid's shows", it's all the same; they don't understand how something they don't like is liked by someone else. That doesn't mean we need to shove it down their throats, but pick and choose our battles; they'll either come around eventually and get that people can like different thing than them and not be "wrong", or they don't and they're just "that guy" for the rest of their life. No skin off of our nose, eh? Don't take it personally; that's just how people are in general.
  6. You make a good point in that generally the Gems are shown as having only one "weapon" even if they do use duplicates of it. I think your main hitch is that you're being particular about where you put the gem on your character; once you figure that out, you should be good to go. Unfortunately, I can't offer much more advice on that than I already have. I will say, though, that there's a way to make everything work if you explain it well enough.
  7. I was thinking of something like, together, they look like one dagger (so the character could pull it out with one hand and immediately use it) but that split in half or something to create two weapons. Kind of how like Cloud's sword from advent children was just a bunch of smaller swords all locked together, or how the "Blade of Mercy" weapon from Bloodborne looks like a short-sword but can splits into two daggers if needed.
  8. Hard-wood flooring all the way. Sure, it gets noticeably dusty/dirty quickly, but a carpet gets just as dirty but because it's not apparent it just gets more and more gross until you do some deep steam-cleaning or something. I used to lie on the carpet all the time when I was a kid, and the thought of doing that now just seems so nasty xD
  9. Well like I said, these are arbitrary limitation I put on myself and I'm not going to tell others how to make any of their "'sonas"; I may have my preferences, but they are not to be taken as hard-rules by any means. That being said, I can extrapolate on some things if you believe it'll be useful. In regards to a "sona" being the fan but just in another form from the show, I think that's up to the fan. Personally, my Gemsona would definitely have aspects of my personality and whatnot, but I would still make her a female-facing gem even though I 100% identify as male because I feel it's more lore-friendly and I don't have any issue with associating my persona with a different gender. There are even people whose 'sona doesn't match up with their real-self except in the most minor ways, and they use them as more of a "what I could/want to be". That goes into my next point... For your OC, I didn't mean to imply that being masculine and using male-pronouns is incorrect or lore-breaking, just that it's just enough outside the realm of what the show has shown to make me hesitant to adopt that for one of my characters. Again, that's just my own limitation, it's not a mark against your character at all. As for the location of the gem(s), you shouldn't be too worried about the location being "unique" considering there's only so many places on the human form to put something like that, and it's been shown that gems can be completely different "types" and have their gem in the same place (i.e. Pearl and Peridot having their gems on their forehead). I'd say that everything from the show, from the belly to the chest to the forehead and heck even the nose, is fair game. If you do want something unique though, you could go for something like the outside of the hand. Garnet/Ruby/Sapphire technically have their gems on their hands, but they're on the palms; the outside of the hand could fulfill the "unique" criteria you're looking for, and like Ruby and Sapphire show gem placement doesn't necessarily have to be symmetrical so you wouldn't need a second gem. Edit: If you're worried about how your character is going to pull our their weapon, you could also put the gem on something like one of their shoulders. Still, in my head I can think of some cool weapon-drawing animations for a Gem that uses two weapons and needs to pull both out of a gem on their hand; something like, the daggers rise out of the hand-gem and hang in the air for a second before the character quickly grabs them, stuff like that. Or hey, here's an idea: the daggers are joined, and are pulled out of the gem together, but the character splits them once the weapons are out. Sometimes having to come up with ways to make a concept work that would otherwise not make sense leads to some of the most unique aspects of the design, ya know?
  10. I've considered making a Gemsona, but there's quite a few things that give me pause; namely, whenever I make an "OC" I always want it to be super lore-friendly (hence my aversion to Alicorn OCs, for instance) and with Steven Universe the specifics of how Gems work and what they actually are is such an important part of the show that I'm not really comfortable throwing my hat into the ring, as it were. We don't know if Gems of the same "type" look the same or if they can be completely different, or even if there are multiples of the same type of Gem in the first place (though it's heavily implied there are, see Jasper's "a lost, defective Pearl"). This means I'd either have to make a really generic OC that fits within the limited rules of Gems as we know them now, or wait until our understanding of Gems reaches some arbitrary point where I'm comfortable making a completely original character bound by those rules. For instance, your Gemsona is a male-gendered gem, which is unheard of except for Steven (who is half-human), and has more than one gem, something only fusions are shown to have at this point. As someone who has put these arbitrary limits on my OCs, that makes my OCD fly off the charts. Not saying your OC isn't good, I really like that character concept in a stand-alone context, but the breaks from canon mean something like that wouldn't work for me as my personal Gemsona. And I'm not sure if there'll ever be a point where I'm not too afraid to make a character; I'm just worried that my "headcanon" for them will be rendered moot by the show at some point due to the mysterious nature of Gems in general and how we seem to learn something new about them every episode :\
  11. My first job was working at the movie theaters, specifically Cinemark (who had bought Century Theaters shortly before I was hired). I was 16 at the time, and worked at a Berryessa, CA location; I actually really liked the place and my coworkers. The issue was that the theater hardly got any business, so after a couple years they shut that location down and transferred me to a theater inside of a mall and that place was terrible. I eventually was let go after they cut my hours to about 2 days a week. Cinemark was slowly turning the Century Theaters I had worked at (and that my mother was a manager of for a good chunk of my life) into soulless husks of their former selves. I worked at Fry's Electronics as a computer technician as my second job, and I was really excited but in reality it was terrible; Fry's operates like a company stuck in the 1950's, except they sell modern electronics. Almost all of their sales and inventory software uses DOS. Yes, that DOS. Eventually I left due to finding a better job opportunity, and I've been happy with my job ever since
  12. At work I use a laptop with a three screen setup, one of which is the laptop screen itself: one standard oriented monitor in the middle, one vertically-oriented monitor to the right of that (for working on code and whatnot) and the laptop on a raised platform to the left of the middle monitor. At home, I just have my one 1920x1200 monitor hooked up to my gaming desktop.
  13. I used to ship Garnet and Pearl, even after Jailbreak, but I can't really do that in good conscience after "Love Letters" :x For me the main ships are the boring ones since I don't like trying to force ships. Steven x Connie is adorable, I want Lars x Saddie to work out in the end, and ever since that one fan comic I really hope Jamie x Kevin becomes a thing xD I highly recommend it, they've got a good mix of fans who like to focus on story/lore, a guy who really likes the character-episodes, etc.
  14. Yep, that's an awesome rendition. Related question, does anyone else listen to the Lunar Sea Spire Steven Universe fan podcast? It's really good. Here's a link to the site: http://www.lunarseaspire.com/
  15. Oi, respect the rules of the thread or you're gonna get reported by the OP. They've asked you two to stop multiple times, take it to PMs if you want to keep the conversation going.
  16. I hate the amount of labeling that is going on in our lives nowadays. Troll, SJW, Feminazi, "Thug", neckbeard, libtard, rioters, bigot, terrorist, they all mean the same thing: someone you don't have to listen to, someone different from you. Someone you don't have to give the time of day because they're already lost, already part of the opposition. Screw them, right? It's a very effective tactic. Dehumanize and "other" the other party and suddenly the expectation for reasonable discussion evaporates. Nevermind that the other party might not even be remotely related to whatever label that is being applied, it doesn't matter; as soon as the othering occurs, what they have to say doesn't matter. It's an infinite strawman, and it happens on all sides. "Shut up SJW" "Get out, troll" "You're just a bigot" "Learn to think for yourself, libtard" Etcetera, etcetera. You can put whatever you want in there. They could call someone a fingledorf, and as long as fingledorf means "someone who doesn't share my views" it's the EXACT same thing. It also causes the problem that is in full effect here, in my very post: it brings the discussion away from what's actually happening and instead about what words we're using. The only reason I'm posting this is because it's a vent thread, the fact that I have to even say all this is frustrating to the point of exhaustion.
  17. I'm cautiously optimistic. Obviously they could screw a lot up, and it's clearly an attempt to cash in on the popularity of the series, but who knows? It could be really good.
  18. Nope, not at all. It uses the potential jump scares as an effective vehicle for building tension, the simplicity of the mechanics means that you learn them and the characters/areas intimately and actually gain a mastery over them, and making it YouTuber friendly is a genius marketing move. The creator knows that there is a real market for games that appeal to a mystery and assuming a certain level of cleverness on the player, and he capitalizes on it to a masterful degree. He literally only had to remove a hat from a picture and because of the community interest he garnered that was enough to essentially send the internet a-buzz talking about his series again; that has to be admired. Honestly, I think the issue is comparing it to things like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, etc. when it's not trying to be the type of experience those games provide. The community and mystery is just as big of a part of the series as the gameplay itself, and so I look at it as more of a media experience rather than just a singular game on its own. Also, just to address some of the things I'm seeing in this thread already, the word "gimmick" is not a bad word. It literally just means an aspect of something that is there to bring interest and attention to it. Sometimes the "gimmick" is the most integral and interesting part of the experience. For all those that say it uses "gimmicky" jump scares, I ask, why do you count that as a negative? Now, I'm not talking about "cheap" jump scares, as those are bad for multiple reasons. But in FNaF the jump scares are the kill screen, they denote you failed at you task and you need to try again. Games that use cheap jump scares are games that throw them in willy-nilly, usually to hide the fact that the game is otherwise not very scary; I'd argue that since the jump scares are a fail-state they aren't cheap, and that the true dread and "scariness" of the games comes from the tension built as you try not to get a jump scare. It's not a haunted house, it's a...hunting house. (that sounded cooler in my head) Basically, it's fine to not like the series but frankly some reasons make more sense than others.
  19. Hahaha...I'm starting to think that at least a few people in this thread are terrible at sarcasm x3
  20. Wait, really? Did they announce another one, or are you referring to Revelations 2?
  21. Generally yes, I'm just saying that based on what I know about the PSN Store that doesn't necessarily apply to demos. You might be able to download it, you might not; it's free, so they're not legally obligated to make sure those who "purchase" the demo are able to re-download it.
  22. That may work, but there's no guarantee that they're not just removing it entirely. It's still technically a demo, and they're allowed to "lock" those out (as opposed to a full game which you can always re-download after you've purchased it).
  23. And why is that a bad thing? The purple guy is a mysterious part of the game that people like talking about. Might as well say all theory-crafting for ALL fandoms is annoying and unneeded. And yet here we are on a MLP forum, where plenty of people talk about stuff like a small thing showing up in one frame in one episode and what it could mean for season 7 :\ But anyway, back to Silent Hills; it's just a really big disappointment that this fell through. I'm not surprised after the falling-out that Konami and Kojima had/are having, but I guess I was hoping this would survive that somehow. I wonder if there's any credence to the idea that Konami is straight-up backing out of game development entirely?
  24. Well yeah, I realize you were being sarcastic when you were saying it was "great" but it still reads like a jab at the series, and I never understood the irrational hate FNaF gets. I'm usually on sites like Kotaku, so it's something that's come up a lot recently since the developer is teasing a new FNaF, like you mentioned. Regardless, that's neither here nor there. Something more important to note to everyone here: If you want to ever play P.T. be sure to do it today because they're taking it off of the PSN Store tonight.
  25. I'm just as sad as the next Silent Hill fan, but don't drag FNaF into this. It's not like it called Konami and told them to cancel the game xD
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