Chakramaster
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I got one and it was a skin for Reaper. Probably won't use since I like the Blackwatch Reyes one and will just stick with that.

And sure was! We won quite a few games and did really well! :D

And sure, I'll put Pikachu on the randomizer. Wasn't going to be one of my initial five choices, but I'll put the little yellow dude in. XD

Sure, coming right on now! Just needed to clean out the bunny cage first. :3

It's all good, I used to be a Pikachu nut myself before Emolga came along and dethroned him. XD

I'm going to choose my five but the rest will go through the usual fun silly randomize process. I have a good idea of which five I'm going to go with, too. Getting any one of those should be fun. :3

And sure! Overwatch can always be silly fun. Still thinking about whether to get Dead by Daylight or not, as several of the games I was interested in aren't coming out until way later in 2019. We did have some fun times with that and some Steam Halloween sale should be coming around sometime soon.

Wow, there's a whole lot of love for Pikachu in that album! XD

I think at the end of this whole Victini V-Wheel thing when the end of the month comes, everyone who participated will get a free avatar and banner request with ANYTHING THEY WANT. But yeah, I think on that last week of October, I'll V-Wheel myself to see what happens. If I get something off the walls silly, I totally deserve it. XD

Heh, heh, this is coming along swimmingly. But yeah, definitely V-Wheeling myself at some point or another. XD

We definitely have been getting some pretty interesting turnouts! Bulbasaur and Coru got some pretty good ones. :3

Heh, so far so good, I think this is working out pretty well. :3 Hope you like you new getup!

I hope we get some more spinners. This is good fun. :3

Yeah, that reincarnation game might have been a bit much, though it could have worked if the swapping out/dying component didn't happen that often. But yeah, it's an iffy thing and I'm not honestly not that super-fond of it anyway.

Since it doesn't seem like I'm going to have enough people for LGSG (been almost a week with five confirmations and one plausible), I think the Victini V-Wheel might be more fun anyway and its success wouldn't be participation-dependant like LGSG/PSG is. One spin per week per person seems perfect. The randomized nature of it would be comical and can result in many crazy and possibly undiscovered awesome combinations of things. If you don't like what you get, well, you can swap back in a week to your "natural" form. Or spin again if you're feeling plucky. XD Might be better with a Victini RP account, which can totally be a thing. ;) I'll send a PM to you about what I'm thinking as these VMs are getting kind of long. :P

And thanks for the compliments about my banners! I try my best.

Yeah, completing an idea is hard. I've had a bunch that sound good in my head, but then when I try to put them down on paper and make a working game or activity out of them, it just doesn't fly. Too many missing pieces that it needs to make it work, like how does anyone actually win or how do people take turns? Or sometimes things like "how long is it supposed to go on for" and other technical issues come up like how many people need to join for it to work well and are there ways to make it work with three, six, ten, or even fifteen people if that many show up? It's a lot of variables to work around, so don't feel bad if you can't complete those ideas. I've had countless ideas crumble to at least a few of these issues.

Like I wanted to have a reincarnation game idea where a person takes their top 5 Pokémon and those are their "lives." If you lose/die, you get turned into one of your remaining top five (with an avatar/banner switch). Sounds good as a start, right? Well, I hit a wall with it. What triggers the loss? Failing a trivia challenge from other player? Or some other kind of challenge? But what would that be? Who or what determines it? Bang. Now you see what shoots these ideas dead for me. And I have a feeling this kind of thing is what's killing yours as well.

Eh, I don't know about that Neo Emolga chaos/mischief. All it really bogs down to is just avatar and banner swapping, really. I mean sure, I could do the whole Victini V-Wheel thing and slap someone with an avatar or banner swap depending on spin outcomes and RNG nonsense, but eh, I don't know. At the moment, it's like we'd have to plan and work ideas around having only like two or three people participating. I mean sure, I know you would, but I don't know who else would be up for that. But I guess I could make this a thing where once a week, you can spin the wheel. Or wheels. First wheel is 1-5, your top five favorite Pokémon. Then the second wheel will be the theme of your avatar and banner swap (sci-fi, fantasy, action, movie genre kind of stuff). Third wheel is a list of randomized noun-verber using this thing! adjectives they'd like to go with their favorite Pokémon. So you might end up with "Fireherder Pikachu" or something like that with a avatar/banner that's got a sci-fi theme. And a name change, of course! (sorry, Sarah, but we've got to have total fun with this!). It wouldn't really be a game persay, but it could have some funny and crazy results.

It's exhausting, though. And it's happened one too many times. I mean if other people still want to try hosting events and such, that's fine, but personally, I'm done with that. It's really not something I want to be spending the rest of my life doing. To me, I recognize that we've hit a point where large events just don't have the thrill and the member base to be possible. Especially if they were the kind that were once popular, but then got stale from being done over too many times. It's time to go light and just do small activities in pairs or in small groups. Quick and easy things that are low-risk and if they flop, well, they were only quickie things anyway. But yeah, spending heaps of hours into events that barely get a couple people are not the way to go.

I'm still brainstorming with this comic, but I have a solid working idea that might be fun to pursue and maybe sometime soon I'll start putting things on paper and maybe start drafting storyline outlines and scripts. I have good feelings about it, though.

And hey, maybe more of those impromptu ideas are what we really need. Those silly, goofy, quick things that don't have a whole lot of planning and forethought behind them. Fate was always like that and it worked. I also think sometimes maybe we listen to our own rules too much. Maybe every now and then we should bend them, you know? >:3