Obligatory how did you find MotK?
Think Kefit or Mint or Moogy shuffled me in this direction. One of them for sure. Forget which exactly.
Obligatory how did you become a staff member?
Near the end of the second build of the forum, Mint and I volunteered to do the first ever janitorial work. Since neither of us are incompetent (despite what some people may think) we got promoted when the third build went live.
Obligatory what DO you do here as staff?
I argue positions and push idea that I think will benefit the site and possibly the WTC on the whole, and I am not afraid to step on individual toes for the bigger picture, which is not as common a sentiment as you might think. I exist as a staff member because I believe I know better than anyone else how to gear this place into being the best Touhou website it can be, through the major and the minor decisions, and I believe holding that sentiment should be a prerequisite for being a staff member for anyone that wants to be one as well as for anyone that already is.
The day I stop believing I know what is best is the day I resign.
Are we suposed to see you as Reisen or the manly bunny in your avatar?
Neither is intended, really, but I'd say you should think of me as Ray instead of Rei if you're going to do either. I am too inelegant to pose as a Reisen as beautiful as the one in my avatar.
So you seem to be doing a bad job of staying away from Nue Quest, why is that? <.<
Originally I thought my involvement was going to be strictly limited to side things, like dinking around with our newfound inflatable chest or other harmless silliness. This was a mistaken thought because it was founded on the assumption that the game's activity wouldn't falter very much with me not around making decisions, because it would have a bunch of people around to take the reigns in my place, people that had been itching to do something meaningful after I basically absorbed IkQ. When activity did indeed falter I sighed and took up the reigns, because I want to see the ongoing story continue. And now we're basically back to Square One with playtime distribution. Except this time Fightest actually remembered the game past the first thread. <_<
Are you liking Nue Quest more then you thought you would?
I had actually started to like the Unipurvse Nue back in IkQ, when we enlisted her help in getting a picture of Aya. It was specifically the "You have better than luck, you have me" line that made me go "...you know, maybe I should give her a second chance". I will admit that most of my opinion of Nue was formed shortly after UFO came out because her fanbase at the time was beyond godawful. Only the Mima fanbase was worse, and that's saying something in the Western Touhou Community. It didn't help that people were shitting in each other's asses about how Heian Alien sounded just like U.N. Owen. But most of that fanbase seems to have either shut up or slit their wrists, and in the calm after the storm I've found myself able to appreciate Miss Wings and her fucking hot fanart, delicious legs and surprisingly enjoyable fight.
I will forever maintain that she looks like a boy and has an Elvis haircut, though.
As for the details of the quest itself? It all boils down to the character as far as I'm concerned, and I'm enjoying the character.
Some of your shapeshifting questions are unusual, how do you even think of them?
I will answer this by pointing out that I coined the phrase '/d/generate'. If you wish to know more, feel free to ask further and I will answer further, but I think that might be enough for most people.
Shuuei Quest y/n?
That would be the one game where I wouldn't check the chest for usual growths, to honor the fact that I have yet to check it with anyone else.
What was your favorite mafia game you participated in and favorite mafia role you received?
All of my favorite games are games where I won as non-town because of the work I put into them. In approximate order of nostalgiabomb, I'd say Meme Mafia (RPGDL), Touhou Remix Mafia (MotK), Succinct Mafia (RPGDL), PC-98 Mafia (MotK) and Bamboo Forest Mafia (MotK) would be my top 5 favorite games. 4 Scum wins and an ITP win on that list, none of which were easy by any stretch. Mafia does an excellent job of proving the adage true that, the harder you work for something, the more you appreciate it.
Not sure about a favorite role, since the only real out-of-the-ordinary role I can think of that I've ever received was Future Mikuru in UK's Haruhi game, and I bumbled the mechanics of it and got NKed Night 1. Possibly the Xanatos Gambler in Excal's Villains Mafia, where I had an unlimited number of slowkills (though I could only use one per night) that I could stop the next night if I so chose.
What Megaman games have you played in total?
Classic 1-10, I-V and Soccer, X1-X6, X8, Command Mission, Xtreme 1 and 2, Legends 1 and 2 (still looking for a copy of Misadventures of Tron Bonne to complete my Capcom Rare Game Trifecta - I already own copies of MegaMan X3 and DarkStalkers 3), Battle Networks 1-6 (including 4.5) as well as Battle Chip Challenge and Network Transmission, Zero 1-4, ZX, ZX Advent, Power Battle, Power Fighters, Battle and Chase (beat Dr. Wily with Roll, hell yes!), 1 and 3 on the PC (don't ever play these) and the Game Gear game. I think that's everything.
Is Protoman cooler then Megaman?
Protoman and Megaman fight it out with Bass, Duo and everyone else for second place to Roll.
Which Megaman robot or Navi is your favorite and why?
Of the Masters, Splash Woman, for probably all the wrong reasons. >_> Favorite Navi is StarMan.EXE because his design is amazing and he's a delightful asshole with an awesome throat giggle. I love Capcom for sticking him in 4.5, for all that I couldn't only barely understand what was going on in that game.
So then who are your 3 least favorite Touhou characters?
Yukari for being an asshole without ever getting comeuppance for it (at least Aya gets shit on fairly regularly), Tewi for being an ugly asshole, and Parsee for being an ugly whiny bitch with no redeemable qualities whatsoever. I bet she's tried to sell that bridge to so many people, too.
Do you think the various factions of the WTC will ever reach an armistice?
I think what we have now is actually fairly close to what we can reasonably hope for. The imageboards, who are the most obvious examples of this schism, are never going to 'embrace' forum posting because if you're a regular at an imageboard it's because you enjoy the things imageboards offer that forums (especially with registration) do not. Poosh and /jp/ really don't hate everything as much as they claim to; their perceived animosity, while perhaps somewhat grounded in reality, is largely perpetuated by a handful of trolls. Your average Anon doesn't really give a shit about drama, and if you stay out of his way or don't try to shove your way in his face he'll be content to leave you alone. He'll even have a civil conversation with you if you're not an idiot or a jackass. I speak from experience on this, as I routinely tripfriend, cosplay and publicly love chesticles on /jp/ and receive extremely little backlash for it.
Forums will be whatever they are. Lunatic Red is what it wants to be, and that's fine. Gensokyo.org has the small population but extremely tight camaradie that it wants, and they'll hardly shun someone if that person demonstrates the capacity for common sense. Dunno what that other place is doing these days, but I give it the politician assessment in that, if I haven't heard anything about it recently, that must meant it's doing an okay job being itself. East coast congoers are making their way toward behaviors I find myself agreeing with - AnimeBoston in particular has a fantastic Touhou crowd with a good number of regulars and people that actually
play the games instead of moving to and fro between all the meme dances at every opportunity.
Please accept a nearly-two-years-late apology for that. Someone mentioned that the original picture should be edited so you looked like a genie, and...well, I happened to be sleep-deprived and in a silly mood :ohdear:
Don't worry about it. It is what it is.
Thoughts on Something Awful nowadays?
I don't actually post there, so I can't say! All I get are second-hand stories and noticing that every so often someone here wants to steal yet another emote of theirs, the former of which varies from story to story and the latter at which I roll my eyes. I almost signed up in the wake of slowbeef's Metroid Prime series LP because he was so hilariously bad at the games but I never :effort:ed enough to actually do it.
Say I've never played rhythm games ever in my life, but am interested to try one. Where should I start?
Para Para Paradise, so we can all laugh at your expense.
After that, depends. If you're feeling reserved, DDR will do you fine. If you want to go for the gusto, give Pop'n Music a try. To be honest, it really doesn't matter, since in the end everyone funnels into IIDX anyway.
Ever taken a crack at writing, playing a musical instrument, painting, or any other creative endeavor?
I don't have a steady enough hand to paint or draw. I do play
a musical instrument, though.
I have also dabbled in writing but
terrible things happen when I do.
When are you coming to Iceland so we can get rip-roaringly drunk in the land of the midnight sun?
I might be up for a visit if I can succeed in not blowing all my paid and unpaid days off on cons on handbell events. I'll tell you right now, though, I'm not a huge fan of alcohol. Don't like the taste much at all. (It doesn't help that I had some mint chocolate alcoholic drink of some kind for my 21st and all I could think was "This tastes like Nyquil.")
I like the "Sir Amat" appellation you've given me, but where does it come from?
The full version, Sir Amat of Erasu the Third, is stolen from
the highest honor anyone could ever recieve.
