HOUSEKEEPING'S PROFILE

Nova, I think you've had a stroke; mash your palms on your keyboard if you want me to call an ambulance.

Because this is a beaver graveyard, you insensitive jerk.

Right, itch is one that I hear about a lot; looks like it's pretty simple to use, too. I'll make sure to put Jimmy up on there.

author=BadLuck
How petty is it that any time something like this comes up, I just sulk until somebody mentions Ara Fell. Fairly petty? Like 8/10 petty?

Same here. You also don't want to know how often I vanity google.

@Sgt_Mettool: Thanks for satisfying my aforementioned narcissism!

For me, while there have been a lot of great RPG Maker games I've enjoyed (like Dhux's Scar and--here you go, Kentona--Hero's Realm), I feel like I'm inspired more by bits and pieces of them. I went through a period where I played a bunch of them, and, like, Vindication, for example, had this mini map, and since it was made in rm2k3, I was like, "Oh, that's possible? Oh, right, you'd use pictures and check for character position." Stuff like that inspires me in that it widens my understanding of what RPG Maker games can do without scripting. Most of my inspiration comes from snes and psx era RPGs, though.

I also felt inspired by the art style of Lisa because I thought that a game that pulled heavily from Earthbound and made in RPG Maker could still be successful.

author=LockeZ
Well for one thing, the PERCENTAGE of people in slavery today is the lowest it's ever been... there are just almost ten times as many total people in the world as there were in 1800.

But you're also right about the definition changing. For example, during feudalism, by modern standards, everybody who wasn't nobility was enslaved. But at the time they were not considered slaves because they weren't legally "owned," they were just controlled. In modern day NOBODY is legally "owned" as a slave, because that's not legally possible in any country, and so the definition that human rights group use has shifted to not require that any more. In the 1800s sense of the term, there are no slaves remaining anywhere on Earth today, except perhaps in tiny secluded tribes.

Yeah, the important thing is less about applying pre-abolition slavery's definition today than it is applying today's definition to pre-abolition time. I would imagine that total number of slaves would even be higher in the past, percentages aside.