Hello!

[seventhfonons]

Hello Melonland forum! I'm seventhfonons, also go by Rose and my pronouns are she/her  

I'm kind of a newbie to this webmastery thing; I haven't managed a webpage since I was a kid/teen on Neopets! (and yes, I will argue that petpages are a form of personal website, albeit on a much smaller scale, with less freedom)
Unfortunately as Neopets shifted into being an expensive dressup game, it feels like the culture of building petpages for our pets/ourselves & swapping links/buttons has died out, and I've missed and yearned for that internet experience for the past several years. So I was super stoked when I discovered the indie web is alive and well!

I'm a bit nervous to be managing a fully fledged website, but I'm happy to be here!
My site is currently nonexistent; I'm still working on it while I figure out what I want it to be. I know there's no shame in uploading an in-progress website (is any website ever really "finished" though?) but I'm just not comfortable uploading something that's so empty T_T

Currently I'm VERY into DrakeNieR (the NieR and Drakengard series), my favorite being Automata! I also really like Pokemon, Tales of the Abyss (my username comes from this game!), Neopets, and virtual pets in general

I'm shy and tend to lurk more than I post, but it's good to meet you all Thanks for having me!

[Lyonid]

Seventh!! Hello! I am so happy to see you here. I remember seeing your awesome NieR lookup on Monderneopets! (I started a teenytiny moderneocircle on that site to gather the people who offer coding templates and guides and seventhfonons is a part of it!) Don't worry - I will die with you on the hill of pet lookups are websites too. It's wonderful to see people stumble from those communities into these because it's a very unique way to express yourself when you channel your ideas through a pretty little creature.

Enjoy your stay and don't pressure yourself to satisfy some imaginary audience. Have fun with your website and always feel free to reach out. I am genuinely stoked to see what you create and share. As a fellow DrakeNieR nerd, I love seeing people who adore the series as much as I do. My fav is definitely Replicant. I also recently just finished the very first Drakengard and adored how edgy, rough and devoid of any sense of ethics it was. Angelus, Accord and Emil are my beloved characters. What is something you love about the games?

I love how small the web is and you keep bumping into each other. Please take care!! 

[seventhfonons]

@Lyonid HELLO!! Thank you for the warm welcome and kind words!
I should log into MN again...it's been too long haha :') I remember being so proud of my lookup cuz it was the first thing I'd coded in a while, haha (although I did need some help making it)

I remember Codestone too, it's such a cool resource! Thank you for adding my page!

REPLICANT IS SOOO GOOD I wish more people gave it a chance! I enjoyed every moment of my playthrough (even the painful ones, lol) and there were so many tears shed when I finally reached the "farewell" message

It's so funny to me that Drakengard is like that because Yoko Taro looked at games that praised the player & gave high scores for killing a lot of enemies, and he said "huh, it's kind of weird to gloat about being a serial killer" and then made a game based around that concept haha. All of the endings are so crazy, I love it.
It's great to see some Angelus love! I love her too :')

Something I love about it, oh man. It's difficult to say because there's so much LOL
I think what really drew me into the series is how unique and genuine it is. The first thing a lot of people will mention about Yoko Taro is his sense of humor, but something that always stuck out to me was how sensitive and thoughtful he is and how that comes out in his work.

He's a guy who really loves video games and believes in them being a form of art (and he's right!!), so his games always have interesting and fun ideas & concepts. Even ones that are considered "bad" like Drakengard; it was a game he wanted to go against the status quo that Square Enix games were known for, and presented the typical violence of games in a non-glorified way that doesn't feel rewarding at all - and that's a great concept, imo. It's like if Earthbound or Undertale were way darker LOL

On top of that, his characters and stories are just so dang good. I remember being so impressed with the way the characters acted throughout Automata, even when it devastated me lol. The way they responded to situations felt so real and genuine.
I get the impression that Yoko Taro is an empathetic person...Automata in particular presented trauma in such a real way that I've never seen in another piece of media, to the point where I got a little concerned for him lol....

I didn't realize it until I got into DrakeNieR, but that genuineness is what a lot of AAA games in the past...decade or so have been missing, at least to me; a lot of them feel like they were made to fit a status quo of what games "should" be, and feel pretty bland and samey as a result. I really enjoy that Yoko Taro always wants to do something new, even if people consider the end result "bad" sometimes. He jokes a lot, but he really cares about what he does and I felt that while I was playing the games.

BUT YEAH sorry for the wall of text!! this is actually a much shorter version of what I originally typed...I'm incapable of shutting up when it comes to this series

What about you? What got you into DrakeNieR, and what do you like about it?