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Life

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This is out of nowhere. I can't even begin to apologize to everyone who expected this project to be finished. It was one of my dreams to finish this game. Ever since I started working on when I was a child. School has kept me busy. Life and relationships terribly consumed my time. Two college degrees and a few trips around the country for work in my field later, and I'm finally settled down. Been living on my own for quite a while now, and I have a job in my field as a web developer with a pretty decent salary. Being salaried sucks because can sometimes be working until 2 am without being paid for it. I'm making enough where i'm not really complaining, but it's still a pain in the butt. If anyone was curious, I have an associates in Computer Science and a Bachelors in Web Development. I work as a Front End Developer which is just a fancy term for a a web developer. I know several programming languages, but I prefer to work in the web side of things and make things work flawlessly and look the part too. Currently it's my dream to be employed at Google or have any impact in the industry and the state of UI and UX in the industry. Well, I've probably babbled on for long enough. My point in posting I guess is now that I'm living on my own, my current girlfriend rarely visits me because she's still in school, and I usually have nothing to do when I come home, I can finally dedicate a portion of time to making one of my dreams come true. To be honest, the success that I heard Pokemon Uranium was having inspired me to start this again. I guess it made me regret having left something that made me so happy. Not saying that my current job and UI and UX design doesn't make me happy, but this was great too. So I guess if I can manage to get a routine going, I might be able to start making progress with this game again. Not making any promises, but I feel really good about it this time. Happy developing guys and I hope you all continue to do what you love and follow your aspirations in life. 

Also! If anybody is in school for comp sci or is interested in web development...I'd be happy to help out a fellow geek :) I've got quite a lot of experience so throw me a question if you get stumped. 
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Ummm...Hello

2 min read
Well...what can I say. I guess the least I can do for the people who actually concerned themselves over my game is to try to best explain what's been going on with everything lately. Well when I wrote my last journal I had received a new laptop from a family member which I planned to further Ryen's progress. Well...soon after the computer suffered the unfortunate blue screen until it just wouldn't boot into windows anymore. I bought myself an android tablet so I could at least do schoolwork for the several AP classes I had devoted myself into taking for my senior year of high school. This whole year has been nonstop schoolwork with absolutely no way for me to work on Ryen. Then...that and all the stress and conflict that came from having my girlfriend leave for college a year before me...absolutely consumed me. And well...here I am. I'm about graduate from high school, my girlfriend of two years recently broke up with me, and still no computer. I just thought I'd submerge myself into the community full of people who share in the passion I share again. Game development has always been my passion and brought me unimaginable happiness. I can remember the first time I started messing with RPG makes XP and interacting with the members of pokecommunity when I was in the 6th grade. I'm glad I was lucky enough to find my calling in life and this community of great people so early in my life. I can't make any promises about Ryen since I still have no computer and my school is making me purchase a Macbook Pro for my studies. Oh yeah..speaking of I'm going to be study digital media and animation at Alfred State College. I feel like computers and programming are more my calling but the school that I was accepted into for Computer Science had a tuition that was a bit out of my reach *cough* RIT *cough* 45000. Well...we'll see how things turn out of for Ryen and myself and I'll try to keep you guys updated on what I end up doing with the game, Wish me luck!
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Apology

1 min read
Well...where to begin. For those of you still following my project, Pokemon Ryen, sorry for the long and unscheduled pause. I'm really sorry for not posting anything, not updating anything, and not stating any specific reason for this pause. I said Ryen was back months ago, then disappeared; That was due the loss of my laptop...but I got a new one so great. Progress will be slow and staggered though. I've just found myself too dedicated towards my studies. Being in my Junior year, school has  never been so important to me. That along with other things going on in my life will unfortunately put a halt and slow down the project. So again...a personal apology from me, anyone still watching the project, really sorry. I'll try to keep this place updated if I happen to work on something. So look forward to that (:
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name change

1 min read
As many of you may have noticed PC is eliminating their name change benefit. They are holding last name changes though so I'd like some help in my name change. Right now my name is shinylugia249 so make sure your suggestion is at least related to my old one (if you can). Please don't give me something with numbers and don't bring up sl249 as I,m already tired of that too. Thnx for the help!
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Not much...

1 min read
Alright so just had a minor procedure done on my foot, so yeah still numb. Problably won't be by the time anyone's reading this though :p. Nothing really exiting going on right now. Going on with life, school, etc... Went to see This it a while ago. Gotta say it was great but Wish I could've gone to see Paranormal activity instead. I'll be working on stuff as usual for Pokemon Ryen (my fangame) and the hoenn project. Keep your eye on the Pokecommhnity thread on Pokemon Ryen as the demo is coming faster than you think!

Oh and if do stop by the pokecommunity try Pokemon Raptor. It's a great game by my friend OG Duke (aka Omegagroudon)!
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