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« on: November 02, 2004, 12:22:35 am »
I feel like I'm in the darkness of my life, with college and all. It's difficult; the Compendium's been a great boost.

At times, late at night, I feel like destroying the Compendium, to free myself from it. It does take up good amounts of my time from time to time, and I never know how much of a good effect its having. I achieved my goal of making myself the figurative center of the Chrono series fan universe to the bulk of its online fans; when this began, I was still heavily attached to Zeal, and the Compendium was a form of self-discovery too. That ran out around this time last year.

I wouldn't ever destroy it; it's just a matter of telling myself that it's not eating up my life or anything. I work like an hour a day on it. When Kwhazit did the accessories encyclopedia for CT, it really thrilled me. 3-4 hours of work had been immediately reduced.

If you've got the desire, do some entries sometime. Someday this baby will be finished. I still have desires to lock myself out of my administration position and delete my own accounts, leaving it up to other guys, but I'm not sure. I'm glad the Compendium's around. Back then, when it was fresh, we were dealing directly with analysis, too. I guess all this semantical information is bogging me. Someday, the entire Analysis forum will be dissected and each topic marked [Finalized]. All the theorizing will be completed and presented in the Encyclopedia, and the lights can be turned off.

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« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2004, 09:16:46 am »
How very poetic...I almost feel badly about posting in this, it seems so complete without any commentary by anyone else...But I just gotta say that I haven't even realized I was no longer adding to the Compendium entries...A lot of other stuff has been coming up (along w/my fanfic, the whole ZEAL Project, and a few other online collaborative & contest works on other forums)...

But yes, I think that now that the 'big stuff' has been more or less pushed aside, things have become a little bit...i dunno...mundane? That seems a little harsh...Slow...They need to make another Chrono game dammit! Maybe that Baiten Kaitos (?) game will somehow connect...or at least be worthy of noting...

Speaking of sequals, was that spoof (not to mention every Chrono 2 spoofs) Chrono Attack ever backed up by the Compendium? Those Paint 'screenshots' were funny as hell...

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« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2004, 10:31:22 am »
Yeah, sorry if this looks like a plea for help or something; it wasn't supposed to be originally.

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« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2004, 10:50:16 am »
That makes me think: How many articles on currently "on the backburner?" There are quite a few articles mentioned in the Chrono Scholars thread that apparently have someone working on them, but we've seen nothing. On that subject, I'm just about finished with my article, expect to see the End of Time section up very soon.

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« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2004, 03:31:31 pm »
GrayLensman is presumably working on Magic, he said, but everything else has been halted.

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« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2004, 04:32:40 pm »
For the people who've been with the Compendium since its founding, I can definately see how there doesn't seem to be much to discuss anymore. There's only so much dissection you can do on a subject. However, people such as myself who weren't involved in the initial discussions never mulled over some of these issues. The way I see it, the work of the Conpendium will never be "done". You can spell everything out, but the way people learn something is to kick it around for themselves.

That's why I'm not a big fan of answering new members' questions with check X article, we've resolved this already. Its lazy and it doesn't really help the user who's asking the question. Sometimes it might be an appropriate answer, but the purpose of an article shouldn't be to achieve finality - it should be to take a step closer to the 'truth' through careful consideration.

The Compendium is - and should be - the most precise reference tool in the shed. If they're not used and well-kept, tools get rusty.

Also consider that while the deliberative function of the Compendium may not be as ground-breaking or exciting anymore, other paths to flesh out the series have been opened up due to the extensive analysis here - fanfiction, anyone?

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« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2004, 09:53:54 pm »
I don't see people pointing to articles as meaning "this is the end all be all truth, learn it and forget nothing"...I see it more as "look at this first and if it doesn't answer your questions, then come back and we'll mull things over".

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« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2004, 11:00:03 pm »
I don't see a reason to ever shut down the analysis.  There will always be unanswered questions, and someone might notice something new that no one else ever seemed to.  Furthermore, Uematsu leaving SE seems like a good sign of another Chrono game, if Monolith Soft can acquire the rights.  If that happens, the Compendium will once again be incomplete.