First off: Merry Christmas, or otherwise good December 25th! Inspired by something off-site, I am doing what is probably a bad idea given my schedule and offering to write drabbles for people! Leave a prompt in the comments (or over PM if you prefer anonymity) and at some point in the semi-near future I'll write a (probably very) short story based off it. I'll leave requests open for about 36 hours (until the end of the 26th). I haven't decided how exactly I'm going to post these yet - probabl
Just a quick FYI blog entry: I realize I haven't been around much lately. This is due to it being a much busier holiday season than usual (flying across the country, family health issues, etc.) Anyone who's waiting on me for something, feel free to poke me with a PM, but I may not be able to respond immediately. Thanks! I'll put up a somewhat happier holiday post tomorrow.
The joy of finishing the first draft is surpassed only by the terror of realizing I now have to edit the first draft. (There's probably something ironic about this being the sequel to a short story that wound up being 20,000 words, but mostly my brain just keeps going back to "108,250 words to edit" and seizing up, so I'll get back to you on that later.)
Remember that story I mentioned the other week? The one that was written in part to celebrate Bionicle 2015 and wound up "a sequel to my very first fic, which was... a bit timey-wimey, canon-heavy, mind-bending, and generally kind of everything I think people are trying to dodge with Bionicle 2015?" Well, you can read it now! While reading "Fractures" first is recommended, it's not absolutely necessary. I hope you enjoy this little story, and as always, any kind of feedback is tremendously ap
Suddenly it's November again! Which means NaNo. And between that and incoming Bionicle 2015, I'm really stacking up the reasons to finish that sequel to The Shadow and the Sea next month. I actually put 50k words into it last NaNo, and was kind of horrified to find I wasn't actually near the end. The plan this time is to put another 50k into it, and hopefully that'll finish it. Regardless of if it does or not, it's going to need a lot of editing and cutting. But it's a project that's been
With all the excitement over Bionicle 2015, I really got in the mood to write another story! Something straightforward, in the spirit of things, nothing too complex. So of course I wrote a sequel to my very first fic, which was... a bit timey-wimey, canon-heavy, mind-bending, and generally kind of everything I think people are trying to dodge with Bionicle 2015. And this new story doesn't really break that pattern. But! It's still a good story, or at least I think it is, or at least I hope i
(why, why did I decide to be a good employee. why didn't I tell my boss I had to skip a development milestone to go look at lego and meet a bunch of awesome people.)
So. I guess today (or tomorrow in this timezone, but whatever) is the day. NYCC. News. Official media. Maybe even some story. (I know, I know. Leaks. Let me make at least some pretense for playing by the rules.) I realized something weird the other day - my posts haven't been super up on the whole thing. I played skeptic for quite a while (Mak, anytime you want to go edit my posts to add a crow-eating postscript, be my guest), and when the official official word came down, I pretty much just o
Yo! We have a contest! About ninjas and Ninjago and ninjesque stuff!. You can draw 'em! You can write 'em! You can... comic 'em? Look Windrider is anime ninja dork and you'll make him happy if you enter. "But there's only twelve-ish hours left!" YOU'RE A NINJA WHO CARES
Title says it all. Come on in and we'll get started! http://www.twitch.tv/boltgsr (Extra content warning beyond the external link one: this is a public Twitch stream for a popular game, so there's no telling who'll show up in the channel. Hopefully nothing awful though!)
I'll keep this short and to the point: I have a Japanese 3DS with a capture card. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS has its Japanese release in just under a week. Friday, September 12th. 7-ish PST. Smash 3DS stream. People interested? Bump to say: This is still happening tonight if folks are interested! Will make a new blog entry with link when things get going.
Do you like RPGs about ambiguously mechanical elemental robots? Have you been waiting for a chance to unleash your idea about said RPGs upon the world? Did you recently take place in a long and occasionally tiring debate about the proper style for getting said RPGs up and running? Well first of all you're a nerd, just like the rest of us, and second of all you'll want to read this topic, because as of today Bionicle RPG switches to a judging system like OTC! We'll be monitoring how well this w
First things first: an introduction! The LEGO and Bionicle fandoms go far beyond the English-speaking world, as we all know. To try and bridge the gap a bit, "GSR Translates" will be a series of blog entries where I translate (with permission as appropriate) things from the Japanese LEGO and Bionicle fandom. Today's entry is... this! This MOC, Silver Blade, was created by Japanese MOCist Moko - you can see their Flickr account here. It's been making the rounds on social media, so I reache
Daaaaang it's August already time moves faaaaast It's been mostly radio silence here in blogland recently, so I'm well overdue on filling folks in on life/plans/vidjamagaems/etc. Life: I've... actually been kind of active on BZP this summer! No new fics, true, but I've been having a good time in the BZPRPG, and of course there's been the 2015 stuff to deal with. Chalk this up to my actually having the summer off. ...Unfortunately (fortunately?) said mostly-free-summer is solely due to the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5mS0FnXrB0 ...Than with a new Doctor Who teaser? (PS: Out of town right now, as I have been off-and-on recently; will make a blog post in the near future about all the crazy stuff going on.) (PPS: Happy AMERICA DAY)
While discussing the state of the BZPRPG, I made it clear to folks that if they wanted to provide feedback anonymously, they could contact me and I would post it for them. One person asked if I could anonymously provide kittens; I responded that unfortunately I couldn't post it in the topic unless the kittens could be contextualized in the RPG, but that I could make a blog post. I'm a man of my word, and I hope this person feels safe that they were able to anonymously provide kittens to th
Last Saturday, I graduated from college with a Bachelor of Science (and honors) in Computer Science, a certificate in Japanese, and - thanks to a combination of my parents being able to save up for the past twenty years, a scholarship, in-state tuition rates, and a couple of internships - no debt. (The fact that last bit makes me the exception rather than the rule is a bit depressing.) I had a few research-related things to take care of Monday and Tuesday, but now - it's over. Like legit done
First off: The Chima RPG Collab Contest-esque Thing (Contesque?) is heading into the home stretch (well, more accurately, it tripped over its own feet about a foot away from the home stretch and kind of laid there in the street for a week or so), so if you have any general ideas to input, this is your last chance! A full RPG opener post should be getting cobbled together in the near future. Second off: I'm bluer. Whoops. You won't see me around Q&A or Comics as much anymore (insert "when
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuIdjU1I-08 Seriously though I really really hope the localization team just carries on and still pretends this is all happening in America. Yes that's right in early 1900s Los Angeles Phoenix Wright's great-grandfather became the first lawyer of the Meiji Restoration. In the great Empire of America.
Just remember, the sign of a truly great contest is that its title gets automatically cut off by IPB and leaves the host looking silly until someone higher up the staff ladder can clean it up. (All LEGO RPGers, or Chima fans, or both, or neither but nonetheless interested folks: go give the topic a read! This is something that depends on all of you to make it a success.)
Okay folks! Here's the thing: the LEGO RPG forum is, shall we say, not exactly booming. So let's sit down and talk about something completely hypothetical here. You know, no reason to read into things too much, just a friendly chat. Say, hypothetically, we wanted to hold a LEGO RPG contest, much like our better-known Bionicle ones. And say, hypothetically, it would be focused on, I dunno, let's say Chima. Chima sounds good. In this completely implausible Chima RPG contest scenario - what wou
PSA time! Our newest Comedies contest, Caveat Scriptor, just finished with a tie for the winner. We're holding a tiebreaker poll for the next 24 hours, so if you voted in the first round, make sure to cast your vote for the final winner! (If you didn't vote in the first round, you should probably read the entries and vote anyway. It's the cool thing to do.) Poll's over here.
