iPenguin
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Well, I just got back from my hometown after Eid yesterday. Eid was great and it was nice to see all my relatives again.
Congrats! Nothing more satisfying than a massive feast after a year of fasting. Nostalgic memories of when I was living in the Gulf.
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4/5, we all remember your art
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Deeply sad
I can't promise that it will get better but I guarantee that you will make it through. Don't give up the fight.
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A lot of Peter Seeger (... I know)
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There's too much negativity and anger in the (western) world right now. Let's use topic as an opportunity to discuss the nice, little things that are happening in our lives right now.
I'll start - I just bought tickets to visit Japan for the first time ever. Super excited
I also found a really good coffee roaster relatively close to where I live, which is also a big plus.-
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There were and still are unofficial BZP chats around the internet.
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What do you mean by data? Are you talking about just forum posts? Lines of code? Data downloaded by the web browser to visit every page?
If it's data downloaded by the web browser, you can do a quick estimation. I visited 5 random full length forum pages (40 posts per page) and recorded the amount of data downloaded by my browser (Safari on OSX).
4.58 MB
4.19 MB
6.25 MB
9.74 MB
4.71 MB
(Pretty big discrepancy there. The better way to do this would be to write a web crawler and record 100 or so web pages, but I'm not trying to be too scientific here. This is just for fun.)
Averaging out those numbers, we get about 5.89 MB/page +/- 2.29 MB/page. On the front page of the forums, it says that BZP has ~1 070 927 posts. Since there are 40 posts/page, we can say that there are about 26 733 +/- 1 pages). Okay, 26 733 pages +/- 1 pages * 5.89 MB/page +/- 2.29 MB/page = 1574570 MB +/- 61218 MB = 157 GB +/- 61.2 GB (Wow that error propagation!)
tl;dr It is unscientifically somewhere between 100 to 200 GB
However, this number doesn't have any "practical" use other than just being for fun. If you're trying to find the size of the repo + db in BZP's servers, the number will be significantly smaller. This is because most of the images that caused these bloated forum pages are actually not hosted by BZP themselves. The remaining images (forum headers, proto bars) are only stored once in the server. I'm not sure how much of the forums content is hosted by IPB (do we even still use that lol), because I'm sure a large percentage of content is stored away by them.
If you simply want to know the size of the DB that hosts everything, you should definitely ask b6 about that.
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0/5 Sorry
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Internet forum boards generally aren't as popular as they once were. BZPower used to be very popular because children used it, but nowadays they prefer to use Youtube, Kik, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Us older members only come back when there's news, because we're generally quite busy.
Anecdotally, a lot of former BZPers have moved onto different social media websites.
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The glowing eyes, the arm positions, the perspectives... this is awesome!
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I think it's time to stop relying on brickshelf/majhost. I couldn't read any comic in this topic.
*cough* imgur *cough*
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"I am Tahu"
"I am here to battle evil"
"It is my destiny to claim my golden Mask of Power and become the Master of FIRE!"
done.
I'm not gonna lie, I swear I thought that was 140+
Nice job man
#reboot
#NeedMoreHashtags #hashtag #yolo #kony2012 -
I love it! I wasn't expecting something this good! I would be willing to make a small game just because of how awesome these sprites look.
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Some of your display name history is vaguely familiar.
BTW: when stalking your profile, I saw that you joined in 2009 and I thought, "hey, this guy must be new". Then I realized 2009 was 6 years ago. I'm getting old
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Can you explain the plot of BIONICLE G2 is 140 characters or less?
This is for those of us who haven't been following the new plot and have short attention spans. (Plus, I wanna see with what BZPower comes up with)
Edit: spelling
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Yes. Children are limited by the parts that their parents buy for them. Adults have the freedom to go to the store and buy certain parts themselves.
Nice idea in general but between people not wanting to reveal their age/not showing their real age and the other issues mentioned - I feel it'd be more trouble than its worth.
Why not have a "youth", "junior" and "senior" category? Like youth being 0-12, 12-17 and seniors being 18+? It allows some ambiguity of age.
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Ooooo I like these
Especially how they are still incredible pictures regardles if anyone knew that they were personified Bionicle.
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Heyyy
maybe we can finally find a way to bring back collectables (woo!)
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This is so strange and wacky
i love it
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Metru-nui saga.
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That sounds about right tapio. Pretty much what I was looking for.
For some reason I strongly remember it being related to ko-metru, but I must be mistaken then.
If there's nothing else, then I can assume that tapio is right (:
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Not exactly, but the first nuju quote is close.
The quote was talking favourably about the ko-matoran. Maybe it was on one of the websites?
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2.5/5 I was expecting some sort of heavy metal thing. I was pleasantly surprised when it wasn't. It's a decent song, but not particularily brilliant or unique either.
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see you around a lot
How is everyone doing?
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Crazy to believe that those sets are like 12 years old! I remember really wanting a Vezon set back when I was younger. Rare find too... I don't think it was a particularly common set either.
Just checked your profile name history - I do remember reading your comics back in the day when you were "Laughin' Man". With what little connection we have, it does make me sad that someone who I know is going through this. I hope you will make it through.