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Why?
Life isn't fair.
And I don't get why some of the nicest people I know have to put up with so much ###### in their lives.
Because it certianly isn't fair
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Amazing Games, How Sweet The Dos
A collection of some old, but great, text-only computer games. My favorites are Hamurabi and Super Star Trek.
Hamurabi is a crude simulation of an ancient city-state, Sumer. You allocate bushels of grain to plant and grow more, feed to your people, and buy more land. It's challenging, but can get addicting. An interseting story behind it is that the real name of the city's ruler is Hammurabi, but the second 'm' was dropped when the game was put into David Ahl's book of BASIC computer games, in order to limit the name to 8 characters. (BASIC is an old programming language.)
Super Star Trek is, like Hamurabi, famous, though not to the same extent. You take control of the USS Enterprise, traversing the galaxy on a mission to destroy the Klingon ships that menace the Federation. Every game has randomized locations of stars, starbases, and Klingons; number of stardates until the Federation is conquered, unless you defeat the Klingons; and number of Klingons. You can control the amount of energy available to shields and phasers in battle, as well as firing photon torpedoes that destroy Klingon ships in one hit, as long as your defined trajectory doesn't make it miss. Captain Kirk's crew even talks to you, responding to your orders. It's a really cool game, and you can be playing it for long stretches of time without even realizing it. Though I prefer this version, a more complicated version with Romulans, supernovae, and automatic trajectory calculation, among other features, can be found here.
The rest of the games are pretty great, too. Just because they don't have graphics, it doesn't mean they can't be good!
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Yayayayayayayayayayayayay!
Wow.....Been a while.
So, anyhoo, it's 2009!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!
I know, I'm kinda late. Deal with it.
Sooooooooooo.......Reply. I'm just doing this to fill space.
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Name Change
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Why So Serious?
Okay, so I saw the Dark Night tonight, at Imax. And I think it turns out I have vertigo--all those rooftop shots, y'know?
So the effects were nice, what with all the explosions, things breaking, buildings falling apart or losing chunks out of them. I think more glass broke than there were people the theater... But anyway, the fight scenes were also awesome. I was amused at the point where Joker first faced Batman. Ultimately, I was just glad to see him get knocked down a peg. REJECTION.
For all the stuff I've heard about the lack of humor, I found parts of it funny. I guess it was the irony really. It wasn't comedic relief, but it wasn't like there was nothing to laugh at. For those who've seen the movie, one particular costume of Joker's was hilarious.
Very dark, though, but I'm not complaining. Ledger did a very nice job, and so did Bale, though I was more impressed with the former. I'm not gonna rant about acting, though; anyone who cares has probably read a review. The point being, it was worth the two and a half hours.
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Yay Premier Perks Back!
Aaand another year, another blog entry (I hope this time I can update more frequently)
Soo, in this last year we have seen some interesting, sad, and new exciting things:
- The BIONICLE setline has ended, but worry not, story's ongoing for now! As much of you know, BIONICLEstory.com will still see the writting talents of our beloved Greg. I hope we can get a more frequent updated story.
- The Hero Factory is ready to fight your local evil threat. Just call to them or go to HeroFactory.com. Maybe just buy the sets, I don't know
I see some great opportunitties in this series, and I really hope it will succeed. Looking forward that series made by Tinseltown toons, the same folks who made The Legend Reborn last year- Story is continuing, but Greg's a busy man and can't be bothered to take a look at all the suggestions... But we are! The BIONICLE Story Squad is here to take a look at your suggestions and make them canon, or official, to the storyline. You just have to PM one of the members of the squad. Check the link posted above for more info
And that's it for today... Well, if you're somewhat bored and like reading, or busy and like reading, or just like reading, I have an Epic going on, just started, called Absolute Destiny. You may check the links for the Epic topic and the Review Topic either here or in my sig. Be good and comment please
Thanks for reading and have a good day
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DO NOT GIVE ZATTH CONTROL OF BZP YOUTUBE
I convinced Black Six and ChocolateFrogs to record a video while we were at Scouting 4 Bricks. I had footage. I edited.
Now there's Elmo yelling fire, a new BZP t-shirt emblazoned with Black Six's words, and an uncomfortable zoom into a horrifying LEGO walking figure.
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Great to see that the forms are back! Hopefully I'll start to be more active too.
I find it weird that I can even add an entry, considering I'm not a premier member...
Odd.
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My New Glasses
Yeah, I got my glasses today. I don't really like them. I wish I had perfect viision like I used to. I wish.
So yeah. Its pretty cool that I can see better, but I just don't like them to much.
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The Subculture of Sprite Comics
So, I've been wanting to write an article like this for a while now, coming from the view of someone actually involved in the forum.
Take note, of course, that not only is this all opinion, it is of the most biased type of opinion you can get. By no means expect this to be the absolute say on this matter. If it does happen to stir up discussion, even up to debate, it will have more than achieved its purpose.
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There's a reason why Artwork III (now "Comics", but old habits are sometimes hard to break) has persisted as one of the most drama filled (and to many others, just plain annoying) forum of BZPower history. Several, to be in fact. I honestly think that AIII has evolved beyond a simple separate section of the forum for people to post their comics.
Artwork III, simply put, is a subculture.
That seems quite a lofty title to attribute to the forum, especially where the masses of other creative forums have, let's be honest here, a much more gratifying reputation. BZPRPG, BBC, Epics, Short Stories, General Art, all of these have history of being reputable parts of the forum to hang around. Inevitably, Comics and Comedies were shafted into being the least attractive parts of the forum as a whole, which, at that point, was honestly justified. Both were the spawning place of newer aspiring comedians/writers who started out with their skill level not anywhere near tolerable and then moved on once they began to master what they had practiced. For the longest time, Comics was home to the "MSPaint generation", who's only drawback was not that they used a certain tool, but that they used it poorly. This was not a welcome site to any newcomer, and those who saw what they had to offer as a whole routinely turned around without a word, save for the required post in the ever recurring "What Forum Do You Visit The Least?" topic.
But Comics had something different about it - several things, in fact - which led to them developing their own history, legends, generations and more,
For one, it was the method of making the sprite comics themselves. Sprite comics in general have had a poor reputation, mostly because they were the results of ripping the actual game sprites from numerous games and placing them in premade backgrounds from the levels included in the ROM. Complete with some unreadable text and horrendously written stories or jokes, they cluttered up the internet chock full with their sub-mediocrity. Generally speaking, the video game forums faced the brunt of this onslaught, with the obvious connotation that, at the time, most sprite comic makers were satisfied with either directly ripping the game sprites or minute edits to the bases. Very rarely was a whole new spriting style made for an existing sprite base or new sprites made for a series that had no basis in sprites whatsoever.
But for Comics, something interesting happened. Not only were 100% hand-pixelled sprites actually created and used, they actually became the norm. Ironically enough, while BIONICLE's early Game Boy Advance exclusive titles did include a variety of Matoran sprites, never were they known to be used in BIONICLE sprite comics. Instead, the standard was (unknowingly) raised for the entire forum by having different artists make it general practice to create their own representation of the characters, pixel by pixel, and put them in different "poses" for others to use. In other words, what is known as the sprite kit. This practice is unheard of in other general fanbases that have sprite comic communities, and while hand-pixelled creations had always existed, never had they been so expansive and diverse. In fact, it was the fact that each artist hand-pixelled his sprite that led to different styles of sprites existing simultaneously and in turn, different styles of comics. In fact, that is the perfect segway to my next point:
Note: The following is a rather large rant on the history of the Comics Forum; feel free to skip past it if you want to get to the point proper instead of getting a more in-depth look.
While there were numerous kits made before the time, arguably the two most popular in the early days of comics were Razor (made by Marty Razor Kirra) and the various Rayg series (made by InnerRayg). The two were as different as day and night: the massive headed, skewed proportions of Razor Matoran, compared to the more set-like and anatomically correct (for toy-based biomechanical beings, at least) Rayg Matoran, Toa and everything else drew a distinct line in the sand between the styles of comics (there were, of course, several other kits that saw frequent use, such as the Chibi and Rahi Zaku Mega Kit (otherwise known as RZMK), but their styles folded mostly into the Razor and Rayg sides, respectively).
The lines they drew were best personified by the most popular comic makers of those styles back in the day: the Editorialist for Rayg users, and Dark709 for the Razor ones. Dark709's early Razor strips followed a classic formula: a slapstick, almost random sort of style of humor reminiscent of the Merry Melodies of Looney Tunes fame or the more recent SpongeBob SquarePants. The Editorialist had started out with Razor, but soon switched to Rayg and took on the embodiment of a more situational comedy, an almost dry humorist look at the world the characters lived in. While this didn't stop each from crossing into the established "territory" of the other, clear lines were certainly drawn between the two. Lavaside Rahi took note of this in his own article, "In the days of Razor and Rayg..." (which, from the point of view of someone who actually lived through this era, has a lot more credence than my own opinons do). Obviously, with such a common denominator separating the forums, there was plenty of controversy to go around. Razor users were "childish, random and nonsensical", while Rayg users were "stuck-up, sarcastic and rowdy".
The differing styles were in turn represented by the kits they used: the more cartoonish Razor was used for the zany humorists, while the more "edgy" comic makers found refuged in the more grounded in reality Rayg. Even after those two kits fell out of use, their successors more or less followed the same formula with the advent of Razor icon Dark709's Chimoru (which notably gained more of a following after the retooling of the kit into the less ugly Chimoru Omega) following Razor and Rahi Zaku Mini Kit (more commonly known as RZMIK, not to be confused with RZMK, the Rahi Zaku Mega Kit noted above*.
Dark709 still stayed as the mainstay Razor/Chimoru representee, but the Editorialist left and was succeeded by not just one comic maker but a whole group of them. Often just called "The Group", they took the essence of Rayg humor to a new level, developing and popularizing the "multi-author series" (or MAS, as they are often referred to as), a cooperative circular format introduced with their Project Klinkerpoop, and moved into a more definite snarky style of comic making. It was also during this age that many users started to switch to different programs for comic making that offered them a wider range of tools. GIMP was the common tool of use due to the obvious benefit of its cost (free!), while Photoshop was used by those who could either afford it or had a copy stashed on their parents' computer for some unknown reason. While before colored text and static pixel lines were used to differenciate between the characters' dialouge, stroked text and word bubbles began to spring up. Graphical effects began to be less pixelated and instead done with brushes, patterns and filters. Backgrounds went from two blocks of color to a gradient and wood pattern, a black line firmly inserted between the two to mark the end of one and the beginning of the other.
Even farther after that, Chimoru Omega began to become larger and larger due to fan additions, with more poses created as time went on. Six Shaded Chimoru Omega (a fan revision by Gerlicky) slowly replaced Chimoru Omega as the de facto version of the kit, and a comic maker named Dokuma made comic history when he actually took
care to make his sprites look like they fit into the photos as a whole and, at the time, made the most photorealistic series to date. Other comic makers like Nuparurocks and RZMIK Revolutionist Emkay took it further with series like The Fourth Wall, Irreversable and Worlds Beyond the Horizon of the Mind, making use of the "Photorealistic Comic Technique" (or PRCT, as Ennar nicknamed it later on). Ironically given its appearance, RZMIK soon became the icon of serious stories within the forum, contrasting the more popular episodic comedic series.
The controversy also continued on, with the same general arguments given before, but with an additional point of argument: graphics vs. humor. Several started to state that one was more important than the other, while another vocal group voiced the latter. This was rooted more in style than actual kit use, but many saw the early veterans as an example of what the comics forum should emulate instead of focusing on "shiny new backgrounds and explosions on unfunny comics were just a shine of gloss over a rusted car". Others found that the older veteran comics were outdated in visuals, and that "No amount of humor in the world could make any unreadable comic enjoyable".
The Group soon faded away and Dark709's visits became less and less frequent. In their place sprung the Continuities, groups of comic makers that banded together to create their own personal cooperative BIONICLE universe and timeline. While the original famous continuity, the North Western Isles Continuity (NWI, of course) had existed during the age of the Group, they never really got anywhere and had faded as well by the time the Group left. BZPower was instead greeted by the International Comic Continuity (the ICC), which gathered many popular comic makers together in order to tie all of their series together in a cohesive timeline. The success of the ICC led to many others making their own spinoff continuities, although none but the Next Generation Continuity (the NCG) managed to stick.
With continuities also came continuity wars, and these spread throughout the forum like wildfire, often escalating into flame wars that had to be broken up by the ever vigilant Pohuaki. Even beyond that were untrue conspiracies of members trying to shut down other series or get people banned, which by themselves gave the forum a more sinister undertone than previously thought possible.
* To make matters worse, most comic makers refer to RZMIK as RZ, and even more confusing is that what most comic makers refer to as RZ/RZMIK is actually RZMIK Revolutions, a fan revision by Emkay and Tahuri, which added colored outlines and 360-degree views to the original kit.
Well, wasn't that an oh-so-informational history lesson, you say, but what does this have to do with your original point: why comics are their own subculture? Well, unlike the other forums, the separation in art styles and humor led to a giant separation within the forum, almost like two opposing political parties. We had controversy and legends and debates and spokesmen, but most of all we had an notable evolving style that enveloped both parties and made several key stops along the way. The kits unified the forum while also separating them, and the evolving status of quality in the forum alongside the many comic makers who came and went gave us something more than just the usual addition and subtraction of artists in the forum. Using sprites gave us a common ground, something that allowed enough diversity for personal style but enough in common to properly track the style of a evolving art style. This was more easier to identify than normal writing, and the common ground made it easier to pick out than general art or MOCs.
The next point was BZPower itself. Unlike the Library, whose forums were given leeway, AIII originally had the strictest revival limit around: 20 days with no posts and the topic was dead. This led to one of the things that have also driven many away from the forum itself: the spirit of competition. Competition, of course, is nothing bad in an of itself, but within Comics it seemed to take on a more sinister tone. The only way to keep your series alive was to become popular, and if your series wasn't popular, it often died with no resulting fanfare.
As a result, popularity became a key player in the forum. The amount of pages and posts in a given topic drew much more attention than it should have, becoming almost like a trophy as to how popular you were among the other members. Competition drove critics to be harsh and for newer comic makers to be constantly put down, but it also gave many members the motivation to improve. Many strove to be "the next Gavla", "the next Dark709" or "the next Nuparurocks", and studied the more popular series intently to see if they could try and do something more.
This unfortunately led to harsher critics, but it also gave the forum a sort of "survival of the fittest" aspect to it. Several members were made to pay attention to what was current or be washed over by the waves of newer or popular comic series' posts coming in. GIMP was pressured onto many users and the result was that the noobish members got weeded out quickly, if not by the death of their series by the critiques that they met. This was not to say that the critics were upright snobs who never really gave any useful advice; there were layers of useful tips and tricks laced into the reviews and there were also countless newer members who were apparently astounded that anyone would find their work anything less than amazing. What it did mean, though, is that the older comic makers were not afraid to be blunt and didn't bother to sugar-coat what they had to say. The newer members either had to get with the program as soon as they could or just leave the forum.
Again, the comic revival limit did contribute heavily to the evolving state of the art style. When comic makers left or when newer comic makers just fizzled out, they died and they stayed dead. This resulted in something resembling the layers of earth in an archeological digsite. The death of a comic series often discouraged newer members, and the rules didn't permit them to restart their series without something new. This led to piles of dead series in "layers" coinciding with the art styles of the age while the new "dirt" or posts of popular and new series covered them and shuffled them lower and lower down the list of topics. MSPaint style comics, while they would endure popularity through the lower levels, were quickly killed during the GIMP layers and remained buried while the current comics continued on. If the comic maker came back, he had to try something different. Very few continued to do the same thing (although there were many notable ones, take my word for it) and when they soon became talented enough, they kept their series going. Basically, the terrible series would, more likely than not, get buried under the new layers of posts very quickly until they finally got something that kept them alive enough to keep up with the top layers.
While it was far from a perfect or even ideal system and by no means meant that every comic series on the top layer was a good one, it kept the system alive and kept the art style evolving.
That's why Artwork III is the subforum it is today. That is why members find it harder to pull away. That is why, even after many have been banned, left the site, or just plain retired, they still check back up from time to time and even return once in a while.
Its not just because of BIONICLE. Its not just because of what they created. Its not even just because of the community of members. No, they all contribute to varying degrees, but that's not it. Some came back after BIONICLE ended. Some came back restarting everything they did before. Some came back even when other people they knew didn't come back with them.
I think its more deep that than. Its because it has unique combination the art style and the rules it was blessed and cursed with that all unwittingly shaped the forum into one of the most interesting subcultures on BZPower. And because of that sense of culture, its a lot harder to pull away.
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Tales Of Kamas Nui: Skakdi Origins Plot Line
One of the purposes of writing this is to explain the past of the Skakdi with three in particular; Dronik; intelligent and scheming, but insane with a delight in seeing others in pain. Zaktan; the ruthless future self-appointed leader of the Piraka. Lupike; the "muscle" of the group and the most skilled in combat of the three.
The story begins in the time before Makuta Spiriah's experiments on the Skakdi began. Together they are hired to steal important research from the Brotherhood regarding the Skakdi species. With the research information, the Skakdi species can be altered to become a powerful fighting force. While the research exists, the job itself is a set-up by the Dark Hunters to capture the three Skakdi for the reward placed on them by the Brotherhood. Should they succeed, the Dark Hunters gain important information and the reward for the Skakdi's capture. Should they fail; the Dark Hunters merely gain the reward. However, the three succeed in stealing the research, but Dronik, not wanting to split the profits, betrays Zaktan and Lupike. Lupike is believed to be dead and Dronik and Zaktan are captured, but before his capture, Dronik destroys the research.
The Dark Hunters receive the reward placed on the Skakdi. Dronik is sent to Makuta Sinosis for the extraction of any information the Skakdi might remember from the research. Finding nothing and intruiged by the Skakdi's love for inflicting pain on others, Makuta Sinosis teaches Dronik the ways of torture and interrogation then sells him to the Dark Hunters. Without the fundamental research, Spiriah's experiments on the Skakdi species fail and he is exiled. Zaktan is sent to work in a proto mine until he is later found and recruited by the Shadowed One. Lupike wakes to find himself on the shores of Kamas Nui with a badly fragmented memory and no recollection of how he got there. The Skakdi is found by the local Matoran and amazingly enough, becomes a leading figure on the island, forming an impressive Matoran military.
Just after the Great Cataclysm and the start of the Brotherhood/ Dark Hunter, reports of the death of Makuta Sinosis reach the Dark Hunters and a team of Dark Hunters is sent to investigate. Dronik, having been trained by the Makuta, is made a part of the team. After several confrontations with the island's new Toa team, Dronik is captured and he and Lupike meet. The encounter restores Lupike's memories and Dronik reveals the knowledge that he, Lupike, and Zaktan were actually the first and only Skakdi to be altered through the process described by the research they had stolen so many years ago. He continues to relate how they had killed the Makuta who mutated them and escaped, leaving only the research information as any clue to the Makuta's experiments. The Brotherhood placed a bounty on the three Skakdi for killing a Makuta without realizing their value.
Matuka Sinosis having faked his death and infiltrated the Matoran society, overhears Dronik's story and reveals himself to capture the two Skakdi and reverse-engineer the mutation process. However, through the combined forces of the Toa Kamas and the Dark Hunter team, the Makuta is stopped and killed.
I'd appreciate any thoughts on this, especially towards any possible conflicts with the canon story. Thanks!
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I'm Back
Hey people It's been months since I even touched the link to this website, I just kind of gave up after I heard the news of Bionicle's demise. But I came back, with a whole new name and attitude, and while I was away I discovered the wonders of online gaming via Steam and XBL. Oh, and also ArenaNet. And Battlenet. I've listed my game interests in one of my content blocks, and I will be making almost daily posts about my experiences, and the fact I'm going into high school in a few days. So, where to start? Well, today I'm super ###### because I've been playing TF2 A LOT lately and haven't gotten a SINGLE. HAT. Does anyone have any tips/strategies on how to get hats or just items really fast? I almost have nil.
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I Am Free! And Now For Psionics.
FREE! FREE! AT LAST SWEET BLISS MAY I TASTE THE AMBROSIA OF YOUR HALLS!
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Sorta. Still got finals next week. But only one! But yeah, I get to go home next Friday!
Recently I have been coming across more and more situations where I could use that dancing emote that Turakii had for a while. I'm going to have to message her to ask if I can steal it.
Anyways.
Having Psionics as an official element is awesome. I know a few people who have been setting up Toa with psychic powers for a while now, and I'm sure they'd be very happy to know it has become part of canon. May you return someday to see it, Crystal Matrix, Ninjo. Of course, the catch is that both of those guys are...guys...and Psionics is officially a female element. Which is awesome, we need more female elements. I remember when the element of plant control was christened the Green and Greg told us that he'd be happy to make that element a female-only one. There was much rejoicing. Then someone re-read the book that the Toa of the Green appeared in and found that it was referred to exclusively as 'he.' There was much sadness that day.
However, things aren't all happiness and sunshine yet. There are still problems. One such problem is pinning down what, exactly, psionics can do. Well, affecting the mind is obvious. But the problem is putting some limits on that power so that a Toa of Psionics can't make an army fall over drooling just by glaring in their direction.
So, what are the possibilities? Myriad, that's what. Telekinesis is one of them; memory manipulation is another. As in, blocking, altering, erasing, and fabricating. Mind control is up there as well; mind reading and telepathic communication as well. Wiping the mind clean, causing various mental maladies. Illusions, phantom pains, implanted commands to be activated at a later date (actually, that would be Nuva territory; nevermind), sensory hijacking, the list goes on. There really is the potential for a LOT of havoc here. So obviously, Psionics is going to need to be toned down a bit. And by a bit I mean a lot. Greg is working on that, and is going to be releasing a more detailed breakdown in his blog on Monday. But I might as well compose my own ideas and put them up sometime this weekend now that I have some free time.
Another thing that's going down is the passive powers for the Sy-Matoran (the favored name amongst the EM crowd). A number of people have proposed that the Sy-Matoran be 'more intelligent.' This irks me, mainly because none of them seem to want to clarify what they mean when they say "they're smarter." I already summed up my feelings about it on the official Elements topic, so I'll just copypaste here:
The problem I have with giving Psi-Matoran increased intelligence is that "intelligence" is ill-defined. It's easy to say that an element grants enhanced strength, speed, agility, etc., because they're easy to pin down - more muscle, running faster, being quicker on your feet. But being smarter is nowhere near as easy to define. Does it mean that you're knowledgeable? The you're quicker on the uptake than most? That you have better analytical skills? That you can think think faster (which has its own collection of meanings)? That you can mentally handle most or all things that are thrown at you? What? I might be able to get behind the Psi-Matoran having some kind of mental boost - just be specific about what you're boosting.So yeah, my two cents. *shrug*
My personal suggestion for the Matoran power is that they're empaths. They can't actively read minds, but they can subconsciously sense emotions and intentions, so even if you try to lie to them they can read you like an open book. This is by no means foolproof; it is fully possible to lie to them. It would just take insane amounts of skill. They would also come with the standard resistance to their own element, including minor resistance to mind control, reading, etc. Not sure where illusion falls on the psionics scale. I suppose it shouldn't be on it; Bionicle illusions seem to be more physical projections than mental tricks.
And to top it all off, the community seems to be largely accepting their color as pink.
So We have pink female Matoran who, if we follow my suggestion, can get into touch with the emotions of others. I keep expecting militant feminists to storm my dorm room.And also in other news, I completely and utterly failed NaNoWriMo. I thought it could help me get started on my Darkness story; apparently it only advertised to teachers "KID WITH NOTHING BETTER TO DO; INCREASE HOMEWORK TO CTHULHU-BREAKING-DOWN-AND-CRYING LEVELS." Sorry, LK. >< I'll try and get it done over break.
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Well, Well, Well, What Do We Have Here?
*cough* *cough*
I haven't been here in ages. I thought they demolished this place.
Anyway, I'm not back, just passing the time here.
2008 sets look good and I think they should have modified the Kraakhan for Icarax.
Can't wait for LOST Season Four on January 31st. Right after exams so I'm looking forward to that.
I'm sad that Heroes is done until they can resolve the Writer's Strike. Shame, it was turning into that old Heroes that I loved. Plus, the cliffhangers they gave us... GRR.
Excited for new Panic at the Disco album on March 25th, "Pretty. Odd." They dropped the exclamation point, don't know why; many people are mad. I don't have the time to be mad about punctuation.
School's boring but I love my film class.
And there is my life in a nutshell.
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My Blog Is Back!
Yay!
To celibrate, an random animation!
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Fire!
And they say there's no action in small towns.
So the other night I am enjoying a stack of comic books I borrowed from a neighbor, and everyone else is also just lounging around in the house. Eventually I notice red and blue flashing lights right outside our front door. I go to the window and look, only to find a cop car blocking the road right in front. Odd, but nothing else seemed to be happening, so I went back to my reading. Every other minute or so I would go and check up on the disco outside, only to find increasing amount of police and fire trucks driving up and stopping just down the street... in front of my neighbors to be exact. Being me, I think there's a fire down the street and I'll go out and look in a while, nothing terribly important at the moment. No more do I sit down then I see several figures dashing in our front lawn, followed by an urgent knocking and several rapid doorbell rings. Going up I see a Fireman's party being held in our lawn and a policewoman standing on our porch.
Me: Hello?
PW: Is this a one or two family house?
Me: Uh, one?
PW (at this point figuring out that we inside are oblivious): Your neighbor's barn is on fire, and you need to evacuate immediately.
Me:
Needless to say, that's all that needed to be said. In about two minutes we managed to grab everyone still home, a few essential paperwork folders and jump drives, and the cats, and get them all into my car (my mother and sister were at work). What was ironic was that between the emergency vehicles and the crowd in our driveway we couldn't back out. Thankfully at that point though the same policewoman came to tell us the blaze was under control, and our home was no longer in danger.
To help get a picture of the situation, or neighbor had (or should I say had) an old two-story carriage-house that had long been converted into part garage/part storage/part workshop because he is a boat captain. Its behind the row of houses, but its only about fifty feet away from our house, which explained the need to evacuate. We got lucky, because the side facing away from us was the side that caught fire, so it gave more time for the firemen to come and put it out with little danger to the neighborhood. Had the side closest to us caught on fire instead... *shudder*. We have several large Black Walnut trees right next to the carriage house, and they lead nicely to our home, plus the closeness of the building...
So yeah, we and the neighbors got lucky, very lucky. Neither home was destroyed or even damaged, thee building is still largely intact, and he didn't lose his boat OR his camper-trailer. He probably lost many expensive tools and riggings though.
Afterwards the neighbors (everyone else in the neighborhood, not the victims) were commenting on how in its height it was a wall of orange flame, an many thought at first it was our house. Once they realized it was the barn, they actually were more concerned because he has many air tanks, fuel, and compressors in there that could've blown... yeah. Would've been pretty to say the least. We were told though that the family managed to get those out before the blaze became too intense.
So yeah... just your average day in a small town...
