Seriously. I just discovered how easy and cheap it is a month or so ago, and it's great. I've wanted to play some older Mario games for a while, just to be able to say I had. So I bought 2,000 Wii points and got myself Super Mario 64. Wow. I only really got into gaming with the Wii, and had a few Gamecube games, so I was expecting the earlier consoles with their polygonal graphics to be vastly inferior to, say, Mario Galaxy. But 64 is a really fun game. It's a bit tougher, which is a good
when you're one heart piece short in Majora's Mask and don't know which one you missed because you were sure you got all of them Excepting, of course the Moon ones but you don't want to go get them until you have all the other ones So you're going back and re-earning every heart piece only to get five rupees or a regular heart or whatever and still not finding that one annoying missing heart piece
Just finished re-sorting my collection. For the first time I have my system sorted- it was sorted by color with the Bionicle bits before, but now it's actually helpful. I have maybe 30 families of particularly useful bits sorted by shape and the rest by color. Black and dark and light grey and bley are sub-sorted into standard brick, standard plates, standard tiles, standard slopes, and other. I never really realized how many nifty system bits I had going to waste in the chaos of my collect
I'm a pretty late in realizing this, but Cosmo Wright, video game speedrunner, has performed a near-optimal run of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, in 18:10.3. He's made a pretty educational and touching video of the gameplay with commentary on speedrunning, the history of speedrunning OoT, explanations of glitches and optimizations, and the like. It's a beautiful watch if you're familiar with speedruns and a very accessible/educational watch if you're not, so I highly recommend it.
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For my big math paper, my IB IA, I decided to do a calculus project. Because statistics projects are too mainstream. I decided to do something Lego-related, and optimized the cost of making a rectangular prism and a cylinder. Turns out, Lego has width and makes everything hard. The upshot is that I got to cite BrickLink in a scholarly essay.
Seriously. I think I say one of the movies when I was, like, eight. Maybe younger. And I read a Star Wars novel that was pretty good once. But that's it. But I have Bionicle, there is no room for Star Wars. My enjoyment of Narnia and LoTF just barely fits.
...except the only other site I'm active on is MOCpages, which we could link to already. Most of the content not allowed on BZP I'm not interested in saying or being exposed to anyway. I can see how the change in necessary and good, particularly since there's a warning involved and you still can't link to non-BZP-friendly content, but I'm not sure I personally really like it or not. But yeah, a great choice on the part of the staff. The recent changes have all be great.
THE PRESENTATION JUST KEPT GETTING BETTER There is going to be so much content in this game it almost makes me sad, because I can't no-life it for a month like I would want to. Also I'm more excited that Yoshi Circuit from Mario Kart: Double Dash is in the first DLC pack for MK8 than I am about Mewtwo. But Mewtwo is pretty neat, too, especially for someone who's buying both versions anyway.
Playing Pokemon was, tragically, not a priority for this last week. But there has been progress! New Smeargle's names are in bold, as are new moves. Log Entry 2: I'm realizing now that perhaps the greatest challenge of this Nuzlocke will be finding good moves to Sketch. They're there, I know, but I'm not going to use outside resources to plan out movesets, save for my memories of previous XY runthroughs. (Get hype for someone to sketch Oblivion Wing!) No, I'm finding moves the hard way.
SGDQ, a game speedrunning marathon for charity, is happening RIGHT NOW! You can still catch the last day of speedruns and of course the bonus stream afterwards. Check out the constantly updated schedule HERE! Most importantly, there is a three-game Zelda block with A Link to the Past, A Link Between Worlds, and an Ocarina of Time RACE! If that's not you thing, the Zelda block is immediately preceded by a four-game Valve block with both Half Lifes and both Portals, and the planned stream will
I presented my paper "The LEGO System Makes Co-Creation Painless for the LEGO Group" at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research a couple days ago. It went excellently. People were really interested, and I attracted a fellow college AFOL to my presentation who I got to talk with. It was about how the the LEGO Group harnesses the innovations and ideas of the AFOL community, and how the LEGO System itself eliminates or minimizes the obstacles that other firms face when co-creating. T
Recently finished Mother 3 About enter a new era of my life Returning a second Kopaka (since when do I return BIONICLE?) Realizing I may never own a Ness amiibo This song
Man, it was good. Not that I couldn't nitpick, but it was just fantastic. The references, the humor, the LEGO, the LEGO, the plot, the message, the everything. Go see this movie. As a Lego fan it was everything I could want in a Lego movie.
1. Critical Role (Twitch-streamed D&D with voice actors, stellar roleplaying, a magnificent DM, and production values) just minutes ago finished streaming, for the first time, an illustrated narration of their 2.5 years of pre-stream adventures. I was so hyped for this project. It did not disappoint. 2. A new Star Wars which rudely pulled people away from Critical Role.
Finished up Super Metroid just now. Clear time 11:47, 63% item collection. Which tell me that I really need to play it again, because if there's that many items I missed somehow, I want to explore this place more. Apparently I started playing it in late January. That's a little less than six months ago. This is what IB does to you. This is sad. Although, to be fair, I played Twilight Princess in the interval. Next up: I got the Mario Kart 8 Wii U bundle, which means Mario Kart, Wind W
Nintendo's E3 presentation begins mere hours after I arrive at college orientation. It's going to take all of my willpower to avoid spoilers until I can watch the presentation itself.
Christmas was amazing. Chrono Trigger was absolutely fantastic. Shovel Knight is pretty amazing. Tahu the 2nd and Kopaka the 2nd are both really, really great. I am super hyped for the Nintendo Direct tomorrow morning. If school is out because of icy weather then I'll catch it live, otherwise I won't get to see it until late tomorrow night. PLEASE give us some Zelda info! Anything!
