I'm really liking this new contest thing, I should have started it a long time ago. Instead of worrying about RPG requests all the time, there are just four blocks of time during the year when I have to work a little harder and organize everything. And it works out better for you guys too. The competition increases the quality of the entries, and you get to pick the ones you want to play. Win-win situation.
Concerning the voting, however, see as how we've had over a 50% increase in the numbe
It's been a while since I posted here, so I figured I should say something. There's not much to add, however. Between school, work, and BZPower, I'm kept pretty busy, barely even time to play Halo and such. I'm in the middle of midterms for the summer semester, so halfway there; though I wish I could say it's all going to be downhill, hehe. I'm working at a small company that designs and manufacturers control equipment for die-cast machines; it's a good job and I'm enjoying it. It's definitely
So, I'm taking classes this summer at my college and therefore need a room to stay in. For reasons know only to the Office of Residence Life, I can't stay in my current room, but instead need to move to another dorm. Fine, okay, whatever. So I got assigned a room a few weeks ago, as well as a date to move in on. That date was yesterday. I'm still in my old room. Seems ResLife forgot about Memorial Day, and had been planning on cleaning up rooms then, but couldn't. Since my parents came by and to
Most of the people who will be reading this are most likely good, honest members who never would consider making a dupe account. So maybe you'll find this interesting. As the Administrator that handles all the Awaiting Authorization members, you'd be amazed at how many people there are that try to make duplicate accounts. I won't tell you how we find them, but we do, and they usually stick out like a sore thumb. Then there are the ones that blatantly try to bypass our language policy. And the on
Hey there everyone, thanks for stopping by and reading my blog. This will be pretty short, since I have lots of stuff that needs to get done today. Taking summer classes is really great in the long run, but in the short term it's hard to balance between doing homework, a job, and trying to have a social life. If you ever have the chance to get ahead in school by taking courses over the summer, go for it, but just beware of the consequences. You have to work hard, but just remember that it pays o
So I had wanted to post an entry about this on Friday night right after my first week, but that didn't happen. Anyway, I've been working at my new internship for a week now, and have been enjoying it a bit. Still getting adjusted to my responsibilities and their policies, but hey, it's a learning experience. It seems like I'll have a significant amount of free time too. Last night I went down and visited some friends from school and hung out there for a while, so it's not all work.
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If you saw tonight's episode, send me an IM (BZP Black Six) if you want to talk about it, because wow, did it deliver on everything they've been hinting at for the past couple shows. No comments here though, as the content is not really appropriate for the site.
Intro Merry Christmas everyone! You should be out doing holiday-y things instead of reading this, so I'll keep it short. Updates BZPower launched our new Premier Membership Store this past week. It provides a nice new way to get yourself a membership. Let us know what you think of it so we can make improvements as needed. We keep churning out the 2012 reviews. ChocolateFrogs took a look at Furno and xccj reviewed Kai's Blade Circle. I have it on good authority that there will be at least one
As mentioned last week, I had fallen a little behind on my reading goals, but I managed to finish Halo: Glasslands Friday night (early Saturday morning, technically). It was pretty enjoyable, and a good continuation of the Ghosts of Onyx. There were three main storylines: one following the Spartans, Dr. Halsey, and Chief Mendez as they try to learn more about the Dyson sphere they're trapped in, another following some Elites planning on overthrowing the Arbiter, and the last focusing on Kilo-5,
Whew! That was fun (not really). I came back from BrickFair on Monday and have just now gotten caught up on BZPower. In addition to all the posts I had to read, there were accounts to approve (or delete), posts and topics to approve, PMs and emails to reply to, and more. Let's just say I'm glad I'm on top of things now and can move forward with things like BrickFair coverage. In answer to the inevitable when: sometime soon I hope!
Intro It's that time again already. Come see what's been happening on BZPower or some such thing. Updates A piece of feedback we've received a lot recently is that you guys want to see us highlight fan creations more on the front page. We had started doing that before the forums went offline, but the effort kind of fizzled out. We're trying to get this moving again, and we started things off with Makuta Sethuldur by Stroxx. We followed things up by spotlighting Fractures by GSR. The BZPower co
Keith Severson (Senior Manager, CEE Community Support) recently shared the below information with the Ambassadors about changes coming to the program. I'm really looking forward to the changes and hoping they strengthen and grow the community as a whole. If you have any questions about the responsibilities or anything about the new program, I'll do my best to answer them.
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So a Weekly Update this week, but not many people around to see it.
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So, it's our eight year anniversary and to celebrate we're giving away prototypes. There's hopefully one other thing we may get around to doing.
Of course not many people are reading this now because the forums are offline. The admins and staff have been hard at work finding a way to protect the site and reduce the chance of accounts being hacked. This takes time - we have to research fixes, implement them,
Intro So I should have posted this yesterday, but I had company over and then I had to clean up afterwards and then it completely slipped my mind. Oops! Happy New Year everyone! Updates We had a bunch of reviews last week. Sisen reviewed Rocka, ChocolateFrogs took a look at Surge, and some handsome devil threw together some pictures of the Jet-Copter Encounter. We still have more 2012 reviews in the pipeline, so keep looking for them. We had a new epsiode of the Powercast too. Please listen
So in my last Weekly Update I mentioned I hoped the front page would be updated this weekend. Clearly that didn't happen. I'm waiting on one more thing and then we'll be good to go. Honest? Now everything won't be fixed, but the majority will. Some of the more advanced features require linking to the new database to get data. This update will mainly be focused on all the links so you don't keep getting sent to the archive. (Although some links will purposely still take you there.) Sorry for
The presidential election is right around... oh right, missed that. No, the reason I'm posting here today is to get the word out about this poll. We want your feedback to know how best we can improve BZP. So please go let us know what you think. Thanks!
I had the pleasure of going up to PAX East in Boston, Massachusetts from March 6th to 8th. As always, it was a blast and it was great to hang out with Than the Moa and Watashi Wa and meet a couple of WaWa's friends. I thought for a change I'd endeavor to take some more pictures and blog about it and share some of my experiences. The Lines PAX East is famous for its massive lines for everything. When you cram 70,000 or more people into a single space, you're going to have to wait for stuff. It'
It's been a week since I kicked off Operation: Reading Rainbow. So far I've finished The Fall of Reach and the Flood and started on First Strike. Some thoughts: -Man Fall of Reach is so good. It covers so much ground and does it so well. -Why did Bungie try to shoehorn in all those retcons in Halo: Reach? It's like Star Wars - it wasn't broke, so why fix it? -The Flood is definitely underrated. There are some slower parts, sure, but it really adds a lot more depth and backstory to Halo: CE.
