Random thunks:
1) RPG skeletal version main programming is DONE! I just completed the full test play yesterday, and we are currently fixing a few major errors. We are aiming for putting it online this weekend. Maybe even tomorrow morning (if not, Sunday).
It'sa gonnabe fun, man!
2) I posted another one of those annoying staffie rant topics. Please read it. Evidence, Not "proof", Needed for Theories.
3) I know, I know, the S&T contest results topic is late. Bear with me --
Reminder: The Pet Peeve Contest below is still open until November 29! Keep those entries a-comin!
Notice: Keep in mind the award is drawn by me, so you need to tell me what to draw. Some of these Description form entries are very vague. You can't win if I don't at least have some idea of what you want the Peeve to look like.
Update: We have constructed a submarine in order to more easily get from island to island as we hunt for those Pet Peeves you guys are telling us about. We've alread
Today the Bones Blog brings you my own history related to complaint topics, and a major aspect of what I do that most complainers do not realize off the bat. This is being posted because of a recent misunderstanding, but I've needed to say it for a long time. It's also proof that I can be a windbag, so apologies.
Okay, anybody who knows me knows that I post in complaint topics a lot. I am usually disagreeing with complainers (when they post illogical points), and they often wish I hadn't don
I've started a new short stories series based on the idea of Bionicle "What Ifs", called the Altacosmos Chronicles. Check out the first Chronicle, up now, titled, "Altacosmos Chronicle #1: Bio Code."
Cred to Takuta Nui for partly inspiring this, as I say there. First episode is based on some recent revelations and things Greg has said on his blog. Adventure Mystery as always. Not directly related to the Paracosmos, but these chronicles do exist in the Unknown Library in the Paracosmos. Somet
The two lost in the Dataclysm are back (well, the second, as a short epic, is not fully posted yet). Both have been improved from the original.
AC#3 is coming soon.
Here's my AC16 entry.
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And yeah, this exists in the Paracosmos.
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Today the Bones Blog brings you an explanation of my term for the style of writing I love best -- the 'genre' I write. I consider LOST and Bionicle itself to be the best examples of this "genre". Scifi? Fantasy? Mystery? Thriller? Drama? No -- it's the best of all of those wrapped up into one awesome style -- Adventure Mystery!
There's a newer breed of story that began with LOST (and, I would argue, with Bionicle). Take a look at the "genre" section on Wikipedia's LOST page and you'll see tha
1) As yall may know, Bionicle Paracosmos Epic #3: Captain of Treason is now posted. 3 chappies posted so far of 21. In case any of my blog readers didn't catch it.
My biggest work yet, and took the longest to write. It completes the 2001 series of Paracosmos stories that included Epics 1 and 2 and the 4 short stories, all listed in the collection topic. It's the culmination of the "hidden enemy" mystery plot, and large parts of it I had actually planned as far back as 2001 in real time. Of
Today the Bones Blog brings you an aspect of opinions and discussion brought up in the past entry Friends Can Disagree ("How to Disagree Intelligently" section) -- the benefit of having a "possibilities attitude." This is a key principle I've found that I think can help a lot of people. Important points bold.
Conflicting Goals
When it comes to opinions and discussion -- indeed, life itself -- people have goals. Goal #1, hopefully, is to be right. To have the opinion that is actually true.
And the Name the Expanded Multiverse Contest is now open.
Also, there's an artwork topic for it. Post and stuff.
Editing period for the Time Capsule Contest is now closed. Polls a-comin'.
*finally gets around to this*
What follows is a very short story that I wrote as a "Velika Mode" analogy in a recent debate topic, intended to help explain a mistake a lot of people make in how to look at what Bionicle should do. Someone PMed me and said they actually enjoyed the story, so I figure I might as well put it here, lol. Whether you wanna read this for its meaning, or just as a short story, enjoy!
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There was on
1) Major Expanded Multiverse announcement. Takuta-Nui -- author of the third Cipher Chronicles episode, Library staff member, active in the Library etc. has joined Swert and myself as the folks in charge of the Multiverse. Thanks for joining the team, TN. We look forward to working with him on the Cipher Chronicles' story development, choices of guest authors, and more.
2) Hero Factory site villain creator is fun. I made four.
Piston Troll
Tankclops
Squidbot
Helicreepter
Here we go -- the winners of the 2nd Chances Beasts MOC contest! The following beasts will be featured in Bionicle Paracosmos Epic #4: Twisted Island -- writing has already begun and outlining is in medium stages. Too often good MOCs die in the dustbin of BBC history. I have seen so many good old MOCs that didn't get enough recognition IMO -- this contest was a chance to bring some of them back in what ways I can. So who won?
Firstly: 2nd Chances Powerpoint Compilation -- Sorry for the slow l
Welcome to the first Bionicle Paracosmos Contest! For anybody that isn't aware, the BP is my adventure mystery fanfic series, with epics, short stories, and an RPG; all of those that are online listed here.
For the future Epic #4: Twisted Island, I need a lot of super-dangerous beasts that will be let loose from a "zoo" of sorts as part of that epic's core mystery. These could be Rahi, mutants, animalistic titans, diminutive creatures, even seemingly nonliving objects that are actually alive
Not a very catchy title, I know. But I wanted to make this so I could stop repeating myself so much. Today the Bones Blog brings you the truth about this much-over-asked question, and some major points to consider about where Bionicle might be headed.
To everybody asking "Is 2008 the end of Bionicle? It says 'Final Battle'! ":
No. Stop panicking.
It's the end of the first chapter of Bionicle. Bionicle will end only if the sets stop selling.
Everything from 2001 to 2008 has been abo
Random updates: 1) So it turns out there actually already was a seventeenth art contest, which simply wasn't listed in the archive, making the current one the eighteenth. Working on fixing that everywhere... [Edit: Should all be fixed now. Lemme know if yall spot an error still.] 2) Since I just posted another Altacosmos, I was in the mood to review the previous two ones on the old forum, and discovered that apparently I never posted the fifth and final chapter of the second one, The Dynast
Alright, this blog entry will explain the inspirations behind the choices of which power to assign to which (previously Unknown) official mask shape. For those that don't know what I'm talking, click here. Greg approved these seventeen powers (eleven of them written originally for the Expanded Multiverse, where they also use the official shapes) to be canon.
Several people have wondered what the inspirations were, and so I'll just put it all in one place. This isn't necessarily including ev
A poem from that Poetry class last semester.
1-800-HAPPY-SMILE-KIT
Are you suffering from depression?
Do you have low self-esteem?
Do you have trouble guffawing
when the boss cracks a lame joke?
I’m Nicholas T. Bernard, and you need my Happy Smile Kit!
You’ve been told to read “self help” books,
but the authors are charlatans – frauds!
You’ve been told to count pills,
but look at the side effects!
Studies prove that most depression
is rooted in your surroundings. Your se
Yes, yes! Believe it or not, I'm still alive! My prediction that I'd be super busy thanks to this college semester has unfortunately turned out to be very very very true--I basically have no time for BZP except a few hours sometime on the weekend, and wednesday. I've basically retired from my modding duties except if I have a spare minute or two. I'm still coordinating a project coming up for Reference which I think you guys will like--nothing too fancy since none of us really have time for much
The time has come to announce the winners of the Powerpoint Faces Contest! This was an awesome contest, with so many great entries that Ojhilom and I agreed we couldn't just judge by the usual percentage of entries, but instead by a par of work, quality, and craftsmanship put into the entries, keeping in mind that avatars were the goal of this. So as long as it looked up to good avatar quality, we accepted it.
As such, we ended up choosing seven top winners, eight other winners, and only four
