Random updates:
--Epics Contest poll is up until Wednesday! I hope you consider voting for Mindfire.
--Posted artwork for Mindfire! Mindfire Art, Avs + Coolified Icarax, Mutran, & Bitil Avs. Basically it's the symbol in this entry's banner and avatar versions of everything in this image:
--All that art and several sketches are now featured in the Review Topic. A few sketches in there are never-before-seen but drawn long ago, some as far back as 2001.
--Ojhilom and I are al
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.
[Pretend there is a Bones Blog banner here. ]
Various stuffishness:
1) I can has reviews? (Link goes to Mindfire. )
2) I'm planning on reviewing everybody else's epics contest entries. I enter, I want reviews, they enter, it's only fair I review theirs. No? Of course, this week will be a bad time for a lot of people to review I'm sure, as it will be for me, heh.
3) S&T weapons contest entry period ends noon EST, Wednesday June 25. After that point the grace period will start. Re
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
The Bonesiii Mental Health Diet
Important points are bold.
Weight Loss Plan
Eat less.
Forever.
Mental Health Diet Regiment
All those veggy diets and such bleagh-ness neglect the importance of good taste for mental health. Besides, all the fancy schmancy diet intructions are murder on your sanity. Who cares about a flat stomach if you go insane?
Therefore: eat tasty stuff. Just less of it.
Cheese is good. Throw in a leaf of lettuce every once in a while if you fee
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Today the Bones Blog brings you a list of aspects of sets and story that have been demonstrated to be "what most fans want." Of course, this isn't an all-inclusive list (lemme know if I forgot something you know of), and it should be cautioned that this could change in the future, and how much of a majority wants each thing is very difficult to pin down. Some of these haven't hurt sales horribly when not done in the past, but many ha
Enter the 2nd Chances MOC Contest: Beasts! by July 3rd! Winning MOCs will be in Epic #4: Twisted Island!
I've been debating on and off whether I should do yet another random stuffish entry or the What Most Fans Want entry today. This won out because of the first random stuffish thing below. WMFW will be next week's entry.Bionicle Paracosmos Epic #3: Captain of Treason will begin early next week! Watch the Epics forum for it!
Background for those who don't know -- epic is already writt
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
Enter the latest Bones Blog Contest! 2nd Chances Moc Contest: Beasts! (Bionicle Paracosmos Contest #1)
Notice to anybody who has entered the S&T Xian Weapons contest up till now:
I think we've got the list of rules pretty much as up-to-date as it will get, so go back and read it over. Any entry that was entered before right now that breaks the new rules can be fixed, by editing the problem out and posting again in the entry topic to tell us what you changed.
Approval is necessar
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
Random Cool Monsters <-- Could use replies, and includes two monstrous avs.
Also: Tren Krom! Wallpaper, Banners, Avs!
Powerpoint Face Contest is now closed. I'm PMing winners to ask them to send me the .ppt files where necessary to make the avatars. Without revealing their names just yet, this contest turned out so well it's been more about deciding who has to lose than who won -- Ojhilom and I decided that we had to judge winners by anybody that's over a certain level of quality, rat
Which blog contest should I run next?
Makuta Jeopardy -- will have audition contest, then AIM game with three contestants. Bionicle trivia. Will be introed in the next interview, which will be with Makuta DoomAH. Answers will come from BS01 "Random Pages" under major categories.
2nd Chances MOC Contest: Beasts! (BPC#1) -- any past MOC, whether from a BBC contest or not, except for actual BBC winners, can be entered. Winning MOCs will be beasts set loose from a "zoo" of superdangerous, exo
Enter the Powerpoint Face Contest by May 15!
Today the Bones Blog brings you an interview with a Lawyerahk, one of many creatures who serve Evil Lord Survurlode in his Dreaded Real Life Attack Wing. One of our contacts recommended Lawyerahk Bob, and set up a telephone interview appointment with him, after several days due to his busy schedule.
bonesiii: Hello, is this Lawyerahk Bob?
AUTOMATED VOICE: Welcome to the phone system for Lawyerahk Bob Legal Services. If you would lik
Enter the Powerpoint Face Contest by May 15!
This won't be my main entry this week if I can help it -- I wanna launch the next interview in a few days here. But in response to a topic in GD the other day, I wanna make something clear. Not going to link to it, just quote from it, and I'll not pretend to speak for Greg or anyone else -- just me. The topic starter had this to say:
Now, I can understand his sentiments. Sometimes I am attacked, and of course that is wrong. But some people
Enter the Powerpoint Face Contest by May 15!
Today the Bones Blog brings you a short interview with Greg Farshtey on the subject of focus groups, an often-misunderstood concept lately. What are the facts? Bold is for important points. Blue is me, black is Greg.
The Q&A
bonesiii:
I've noticed lately that one of the cookie-cutter arguments complainers are using has been the anti-focus groups one. [someone] just claimed in a topic for example that focus groups just like whatever L
Random Thunks.
Contest Banner
Here's a banner to spread the word about the Powerpoint Face Contest:
[url="http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=39&showentry=29997"][img=http://www.majhost.com/gallery/bonesiii/BZPstuff/powerpointfacecontst/powerpointfacecontest_sigsize.gif][/url]
Yall must use it, capisce?
That's a Normalfied Calix, a Coolified Kaukau, Coolified Jutlin from my recent Phankuta art topic, Coolified "Igniru"request from GB#1 that w
The above is the fullsize version of adult version of a Flame -- the first place winning entry in my last blog contest, where members entered descriptions of would-be Pet Peeves, and I designed the images in Powerpoint as the prizes.
That's exactly what this contest is NOT.
This time around, you guys get the job of artist. Design a Bionicle style face using the methods I outlined in this two-part guide:
Powerpoint Art Guides:
● Vector Art In Powerpoint: Quality, Inexpensive, Easy
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So what do you guys think about me running a blog contest where you guys design Bionicle-style faces in Powerpoint, and somehow or another, at least a few winners are picked? Using the methods I explained in these two guides:
Powerpoint Art Guides:
● Vector Art In Powerpoint: Quality, Inexpensive, Easy
● Coolifying With Powerpoint Vector Art
But what should be the prize?
I don't think I can do another sidebar gallery -- I've got enough images over there as is. And last time I made t
Today the Bones Blog brings you the text of the most important history of changes in Bionicle, with small modifications since posted several months ago on the forums. This is intended to provide the context for a major change in Bionicle that is often cited, but rarely understood, by complainers/nostalgics. For the sake of clarity, the two major styles will be referred to as "Technicism" and "Bioniclism."
2001
LEGO assumes, incorrectly, that Bionicle will be popular with Technic fans, so m
So I wanted to post something besides the usual essay today but couldn't think of anything fast enough. This is a fallback I've had ready for a while, ever since an old (dead) COT topic. Plus someone else was blogging about UFOs so why not (see Czar's blog).
Now, the UFOs in question here aren't the flying saucers. It's the giant, silent triangle craft with three running lights. There have been sightings all over the country, and I even know someone who claims to have seen one. This descript
I'm really short on time today so I'ma gonna use a quote from one of my posts. This is from Emperor Kraggh's topic: How Do Newcomers View Nostalgia? which is, BWT, almost dead despite being an interesting topic. (Revival is 30 days in GD so there's still time to post as of this moment!)
Bold is for important points, not emotionalism.
This is just my view of it; I'm no scientist, but it fits perfectly with my observations of myself, you guys, people in real life, etc. It seems that not
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
Today I had planned to post about the Matoro death flame war that seems to be getting worse rather than dying down. With the death of another character in the latest serial chapter, the issue spreading to this, and the new Character Death Policy, this will be a little more general, starting with the reasons the policy was made. Bold is for important points, not emotionalism.
Why
I'll ask that we don't discuss the details of what happened -- that is just going to make things worse. But su
(Most important points are bold.)
If there was ever a "title says it" moment for blogs, this is it.
But as simple as the statement "friends can disagree" is, it is shocking how profound and almost universally unknown it is to so many people. Whether on BZP or real life, people often start avoiding each other when they find out they like different things, or don't see eye to eye on things. This is wrong.
Now maybe there are situations where this is all you can do. Being friends, even in
