Friday, January 23, 2009
I got around to finishing MLN this morning, which is good.
Oh, one request: I'm looking for a symbol I can use mark important facts, instead of just • . One's I've tested look dorky. So if you have a suggestion, you can copy/paste it into a post.
BARA MAGNA
• Atero is really only used by Glatorian once a year, for the big tournament.
• There are usually three preliminary rounds before the main tournament in Atero. They aren't elimination rounds; they are more
Friday, January 16, 2009
BARA MAGNA
• Before the disaster, Glatorian were soldiers.
• Greg, on the Glatorian population: "[There are] not a ton. I don't know that I would attach a definite number to it, as there are always old ones dying off and new ones coming into the profession. On Bara Magna, though, you are probably talking less than a hundred, easy.
• The Glatorian have fighting skills from their military training and from their training with each other. • We have seen the actual sol
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Here I am, well-rested at 6:00 AM after sleeping since 8:00. Such are the wonders of completing all work at school and coming home with none of it. I've often pondered, since my younger and more vulnerable years in first grade, and I've come to realize that without homework, school really wouldn't be bad at all. With a little elbow grease and some good habits, you can maintain a pretty good schedule.
Which nobody can realistically do. And with four AP classes, I
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
I've honestly woken up at 5:15 AM just now.
It probably has something to do with the fact that I flopped down to bed nearly twelve hours before this.
I think I should just start a category called "Sleep." Seriously, there are entries here and there that chronicle the first moments high school started to wreck my sleeping habits. It all started in July 2006, summer school... Search for an entry named "Cycle of Doom," or whatever I called it. Entries like those a
Friday, January 9, 2009
And this week's scoop is...
Nothing.
That's right, nothing. Some words of advice for OGD posters: don't try to resolve a string of off-topic posts by contributing to it. All you need to do is ignore it, and it will go away. I promise.
Well, there is one set of Q&A that Jolly Christmas Giratina kindly sent me, condensed here.
RANDOM • The sand bat is a creature that will appear in the first 2009 book and not in the movie.
• Not all of the Takanuva at
Friday, January 2, 2009
BARA MAGNA
• The Sea of Liquid Sand is like quicksand.
• Greg believes Atero is south of the Bone Hunter camp.
• Greg: "Beware the sand bat." • The giant mechanical body parts scattered throughout Bara Magna relate to future story.
• The rock Agori have always been with Tuma and the Skrall, and they are essentially "support staff" for the Skrall. This is a militaristic group, where the army comes first before anyone else.
• There will be other Glatorian sets thi
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Graaaah, haven't blogged all year. Happy 2009 everyone!
Remember those magical minutes after the New Year tolls in...
"I haven't slept all year."
"I haven't eaten all year."
"I haven't been to the bathroom all year."
"I've been standing up all year."
"Shower? Please, I haven't taken one all year."
"Go outside? I've been in my house all year."
"Haven't seen you all year, man."
"I haven't gone downstairs all year."
"I haven't been online in a year."
"Wher
Friday, December 26, 2008
BARA MAGNA
• There are six arenas on Bara Magna, and Atero is the main one.
• Iconox is ice, Tesara is jungle, and Tajun is water.
• The disaster involved in the Vorox and Zesk's regression is dealt with in 2009-2010 story. • The disaster is also involved with the downgrade of technology on Bara Magna.
• The Glatorian system did not exist prior to the disaster.
• Skrall are generally disliked, of course.
• Nothing happens if someone takes his helmet off. The
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Seriously, WWIII will be fought over these pieces. Everyone will want to use them. Credit for the photo goes to Kohena: Great Warrior of Pie.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
^When checking the date just now, I just realized that Christmas is two days from now instead of tomorrow. Meaning I'm not going to Mass tonight. What a dummy...
Anyway.
I noticed the other day that my user profile rating has gone back up to five stars.
Thank you guys.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
I'm choosing a cell phone from Verizon Wireless. I have a problem: the ones I've seen are absolutely terrible. And I mean terrible. Cell phones are the worst they've ever been. There are too many screens, too many smooth surfaces that get smudged up. The buttons are tiny. Touch screens are totally dysfunctional. The menu screens are a gaudy red and black. Nothing about the designs is intuitive.
Any good suggestions? What model do you own?
Friday, December 5, 2008
It's that time of week again.
BARA MAGNA
• Greg: "The Skrall situation is different from the rest. Skrall do not have individual names -- they're just called Skrall, which is the name of their group -- unless they distinguish themselves and so earn a name. Other Glatorian have individual names and are not strictly a part of a "tribe" -- they just work for the tribe."
• Skrall are not clones, but rather living individual beings who happen to live in a social group
Friday, December 19, 2008
Happy Holidays!
BARA MAGNA
• Greg would not say that Thornax grow abundantly. Like water or food or anything else, Thornax are a scarce resource that has to be sought out or traded for. That is why Glatorian have them and not Agori, because Glatorian get first dibs on whatever is found.
• Bone hunters work for whoever has something that they want. They are nomadic bandits. They do not participate in the social system.
• "Bone hunters" is a tribe name. They are
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
How about some grainy but large 2009 set images from the TRU website?
Strakk
Vorox
Berix
These were a pain to assemble.
While I'm at it, how about some big Bara Magna scenery from bionicle.com?
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Friday, December 12, 2008
Lots of good stuff!
BARA MAGNA
• There were more rivers on Bara Magna at one time, though there were never any oceans.
• Villages in 2009 will have proper names.
• The villages being shown in 2009 are the only tribes on Bara Magna, at least as far as Greg is concerned. • In most cases, Agori tribes have leaders that are also Agori.
• The masks and helmets worn on Bara Magna are marks of status, in some cases, but they do not have mask powers.
• Each Glator
Friday, November 28, 2008
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving .
BARA MAGNA
• Bara Magna is a lot older than the Matoran universe and is most likely older than the Great Beings.
• Greg: "The black and green Glatorian […] fight in the first comic -- but reasonably, any two Glatorian can fight in the arena, because it's not about being friends or enemies. It's a job."
• One can get a pretty good idea whether or not a Thornax is going to explode if one knows when it was harvested or if
Friday, November 21, 2008
The mods were on a tyrade last week about how the OGD should be a place for concise discussion and posting dialogues with Greg. Then they disappeared, and now we're in a bad spell of people making totally extraneous posts. What up wit that?
BARA MAGNA
• Elemental affiliations in 2009 are based on geography, but tribes are still referred to as the fire tribe, the water tribe, etc.
• Like any desert, the surface of Bara Magna has oases and other such areas.
• Th
