Hey. People who hate me. Yes, I know who you are. I've read the posts. No, no, not the ones here. The ones on all those elsewheres. Yeah. Those very public ones. So help me, sometimes I get bored and I scavenge for things to fuel my reading addiction.
I know you hate me. I know who you are. I know just how you feel about me. And I don't care.
If I was worried about hurting people's opinions of me by helping to maintain a forum, I'd have quit years ago. Fact is, it's totally worth having th
As noted in the previous entry, I've been a BBC moderator for three years as of today. I've seen a lot of MOCs in that time. It'd be madness to try and work out how many (though it would be a fun rainy-day project). I've seen a lot of not-so-fantastic MOCs, but I haven't turned to the System-side philosophy that 'nothing good can come of Bionicle parts' in the least. I've seen an incredible number of generic humanoids-with-weapons of every quality, but I haven't given up on the imagination of th
In order to break this horrific block of inactivity, I know I have to post some manner of entry. Thing is, I have no clue what to write about. This does not help things.
Therefore, I'm gonna have to do one of those sorts of entries.
You heard me. What you do is ask me questions, and what I do is answer them. Or not answer them, if it's something I'd really rather not discuss. Or smite inappropriate stuff.
So? Go for it.
I moderate GD. As such, I often wind up reading the topics contained within that forum. Funny how that works out.
While reading that topic in particular, I noticed something. The phrase 'haven't entered any (since) because there's no theme that interests me (yet)' or a variation thereof comes up a fair bit. I can't help it: as BBC Contest host, I tend to be interested in these sorts of things.
So tell me, folks, off the record: what would be an interesting theme?
So you got yer fan-made groups of Toa, right. Doesn't have to be Toa, really, but that's what you're most likely to run into. And then, of course, there's the ever-so-delightful patterns Lego has set up. And then, because you're reading a Tufi blog entry, you know which one in particular I'm gonna mention next. It can range from two guys/one girl to five guys/one girl to seven guys/one girl or even six guys/two girls, if the creator is outrageously forward-thinking.
But wait! There's more num
It is getting beeeeeeetter...
You doubt me. You doubt me! But not even the whining over #50 can get me down right now. Oh no.
Sunshine and kitties, folks. Sunshine and kitties.
Well, she ain't.
An overview of things, because I have a million-plus-one different things I need to catch up on. I swear, I turn my back for a second, and...
First, the contest. The first thing to suffer the blow of surprise home renovations. I have been told what happened, though. I'm disappointed, folks. I can't really bring myself to say a whole lot more. Just know that there are a lot of you I am disappointed in.
Next, promotions. Namely, my getting a whole new minion. I've got som
I await the events of a week from now. Oh yes.
On another note, people who prebuild MOCs for the contests before they even get the theme are in for quite the shocker this time around. You're not gonna be able to just slap a relevant name on it this time, folks. Oh no.
Are these two things related? Maybe. Maybe not. I just needed to blog.
the list of one Ms. L. Piyufi's
Favouritest Fictional Characters In The Whole Wide Worlds
an assuredly-incomplete catalogue
Milo Bloom
Princess Elizabeth (The Paper Bag Princess)
Chihiro
Mike Warner
Samus Aran
GLaDOS
Lyra
The Ellimist
Sheogorath
Emily the Strange
Nocturn (done properly)
Blanche Hunt
Rufus
Bob 'That Guy' Smith
Every Red Version Narrator Ever
Cybersix
James
Jessie
Viola
Optimus Prime
Princess Leia
Daisy
Neo Cortex
Frank Costanza
Alyosha (as written by
So I've been modding BBC for almost five whole years, right? You see a lot of things in that time. I'd like to think I've learned a lot just by proximity. And there's this one thing that, I dunno how long it's been sitting there in my mind, kinda seems like it shouldn't take five years to hit everyone else. So, I shall share it. Brace yourselves.
When you're building, think for your own selves.
Winding yourselves in 'rules' and 'guidelines' is a horrid way to go through the creative proces
Hi. I made the BBC Contest #46 prelim polls. I'd like to talk to you for a second.
If it were up to me, there would be a program that could take a posted entry list and turn it into perfectly random polls with but a press of a button. This would be simply marvellous. I even know all the things it would have to do: I'm just not a codemonkey in the least. Until then, it's all gotta be done by hand. And believe me, it's all hands. Copying, cutting, pasting, creating thumbnail URLs... There's not
Everywhere I go, I see shenanigans.
A mention of 'that blue site' here.
A bragging of of 'elsewhere' there.
A mention of 'something you'd only know if you were a member of that site' here and there and everywhere.
Well, guess what, guys: I know the place you're speaking of and the ego doesn't impress me. Not only are these not-so-veiled references violating our rules against mentioning sites with forums, they're downright lame. The lamest. Every time, yes. I'd advise you all to knock
So I've been staff for... cripes, almost three years now?... And I've seen more than my fair share of spam in that time. I've been BBC staff for about two and a half years, and I had a fair stretch of time in Artwork the Whole too. As such, I've seen just about every way possible that people can spam. I wouldn't go so far as to say I've seen 'em all: one has never seen it all, and can never hope to. All the same, I've seen a lot of that sort of thing, and I may as well go on about some of 'em.
Number ratings.
Made you jump.
THey're the most horrific insult to the artist or builder imaginable, right? Every time you use one, a baby seal dies or something like that. They're four, five, six, even seven (and they can go even higher) characters of pure, putrid horror. A stain on the Creative Outlet or some othersuch.
I bring forth the most modest of proposals in dealing with them, and I can vouch for its efficency on even the smallest of scales:
Ignore them.
Don't post huge t
I think I need to clear up something on what I said half a year ago.
When I said that Nuva shoulder armour just didn't work for breasts and I went over the reasons why, I did not say 'but oh, Rahkshi heads are just superb for the job'.
They're even worse, folks. They're not even remotely the same shape as the real things. They're never positioned (and can't be) in a way that reflects the way the things really work (I'll give you a hint: Roodaka got it backwards). You're not doing a favour
So, one might say that the opinions on the sets shown at Toy Fair are a bit passionate. That's fine. Passion's fine. Looking at things as a whole is fine.
But cripes. Take a look at the playsets, folks. Do you not notice those beautiful little things?
Black whips.
It is glorious.
So I was going through my stuff in one big blitz of speed-get-stuff-out-of-room-ing last night, and I saw some things in there.
For one thing, while dealing with my closet? Skirts. Also, dresses. Yes, in that very closet. And on the desk? Jewellery box. With things like bracelets and necklaces in it. Some of these had flowers and stuff on them. Let's not even get into the Clikits I found scattered across the room. And then the nail polish... I've been thinking about it all day, but only now h
Tell me I'm not the only one who feels this way.
Remind me I'm not the only one more miffed by the person flaming the spammer than the spammer themselves.
Show me that people still see the value in using the report button.
Let me know that someone out there sees that it's more use to the novice creative mind to kindly help them improve than to tear them down for thinking they're better than they really are.
Reassure me of these things.
I know you guys are out there. I know you're
Well, slightly moreso, anyways.
I have a terrible, awful, humiliating revelation I have to share with you all: for the first seventeen years of my life, I had gone without watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I do not jest. This is something I've had to keep under my hat all these years, all these references around me, every day, everywhere... it's been difficult. I've not gone without a sense of guilt, either. I pride myself on knowing these crucial bits of pop culture, especially those
The contest #42 prelims are up now. All 32 of them, from A to Foxtrot. They end on Sunday, so you better get in there if you haven't already.
The original 'live date' for the prelims was the 16th. This was before I knew that there would be 313 pollable entries. This would take a solid day's work, provided that I had absolutely nothing else to worry about. However, this was not the case at all.
Life did not put itself on hold long enough for me to get the polls up by the 16th, nor did it do
(No, not dead. Just metaphorically narcoleptic.)
I do hope you enjoy that sig and avatar. I know I do. That's why I made it. And you had to love it too, didn't you? That's fine. I won't be parting with this fine Willis work for a while, so you've got plenty of time to enjoy it for yourself. Don't get too attached, though: remember you are but a borrower.
Which is why that sig is wired to explode should you refuse to relinquish it when the time comes. Actually, no. It's the avatar. I've had
I've been a BBC moderator for over four years now. That's four years of having my eye trained on the place. Four years of watching the Western Bionicle building community. That stretch of time includes the Rahkshi, Metru Nui, the Hordika, the Piraka, and the Barraki, among the other sets released over the years. There's quite a shift to be found in there. We went from the Nuva with incredibly limited articulation, to the Rahkshi with their knees and working necks, to the Metru with just about ev
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See above.
This alone puts me where I would not expect to be. But this was not enough! No. I just had to rush out and nab an appropriate app for the iTouch. This puts me in some very high ranks of... well, I'm still trying to figure out what happened. You will be the only app of the sort I use. Yes. I swear to cat.
Dear god, next I'm going to be updating the thing from inside a Starbucks. How does this happen? Please keep me away from the hipsters.
Because there's no way I can hold it in any longer.
I have never hosted a Bionicle-Based Contest in my life.
I have, however, hosted over a dozen of the 45 Bionicle-Based Creations Contests!
You'll find nothing in official contest topics that calls them 'BBCs'. Nothing. You can stop telling others that that's what they're called. That that's what the acronym means. All that stuff.
And gods help me if I see any of my minions, real or otherwise, keep this up... disownage will be the le
