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
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
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
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
There's a word people love to throw around when it comes to MOCs, artwork, and sets. But not just any examples, oh no. It only really pops up when the subjects are female.
You don't get to be surprised that's what this blog entry in this blog is about.
I've seen some great female MOCs get posted in BBC. Streamlined yet well-armoured, minus the woefully out-of-place ponytail, and in footwear you can actually fight in. I often regret not publically recognizing them as they come up for just p
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.
So.
New serial update, I see.
'First' canon instance of romance, I hear.
Sahmad's got a lady in his life? Wait, no, had. She's dead. Long dead before we ever got to her. Dead, nameless, and seemingly only around to provide angst for her living, named guyfriend.
She needs a name.
I propose we call her 'Fridgey'.
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 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
Bionicle's rules about elements and what genders they can be are like the racing spoiler on a Honda Civic.
At some point, you thought "what my car really needs is a racing spoiler." So you went out, bought the spoiler, and installed it on your car. They're not exactly naturally-occuring things: you kinda had to take the initiative on this one. Point is, you stuck a racing spoiler on your Civic.
Why? Because it gives a great performance boost, that's why! It reduces drag and increases speed
Once upon a time, I drew this.
It was a couple of years ago. The forum refused to show any signs of life. I was bored. I still had Photo-Paint. I believe there was some ridiculous-female nonsense in some forum or other at the time. There were no blogs, and I wasn't about to go posting it in the Artwork forum. At the time, however, there wasn't really anywhere else to put it. Oh, the dark days before blogs.
I wasn't going to post a topic for it because I'm not so fussed on the pictures them
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.
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
Lookie here, I got myself a new minion this week. Yes.
Maybe this one'll be different. Maybe she won't try to usurp me. Maybe she won't 'mingle' with any of my other minions. Maybe I won't get so much backtalk from her. I'm still holding out hope.
In any case, I've got myself a genuine princess now. That means she's got a much, much bigger chance of becoming Empress should I ever kick off. Yeah, that's right, guys. You just moved down The List. Bigtime. No, Kex, getting yourself pranked wo
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
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.
I've done a bit of counting, folks. I managed to finish this particular count very quickly. Did you know that we've only got one female set this year?
Now you do. Remember this: it is an important part of the entry.
One female set. One. That means we only really have one female character in all the story this year. Yeah, yeah, so there might be those 'book-exclusive' characters. Honestly, folks, does that really make much of a difference? Not everyone's going to know what goes on in the bo
In the first contest voting forum (the one set aside for the BBC contest), there are twenty-nine polls for two hundred and eighty-four entries. 284. That's a pretty big number. It pushes the boundaries of the English alphabet, in fact. This was the least of my problems today, but hey. So, I came up with a solution, and moved on to the more pressing things.
Polls Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie. They've got a certain ring to them, don't they? I certainly like the sound.
Maybe I should do a full s
On UltraPuffinPod. A fairly fresh list: the data's only had a month or so to build up.
The concept is simple: a childhood with a noticeable lack of opportunities to listen to the songs I do love so has resulted in a young woman who finds the best feature of any music player to be the 'repeat song forever' option. Thus, highly skewed song play stats! Listed in order from most played to least. Gaze and be amused.
I Can't Decide - oh, Master.
The Way - old people ambling off to die. I'm a
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
(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.
