Well, excuse my language but holy ###### was this a pleasant surprise. I've managed to completely forget about BZP and all the great friends I made here, hadn't visited the site for just shy of a year now...heard about the "downtime" over the summer but that's the only news I'd heard about the BZP. Decided on a whim to pop in for a visit, and what is this? Wow. New format. So much cleaner and professional looking. Can't even remember the old look, trying not to so nostalgia doesn't overwhelm
Not so much a new life, really...well, maybe it is. I guess it just hasn't hit me yet, since I haven't been away from home for more than a month at a time for summer camps. Speaking of which, it really did feel like a summer camp last week during orientation. Carnegie Mellon really spoiled us with cruises and bowling and lasertag...someone said they must be tricking us, making us want to stay for the year and suffer through their super-tough classes.
Not that I'm complaining of course, if I'm
Well, this is it.
All joking aside, in less than three days now, I'm going off to college. Which means that the day I've anticipated, sometimes dreaded, but always prepared for, has come. It's time for me to say goodbye to BZPower. I don't really know how I feel. Yeah, of course I'll miss BZP and all the memories and connections I've made here. But, knowing for a year and a half that this was the day that I'd have to say a final goodbye has helped me come to terms with that. I've 'quit' B
This just in:
++Dr. Bionicle Sighted in RPG Forums++
A Dr. Bionicle was seen around noon PST today wandering the RPG forums. The scientific community is in an uproar at this latest development.
The Dr. Bionicle, for those of you unfamiliar with RPG history, was a creature that flourished in the year 2006, even winning the first ever RPG Contest and hosting the highly successful Academy RPG for nine months (after which it was merged into the official BZPRPG). In the following years, howe
Hop on over to EmperorWhenua 2.0's blog for an awesome story based on Snoopy82's epic!
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Does anyone still remember that rap? I feel old referencing it...
To celebrate the birthday of Emperor Whenua, a very special friend (if at times eccentric), I have gone through 47 chat logs (and nine chatroom logs) accumulated through half a year of Meebo-usage, to find our most memorable chat moments and share them with you all. Here goes...
My remarkable punctuality:
Our relationship in a nutshell.
EW actually inspired me to make one of the posts I remain most proud of in my four years here. I guess you're just an inspiring kind of guy, EW.
Never thought I'd see the day. CNN just did an article on their website about Comic-Con. That's right, Comic-Con made it into a mainstream media news site.
I've never actually been to a Comic-Con myself, but I've heard enough over the years to know that it used to be exclusive to us geeks. According to the article, over the past few years more and more mainstream stuff has been making it into Comic-Con; last year, people reportedly were not able to get into the panels they wanted because the
So, after sending someone a PM, the content of that message prompted me to try to figure out how to get to a list of my previous topics...
It took a while, but first I stumbled onto the subscriptions page, containing the only topic I ever actually subscribed to -- the Covenant of the 13. It's an epic by Wolf Eyes (sadly no longer active), and it's a great read. I'm still rereading it, so I have no idea if she ever actually finished, but anyway.
So, I finally wound up in my topics list. It
So, let's see...I have prior BZPRPG commitments already, plus I just got in over my head joined the To Save the World RPG...and now I'm joining two more RPGs from season (maybe a third). Outside of that, I have a group epic that doesn't have a direction yet, and then I'm planning to join at least two BZP contests. Finally, there's the SSCC2 topic to clean up.
Hmmm...sure, why not? I can do this.
Second day of the tour of Shanghai. So far, three things resound with me the most:
1) Bus drivers here are even better than the ones in America. Didn't think I'd ever say this.
2) Farmers don't have to pay tax.
3) Shanghai has three times the population of LA. Congestion is like...whatever it's like, it'll be an understatement. You have to come and see for yourself. I spent more time staring at the back of people's heads and getting pushed around than sightseeing.
Just read DC Comic's Justice League of America: Salvation Run, and I think it's one of DC's best, or at the very least a must-read.
The basic premise of this is that, seeing as how more and more supervillains are overrunning the world, the government decides to set up a sort of Prison Planet - another world deep in space and far away from Earth. Captured supervillains are deported to this Prison Planet via Boom Tube (teleportation machines), and left alone to "start a new life" apart from civ
I was just thinking about the phrase "before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes". The idea of it is supposed to be that you don't have the right to judge or criticize someone until you've been through what they've been through.
This entry isn't entirely related to that, but it does have to do with the "in their shoes" part of the phrase. About a week ago, another forum I visit had a topic to honor the memory of another member's late friend. The friend had "mixed with the wrong
CartoonNetwork's old show Justice League is one of the best, if not the best, animated series in the history of animated series. Its sequel JLU isn't far behind.
Give a shout out if Justice League was a fond childhood memory for you too.
After seeing the trailer for the movie on a video sharing site, I finally got down to placing a hold for it at my local library. I'd known about The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold since ninth grade but always put off on reading it, and I'm glad I did because after making it through the whole story I feel like I wouldn't have been able to truly appreciate the intensity and skill of Sebold if I'd read the novel as a freshman.
It's a great read and I definitely recommend it, but not to readers who
4/3/10 Story Fit Exercise
For an explanation of what the Story Fit is, please go here.
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This is the beginning of the second successful season of the Story Fit! We got really great stories last time, with a few writers especially standing out (Season 1 Finale).
And with this last season behind us, let's start the second season fresh. Most long-running television series always start off the new season with a bang, usually a story arc that spans two episodes. Likewise, this week w
Story Fit Season 1 Finale
As the first Season of Story Fit draws to a close, we've seen our writers perform amazing feats. Some club members amazed us through the eloquence of their prose, or their vivid imagery, or poetic talent. Some inspired awe through sheer prolificness, churning out work after work, week after week. Some were just plain crazy in terms of imagination and creativity.
And now it's time to look at the results of our first session of exercise in the Writing Gym, and the i
Bad experiences balancing BZPower with Sophomore life? ... Check.
Thinking ahead to two years in the future? ... Check.
Revelation that Undergrad life will likely require an absence of a commitment to BZP? ... Check.
Decision to make long-term plans to "retire" from BZP by the end of senior year? ... Check.
Adamant about decision despite persuading and/or objecting from BZP friends? ... Check.
Almost ready to retire? ... Check.
"What is the meaning of this status on
Same words, different context.
In the end, the BZPRPG is just a game, guys. You can choose to play it like one or you can take it seriously. Take your pick, though I'm of the opinion that the former option is more fun -- taking something like an RPG so seriously more often than not leads to angst, anger, ego jousts, rants, and the loss of friends.
I shall quote renowned BZPRPG economist Endearing Effeminate Son here:
"BZPRPG: Serious Business."
And then qualify that profound statemen
For some reason I'm finding topic-based RPGs to be harder to catch up on than forum-based RPGs.
Could just be because of my spending three years mostly in a forum-based RPG only.
