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
Kulagi's Kanoka: one of the epics that I read before becoming a member here, it played a huge part in leading me to join. Thanks to xccj for writing this and for directing me back to the story! =D
*will be rereading one chapter a day*
Recent events in the RPG forum have brought to mind a debate about ethics that we've been having not just in my AP Lang class but also my Government class as well. I've decided to share my views on justice and fairness, and what I believe they are.
Women today, despite supposedly being on "equal ground" as men, still don't get the same wages as men do. I won't bother you with statistics. Some women's rights activists demand exactly equal treatment as men do, in not just jobs but all aspects o
School is not going very well for me. I went from two weeks before school, with absolutely nothing urgent to do, just sitting around and surfing on the internet, to band camp the day after, eleven hours of marching around on the grass in the August heat.
Looking back, that wasn't so bad. Compared to my Junior year of school, of course. All my classes are honors classes, and only one is easy (Band 4 Honors), though it makes up for that with the time required (marching season=I give up Wednesd
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
Now that my entry for the IDBM Contest #3, the Everflight, has made it all the way to the final poll (to be honest I'm really surprised; I thought I might make it past the first round if I was lucky), I'd like to share the ideas behind my entry.
When I found the topic in the S&T forum (it wasn't that hard since it was pinned), I thought "why not, I'll try it out". I've participated in a few contests here at BZP but the only ones I've ever stood a chance in were the story writing ones. But
There's a contest going on right now to make a Rahi canon...specifically, the bird Rahi that Ackar uses to teach Mata Nui how to predict an opponent's movements.
There are lots of good entries out of the twenty there, go to the poll and vote for your favorite!
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
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...
There are few things in this world that incite as much anger in a person as the bullying of the person's younger sibling.
You can hurt me, you can cripple me, you can beat me to a pulp, but lay one finger on my seven-year old brother and I will personally come and tear you apart.
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.
Today after school I called my mom to pick me up. The phone call lasted five seconds; a police officer immediately caught my mom and fined her for using the phone while driving.
When my mom picked me up, she was laughing her head off at the absurdity of the situation.
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.
Here's another one of the stories I wrote here at arts camp. I wrote this about three weeks ago, and it's far from complete. I'm still editing and revising it, but here's the story so far. I present to you "Crossing the Bridge" by me.
Crossing the Bridge
Jessica clutched a large picture book with both arms as she made her way down the path, looking ahead at the rows and rows of gravestones. She smiled sadly as she recognized the two gravestones farthest away from her. The young girl began
I'm starting a new blog project. Each month I'll post nine links to topics/stories/blogs that I highly recommend. Included with that will be a "game" of sorts (where the name of this entry comes from).
First, I'll introduce the nine topics, and then the rules of the game below.
1 - Renowned Outstanding BZP Citizen, Master Artist and Writer, and overall Nice Person Lady Kopaka is now offering commissions. If you're feeling like having one of your story characters or RPG characters or a rand
Upon reading through the Should Kinetics Be A Toa Element? poll, I saw fifteen pages worth of members' opinions on the subject. Many of them were strong, most of them were clear-cut, and some of them took up ten pages when pasted into Microsoft Word. Almost all of them provided a new opinion on the topic, looking at it from different angles. I saw dozens of opinions I had previously never thought of or even considered before.
This is the first time during my four years at BZPower that I've be
Our eccentric Emperor, E-Dubya, is organizing a BZPower T-Shirt Project, to be sold at Brickfair and Brick-con this August. Check out EW's blog for more details!
I personally don't see any difference at all between the two, but I'm just curious: which one do you use, or do you use both or neither (some other image hosting site) for your Bionicle/BZP things?
Note: This is not about which is better, just which one you use.
I got a PM this afternoon. It was some sort of Member of the Day thing, and I got an image to go along with it. Anyway, I decided to put this in my blog, just for kicks. My thanks to Skateboarder 2 da max for this image:
That's all. I might put up one of my written stuff in the next few days.
My thoughts on the experience:
1) Raccoons > Bears
2) Instant Mac and Cheese still tastes good without milk and butter.
3) Old people not only can hike, but are better at it than a group of seventeen year olds.
4) Some rangers are chill, some aren't.
5) Sociology and Economics texts make for some great fuel.
6) GPS > Woman for directions. But the extra two hours of getting lost in the mountains was nice I guess. Beautiful scenery.
