He speaks truth!

When a person's style involved the female proportions to took like a man, I will complain. x[

Wow, somebody woke up on the grumpy side of bed this morning =(

*applauds* You speak truth.

 

*approves*

Ok...maybe it is time for a list of things I am not too fond of here on BZP and why.

 

And I want to start with my main-grudges right away:

Comedies and Artwork III. Now, I do not want those forums to be gone, but there are things about them that haven gotten so lame they need a wheelchair with NoS boosters to keep up to speed. I remember back in the day there was TKs adventures of Makuta and Takanuva or Dark709's comics, and those were pretty funny for the incoporation of original elements. However, some people propably thought that Pie, Cheese and Cookies are the new "beeing cool in comics" and there was a great disturbance in the force. It felt as if hundreds of voices cried out in unison "D'oh!" before beeing silenced by the new obligatory insane food-addicted sidekicks. Bob, you're not alone. Unfortunately. I think the mental homes of Metru Nui must run out of rubber-clad cells soon. Besides owning a trading store and suddenly beeing raided by a horde of food-addicts more violent then zombies in Evil Dead doesn't sound very promising. One Vahki per food-store...dang, what's the world coming to?

And I am not basing the criticism on any fact from when I checked the AWIII forum regularly 2 years ago, I checked back and the madness is still rampaging. And good comics are hard to spot.

 

While we are in the comic-cast overused-lameness here: The evil mastermind plus dumb sidekick taking over the comics but failing everytime in a worse way then Arthur Peuty, the original 16-tons Pythons victim. Espescially when the mastermindedness is about either disguising and infiltrating the good guys or kidnapping one of the good guys, mostly the food-addict that nobody will miss anyway. Man you are SO evil. Espescially with that collective heap of unintelligence right next to you who in fact even has a good heart and makes friends among the good guys. Good luck. You won't have any.

 

The rest of the crew is more or less insane but that diminishes in the unpopularity of those mentioned above.

 

What else is there? Ah right. Setting: A building. Somewhere. Consisting of a single room. Maybe sitcoms are ok, but they have scenes playing in the kitchen sometimes too! Notice anything?

Project Klinkerpoop? I Am Noob?

 

The comedies forum propably isn't any better. It is the same madness in written form. At least we can maintain eyesight due to the lack of cancer-causing colours, thank Mata Nui.

Nope, no argument from me on this point

 

Now, on to the next bug that sticks here like a fly to the yellow paperstrips: Sig-fads...Also, do not belive any statistic that you haven't manipulated yourself.

I ignore sig fads like those really. They only take up a single line, it's pretty easy

 

As we are already among the member fads, lets continue with another big one in S+T. So, there is our poor, spammed by hundreds of questions daily, Greg Farshtey who does a really good job at writing the stories and beeing active here, and yet every word the man says is made into a theory.

Posting a topic like "I think xxx works in x and y way because Greg said xyz in this quote, so it must be true" is not a theory. Did you see NtM's "Matoran universe guide". THAT is a theory, not only based on quotes but on a long time of thinking and figuring out stuff yourself and finding storyline evidence.

And while we speak of that, "I can't tell you about that" doesn't mean Greg is telling you you are right. It means he can't tell you at the moment. It's not a backwards approval of your theory.

You're not the only one. There are quite a few people who ask if he minds all the questions and he says that if he did he wouldn't answer them. But the topics that totally miconstrue everything get my goat too

 

And I think after he told us the first time "Matoro will not come back in any way" there is no need for a dozen of "RIP Matoro" and "How Matoro can come back" theories. This is war, charies die, deal with it.

And this didn't only happen with Matoro. Carapar: Dead, lots of topics in the aftermath. Botar: Dead, lots of mourning. The guy only appeared twice in the storyline so far. Like Omi once said: No need to celebrate a charies death like that of a real person. And he most definately is not in heaven alongside JFK, be realistic. It doesn't hurt.

Who was it who put in their sig "I think its sad that you still see RIP Matoro messages, but not any RIP Beliwa messages"?

 

Mentioning Omi leads to my next point of criticism: Praise the mods. They do their job and I am happy they do it well and that it worked out so far. But I see no need to carve every word by B6 into gold. He is a good moderator and admin and what he says is right often, but please stop the moderator-worshipping. I am pretty sure if you told them "OMG you are so awesome" a hundred times in real life just because they attended brickfair you would get snapped at. They are busy people who squeeze BZP and real life under one hat and if I was a Moderator or FA i don't think I would like groupies.

Especially when it comes to news reports. "OMG thanks Moderator xy for that find!" Excuse me. It was a member who found the news and reported them. The mods depend on the community to find news.

And besides, when did the idea occur that beeing the sherrifs' sidekick will get you a promotion? It is perfectly fine mentioning to others that they broke a rule, to link them to the topic with the rules and report a violation. This is helpful and good. Giving tips too. Busting into a topic with your caps-lock-gun cocked and writing "YOU CAN NOT DO THIS IT BREAKS THE RULES" is however, not helpful. It might be considered spam too. Especially when somebody who posted before you mentioned exactly the same thing in the helpful manner above.

Don't play Chuck Norris here, try to be helpful.

For the sake of argument, I think Omi enjoyed his power a little too much at times. It's all very well closing down a topic that needs to be closed down, but if you're going to be really snarky about it it just looks like you're doing it because you can

 

My next point on the list are RPGs. Leading one myself and having played in several others I noticed some things I do not really like.

And I am not talking about choices of characters here, that is ok. Most plots are cool too and are real fun to play.

I am talking about the dependency of players on the game-mods. It seems to me, as soon as an RPG Moderator dissapears for a week all action dies down. Even though you might have left tasks. For example in BK I left the players to search Metru Nui for a Matoran beeing chased by some Shadowcreatures because he is going to be important. I gave the setting and the task, but apparently it isn't cool to go and do such a thing as long as I am not babysitting the scavenger hunt. Or I am doing this wrong, I don't know. But it happened in other games as well where I tried to keep things going.

Thats why people are called players: To play. And thats why moderators are called moderators: to Moderate. Keeping the game going is the players task. Throwing them new tasks so that they can do that is the GMs task.

But on the other hand you can't have a GM who is too strict either *coughShadowsinAHCcough*

 

Another thing about RPGs: Naming things. Excuse the mods for not beeing deeply familiar with every MMORPG, tabletop and fantasy game out there. We also are no experts on ancient cultures and weapons. And espescially not on every Anime or Manga in existance.

So not everyone will know what a "Shuriken" is. And I don't feel like looking it up. And spare us describing your charie with foreign words. Just because you watch Naruto it doesn't mean you are a Ninja and can talk like one. Besides I am sure some native speakers will be quite ashamed of the abuse of their langugage.

Personally I like using obscure weapons. An Atl-atl for Hysa, a macuahuitl for Schova.

I went for Aztec weaponry not Asian weaponry though

 

Enough of RPGs, back to Artwork I.

I know there are a lot of kids on this site. I know there are a lot who are not DaVinci and might not be able to draw art like Nikira does, or colour something in Photoshop like Lyger or work a 3D program like Populus. But a stickman with two eyes and circle for a mouth doesn't make Toa Tahu. It is ok if you get a bit of perspective wrong or if you can only draw 2D. But take a look and notice that just because you have a scanner and know how to use it your stickman turns into a masterpiece. Or to be more fair here, I know art isn't easy, if you post your stickman and accept contructive criticism it is perfectly fine. But don't post your 5-minute instant Tahu and claim Van-Goghs throne.

Oh and by the way: Who are you to judge if someones art is bionicle enough or not? Or accurate enough or not. Who made you head of the storyline team so you can decide what Lariska has to look like and how not? And what is it with the extreme Phobia of female proportions? Take one look at Roodaka and be silent. And don't critizise someones style. Each has his/her own and us artists draw mostly for ourselves, not for you, at least not entirely. If you don't like someones art, go look at something else. (Yeah, I know it applies to me and the stickman as well, but first of all I give constructive criticism, or I keep my mouth shut and do look at something else.)

Again I think someone summed it up really well when they said something along the lines of: "When people stop drawing their male Toa with large muscles and an impressive physique, I will stop drawing my females so well endowed"

Project Klinkerpoop? I Am Noob?

 

Nope, no argument from me on this point

I ignore sig fads like those really. They only take up a single line, it's pretty easy

Like I said, those are pet-peeves. Annoying but ok. I mean if I was so fed up with them , I wouldn't be here, right?

 

You're not the only one. There are quite a few people who ask if he minds all the questions and he says that if he did he wouldn't answer them. But the topics that totally miconstrue everything get my goat too

Although, I am not really fond of Mata Nui as an actual body beeing the universe though. That is kind of...ungh. It ridicules a lot of things for me.

 

Who was it who put in their sig "I think its sad that you still see RIP Matoro messages, but not any RIP Beliwa messages"?

Can't remember, but oh so truly spoken!

 

For the sake of argument, I think Omi enjoyed his power a little too much at times. It's all very well closing down a topic that needs to be closed down, but if you're going to be really snarky about it it just looks like you're doing it because you can

Like I said, no real need for praise.

 

But on the other hand you can't have a GM who is too strict either *coughShadowsinAHCcough*

Who said something about beeing strict? I said I wouldn't want to babysit anyone. It's more about finding the middleway -.-

 

Personally I like using obscure weapons. An Atl-atl for Hysa, a macuahuitl for Schova.

I went for Aztec weaponry not Asian weaponry though

Well yes, but who knows what they are? If people want to use such names, provide an explanation at least. Besides, I am curious, what are these things?

 

Again I think someone summed it up really well when they said something along the lines of: "When people stop drawing their male Toa with large muscles and an impressive physique, I will stop drawing my females so well endowed"

Must have been Raka ^^

Who was it who put in their sig "I think its sad that you still see RIP Matoro messages, but not any RIP Beliwa messages"?

 

I wonder why there are no Toa Lhikan RIP messages?

he was a bigger part of the story then Beliwa was.

 

K~LL

Who was it who put in their sig "I think its sad that you still see RIP Matoro messages, but not any RIP Beliwa messages"?

 

I wonder why there are no Toa Lhikan RIP messages?

he was a bigger part of the story then Beliwa was.

 

K~LL

 

Uhm Kallista...Beliwa was a real member. You know, I told you about it...but shhhhh

 

though I agree...Lhikan wasn't mourned as much. Pity. He was the best Toa so far. After Kopaka.

Atl-atl

Macuahuitl

 

I don't think it was Raka who said it...I think it may have been in Gato's topic about the MOC with the really long name. I'll check

 

EDIT: Well I found this post, and this one, but not the one I was looking for...

Uhm Kallista...Beliwa was a real member. You know, I told you about it...but shhhhh

 

though I agree...Lhikan wasn't mourned as much. Pity. He was the best Toa so far. After Kopaka.

 

Oh yah. *smacks head*

well yah um definatly.

 

K~LL

@Entry: Rantlol FTW. Could have taken it more over the top, though, and not played it so straight. But then, I guess you were serious, so. . . whatev. I just find these kinds of rants funny.

 

Matoro's death may have been epic, but obviously the real-life loss of Beliwa: Toa of Demons left me with a depth of sorrow that I could never feel for a fictional character. Still, the ratio of RIP Matoro to RIP Beliwa sigs never bugged me. Why should it?

 

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