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by the time I had my Vahi I was already finished with my first epic which was basically awesome but whatever pace yourself I guess
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Official library topic for the worst of the worst. I'm necromancing my old writing, feel free to follow suit in your own blogs... IF YOU DARE Oh right fair warning, these all link to the archives, so it will log you out when you come back. Dark Lands (epic) Matau's Talk Show! (Remember when those were cool?) Inika Go To Wal-mart (shut up)
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So I'm listening to the latest podcast because I'm in it and also playing Mass Effect 2 at the same time and I think I'm getting a little confused why is Garrus talking about New York Comic-Con and farm animals
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SO YEAH I GUESS I HAVE LIKE 240 POINTS OR SOMETHING SINCE I DID SEVERAL OF THESE MORE THAN ONCE NOT THAT IT MATTERS BUT I SUPPOSE THAT I SHOULD LOG THESE SINCE I'M A SLIGHTLY MORE INVOLVED AMBAGE MEMBER NOW Into the Sky(pe)! - Participate in a Skype Write Off (5 Points) Home Row Heavyweight - Finish a write off story with over 600 words. (15 Points) Manuscript Kiddie Pool - Post a short story. (10 Points) The Daunting Task - Post an epic. (15 Points) Not For the Faint of Heart - Write a substantial adventure. (10 Points) It's Close to Midnight… - Write a substantial thriller. (10 Points) Wrote one. 115 Do. Or do Not. There is No Try - Write a substantial sci-fi story. (10 Points) Vague Subject Matter - Post a story in Completely Off Topic. (10 Points) Here Lies Punctuation - Find at least 10 grammar/spelling errors in a story. (5 Points) Critical Thinking - Substantially review a short story. (10 Points) A Lovely Contestant - Participate in an official BZP Writing contest. (10 Points) Challenge Accepted - Enter an Ambage-hosted contest. (10 Points) I Don't do This for Free - Make Andrew beg you to write a story for him. (20 Points) Worth A Thousand Words - Create a piece of art for an Ambage project. (10 Points) No Rules! No Rules! - Fail to log your achievements for confirmation. (10 points) Dude, Where's My Anthology? - Take charge. (50 points) Troublemaker - Get banned from the Skype writeoff group five times. (20 points) Accredited - Use a conversation from the Ambage to write a college-level discourse. (30 points) Green and Purple - The official chat sucks anyways. (10 points) Salted Watermelon - Join the Ambage. (10 points) Before It Was Cool - Transfer membership to the Ambage from the BAG or other previous BZPower critics club. (20 points) An Cool Dude - Revise your story to make it BZPower-appropriate. (10 points) Cheating the System - Make your own achievement. (10 points) Can't Stop Me Now - Create over ten custom achievements. (20 points) Death Row - Get banned from the Skype Writeoff Group Indefinitely. (100 points) Saturday Night Massacre - Ban at least three Ambage members from the Skype chat in one night. (100 points) Come On Come On Hit Me - Ask to be banned. (20 points) Never Dead - Come back after being banned forever. (20 points)
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A little reminder about the BZPower Leaked Content Policy
Kakaru posted a blog entry in blogs_blog_1061
Take a quick refresher, just in case. Apparently there are images popping up and I have no idea if they're leaked or not but just to be safe let's wait for official word. With that in mind, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee -
[9:34:36 PM] Kakaru: #killedthechat [9:34:55 PM] Kakaru: http://www.majhost.c...r/badrp_cot.jpg [9:35:30 PM] Tyler St. Francis: pfffffffftahahaha [9:36:23 PM] Kakaru: I forgot we were going to make that one when we first posted these so I just did [9:36:59 PM] Kakaru: Also Tyler please what is going on I don't even [9:37:09 PM] Tyler St. Francis: dude [9:37:11 PM] Tyler St. Francis: micah [9:37:12 PM] Tyler St. Francis: bro [9:37:14 PM] Tyler St. Francis: your guess is as good as mine [9:20:02 PM] Kakaru: THERE ARE NO VAMPIRES IN BIONICLE CANON. GET OUT. [9:20:07 PM] Kal Grochi: Pfft hahaha [9:20:17 PM] Tyler St. Francis: TILLIAN'S NOT VAMPIRE [9:20:22 PM] Tyler St. Francis: HE JUST GENETICALLY MUTATED TOA [9:09:29 PM] Kal Grochi: That's derpier than me having a force ghost in the BZPRPG [9:00:26 PM] Kal Grochi: Lul Micah [9:00:37 PM] Kal Grochi: Imagine if a character of yours and a character of mine became good friends in the game [9:00:38 PM] Kal Grochi: ... [9:00:40 PM] Kal Grochi: Hey wait [9:00:41 PM] Kakaru: oh gog. [9:00:46 PM] Kal Grochi: We would like [9:00:48 PM] Kal Grochi: Destroy everything [9:00:53 PM] Kal Grochi: But [9:00:54 PM] Kakaru: yeah [9:00:57 PM] Kal Grochi: I have a character I need to introduce [9:01:08 PM] Kakaru: and I'd feel bad about that bar in retrospect [8:57:12 PM] iBrow: It has always made sense to me. [8:57:56 PM] Kakaru: ermgash [8:58:24 PM] Kakaru: the BZPRPG is so much more fun if you stop taking your character seriously like he's the most cool dude on the island [8:58:51 PM] Kal Grochi: Lolyup [8:59:14 PM] Kakaru: make him awkward and underpowered and not trying to take everyone on in a fight with deep philosophical taunts/spewing wit like a broken comedy track [9:00:10 PM | Edited 9:00:15 PM] Kakaru: but that's how everyone tries to play and it just gets hilarious when everyone's trying to be cooler than the last guy [8:48:13 PM] Kakaru: Mental disorders are medical conditions. Mental disorders are not personality quirks. Mental disorders are not something you can just “get over.” [8:48:32 PM] Kal Grochi: Harness the mental disorder [8:48:33 PM] Andrew P: Sure they are. [8:48:35 PM] Kal Grochi: And make it give you power [8:48:37 PM] Tolkien: heehee [8:26:01 PM] Kakaru: "QUERIED" IS NOT NECESSARILY THE SAME THING AS "ASKED." STOP USING THEM INTERCHANGEABLY [8:26:11 PM] Kal Grochi: LOL. [8:26:45 PM] Kal Grochi: "So I queried Andrew about the nature of his breakfast yesterday, he said it was rather delightful." [8:26:48 PM] iBrow: What would be the difference? [8:27:04 PM] iBrow: Aside from queried sounding awkward in just about every converstaion [8:27:55 PM] Kakaru: "yes?" is not a query, it's a response. [8:27:57 PM] Andrew P: a question isn't a query, but a query is a question. [8:28:08 PM] Tolkien: I asked him. I asked him a question. I asked about x. I queried him. *I queried him a question. I queried him about x. "ask" is interchangeably intransitive/ditransitive, while "query" is primarily intransitive/transitive, but not ditransitive (unless the second object is a prepositional phrase, rather than an argument). [8:28:10 PM] Kakaru: Right, what Andrew said. [8:28:57 PM] iBrow: I don't generally use "queried" all that often anyway. I find it to be clunky in many situations. [8:29:06 PM] Kakaru: Basically, if you;re running rampant sticking "queried" in all your "asks" then you just sound like you're trying to fluff your writing to make it appear more intelligent than it probably is, which makes you look like a twat. [8:29:20 PM] Velox: XD [8:18:53 PM] Velox: Fine, but seriously, please, don't make things too crazy in there. It's supposed to be a writer's club chat, not a crazy spammy chat. [8:19:06 PM] Kakaru: I'm not spamming. [8:19:09 PM] Kakaru: I'm just yelling. [8:19:14 PM] Velox: Same thing. =P [8:19:25 PM] Kakaru: brb, I gotta pick the trash off my floor [8:19:29 PM] Velox: We're trying to make better, professional writers here. You can go yell someplace else =P [8:19:30 PM] Velox: hahahahaha [8:17:26 PM] Velox: Because, I remove people for a reason, and you shouldn't be going against me. =P [8:17:42 PM] Kakaru: JUST FOR THAT I'M GOING TO KICK OVER MY TRASH CAN [8:17:47 PM] Kakaru: THERE [8:17:50 PM] Velox: XD [8:17:51 PM] Kakaru: MY FLOOR'S A MESS [8:17:54 PM] Kakaru: I HOPE YOU FEEL BAD [8:22:35 PM] Kal Grochi: OH [8:22:41 PM] GSR: You made him knock over a trash can? Andrew, that's horrible. [8:22:43 PM] Kal Grochi: NOW I KNOW WHY YOU PUT UP THIS: [8:22:54 PM] Kal Grochi: [8:20 PM] Kakaru: fair enough now I gotta go find a vacuum this is impossible Ladies and gentlemen, The Ambage.
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and also I can't tell if this image is seriously not posting or if my computer is trolling me alsoalsoalso I forgot how happy it makes me to be playing again. Character interaction, fights, random encounters, screaming, blowing things up oh gog why keep drifting out of this I'm going to be in this forum all day tomorrow ANDREW GET IN ON THIS DARN YOU
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Well. I think I'm out of excuses. I've been gone for months with nary a peep as to my whereabouts. (Is that how you spell it? I don't know.) What's been happening, you may ask? Well, sort of a weird combination of business, distraction, and just being lazy. Last June, Gabriella and I both graduated from the college where we went together, and I moved back home, where I spent most of the summer looking for jobs as well as applying for graduate school. This kept me pretty busy for those few months. Then, toward the end of August, I got a part-time offer for work and started working there, which keeps me busy Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays for the most part. This was where the laziness came in. I was so busy those three days that all the other stuff I like to do (reading, watching movies, playing video games, etc.) started becoming higher priority for me on the off days when I didn't get to do them, so BZPower sort of fell off the wayside. In addition, I just simply forgot about it. A lot. Long story short, I have no idea where my schedule might lead me next, but for now, it's fairly regular. I may not have as much time as I'd like to do all the things that I'd like, but I'll try not to forget about BZP again. I updated Hack Wars with a new (fairly long) chapter, and on Wednesday I'll try to have a new TNI or AM! chapter (depending on which comes next in the crossover) up. Hopefully it'll stay more regular from now on, and I'll try to stick as close to the schedule from the last blog entry as I can (though Tuesdays and Thursdays are now out for obvious reasons, and Friday's chapter may have to get moved to Saturday). My apologies once again and here's hoping it actually works out this time! Lewa0111 Nuva
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BRICKCON IS TOMORROW AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA YOU PROBABLY DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT THIS BLOG ENTRY UNLESS YOU ARE ALSO GOING TO BE THERE BUT IT'S GONNA BE GREAT ANDREW HURRY UP AND GET HERE
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I know but it's late and I didn't feel like I had the capacity to do a writeup of a real news item I picked that bit solely so I could make that joke also I'm not going to have time to report tomorrow because I'm leaving for Brickcon no I don';t actually think I'm that clever that the rest of BZPower needs to share my mirth even though my last couple of stories have ended in a lousy pun. It just seemed to fit at the time. I'm actually a lot more professional that I act but I guess that sorta negates the entire point then, doesn';t it
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Apparently the quality of my reporting is directly correlated to how many hours of work I put in, added to the amount of sleep I missed and how many hours of class I have, and how much homework they've assigned us versus how much I have done. Because I swear that article wasn't there when I posted mine and I read every article posted before I do my reports. I guess that was just an additional reminder then, because it's super important. also yes I ended up taking a nap right after I posted that I'll be more careful in the future
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In the comments below, various notes will be listed. Red = Spelling error/tense error. Green = Grammatical awkwardness/error. Blue: canon error/personal taste.
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...What do you think BZPower will be like? Do you think that BZPower will survive for another eleven years? What do you think we will talk about then? Will you have something to say if BZP lasts that long?
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Hoo boy. Where to start? Well, last Wednesday sounds good. So as you may have heard, last week was my final week at Microsoft. This was all well and good, but there was also the slight issue that this meant I needed to present my summer's work to management on Thursday morning. (I actually wound up doing it twice at my boss' request, but more on that in a second.) As you might expect, I was pretty busy Wednesday revising and re-revising and practicing my presentation. When I did finally get home about 8 PST, I got a message from Valixia and Velox asking if I could sit for the ECC critic final interview. After I grabbed some dinner, we went ahead and did it - and it must have gone well, since I was hired immediately afterward. I was now an official ECC critic. Figuring that would conclude my major BZP business for the week, I retired for the night. In the morning I woke up and checked BZP to find a message waiting from me. Well, two, actually. The first was from Valixia asking if I could write up an ECC bio. The other was from Black Six asking if I would be a Forum Mentor. After shaking my head for a second to make sure I was actually fully awake (this was all at 7:45 in the morning, remember), I sent back my acceptance, albeit with a note that I'd be pretty busy the next few days. Still, it was a nice confidence booster going into my presentation... ...which couldn't have gone much better. I got through in the allotted time, fielded some questions from management, and managed to show off how my project would be legitimately helpful in the future. My boss apparently agreed; that afternoon we sat down for my final review, which to not bore you all on went well. I got home to see a response from B6 in my inbox about my acceptance. I relaxed a bit that evening - but not too much. I still had a second presentation to get through the next day. So, Friday. Woke up, got into work, gave the presentation to a different group, where it went over very well (though I can't say why without breaking several NDAs, haha.) That afternoon I had a meeting with my recruiter, who offered me a position next year as well. I tentatively accepted - the formal acceptance and all that will come later, after mountains of paperwork and talks with my family. That night I went out with some friends, then came home and packed. Saturday I was up early to catch my flight. Security and all that went as well as could be expected; the only problem was rather than the almost straight shot MS had originally booked for me, I was set to fly to Houston and then back up to Wisconsin. This is apparently cheaper for MS somehow. The flights consisted mostly of sleeping and A Game of Thrones, which I was rapidly finding more and more reasons to kick myself over not starting earlier. I got in pretty late Saturday and hit the hay before too long. Sunday was unfortunately not the day of rest I'd have liked. Since I'd be moving out Monday, I had to consolidate my stuff from Seattle and my stuff from college last year and get it all packed together. It was also raining like the dickens, which kind of precluded going out for much of anything. Monday, I finished up the packing and took off for my junior year of uni. This year I'm living with some friends in an apartment right near campus, rather than a dorm, so move-in was a little interesting. Unfortunately we got so sidetracked hanging out and stuff that we didn't actually put together my bed, so I crashed on the couch and was gently reminded of just how loud this town can get at night. I missed it. Tuesday was that time-honored tradition of running around campus figuring out where my classes actually are. At a uni this big, that is a concern, believe me. And here we are Wednesday, mostly settled in, my name now a shiny turquoise color and myself still moderately shell-shocked. Classes start in about a week (though I'll be getting out of town this weekend for a quick trip with my family), but until then I suppose I'm mostly just catching my breath before the semester starts. I do still have a good chunk of A Game of Thrones to get through, though, and a new internet job. Those seem to be keeping me busy enough for me to come up with blog title references mixing the two. (Oh, and guess who can't seem to grasp the concept of "blog posts are published on 24-hour time"? Here's a hint. It is me.)
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Lasertag at Shadowland's right next to BrickFair is single-handily one of the best things about the convention each year. The previous year we had a team of eleven people, including: Toa Velox Spink Disky Friar Tuck Nuju Metru 55555 Emperor Whenua Xccj Toa Lhikan Hordika White Hat Yellow Shirt (Unknown member name) To commemorate that event we had BZPower Lasertag bricks engraved. This year we had a total of sixteen players. Brickeens Xaeraz Vezok's Friend Avokah Tamer Sumiki Bioncle Raptor Spink Disky Architect Friar Tuck Takuma nuva TNC (Takuma Nuva's cousin is awesome and should join BZP) 55555 Zatth Valendale A few other members were supposed to join in on the fun, but Chols left early and Ballom took a monument to the knee. I was planning on having a larger turnout for this year and made a preemptive strike to commemorate the event. With the help of Vezok's Friend I had BZPower Laser Tag shirts created! If you did not get one at BrickFair and still want to there are some shirts available. They are $14 each. There are three shirt sizes still available: 2 Small 1 Medium 1 Large
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If you did not get one at BrickFair and still want to there are some shirts available. They are $14 each. There are three shirt sizes still available: 2 Small 1 Medium 1 Large Shipping is $2 If you are interested in BZPower t-shirts see Bionicle Raport's blog.
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I leave for like one evening.
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If I call you by your username, it means I love you. Or I don't like your real name. Or your username is cooler. Or easier to say. Or I might call you by your real name too. Like if I've known you for a while. Or just feel like saying it for a change. Or I know you prefer me doing so. But sometimes I just don't care. To me, a username transcends a person's identity. It becomes them. To me, I am ChocolateFrogs, a person, not someone named after a Harry Potter candy, but the term has changed meaning to be my name. Other names-- Sisen, Disky, Nukaya, Arpy-- are just as unique as a name given at birth, but instead is also one chosen by the bearer to be them. I know some people don't like being called their username in public, which is totally fine, but it doesn't change that it is part of their identity now. Of course, that's just my personal view. Maybe you look at me and think I'm crazy for choosing a name after the Harry Potter-verse. Maybe you would much prefer to call people by their real name, because it is perfect and also them. But when I'm out having fun, I have fun with your names too. And that is something we all share. -CF
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In continuing from my "Creative Outlet" poll, this is much in the same vein.
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I have a Cryoshell album from BZPower's giveaway. I also have perfect pitch. Would anyone be interested in downloadable sheet-music versions of the ten Cryoshell songs that came on the CD? (Assuming that a) it's legal and b) that no one's done this yet) It'd be quite the undertaking, so I want to make sure there's some interest out there.
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I can still see the black pixel hovering over the O, and for a horrifying moment I wake up and can't remember if it's still there. So I log on to BZPower, and through a trick of the light or my weary mind, I see it sitting there, taunting me in its singular, #000000 8-bit terror. Then I blink once or twice and breathe again as it vanishes, but I know that it will never truly leave my mind. It will always be waiting to come back in my nightmares, to unravel my sanity and cast me into the depths of madness. Beware the pixel, my friends. Beware.
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So I will be attending Brickfair this weekend, and it will be my first Brickfair since BZPower forums came back (as it will be for a lot of people, I'm sure). Want to find me? Chances are I'll spend some time at the BIONICLE table with the BZPower crew and some time wandering the floor, but as identification I'll be wearing my 2009 BIONICLE hat and, of course, my name badge. My name badge this year is smaller than it has been some years, but should be just as distinctive with its four differently-colored Hero Cores. The blank 1x8 brick is a stand-in for my Brickfair 2012 brick while the blank 1x6 tile is a stand-in for a tile printed with my screen name (Aanchir). Both will be added as soon as I've checked in at the registration desk tomorrow. The Ninjago Wiki tile is a gift from my brother Meiko. He and my twin brother Lyichir will also be attending. As I mentioned in the last entry, MOCs Lyi and I will be displaying include Rise of the Dread Colossus, Sophia Blaze, My Little Tahu, and a CubeDude of webcomic character Axe Cop. I will also be bringing some drawings for the BIONICLE table. I plan to attend on all four days (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), though I will probably not arrive right when it opens on all four days since I live a good distance away and will not be staying at a hotel. Hopefully I will also make it to the BZPower luncheon Black Six and the other staff have planned. I look forward to seeing everyone there!
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And now the moment you've all been waiting for! Congrats to Grochi's Bane, A_Darksteel_Myr, and Ddude the Insane! I'll be sending each of you a PM shortly with your code. I'll note this again in the PM, but please PM me back once you get the code so that if one of you disappears off the face of the earth the code won't go to waste. For anyone else who entered: sorry you didn't win, but there's plenty of contests around BZP these days. Give 'em a shot - you never know how things'll turn out!
