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Hey folks! Just making this as a separate post so it's a little more visible. Basically, this post is a confirmation list of anyone who's entered so far into the Premier Membership Giveaway. If you entered and you're on this list, all cool, carry on. If you entered and you're not on this list, or you're on this list and don't want to be entered, please let me know by commenting below. If you want to be entered, well, go comment on the original entry! Last updated: 7/29/12, 7:00 PM IX. Dymex Cinnamon Grochi Rarity Tyler Durden Toa Onarax Toa of Smooth Jazz Ddude the Insane Soran Grochi's Bane Bulik IV. Vexen Roablin Grant-Sud Rises Paleo XIV. Xion VIII. Axel Longcat is Long! Darthbrandon My Name is Nuile Protoman (Alastor) AZBlue Splashmaster A_Darksteel_Myr QrazyTiger Tre Cool BioKronos As a reminder, the drawing will be Sunday the 29th at 7:00 PM PST. Probably a little long an entry period, it turns out, but hey.
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(Apologies for bumping this so many times - just wanted to be sure people on BZP at different times would get the chance to see it, especially with the blogs being the way they are at the moment.) Hey there! Title drew you in, eh? Sounds good. Well, it's exactly as the title says: In celebration of BZP's 11th, I'm holding a Premier Membership giveaway. Why? 'Cause I'm sweet like that. And more importantly because I remember wanting a premier membership way back when and not being able to get one, and now that I actually have a job that enables me to donate ~$50 to BZP and not break my budget, I may as well spread the love a bit rather than just make a boring old donation. So! Here are the important details. Read this before entering. I will be giving away three one-year PMships via random drawing. The drawing will take place at 7:00 PM PST, Sunday, July 29th. Entrants' names will be collected into a list, which will be randomized through random.org. The top three names will receive a one-year PMship through BZP's store. Who can enter? Anyone who doesn't have a PMship may enter. However, if you can buy a PMship, I would prefer you don't enter. Like I said in the opening thing up there, I remember being young with no way of paying anything over the internet, and certainly no way of convincing my parents to buy something over the internet on my behalf. (A paid membership to a forum? I'd have been lucky if they didn't try to sue Dimensioneer and co. for fraud.) So ideally I'd like to get these out to members who want a PMship but cannot purchase one due to financial or logistical reasons. Obviously, if it turns out there are no such people around, I'll relax this. This also has the added benefit of BZP not losing out on the support from anyone who was planning to buy a PMship and then happened to win one. How do I enter? Just comment on this entry! Can I enter on someone else's behalf? Sure, but to keep this from just turning into a popularity contest, there is a one-person-one-entry limit. If you want to enter on someone else's behalf, you're going to have to announce that person in your comment - and then, of course, if that other person enters for themselves, your entry is essentially null. Basically, do this if you've got a friend who's out of town for the duration of the entry period or something like that. What happens if I win? I'll send you a PM with a voucher for BZP's store worth a 1-year PMship. Why 1-year memberships? Seems appropriate for an anniversary, doesn't it? Also, lifetime is crazy expensive and 6-month is comparatively poor value. Best of luck to everyone!
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First off, congrats to Nate and the rest of the staff that worked really hard (in their spare time, mind you) on getting this new skin pushed out. It wouldn't have been possible without great cohesiveness and teamwork. Good job guys. Nate did a superb job of capturing the tone and theme of the old forums while still giving us a contemporary feel to our favorite website. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Do not be taken aback when people get defensive or unsettled when you let it be known that you do not enjoy the product of their own hard work. Many hours went in to creating this skin. The staff as a whole put in our thoughts and concerns to Nate about colors, styles, and buttons. You do not have to like the skin. Certainly, Nate and I are open to criticisms of the skin overall. Try to be as descriptive about what you do not like about it, and we will take these statements into consideration. There is a difference between "bland" and "warm", the latter being the feeling Nate was targeting in his overall design. The skin creates feeling of warmth and invitation. Muted colors tend to evoke these emotions. The few hints of brick red and even subtler hints of yellow spark the more feelings of flare and zing that a few members seem to desire in a site's design. And hey, we may even have a way for more members to voice their opinions on the skin soon. We know a bunch of you guys are really talented, so why not take advantage of that? Let's all be respectful. People worked hard on this, and we welcome criticisms that are thoughtful rather than just provoking.
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I started this blog for whatever reason. What now?
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On the last day of the entry period, I completed my second drawing for the Flash Fire contest. The venerable Turaga Vakama can be found in the same topic as my Jaller drawing which I mentioned in the previous entry. It feels good to have completed two entries, but if the entries before I had submitted my own were good, the ones that followed in the final hours of the entry period included several that could only be described as stellar. Truly I'm having a hard time deciding what to vote in any of the categories! Flash Fire voting has begun, and there's a lot of talent in all three polls. My entries are Entry 8 in the Matoran poll and Entry 10 in the Turaga poll, but there are many other entries I would consider voting for including Entries 3 and 12 in the Matoran poll and Entry 11 in the Turaga poll. Later today I'll probably come to a decision on which entries I should give my votes to, but it's a tough decision even knowing all the hard work I put into my two submissions. Overall, I'm certain that whichever entries end up on display at Brickfair will fully deserve it! For such a quick contest, I'm surprised how many more artists let their talents shine here than in the Battlescapes contest. Guess it's just a subject more artists could find inspiration in!
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Happy 11th birthday BZPower! I am glad that I have been a part of this for 9 of those years.
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Hey, this is my entry for the 'Flash Fire' contest that I have worked on and finished in the last hour That is hereI wanted it to resemble a mix between 'Bionicle: The Game' and the normal version. Surprisingly enough, the arms took me the longest to do, I kept on drawing and erasing them over and over again to get the right size/look.Also the staff is dented and rusty, this is to show that it is old and has been used a lot. Besides, Takua was the first Matoran to be created. He is slightly smaller since I did some changes to the torso to make the arms fit in better.Here is my second topic for the 'Flash Fire' contest. It is Toa Tahu. Like my Takua, it is meant to be a mix between the set, Bionicle: The Game and some of my own design.Unlike my Takua, this one has a stand type thing. It turned out much better than I had anticipated.Last of all, here is my Turaga Vakama. This one took me a couple of hours, on and off. He was the most annoying to do in terms of his mask and how to do his arms and legs. The mask took the longest to do, erasing it about 5 or 6 times in order to get it to be like the actual mask.Yet again like the Tahu and Takua, the design is a mixture of the set, Bionicle: The Game and of my own design. I got the fiery cloth from the game. The most detailed prt of the image is the staff, it is near impossible to see but I have put Vakamas name in the Bionicle language somewhere on it, also the UDD symbol. Also note the kanohi mask that Vakama is holding
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So I met these two weirdos named Dorek and Swert today. Yeah, I dunno what their deal was either. Nah, had a pretty awesomely chill time with two pretty cool guys (not cool dudes); many fun conversations were had Swert works at a place guaranteed to make anyone with even a passing interest in Lego jealous, and Dorek was awesome and provided me with a ride back to my apartment. Hopefully I'll get a chance to chill with them (and others?) again sometime.
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Don't forget, the final polls in GAC #18 are up! Click here to go to the poll! My entry, Swarm of the Century, is in the running! Now, other updates. On Monday I drew and inked a piece based on Neil Gaiman's The Sandman graphic novels, which I will be attempting to color. I haven't decided how I'm going to color it. I was able to color something very well digitally recently (and am near finishing an older drawing that has been incomplete for far too long). But digitally coloring a piece with lots of characters in it is a challenge I've never really tackled successfully. I also am not sure what style of coloring I'd prefer, so it may be a while before that is finished. But quick edits are not quite as much of a challenge as full pieces of artwork, and I was inspired for this Avatar: The Last Airbender comic during a recent chat:
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My entry, Swarm of the Century, narrowly made it through Preliminary Poll A, and as such it's now a contender in the final poll! Click here to go to the poll! I think it goes without saying that Crunchy's two entries, which dominated the preliminary polls, will also sweep the voting in this poll. It's kind of a shame, because the rules state that each member can only have one winning entry, and I'm worried that with Crunchy's entries so likely to get most of the votes, the margin between the remaining entries will be very small indeed. I won't mind losing this contest (it's not like I have any kind of reputation to uphold), but with such a slim margin I don't want to feel like my entry won or lost by random chance. One way this could be avoided in future contests would be to do it like how another LEGO forum I use often does MOC contest voting. On that site, voting is done through posts rather than polls, which makes it more difficult to track, but you get more than one vote (still a finite number), and can distribute those votes how you prefer (either award all of your votes to one entry, or divide the votes evenly or unevenly across multiple entries). This way, even if you have one overall favorite, you can also show support for other entries you consider deserving. And as such the runners-up will be decided by more members than just those few who didn't like the winning entry. But I'm not going to pressure anybody to vote for my entry. Vote for the entry you think is best! All the entries in this poll got through the preliminary polls by their own merits, and the same ought to be true this time around!
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So there it goes, and here I am with no reporter, lurking a topic in General Discussion, nervously scrolling down the page in a topic just coming awake to an early evening rush of bronies and Homestuck trolls... With a HUGE blog post just outside the door so full of filtered websites that I'm afraid to even look at it! But I can't abandon the thing. The only hope, is to somehow get it across three hundred miles of open road between here and Sanctuary. But sweet GregF, I am TIRED, I'm scared, I'm crazy. This culture has beaten me down. What the Karz am I doing out here? This is not even the story I was supposed to be working on. My agent warned me against it! All signs were negative-especially that evil forum assistant with the pink telephone in the Library. I should have stayed there... Anything but this. 92% of teens have moved onto rap. If you are part of the 8% that still listen to real music, copy and paste this into your signature. NO! Who put that in their sig? Did I actually see that blasted thing in the sig area just now? At 3:28 on this filthy grey afternoon in "The Future of BZPower? No! That was only in my brain some long-lost echo of a painful dawn in the Lego messageboards. . . A long time ago, half mad in another world... but no different. HELP! How many more nights and weird mornings can this terrible life go on? How long can the body and the brain tolerate this Doom-struck craziness? This regurgitation of memes, this circular discussion, this advertisement for the latest comic. And now... that IS in that guy's sig! Yes, no doubt about it, and why not? A very popular sentiment, "92% of teens have moved onto rap. If you are part of the 8% that still listen to real music, copy and paste this into your signature." BOOM! Flashing paranoia. What kind of rat-mother psychotic would say that-right now, at this moment? Has somebody followed me here? Does the global moderator know who I am? Can she see me behind these mirrors? All mods are treacherous but this one is a newly-wed early-twenties geek girl wearing a pony shirt and Ironboy overalls, probably Janus' woman? GregF above, bad waves of paranoia, madness, fear, and loathing. Intolerable vibrations in this place. GET OUT, FLEE! And finally it occurs to me, some final flash of lunatic shrewdness, before the darkness closes in that my next blog entry isn't posted until 6:00. Which gives me at least two hours of legitimate high-speed driving to get out of this nightmarish topic before I become a fugitive in the eyes of the moderator team. Wonderful luck. By the time the alarm goes off, I can be running full bore somewhere between COT and Forum Games-Jamming the accelerator through the floorboard and shaking my fist up at Black Six swooping down on me in his BZP/Lego Ambassador helicopter. "YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE." Get out, B6... That wisdom cuts both ways! As far as you and the mint people know, I'm still up there in Defendant Lobby no. 42 - legally and spiritually if not in the actual flesh, with a DO NOT DISTURB sign hung out to ward off disturbances. The blog assistants won't come near that room as long as that sign is on the doorknob. My reporter saw to that, along with 600 reviews that I still have to deliver to Epics. What will the moderator team make of that? This great blog post, full of reviews. All completely legal. The blog assistants gave us those reviews, they'll swear to it, or will they? Of course not. Those treacherous blog assistants will swear they were menaced by two heavily armed crazies who threatened them with a orange transparent chainsaw unless they gave up all their reviews. Greg creeping Farshtey, is there a forum leader in this thread? I want to confess, I'm a bricked-up sinner! Venal, mortal, carnal, major, minor- however you want to call it, Gatanui, I'm guilty! But do me this one last favor, just give me five more high speed hours before you bring the hammer down; just let me get rid of this twice-blasted post, and off of this subforum. Which is not really a lot to ask Gatanui, because the final incredible truth is that I am NOT GUILTY! All I did was take your gibberish seriously and you see where it got me? My primitive Premier Member instincts have made me into a criminal. Creeping through the comedies at six in the morning with a suitcase full of twice-told jokes and "Sherlock" T-shirts, I remember telling myself over and over again, "You are not guilty." This is merely a necessary expedient, to avoid a nasty scene. After all I made no binding agreements. This is an institutional debt, nothing personal. This whole blasted nightmare is the fault of that stinking irresponsible story serial. Some fool in S&T did this to me, it was his idea Gatanui, Not mine! And now look at me, half crazy with fear typing 120 WPM across GD in some post I never even wanted. You psychotic gemini, this is your work! You had better take care of me Gatanui, because if you don't, you're going to have me on your hands!
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I know where you live.
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Just for my own peace of mind, I've been wanting to reboot my character's entire continuity to clear my head of all the tangents and alternate universes. There's too much stuff that shouldn't exist in Kakaru's personal canon and I want to set the story straight and establish a firm base for any future stories/rpgs. I want to establish origin, homeland, and backstory, something I've screwed over with all my absurd epics and stories over the years. (Mind you that I almost never posted them, but they're floating around my head nonetheless.) For this reason it will probably be a rather spontaneous, lighthearted event with far too casual a tone to make for any good reading. You've been warned: I'm writing this for myself, though I'll still put in an effort to make it enjoyable and accessible for anyone interested. oh I need a new banner to commemorate the occasion brb
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I like how they're absolutely irrelevant now. Remember when everyone used to use them and now they're just outdated content blocks that none of us will ever bother to update or remove? like what was the point of them anyways guys I feel like updating mine anyways just in case they ever come back into style by which I mean if the content blocks ever stop disappearing
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Just about one week to go in the General Art Contest #18 preliminary polls! I encourage voters to show their support for my entry, Swarm of the Century, in Preliminary Poll A! It's Entry 6 in the poll. In other art-related news, recently a friend of mine who is also an artist had a birthday, and I gave her a portrait of her I had drawn. To my delight, she really liked the drawing! Since she's also an artist (and a much better one than me, all things considered), I was thrilled to have her approval, and I hope it will motivate me to keep drawing over the course of the summer. Even though I'm often lacking in inspiration, I have tried to keep drawing so I remain in practice. Most of my recent drawings are merely sketches, like this one which shows some human figures of varying ages to approximate scale with one another. But hopefully inspiration will strike again soon and I'll have something more meaningful and finished to show you all.
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You can find my entry, Swarm of the Century, in Preliminary Poll A! Go vote for the entries you think are best!
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Oh man look at that article. Right there on the front page. Free stuff, sounds exciting. Prototype parts and Mata-Nui stones. Oh man oh man. If that wouldn't convince anyone to come I don't know what would. Maybe if there was actually going to be balloons. Nobody says no to free balloons. The point I'm making here is WHERE WILL YOU BE IN ONE WEEK
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The Overlord and Grand Quillmaster of the Library, or Velox as he is more commonly known, has opened up a very cool contest: 12 short stories, 2 weeks, 400-600 words max, alternating Bionicle and COT. Flash fiction can be very fun, and writing under a word limit can be as well (contrary to what college applications lead you to believe), so I'm taking this opportunity to advertise what I'm sure is going to be a blast. That said, given my schedule for the next two weeks, I probably won't be able to enter a good deal of these (though I'm willing to bet I'd run out of creative juice even if did, so I guess it's a wash). But that's the fun part! No need to worry about entering all of them; if one catches your fancy, throw caution to the wind and go do it. Hopefully my complete lack of anything resembling charisma hasn't completely turned you off entering. Seriously though, go do it. I promise it'll be awesome.
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Topic Tahu is best pony.
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Obligatory Advertising And a repost from the MLP topic:
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no pony yet =< Awesome job bringing evertything back to normal, y'all. B)
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Good to see things are all sorted out. I've seen plenty of forum hackings in my time, and I followed the pattern with this one that I've learned works best - just ignore the hacker and leave it to the staff. It's an attention game. ...Granted, that was made easier by the fact it's darn near impossible for me to contact other BZPers outside of here. Which I really ought to remedy, so for future reference you can find me on Twitter as BoltGSR. In other news, life continues as normal, with the added bonus of finals just around the corner. I also found out the specific Windows 8 team I'll be working for this summer, so I'm looking forward to that (even if it's going to involve some really, really fast learning on my part.) It's good to be back.
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Hi everyone! Don't worry, I haven't given up on my AC18 entry. Since I last blogged about it, I scanned my drawing and put in a lot of work separating the parts of it into different layers, before realizing that it would be easier to just print off some copies of it and color it using non-digital media. So I have my first colored draft mostlyt finalized now. It uses colored pencil and thus gets a lot more detail than I would have had time to do digitally. However, I am going to print off a couple more copies of it and try coloring it with different media if I have time. Watercolors would be the ideal medium if I wanted to go for the less detailed color layout I had planned to do digitally (each character and their elemental powers tinted with a one-color filter). As of right now, there are two other entries in the contest and I believe there is going to be an extension. If not, I probably won't have time to experiment with other media since I'm going to be at a press event this weekend. But since I have a colored draft finished, I should be able to enter on short notice if there turns out not to be an extension. Anyone else got an entry nearly-finished but not yet posted? Or is this going to be a very small pool of entries? Either way, best of luck to all those who are entering. I know there's a lot of talent apparent in the entries submitted so far, but I'm sure that's not the limit of artistic talent here on BZPower! ----- On a side note also related to art/creativity, I encourage everyone to read this PDF. It's an extremely informative booklet about systematic creativity put out by the LEGO Learning Institute. I like it a lot because it makes me more confident in my own creativity by expressing that no, I'm not less creative just because I'm better at creative work when given constraints to work within. Ironically the idea of "creativity with constraints" was mentioned by one of my professors in their tribute to me at my college graduation last December.
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Was yesterday. And yes I was inspired by Bunda's blog entry. Wow, 9 years. I've been a staffie for more than a third of that, and a fan of LEGO for more than twice that. I've visited/attended 6 LEGO conventions and met countless awesome members (I say countless because, while a sidebar tracks that, it might be inaccurate due to not writing down new names at last BrickFair. But it's a lot). I've been on BZPower for middle school, high school, and college, never wavering. There have been MOCs and stories and reviews. And there has been you! So...here's to 9 more? -CF
