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So, hi. Wow. I will admit that I thought the place was razed to the ground years back, and became nothing more than a childhood memory. I was still technically a youth when I was last here. I was a child when I first joined this place - a very vivid memory of me asking my mother for permission to join the Internet in a world of Bionicle that I learned from a Flash game of Takua. To add to the feels of polishing off cobwebs, a lot of my old content was gone. I found a message in my Inbox asking for my second Epic, Changing Worlds. All those documents are gone, I'm afraid. I'd honestly be surprised if any data from 2005 made it to my laptop 13 years later. Lots have changed for me, once I left BZPower and the server move. I got a degree. I got a job. I moved countries for said degree and job, and had to leave it and return to my homeland. Taxes became a thing. Earning a living. The skill of the pen left me as well, when the demand of a day-to-day job overtook languid breaks between essays and projects... and World of Warcraft and Starcraft and Diablo, et cetera. And the 'death' of Bionicle. I honestly could not keep up when Mata Nui went from godhood to mortal life. He was the last figurine I got, and that was as a gift to an autistic boy who shared a similar passion. That was in 2010, I think? When the news from LEGO came out, I merely thought that all good things would come to an end. Fast track to today. Just two days ago, I had to dig out old certificates for an interview. I dug out my old backups to hunt down one missing cert, and came across my old FictionWrites. One of them was for Bionicle. And no, it was not everything. I eventually started saving my Epic writings in 2003-4 by copying what I raved into a text field onto Notepad. That did not come through. My short stories were lost too. I only found two stories, both in-progress and will probably be buried. They are fond memories to me, and it would be wrong to go back in and whack at it aimlessly. I honestly don't know if I will pop round much anymore, but it is great to see old friends and usernames still active here in BZP. Maybe I will? I'm not sure how the rules have changed - or if the rules have changed - but... Yeah. Good to see BZPower alive and well.

Beating my own lay attempts years ago, someone figured out a way to extract all the musical fragments from BIONICLE: The Game and sewing them together to bring the most complete, well-composed and high-quality OST of the game available online: or DOWNLOAD! The score includes fragments that have never been used in the actual game for one reason or another, like amazing passage for Ta-Koro and entire battle theme for Ga-Koro. Credit goes out to Hexadecimal Mantis for extracting the music and That1Cactus for editing. Insane job, you guys. I'll go ahead and also share the original Onua Nuva and Tahu Nuva tracks Bob & Barn were kind enough to share with me some years ago that I never got around to uploading—and while I'm at it, here's the entire thing I personally managed to put together: DOWNLOAD! (23/32 edited tracks + 2 original tracks by Bob & Barn) Enjoy the best score ever composed for BIONICLE!

See, 2018 is a weird year because a lot of things that matter a lot to me are officially about 10 years old now. What they are? I am preparing something for a proper celebration, so you'll find out later (way to build a hype, huh? xD) Anyway, I've been around this site for such a long time, 10+ years now. I remember this place in its heyday, when I would just talk to -so- many people (being a really communicative 13-year old with way too much free time...). I would start writing an Epic, which, cringey as it might have been, is still my longest continuous work of fiction. Written in a language that is not my native language, nonetheless. c: Ultimately BZPower and seeing art by all the amazing people around here was also what inspired me to draw on a regular basis, and set goals for myself that I wanted to achieve within a year, art-wise. Many things have changed, like my over-use of smileys (though I miss that, really.), vague-blogging about drama (although I should blog more in 2018, consider this an almost-resolution.), but many things have stayed the same. I still draw, I still try way too hard to be funny ( ), and I still really like hanging around here, even if the place has become a little less busy over the years. ^^ So I really have no idea how to conclude this... I'll just point out that I am currently writing (as in, actually doing the writing part of) my master thesis, so don't be too surürised if I semi-disappear at times again ^^'

...I'm still happier now than I was before, I think.

the first thing that crossed my mind when reading this was "goals" :> nah but seriously, it's really great to hear that.

Ah Christmas 2003. Good times...

good thing i have no money otherwise i'd literally be buying cardboard for 80 dollars

every year is at least okay if tekulo is SwagtronYOLO for even a moment.

Life isn't perfect, but at least Tekulo is still called "SwagtronYOLO".