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It is finally revealed, Metroid Prime 4!!! I don't even know what to say about it, just YAAAAAAAAAY!

YAY! I cannot wait to read the comic!

It's sad to see you go. I hate how the forum here seems to be dying faster. All good things...

I own 2000, 2003, XP, VX Ace, and MV. I have the most experience with XP, but MV has a crazy amount of power. There are games using that particular engine that don't function anywhere near being RPGs. Plus, a major benefit, as a storyteller, to using RPG Maker is the scaling complexity. You can literally make something that's more animation than game if that is what you need for the story. As for the 'real' programming, RPG Maker has used various scripting languages since XP was released with Ruby. MV uses Java, which has allowed for the aforementioned other games to be made. Yes, you don't have to use that feature, but many of the games that are being sold incorporate various custom systems built with the scripting and programming. On topic though, I might have another game or two that isn't listed, including Seal of Success. I'll check my old flash drives and update you guys.

Dark Knight is my least​ favorite of the trilogy. I've also thought that Heath Ledger's performance as Joker is incredibly overrated. Yes, I said that! I'd honestly take Adam West era Joker over Dark Knight. As far as Logan is concerned, I haven't seen it so I can't say for sure that Logan > Dark Knight, but I can definitely believe it is. Hugh Jackman is Wolverine as much as RDJ is Tony Stark.

I'm glad you are ok! New York really seems to be a great city to live in, makes me wish I had the means to move there. Ironically, the most recent streetview picture of that building has a firetruck just to the left!

It is like Dungeons and Dragons. I'd mostly compare it to the 3.5 edition, which it is heavily based on. An update on the writing: I hit about 4,500 words in the several hours I was working on the novel late last night. I also named a character after a major character in Terry Brooks' Shannara mythos, Jerle Shannara. The third series in the mythos also carries this character's name, and is one of my favorite trilogies Terry has written. My character's name is a contraction of Terry's character's name, simply Jershan. I felt it was a fitting homage to the author who inspired me to start writing fantasy.

I know I said I was rewriting Bionicle Legacies, but that project has stopped yet again. After having a few false starts and ruined campaigns, the group I role play with on Mondays has found a campaign that is working for us. We've done various Pathfinder system games in the past, but none of them has had the same full world feel that this one has. It is set in a world inspired by Forgotten Realms, but has been dreamed up by one of my friends. We'd already talked about chronicling the adventures of the characters with previous games, but this one has piqued my creativity more than the others. I wrote out a rough backstory for my character just prior to the first session. I've also put more work into this game than any prior characters, and it shows. ​The funny thing about this game, is that the mythos that's been created has a chance of leading into the plot of the Novel that I started a year ago. The campaign theoretically takes place in the distant past of that book, and that in turn has got me started on filling out my character's backstory even more. On May 15th, 2017 (Technically the 16th) I started a second novel based on this Pathfinder campaign. In the three or four hours I worked on it, I put out around 2000 words, a new conscious record for me. The opening is a bit rough, but as the tale progresses, so to does the potential repairs to the intro. I just wanted to let the small community we still have here know of my gratitude for this website. Back in 2003, when I joined, I had only written a small Star Wars fanfiction. That was in 2000, when I was in 4th grade. I hadn't really picked up a pencil for more than the small bit of homework I'd actually get around to doing. Reading the Epics and Short Stories forums, which were populated by authors such as Daydreamer, Korobound, and GaliGee, gave me the inspiration to begin writing. By the end of 7th grade, I had written a handful of poems, a cringeworthy short story that was never posted here, a screenplay, and a pair of attempted epics. The next four years were full of more writing. In 2005 I discovered High Fantasy through Terry Brooks' Sword of Shannara. I wrote an unfinished story called Takori-Metru. It was based on the screenplay from a few years prior. I then began my first world-building attempt for a novel. That summer I started another epic called The Fall of Darkness. It was an attempt at an edgy tale of lost love and revenge. Let's just say that Takori-Metru had more potential than this Takanuva and Nixie pairing that started with the death of Gali. I worked on that epic throughout my Sophomore year of High School, a time in which I gained my first girlfriend, a goth girl that I briefly reunited with last year. It was a strange time! The summer of 2006 came around, and just a few days before my birthday I began work on my Bionicle Magnum Opus, The Return. I worked on it and it's accompanying short stories for the next several years. The epic itself was finished in January 2008, and was completely posted by my Graduation that May. The one short story that I still cherish was "The Light's Love". It was the first time I had written a story that connected events unseen in the main story. I entered college that fall, and ironically never passed English 101, also known as 121 at the college I was at. After a year and a half, my writing fell mostly by the wayside after the second failure at that English class. A few more false starts at novels would come, before I started looking at some of the ideas I'd already written. I took on the project of rewriting The Return as something publishable for a bit before I had some really bad things happen to me. --- I actually took a break from writing this post because of my need to write down some of what happened to me. I'll link to my facebook once I feel comfortable posting it, if I post it. Anyways, there was a physically, psychologically, and socially abusive person in my life for a year, and what he did to me killed my writing for several years. The things I went through then and during high school, were softened as they happened, because of this community. Just seeing my peers grow up made me have hope, even if there was a hint of jealousy at some of you guys! I'm sad to see that the community here has become so small, and that there are now days without activity in most of the forums, but I'll always cherish the things I learned and memories I made here, even if this site eventually vanishes. I'm not leaving, in fact I plan to stay until the very end, whenever that comes. But I wanted to say my thanks to everyone here. Even SPIRIT and his awesome brand of crazy.

Earlier tonight I was playing Lego Worlds, and came across an interesting bit of terrain. A Gen1 Toa head! This is in the world 524-107-683 X on PS4. Its in the Junkyard Biome. My question to you guys is have you seen any other nods to BIONICLE in Lego Worlds or the other Lego Games?

I like the fate AZBlue was going to have. I love the direction this was to go, and am sad we won't see it in it's finished form. Thanks for sharing the outline!

THAT IS AWESOME! I really want to build something with that.

I'm inetersted!

I think this is really cool. I'm interested in the Tarakava build, specifically how to build it! The entire model is fairly reminiscent of the system sets of 2001, and very much reminds me of the Adventurers Desert sets.

Nathan Furst just posted on Facebook that an Official Bionicle Mask of Light soundtrack is being released digitally on the major music platforms! It is a day to remember!

Hmm, I think I might have a few ideas. Kopaka- Dee Bradley Baker or James Arnold Taylor Tahu- Manu Bennett Gali- Felicity Jones Lewa- David Tennant (He IS Lewa, lets be honest here) Onua- David Ramsey (Diggle from Arrow) Pohatu- Matt Lanter Turaga Nokama- Helen Mirren Toa Nuju- Peter Capaldi

Hello All, it's been a while. I've been relatively silent on here recently, which doesn't surprise me much honestly. Christmas came and went, with me receiving the last Six 2001 Bionicle sets that I needed to complete my collection for that year. In total I got all six Mctoran, the Nui-Jaga, Muaka & Kane-Ra, and seven noble Kanohi. I've still got quite a few missing as far as the Kanohi go, but I expected that. The Mctoran were all complete including their polybags, Muaka & Kane-Ra was kind of new in box (The previous owner had opened it just to put the treads in a Ziploc), and the Nui-Jaga were sealed in box. I did feel bad about opening them, but I really wanted to build them! Anyway, that is not the point of this entry. The point is that seeing all of the revived creativity in the art and library forums has reignited my interest in fixing and finishing my Bionicle Legacies series. The conversion I had been working on stalled, and I really don't have the motivation to continue it, and I'm taking a break from my High Fantasy book for a bit longer. The reposting/rewrite of The Return will start soon, and hopefully won't take too long. The majority of my ideas right now are towards the long planned prequel, and the incomplete sequel. The short stories that are part of the series will likely be posted before any of that, as most of them aren't that embarrassing. Mostly I'm just excited to revisit the AU that I created over ten years ago. How's everyone else doing?

I'm glad things are going better! Anxiety really sucks.

I wish I had discovered this sooner! The artwork is incredible, and the story so far is very engaging. Is there a backstory that I've missed, or is it just kicking off really fast?

I didn't realize you joined in 03! I hit 14 years in June, and it's technically been half my life. Congrats!

What you don't realize is that Henry Gilroy, co-executive producer of Rebels is also the co-creator of the original Bionicle movies.

And now Carrie's mom has died. Seriously 2016! I don't think we can take it anymore.

I've been slowly rebuilding my BIONICLE sets. It's a project I've been working on for about 2 years, originally in celebration of Gen 2's announcement. Today, after a slow and distracted process, I've completed rebuilding my current 2001 collection. The Manas are on another shelf in my room, but I can't figure out how to post more than two images via my iPad. The only sets I am missing are the Nui Jaga and Muaka & Kane-Ra plus four of the Mctoran. Those sets will hopefully soon be mine! They are at the top of my Christmas list this year, so yeah! I also finished rebuilding my 2010 sets, and my first half 2002 sets. I've also been thinking about starting a YouTube series, mostly reminiscing over gen one, and reviewing the sets from each year. I'd like to do more with it then just that though, so any suggestions would be nice. How's everyone else doing?

Metru Nui. I would live in Ga-Metru, but frequent Ko-Metru and Onu-Metru. That's where my characters in my old Bionicle Legacies stories took up residence.

Congrats! I call dibs on the dog or cat's name.

Why yes, my dear Sumiki, I do.