JAG18

"Stuck" - The Aces

That's pretty good 'cause I don't. Thank you, anyway. True story, a lot of times whenever I see random people around the forums I think to myself, "I think I've killed/been killed by that guy in mafia before."

Yep, today is my five year anniversary on BZPower. Not as impressive as it used to be either when I first joined or when I was a lurker, but whatever. This has gotten me thinking a bit, about how much my life has changed since I first joined and if you read through my profile feed (please don't) you can see me chronicling some of those changes. Me being me, I'm most interested in how much my music hobby has changed since then; back when I first joined my primary means of music consumption were youtube and radio, which just strikes me as kind of funny now. And that's not even mention how much my music taste have changed since then. But mostly my anniversary has gotten me thinking about what the site was like back then; all the members I used to hang out with (most of whom have left the site or hardly visit), the sub-forums I used to be super active in like S&T (where discussion has almost completely died). I remember how I used to post in almost every topic made in BBC, including every entry for that BBCC about video games. I remember that time I tried to join an RPG, how I used to be as active in the CoT games as the G&T ones (not sure why I stopped though), playing Mafia and always being the villager, hosting Hitman. It's all coming back to me. Well, times changed, people grow old, and all good things come to end. Even though you'd think that all BZPower is now to me is a place for nostalgia, I actually am thinking a lot about my future on this place. For some weird reason I just now started my career as a mocist and ain't done yet; plus I still have some ambition to host one more game of Bionicle RISK if I can get enough players. In the mean time I still plan to keep the caption contest going (by the way, is that the most active topic on the site now or am I just being delusional?) Alright, that's all I got, now I'm going to use my new Olmak to transport myself to some random pocket dimension or something.

I shoot your helicopter down with a stinger missile and the mask plummets down to earth miraculously unscathed. My mask!

Rahi

Electric Bug

[Flickr Album] Lore: The Legion is an inter-dimensional private security organization, which attempts to fight for the oppressed and spread liberty throughout the universe. Normally, this means providing training, advisors, and weapons to already existing forces, but sometimes the situation calls for a more direct approach. Toasty Bones is a member of the legendary team of giant power armor suits known as The Iron Guard, which is the most elite special forces unit within The Legion's formidable armies. Armed with two massive flame throwers as primary weapons the mech is usually brought in to cook crews alive inside their vehicles or smoke infantry out of bunkers. Additional armaments includes four front mounted 50. cal machines guns and duel rocket launchers. The mech's current paint job is cameo left over from it's service in The Ice Revenant War. The Bones' current pilot is Manfred Klaus who was formerly a driver in the dreaded Condor Legion's tank division; at least until said unit's annihilation during The Red Intervention.

Ko-Koro

Winner is Master Inika: Round 107: Good luck everyone!

Yeeeeees, the Prince of Riqura a minor level 5 world in the middle of nowhere. But, he doesn't care about becoming king because 1) his older brother won't give up the throne and 2) the position is mostly honorific, because his home world's protector, Oyoheri, is a republic. This all lead to his decision to leave his home and join The Legion; an attempt to make a real difference in the multi-verse. I totally didn't just make that up right now....

Xia

Lore: The Legion is an inter-dimensional private security organization, which attempts to fight for the oppressed and spread liberty throughout the universe. Normally, this means providing training, advisors, and weapons to already existing forces, but sometimes the situation calls for a more direct approach. Purple Rain is a member of the legendary team of giant power armor suits known as The Iron Guard, which is the most elite special forces unit within The Legion's formidable armies. Built to specialize in anti-vehicle combat and indirect fire support it is armed with a top mounted multiple rocket launcher and a wrist mounted cannon.

"Just a Ghost" - Fever High

(Yes I know this is a little old, but I just found out about this the other day so I'm gonna talk about it now.) For those who don't know, in the Yu-Gi-Oh card game you can only have up to three copies of a single card in any one deck; exceptions being semi-limited, limited, and forbidden cards of which you can only have two of, one of, and none of respectively. What cards are limited and forbidden is decided by Konami with their frequently updated Limited and Forbidden List the latest update of which came out a couple of weeks ago. Now, the fact that I'm just now talking about this now should tip you off as to how involved I am with this game. Basically I watched the show growing up, but didn't really into the game until last winter when I started playing online at Dueling Nexus. Now, I'll be up front and say I honestly don't make my own decks for scratch I just watch the big Yugi-tubers and stalk the YGO reddit for deck lists. Sure, building decks is fun, but I'm not a good enough player to know how to build a deck that is even semi-competitive. Plus decks made by people who know what they are doing are funnier to play. Unfortunately, with the new ban list I'm going to need some new decks 'cause some of my favorites got hit hard. The good news: my all time favorite deck, a combination of Exodia and Trickstars, was completely unaffected; as was my Kozmo deck. I'm not that good a Kozmo player (yet?), but I like it a lot because 1) it's a pretty competitive deck and 2) it's doesn't require an extra deck to be good and I'm a YGO player who doesn't like extra decks. The bad news: both my favorite go-to Magnet Warrior deck and my Egyptian Gods deck used the Brilliant Fusion engine, which used 3 copies of a now limited card. It'll take some looking around to get both of those decks playable again. The worst news: You know that true hero who performed well at a regionals with a ? A Gren Maju deck. A deck that no one knew or cared about until he came up with it? Yeah, well one of the most important cards in the deck (Golden Sarcophagus) is now limited. That's a shame, because I love gimmick decks and especially gimmick decks that can actually win games and I've had a lot of luck playing with various Gren Maju decks. I'm sure that guy had a panic attack when he got the news. OK, super nerdy blog entry over. I would be more torn up over all this if I was playing YGO right now (which I'm not) and probably by the time I do decide to start playing again they'll be another new ban list to adapt to so yeah until then just be sure to pay your respects to the once great Gren Maju.

<insert St. Vincent reference here> My mask.

Out comes nostalgia fest. In goes all the old Ask Greg topics.

Underwater Trap

"Mean" - Taylor Swift

I use stone powers to launch you fifty feet straight up into the air and then I stick a Hagah Spear into the ground, point up, which you land on when you come back down. My mask.

Spectral Mask

Out comes The Walking Burning French Fry Abomination (I should use that some day). In goes the word filter.

"Murder on the Dance Floor" - Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I wash you away with a flood, send you flying into a rock slide with a cyclone, freeze you solid so I can grab a pizza then come back and thaw you out with fire before finally throwing a lump of dirt at you. My mask.

Ice Axe

"Stayin' Alive" - Bee Gees