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Member name: evil_jaga_genius Game title: Who Ate All The Pies Game topic: Here, yo Flour + Sugar + Fruit filling = Chaos DO THE MATH

WHO ATE ALL THE PIES https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7863sQWxf-xUm1oYjg4WFBkQzQ It's spring on Spherus Magna, Makuta has been defeated, and the Matoran and Agori live together in harmony. In celebration of Makuta's fall, the Po-Matoran host a gigantic Kolhii tournament and invite the whole planet. The match is between the Po-Koro and Ta-Koro teams, and rivalries are running high. There's just one little snag. Someone ate all the pies. The pastry has been a tradition since the sport was first invented on Metru Nui. Pie means Kolhii, and Kohlii means pie - lots of it. Instead of a snack booth, there's simply a table filled with pie. Apple pie, cherry pie, pizza pie, mathematical pi, you name it, the Po-Matoran have it. This also makes eating all of said pies before the game even starts quite the feat. Onewa, frantic to not have this fine Po-Matoran tradition tarnished, puts forth a proclamation. The cost of admission to the Kolhii match is now not in Widgets, but pie. All who wish to join the festivities must bring a pastry, preferably more than one. And, unknowingly, he provokes the biggest food-fight in the history of Spherus Magna. RULES: When you post, your post should have three things: 1. Your reaction to the last person's pie 2. Your pie 3. What you do with that pie The pie you bake has to have at least one ingredient from the last person's pie (and no, it can't be flour or sugar). It also can't be the same as the last person's pie. Some ingredients are banned, like cyanide and explosives. If it doesn't kill anyone, though, most anything is allowed. Of course, a pie isn't that interesting unless you do something with it. You can either SERVE it or THROW it. If you choose to serve your pie on the table like a normal person, the next poster eats it (or fakes eating it, depending how terrible it is) and has to tell you what he/she thinks of it. Write fancy, like you're giving a review of a five-star French restaurant or something. Such as: If, however, you choose to throw your pie, you splat the next poster in the face with it. If you get hit with a pie, you don't necessarily have to give a review, but if there's something interesting that happens while you're scraping pastry off your face... WRITE IT DOWN. A note on characters: You can star as just about anyone in here, except as the character the last person played as. That person can be you, Hahli, Tiribomba, a Skrall warrior, anyone. Want to write how Brutaka reacts to a faceful of lemon meringue? Go for it. What about a guy on the Kolhii field? All yours. If you're writing from the perspective of someone who ISN'T you, mark your post with something like 'IC as Brutaka'. All normal BZP rules apply, have fun, and... that's it. I'll start things off. Cherry pineapple, THROW.

Kindof ironic, the one single mask pack I got had a red Kaukau Nuva in it. It henceforth became known as the Mask of Lava Breathing. Now I kinda want to see if it fits on Scuba Tahu... =P

What about toa Jovan? (Nuparu+Hewkii+Hahli) *opens mouth, puts in foot* I thought that was Brickmaster-exclusive or something, so I didn't mention it. I was talking more about the combiners that had instructions in the back of the booklets for the sets, and I remember the Toa didn't have those.

I dunno, they're kindof nice. Want to build a Bohrok Kaita? Throw three random minions together! What about a Chute Lurker? Sure, grab the two closest Visorak on hand! Same thing with Rahkshi, and if you've got a few spare parts on hand, you can make Wairhua or Akamai with whatever the heck Toa you want. I suppose since Bionicle later ditched the concept of Kaitas and combiner models, that part of their appeal vanished, so then they started shifting to more unique designs. Though ironically, each of the 2006 Matoran had a different build, but they still got combiners - even though the Toa didn't.

That one Drome Racers game, where you picked a team and got a car, then raced on random tracks against other people. With the Bump Missiles and Paint Spray, written in pure HTML or something like that. Five-year-old me had like a dozen Paint Sprays, before I figured out there was no way I could fit them all onto my car. (Maverick forevah, yo!) If I could find the stupid thing, I'd play it, but it's vanished from the internet. I can't even find screenshots. Yeah, I played a lot of these... the Johnny Thunder games, Spybotics, Junkbot, WorldBuilder, Backlot... those were the days... you know, I even liked VNOG, minus the fact it refused to save your game right. Kindof like a last hurrah for a golden age of online games. I think the newest ones I've played were Mask of Creation, Glatorian Arena, and the 3D Star Wars game, I think it was called 'Hunt for R2-D2' or something. That was fun, scoring a perfect hit on a droid so that the top fell off but the legs were still standing up. There'd be a pile of droid parts on the floor and pairs of legs sticking up all over the place =P

This just came to mind, but aren't there other things in the Matoran universe that rely on a mental connection to the user? Rhotuka launchers and I think some Kanoka could have their paths altered by the user's thoughts. Not to mention Kanohi, requiring mental discipline and all that. So when he built the Vahki, maybe Nuparu did less hacking on people's brains, but simply modded what was available - maybe he used the Kanohi interface as a backdoor into someone's mind.

I don't often use my computer to build. When I do, I usually have a reason in mind - if anyone remembers those PokeMOCs I did a while back, those were ideas for a game. Most of the time I already have a physical model, or parts of it, then I recreate it in LeoCAD. For one of the PokeMOCs, Crobat, I made him with the wrong color scheme then I 'corrected' it once I had him on my computer (I didn't have enough purple). So I guess that falls under not having enough physical bricks. I wouldn't use my computer for a big creation. Just thinking about moving all those bricks into place with a mouse/trackpad makes my hand hurt already =P My platform of choice is LeoCAD, mainly because it can export to .obj files. It's okay, but it's slow - which is the main reason I don't build with the PC that often. How do I feel about Lego Worlds? I wish I had enough money to get it =P I think it's cool, but the controls would have to be perfect. As I said I think it's hard to build with a mouse. Would I still be using something else, then recreate it in the game? Again, it depends on the controls.

1: Uxar the Nui-Rama 2: Ketar the Nui-Jaga 3: Melum the Muaka cub 4: Ikir the Kahu 5: Akida the Takea 6: Terak the Archives Mole (dangit can't think of any good ones for him)

BLOOD! I SEE BLOOD, I TASTE - no wait, it's raspberries. Haven't played the game myself, but I love the jacket and just the look of it all.

I'm not really sure... they all had their great spots. The Mata/Nuva started it all, so they kindof defined what a Toa team should be. The armor style wasn't quite cloned - but again, they were the first, no one knew what to expect. It looked like the same design, tailored to each Toa. The Metru were cool, Metru Nui's my favorite story arc, but that had more to do with the world of Metru Nui than the Toa themselves. I liked how they were never really heroes - they kept running from the law, unraveling conspiracies, going underground instead of fighting evil head-on, like the Nuva or Inika. Their personalities were spot-on, too. Vakama being a humble, almost shy leader, Matau being a reckless goofball, Whenua and Nuju constantly arguing over the past and future, down-to-earth Onewa keeping the team stuck in reality. Then there were the Inika. I didn't follow the story as closely for them, so I can't say much on their personalities. But it was nice seeing the Matoran I knew and loved from MNOG and Mask of Light take the stage as Toa. The Mahri were kindof ugly - I mean, look at those masks with the tubes and hoses sticking out of them. But I loved how the sets were all different, hearkening back to the Nuva's tailored design, and each Toa rocked their own signature colors - Hahli's dark blue and lime, Hewkii owning Keetongu orange, Matoro even pulling off trans-blue as a main color. So I guess I don't really have a favorite, all of them were good.

They're not actual physical models, if that was the impression you were getting. Just really good 3D renders. Well then. Congratulations on fooling me. (seriously though, somebody make figures that look like that)

Those are models? Heck, I'd buy those more than the actual sets!

Racers 2. That's the only Lego game I've played but sooo many memories playing splitscreen. EDIT: Well, that's not completely true. There is this lovely little gem if you're not opposed to brick-based violence.

The nightmare dimension? Sounds like Quake. Luckily I already beat the game. I come tearing out of the dimension, weapon of choice is a Super Shotgun. *GOI ate two loads of Jaga's buckshot* My frag, my mask.

I spray both you and the staff with glue Kragle, permanently sticking it to you so you have no free hands to grab the mask. Meanwhile, I chuck a glue-and-duct-tape pie in Vezon's face, then grab the mask while he's trying to pry it off. My mask.

Seems to be easy enough to find. But it's a video game - you have to pay for it. There are the usual pirates who claim to download it in exchange for viruses that will destroy your computer, of course, but I don't recommend those. As for the technical aspects, probably not. You'd need an older model of computer in order to run it, and a Windows XP should probably do the job. So don't throw out that old laptop that you never loved - just swipe the memory off of it and enjoy playing all your ancient Lego games. EDIT: Also, I'm sure there's some programs for running those types of games on newer models, but I don't know what they are or how they work. I can speak from experience that just keeping an old WinXP machine is the best and easiest option. Virtual machines, VMs are a second best but they're kinda finicky, I've yet to get mine to play nice and share files with my actual system. Linux (and I think Mac, could be wrong) users get Wine, which sometimes-just-maybe-kinda-sorta works for old games, provided you have enough time and patience for kicking the program into doing your bidding. Those are the three options I know of. (BTW, if ANYBODY out there knows how to get Wine to behave, I'd be thrilled to learn how)

So, do we say where to put the stuff, like 'put a small mine in the west corner' or just 'put up a small mine'? Anyway, I say put up a mine, I suppose anywhere works.

Uh.. some people on BZPower who do stuff. And things. Oh, and T1S periodically makes comics about you guys. Other than that I'm not really sure what the organization is.

Mallet? What mallet? Oh, THIS mallet? I was just... uh... using it to play, um... croquet, yeah, that's it! What else would you use a mallet for, CERTAINLY not something as silly as conking certain individuals on the head... eheheheheheh. Where'd you get all those ridiculous ideas? *backs slowly out of the room*

Hey, anybody want a horoscope? Oh, let's see what you've got... "You are going to lose a valuable possession today." Huh. *punch* My mask.

I agree with a bunch of the points above, but I think what really made it special for me was the Matoran. The Toa were cool with their powers, fighting evil, but the Matoran didn't have that advantage, they were some of the weakest beings in the universe. And yet they were some of the most heroic and brave characters, even as they were so ordinary they did incredible things. Nuparu building the Boxor, Hafu jumping into a Tahnok swarm to save Po-Koro, Kongu and the Gukko Force, the Voya Nui resistance. The Game Boy prequel game, both MNOGs, the animations, Mask of Light, all focused on the Matoran. Ordinary people doing amazing things with the all the odds against them. Who doesn't like that?

This is an idea that's been in my head for a while, why I didn't put it up before I don't know. Anyhow. Zamor spheres are filled with Antidermis, which is a liquid, right? So, take out the Antidermis, fill it with paint, get the Toa Inika and the Piraka together with a bunch of launchers, and you get... Voya Nui Paintball.

I dunno. I guess Vahki are technically the worse invention in terms of morality, but they're an insanely sophisticated piece of technology, even by Metru Nui's standards. They're (mostly) autonomous, walk comfortably in bipedal mode, can shift into quadrupeds when terrain is difficult, and have a durable skeleton; their AI allows them to act effectively as a squad or alone. Current robots don't even come close. And to power all of that, their design either has to be incredibly power-efficient, or have a battery pack that you could just about power your house off of. Heck, forget about robots today, nothing else in the Matoran universe comes close to that level of complexity. The Boxors were impressive, considering Nuparu would have lost a lot of his technical knowledge in the Matoran pod and that he didn't have the resources he had on Metru Nui. But he was basically taking apart an existing robot - the Bohrok skeleton - and rebuilding and rewiring it into another one, the Boxor. So in terms of complexity and the skill required, I'd say Boxors were inferior to the Vahki.

I punch your eyes in. Along with some of your teeth. Hope you've got a good dental plan. My mask.