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  1. Avohkah Tamer
    Jeez, Johnny, I'm two feet away. You don't need to yell.


     
    Anyone here remember playing this on Lego.com way back in the day? Crazy to think it was over 10 years ago since it launched; less than a year after Bionicle started!
     
    Several fond memories:
    That one guy with the pointless three-question movie trivia
    Running around delivering coffee to the movie crew
    Spotting Takua in the Commissary (!!)
    Being a stunt double, jumping across crocodiles
    Falling off catwalks
    ALL THE GLITCHES

    So yeah. Good times.
     
    Oh yeah, and guess what?
     
    IT'S STILL PLAYABLE. WHY, LEGO, WHYYY???
     
    Protips:
    - If the first area is all glitched out and invisible for you, resize the window and it should fix it.
    - Never hit the Escape key, it freezes the game.
    - Hold Z to run (So much better than walking everywhere!)
    - If you played a long time ago, your save file probably still works! Try logging in and hitting Continue.
     
     
    ~ (A VTOAHMKEARH)
  2. Avohkah Tamer

    Midwestria Convention

    By Avohkah Tamer,

    Today marked the kick-off of the first Chicago-area brony convention, Midwestria 2012!
     
    Holy crud. It's been amazing so far. Despite the fact that I only got to arrive pretty late in the evening, due to my job.
     
    It's about 3:30 AM right now so I'll just recap a couple things and then go to bed.

    MLP:FiM writers M.A. Larson, Amy Keating Rogers, and Cindy Morrow are in attendance, and just kind of hanging out with everyone
    Not a lot of custom merch, unfortunately, but I'm sure I'll end up with at least one plushie and hat by the end of the con
    Both M.A. Larson and Amy Keating Rogers participated in karaoke. Multiple times. They're pretty good singers!
    Hangin' out around Final Draft and Joe Stevens of Everfree Radio
    M.A. Larson randomly started talking to me, and challenged me to go up and sing an MLP song on stage. (Tomorrow, since the karaoke queue was full tonight)
    Sweet Celestia, M.A. Larson himself is challenging me to sing karaoke (which I have never done in my life) of a Pony song.
    He also wants me to sing one of Amy Keating Rogers' songs, like Smile or At The Gala, so she can hear it because she will be there.
    Went to a rave. Like an actual rave. WITH GLOWSTICKS. AND LASERS. It was dubsteppy and pretty fun, though tiring.
    Hung out with a bunch of my local brony friends afterwards and we hung out and played card games until 2 AM
    oh my gosh there are still two days left of this

    So yeah.
     
    I'm going to bed now so I can get up early and spend THE ENTIRE DAY at the con tomorrow.
     
    eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
     
    ~ (A VTOAHMKEARH)
  3. Avohkah Tamer
    UPDATE: Here's an audio clip I threw together!
    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27614263/Twiley.mp3
    Andrew Francis is the voice of Jaller from Mask of Light, as well as Shining Armor from the My Little Pony season 2 finale.
     
    UPDATE 2: And now his response to the audio clip!

     
    There are actually a number of voice actors with roles in both the Bionicle movies and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I posted this in Aho's blog comments a couple weeks ago, but here's a list I threw together:
    Tabitha St. Germain - MLP: Rarity - BIONICLE: Toa Nokama (LoMN, WoS)
    Brian Drummond - MLP: Mr. Carrot Cake - BIONICLE: Toa Onewa, Toa Matau (LoMN, WoS)
    Lee Tockar - MLP: Sea Serpent (Steven Magnet), Snips - BIONICLE: Makuta, Pewku, Kongu
    Scott McNeil - MLP: Flam, Caramel, Chief Thunderhooves, Blue Star - BIONICLE: Tahu, Onua, Graalok the Ash Bear, Bomonga, Keetongu
    Kathleen Barr - MLP: The GREAT and POWERFUL Trixie, Queen Chrysalis, Hoops, - BIONICLE: Gali, Roodaka, Gaaki
    Trevor Duvall - MLP: Prince Blueblood, Fancypants - BIONICLE: Pohatu, Toa Nuju, Iruini
    Andrew Francis - MLP: Braeburn, Shining Armor - BIONICLE: Jaller
    Chiara Zanni - MLP: Daring-Do - BIONICLE: Hahli

  5. Avohkah Tamer
    Hey all,
     
    I would have blogged about this sooner, but I've been out of commission with a really bad cold for the last couple days.
     
    So here, finally, is my chronological account of Brickfair in EXCRUCIATING DETAIL.
     
    Enjoy!
     
    ---
     
    Wednesday, Aug 1:
    TRAINS
    MET TAKUMA AND HIS COUSIN (APOLLOMAHRI)
    MORE TRAINS
    TRAIN EMPLOYEES BREAKING RULES ON TRAINS
    SLEEPING ON TRAINS
    TRAINS TRAINS TRAINS

    .
    Thursday, Aug 2:
    DONE WITH TRAINS
    CAR RIDE WITH SMEAG
    BRICKBADGE GET
    BINGO (BUT DIDN'T WIN)
    SUMIKI: IS HUMAN KAZOO
    ZATTH: HAS ACTUAL KAZOO
    PANDA FEZ GLASSES SWAG
    BOARD GAME (TEN DOLLARS? TEN DOLLARS.)
    TREE PUNS
    KNEE SLAP

    .
    Friday, Aug 3:
    ACQUIRE MOUSTACHE FOR HAT
    GENERAL SHENANIGANS
    BOUGHT BIONICLE STUFFS
    PICNIC LUNCHEON BEHIND HOTEL
    DRAMATIC BOARD GAME NARRATION
    PHOTOGRAPH MOCS
    I'M BATMAN
    CHOLIE CHOLIE CHOLIE
    NOMMED PIZZA[acronym=Photo blatantly stolen from Chols ]*[/acronym]
    LASER TAG UNTIL MIDNIGHT
    WHERE'S HARVEY DENT
    AIM...
    ...
    ...
    ...DOWN

    .
    Saturday, Aug 4:
    OW MY LEGS HURT
    PHOTOGRAPH MORE MOCS
    PUBLIC HOURS AAAHHH
    HIDE BEHIND BIONICLE TABLE
    LM LM LM HI LM
    HANGIN' OUT WITH LM
    WOW PUBLIC HOURS ARE NOISY
    SISEN TAKES US THE SCENIC ROUTE TO ARBY'S
    QUEST TO FIND JMJ OR KOTHRA (BUT WE WERE TOO LATE)
    PUBLIC HOURS OVER
    PHOTOGRAPH MORE MOCS
    ZATTH IS A LIVING GIF
    ABANDON THREAD
    SO MANY GIFS TO MAKE
    DINNER WITH TAKUMA, APOLLOMAHRI, SUMIKI, BRICKEENS
    BANNED?! THIS SITE SUCKS
    WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD (TO CONQUER)

    .
    Sunday, Aug 5:
    PHOTOGRAPH THE REST OF THE MOCS
    PUBLIC HOURS AAAHHH
    HIDE BEHIND BIONICLE TABLE
    HELLO AGAIN LM
    TOWERING PILLAR OF HATS
    SILLY HOTEL ATM, YOU'RE NOT A MEME
    BRONY CALL-OUT ("DISCORD" REMIX)
    DANCE PARTY (WITH NACHOS)
    OPEN THE DOOR, GET ON THE FLOOR
    EVERYBODY WALK THE DINOSAUR
    EPIC FAILURE
    DESHI DESHI BASARA BASARA
    HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BLACK SIX
    GROUP PHOTO (MEIKO AND DAIKER MISSED IT)
    PUBLIC HOURS OVER
    BYE LM :C
    YARD SALE (BOUGHT NOTHING)
    LEFTOVERS FROM YARD SALE (BOUGHT THINGS)
    COSPLAY MATORAN
    LORD GORMADON
    CUSTOM KANOHI GET (AND THE ONES I DIDN'T BUY)
    CON TEAR-DOWN
    CLEAN IT ALL IT MUST BE CLEANED CHKT CHKT
    CLOSING CEREMONIES
    DOOR PRIZES (TAKUMA'S COUSIN WON THIS)
    STAFF LEAVE FOR FANCY STEAK DINNER
    WE LEAVE FOR OUR OWN FANCY STEAK DINNER
    OURS WAS COOLER
    POST-CON HANG-OUT AT HOTEL ROOM
    SKYPE VIDEO CHAT WITH EMPEROR WHENUA, BFAHOME, AND KOHAKU
    SAD GOODBYES :C

    .
    Monday, Aug 6:
    PACK UP AND CHECK OUT
    HI AGAIN SISEN
    CAR RIDE WITH WINDRIDER
    NOT A WIND RIDE, I AM DISAPPOINT
    OH CELESTIA NOT MORE TRAINS
    TRAINS TRAINS TRAINS
    SLEEPING ON TRAINS

    .
    Tuesday, Aug 7:
    TRAINS TRAINS TRAINS
    BID TAKUMA AND APOLLOMAHRI FAREWELL
    ALONE ON TRAIN :C
    HOME

    .
    BONUS!
    Thursday Evening, Aug 9:
    'SHOPPED MEIKO INTO GROUP PHOTO, AS PER HIS REQUEST
    'SHOPPED DAIKER INTO GROUP PHOTO, AS PER HIS REQUEST
    'SHOPPED SOMETHING ELSE INTO GROUP PHOTO, AS PER WHO WOULD EVEN ASK FOR THIS

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    This has been an in-depth review of Brickfair from my own humble perspective.
    I trust this detailed itinerary was both insightful and informative, and I look forward to providing further professional retrospectives such as this for future shenanigans.
     
    ~ (A VTOAHMKEARH)
  6. Avohkah Tamer
    So, BrickFair is over, and I'm currently on the train heading back home.
     
    I'm gonna be perfectly honest here.
     
    That was the worst BrickFair I've ever attended!
    Because it was the only BrickFair I've ever attended. =P
    I'll miss all of you guys so much. :[
     
    I'll blog about ALL THE THINGS when I can get to a computer.
     
    ~ (A VTOAHMKEARH)
  7. Avohkah Tamer

    Brickfair

    By Avohkah Tamer,

    Oh man, you guys.
     
    Take a wild guess who's officially registered for BrickFair.
     
    Yep, you guessed it!
     
    Takuma Nuva!
     
    And guess who our very own Evil Blog Master is going to be bringing with him to BrickFair!?
     
    That's right, HIS COUSIN! (Man, you're so good at this)
     
    Okay fine, I'll stop with the fake-outs and make my announcement:
     
    I've just officially registered and paid for BrickFair!
     
    I'll actually be hopping on Takuma's train when it stops through my area, hanging out with him all the way to BrickFair, and even splitting a hotel room 'cause he's just that awesome.
     
    This'll be my first time to BrickFair, so any tips from longtime attendees? Like how do I even mentally prepare for this level of amazing???
     
    ~ (A VTOAHMKEARH)
  8. Avohkah Tamer
    Update: I'm home! 'Twas fun meeting you, Captain Marvel!
     
    Hey guys, I'll leave this entry short and sweet since I'm typing it from my tablet.
     
    So, how many of you would you like the opportunity to MEET ME in REAL LIFE at Brickworld tomorrow?!
     
    *crickets*
     
    ...No one? Eh, I'm not surprised. But hey, I'd still like to meet any of you who might be there!
     
    I and my brothers can be found at Brickworld Chicago all day tomorrow during the public hours! I'll be wearing one of these dark green BZPower shirts (Thanks again, Bionicle Raptor!), a backpack, and maybe I'll also have some sort of name badge with "Avohkah Tamer" on it (if I can manage to throw one together before heading out the door tomorrow morning). If you spot me walking around snapping photos of literally every MOC, feel absolutely free to stop me and say hi!
     
    I hope to see you there!
     
    ~ (A VTOAHMKEARH)
  9. Avohkah Tamer
    Oh, man, tonight was awesome.
     
    I just got home from my first-ever brony meetup at a local Colonial Cafe restaurant! Around 25 people total showed up to hang out and discuss everything pony. (Photo*) (Also, try to guess which one is me)
     
    We showed off our pony collections on a big table, jokingly argued over who is best pony, sang Winter Wrap Up (among many other songs), ate ice cream, and then afterwards about 10 of us raided a nearby Toys R Us for all their pony stuff!
     
    Only I didn't actually buy any pony stuff, because they didn't have anything I was still missing from my wishlist. Still waiting for the new blind bag ponies wave 2-4, as well as the TRU-exclusive brushables that come out this fall.
     
    So I walked a couple aisles over to the Lego section and they had several boxes of Series 7 minifigures!
    I quickly dug through them and managed to find all 16 minifigs with no dupes, as well as Wolverine's Chopper Showdown set. Woo!
     
    All in all, an awesome night. This particular brony meetup is monthly, and I am so attending again in June.
  10. Avohkah Tamer
    There's no one around, and your phone is dead.
     
    Out of the corner of your eye, you spot him:



    SHIA LABEOUF






    -----


    Many of you who frequent the interwebs have probably heard this viral song by Rob Cantor and the meme it spawned.
     
    What you may not know is that Rob Cantor also happens to be a member of my favorite band, Tally Hall! (Rob's the one with the yellow tie)
     
    So yeah, I find this whole thing sort of awesome. Tally Hall has all sorts of crazy and catchy songs just like this, and PEOPLE MUST KNOW.
     
    Seriously though, check them out if you haven't already.
     
    ~ (A VTOAHMKEARH)
  11. Avohkah Tamer
    Just so my blog doesn't get stale (again), I've got a question/discussion topic for you.
     
    If you could have any ONE superpower, as yourself in your own life, what would be your choice and why?
     
    Choose wisely.
     
    Also I'm pretty sure this is my shortest blog entry yet.
  12. Avohkah Tamer
    So one year ago on March 29th, Takuma Nuva convinced me to watch Episode 1 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I then went on to watch five more episodes that night. That was the night I became a brony.
     
     




    I did not get a healthy amount of sleep that night.


     
    In the past year, I've bought pony merch, helped out a bit with several brony collabs and projects, and I even got to meet up IRL with a brony in my area for coffee! (He even gave me an amazing hand-carved woodwork Fluttershy!)
     
    So, in celebration of an entire year filled with pony, I've decided to face my fears and upload a complete vocal cover I recorded of The Flim Flam Brothers Song. Enjoy!
     
     

    http://vimeo.com/39448555

    Bumped because it was halfway through Page 2 today.
  15. Avohkah Tamer
    MUFFINS FOR EVERYPONY!


     
    Today (March 1st) marks the second annual Derpy Hooves Day!
     
    In honor of everyone's favorite mailpony, feel free to eat a muffin, mail somepony a friendly letter, watch some My Little Pony, mail somepony a friendly muffin, eat a letter, or whatever other Derpy-related activities you can think of!
  16. Avohkah Tamer

    Look What I Got~

    By Avohkah Tamer,

    (Entry title shamelessly stolen from LM's blog)

    Michelle Creber (Voice of Apple Bloom from MLP!) recently held a Guess The Song contest on a social networking site, and I won second place!
     
    That's right, Apple Bloom just said I rock.
     
    Oh, and the song was "Saturday Night" by the Bay City Rollers.
     
    Image is a little warped-looking because this is actually a photo from my cell phone, not a scanner.
  17. Avohkah Tamer
    I just bought every one of the Series 6 minifigs in one shopping trip, without a cheat sheet and without getting any doubles/extras!
     
    I swear, they must have had like 8-10 minotaurs in that end-cap display.
     
    No photos unless you guys really want 'em, because I'm lazy and don't feel like digging around for my camera right now. =P
  18. Avohkah Tamer
    I just installed Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) on my HP Touchpad tablet, while keeping the default Palm WebOS intact so I can choose which OS I want to boot when I turn it on. It's so awesome~
     
    Examples of some stuff I can do now:
    Minecraft
    Netflix
    Google Earth
    Steam Mobile (<3)
    Other fun Android things

    So yeah, fun stuff.
     
    Also ponies tomorrow!
     
    ~ (A VTOAHMKEARH)
  22. Avohkah Tamer

    Pumpkins!

    By Avohkah Tamer,

    Why, oh why do I never blog? I mean, it's not like I'm not on BZP much, 'cause I visit every day. I really have no good reason for not blogging.
     
    Anyways, today's Halloween! My family doesn't really celebrate it that much, besides some pumpkin carving and dressing up in a costume for fun if I want to, though we don't Trick-or-Treat.
     
    Now, I'm no expert in pumpkin carving. I've never done the shave-part-of-the-surface-off-instead-of-cutting thing due to my only light source being those dim tea light candles. I don't do super-complex patterns or enter contests. Heck, I don't even carve the generic spooky faces! I carve video game designs! In fact, last year I carved a pretty darn cool Half-Life 2 design on my pumpkin.
     
    This year I spent hours trying to think of how I could top that awesomely geeky HL2 Jack o' Lantern. Staying with my VALVe theme, I finally came up with an idea and got it carved-- JUST before the Trick-or-Treaters started showing up! That's right, a Portal 2 pumpkin!
     
    And here it is lit up!
     
    And here's the template, if you'd like to print it out and carve your own! (Made from a vector image of the Aperture Science logo, and a portion of the Portal 2 logo)
     
    So what do you think?
     
    ~ (A VTOAHMKEARH)
  23. Avohkah Tamer
    So I turned 20 today.
     
    I still have no idea how I got to be so old. I'm like... OLD old.
     
    I feel compelled to tell people younger than me how back in my day, I had to walk to school barefoot, in the snow, uphill both ways; except I was homeschooled so it's not really true.
     
    My birthday was largely uneventful, no party, no friends over; but I got a couple Hero Factory sets as gifts (Duncan Bulk, Xplode, Furno's Bike). Oh, and one of these, which my brother found in-package at a garage sale a few weeks ago. It's LOUD, too, which is pretty cool.
     
    But you didn't click my blog entry to hear about my gifts, did you? You clicked it to see my cake.
     
    BEHOLD!
     
    It's not really a Black Forest cake (the kind the Portal Cake was modeled after), just a pretty simple cheap version my mom made for me. Boxed chocolate cake mix, crushed Oreo wafers, a can of chocolate frosting, white decorating frosting in a compressed can, and maraschino cherries.
     
    And it tasted so good.
     
    Oh yeah, and check out what I did with the Oreo frosting I scraped off the cookies!
     

     
    ~ (A VTOAHMKEARH)
  24. Avohkah Tamer
    Obligatory blog entry since LM ordered me to blog in many font styles.
     
    I'll get to my catch-up-on-everything-since-I-last-blogged stuff in some future entry, but for now, I've got something to show you!
     
    A website posted this image showing the infamous Gulf Oil Spill from space, with added contrast and false color to see the spill clearer:

     
    Now I ask you guys, what do you think that spill kinda looks like? As you've probably guessed by this entry's title, I see a pirate. You can see his hat, one eye, his moustache, beard, a sorta-mouth, and what LM noticed that appears to be a pipe. I, being the weird person that I am, decided to fire up MS Paint and use my laptop's terrible trackpad to create an ARTIST'S RENDITION of said pirate.
    Take a look.
     
    Opinions?
     
    ~ (A VTOAHMKEARH)
  25. Avohkah Tamer
    Hoo, boy. I guess I owe you guys an explanation for not having blogged since August.
     
    ...
     
    ANYWAYS, life's been good. Working full-time for my dad's been great, I gots loads of cash. Which I haven't been spending. Yeah.
     
    So I plan to remedy that by buying myself a $900 gaming laptop with Windows 7 that came out yesterday (which is veeeeery nice, can't wait until I buy it)! I also want to buy myself an XBox 360 Elite sometime, now that they've come down in price so much.
     
    So what else is new? I got Scribblenauts. It is win. Get it. NOW. 2,000+ wordlist containing many, many memes makes me happy. Heck, Laughin'Man and I spent an hour or two yesterday just playing with the various memes on our games!
     
    Also, I made myself a new, totally original signoff that I will most likely probably hopefully use! You may or may not have seen it yet. It's based off a signature idea I had for the BS01 Wiki back in 2007. Now this signoff is very, very unnecessarily complicated. And I coded it myself, by hand, no shortcuts.
     
    So, behold... MY SIGNOFF!
    ~ (A VTOAHMKEARH)
     
    And now behold... THE CODING BEHIND IT!

    [b][color="blue"]~ ([/color][color="blue"][sup]A V[/sup][/color][color="#4169E1"][sub]T[/sub][/color][color="blue"][sup]O[/sup][/color][color="#4169E1"][sub]A[/sub][/color][color="blue"][sup]H[/sup][/color][color="#4169E1"][sub]M[/sub][/color][color="blue"][sup]K[/sup][/color][color="#4169E1"][sub]E[/sub][/color][color="blue"][sup]A[/sup][/color][color="#4169E1"][sub]R[/sub][/color][color="blue"][sup]H[/sup][/color][color="blue"])[/color][/b]If you want to use something similar for yourself, please give me credit for the idea. Thanks!
    What do you think?
     
    As for what I'll be blogging about in the future:
    A blog approval. I need to make one. Or pay off someone to make one. Also, I had this idea to blog a series of four humorous spam e-mails I got, one per week. Hopefully that will keep me blogging this time. =P
     
    And if I don't, bug me until I blog.
     
     
    Until next time,
     
    ~ (A VTOAHMKEARH)
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