Nukaya

Not going to lie, I was almost expecting the entry to be "...about a girl named Lucky", and then it would launch into the rest of the lyrics.

-Nukaya

Please change your name to BrakalakabrakalakaBOOMBOOMBOOM.

-Nukaya

Why isn't it in the UK?

 

You USians have about a hundred gazillion Lego conventions. I'd walk, but that would use up all my shoes rubber, and I'd probably drown/get pneumonia/be starved from the Internet.

...yet I look at Brickish.org and they are having LEGO events and conventions in the UK up the ying-yang.

To my knowledge the US has:

BrickFest - Portland, OR (cancelled this year, and usually every other year if it comes back)

BrickFair - Chantilly, VA

BrickFair, Alabama -Birmingham, AL (a new con to be introduced in 2012)

BrickCon - Seattle, WA

Bricks by the Bay - (I believe it's held only every other year)

BrickWorld - Wheeling, IL

BrickFiesta - Austin, TX (a new con, only in it's first year)

BrickMagic - Raliegh, NC

Doesn't look like "a hundred gazillion" to me. And, not all of these are held every year, some are just starting out, and even one of them was cancelled.

Also, the size of the United States is a whole lot bigger than the UK (apparently the area of the UK is slightly smaller than the area of Oregon), so naturally, there's going to be many more conventions in the US than the UK

-Nukaya

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-Nukaya

YOUR BEARD.

-Nukaya

What do you want.

-Nukaya

Oh whew!!! For a second, I thought you were dissing the actual safari!!! I didn't really want to have to trample you with my elephant in response!!!

-Safari Adventure Barbie

Watching My Little Ponies doesn't make you any less manly or any more feminine. Let's not stereotype genders here.

-Nukaya

You're not taking this seriously, are you? -Takuma Nuva

Make it a masquerade ball meeting theme. Everyone shows up wearing complex costumes and masks, both of which have subtle clues about the person's personality, and no one is allowed to say who they are while the meeting goes until the end.

Or, fort making theme, and everyone brings a bunch of chairs and blankets and makes forts. When it comes time to actually do the meeting, everyone must use tin can telephones. After the meeting, all the people will group into two teams and there will be a rolled sock throwing/Nerf gun battle that will end with watching silly cartoons while eating popcorn and drinking hot chocolate.

Or! Dapper gentlemen them: everyone shows up with ridiculous mustaches that they made, monocles, and top hats (full-on dress suits and pocket watches are also recommended). People then start the majority of their discussions with "I daresay!" and refer to each other as "old chap".

-Nukaya

Do all staff have emotional and extremeness vague entries?

 

I like them.

I guess we've had a weird upsurge of those in recent times haven't we?

-Nukaya

They are apparently never changing Smeag's name back ever even though that was supposed to be a silly, fun temporary thing.

-Nukaya

Entry closed due to overall spaminess and the constant use of leet despite many previous warnings to stop from staff members.

-Nukaya

Ok, but what's the reason for it?

1. Because it is our rules and the administration says so and we have reason for saying so.

2. Because it is a misuse of the spoiler policy.

3. Because it is a waste of bandwidth seeing as it still loads the content being hidden, which takes time.

4. Because it doesn't actually fix anything when people post giant images (something that you really shouldn't be doing anyway when you can simply deeplink them) and hide them in spoiler tags, because they still have to load.

-Nukaya

While they are nice technical drawings and colouring-wise, they seem really too thin, and not in a "this is done in a certain drawing style that would deliberately thin the human figure" sort of way. Like, this gal's torso just looks like there's no substance to her at all.

Also, do all male Pokemon trainers wear that low rise of pants?

-Nukaya

Beyond the lack of realistic human proportions, lack of accurate and realistic depth in the image, and the apparent caterpillar horse the soldiers on the left are riding due to the previously mentioned lack of depth?

-Nukaya

Remember, if anyone breaks in because the remote control toy monster truck your neighbor gave you has a top secret computer chip in it that the spies want back, just set up lots of booby traps made of everyday household objects that cause many hilarious antics to occur and you'll be fine.

-Nukaya

Is now a good time to go? With the tsunami and all?

There isn't a tsunami. There are tsunami warnings. Huge difference.

And might I add, if said potential tsunami were to actually occur and get to where he's planning on going in Oregon (and he's going to an area that is located in a mountain range), nearly all of the state would be flooded.

-Nukaya

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NUKAYAISAWESOME

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Mustafa has nothing to do with the site. Make it one of the admin's faces and then we'll talk.

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Nope.

-Nukaya

He needs a larger forehead/crown. As per what you have drawn, his head has been squished down and he's missing a good chunk of brain. It kind of goes along with some rather wonky proportions that are occuring. While the shading and lean toward a realistic human face is evident (and I know that drawing people who are older is difficult), along with the facial size issue, the eyes seem way too big, the mouth needs to be larger, and I think this guy needs to look old all across his face. Right now, it appears that he's aged in the forehead and parts of his eyes, but his cheeks have stayed at a youthful age.

-Nukaya

Excuse me while I go cry in a corner and never return.

-Nukaya

I think it would also depend on which media sources someone looks at and how the media sources cover/are told to cover an event?

They could take something that might be viewed as pretty "trivial" (i.e. celebrity breakups and meltdowns and such) and just go crazy over it ("Oh heavens! Britney Spears did something[/i}?!?! Quick, get the "Breaking News" video intro clip, and do a news spot for it! That's totally breaking news!" But then, there will be something that really is news, such as a recall of a dangerous vehicle, a scandal within a international company, a war breaking out somewhere, and it will get a 20 second blip at the end of a newscast, or only a few inches of newspaper space in a corner.

It would also depend on the country you are getting the information from. Without getting this too political, if the news is good news and coming from a country that they are allied/good terms with, the likelihood that they'll do more coverage and reporting on it is much higher than if it was a country they are not on good terms with. It could also go the other way in which if it's bad news and it's about a country they are not on good terms with, they may be more likely report on it just to say "look at them and their mess. We are not allied with them, and this is one of many reasons why". Yes, they can report on both sides of it, but if the three biggest most "trusted" news sources are saying that so and so country is bad or good and you're not looking at other news sources, who are you going to believe?

I agree that there is a sense of ignorance to some degree. I guess the simplest way to start to defeat that is looking at news from many different media outlets, and not one(s) with a certain "spin". I follow a news outlet in Qatar and one in the U.K. along with various ones in America for the sole reason of keeping the coverage mixed and so I don't miss something that might be left on the wayside by another media outlet.

-Nukaya

It's ok. I haven't read any of the books.

Or seen the movies.

Except for like an hour of the second one when I was 13.

-Nukaya