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Tuan Taureo

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    Queen of Noise

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    It's a part of a culturally stapled-on competitive behaviour, built on a supremely erroneous interpretation of what constitutes self-identification, that really doesn't have anything to do with human nature but has been around and propagated just long enough that we've started to mistake it as a genetically engraved quality and take it for granted and/or required.

     

    Which IMHO sucks even more than the behavior itself.

     

    --Tuan

    Black Six

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    I suppose it's a good thing I've been rather inactive on BZP lately.

     

    Sad that something like this apparently makes the fora explode on themselves. But maybe that's the cue? Sometimes the only way to realise how bad an issue still is is to see for oneself how bad the issue still is.

     

    We always like to think we've gotten pretty far with society ... never a pleasant experience to realise just how much left we still have. :|

     

    But a very necessary experience nonetheless.

     

    :udaman:

     

    --Tuan

    Tufi Piyufi

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    On a scale of 2 to 9, whereas 2 and 9 are extremes of opposing nature on a linear scale, how would your hatred of Rahkshi skulls and Nuva shoulder armour pieces being used as chest armour on female MOCs be quantified?

    Nine blistering waves of hate.

    You do realise that the proper response to that question is "Eleven", right?

     

    :udaman:

    Queen of Noise

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    If I were to describe what eventually made me lose my interest in Bionicle, that text would most likely look an awful lot like yours.

     

    :udaman:

     

     

    I did enjoy the early stages of the Metru Nui saga - the spiritual quality was greatly subdued and the tribal feel went right out the window, but there was still enough mythicality to go around; the near-religious reverence for the Great Spirit; elemental powers were still elemental powers and not another technology fangle; and let's not forget Energized Protodermis (can you say, "Virtue of Destiny manifest"?). I suppose I simply have a flair for reading fantasy elements into the most determined futuristic setting.

     

    The fact that the ferocious Rahi turned out to be the Makuta Brotherhood's test tube babies rather than indigenous animals was a let-down. The fact that Greg decided to go to town with that Kanohi of Dimensional Gates yet had it end up a cheap plot device was a disappointment. The fact that we now have an infinite number of alternate realities to mix and match wits with was what finally turned Bionicle on its head.

     

    Also, Lots And Lots Of Characters. :mellow: Adaptation Decay. :annoyed2: The Big Bad's ultimate defeat? Dropped A Moon On Him. :sarcastic: There are a lot of things, especially in the final years, that could've been presented much better, written much better, plotted and fleshed out much better, hadn't they had the constant requirement to keep Bionicle a marketable toy line. And that became its demise.

     

     

    But there will always be Fanon. :P

     

    And we will always remember the Templar flashimations with the greatest fondness. :lovesign:

     

     

    --Tuan

    ToM Dracone

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    The Dethroning Moment Of Suck and Wall Banger tropes at work. Weep blood, ye who enter. -_-

     

    Dork Age or not - Your Mileage May Vary wether or not Bionicle did well and truly Jump The Shark on some of these "revelations".

     

    I must admit that the Bohrok thing is rather off-putting. :plain:

     

     

    ... Fanon to the rescue!!

    <daydreamer>

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    It's crazy, right? It feels like a past life since one first set foot in here and was all googly-eyed at the shiny Premier Members and went on squeeing binges when someone you really really looked up to replied to one of your posts and hid underneath the desk when there was a moderator browsing the same topic list and nooby stuff like that.

     

    And meeting all these awesome people! Like you! *hugsquiz*

     

    Hapee birthdae. :D

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