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  1. Eyru
    so I dropped off the face of the earth for two or three months. my bad. had some personal stuff to deal with, and I won't bore you with the details.
     
    but I'm back, more or less. I realize I left some people hanging (and also totally ditched my FA duties - oops), but I'm gonna do my best to get back into the swing of things.
     
    I wouldn't expect a ton of activity, but you can PM me if you want and I'll probably answer. and we'll see about getting some old projects rolling again.
     
    happy autumn.
     
    -e
  2. Eyru
    so I realized I made seven whole blog posts in 2015, and I am well on my way to breaking that record in 2016 because I have posted zero posts and it's already April.
     
    sorry guys I know you expect so much more of me.
     
    I thought it might be fun to do something with this blog though. you know, because it's here and all, so why not, right? I used to hold name-changing contests which were fun, but now that I'm an FA I'm not allowed to change my name, so that's out.
     
    (take a moment to weep, dear reader. it's ok)
     
    anyway, I've got some ideas floating around, but I want to hear what you guys think. do you want daily entries that chronicle my life in exquisite detail? little contests/challenges? mini-essays on 19th-century poetry? (I'm really good at those lol)
     
    sound off and let me know what's on your mind!
  3. Eyru
    If you want to discuss The Force Awakens, please be mindful of others. Put WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD at the top of your post and wrap your spoilers in seventeen sets of spoiler tags. This is one of the most anticipated films of all time (quite possibly the most anticipated), and not everyone will have the chance to see it this weekend. Please don't ruin this once-in-a-lifetime experience for other people.
     
    Even quasi-ambiguous statements like "Wow, plot twist!" or "Hmm, the acting was sub-par," are spoilers after a fashion. Just wrap your sentiments in spoiler tags to be safe, even if you think they're harmless.
     
    It sounds like common sense, but some people will get excited and forget; others might just think it's funny to trick people into reading spoilers. It's really not. Some of us have work/exams/etc. and won't get to see it for a couple days at least. Please be respectful and help us avoid spoilers! We can all discuss it together in a couple weeks, but until then let's help each other out.
     
    Thanks fam.
  4. Eyru
    Just a quick note to say that I finally beat FTL. I've put so much time into this game that it truly feels like a milestone in my life. I will now go on to more productive things.
     
    (protip: cloaking is OP. took me long enough to figure it out)
  5. Eyru
    Hey guys. Long time no blogging. Hopefully I'll start reversing that trend. (if only I knew what to blog about!)
     
    Anyway, I've got a new project in the works. Those of you who know me or have seen me around know that I'm mostly into writing, either in the BZPRPG or in the Library (albeit infrequently). This time, however, I've decided to try something completely new, something completely outside my comfort zone. I've been working on it for some time, but I didn't want to share anything until I was sure I'd be able to give it the energy and time it deserves. Now, several months later, it's almost ready.
     
    I don't want to share too much, because this is supposed to be a teaser post, just something to get the word out and spread some hype. So I'll leave you with a brief teaser clip that will give you an idea of what's coming up soon (hopefully as soon as this Sunday night!). I don't know how to embed YouTube clips, so I'll just put the link below.
     
     

    A world in chaos.


     

    A nation on the brink of of extinction.


     

    A malevolent entity bent on destruction.


     

    And one man who will doom -or save- them all.

  6. Eyru
    I'm moving away to attend university this fall.
     
    It's a weird feeling to look around and realize that the life I'm living right now will disappear at a certain point in time. Three weeks from now, to be exact. I've always known I'd leave home eventually, but putting a specific date to that concept is definitely a little spooky.
     
    I've already found a place just a few minutes off campus, and I'll start packing this week. It's neat.
     
    So to all of you who have already gone through the process of moving into your own place: what advice do you have? What do you recommend bringing along? What did you not realize you needed until two weeks after you moved in?
  7. Eyru
    well uh i guess it's pretty obvious because i'm wearing the new winner but here it is anyway
     
    TYLER IS LOVE IS THE WINNER
     
    'Stop Poutine' came in close second, only four votes behind
     
    ...
     
    now i guess the only thing to say is
     
    "the first rule about fight club is that tyler is love"
  8. Eyru
    This is where it gets exciting: we get to eliminate name that people actually voted for! Oh, the disappointment- I can feel it in the air!
     
    The six names eliminated today are:
     
    The Best Name Ever - 0
    Biebendum - 1
    The Rather Dull Alpaca - 1
    Hot Leaf Juice - 1
    "MY CABBAGES!" - 1
    Rotten Banana - 2
     
    And the remaining names are:
     
    Tyler Is Love - 8
    Tyler is Life - 2
    Comfy Cushion Seat - 4
    I'm an Ostrich - 3
    Hamazing Ham Sandwich - 6
    Stop Poutine - 6
    And Then Depression Set In - 2
     
    * * *
     
    It all comes down to this! You've got one vote left-- spend it wisely!
  9. Eyru
    Day three!!! i
     
    it's so exciting in here i can hardly breathe wow
     
    six names down:
     
    Philbert The Great - 0
    OMG bonkle's back!!1! - 0
    This is a llama - 0
    Yet to Reach 20k - 0
    20k is Far Away - 0
    Changer of Names - 0
     
    thirteen to go:
     
     
    Tyler Is Love - 3
    Tyler is Life - 1
    Comfy Cushion Seat - 2
    Biebendum - 1
    Rotten Banana - 2
    I'm an Ostrich - 2
    Hamazing Ham Sandwich - 5
    The Rather Dull Alpaca - 1
    Stop Poutine - 4
    And Then Depression Set In - 2
    Hot Leaf Juice - 1
    "MY CABBAGES!" - 0
    The Best Name Ever - 0
     
    * * *
     
    go go go
  10. Eyru
    The votes are coming in, and it's been decided! The six names (chosen randomly) eliminated yesterday are:
     
    Everything is Awesome
    V1P2 is the Best
    Uryie-buryie the Kazuryie
    "Ey, Ru!"
    Upper-Left Kidney
    Not actually a llama
     
    Which leaves the remaining 18:
     
    Tyler Is Love - 1
    Tyler is Life - 1
    Comfy Cushion Seat - 1
    Philbert The Great - 0
    Biebendum - 1
    Rotten Banana - 1
    I'm an Ostrich - 1
    OMG bonkle's back!!1! - 0
    This is a llama - 0
    Yet to Reach 20k - 0
    20k is Far Away - 0
    Hamazing Ham Sandwich - 2
    The Rather Dull Alpaca - 0
    Stop Poutine - 2
    And Then Depression Set In - 1
    Changer of Names - 0
    Hot Leaf Juice - 1
    "MY CABBAGES!" - 0
    The Best Name Ever - 0
     
    * * *
     
    You have 24 hours. And go!
  11. Eyru
    Aaaaand we're back, ladies and gentlemen, for the biggest event of the year!
     
    (not really)
     
    Below are the 24 dazzling (some more than others) contenders for my next screen name! Every day, the bottom six names will be eliminated, and those remaining will be re-posted so you can all vote again. By the end of the week, only one name will be left standing!
     
    Without further ado:
     
    Tyler Is Love
    Tyler is Life
    Everything is Awesome
    Comfy Cushion Seat
    Upper-Left Kidney
    Philbert The Great
    "Ey, Ru!"
    Biebendum
    Rotten Banana
    I'm an Ostrich
    OMG bonkle's back!!1!
    Uryie-buryie the Kazuryie
    This is a llama
    Not actually a llama
    Yet to Reach 20k
    20k is Far Away
    Hamazing Ham Sandwich
    The Rather Dull Alpaca
    Stop Poutine
    And Then Depression Set In
    Changer of Names
    Hot Leaf Juice
    "MY CABBAGES!"
    V1P2 is the Best
    The Best Name Ever
     
    * * *
     
    You may only vote once, so make it count. May the best name win!
  12. Eyru
    Some of you youngsters might not remember the good old days when I held a name change contest every month and a half, but all y'all vets will remember just fine, I'm sure. Such were the days of names like "kjanfijfaoisfjasfiseyruado," "Nukaya is Awesome," and "Delicious Chocolate Milk."
     
    Well, guess what? We're back!
     
    That's right: you lucky kids will get the honour and joy of watching me parade a silly name -that one of you submitted!- around BZPower until December. All you've gotta do is post your suggestions in this blog entry, and I'll run up a couple polls for everyone to vote on them.
     
    Rules? Yeah, there're a couple:
     
    1) Two names per member (I learned this the hard way back when Sumiki submitted a twelve-name-long list. Not this time, bud).
     
    2) All names must be BZP-friendly.
     
    3) Don't submit a name I've already had. That's boring. Come on, kids, be creative!
     
    You've got until Sunday, October 26th to submit your names, and the polls will start running the following week. May the odds be ever in your favour!
  13. Eyru
    So I was at Starbucks the other night, buying a bag of coffee beans.
     
    There’s a line, but it’s only three people long, so I’m like “no big deal” and wait with my coffee. It quickly becomes obvious that these three people ahead of me are friends and hanging out at Starbucks. The first two order their drinks loudly, but they’re pretty ordinary. Then the third guy steps up to the plate.
     
    "WHY’S YOUR MEDIUM CALLED GRANDE?" he says in this smug, condescendingly hipster voice. "GRANDE IS ITALIAN FOR LARGE. BUT YOUR LARGE IS VENTI, AND VENTI’S ITALIAN FOR TWENTY, SO YOUR MEDIUM’S LARGE AND YOUR LARGE IS TWENTY. WHAT THE HECK IS THAT ABOUT"
     
    and on and on and on he goes, with this little smirk, and the poor kid at the till tries to interrupt with “well you see our venti has twenty ounces” but this potato is having none of it. Keeps yelling about how smart he is, finally orders his drink, then goes and laughs with his friends about how stupid Starbucks is (of course with lots of needless swearing mixed in for some reason like dude you’re in public).
     
    Finally I get to buy my coffee and the poor kid is so rattled he asks me twice if I’m buying the coffee so I make sure to leave a tip and then I leave but man I just wanted to slug that fetid excuse for a carbon-based biped across his big mouth.
    Moral of the story: you are never as funny as you think you are.
     
    Second moral: don't make me say it again please.
     
    Third moral: no.
    thank u for listening bzp
  14. Eyru
    Bionicle (stylized as BIONICLE) was a line of contraction toys created by the Lego Group marketed primarily for 5-to-16-year-olds. Originally a sub-theme of Lego's Technic series, the line was initially launched in early 2001 in Europe andAustralia and the following summer in North America and over the following decade became one of the Lego Groups's biggest-selling properties. The theme's concept is based on two earlier Lego themes that featured characters based onclassical elements and incorporated a similar building system. In 2009, The Lego Group closed down the production of future Bionicle sets due to a lack of new sales in the product, and in the wake of theme's cancellation "replaced" Bionicle with Hero Factory; a new contraction series that carries Bionicle's legacy and features a similar building system.
  15. Eyru
    Do you ever have one of those days where something really just gets up in your face and grinds your gears? Uhh, bad wording: I bet you're all picturing that Peter Griffin meme that pops up every few weeks on Facebook like a pimple on my news feed. I'll try again: you ever have one of those days where something rubs you the wrong way and you just about burst like a broken fire hydrant?
     
    Yeah, me too.
     
    (I usually do better with the metaphors, jsyk)
     
    Those who know me are aware that I don't get angry easily. Contrary to popular belief, it's not because I'm on a perpetual high of maple syrup, or because I've been conditioned to be polite since the age of five, just like every other Canadian child (we've also been conditioned to guard the 49th parallel with our lives, but that's a story for another day). It's been a long, difficult process learning to control my temper, but it's part of becoming an adult. You learn to control your emotions: you rein in your outrage when The Hobbit Part 2 ends with Smaug flying out over Long Lake, and you hide your tears when you watch the finale of How I Met Your Mother (at least until you're alone in bed and nobody can hear your desperate sobs).
     
    But when I do get angry? Oh boy - you better go call that fire-breathing dragon back, because he's got nothing on the heat I'll be giving.
     
    Again, it's rare that I really let loose. I played in a road-hockey tournament over the weekend, and you ain't heard nothing till you've heard the chirping that goes on between young people pumped on adrenaline and Gatorade with two minutes left in the last period and the score's tied at 5 and elbows are flying and sticks are everywhere and woo hockey yes yes yes GO TEAM. But I didn't get angry then. I was sweating and bleeding and bruised from head to toe, but not angry. It's a game, even when someone cross-checks you into the boards so hard it feels like your spine is coming out through your chest.
     
    Injustice, on the other hand, isn't a game. There isn't anything that gets me going quite like injustice. I can get so intense that I scare myself sometimes. But I'm okay with that.
     
    It took me awhile to be okay with that, to be honest. Like I said, all Canadians are conditioned to be polite, so breaking the mould meant rewiring my own brain in ways that would make any psychologist proud. I thought getting angry was bad, and calling out people was the ultimate in flagrant disrespect, worthy of the highest punishment (which I've always considered to be watching M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. Haven't seen it? Don't).
     
    Thing is, there are some things worth getting steamed about. Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating irrational anger that blows up unpredictably, hurting random people and making a mess, but I am making a case for rational indignation that lights up when someone needs to know that what they're doing is wrong. Anger doesn't have to lead to hate if you don't let it (but I'll still argue that hate leads to suffering, and no amount of cookies is worth that, you crazy Sith).
     
    I'll cut my wandering monologue short by summing up my thoughts as best I can (but it's past midnight, so it might not be as succinct as I'm hoping): if you see someone doing something you know is wrong, something that negatively affects another person or group of people, get angry. If you see someone perpetuating injustice, get angry. If you hear someone perpetuating injustice, get angry. These are things worth getting up in arms about, so don't let anyone tell you to simmer down or stop freaking out. The only thing that needs to stop is injustice, and the only way it's going to stop is if we call it out.
     
    It can be scary, letting people know what you think. It can feel awkward. Believe me, I know. But justice is worth standing up for. It's bigger than manners; it's bigger than you or me.
     
    So make a scene. Get angry. Because what we choose to stand up for shows what we value the most.
     

  16. Eyru
    Started a paid internship yesterday.
     
    Summer's gonna be fun~
     
    MONEY MONEY MONEY
     
    also started xenoblade chronicles and stopped sleeping wbu
  17. Eyru
    MY LITTLE PONY HAS ONLY GIRL PONIES WHAT IS THIS MEN ARE BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST. ALSO THE LEGO MOVIE DOESN'T NEED MORE WOMEN; IT HAS ENOUGH.
     
    If you agree with this, go read this post.
     
    If you don't agree with this, then good job! Go read this post instead.
     
    If you're confused, go read this post.
     
    If none of the above apply to you, then this post is the one for you.
     
    #tylerbomaye
     
  18. Eyru
    how i met your mother ended tonight
     
    the season finale to one of my most favourite shows
     
    it has left me in a state of emotional disarray. in fact, i think t swift said it best:
     
    we're happy, free, confused, and lonely in the best way
    it's miserable and magical
     
    so yeah, i'm a wreck. it's really hard to say goodbye, because, after all, that show was legen- WAIT FOR IT
     
    ...
     
    dary.
     
    it was legendary.
     
     
  19. Eyru
    So I work at a local mom-and-pop coffee shop, and we often get funny orders just cause we're different than Starbucks. But today we got a customer who was confused for a totally different reason.

    She seemed pretty chill at first, this lady, who walked in with her mum. But as her eyes played over our menu, she opened her mouth and BAM RED FLAGS ERRYWHERE.

    "I'll just have an expresso."

    Before my supervisor and I can even give each other the ol' sidelong glance like "oh no" she tags on "Oh, and let's make it a medium."

    'NOTHER RED FLAG

    To keep y'all in the crystal-clear, our menu only offers espresso in one size: small, because what are ya gonna do with 16oz of espresso? So my super sets about trying to clear things up.

    "Are you sure you want an espresso?" he says (subtly emphasizing the 's' like a champ). "Were you thinking of an Americano? It's espresso and hot wate-"

    He can't even finish before the ol' gal cuts him off with "No, an expresso! I always get it here."

    There's a little more banter back and forth and finally my super just accepts that she wants an "expresso." So he rings her up and I grab one of our little china espresso cups. They're totes adorbs and perfectly fit two shots of espresso. The lady doesn't agree.

    "No! Too small," she says. "Give me a bigger one."

    We try to tell her that a bigger cup won't increase the size of her drink, and she'll just have 1oz of espresso puddled at the bottom of her selected 8oz cup. She stubbornly says "I know that; that's how I like it," so we just do as she says.

    So I pull the shot and pour it in and pass it over, and she looks at it like I suppose the devil looks at kids who look both ways before crossing the street.

    "What's this?" she says

    It's an espresso, we explain. One shot of espresso. One ounce of pure, magical, bean-juice goodness.

    "Can I have more hot water?" she says. "Or I can't?"

    Of course she can, but she seems to be ignoring everything we say, cause we just explained how there's no hot water in her drink at least five times over. So I can't put "more" in, seeing as there's none to begin with, but I fill it two-thirds full and pass it back to her.

    "That's more like it," she says "An expresso."

    My super explains that it's now an Americano, and the two are totally different drinks. The lady plays it straight and says "Oh, you changed the name?" He tries to explain again that they've always been different drinks but she's just got this bored look on her face and goes "uh-huh uh-huh" like she's listening but you can tell she's convinced we know absolutely nothing whatsoever about coffee, bless her precious, sweet, mama-loving heart, and eventually she just turns around and goes to sit down with her "expresso."

    Her mum orders a hot chocolate.
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