Cressona

They're both pretty cool, but the animation for the new movie looks to be pretty good. It'll be an interesting change after the organic style of the last three movies (which I also liked). -Cressona

HAL+Skynet+GLaDOS=RUN AWAY!!! Yeah. That's be pretty cool.

xkcd=win.

I watch House. Does that count?

Educate people about lego? Never heard of it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNON!

And yet I still comment here.

These guys are so good they make the generic design look cool. Re: all others, don't really care, but the Star Wars ones are pretty epic (victory-class star destroyer! )

Inflation ftw.

Should be discussed in Spoiler Tags, but won't be. *gets banned* Okay, then. Spoilers it is. » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «I'm getting Mata Nui. No question. Sure, he's yellow, but yellow is still awesome (it's the color of my favorite smiley: ), and that might be a prototype anyway and we might be blessed with an amazing, golden Mata Nui. Really, the design is brilliant (his design just plain looks cool), he's got cool weapons, cool mask, and cool colors (black and yellow in this color scheme fit together very well). Other than that, the Silent Sentinel Gelu looks really cool (Mandalorian helmet! ). He takes all the icy awesomeness of Metus (read: snowflake shield), adds a cool Mandalorian helmet, and throws in some cool (pun) dark blue and white for moar epic-ness. Right behind the Great Spirit, Jell-O takes second place. No comments on the others for now, but Ackar is awesome (yeah, yeah, IT'S A TRAP!, reused berix helmet is reused, but still cool), Vastus is kind of wierd (snake-man?), but he's got the best name EVAR and if we can see a decent, straight-on pic (B6, I'm lookin' at you) of him, I could make up my mind on his awesomeness. Kiina's got a custom torso and a thin, feminine body, and I find it interesting that everyone who's begged for these things for years now hates her. And Stronius is a troll (yes, a troll), and deserves the respect level given to a troll, but there may be a bit of latent coolness in there. The vehicles? I'm not even thinking about getting those, but not because I hate them. It's a combination of them being very expensive, me having very little extra money to spend on bionicle vehicles, and them being very big and bulky and all that. Still, the two-headed Spikit is cool, the functions are great, and those riders all look pretty cool. Color schemes are a bit jumbled, though: I'd have prefered to see something more like Axalara, with some solid red and silver/grey in there, rather than yellow/orange/red/gray/black/silver/etc.etc. So I did look through all 200 pics in Black Six's flickr, skimming over the not-bionicle ones, and I have to say that these summer sets are all really, really cool. Set designers, congratulations. You have not only made the Inika torso design look good, you've given us some great color schemes, amazing new weapons, awesome recolors, and cool new molds. These are the best I've seen in a long time. Now go get us some innovation for 2010. Questions? Comments? Tohu? Ah, there he is! -Cressona

Yeah... I get that a lot. -Cressona

No big update this time, just wanted to add a new entry since there hasn't been one in a while. As per pompomperson's suggestion, I'm going to be creating an official blog entry where people can submit their names to join the Revolution and help make my official update sections more accurate and, unfortunately for the reader, probably longer. That's not for right now, though, right now was just a placeholder to keep the blog active and hopefully bump it up to the first page of the Community Blog so a random reader might happen across it, like it, and turn it into a forum-wide phenomenom. Or not. And I'd like to pose a question here, too, just so we have a little content to go on: If those transforming smileys indicate "noobishness", and are generally only used by noobs (no offense to any real noobs ), and don't indicate any emotions or help add to your post, why do they exist? I'd like your thoughts, and I'll reveal my own in this spoiler tag. » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «Because they're cool, obviously. -Cressona

I liked the story, but you should have used real members. -Cressona

I could find different people for different forums, you mean, like someone who posts a lot in collectibles would be my "collectibles guy", and so on? Good idea. But who should I get? -Cressona

I know there's a lot of people who do browse Collectibles, Promotions, and the other lesser-known (though probably just to me ) forums. I just didn't realize they all read my blog. Like I said to pompomperson, Overlord, if you do know what's going on in forums that I don't go into much detail on, you can send me a PM letting me know some of the basics like active members, hot topics, etc., and I'll include the info in the Forum Highlights section and give you credit. This helps make the Forum Highlights more accurate, plus makes me have to do less research. I probably spent a half hour to an hour just clicking into every forum and topic to get info. If I can get people in each forum to send me info (like the BZPower News ), I get to be lazy, and the quality of the info I do get myself is better and more in-depth. -Cressona

Thanks for the praise, pompomperson! If you are really big in Collectibles, and you'd like to help out with Forum Highlights, you can PM with some active members and what they've been doing, or hot topics and links or something. I'd like to get everybody to contribute to making the Forum Highlights as complete and as accurate as possible. And you live near T-Hybrid? That's awesome! Just generally, like you found out somehow, or have you actually ever met him? -Cressona

YA RLY

Welcome to the Revolution’s first FORUM HIGHLIGHTS. In this segment, we work to highlight what’s been going on in the forums lately: hot topics, member achievements, anything. In this first segment, we’ll take a look at Bionicle Incarnations, a popular forum category featuring the ever-popular Sets sub forum, the Reference Center, home to a good two or three different posters, several other Bionicle-based forums such as Collectibles and Software, and of course S&T, home of Adventurer, Aravagantos, Takua the Wanderer, the massive OGD, the other world-famous S&T Titans, and yours truly, when the moment strikes. So what’s going on in Bionicle Incarnations? Let’s find out. In Sets, quite a few topics have sprung up on the subject of canisters, from blackelectricspike627, who poses the idea of cardboard canisters instead of plastic to save money here (check out my monolouge in about the 9th post for something that’d be in the blog if I’d have thought of it earlier. ), to Zynax-toa of Pie’s question of which is the best canister set design here, which I don’t think violates an official topic since it’s just about the canisters. Also new in Sets (at least to me) is PohutNuva’s topic, a new “Official ‘What was your first set’ topic”, which I won’t link to because it’s so official you should have no problem finding it, and I’m too lazy. Now, at the risk of spending an entire Highlight on Sets (which I may do one of these days; it’s an interesting idea), I’ll move on to what was one of my favorite forums as a new member, and continues to be a popular choice for myself and many other story-oriented members. Our GREG-WATCH reports that the Official Greg Dialogue, known to acronym-minded among us as the OGD, has reached 8,911 replies as of 6:13 PM, February 3rd, the last post by Dorek. Moving along, topics like Krana Kongu’s The Two Rings of the Bb Map and Danish member Kone the Artist’s “the Map” theory continue to speculate-- sorry, theorize, speculation’s banned in S&T -- about the meaning of the Blade Burrower/Unity-Duty-Destiny map uncovered by Adventurer in the OGD many years ago (actually just one. Sorry. ). Also of interest, mowaku’s started a topic asking whether you think Greg is a good writer or not. From what I’ve seen, the consensus is overwhelmingly positive, but mowaku himself insists on the opposite, and in fact had another topic closed earlier for arguing that Greg is a bad writer, in what the closing moderator decided was a rude way. Meanwhile, the Official Elements Topic (not linked due to laziness and official-ness ) has wandered up into the first page of S&T again, thanks this time to a discussion of lava as a power or an element. Head over there to give your opinion. Dropping down the Incarnations sub forum list, we’ll head down to Collectibles, where Kanohi names are discussed, both argued against by Toa maks, and connected to real words in other languages by Inferna Firesword. No links this time; I’m getting lazy. But if you do want to head down to Collectibles, be sure not to miss Toa Lahka’s warning not to put Thornax in the washing machine, or Hunter Kirax’s ubiquitous Bring Back the Collectibles topic. Honestly, I was the only one listed browsing collectibles as I did my Research-on-the-Run, so I’ll leave the abandoned, though full-of-hot-topics Collectibles and give you a quick rundown on Promotions, the second Incarnations forum to be led by ccso35. Everybody’s talking about new songs for 2009 and the Glatorian, and if you want to voice your opinion, head over there and check it out. Since I was the only non-guest viewing the forum again, though, and because I don’t want to strain my readers’ eyes with too much writing, I’ll continue to Screenguy’s lone Incarnations forum: Software. Bionicle message boards are the hot topic in this forum, both in the normal sense of the word and the BZPower/forums-in-general sense: with over a thousand and a half replies already, Krika Mistika wants to know what you think of the Bionicle Message Boards. Naturally, very few have positive things to say about them. Leaving Screenguy’s domain, we’ll now head to the high-posting munkeymunkey’s forum: Movies & Books. Here, the buzz is all about the 09 movie, whether it’s a potential movie name, what Mata Nui’s voice should be, or the voices of the Glatorian themselves. And that’s what’s going on in the forums today. But before we let you go, the Revolution would like to point out a few member achievements (nothing really in-depth; I’ve already written a page on Word, and my WordCount machine tells me I’ve already got almost 800 words. Also, I’m lazy. ) Now, the big news on the first page of members (when arranged according to total posts, descending order, with 60 results per page ), is that Adventurer has overtaken munkeymunkey in posts, gained the blue Hahli mask (the name escapes me at the moment), and became a Shining Seeker, leaving munkey’s Electrified Aimer behind in the dust. Also, Kex recently received his shining Ignika, and is less than a hundred posts behind long-time and world-famous member T-Hybrid, formerly Torhu. But that was many, many years ago. Also of note is Takua the Wanderer’s new rank, which is too long for me to write out right now, but which confirms speculation of a Hordika-series up there in the ten thousands. Well, I’ve got over 900 words in here now, I’m on my second page, and if anybody’s still reading this, they’re either amazed at how much I’ve managed to write and are much more enlightened about the forums, or they’re bored out of there minds. Which means it’s time for me to stop the typing, hit “add entry”, and hope it’s enough content for you. -Cressona