Noxryn

Finally got around to making a YGO DevPro account and currently trying to perfect my decks.

 

Anyone on here plays?

 

it always surprises me to hear YGO still being around, it's been like... 13? Years since i was like last into it, pretty neat tho hope you're havin fun

last game i played was Heroes of the Storm, sorta just been on a Kael'thas kick in that title. kinda miss the Blizzard people i used to play with every now and again, but o well 

0/5 i recognize no one anymore

and no one probably even remembers me sobs

"Someone Like Me" ~ Falconshield ft. Nicki Taylor and The Yordles (It's a LoL song about two robots okay but it gets to me every time)

League of Legends ft. Me playing Camille. 

Maybe I fed maybe I didn't you'll never know.

hooked on a feeling - blue swede

hope u have a happy birthday c: 

I wanted to find a different piece of art to comment on, so I figured "Oh! I'll check the last page of Bionicle Artwork! There'll be good stuff there to post about!"

 

...yeah.

it's ok ur not the only one

90% sure i did it in the library way back lol

I picked "other." 

Like, having ranks up to 20,000 posts is... a lot of posts. I've only seen two, three... maybe four? Members ever reach that amount of posts to begin with, which is where the new ranks would become relevant. And I wouldn't really want a situation where people are spamming small replies to try and get a higher rank for their posts. 

Like, with only a small, small amount of members getting so far up there to use them... it seems a bit of a waste of time to make more. 

But if a bunch of people did get up there, and 20,000 posts became a normal thing for people to obtain in general, then I'd say increase the rankings since at that point a large part of the member base would be up there to use them, see them and appreciate them. 

Or just toss one in every now and again when there's time and someone's really bored. 

Chat rooms aren't bad ideas, though I don't really imagine BZPower to host one officially that's tied into the forum itself. I can't say for sure how it would pan out; the member base is much smaller and a lot of members (like myself) are kinda blue moon active. 

For comparison, I've been on a lot of forums that utilize a chat box near the top of the forum and while those forums are RP based (or used to, I haven't been on any other forum sites in a long time with the advent of Discord/Tumblr and where my attention tends to go). But an issue on all those sites is the members would take personal arguments to the chat box, rather than just talk to the person they were having problems with one on one so it always became a cluttered mess of in-character drama that was pulled out into out of character and created a lot of problems within the communities themselves. I know I ended up quitting most of those sites because of the constant yelling/arguing/etc... in those boxes. 

On the other hand, there were a few that were really nice. Difference was, the really nice ones were filled with maybe 10 - 11 people at most, and 2 - 3 at the least and we were all pretty similar minded and less confrontational sorts (and it was easier to moderate because of the lower amount of people, and the clear rules written on the side of it). 

I mean, part of me feels it'd be worth trying out to see how it would go with this community, but another part of me knows for an on-site BZPower chat, it requires code and time to make the chat box, and time to make the rules for the chat box that would need to be displayed by it, and then time to moderate it and to make sure you keep the feature that lets you ban users from the box itself. 

Usually BZPower's had unofficial, offsite chats, which I never really participated in or sought out so I'm not sure how they are, but I figure one's likely still around? 

The thought of using Discord wouldn't be bad, but it wouldn't be on site and would prolly just divert traffic from the site, or end up as a similar deal as the BZPower FB group. 

Generally, for sharing small things it's always been "get premier membership" or find a way to make it a topic worthy thing (ie: something that generates discussion). 

happy birthday hope you taking care and have a good day c: 

ultimate dume (pro i get three sets that aren't ultimate dume)

nothing else comes close

i think i touched up the pinned RPG thread in OTC at some point last year

maybe

and by "touch up" i mean make it readable all the links are broken im pretty sure (things get deleted, i get lazy, fight me)

but i haven't been much of a presence on here last year, i feel like i tried to rejoin the bzprpg (i really liked my character concept) but then i got a job, went back to school, and worked on an important creative writing endeavor that basically took all that time i initially had away. kinda sad about it, in retrospect.

i mean i can list off things im not proud of lol

Either League of Legends or when I was messing around with Cloud Strife in Smash, since I had like 10 bucks on my nintendo stuff for two years now, figured why not and picked him up for 3DS and Wii U. Sorta tempted to log into Guild Wars 2, but the game's been messy on my computer and I don't particularly enjoy the farmfest aspect of it. 

It's easier to have a IRC channel on a website that's either small, so every member in there is known and relatively easy to drive the consequences home to for bad behavior (like on various RP sites I was on since forever ago), or for a large website that has a more lax ruleset and atmosphere since people will stray into inappropriate topics for discussion, or use it to bad mouth people, or use it to stir up unnecessary drama and the like (And BZP with the drama history this site has, doesn't handle it well).

There's likely unofficial chatrooms floating around for users, but I have no idea if they're of any quality or if it's just incessant whining like they were a few years back.

i reported myself for something once

i forget what that something was but it was a bad i did on these here forums

It's literally the Goddess of the Dark Sun, Gwyndolin from Dark Souls.

Mostly just because I liked the character and hold fast onto the theory that Gwyndolin is a trans woman, but that's another story.

I'm not voting, but I don't get why everyone says this is "Greg's" story when it's not. A lot of people worked on it and wrote for it, there was an entire story team after all, and discounting them and their contributions really rubs me the wrong way.

Honestly, I'd like it if the canonizations did end. I'd appreciate it if Greg wasn't the sole arbiter of what is and isn't in the story, considering there were many others who also worked on it alongside him and, to me at least, it always seemed a little... unfair? I suppose, that one member of the story team is the one deciding what goes and doesn't.

Could be the rest don't really care or mind, but I'm mostly bringing this up since this isn't "Greg's" story.

Villains and other antagonists in a series do need the ability to have a redemption, since if they cannot be redeemed at all then they are hardly three dimensional characters who have an actual goal in mind. It's weak writing to have a villain as a villain solely because you need a villain, thus giving them an unhealthily bad goal that no actual individual would strive for without some other, underlying motivation. In general, villains aren't doing what they're doing because they see it as evil, they're doing it, by and large, because they feel it's the best way to actually do something or make something better.

If you write a villain to just be evil and nothing more, then that's a really boring, one dimensional way to write a character who has about the same amount of character as a cardboard cutout.

Then again, I'm of the opinion most of the Bionicle villains are poorly written examples of how not to write villains. Especially Teridax.

 

 

 

 

It's better than the other canonizations we regularly do on this website.

Such as what? I'm kind of curious what weird things have been canonized by fans bringing it up.

 

Fikou.

 

 

all 256* or so Toa Mangai, and their associated items.

 

*okay, so it's not that many, but who cares about the toa mangai???

 

Ok, you know this is being a little hypocritical. I mean I could say 'who cares about what element plasma is'. Yeah the need to know each and every Mangai's item is a little much, but at least it adds something to the story, the keyword here being Adds. This doesn't add anything to the story, as I and others have pointed out numerous times. 

 

The Mangai canonizations don't add to the story, it just fills in specific details about a group of characters who were originally left to reader interpretation. Taking that away, IMO, detracts from the overall story and the creativity the fans can put into it by theorizing about those characters or imagining them in their own way.

This is a fact of an entire population of a specific type of element, which means that pending on how it's canon, it affects how people will write characters of this particular elemental tribe and how they will be imagined. If they're left male then that's just the same as the vast majority of the world already, a world in which more female characters is needed in the first place. So making this tribe female would, at least, help the world building aspect in that the ratio of males to females won't be as humongous as before when speaking on a worldbuilding level of the MU.

It's not the end of the world either way, but it's a little grotesque to see how many people personally take offense to them being a female tribe.

 

hurting noone

Is somebody being punched in the face every time someone votes "yes" or something?

 

You don't have to punch someone in the face for them to be negatively impacted by something... If this poll ends up passing a 'yes' vote then it will have a negative affect on all those people who voted no because the next move will be to actively campaign for Greg to retcon something that has already been established as fact (by him) in a universe created over a decade ago and abandonned for almost half as long. The Gen1 story is OVER and no amount of retcons or future canonisations will have any effect on anything other than to make an already convoluted, hard to understand story even more disjointed and inconsistent than it is now! 

 

Why people can't just accept that Gen1 messed up with mono-gender tribes and move on is beyond me. Sometimes a mistake can just stay a mistake. The definition of the word mistake is not 'something that must be fixed' simply 'something that is incorrect.

 

People can still find something wrong with media they enjoy and find ways to make it a little less bad in hindsight. It's really not hurting anyone or anything, having one more barely on screen/paid attention to elemental tribe consist of women instead of men like the other 90% of the MU.

It's better than the other canonizations we regularly do on this website.

IC: Ageru Tamachan (Odaiba)

 

"Well, actually, I was going to..." Tama began, but stopped herself when Vwyn continued

 

"...Not much sense in just having a drive by conversation about something rather important and parting way for eternity"

 

"Yeah, you're right." she replied, realizing that her errands could probably use the wait, let her thoughts simmer and settle for a bit before she attempted to hash them out with someone else.

 

"I'd be more than happy to join you" she said with a curt nod.

IC:

"After, if you had things to do, I could help out if you'd like." Vwyn responded, as a guilty look crossed her face. "I'd offer now, but I haven't eaten yet," she added after a moment as she stretched her spine and arms. "But... is there anywhere you have a preference for? I don't really mind." Part of her wanted to try something new, but she also wanted the person she invited along to have some say in the matter of where they were actually going.

I'll say yes. The MU is too much of a giant guy fest already.

I always hated mono-gender tribes and the concept of it. Honestly, let there be female Toa of fire and female Toa of air and so on and so forth. Going back to "Great Being logic" is a poor cop out for bad writing and bad story boarding by the story team, since it's real human beings who designed this world and, when realizing they messed up, decided to pin the blame on badly written gods.

I'd have hoped the new iteration of the series would stem away from this line of thinking, but I suppose not if everything I've read is to be believed.

Either way, it's a product of bad writing that led into a really terrible discrepancy of male v female characters and it tossed female characters into one, tiny, category for the majority of the series (being Toa of water, thus always the blue set). It's not really good for general world building, or creating an immersive world.

It's why when people go on about changing canon genders of Toa, I'm for it, since it'd break the mono gendered tribes through the most iconic characters in the series -- the ones anyone who even remotely looks at the line first experience.

The crux of what I want to get across is this entire idea of "oh, the GB's did this" when no, they did not. The writers did. The very human writers did.

Pohatu x Kopaka, we all know they totally kissed at some point up in those frigid mountains. Plus cuddling to keep at least Pohatu warm.

Can totally see Lewa x Onua, as it was... it was Onua who like helped out Lewa with his krana problem, right? Or is my memory of MNOG II terrible?

Tahu x Tahu

It's a reboot, so technically speaking these aren't the same characters as the G1 series anyway. Yes, people knew various characters as strictly the first gender they were ever created as, but it created a massive imbalance within the original cast that lead to a 1 in 6, if that, female to male ratio. That's not good representation no matter what canonical excuse you sit down to make for it. And just because "that's how it's always been" also doesn't make it a pro to the series as a whole.

Plenty of girls and women enjoy the series, so there should be a wider variance of female characters within the main cast, arguably some of the most iconic characters in the series, rather than just one character who fits a fairly common archetype when it comes to female heroes in the first place (Maybe G2 worked on that a little, I don't know).

There's already male versions of the characters in the old series for any male fan to identify with easily, to anyone who'd be all "but I won't be able to identify with Tahu anymore if they made her a female character in this iteration" but there's no female character(s) for girls and women to easily identify with from the get go.

I'll never see what's wrong with changing genders of these characters to make it more representative of the diversity within the fanbase, granted it doesn't hurt the story and it just gives more people more characters to easily identify with. Then again, this is S&T so I won't be shocked if a bunch of canon waving nerds come through going "oh the sanctity of the G1 precedents!!!!"