Ballom Nom Nom

I admittedly don't follow the comics forum, but I do look at the polls of contests, and I think this is the first time I've seen anyone call BAC ironically terrible. In all cases that I can recall people who were fans of it seemed to not acknowledge that, and often outright denied it.

Anyway, to be honest I don't really care for any comics on BZP. I think being hand-drawn is an important, almost essential quality and its incredible lack is a major part of why I don't read comics here.

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I'm terribly upset that this new crusade has made you forget about the movement to bring back wooden ducks.

~B~

Umbreon is about the only Eeveelution that wouldn't mind the low speed. And Brave would be okay too, since it uses physical moves like Payback (which actually works with Brave in both ways). Plus it looks cool shiny too!

~B~

Also, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it spelled "stomache"?

~B~

Does your dad come with detachable arms, even if the arms themselves are one large, specialized mold that allows for very little customization??

 

~B~

Yeah, dotcom is about right. The first thing that came to mind is TvTropes' YKTTW (You Know, That Thing Where...).

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Evidently you've not ventured much into forums like BBC, where a hot topic is a member of an endangered species.

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Ah, baseplates. I wish I still had them; all of mine but one were somehow thrown out a while ago when my family was cleaning our house. ;_;

~B~

Well, when you only have five short hairs total, your grooming options will be a little limited regardless.

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So I scored 55%, and the quiz page recorded it as 5%. Wut? Something's bugged somewhere.

~B~

Be older.

I do that on a daily basis.

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You know what would be the perfect piece to use on these arms? This piece.

 

This one piece.

 

That I don't have doubles of.

 

That they stopped making in 19FREAKIN95

Oh man, this happens to me so often. Well, generally minus the 1995 part.

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Never from a loss of power, but I've lost some great posts by accidentally going a page back in the browser. I don't even know how I accidentally do that, but it happens.

What would be even worse would be typing up a huge post in the old days, forgetting to copy it to the clipboard, and trying to preview the post only to get a board message.

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Greg has lazily pandered to the portion of the fanbase that wanted to CANONIZE ALL THEIR THINGS for years. I'm not quite sure why you're mentioning this now; has there been a particularly egregious case lately?

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"Releasing videos on YouTube is kind of like throwing messages in bottles out into a churning sea made up entirely of messages in bottles..."

But yeah, this is about perfectly right. I just never bother blogging then (of course I rarely both blogging ever anymore anyway lol).

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Impressive Star Wars EU collection. It's a bit hard to read titles, but I can see the whole New Jedi Order, Dark Nest, Legacy of the Force, and Fate of the Jedi series, which are some of the best (well, minus Dark Nest). Have you read Crucible? I don't see it there after Fate of the Jedi.

Anyway, I myself have pretty much all of those books too (although a bunch of mine are in hardcover, because I could never be patient enough to wait for paperbacks), minus Vector Prime, which I never picked up. I probably should at some point.

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Hey man, good to have you back with us.

 

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Ballom!  I missed you, man; nice to see you again.  I'll be sure to check out and review whatever epic you're currently working on.

 

I'm also reposting the Terra Nui trilogy in the library, so there's that too.

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Hey man, good to have you back with us.

~B~

Of course, his Kanohi list is actually complete, instead of ending with 2006.

~B~

Didn't ET also make his own Bionicle checklists a couple of years back? How do those compare to these?

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I don't think that the aim of The C.I.R.C.L.E. was ever to write joint stories together in the sense of a single, unified epic in which different authors write different chapters. The idea was to create our own joint universe where a member could reference another member's work to provide a deeper consistency and knit ourselves together as writers.

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Hi, Kohila. Haven't seen you around too often.

Anyway, I'll be blunt. The CIRCLE was, in my mind, never really a group that collaborated in writing. I primarily joined because I was working with Ausar on writing epics at the time. The CIRCLE rapidly became only a mindless rubber stamp process of voting on whatever random fact a member wanted to insert into their story, and about all the CIRCLE seemed to provide in practice was some sort of shared canon (which also jumped through strange hoops to accommodate the bloated mess of the official storyline).

Ausar himself dominated the group, and he grew less and less pleasant to deal with, reneging on many agreements to review or otherwise interact with content of members of the CIRCLE, not least of which being the epic he helped me write. He then claimed to have made no such agreements and eventually vanished from BZP and the dismal CIRCLE Wiki entirely, with the CIRCLE going away with him. (Apparently he's playing RPGs on some other site without caring to tend to what he started, which says a lot.) And not much of value was lost.

Given that all it did was supposedly force writers to mindlessly vote aye to random articles on a regular basis and make people needlessly accommodate minutia of other folks' stories, the CIRCLE failed utterly in the goal of achieving collaboration, in my mind. Any reattempt at it would have to be very far removed from the mess Ausar created and, to be honest, I think there are organizations in the Library which already fulfill goals of collaborative writing just fine.

~B~

A return of collectible masks would be awesome, as they offer a lot of variety in colors, and I missed all of them from Bionicle, and now they cost an arm and a leg on Bricklink. D:

~B~

Happy birthday!

And I think a Bricklink birthday order is a splendid idea. I just received one of those today myself, in fact.

~B~

They sound adorable and their leader is the super ultimate ninja beanbag chair.

 

Good enough for me.  =P

~B~