BioGio

Leonid Ilyich Brozhnev (Леони́д Ильи́ч Брожнев​), who proclaimed his right to invade any discussion that threatened the continued existence of Eridanism in a relevant thread. Lucius Brornelius Sulla Felix, the bro so distinguished as to hold the office of bronsul twice. Niccobrò Machiavelli, author of the work that helped to redefine brolitical science through the analysis of Cesare Brorgia (condottiebro of Renaissance Italy). OK this one isn't a dictator but Cesare was so yeah. my god these puns are awful

Have a great birthday and many more. Have a great year being 21!...you fat nasty trash.~ BioGio

Principality.

'Twasn't long until you realized it'sn't all that new.

Now, isn't it cheating to post your own celebration topic and count that as your thousandth post? Kidding aside, that's really amazing--quite the milestone. Congratulations to both of you!~ BioGio

Happy birthday, 50% of Gatanui! And here's to hoping that a great day will lead to an equally spectacular year.~ BioGio

I recall a great, witty explanation of exactly what you said. Basically, being gay doesn't make one more feminine (or vice versa) because there's not really a fixed spectrum of masculine to feminine to describe all of human personality. We could say that Englishmen are more French than Americans, but doesn't it make more sense to call an Englishman "English" or "British" and to not assume that there is some continuum of "Frenchness" to describe ethnicity? Similarly, there isn't just a personality continuum that ranges from masculine to feminine, so there's no reason to shoehorn a sexuality into social characteristics: The two aren't even related.This is totally relevant because I said feminine like three times okay.~ BioGio

Sorry you've been having a bad week. It always sucks when that unconscious anger manifests itself--I'm sure we can all agree there.

HH has it pretty well. I'd really say that it doesn't matter much what your argument is about (be it where ponies belong or what-have-you)--but how it's about it [/ebert]. In any discussion, one side or another is practically bound to be demonstrably right or wrong, and if you can't support your ideas without falling back on cyclical arguments based on what is supposedly basic truth, you're not going to go far. Take that "Next Generation of Kids" topic. One side was really wrong based on both fact and opinion, so they weren't taken very seriously, and people fell on them like dogs on a bone. The question was never whether they should have posted--they had every right to! However, people on the less reasonable side would have greatly benefited from backing up their arguments with fact and more than hearsay and opinion. The quality (or lack thereof) of their points was what hurt them--not the quantity of posters on either side. You can win any debate as long as you make the right points. If you're correct, winning shouldn't be a matter of whether people trample you with their posts; it should be a function of your ability to defend and explain yourself. There are great arguments to be made for and against! the project on CUUSOO (and really anything), and that alone defines whether a brigade will correct you. In other words, don't worry about which debates you pick to participate in--just as long as they're based on good arguments. How>what. Always.

I think that you've somehow confounded saying that a thing should be made and doing nothing creative with saying a thing should be made and providing genuine ideas and working originally to avoid the pitfall of "TAKE THING MAKE Lego Bricks." By extension you've also made MOCing anything unoriginal, since most everything isn't plastic. (Of course, I kid here, since I know at least what you meant.) Either way, people liking something and supporting a form of it isn't really something to get up at arms about. There's no reason to "keep fandoms separate" other than to stifle creativity for the goals of some bizarre purity of creation. There should be no lofty "principle of the matter" regarding something as simple as a licensed theme or crossover. Would you object to LEGO Star Wars, Batman, Harry Potter, or Spider-man? Of course not. This is the most bizarre fundamentalism that I've seen since a guy called Arabic "defective" for being an abjad. As for whether LEGO could pull this off... two separate CUUSOO members (a small pool) have been able to work out feasible designs for MLP LEGO. I think a global corporation might be able to figure something out. EDIT: Holy COW how long was I working on this post

Circa 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST on average and rarely more than a half-hour or earlier later than that. That describes the time I'm active in using the Internet in general, actually (except on Sundays).~ BioGio

First of all, this has been polled with extreme prejudice. Not necessarily because a topic isn't necessary--but for scientific gathering of data.Now, I'd like to start out with a set of axioms and then work like some sort of really weird geometer. The film would have to:- have some ability to stand alone- fit BIONICLE thematically- feature events (and characters!) that linked it directly to the others (past and future)Thus, setting change years are obviously better, and 2006 is out for being too experimental.As such, I lean towards 2008. It features the first movie's main characters and would have made TLR make some more sense in certain ways.~ BioGio

Years that already had movies omitted because otherwise it would be redundant.To quote the original topic poster from S&T: So remember, this isn't necessarily about which movie would be the most potentially awesome or well-written, but which could have been best used to explain the plots, characters, and themes of BIONICLE.I personally say that whatever the year, the film would have to have some ability to stand alone, making setting change years obviously better (see why 2004 and 2010 worked as movies?) and encapsulate the ideas of BIONICLE. As such, I lean towards 2008. It features the first movie's main characters and would have made TLR make some more sense in certain ways.~ BioGio

Second. First comes too close to clashing between the red and green, and the dark blue is not a neutral enough background color to really work with such strong contrast. However, the second might be improved by making the green lighter (or lime-r, if you can) or the blue darker.

Make general vague references like asking what a chimichanga made of cherries would be called. Being straightforward is way too boring, Dragonfly.

I recall trying to start a game of 40K with a few friends, but it was pretty much impromptu and didn't get anywhere. I do recall adoring all of the grimdarkness, and the worldbuilding was impressive, but I attribute a lot of that game's success to our GM. I must say, it's a great change from the typical D&D, though.

Selective omniscience (effectively, having the ability to mentally search for any information and come up with it correctly while not being encumbered by having a bunch of random knowledge perpetually floating through my mind). I've also toyed with the idea of being able to take over the minds/bodies of others to become a veritable Vicarious-Man, but that's just ridiculous.

Happy birthday! You've gotta come back some time and share some more of those hilarious topic-closing posts.

In before "Bunny? I thought Scootaloo was a chicken" posts. Either way, that is among the most adorable pictures ever.

First and foremost--and I apologize--I've just got so say this: You mean "similar sounding phones" rather than "letters." Anyway, there are a lot of great resources for language construction in general; I have a website bookmarked that contains both a Javascript text generator and sound change applier (but I can't link to it). The Wikimedia even has an entire book about how to create a realistic conlang. The thing that I find most interesting about this project you mentioned is that it would be based on an Afro-Asiatic (and, more specifically, Semitic) language rather than the run-of-the-mill Indo-European-styled languages that are so common in first conlangs. (I know mine have fallen into this trap.) As for phonology, which is naturally your major concern currently, I recommend looking into the varieties of Arabic first of all and then reading up on whichever catches your fancy as most "Arabic-y." Here is Wikipedia's discussion of Modern Standard Arabic phonology. (Warning: Knowledge of the IPA and/or the various manners and locations of articulation is a prerequisite for full comprehension!) You'll eventually have to tackle the monstrous matter of morphology and the like, which can't be so easily linked to and summarized in a few sentences. (Again, I warn against using the Indo-European flavor too heavily here.) For that and more, I really recommend reading up on linguistics and language construction. Mark Rosenfelder and Jeffrey Henning host their own noteworthy websites that make such complex topics rather accessible.

You know, I don't quite recall "Giggle at the Ghostly" containing the line "YOU'VE GOTTA UP TALL , " but that might just be me. Anyway, I've got to say, McSmeag makes possibly the best fictional character possible. This is shaping up to be the best fictional work on BZP I've read possibly ever. (no offense Ballom)~ BioGio

And when he first used the word, it didn't just mean "funny stuff I'm repeating that I heard on the Internet." It was actually an analogy to the gene (referring to the transfer of cultural information). Which means, that's right, "meme" is pronounced "meem"--not "mem" nor "maymay."~ BioGio

Well, counting the board's downtime and the period of free Premier Perks, your PMship may have been extended. In one of (I think) Alex Humva's topics, Black Six said that, while it was difficult to calculate the extra time one would get as premier, it will be longer than you have payed for due to the factors mentioned before.~ BioGio

Removing the blogs and/or COT would be the main deal-breaker for me. Whether we kept a "BIONICLE focus" (which doesn't really mean that much to me even as a pair of words) couldn't really interest me at all for the most part--most of the time. As long as this board has BIONICLE discussion, I'm good. (In fact, shifting more focus to the non-BIONICLE or even non-LEGO side of things would just interest me more!) I swear, this board attracts the nicest people. So, put down awesome and nice people (especially those I actually know--as opposed to those who just say something perfectly appropriate in some thread) leaving as the number one reason I'd leave.~ BioGio