Riisiing Moon

Thanks! I feel like Moon of Hearts with a giant black banner makes for a cool new theme.

LW--Welcome to the games!

Zar--Yeah, long as you add onto it. Unpublished works are technically legitimate, though they kill the whole point--but what you're doing is such piling creativity on top of an old inspiration, which apparently you kept for storage anyways. No problem at all.

Hey, that's pretty cool! Can you find any of the other suits?

Haha, how about a pinch of salt.

Yeah, I'd count that as a 'N.'

And sure, a total renovation is perfectly okay. Try to change as much as possible, but no explicit limitation.

Yeah, got that before, so I deduced it's impossible. That's why I'm stuck.

I'm sort of tempted to join, but I feel like the bombs the government planted in my house would explode and my corpse incinerated as soon as I confirm its existence in doing so.

Is there some sneaky trick I'm missing?

Not yet you don't.

As I recall...

For the record, they're not precisely a hivemind--they don't share a true collective consciousness, but they can read each other's minds and communicate telepathically. They may have general telepathic abilities.

In an ironic, figurative sense, this sort of defeats the purpose.

For the record, I haven't been following HF in the slightest, and have no reason to dislike it at all; my stance is not only totally neutral, but totally uninformed. From what little I do know, though, one can argue that a comparison between the beginnings of Bionicle and HF can't really be made--I mean, I'm not, but one can. A vast number of members here would tell you the reason 01 was so fantastic was not purely because it was simple; it was because it had a sort of mystical, archaic feel to it, and simplicity came along with this. Some people are absolutely fascinated by the most ancient cultures, when all they really know is the most basic beliefs and lifestyles of those peoples--but isn't that exactly what's so thrilling, what's so intriguing?

HF isn't really much of a mystical, archaic-esque storyline; it's just simplistic, and that's an entirely different kind of simplicity than Bionicle had at its beginning. Again, this doesn't mean I'm taking a stance on the issue, but the concept does exist.

Ad+Zar--Actually, didn't have you in mind specifically (didn't have anyone in mind), but if you say so, I can make a whole 'nother entry.

Humva--Yeah, I agree. I'll definitely, given unlimited, spend a lot of it being an active, friendly, humorous member all around the forums, but that raises Cherixon's and Zar's point that you don't have unlimited time. I can definitely accept that B6 can't be all around the forums making friends, like I mentioned, but oftentimes--and this isn't at all intended as offensive or distasteful--he seems almost robotic. On a personal level, he can be pretty intimidating to new members, and that takes a long time to wear off. I'm pretty intimidated by a lot of the staff, though I can appreciate it a lot more now than I used to be, particularly after I've been around gathering all I've said here.

Zar--Well, I bet a lot of newer staff members are assuming that role they'd always wanted as, like we want, an active, friendly, hardworking staffie. Less activity is, of course, totally excusable, for exactly the reasons you're saying, but the content of posts can become something robotic and often intimidating.

This is definitely a logically sound, well-established theory, but it's sort of missing the point, in my opinion. I don't believe the director/screenwriter at all had in mind what the actual ending; plot's irrelevant at that point, it's just there to present a disturbing, cool enough concept to the viewer. Trying to actually uncover what it meant in terms of plot is sort of futile, isn't it?

For the sake of this, though--

A--I was thinking the same thing.

B--Haha, good call.

C--First of all, isn't one unable to return on your own? Elaborating on that, is it even possible to return to the same dream sculpted by another by just going to sleep? You'd never some sort of sedative or chemical reaction to take place, or something of that sort.

On a more personal level, maybe she believed it'd be too scarring for her lover to understand that he honestly had been dreaming the whole time--confirm the fears he'd always known existed--and that it'd be doubly terrifying that the real world was not worth leaving the dream world for, so she gave up their love out of altruistic for him.

On a cheesy, philosophical level, it's incredible how love can surpass even reality.

D--Well, that's the whole point. You're led to believe that's the absolute, indisputable proof until the end, and then that's only if you take the ending literally in its plot-related sense.

Brickthing--Hm, interesting idea. More durable rules does result in quite literally a more metallic, rigid system. Of course, to accomplish that purchase profit would need to increase, and members may be laid off. Members would be forced to pay for premiership as the monetary value of global currency hits rock bottom. Metal rules only evolves into yet another economic depression.

Why, thanks, LL!

Hey, I never said the staff would be disbanded, just the rules--the staff will still be there to enforce the nonexistent rules with an iron fist on those who break them, or rather attempt to and find themselves unable to, as they're not there.

Whoa, for real? You are one of the only Counting Crows fans I've met, then! Listened to 'em for years--own all their music, and by far my favorite band of all time. Across a Wire version of that song is a pretty perfect fit for the somber victim of life.

Easily one of the greatest, most excellently executed, best-written, most emotionally inspiring solos ever written. Roger Waters is incredible, David Gilmour is a mad genius, and the other two are just amazing.

Also, I think it's, 'They'll be no more AHHHHHHHH!'

I have not, but I've played in probably around ten RPGs or so by now, submitted two notably successful ones, and worked for months on end on perfecting just the gameplay process. Not to mention I observe techniques pretty closely, try to develop successful ones, and consider myself pretty knowledgable in the areas of psychology and impress and pleasing people. If I do say so myself.

Can't Stop has been on my profile on a certain social networking website for the past few weeks. That song is just incredibly awesomepants. I can't stop myself from leaping around the room during the intro buildup and having a seizure during the main riff.

In general, RHCP's a pretty fantastic band--funk meets alt rock, sort of a really mellowed out version of what happens when Dave Matthews meets Rage Against the Machine. They're great songwriters when they want to be, but sometimes they have too much fun and forget about the music and end up really terrible; when they're good, though, their melodies are inimitable and perfectly excellent, the sing-rap thing he's got going on is amazing and irritatingly catchy, and the drums and bass are usually just insane.

So yeah, RHCP for the win.

Glad to see you all going for this! Any technique'll do--quality, of course, is not required, but bear in mind this should be the kind of thing you can look back on and say, 'Wow, I wrote twenty-freaking-seven fantastic stories,' as opposed to, 'Hey Ma, go pick me up some lotion, RM got blisters on my typing fingers.'

Zar--Sad to see you go. :/ Pf course, even if you lose, you can always write twenty-seven random SSs. Why not?

Sorry, he looks like your mother.

HEY

 

YEAH, YOU

 

WANNA KNOW WHAT I THINK 'BOUT YOUR SUMIKI? MOTHER?

 

YOUR SUMIKI'S MOTHER'S SO AWESOME

 

WHEN IT SHE STEPPED ON THE AWESOME SCALE, IT SHE BROKE IT

Sure, why not.

Nope, any order (or lack thereof) works.

Minimum 700 words, no max!