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  2. Sumiki
    As many of you know, my comedy The Adventures of Sumiki's Dad concluded after eight thrilling chapters, and work has begun on the second installment in the series. The Adventures of Sumiki's Dad 2: Vakama Eats Spam is coming soon to the Comedies forum. So what better way to celebrate than a contest?
     
    New characters will complete Team Farm Animals in an exciting romp through the BIONICLE Universe. One of these new characters will be the winner of this contest.
     
    Your job: Post, in this entry, your reason why Vakama would eat spam, preferably in the style of Sumiki's Dad. Sumiki's Dad himself will judge the entries.
     
    You have until Sunday, December 14th at 11:59 PM Eastern to enter, and only one entry is allowed per member.
     
    (If you appeared in The Adventures of Sumiki's Dad, you are still free to enter.)
  3. Sumiki

    So Guise

    By Sumiki,

    I've hosted contests here before. The thing is, none of those contests were MOC-related contests. Most of the ones I see in blogs flop. So, before I post one, I have a question:
     
    Would you enter if I hosted a BBCC?
  5. Sumiki
    Welcome to the preliminary round of voting for Blogarithm Contest #2: Subtitles!
     
    Preliminary Poll Teal
     
    Entry 1: Your mind will be forever tortured unless you enter! 8D (And will still be tortured if you enter.)
     
    Entry 2: Blogging to the exponent of awesome.
     
    Entry 3: Who asked you?
     
    Entry 4: e^blog
     
    Entry 5: Where two equals one.
     
    Entry 6: L.A.P.D.!! There's a BLOG on your BUS!!
     
    Preliminary Poll Purple
     
    Entry 1: Official Blog of the Lager Rhythms and similar puns
     
    Entry 2: that T-Rex, always sayin' somethin'
     
    Entry 3: You COULD read this subtitle, but the really good stuff's in the entries!
     
    Entry 4: 8D
     
    Entry 5: It'll have you saying, "oolooloolooooomalooma"
     
    Entry 6: An effective method of blogging.
     
    Preliminary Poll Green
     
    Entry 1: Flowcharts are win.
     
    Entry 2: Blogging = (s/u)+(m-i-k)/(i)
     
    Entry 3: [C://blog/sumiki/123/entry.app]
     
    Entry 4: A blog so good, you'll eat your legs.
     
    Entry 5: Gorgnak's blog. NOT sumiki's
     
    Entry 6: b*logawesomeWIN=42
     
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    Voting will end Thursday, October 29th at 11:59 PM EST.
     
    Final voting will begin Friday, October 30th and end on Sunday, November 1st at 11:59 PM EST.
     
    Final voting will contain 6 entries, the top two from each poll.
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    Vote using this form (or some variation):
     
    Teal:
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  6. Sumiki

    The Big Bang

    By Sumiki,

    Not that Big Bang, I'm talking about the series finale of Doctor Who, that aired today across the pond in Britain.
     
    It.
     
    Is.
     
    Freaking.
     
    CONFUSING.
  9. Sumiki

    Bzp, Two Years From Now

    By Sumiki,

    I have foreseen the future of BZPower.
     
    Front page: More LEGO-themed news articles. Many more reporters will be added to the staff.
     
    Forums:


    The Incarnations forums get combined into one forum, except S&T and M&B, which get merged.
    Forum Divisions gets more popular, with more contests.
    LGD will get more popular.
    COT will get split up into COT RPGs & Games and COT.
    Staff:


    FLs, FAs, GMs, Admins, BAs, and BLs: Stay as-is.
    Reference team: Gradually turn into Expanded Multiverse staffies.
    Reporters: More.
    Mentors: More, but not that many more. It depends on the amount of members.
    Come back in two years and we'll see how accurate I am.
  17. Sumiki
    BRICKS CASCADE EDITION


     
    Today, we got up early and headed down to the Oregon Convention Center for the first public day of Bricks Cascade.
     
    It was awesome.
     
    I got my BZP Staff shirt (which is awesome and I never ever want to take it off) as well as a BZP Staff brick for my brick badge, which is still in a drawer somewhere in North Carolina. I met Kakaru and Swert for the first time as well. (The former's awesomeness is recounted in the entry immediately prior to this one.) I got a purple Zamor Sphere prototype after bugging Black Six for a bit, as well as one of those free little Mata Nui stones that were being handed out for free to all BZP members. (I think Kakaru also made them ... ? I'm not sure at this point, really; the entire day is kind of melding together.)
     
    Just as a note, I'm not entirely sure of the order that these things happened in, so while they might be out of order, at least they're all be here. Hopefully.
     
    Xccj got out his Quest for Makuta board game, and we played it on the ground in the middle section of the BIONICLE area, an area that was surrounded by tables. While xccj was very cordial in repeatedly explaining the rules to Kakaru, his brother, Velox, Swert, and me, we all still forgot parts of the rules. (Velox kept leaning back and texting people and only got like one thing during the game.) Kakaru got on a tear at one point and declared himself the Slaughterer of Rahi.
     
    This game never got finished, because one thing after another happened. Swert thought his phone was missing, until he realized that xccj had moved it to one of his coat pockets. Also, Binkmeister showed up.
     
    Yeah. Binky. The guy who basically helped BZPower get started. He's a really awesome guy, and we all sort of randomly chatted with him for a few minutes before he had to leave. (I was relieved to know that I wasn't the only one who got a bunch of free stuff from Kakaru - if Bink had stuck around longer he might have walked off with Kakaru's entire collection.)
     
    Around this time, we had the bright idea to arrange the chairs like the interior of a car and imitate the famous "What is Love?" GIF. Swert played the driver, I was the guy next to him banging his jaw open, and Kakaru was in the middle of the backseat area, his jaw unhooked into a trollface and sliding back and forth. Velox filmed this, and after reviewing the video he took, I can safely say that we're all pretty crazy people to even think about doing that, not to mention actually going through with it. If a GIF of three people at a convention doing this gets circulated around the BZP blogs, the few people left on this site with the impression that we have anything in our heads that even remotely resembles sanity would realize their horrible mistake.
     
    By then, we were all getting pretty hungry, so the six of us decided to go to a nearby mall's food court. This was well past afternoon, and the only thing I had to consume all day up until that point was a large bottle of water. However, xccj had to go back to the con for something that he had inadvertently left behind, so Velox, Kakaru and I screwed around on top of large stone spheres that were placed in a nearby courtyard area. The other BZP staff were just walking back from getting lunch at a donut shop and waved to us. (Later, Black Six told us that "we saw a bunch of people in light blue shirts doing stupid stuff on these balls, and I thought 'is that our staff?' Then we got closer and I was like 'yep, that's our staff.'") We then hid before xccj came back - all save for Swert, who looked like a stalker in a bush.
     
    We went into the mall and traveled up the stairs to the third floor, where we ate. Kakaru and Velox noticed a dental office located inside the mall, and suggested a few things that we could do to prank them - eating cinnamon rolls in their office, or going inside and asking for a burger with a side of fries. Eventually, Kakaru decided on going in and asking them if they would sell him a toothbrush. While they wouldn't sell him a toothbrush or toothpaste, they gave him a one-time-only use brush for free. Velox and I were doing all that we could to contain our laughter.
     
    Thinking that the toothbrush incident would be the only hilarity the mall would provide to us, the offices for a dental school were beside us as we walked out. I pointed these out to Kakaru and dared him to go inside and ask for toothbrushes. They gave him both toothbrushes and toothpaste completely for free.
     
    We went back to the convention center and got there right before the public hours were about to end. Since I had only paid the eight dollars necessary to enter the con for that day only, I thought it would be akin to BrickFair and they'd have to go just short of sweeping people out with a broom to get the public out. Amazingly, I was able to walk around the place freely without a badge, and no one said a thing to me about it.
     
    At one end of the convention center, they had set up a big ramp, one which small car MOCs could be set up on. They had a contest going on to see how far various MOCs would go. While I was initially a spectator to this madness, Kakaru convinced me to run over to the free-play Duplo section, rapidly build a MOC, then set it off. I put Winnie the Pooh on it, but despite this, it spun out of control nearly immediately after getting off the ramp. They later curved the ramp and set it up on the table. It took Winnie a couple of times to make it over, but after it did, I pronounced Winnie dead and reminded people that it was a lesson in always wearing your seatbelts.
     
    After this was over, we went on over to another room, where I planked on a table for a while until other people came in. Kakaru was one of the finalists in the figure-out-which-collectible-minifig-is-in-the-bag-while-you're-blindfolded contest, and Velox and I made up the sparse cheering section for him.
     
    We went back to the main convention center, where we made commentary on various MOCs, badly mispronounced both BIONICLE names and BZPower member names, and generally goofed off until everyone in the main center was made to sit in a smaller room so they could announce the prizes - but not before Kevin Hinkle had a Q&A session, where I learned that Ninjago would be ending though it was the second-most-profitable line (though we were promised that its successor would make the Ninjago fans ask why they didn't end it sooner). The Collectible Minifigs are also going to have at least six more waves, and Friends is doing very well. Black Six asked the obligatory "when is BIONICLE coming back?" question, and he might also have asked when the Monorail line was returning. All you had to do, from that point onward, to get the entire room to laugh was to mention "monorail." They then gave out the prizes - Kakaru won two or three while xccj racked up four or so.
     
    However, it was time to leave, so handshakes went all around - save for Kakaru, who gave me a hug. I wish I could have stayed around for the fancy dinner - and tomorrow's day as well - but alas, that is not to be. We got back to the hotel in time to see folks in elaborate costume and makeup, portraying zombies, skeletons, vampires, Henry VIII, Cleopatra, grim-reaper-meets-Slender-Man-in-skeleton-bling-people, ghostbusters, Charles Dickens impersonators ... the list really does go on and on. (Apparently there's some sort of convention in the hotel where all of these people are attending.) The funniest thing about it are the voices - one monster would approach another and say "hey man, what's up?" in a jovial tone completely the opposite of what their outward looks would dictate their voices sound like.
     
    Tomorrow, recovery from a severe awesomeness overdose as we begin the long drive back home.
  18. Sumiki

    Farm Animals

    By Sumiki,

    This occurred a few days ago.
     
    The phone rang, and I saw the caller ID say "Toll Free Call". The Toll Free Calls have been phone-spamming our house for years, and I decided enough was enough.
     
    I answered and said hello.
     
    When the middle-aged woman on the other end said hello back, I pitched my voice as deep as I could and said this:
     
    "Do you dream about farm animals?"
     
    They haven't called us since. I advocate this as a way to combat the telemarketers.
  19. Sumiki

    The Snow!

    By Sumiki,

    This is getting to the point of ridiculousness.
     
    Where I live, we never get snow. Ever. Well, I say never, but in truth, we always get a few flurries every year. Never enough to use a sled that's been in the basement for over five years.
     
    Until this year.
     
    It's snowing hard right now, and for the fourth or fifth time this year. Added together, that's almost twenty inches. We're usually lucky to see one inch.
     

  20. Sumiki
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  21. Sumiki
    BrickFair is nearly upon us, and for the fourth consecutive year I will be attending.
     
    Last year, Zatth, Xaeraz, and I went around the convention making all sorts of six-second videos on Vine. We had no shortage of ideas and I'm certain that this year will be no different - especially with Takuma Nuva in the mix.
     
    In addition to our regular fare of insanity, the promise of a custom Vine was presented as a prize in the recent crowdfunding campaign. But that's not all that I have in mind.
     
    So I present to the good members of BZPower a challenge: come up with an idea for a Vine we can make at BrickFair. As long as it follows BZP rules, BrickFair rules, and the law, we can make it.
     
    Since BrickFair is nearly here, the entry period will run until 11:59 Eastern time on July 30th. Polling will be on the 31st, and then the winners will have their ideas filmed the following days.
  25. Sumiki

    Why Hello There

    By Sumiki,

    what is this watermelon thing and why is it here
     
    also new blog name; old one was old
     
    I feel like Aho for some reason
     
    is it because of my lack of capitalization and punctuation
     
    or that I just changed the name of my blog
     
    …
     
    …
     
    …
     
    I think it's both
     
    also may I further promote and shamelessly plug
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