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  2. Swert
    Here's the second grand prize.
     
    Now, before you ask, because I know you will, no it's not filled. It's just the case. It's completely empty.
     
    But this is a wonderful chance for you to start your own and put it in an awesome case
     
    Also, as an added value, this case can (if requested by the winner) be signed by LEGO Certified Professional Dan Parker, and myself. We will only sign if the winner wants it. Regardless, -all- prizes get signed business cards of Dan Parker's company, signed by both he and myself.
     
    So yeah, more details coming VERY soon. I promise.
     
    ALL PRIZES ARE COURTESY OF CITY BLOCKS, TACOMA'S LEGO ART CENTER.
  6. Swert
    I seriously love gaming. Really do. Can't get enough of it.
     
    So I want to know, gamers to gamers, what do -you- think was the most overhyped game this year?
     
    My answer is simple: Uncharted 3. Fact is, it was a glorified movie that cost, at minimum at the time, $60 and only works on one console. Now, what would everybody be saying if something like Skyrim or Assassin's Creed Revelations only worked on one system? Or worse, if Portal 2 was PC only? (Well, I know plenty of people wouldn't mind seeing console versions for Valve go away, but the PS3 folks were happy with it.)
     
    So what do you think? Remember, doesn't need to be a great game, or a game you love/hate, just the most overhyped in your opinion.
  7. Swert
    Alrighty then.
     
    Picture this if you will.
     
    So EmperorWhenua and I have a bit of a conflict coming up. To an outsider's POV, it's harmless fun. We'll be bringing NERF swords, NERF guns, maybe even custom stuff. But to us?
     
    This is war.
     
    I will walk in to BrickCon 2011, armed to the teeth with a foam sword, some hatchets, and even a sniper rifle. EW will enter with guns packed to his eyeballs.
     
    Only one will survive this foam battle.
     
    But I will be victorious, for two reasons!
     
    ONE! I will have spent by far less money on this war. SWORDS COST 13 USD. GUNS COST 30. WHAT IS THIS?
     
    TWO! I won't have to pick up 200 rounds of foam darts at the end. Six at most, and I'm borrowing Kakaru/Arkov's sniper rifle.
     
    So I propose this to you: Who will win this battle? The armed-to-the-teeth, foam-spitting arsenal of EmperorWhenua, or the foam-bladed, hatchet-wielding, sniper cunning of Swert?
     
    WHO! IS! THE DEADLIEST NERFIOR?
  11. Swert
    He appeared in a Prius. It was a very tense moment as this man drove up to my house.
     
    Our eyes met. I knew this man was a force to be reckoned with. He motioned me to the car. I entered, cautious not to alert this man to any sudden weaknesses I may possess.
     
    We took a journey across my homeland. It was a fierce battle. We went to my workplace. He was impressed with my many talents there. I took on a wild Subway sub sandwich. It was a 6 inch. Italian Herb & Cheese. Roast Beef and Cheddar. It was vanquished.
     
    We then went to a holding cell for financial papers. They call it a bank. I left a piece of paper there. Written on it was my information and an undisclosed amount of money. I had earned my keep.
     
    Along our journey of mystery and wonder, we stumbled upon a shoppe. It appeared to be owned by a man named Meyers. We did not catch the first name. Inside held foods, clothing, gadgets of a foreign nature, and weapons crafted from plastics and foam. There were little totem men for sale, hidden from sight in small orange bags. I purchased three. They were, in order: a painter, a wolf-like man, and a young man who wore a strange hat and rode on a stranged wheeled board. I am unsure what this does.
     
    We pressed on to another shoppe, filled with many wonderous things. It was called Toys Are We, I think. It was rather strange. It would help if I could read. :| We did not buy much, if anything, but we did buy a red container, containing a great warrior, which comes with two tribal masks, one red and one gold. We are unsure what these mean, but they were pretty awesome.
     
    Once we left this shoppe, we stopped to replenish our strength with food from the local shoppes again, and departed. They forgot my straw.
     
    The stranger then informed me his time was drawing near. We stopped near a lake, and explored further before the hour ended. We both knew that it had to come to this. A tense moment was felt as we rushed back into his Prius, and left.
     
    He returned me to my home, and left with no struggle. Except there was one lady behind us who kept honking as we spoke our last words for this day. She was rather annoying.
     
    I do not know if I will meet this mysterious man again, but if we do, I would wish to say this to him...
     
    "Man, Master of the Rahkshi, we need to hang out more often XD"
     
    Fin.
  12. Swert
    So, I'm toying with plenty of designs, what with HS01 now starting up and all.
     
    One of these is a business card design. I think I have it.
     
    Double-sided matte cards, printed off my printer, one side BS01, the other HS01. Two birds with one card. It'd be glorious.
     
    And yes, I have prototypes.
     

     

     
    They would be portait orientation style, not landscape. I'm still working out the details of the text.
     
    So, thoughts?
  13. Swert
    So I'm sure by now many of you saw those spiffy BZP staff shirts being worn by BZP staff. Cool shirts right?
     
    ... Yeah, I'm not a fan of custom shirts.
     
    But I do want custom BS01 hats
     
    So who'd be down with buying one if I got a bulk sale of 'em? Like maybe a limited run of 20?
     
    (I'm still thinking about them, this is preliminary)
  14. Swert

    A Thought

    By Swert,

    You know, I'm always playing video games, I'm always talking about video games, and I'm usually always bored. So, what's stopping me from making, in my blog, a BZP-friendly review of the current video games? (360 and PC only, of course.)
     
    Naturally, I'd probably review my collection, not the new stuff. I'm not going to buy games just to review them
     
    Now question becomes, would anybody want to read about a bored man's ramblings about CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES FROM... *checks* 2004?! (Oh, and I suppose I do have Half-Life, so it's as early as 1998 )
  15. Swert
    I -really- want to get a game going eventually, and I've never felt comfortable playing random games online with people I don't know.
     
    So, I'm inviting the users with Gold XBL membership on the 360 to play. I know there's at least 5 of us around here.
     
    Any takers?
  16. Swert
    So, exciting times coming up here in the studio this coming beginning of the year.
     
    We're in the process of making up to 6 different events at the same time happen, including three shows in the summer, a -huge- model for Emerald City ComicCon, an event in February at CenturyLink Field (Probably the WaMu Center... but if it's the real field, I'll be a happy Swerty : D) and another couple of things I forget off the top of my head.
     
    Basically I'm busy. With any luck I'll be able to post teasers of my work, but for now I'm keeping mum. Let's just say Emerald City ComicCon will be amazing with the model we're looking at making, if only because I look forward to inviting one of the main guests to see it completed. With any luck, there will be little resistance on his part. It would be futile.
  17. Swert
    So, in 2006, I was very poor. This is to expected, I was still in high school. I couldn't afford to buy the good sets like (at the time) the popular Batman line sets. What did I miss out on, one might wonder. Well, the biggie I have is Nightwing the figure. He was only available in the Arkham Asylum set, #7785. He is probably one of the rarest figures I have ever laid eyes on in that particular series. I'd put him rarer than some of the others, especially since he was not re-released in the Batman II/DC Comics series.
     
    Now, my goal is simple. I must obtain my own Nightwing figure. TO VARIOUS ONLINE STORES!
     
    Oh wait... he's like averaging $40-$70 USD. Huh.
     
    Okay, so I'll bypass it... I'll just buy the torso, use black legs I have, get the head and hair...
     
    What do you mean the hairpiece is $10-$33?! THE HEAD'S HOW MUCH AND SOLD FROM WHERE?! AND THE TORSO-
     
    Okay, forget this. So, as I no doubt have said in the past, I work in a LEGO art studio. Okay, so no problem, check our stock in the back... Oh hey, like 10-12 Nightwing torsos! Epic. Grabbed legs too so I didn't need to dig any out.
     
    So now it's on to the head and hair... Oh wait, we have the hair. Sweet. Wait, it's the only one in the shop. Not so sweet. Okay, so leave that. I can find a better one for him later I suppose. Yeah, long hair in black, found that already pretty cheap (didn't buy yet.) So that leaves my head, right? Still expensive and only sold in two stores I found. So, I'm going to forego accuracy and go with a newer Robin head, which uses a similar mask but not the same. I'm fine with this. Also LEGO recently released 3 stud lightsaber blade (bar) elements in trans light blue, so I'd switch to those instead for accuracy to the set.
     
    Okay, so now I have that all done, right? Nope, cause I'm too broke to buy it still. Go figure. Anyway, the long story short, I have a Nightwing torso and legs. That's pretty much it.
     
    As for Red Hood, I decided to not make him using a Deadpool head, I'm going to be painting or affixing something to another red head to make him, I think. Or something. That way I can have both fight it out in an epic layout eventually.
     
    Sorry for the long blog rant, but I figure SOMEONE is bound to read it. TL;DR: I'm a geek.
  18. Swert

    Amusing Fact

    By Swert,

    I had planned to post like lists of top 10 stuff involving music with Necro. Then I got busy and didn't. Now I have like 2 days left to do so.
     
    Woe is me~ -Swert
  19. Swert
    For all readers of the Expanded Multiverse and more specifically the Cipher Chronicles, you may or may not recall the character named Revolution.
     
    If so, you will recall Bonesiii and I had taken plenty of steps in keeping the identity of Revolution secret. In fact, I even resorted to using a nanite android in order to use him without using him, just to keep the identity secret.
     
    You see, Revolution is not, as one might expect, what he seems to be. Revoution was always an envisioned figurehead, someone we wrote into the story who has had plenty of secrets. It is indeed a main character from the Cipher Chronicles, though the truth behind this character goes very deep if you think about it harder.
     
    Now, just by saying all of this, you might know exactly who I am referring to. If so, the short story I plan to write will simply be confirmation, and I hope you enjoy how I present it. If this blog post doesn't give you enough hints, I hope that the story proves to be entertaining in how I present the character's true reveal (I am aware that the V android I pulled was kinda an unreveal, sorry about that).
     
    tl;dr: I get to write a SS, Revolution's in it, read it please kthx.
  20. Swert

    An Introduction, Of Sorts.

    By Swert,

    So, I'm not exactly a well-known person, so I should introduce myself to the BZPower citizens. Let's face it, I don't do anything nearly notable enough to be recognized.*
     
    I shall list my credentials. I doubt they're notable, but my friends think they're cool.
    BS01 Owner, Administrator, and overall decision maker. Anything on BS01 you don't like or think should be changed? Rant here. PREMIER BZPower Outstanding Citizen. And proud of it. Part- to full-time employee of a LEGO Art Studio, City Blocks of Tacoma, WA. I say Part- because my hours were cut during the winter lull, but they're picking back up. I also do freelance web design and graphics art on the side. A few little minor things, not note worthy, are also stuff I do. I also enjoy classic rock music. 
    So yeah, I hope to receive a warm reception from the BZP denizens. Let's face it, a little guy like me can learn to grow up in a friendly community, can he not? : D
     
    *If by now you haven't realized, I'm intentionally dulling down my accomplishments, since I don't like having an ego. So, if I intentionally say I'm much smaller than I am, I can live happily. Please don't let the ego grow bigger.
  21. Swert
    So turns out the boss needs a few tables for an event coming up in the building we're at.
     
    Guess where 3 of his five tables are currently tied up at.
     
    So tomorrow we'll probably mark where each island section goes on the back in a grid, then take the pieces and relocate them to an area in that room away from the tables we need, then move those out of the room. With any luck, not a single piece will be disturbed.
     
    And at least he isn't touching it until I get there. So we know it won't break.
     
    Sorry Jason, I know I said end of the month, but in the bright side, we're getting that ferris wheel set up
     
    NOTICE HOWEVER: If you wish to have any more photos taken before I take it all down, you'll need to submit a request now!
  22. Swert
    It took a co-worker of mine in the shop a day and a half to finalize a microscale model. Boss had to change a lot of it.
     
    It took me an hour to make one from scratch, with a decent design, and stopping to brainstorm once or twice. Boss tells me he may not change a whole lot, just the base I used.
     
    ... Yeah, I think I'm keeping my job for awhile now
  25. Swert
    Go figure, I get one day off in 5 days' worth of time.
     
    So, tomorrow I stay home and do my own stuff, then tuesday I head in and actually do other things not-really-work-but-work related, then I think I work the rest of the week.
     
    Long story short, I am the brokes and the tireds D:
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