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  2. Freddy Mallins

    Do Not Ask

    By Freddy Mallins,

    DONT ARSK US ABOUT:
     
    * rocks
    * trolls with sticks
    * All sorts of dragons
    * Mrs. Cake
    * Huge green things with teeth
    * Any kinds of black dogs with orange eyebrows
    * Rains of spaniels
    * fog
    * Mrs. Cake
  3. Freddy Mallins

    New Dagger

    By Freddy Mallins,

    Sgian Dhu; a kilt-dagger. Making it my Ranger Knife once it comes in the postage.
     

     
    9"; 4.5" for the handle, 4.5" for the blade; small amount of serration near the grip.
  5. Freddy Mallins
    Right now, I'm sitting down to work on a new Castle MOC that I started yesterday. It's a mead hall, slightly based off of Heorot from the epic-poem Beowulf; mine, however, takes more of a turn for 14th-century Medieval architecture than early Norse structures.
     
    But as I was adding a stained glass window to the front of the building, just above the doors, I realized that, in MOCing, I have become too perfectible. What I mean by this is (because I'm at a lack of fancy words at the moment), when I was younger, to me 'building' just meant getting whatever pieces looked cool and putting them together on a baseplate or a ship hull or anything big and simple, to make something even bigger and even simpler. Now, however, I strive to achieve the most perfect MOCs, using just the right pieces, even spending days or weeks trying to find them, studying others designs and concepts for building, taking long periods of times to build. I realize that, in a way, this IS the correct way of MOCing anything, and I don't have anything against it. But, whenever I look at this whole process and compare it to the fun that building used to be, MOCing has taken away from me more than it has given me.
     
    Granted, what MOCing has given me is a sense of self-confidence and pride in what I do and how far I've come. I'm going to be honest, I have come a very long way, even if I'm still using Inika torsos or simple designs on things. And what I've made, I'm proud to have made, especially the MOCs as of late, such as the Photomancer Golem, the Liberator mech, and the Recumbent Effigy. So I'm clearing that up now - I love MOCing, and I love what I have made. For the most part.
     
    What my bold statement really means is that, when I was young, I would build something simple, think it was cool, and then play with it for hours and hours upon end (along the way, around the age of 14-15, though, I hurriedly started using the word 'RPing', and I still don't know if it was for better or for worse ). All my creations would have the cool stuff on them - pieces of alien ships, Castle walls, an innumerable amount of swords, guns, and God knows what else that I considered in the very least weapons, glowing things, baseplates, wings, cannons....it was only a matter of reaching into a piece-bucket and quietly saying to myself, as I picked through the pieces, "Ooh, that looks cool...that's dumb....I could use this..."
     
    I guess I still do that now, but ever since I've started looking at others MOCs, specifically all the AFOL masterpieces that literally made me pose the =O emote, I've wanted to achieve higher and better standards for building, somehow seeking happiness along the way.
     
    For those of you who don't know (AKA probably all of you, except maybe Xinlo and Ferhago), I have a system of 12 drawers that I use to keep all of my pieces in (well, those that aren't in shoe-boxes or on my small table that I never use). Here is a picture of said drawers (minus the BC Rich Bronze Warlock). I'm betting that, from the picture, you can see what drawers contain which genre of pieces - Bionicle/Technic, System, and Instruction Booklets/Obscure Pieces of Paper (that's totally not what a desk is for). See all those that have System pieces in them? I very rarely touch those drawers. But why?
     
    Back in the day, I dug through all of my drawers! Primarily because everything was mixed and there was no segregation between Technic and System, but that's aside the point. I feel that its because I've moved onto doing specific MOCs. I specifically build Castle structures that are gray. I specifically build Forest-themed things. I specifically build Bipeds and very complex weaponry to be used by said bipeds. I specifically make Minifigs that have more melee weapons and less ranged, unless it's something like a bow/crossbow or would be seen in Steampunk. You get the picture.
     
    But I just wish I could be young again (strange - I'm 16 and I already feel old), so that I could just reach into those bins and dig out whatever I want, build whatever I want, without some dumb little conscience of MOCing telling me 'No no, don't use that part, it's got a design on it', or 'Make it a bit more rounded - here, go this way. Don't use that big, obstructive thing. It looks stupid.'.
     
    So, after I'm done with this mead hall and I get all of my projects for 4-H done, I'm going to clear off my table (it needs it, anyway) and make a moonbase. That was a common thing I used to build all the time. And I'm not going to think about it whilst building it, I'm not going to nitpick myself, I'm not going to listen to that little voice in my head (there are far more interesting ones up there). I'm just going to revert myself back to the mind of a simple moonbase. And hopefully, maybe, just maybe, I'll break this little depression.
     
  7. Freddy Mallins
    Y'know what I hate the most, is wanting to build something really really badly, for the sake of both having built it and to play with it, yet you can't, because you just don't have the time, resources, or experience?
     
    Yeah I'm never gonna get around to building an airship....
  13. Freddy Mallins

    Life Quotes

    By Freddy Mallins,

    Generally speaking,
    The Way of the warrior
    Is resolute acceptance of Death.
    -----------------
    And thus I clothe my naked villainy with old odd ends stolen forth from holy writ
    And seem a saint when most I play the devil.
    -----------------
    It is not my sword, Mondego,
    But your past that disarmed you.
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    I dare do all that may become a man.
    Who dares more is none.
    -----------------
    People should not be afraid of their governments.
    Governments should be afraid of their people.
    -----------------
    For the wounded man shall say to his assailant,
    If I live, I will kill you
    If I die, you are forgiven
    Such is the rule of honor
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    People in this world look at things mistakenly,
    And think that what they do not understand
    Must be the void.
    This is not the true void.
    It is bewilderment.
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    If it continues for long enough,
    Even a reign of terror may become
    A fondly remembered period.
    People believe they want
    Justice and wise government
    But, in fact, what they really want
    Is an assurance that tomorrow
    Will be very much like today.
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    An artist is somebody who produces things
    That people don't need to have.
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    Sing now seraph; find the calm within your soul
    Bring us closer to the flame that guides us home
    -----------------
    In fighting and in everyday life
    You should be determined though calm.
    Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly,
    Your spirit settled yet unbiased.
    An elevated spirit is weak
    And a low spirit is weak.
    Do not let the enemy see your spirit.
    -----------------
    WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR,
    IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?
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    That which does not kill us only makes us stronger.
    -----------------
    [Meeting you] means that I, like God, do not believe in coincidence.
    -----------------



    Cheers to everyone who can authorize any of these quotes.
  14. Freddy Mallins

    Spanish

    By Freddy Mallins,

    So I just had to watch 10 hours of movies in Spanish, write down a list of words for each movie that are new to me, as well as write a short summary of what the movie was about. Naturally, I would've just watched the LoTR extended trilogy and got it all over with in three movies.....that is, if they were even in Spanish. >_<
     
    So here's a list of movies that I watching in Spanish:
    - V For Vendetta (subtitles only)
    - The Legend Reborn (both audio and subtitles)
    - The Dark Knight (both audio and subtitles)
    - Raiders of the Lost Ark (both audio and subtitles)
    - Tron (subtitles only)
    - Napoleon Dynamite (both audio and subtitles)
     
    Award for best voice-over dub goes to Napoleon Dynamite.
     
    Award for best voices goes to The Dark Knight.
     
    Award for best emotions shown in voices goes to The Legend Reborn.
     
     
     
    ¡Libertad! ¡Por siempre!
  15. Freddy Mallins
    Alright, so I made my last in-store purchase of a new Bionicle set over the weekend - Takanuva (Stars), at a Meijer in Camby. As I pondered this thought and the canister slipped out of my hand, falling slowly and slowly down into the cart, I couldn't help but think that something felt similar....
     
    Flashback. 2001. A young lad skips through the store to the best section of all - the Lego section. Resting on the shelf there is a strange looking object that has identified itself (on the label) as Onua. I picked it up. I walked out the store. Out of the Meijer in Camby.
     
    Thus I made my journey into Bionicle, a story - no, a whole different world - that forever changed my life an how I looked at my own, an entirely different world of fantasy that had never been seen before.
     
    And it began and ended (well, with the sets at least) in a Meijer in Camby, Indiana.
  18. Freddy Mallins

    So...

    By Freddy Mallins,

    If vampires are demons....
     
    ...and demons are defined by anything that has evil characteristics...
     
    ....EDWARD CULLEN IS A DEMON!!
     

     
    Aaaaaa-jibbiliejibbiliejibbiliejibbiliejibbiliejib-bi-lie-jib-bi-lie......
  19. Freddy Mallins

    Ds Question

    By Freddy Mallins,

    This is for first-gen DSes, so here goes:
     
    Can I link my DS up to my computer through USB? This charger cable has a USB plug on it, and I was wondering if that's what it was used for.
     
    Also need recommended games. Lots of recommended games.
     
    Also also wïk, Lego spears work very nicely for a stylus.
  23. Freddy Mallins

    Nerdess

    By Freddy Mallins,

    My friend Holly and I were looking in-depth at storyline explanations in Zelda, shopping for swords on eBay, making fun of stupid people that asked us what we were doing looking at swords, and other nerdy spending-time-with-each-others.
     
    I freaking love this girl.
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