InnerRayg

It suddenly occurs to you that everyone is babies.

Jen's not feeling particularly jovial right now

I mean it goes down sometimes but majhost is still pretty good when you want a no frills uploading experience.

Dang, I leave to make an update and when I come back there's like fifty awesome new commands. Oh well, I'll save them and use them at a later date alright guys?

 

Sorry this one took a bit, conversations are hard!

 

The blackmail has begun

We will be following Jen next, just as an FYI for all command-based fun

Hapori Tohu loves you. He has always loved you. He won't let anyone else have you.

 

Ever.

Alright guys we've had our fun.

 

You're just super excited to finally get to play!

The peering red eyes are friendly and inviting. You love the red peering eyes.

Dakarz just happened? uhhh...

 

[Maddison]: Check for Damage to Disk

It would seem Minisix is an absolute treasure trove of strange items.

 

 

Maddison: Don't do it.

Maddison: DO IT.

 

DON'T DO IT.

 

If you just keep saying no, there's definitely a slim chance that you maybe possibly won't have to do this.

 

Just kidding.

 

DO IT.

Maddison: Don't do it.

Maddison: DO IT.

Identify mysterious contraption? come on guys it's clearly a NO TALK 4U.

 

Anyway, enjoy our next update.

Listen, this is top secret stuff okay?

 

Hapori Tohu is the guardian of all creativity - he transforms and diverts it throughout the member populace, allowing us and all others to achieve our ultimate creative potential. It is a well known fact that Hapori Tohu is all knowing, all seeing, and just in every way. Anyone who dares say otherwise will find themselves....corrected.

A point of clarification: It might take me a little time to figure out what other MoCs I'll be needing exactly in the upcoming story this is for (the nature of the contest was to leave the specifics open so whatever won I could use, right?), so when I said I'll be PMing some others to ask for their permission to use their models, I meant in a sort of hazy, "at some point in the future anywhere from a few days to a month or so from now". Sorry for the lack of clarity.

Speaking of which....

 

Another update has found itself plopped down in our midst.

Small update today.

Also you dorks and your monty pythons. Haha.

Just so everyone knows, the results have been posted! Our winners were:

1. Paleo

2. .:Yio:.

3. The 10th Rider.

 

Congrats to everyone, and thanks again for participating. It was a hard choice, you can read up more about in the post I made linked above.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

 

Anyway, it's been a truly grueling experience but the winners have been decided on. The sad fact is that all three of us had a REALLY hard time coming to a single decision - everyone had their favorites and frankly I wish I had another three or four prizes to give away because there was at least that many who could have just easily been on this list. Still, we had to come to a consensus, so here our results. Each one ended up being a particular favorite for each judge, so I asked everyone to give a short write up about why they ended up picking it.

 

In First place: Paleo's Chivalry is not dead. This MoC really proved that size isn't everything. Its sleek form and bright colors really attract the eye, and the inclusion of those flick fire missiles really sold it as a Lego set. This one was advocated for very strongly by Deevee, who had this to say about it: "It's pretty, it's clean, it's pretty, I want to see Ray draw it."

 

In Second place: .:Yio:.'s Mini Tank. Another set that really sold us on its great silhouette. The instant readability and playful action one can envision with this build really impressed me personally. I was a strong advocate for this little guy and the cute little blasters and rollability (is that a word?) of the tires are what did it for me.

 

In Third place: The 10th Rider's The Albino Turtle. Lest you start thinking this contest was all about the small MoCs, the Albino Turtle really stood out for its unapologetic yet sleek bulkiness as well as very creative use of parts. Tufi was a particularly strong advocate for this one, and had this to say about it: "That one's probably my favourite".

 

Haha okay I forgot to ask her for a specific quote but you get the idea!

 

Like I said, this was a really hard contest with a lot of great entries. It ended up being a question of what we could most agree on rather than what each of our personal top 3 were, and a few of all our choices got knocked out of the running in the name of consensus. Consequently There were a lot of models I'd still like to use in the project even though they didn't win, and if that's the case with one of yours I'll be sending a message to ask you for your permission on that. As for the winners, I will be sending out PMs relatively soon about addresses for your prizes and that sort of thing but if you want to get the ball rolling by sending me your address now, feel free haha.

 

Thanks to everyone for their participation, I hope it was fun and maybe we can do this again next year!

Well this isn't getting nearly the love it deserves. I love what you're doing with the dynamic shading in the first comic - those heavy blacks are such a cool stylization, I love when people use them effectively. I hope you incorporate more of that into your new comic - leaving everything brightly lit flattens the image too much in my opinion. Nice work, and keep it up!

I posted two more entries than it shows on the list. Are the models in the contest?

I'm sorry, I didn't see that you had edited your entry. That's my mistake, but you'll notice I did post almost right below you that if you entered more models after you had already entered one you should make a new post instead of editing so I was sure to see it. I really am sorry about the mess up.

I will have them put up a news article. It shouldn't be too much longer now.

haha I hadn't posted about it here yet, but if the above posts weren't a good clue there's been a new update.

 

 

Which concludes the megaupdate, but not the daily updates. So enjoy, and keep those commands a comin.

Just so anyone who is using the board's software to follow this topic will know, we have discontinued the use of this topic for all updates because of its severely degraded state. You can still keep track of the comic's updates either by subscribing to the discussion/official thread where a link to the latest update on the mirror will be posted here, you can bookmark the comic itself here, or we have a handy dandy RSS feed you can subscribe to that will automatically tell you when new things are posted here. I'll probably go ahead and close this so that it can sink into obscurity forever. Thanks for reading so far, and I hope you'll continue to enjoy what we have next.

Technically, I uploaded the next update last night to the mirrors. I think this will goodbye to the comic topic. So from now on, I'll just link to the first page of the update here.

 

Woahhhh new update time!

 

As usual, here are the Matoran translations (this one's easy because there's nothing obstructing the text):

 

 

Initializing...

Guardian awakened...

Translation requested...

And on the sides:

PC TARAKAVA

PC NUIRAMA

[bottom] PC USSALCRAB

 

Edit: Oops... read further and the authors actually translated the first part in-comic

 

Hehe I want you to know I almost originally left it all in matoran just for you, but I figured I should probably translate it so people could actually understand what was going on.

 

But I left the side easter eggs in so you'd have something to do

 

 

 

In additon, I'm pleased to announce Part 2 of the megaupdate! Enjoy this flash, it's definitely a labor of love

 

Click me to go to the mirror!

Thanks for the input guys - I think we'll keep posting the next two updates up in the topic anyway but after that we'll probably quietly de-pin it and just adopt to using this topic as a catchall. If anyone else has feedback though I would love to hear it, I don't want to ruin the experience if there's someone who relies on it.