Overlord

OH MY GOSH KOMÉ! It's been forever since I saw you around here, let alone since I saw myself around here. It's always amazing to hear from you. Hello again and how are you? What have you been up to in these years in between?

You're very welcome, sir.

... attend to collegeness too, but I guess I'll get to that in the fall semester.

(and of course I forgot about BZP's comment character limit)

Yeah, I know that feeling I suppose. How is college besides the aforementioned uncertainty? May I ask where you are or is that not something people do? XP Anyway, sure you had/have a life, if it can be consumed by the internet! Ah, internet... Oh yeah and Breaking Bad too, that really has a way of taking up people's free time.

I'm pretty well, comparatively an academic mutant as usual. Wrote a lot, traveled a fair bit, that kind of stuff. I should probably a...

Excellent. But of course, the barrier between is quite permeable too...

Apparently I'm a bit tardy in communicating from this side anyway, but WE WILL MEET AGAIN, SUN MAGE

Is the game at all related to what I would expect from the name?

... I guess I could look it up...

Ah, I see. I had thought it was singleplayer before, but wasn't sure... I guess one would expect that the multiplayer aspect would be tacked-on, based on that precedent, but it's nice to know that it did get done right for once.

I think I need to try at least one of the Mass Effects (can one even say that, "the Mass Effects"?), but I think I must be the laziest videogame player around... I never actually try anything. >_>

On that note, I may not know much about the game, but why ironically so?

Children most certainly have a longer attention span than a year. I know from being one.

It's true that BIONICLE had all that, but some people have a problem with Chima because it seems to have been designed expressly to push out Ninjago, which had all the same things (on- and offline games, TV series, lots of sets), and is and was quite popular. Compounding that is the fact that Ninjago was already set to have 2013 as an off year and return in 2014.

Old memories will always be unpleasant, no matter the medium. It's simply that the internet has made it vastly easier for everyone's old conversations to be preserved indefinitely in the same giant canvas.

...es, and that's one of their most popular lines. Chima is just another peculiar original-series investment by LEGO, especially weird as it's effectively replacing the remarkably popular Ninjago for one year.

I'd forgotten about NetDevil's layoffs, and I think that probably did contribute to the apparent failure of the game. Nothing good could've come of it even if it wasn't enough to sink them.

Chima is a new line LEGO launched just this year. It's an odd case because immediately upon its release, LEGO announced that it would give Chima an associated game, television show, and videogame. It took LEGO _Star Wars_ years and years to get a videogame or a TV miniseri...

At the same time as the volume increase, the information we put out has become easily searchable for the first time. Though vast quantities of information might have to be accessed or sent, specific things can be looked for relatively simply.

I figured it was humor, but it's still a valid point. There are limits to our computers, and of course limits to our lives, but we haven't nearly yet reached them.

...any to put a lot of its resources in a particular direction.

I'm still not sure why LEGO took the plunge into a MMOG so suddenly and aggressively, as I don't remember them showing any evidence of thoroughly researching or marketing it. Like you said, their single-player games are performing just fine, even if all of them have quite similar gameplay (owning several, it looks to me like only the 7-year-old BIONICLE Heroes has a markedly different style). LEGO Universe, along with Chima, seems to be just one of those baffling choices by the comp...

...promoting that right up until they took it down. I'm surprised they haven't made more than one LEGO Minecraft set, though, or done some experiment with integrating the two.

I think the LEGO revolution is still moving right along, all the people with whom I talk about LEGO things are younger than me (here in my town where I hold the occasional small LEGO meeting anyway). I don't really think BZP will have a dramatic rebirth anytime soon, but that's just BZP.

LEGO is certainly prime for more computer-based products/series/anything, but I don't know if you heard about its MMORPG - LEGO Universe, which apparently failed. They were promoting...

...y is fallible, but a question might be, _will_ memory be fallible.

True, and I suppose with the internet's expansion or even replacement (still dubious news on those quantum computers) that sort of access will probably be easier. No careful sorting through letters required, though my archived conversations can be rather dense and show effects of lag in sending.

And with AI and related technologies, including expansion of lifespan, I wonder if it would even be necessary to sort through old logs when one can ask the person (or a person). Memor...

I see what you mean, I suppose I take some interest in my relative's old things and accounts (literal accounts, not so much internet accounts). It's harder not having a ton of close or closeby relatives, though. I hope that wouldn't be a problem for anyone interested in my old posts in future times, I don't see a problem with providing them that opportunity.

Of course, if it's your _descendants_, you may or may not be able to watch them read your posts anyway...

...eem to have some conversation going already, and it's nice to talk to you again after all this time. Knowing me, I think further conversation should be in no short supply, but we'll see.

I think you're right there, there are a lot of older fans these days (not that there weren't before, but of course they've aged, hah). There are new users, of course, but I don't know any more than you about them. It's possible some might see BZP as ripe for more general LEGO discussion, and that could be some of it. LEGO's certainly not suffering, itself, and even BIONICLE is prime for relaunching in a few years - who knows how that'll go.

Well, we s...

Nah, they'll just think of William Shakespeare as the opening act for your Avatar RPG posts.

I think it's just that resilient, and I'm a bit surprised too. I don't even know if we have any diehard BIONICLE fans left, but there's always something new from LEGO in a general sense.

I've been gone for months at a time, actually, and this is one of my intermittent periods of activity (though the fact that you showed up would get my attention anyway).

I know what you mean, things from then were at a younger time. Still, hard to forgive some of my stupidity...

The Internet is a form of perpetual preservation, though, if its servers are maintained. I hope it's not my only legacy(!), but I have to wonder if my descendants will be able to look back through what I did, or even if they'd want to. Would I leave them my passwords and logs? I hadn't thought about it much but now that you mention it, it is fascinating.