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No, beyond the little bit they taught in public elementary school here. Although, I'm sure having that knowledge would help me have an even deeper appreciation for music. I'm a relative newcomer to RYM, but it sort of has that same vibe as BZP in the sense of being a website launched in the late 90s.

See, I said it wouldn't be long before my next blog post. Anyway, despite all my years on BZP, I've never really explored the epics forum much. Now having finished reading BZPGOT and most of the short stories forum, I think it's time to rectify that. But here, I'm more unsure where to get started than I was with short stories, so I'm asking for YOUR recommendations on what's worth reading. I'd say completed or in progress stories take precedence over abandoned ones. Feel free to plug your own stuff if you, in fact bonus points for that because it means the author is still active. I'm also willing to accept recs from pre-2011 BZP if they're archived somewhere. For the feature photo, I'm adding another one of my Scriptorium creations.

The New Definition of Summer Madness

Great little scene! Before reading the descriptions, I initially thought the three pronged thing next to the mata heads referenced the two Bionicle Lego Ideas projects.

Ay, skipper, the design be groovy.

Was browsing the blogs here after the end-of-April "boom" in activity and thought I'd add my own since it's been almost 3 years since I've added anything here, although it's almost the end of May now. In fact, this is actually the longest gap between entries since I started this blog. In many ways my life has followed the pretty natural progression from those last few entries. I'm still working the same job, although I've gotten a promotion and I've steadily gotten better at my work and picked up new responsibilities. I'm still enjoying life in my same apartment and I'm still responsible for my own messes and cleaning. Over time I've added new furniture and artwork to make it more my own. Really, in 2023 I had almost nothing here besides a kitchen table and a mattress on the floor. I'm still a music nerd. If anything I've gotten deeper and deeper into it. If anyone here uses Rate Your Music or just wants to see my tastes you can find me on there here. I got those crowns put on my teeth. Later on, I found a new dentist in my town to go to regularly. Turns out one of those crowns was put on improperly, leading to food constantly getting stuck in a hole near the bottom of the tooth after every meal I ate for about a year. I've gotten that taken care of now too. I never did make any sort of post for Brickfairs 2022-2024. Maybe I'll get around to that, but probably not since I doubt anyone cares. I could do it though since I do have all my thoughts written down privately. I missed 2025 due to being too bummed out about some family stuff. It sucks that that turned out to be the last year in the Dulles Expo Center, but no one knew that was coming. I'll definitely being going this year with it being right in Baltimore. Maybe I'll post about that afterwards. And I don't want to get too all into that family stuff I mentioned, but I'm very glad I've had my cousin as a relatively constant presence in my life over the last 3 years. Recently, she introduced me to a game I've been playing called Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts, which is where the image for this entry comes from. So there you go! It shouldn't be so long before the next one.

Well that didn't last long. Rough for those few who enjoyed it.

Right, I think it's perfectly reasonable to consider the entire thing as one tentacle either way.

No, I replied specifically the question asked in the topic title. Also topic revival isn't really a thing anymore so don't worry.

While the time where this would have been a dream for me has passed, I'm glad you'll be able to spend an extended time there. Enjoy the trip and thanks for posting!

It's funny to look back on old BZP posts like these for sure.

I've been reading some of the World of Warcraft comics and novelizations lately. I'll never go back to the game itself at this point, but I'm glad I can still travel to Azeroth in another way. Of course, I've been getting them from the library or second hand.

It's hard to believe there's still more of these to give away even after 10 years. 10 years of Bionicle being gone, and these things being the last dregs of CCBS. I've also now come to sort of think of 2016 as the year BZP fell off too, a swift decline ushered in by Bionicle 2nd end, just as the 1st end had brought in a gradual one. It's a lot for a silly little raffle topic. Oh well, I'm glad I saw this and thought of it anyway.

This says a lot about our society.

Oh, nice! I didn't realize you were still active anywhere. Thanks for posting. I never got into BAC, but I like the other stuff.

The "BZPower's Game of Thrones" series of games. These haven't been actually hosted on BZPower itself in quite some time, so you might say even say Tex moving on from here already happened.

Thank you! I'm happy to be celebrating another year of life, even if this site is so dead that last year's birthday topic is still on the front page. I don't have a lot planned for today, just a normal work day and taking it easy. That said, I've had and will continue to have a lot going on generally, so it certainly doesn't feel like I'm not doing anything! Certainly in a better position compared to last year. I've been really checking out a local game store that's been holding some events lately, I went on a full moon hike the other day (although it was too cloudy to see the moon...), and I've been spending a lot of time with my niece and nephew. I will say I'm a bit embarrassed at whatever pile of old junk you must have waded through to find that reference picture. 😅

Nope. The only collection activity I do is when I click "I want to participate" on the raffles here.

Bazing through February.

Hey man great to hear from you. I was actually a little bit worried when you disappeared from all visible (to me at least) aspects of both online and irl life after posting about your grandmother in 2019. I'm glad things are going well though. I've also finished both undergrad and grad school in this time. Congrats on the approaching PhD.

It's time to listen to music from 2016. So much good music from that year. Crazy that it was 10 years ago now.

I'd put both of them in the Top 10 for sure.

Great to come across a Lego podcast; I've been looking for something new to listen to! I'll be sure to check out this and the other episodes.

Drain Gang