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  3. SPIRIT

    The Cycle

    By SPIRIT,

    I should make cool stuff to post on BZP.
     
    Hmm, I should really do my homework.
     
    Nah, that's boring, why don't I just play video games instead?
     
    Oh man, why did I spend so much time playing video games? I'll just do my homework tomorrow.
     
     
    It's tomorrow now, and this is why we don't have nice things.
  4. SPIRIT
    So I actually had a really good April 1st, but I worry that no one will believe me.
     
    The day began with an interview with the voice of Umarak. That guy is a total riot. I don't want to spoil too much from that interview, but it's definitely worth listening to when it comes out in a few weeks.
     
    Then I had an amazing game of Civilization: Beyond Earth -- Rising Tide wherein the massive Korean navy totally demolished anything it ran into. The Americans were destroyed by giant lobsters.
     
    And to cap things all off, I won first prize in a Harry Potter trivia contest.
     
     
    All in all, it was a very good day, just not a good day to have it on.
  5. SPIRIT

    More Interviews!

    By SPIRIT,

    I love how the voice actors so closely match their characters.
     
    The voice of Pohatu was very structured and organized for his interview, made sure everything was ready before getting started, but ended up being really friendly and down to earth.
     
    Meanwhile, the voice of Lewa was a few minutes late, talking a mile a minute, constantly cracking jokes, is an avid gamer, and then had to reschedule when his Internet signal wasn't good enough to make the Skype call. Hopefully it all works out with him. He sounds like he would be an interesting guy if every other word didn't turn into g̟̦͇͇͒ͪ͐ͧ͘͞ą̱̬̣̆̔ͬ̍ͤ͊͞ȑ̳͍̮̦̭͍ͨ̍ͭ̇́bͬ̑̍̾̊̀͏̺̩̝̪͉͓͢l̐ͤ̿̇͟͏̫̙ẹ̺̬̦̟̳̙̒͒d͖͈̩̦̜̦̹ͭ̓̃͝ ̧̬̂̆̄͞n̘̙̙͉̭͕͖͊̇ǫ̴̢̥̳͕̼̪̈̋ͪͭ̑̈́̊͒n͉̠̖̲̲͙̪̪͚̂ͥ͟͠s͖̗͚̲͖͇͕̫ͯ͆ë̶͕̦̹̥̞̝̮͙̱̈́͂͌ͮ̓ͣn̙̝̜̹̗̞̋̐̇̊ͧ̿̓͗͜͟s̓͛̒̈́̀͢͏̙̣̖̳̯̝͈͖̦ę̲̳̱̅ͤ͜͡.
     
     
    In other news, after losing the first recording, the interview with the animation team should be coming out this weekend!
  8. SPIRIT

    Zootopia

    By SPIRIT,

    Just saw Zootopia today. Good movie. 6/6 Spirit Stars. Would recommend.
     
    I thought it was a pretty good sequel to Disney's Robin Hood, even if it makes no references to the original characters. I guess that can be forgiven since the movie takes place 800 years in the future. (Okay, it's not really a sequel, but there are a lot of similarities: the mayor's a lion, the heroes are a fox and a rabbit? It totally fits!)
     
    But yeah, there were so many Easter Eggs in that movie, it might be worth getting the DVD just for a chance to pause and catch them all.
     
    Wait a minute...
     
    A movie starring a rabbit full of Easter Eggs? You sly devils...
     
     
    The story was pretty great as well, albeit a bit predictable. I think I'm okay with that, though, because it was still a good story. Media has taught us to predict the unpredictable, but a good story is still a good story. The movie also had a really good message about tolerance, prejudice, and the plight of the white cishet male in the modern postcolonial world... or maybe it was just rehashing season 1 of The Legend of Korra. Who can say? (Cameo by J.K. Simmons, though -- it totally fits!)
     
    Also I saw the Australian version, so I was treated to David Koalabell instead of the glory that I'm sure was Peter Moosebridge. Really cool of them to make regional variants on that scene. The whole film was cool. $16 AUD well spent. I can't wait for Zootopia 2: The Rezoovenation.
     
    It's a bit strange that they would have a modern society, but keep animal-themed names for things. Judy Hopps? Zootopia? That'd be like having a human called Judy Walker or a human place called Manhattan. Oh...
     
     
    And all through out the movie, I had this weird feeling of deja vu. Futuristic city where the neighbourhoods are divided into different biomes... Now where have I seen that before?
  9. SPIRIT
    So I wanted to be a master of Pokémon, but did I have the skills to be number one? I wanted to take the ultimate step and find the courage to be bold; to risk it all and not forget the lessons that I hold. I wanted go where no one's been, far beyond the crowd, learn the way to take command and use the power that was in my hand. You see, in a sense, we all live in a Pokémon world.
     
    Because everybody wants to be a master, everybody wants to show their skills, everybody wants to get there faster, make their way to the top of the hill. Each time you try, gonna get just a little bit better and each step you climb is one more step up the ladder.
     
    Deep down inside, I have always felt that my whole life has led to this, that it was time to test my skills. I knew I just couldn't miss, that I was going to show the world.
     
    And so when I finalized my team and entered the Battle Chateau, I knew that there was no time to question my moves. I had to stick to the path that I choose. My friends and I were going to do it right, and you would never see us run away from a fight. To be the master was my dream, and all I had to do was believe.
     
    When I got Pokémon Yellow for my 10th birthday, I was just a kid from Pallet Town with a brand new world to see. I didn't know what was ahead, but it wouldn't get the best of me. There was so much to learn and battles to be won. I've advanced so far but still there's always more to come.
     
    Now, every trainer has a choice to listen to that voice inside. I knew the battle might be long, winners may have come and gone, but
    I was going to carry on!
     
    Facing so many NPC trainers made it feel like I was walking down this endless highway, with nothing but my friends beside me. But we would never give in, we would never rest. These battles were the ultimate test.
     
    And as they say, it's a battle, win or lose. It's the friends you make, it's the road you choose. I had the right stuff, and I made my mind up to find the courage inside myself.
     
    And really, Pokémon is it's all about the challenges. Each time it's a brand new game and a brand new world, with new rivals as you fight for survival.
     
    I was on a road, far from home, but I didn't have to feel alone.
     
    And uh
     
    Okay, I didn't really watch the show past this point.
     
    But yeah.
     
    I FREAKING DID IT!!
     
    I defeated Nita, Evelyn, Dana, and Morgan in 50 consecutive battles. They have built statues in my honour and I am the Hoenn Region's undisputed Pokémon Champion.
     
    The Triple Battle was by far the most difficult for me, but in the end I managed to push through with an unstoppable wall of Rhyperior, Eelektross, and Electivre, supported by Dragonite, Mega Aggron, and Vaporeon. The secret to these things is just to fill your team with tanks and take each and every hit on the chin.
     
    Now, beating Dana is nice and all, but the game was not willing to give up the victory without a fight.
     
    If you've done any of the Battle Tower, etc. style battles, you'll know that randomly you can get trainers near the end who use legendary Pokémon. It's totally random, though. Sometimes you don't get any. Sometimes you only get one.
     
    SOMETIMES YOU GET THREE
     
    AND SOMETIMES YOU GET HIT BY FREEZE HAX TWICE
     
    But I still came out on top.
     
    It feels so incredibly good.
     
     
     
     
    And now to wait patiently for Sun and Moon so I can do it all again.
  10. SPIRIT
    If I die, please don't let anyone make a cheesy Facebook status about me -- especially years after the fact. I mean, I'll accept an online death announcement, but nothing more.
     
    Maybe a statue in a park, but that's it!
     
    I just can't stand the thought of someone else getting fake internet points from my death. It's outrageous, disrespectful, and it cheapens my life to appear associated with the kind of person who does that. No one wants to read about how so-and-so was your best friend, and you miss them now. That's depressing and sad. Go find a new best friend and make better Facebook posts!
     
     
     
    Also I think I might like to get that thing where they turn your corpse into a tree. Look it up; someone Shared it to me on Facebook.
  11. SPIRIT

    Underwater Thief

    By SPIRIT,

    So I'm watching the newsfeed at the bottom of the TV broadcast when I see this headline about an Underwater Thief being caught. Which, really, is just about the coolest way to steal something.
     
    But then I looked again and it actually said Underwear Thief. Much less cool.
     
     
    So would that be a reverse Freudian Slip?
  13. SPIRIT

    Ten Years Ago...

    By SPIRIT,

    Today is the day, folks. Ten years.
     
    Ten years since what?
     
    Ten years since SPIRIT was the undisputed WORLD CHAMPION of the Spinner Challenge on Bionicle.com!
     
     
     
    Let me set the stage... *old timey projector sound and radio voice*
     
    The year was 2006. In the twilight days of the Hordika storyline, LEGO released a pretty simple online game where the Toa Hordika would battle each other with Rhotuka. It was one of those "choose an attack site and choose a defense site" type games. Zero skill. Complete luck. And the best strategy to win is just to play as many games as possible.
     
    As luck would have it, I was sick and had to stay home from school the day the game came out. Within a matter of hours, I was crowned World Champion by my persistence and ability to click menu buttons in a Flash game. I saved that screenshot for an occasion such as this.
     
    I am no longer the world champion. My day has come and gone. But at least I know that for a very brief moment, I used to be the very best... like no one ever was...
     
     
    But wait, why is your LEGO username "BackCap"?
     
    Ah yes. That is another tale for another day.
     
    This is former Spinner Challenge World Champion SPIRIT signing off.
     
    (Also if you need me to promote your breakfast cereal or sports drink, I'm totally up for it.)
  16. SPIRIT

    Star Wars Cartoon Ideas

    By SPIRIT,

    X-Rey and Finn
     
    They're best of buds who fly through space
    As Padawans, they fight for good
    They're awesome guys who kick Sith in the butt!
     
    X-Reeeeeeeeeeey and Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinn
     
    She's a desert orphan, a scrap dealer, and might know some kung-fu
     
    X-Reeeeeeeeeeey and Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinn
     
    He's delightfully sweaty, a traitor to evil, and cares how you feeeeel
     
    X-Reeeeeeeeeeey and Finn
     
     

    ~Alternatively~


     
     
    Star Wars Time
    Star Wars time
    C'mon grab your droids
    We're going to a galaxy
    Far far away
    With Rey the Jedi
    And Finn the Trooper
    The fun will never end
    Star Wars Time
  18. SPIRIT

    Got Tickets for Star Wars

    By SPIRIT,

    Got tickets for Star Wars for this coming Wednesday. Great seats (that row just in front of the aisle between the front section of seats and the rest, so extra leg room). In the meantime, I'm doing a full series rewatch with my family.
     
    So far I remain largely unspoiled, but Wednesday is very far away.
     
    Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of spoilers, I shall fear no evil...
  20. SPIRIT
    Billions of dollars every year are spent on marketing and advertising to manufacture desire and to tell people what they should want.
     
    This system has failed me.
     
    I don't know what I want for Christmas!
     
     
    The ultimate of first world problems, yet a problem I have nonetheless.
     
    Got any ideas? My family is already doing the "buy farm animals for people in third world countries" thing, and I could ask for gift cards, but that feels super lame.
     
    What are you guys asking for? Maybe something will pique my interest.
  21. SPIRIT

    Autocorrect Story

    By SPIRIT,

    Lets play a game. I'll type a whole story using only autocorrect suggestions. Let's see what we get:
     
     
    The fact I can see it as an excuse for the year and I don't think that I have a great way of the day before I get a follow back on my way home from work to be the first half of the year and I don't think that I have a great way of the day before I get a follow back on my way home from work to be the first half of the year of high quality of life and the first half of the day I have to go back and I don't know how much you love it and it is not the same thing to say I have a good time with the new version is better to be the best of the year of high quality of life and the first half of the day I have a good time with the new version is better to be the best of the year and a lot more fun and addicting and I don't think I can see it as an excuse for the next few weeks of school tomorrow and I'm still not sure what I was a great way of life is so cute I can't even see it in a while ago but the fact I can get it right away with the same thing to say I have to go back and I don't think that the two sides to be the first half of the day before the end of the year of high quality and the other hand is the only thing that would make it a lot of the day before I go back and I have a great way to the gym today and it was the best thing to say I love it and it is not the same time as the best thing to say that I can get it right away.
  23. SPIRIT

    A Thought

    By SPIRIT,

    The value of the Internet is that we all equally have a voice



    But remember that not all voices should be equally valued



    Meditate on this and your jimmies shall never be rustled again


  24. SPIRIT
    The day was December 25th, 2002; Christmas Day, if memory serves.
     
    A 12 year old boy who was not yet known as SPIRIT online received Pokémon: Crystal Version as a gift from his parents under the guise of Santa Claus (in order to fool his younger sister into believing that magic and wonder were real). This boy had already played Gold and Silver Versions. Why did he then ask for Crystal, which was effectively the exact same game with only a few changes? Certainly not even he knows...
     
    Regardless, this young boy could not have known the quest he would be sent on because of this so called "gift". Or was it perhaps...
     
    A CURSE?!
     
    For little did the Boy-Who-Would-Be-Called-SPIRIT know, but one of the new features in Pokémon: Crystal Version was a Battle Tower.
     
    "Gadzooks!" eclaimèd he. For where once there had been a sparse rock-face on the 40th Route of the Region of Johto, there now stood a mighty edifice stretching for the sky, as if to mock Arceus himself. "Perchance I shall return anon upon the completion of mine main campaign storyline," said he prior to embarking upon a seaworthy Pocket Monster and traversing the seas of the 40th and 41st Routes of the Johto Region.
     
    And yea did he return upon the completion of his main campaign storyline. Spake he to the smartly-dressed attendant who said unto he: "thou shalt bringeth with thee only three Pokémon. No more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt bring, and the number of the bringing shall be three. Four shalt thou not bring, neither bring thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out."
     
    "Fair maiden," replièd he. "Thou shouldst not fret thineself, for verily I say unto thee: I am the Master of the Monsters of the Pocket. Upon mine breast are pinned one score less four badges from the regions of Johto and Kanto. I have defeated the Team of Rockets, the Four who are Elite, and the man who calls himself Red. All have fallen to me and my power, as they shall again this day."
     
    And so the Boy-Who-Would-Be-Called-SPIRIT chose his mightiest Monsters of the Pocket. Their names and species are lost to history, but the chronicles are quite clear about the use of a Typhlosion (because let's be honest, Fire Types are best types).
     
    The Boy-Who-Would-Be-Called-SPIRIT charged into battle with his loyal beast at his side. His Typhlosion that he had raised from a tiny Cyndaquil. His Typhlosion who had been by his side battling every trainer in the game. His Typhlosion who had never lost a fight.
     
    His first opponent sent out a Miltank.
     
    "Ah yes, the Tank of Mil," scoffed the Boy-Who-Would-Be-Called-SPIRIT. "My old foe. I have seen your kind before. I know your allegiance to the one called Whitney. I was not afeared then and I am not afeared now! Go! Typhlosion! Use Flamethrower!"
     
    But his opponent simply said, "Miltank! Use Surf!"
     
    It was all over in a matter of seconds. The Boy-Who-Would-Be-Called-SPIRIT had never seen a Miltank so swift. His entire team of champions were taken down by a simple cow. He vowed his revenge that day. He would not be bested by a cow. TYPHLOSION WOULD NOT BE DEFEATED IN VAIN.
     
     
    Many years would pass and with them, many more Pokémon games would be released, each with its own Battle Tower or an equivalent. Try as he might, The Boy-Who-Was-Finally-Called-SPIRIT failed time after time after time. Every time victory would seem within his grasp, the A.I. would come up with some trick or scheme to pry victory from his grasp.
     
    Eventually, he would learn the existence of the Values of Effort, the Values of the Individual, and the Smogon University Overused and Uber Tier Lists of Pokémon. Yet even with this knowledge it was not enough.
     
    He came close in 2011, when he beat the Battle Subway in the Doubles competition using a rain-based team, but the victory felt hollow. Drizzle Politoed was a very cheap strategy and spamming Surf constantly was no fun. Plus, the true test was to win the Singles competition, not these new fangled Double Battles.
     
    But he did not give up hope.
     
    At long last, a beacon of light in the darkness: Pokémon: Omega Ruby Version made breeding Pokémon a breeze. Improved breeding mechanics, move tutors, and an infinite cycling path just outside the Daycare. This was it. If it was going to happen, it would be here.
     
    It took time to find a well-balanced team, but at long last a team of an Eelektross, a Gengar, and an Aggron holding some Aggronite began to show some promise. Sure, they had their issues losing to unlucky Random Number Generation (one battle they all died to Swagger. SWAGGER!), but they seemed to achieve victory more surely than any other team SPIRIT had used.
     
    Then came the fateful night.
     
    SPIRIT should have been studying for exams, but he had no idea he would get this far. He got past all the trainers, even the one with Legendaries that sometimes appears unfairly at Rank 42. Then he beat Rank 49. He tried not to get too excited. He had been here before and lost many a time. The Battle Chatelaines used powerful Legendary Pokémon and had a surprising amount of luck on their side. Now was not the time for mistakes...
     
     
     
    The battle lasted a mere 5 turns.
     
     
     
     
    And when the dust settled...
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    HE HAD WON!
     
    TEN TRILLION POINTS TO GRYFFINDOR! THE DEATH STAR BLEW UP! THE FIRELORD LOST HIS BENDING! MAKUTA GOT MOONED!
     
    Where once sat a man on a couch now sat a true Pokémon Master... on a couch. So impressed with his battling prowess, were the Non Player Characters, that they erected a monument in SPIRIT's honour in the Battle Maison lobby. And trainers from all around would look at it and say, "that's Phil's boy! That's right!"
     
    And with that, his 13 year long quest had ended. He had finally beaten a Battle Tower on Singles (or its most recent equivalent). The Typhlosion from Crystal had long since been deleted when the game cartridge's internal batteries died, but now its spirit was at rest.
     
     
    And all was well.
     
     
     
     
     
    tl;dr beat the Battle Maison on Singles. Check it out, yo: ML8W-WWWW-WW3X-8SBV
  25. SPIRIT
    SPIRIT: Excuse me, sir. How much did you pay for that fedora?
     
    Person: Why, I paid twenty dollars for it. Why do you ask?
     
    SPIRIT: *takes fedora and throws it in the nearest waste receptacle* Here's twenty bucks. Buy yourself LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE.
     
     
    I think for the most part we've managed to quell the fedora outbreak, but there are still a few stragglers out there who need to be dealt with before we're safe altogether.
     
    While I'm raising funds for this project, I'm also taking ideas on how to tackle the Man-Bun and Coif epidemics. Suggestions are appreciated.
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