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What would destroy your enjoyment on here so much that you say "That's enough; I'm gone?"
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Even in the blogosphere, nothing goes right for you, does it?
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Who else is planning to enter? So far there haven't been any entries, but I'm sure some of the more talented artists here already have entries in the works and are simply devoting more time and attention to them than I have. I finished drawing my entry this morning, but I may add more detail. Right now it has very little shading, but I'm hesitant to shade much more than the background details, and I'm certainly not planning on inking this one. It looks very nice right now in graphite, and while I might add some color digitally, I don't plan on treating it like much more than a line drawing. I normally wouldn't expect my drawing to stand a chance, but with so few entrants and an idea I think a lot of people might appreciate, I suppose I might at least be able to impress a few people, even though better-quality entries are sure to turn up.
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Do you feel that BZPower has an "inner circle" that you're not a part of? Do you think thIs has to do with Premier Membership and blogs?Do you think that some forums have a group of people that get all the attention and posts while yours are overlooked? Do you ever look at people's signatures? How much effort do you put into being in the "in crowd" on here? What do you think?
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It might be because I've been here for as long as I have, but always lurked more than posted (as one can tell from my count...), but I feel like BZP has almost become more of a chore to check rather than an entertaining experience.This isn't dissing the site at all; it's an excellent forum, and one that I have always- and will always- love to death. I simply feel like it's not as fun anymore; that I only check in habitually, or out of a sense of necessity.Does anyone else feel this way? Is the board becoming less fun, or have I just been here for too long and need a refresher?
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ASK HAPORI TOHU!Note: I know that Tahu the Burger Burglar Burglarizes a Burger wasn't that funny,so i'm rooting that on this.HT: Hello,there BZPower members! It is I,your fearless leader,Hapori Tohu!B6: Sir,our Wi-Fi is down,it has been since the Visorak took over Metru-Nui.HT: So wait,we didn't have Wi-Fi for 6 years!???!!!?B6: Yep,but the staff are working hard to fix this.HT: Just,just go get the Video Camera.B6: Yes,sir!10 minutes later....B6: Alright,here you go.Random Matoran: After 6 days of no Wi-Fi,it is finally back up!HT: Black six,you said that we had no Wi-Fi for 6 years,not days!B6:But sir,I...HT:You're FIRED!B6: Shoot,I was kicked out of the LEGO Office in Denmark 13 years ago... :(HT: And you'll be kicking yourself out of BZPower as well! :superfunny:B6: I thought this was a FAQ thingie,not a "yell at Black Six" thing!HT: Go away,I wish to never see you again!B6: But...HT: Fus...B6: Huh?HT: Ro...B6: Uh-oh...HT: DAH!!!!HT: There,with my lead Administrator gone now,I can start this thing! HT: Huh,who,what? Oh,I had to go into hibernation,and the staff were too lazy to operate the site. HT: No,why would I? :shoots wall with lazer vision: Okay,okay,maybe I DO have superpowers! Also,LEGO STAR WARS sucks. BIONICLE rules! HT: Hmm,"NOT Black Six",I am part of the awesome Toa Team. The team members are: Me,Billy Mays,James Bond,Chuck Norris,Icarax and Winnie-The-Pooh. HT: NO! HT:Hey,that isn't a question!:Door opens:W7: Hello,I am White Seven,and I would like to get a job here.HT: Hmm,you look as if i've seen you before. Black Six ring a bell?W7: Black Six? Who's that?HT: Some guy I fired.W7: Oh,he says he wants his job back.HT: I think you are B6...B6: Hello,I want my job back!HT: Wait,so White Seven is really NOT Black Six!B6: It all ends here,brother.W7: Come at me,bro.:Bam!:B6: :spank:W7: Ow!HT: That's it! Time to Nuke the ground!W7 and B6: NOOO!-CDP
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Review topic: http://www.bzpower.c...?showtopic=3740The UprisingPart One:It has been 38 years since the defeat of Makuta Teridax. All the Makuta are dead. The Glatorian and Agori and the Toa and Matoran have united and build powerful technologies. The Skrall still exist,but there is few of them left.Malia: Sardis,I need to have a discussion with Toa Gali.Sardis: Fine with me,just make sure to come back before the sun sets!Malia: Alright,i'm off!Sardis: Bye!Malia left the village,not knowing she wouldn't be back in a while...Malia: I have reached Gali's hut! Now all I need to do is...Yarkhi: You're not going anywhere!Malia: Aaagh! A Skrall! How is it possible?Yarhki: Oh,it's possible alright,it's possible. How about I shoot you with my Thornax launcher?Malia: Help! Somebody,HELP!Gali: Get away from her you fowl creature!Yarkhi: Never!Yarkhi shoots at Gali,Gali dodges,the Thornax hits a small scorpion instead. Yarhki does not notice the explosion,but he notices the result.Yarhki: How,what,where?Gali: Now,how do you like that?Yarkhi: Oh no,a giant Scorpion!Gali: Try to run,it will get you anyway!Yarkhi was killed by the scorpion,but then the scorpion went off in the direction of a Matoran factory.Malia: What are we going to do? It shall kill those villagers!Gali: Not unless we catch up to it!Malia: But how? We are not fast enough!Gali: I think we can.-CDP
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This is the review topic for The Uprising: http://www.bzpower.c...t=0#entry188465A little thing to explain what The Uprising is about:The Uprising is the story of how Malia(a water-tribe Agori) goes on the adventure of a lifetime. The Skrall live,and their new leader is the last Makuta alive, Makuta Miserix. It happens 36 years after the battle between Mata-Nui and Teridax. 30 years ago,a top-secret project began. This is the tale of how the Hero Factory was created...Characters:Malia: An Agori from the water tribe. During the battle between Mata-Nui and Teridax,her left hand was sliced off by a Skakdi warlord named Nektann. Due to advances in technology,she was given a Bionic arm.Sardis: Malia's best friend. Also the new leader of the water tribe after the original one was murdered by a Rahkshi.Yarhki: A Skrall. Very few Skrall are now left alive on Spherus Magna.Gali: Oh,you know who's Gali. No? Well,Gali is one of the six Toa Nuva.Giant scorpion: A random desert scorpion mutated by a Thornax,and grew to 100 feet.Barnax: A Skrall messenger. Was the commander of the Skrall army during the Battle of the Temmaot Valley.Miserix: The last surviving Makuta(other than the Alternative Teridax from the Melding Universe);also the new leader of the Skrall.Mawel: A Jungle tribe Agori,the Chief in the production of the HERO FACTORY.Makunero: The Founder and leader of the HERO FACTORY.Kopaka: The Toa Mata/Nuva of Ice. Got upgraded to Stormer.The three Skrall: Kinda like the Three Stooges,they are funny and weird.Ghulu: A giant Snake that lives in Dream Land. Needs to go back to Grammar School.-CDP
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Anyone's attempt to post the wink.gif emoticon will be immediately deleted.
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(All apologies to Kate Beaton and, well, F. Scott Fitzgerald).
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Liking the header. B)
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So I logged on and looked at the blogs and apparently everybody is afraid of the staff or something? Do people really feel this way? I read a few entries and the consensus seems to be the opposite. It seems the staff identities some members have grown to fear are hugely hyperbolic and blown out of proportion. Maybe I'm just biased. We're all pretty cool. We're humans too, y'know. Anywho, I'm quitting my job (!). Hopefully I'll have a little more free time to dedicate to this site, after school work of course. And I have a lot of school things to do this semester. Mass Effect 3 is a month away. I'm playing through Mass Effect 2 for the second time. I'm only just now getting around to a second play through because I wanted to preserve the memories and emotions of the first for as long as possible. Weird. DAT AVENGERS TRAILER. Iron Maaaaaaaaaaaan! \m/
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Emphasis on discussion. I have heard many complaints about the discussion part of BZPower, particularly the GD forum coming off badly, so I thought maybe we could contribute to reversing that trend. What I want to try here is if we can get an actual, intelligent discussion going. That means: No one-sentence responses please. Obviously there is no way that can be enforced as a rule, but at least we can have it as a guideline.What I ask you is the following: How do you picture the future of BZPower? Take everything into consideration from the development of LEGO to the current state of the forums, including forum structure and rules. Whatever comes to your mind. How do you think BZPower is developing? What would you change about BZPower? How do you want it to become? Or wouldn´t you change anything?In my opinion, the current development of BZPower is very clear: More members are leaving than joining. I think BZPower should let loose of BIONICLE and finally clearly become a LEGO forum. While that has been achieved very well on the forums the front page still screams BIONICLE everywhere and that is what people first see. If they aren´t interested in BIONICLE, they are most likely not going to enter the forums. Don´t get me wrong, I love BIONICLE and BZPower should not forget that it primarily is, or was, a BIONICLE site. However, it´s pretty obvious there is no way the site can survive if it keeps the focus on BIONICLE. That is why I think a complete overhaul of the front page is in order. You could argue that the forums are more enjoyable when they aren´t so full, and I could easily agree to that. However, a quite forum is far more in danger of becoming too quite in the future if more members leave than join (which I am pretty sure is the case). Roughly 1160 members have visited the forums this month, of which about 845 have posted. Of course, that doesn´t sound too bad unless you consider we have closely 47000 members, a number which is increasing far more slowly than it has in the past years. BZPower cannot survive forever, but I think we can all agree that we should keep it alive as long as we can. ;)I also think BZPower should implement technical solutions to enable members to link to a broader variety of sites while still complying with our advertising policy (before you ask, this has been in the works earlier this year so it will eventually happen). That way, we could also establish cooperative relationships to other BIONICLE and LEGO fan sites (always with our policy disclaimer of course ) and consequently increase traffic.Do you agree? Or do you think BZPower is perfectly fine as it is now? Discuss! ~Gata.
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and finally my premier membership kicks back in. so, what's new with you guys? it's been ages since ive really done anything noteworthy here on bzp, but i guess that you could say that i am here to change that... YEAH guys, i am so happy with how this turned out you dont even know. the next project i have on my list is the c.i.r.c.l.e. timeline which should be quite fun to do!! i am really hoping for a c.i.r.c.l.e. revival because i am watching as the members, myself included, have begun to loose interest and die out. but seriously, i hope that if we begin to build a team together, we might be able to pull though and make the c.i.r.c.l.e. an amazing group. ~Aradia*** Spirit Fable Epic ~ Review ***
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Today marks the third theory to recieve this award, so I thought this would be a good time to post a blog entry about it. The following is what is posted in the topic for any theory that wins this new award: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: The Gold Key to Nongu Award does not certify theory accuracy. The sponsor of the Gold Key to Nongu Award does not neccessarily endorse and/or oppose said theory. The sponsor of the Gold Key to Nongu Award remains ignorant of the exact meaning of the word "Nongu." The originator of the term "Nongu" may or may not be insane. Not available in some domes, void where prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Key to Nongu award is something I've been meaning to create in some form for years, as far back as when Ninjo was still active, but I never got around to it. Recently I decided again to make it, but for a while there were no theories that struck me as really qualifying (though I don't catch every theory, to be fair). However, in the past two weeks S&T has burst to life again, and really right now it feels like just about everything is coming together in theories. They might not end up being right, but they are still great theories (and a few have proven at least partly right!). So they deserve some sort of formal recognition. As such, this award has now been formed, and will be awarded to whomever I see fit in the future as well. If you haven't already read the topics, check out the blog sidebar list of winners! Please use comments in this blog entry to nominate theories for this award, post questions, comments, etc.
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This doesn't really fit anywhere, so I might as well put it here...It's simple. If you've written any haiku about BZP or BIONICLE, post it here.For those of you who are poetically challenged, a haiku is a very short poem that follows a syllable pattern of 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second, and 5 syllables in the third line. So, for example: BIONICLES are Fun to play with, not to eat Just like Play-Doh is. And there you have it.Happy haiku!--CV
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I have foreseen the future of BZPower. Front page: More LEGO-themed news articles. Many more reporters will be added to the staff. Forums: The Incarnations forums get combined into one forum, except S&T and M&B, which get merged. Forum Divisions gets more popular, with more contests. LGD will get more popular. COT will get split up into COT RPGs & Games and COT. Staff: FLs, FAs, GMs, Admins, BAs, and BLs: Stay as-is. Reference team: Gradually turn into Expanded Multiverse staffies. Reporters: More. Mentors: More, but not that many more. It depends on the amount of members. Come back in two years and we'll see how accurate I am.
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It's with great pleasure that today I announce the first promotions on the new BZPower forums.-Windrider- is our newest Forum Leader. He'll be staying in his current forums, leading Media Discussion and Comics.Ziko is our newest Forum Assistant. He'll be helping out in BBC, General Art, Comics, and G&T.Erebus and Eeko will be joining the BZPower staff as Forum Mentors.Please join me in congratulating these outstanding members of BZPower who have done a great job helping out the community!
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Well, that's that then. 9 years ago (if we skip the leap days), I registered with a little Bionicle site called BZPower. 8 years ago, I left. 1 year ago - plus a few days - I came back. Bionicle had gotten the axe by then - no more sets, not many more serials. Why'd I leave? Honestly, part of it is that I thought I was too grown-up for Bionicle. I was a middle schooler - I didn't want some boring, the-heroes-always-win stuff for kids! I wanted something darker and edgier, like Sonic Adventure! Go ahead and parse that for everything wrong with it. I'll wait. My only defense is that I was a middle schooler, and I couldn't really afford the sets (though frankly speaking, I always did love the setting and story more than the sets - but I wouldn't be caught dead then buying a Bionicle book. Go figure.) So why'd I come back? Part of it, truth be told, is that I finally got back my login details. I changed my display name at some point after I registered from GSR (fun fact: originally GoldenSunRules, but I now just see it as "GSR") to something completely different, and at some point in my hiatus some upgrade or database change led to that becoming my login name. Thus my last successful login until last year (when I remembered that other name) was late 2006. Part of it is that, at the end of the day, I'm a sucker for Bionicle. Yeah, it's a decade-old cancelled kids' toyline, that has been duly noted. Yeah, it had some really cringe-worthy stuff in there (Mask of Light's voice acting speaks quite literally for itself). But having immersed myself in all sorts of mature works (which I did and still do enjoy immensely), I found I still have a soft spot for a story that, by and large, is just the good guys vs. the bad guys. Granted, part of this is nostalgia - Hero Factory really doesn't appeal to me - but I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised to learn just how large the universe became over the years of Bionicle's run. Elemental cyborgs struggling to protect their people even as the tribal culture that they know and love slowly tears away to reveal a story of biotechnology on a grand scale? Sign me up. And part of it is that, frankly, I missed being around a decent online community. I'm active on three other boards besides BZP at the moment - one is large enough that I don't know any of the members that well, one is largely ruleless and extremely fast-moving, and one is a practically inactive fan forum for a series whose fate is currently in limbo for the English-speaking world. BZP's not as big as it used to be - the downtime truly did a number on things - but it's usually got somewhere between 50 and 100 active members on during the day, and people are usually pretty civil to each other. Granted, Bionicle being gone is putting a bit of a drag on things, but that's a topic rather larger than this blog's focus. So what now? Honestly, I'm not sure. College's starting up again soon, and that'll eat into my time here quite a bit - and it looks like it's going to be a very, very busy first month or so. But I think I like it here - there's getting to be familiar faces around, and the good response to "Fractures" really made me feel like I was contributing to the community. And I do have a rather larger project brewing in the back of my head (which I'd actually hoped to get a little more fleshed out over break, but c'est la vie). Granted, said project would have an expected readership of... 5, or so? I guess it would technically appeal to one smaller audience and one very large audience, but said audiences have a pretty small intersection. But I digress. Anyways, here's to you, BZP. I can't promise I'll be around forever, but I hope to make the best of the time I am.
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If all else fails, we could always make it Brony Zone Power or Pony Zone Power.
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If BZPower had never gone down, do you think that we'd have kept on getting new story updates? Because it seems like the serials stopped around the time that BZpower went down.
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I've gotten a bit tired of this current one, and I goofed quite a bit with the nav box - I forgot the important tabs like BIONICLE and MOCs. Also it was made before ponies. There must be ponies. So I figure if I'm going to fix it I may aswell do it all over... that said, any suggestions?
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Have the News Reporting Guidelines changed since the forums came back online? Is the news@ bzpower. com email address still active? Do news reporters have a preferred method of contact to get things on the front page?
