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Liking the header. B)
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(All apologies to Kate Beaton and, well, F. Scott Fitzgerald).
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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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So there it goes, and here I am with no reporter, lurking a topic in General Discussion, nervously scrolling down the page in a topic just coming awake to an early evening rush of bronies and Homestuck trolls... With a HUGE blog post just outside the door so full of filtered websites that I'm afraid to even look at it! But I can't abandon the thing. The only hope, is to somehow get it across three hundred miles of open road between here and Sanctuary. But sweet GregF, I am TIRED, I'm scared, I'm crazy. This culture has beaten me down. What the Karz am I doing out here? This is not even the story I was supposed to be working on. My agent warned me against it! All signs were negative-especially that evil forum assistant with the pink telephone in the Library. I should have stayed there... Anything but this. 92% of teens have moved onto rap. If you are part of the 8% that still listen to real music, copy and paste this into your signature. NO! Who put that in their sig? Did I actually see that blasted thing in the sig area just now? At 3:28 on this filthy grey afternoon in "The Future of BZPower? No! That was only in my brain some long-lost echo of a painful dawn in the Lego messageboards. . . A long time ago, half mad in another world... but no different. HELP! How many more nights and weird mornings can this terrible life go on? How long can the body and the brain tolerate this Doom-struck craziness? This regurgitation of memes, this circular discussion, this advertisement for the latest comic. And now... that IS in that guy's sig! Yes, no doubt about it, and why not? A very popular sentiment, "92% of teens have moved onto rap. If you are part of the 8% that still listen to real music, copy and paste this into your signature." BOOM! Flashing paranoia. What kind of rat-mother psychotic would say that-right now, at this moment? Has somebody followed me here? Does the global moderator know who I am? Can she see me behind these mirrors? All mods are treacherous but this one is a newly-wed early-twenties geek girl wearing a pony shirt and Ironboy overalls, probably Janus' woman? GregF above, bad waves of paranoia, madness, fear, and loathing. Intolerable vibrations in this place. GET OUT, FLEE! And finally it occurs to me, some final flash of lunatic shrewdness, before the darkness closes in that my next blog entry isn't posted until 6:00. Which gives me at least two hours of legitimate high-speed driving to get out of this nightmarish topic before I become a fugitive in the eyes of the moderator team. Wonderful luck. By the time the alarm goes off, I can be running full bore somewhere between COT and Forum Games-Jamming the accelerator through the floorboard and shaking my fist up at Black Six swooping down on me in his BZP/Lego Ambassador helicopter. "YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE." Get out, B6... That wisdom cuts both ways! As far as you and the mint people know, I'm still up there in Defendant Lobby no. 42 - legally and spiritually if not in the actual flesh, with a DO NOT DISTURB sign hung out to ward off disturbances. The blog assistants won't come near that room as long as that sign is on the doorknob. My reporter saw to that, along with 600 reviews that I still have to deliver to Epics. What will the moderator team make of that? This great blog post, full of reviews. All completely legal. The blog assistants gave us those reviews, they'll swear to it, or will they? Of course not. Those treacherous blog assistants will swear they were menaced by two heavily armed crazies who threatened them with a orange transparent chainsaw unless they gave up all their reviews. Greg creeping Farshtey, is there a forum leader in this thread? I want to confess, I'm a bricked-up sinner! Venal, mortal, carnal, major, minor- however you want to call it, Gatanui, I'm guilty! But do me this one last favor, just give me five more high speed hours before you bring the hammer down; just let me get rid of this twice-blasted post, and off of this subforum. Which is not really a lot to ask Gatanui, because the final incredible truth is that I am NOT GUILTY! All I did was take your gibberish seriously and you see where it got me? My primitive Premier Member instincts have made me into a criminal. Creeping through the comedies at six in the morning with a suitcase full of twice-told jokes and "Sherlock" T-shirts, I remember telling myself over and over again, "You are not guilty." This is merely a necessary expedient, to avoid a nasty scene. After all I made no binding agreements. This is an institutional debt, nothing personal. This whole blasted nightmare is the fault of that stinking irresponsible story serial. Some fool in S&T did this to me, it was his idea Gatanui, Not mine! And now look at me, half crazy with fear typing 120 WPM across GD in some post I never even wanted. You psychotic gemini, this is your work! You had better take care of me Gatanui, because if you don't, you're going to have me on your hands!
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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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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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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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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 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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If all else fails, we could always make it Brony Zone Power or Pony Zone Power.
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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?
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There's another question that I would also like if you answered. It's very similar to Question 2.Why are you still here? What has kept you from leaving BZPower?
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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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Anyone Feel Like Reviewing With Good Christmas Spirit?
Xinlo posted a blog entry in Language Of The Mad
Yes, I know that was a horrible way to abuse the holiday season. Oh well. Anyone feel like they could drop me a review here? IMO it's one of my best MOCs, and the BBC has been horridly slow since the forums returned... so yeah. I don't usually promote my stuff through such... manipulative means, but I really like this one lol -
This was like my third post here way back when I was 10. It makes me cringe with disgust every time I read it. I've yet to see anyone with a worse noob-post.
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Well, I managed to miss it again, but December 16th was my 7th BZP anniversary. Next year I'll be an official AFOL and an octave member of this site.
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please don't go to my head please don't go to my head please don't go to my head Wow, it's hard to describe quite how much this means to me. Looking back on my time as BZPower, I've probably earned a reputation as "least likely to achieve any significant status," and I guess I was okay with that for my first few years. I looked up to the staff with awe and occasional abject terror. A lot of stuff happened that first year, including assorted warnings for sig size violations, profile pic size violations, word filter violations and unintentionally annoying the moderators. Oh, and a really lousy comedy, but who doesn't have that on their record? I was so paranoid I swear I could see my proto level being dropped as I watched. I stayed awake some nights in fear that I might push it over the edge and get banned. It's a little absurd now, but at the time BZPower was simply what I did: chatting with other members, posting my creations in the BBC forum and subsequently entering contests, and generally enjoying the fact that I had a community where I actually fit in. In other words I enjoyed myself, had an overly healthy respect for the mods, and life was great, even though I never ever thought I would do anything significant. Any following I had in the BBC, Artwork I, or Library was 99% my own ego. I became a premier member a little over a year after I joined, began writing in dark green, and generally cleaned up my grammar with the exception of a few nuances I hope none of you remember. Another year or two full of lame blog posts passed and I began to get depressed about my position on the site. Any following, real or imagined, had dwindled considerably and anyone who could still remember my name had either kept in contact off-site or had known me as the guy with that stupid comedy and vowed to never speak to me again. (This may be an exaggeration, but who knows?) I began to see people I had known or matured with on the site promoted, given commendations, proto-boosts and OBZPC-dom. I started to phase in and out of the forums, vowing to quit forever for months at a time before coming back in case someone had tried to contact me. Then I went to BrickCon '09, where I learned that not only are the staff normal, friendly people scary and intimidating, but that people don't actually brag about their proto bar and status, and they don't have their title floating above their heads to remind you who they are. (They have brick badges to do that for them. ) I came back with a renewed sense of hope, began updating my blog, and got tangled up in the macadamia nut and Creed fads. Velox got promoted and my first thought besides congratulations was that I remember when he was still The Lost Toa. I remembered recommending Nathan to hire him, and we all saw the shop through to its depressingly anticlimactic end. That was sorta my fault but it's not important. This is all really depressing. Let's focus on something positive through my almost-five year stay here. I participated in the BBCCs, posted awful stories and comedies and even more awful drawings. Through the help of many, many members I improved in each area drastically and became far more mature, though it's an arguable claim to some. Oh yeah, then there was BrickCon 2011. Way too much happened there to describe (and some of it I can't describe, BZPower rules being what they are) so I'm not going to. The main thing was that I got to hang out with all my friends again, hit EW in the face with a Nerf sword (ask him about it sometime) and the biggest highlight IMHO was that I finally met Velox in person. I had tried to get him to come to conventions in the past and I managed to get him here with the promise that I would stop quitting BZPower forever. So here I am. I'm all but certain he was somehow involved in promoting me, thus guaranteeing my omnipotent presence on the site. No, that probably wasn't the reason, but it worked out suspiciously well. : / Anyways, that was a long, convoluted post to express a very simple point: I never thought this would happen. And it did.
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So I'm going to work on a new banner tomorrow-ish. Unfortunately, I am unable to really choose between the images I chose to function as the banner's background. Suggestions as to which U.S.S. Twilight Sparkle image I should use? or
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What do you think will happen? Will Bionicle have its own forums again? Server meltdowns? Revival of the dreaded official topics? Fun times?
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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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Ranks. They're the reason why we feverishly increase our post count. Some of us have higher ranks than others and some members have ranks so high they would blow most members minds! What I'm asking is what is the highest rank you ever saw here on Bzpower? I think the highest rank I ever saw was on the old forums and I believe it showed a picture of Karda Nui from the 08 storyline. The member in question was a staff member I think and had racked up over 18,000 posts.
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Hello again! Here is the current voting tally for "Which Comedy Should I Bring Back to the BZP forums" (as of November 21, 2011): Inika Palace Hotel: 1 Club Nuva: 1 Bionicles on Lego Island: 0 The Many Farces of Toa Tuyet: 0 ...but don't worry folks! There's still enough time for you to vote for your favorite VM comedy! Just go back to the last post (Chronicle #2) and comment on which one of my classic comedies you would love to see appear on the new BZP forums! Thanks for the support folks! ~ VM4.0
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Chronicle 2: I'm Back (Plus An Announcement About My Comedies)!
V.M.Torious 4.0 posted a blog entry in blogs_blog_791
Hello BZPower Universe! It's been a while since I've posted anything at BZP, especially in the Comedies section in 2009. Well, here's a better intro for this... FINALLY... VM HAS COME BACK... TO BZPOWER!!! ...enough said. If you're wondering why I've changed my username from Vakama Montana0111 to V.M.Torious 4.0, then here's why. As I discovered the new forums, I wanted a brand-new, fresh look to my username and character from the previous forum and Bionicle is over. So, I decided to find something that sounds cool and Hero Factory-like. The first step was to take the first two letters of my screen name (the letters "V" and "M") and shorten it to make an initial (don't worry guys, "V.M." still stands for my former username, "Vakama Montana"). Next, it's time to find a word, or should I say, a word pun. As I was going through the Hero Factory Wiki, something came into mind, and the word "Victorious" came into my head, out of nowhere. So I merged "VM" and "Victorious" together like Lego bricks, and this became "V.M.Torious". Finally, I needed a version number. Since this is the fourth time using the Vakama Montana username, I opted for version 4.0. And that's how "V.M.Torious 4.0" was born. Oh, and you wanna know why I was gone for so long? Okay, here's the lowdown: I know that ever since I joined BZPower in 2007, a lot of things had changed, especially between 2009 & 2010, when Lego replaced Bionicle with Hero Factory. I have been mostly inactive during that time period, with the exception of posting in some of the BZP topics regarding about current events going on in the Lego Universe (I'm talking about Lego news and stuff, not the MMORPG game of the same name that's about to go offline in February 2012). And there's the "BZP Forum Shutdown Crisis of 2011", when BZP's forums went offline for sometime between Spring and Fall 2011. I was planning to make a comeback in the Comedies forum at that time, but I lost interest during that time period. So here I am, a month after the forums re-opened on BZP. As soon as I heard that the forums are going to re-open, I've began planning my comeback to the Comedies section, but for me, it took about a month for me to decide whether to bring back some of my classic comedies, or start all over again from scratch just like back in 2007. And this is where my huge announcement begins: I am bringing back some of my hit comedies to the new BZP forums! But, I need your help, guys, and this is the fun part! Here are the comedies that you will be voting on: 1. Inika Palace Hotel (season 1, a.k.a. the first 26 chapters) 2. Club Nuva 3. Bionicles on Lego Island 4. The Many Farces of Toa Tuyet (a spoof of "The Many Deaths of Toa Tuyet" by Greg Farshtey; this is going to be a remake) However, there is one exception. I will not be bringing back non-Bionicle parody comedies (for example, Nokama Montana, if any of you guys remember) because they have been either deleted from my old computer when I got a new one during this summer, or been removed from the BZP forums when they crashed in 2009. So vote for your favorite Vakama Montana comedy by mentioning only one of the four comedies listed above, but feel free to add your opinion on why you want that comedy to be brought back to the new Comedies forum. The comedy with the most votes by December 31, 2011 will be brought back in a re-mastered format (yes, that means cleaning up the script so that it looks nicer for the new forum) on January 2012! And here's another announcement... if the comedy that you voted gets enough replies on the new forum, then I will be writing new chapters of that comedy starting in Spring 2012! Good luck folks! And if you can't remember any of the comedies listed above, then here's a link to my old comedy library from the previous forum below: http://www.bzpower.c...howtopic=257718 Since it's in an archived state, please do not make new comments on the comedy libray. Have fun and enjoy the memories! ~ VM4.0 -
So, was anyone else surprised by the recent somewhat long forum crash? I certainly was, and coming so soon after the Time Slip II (Electric Boogaloo? ), I confess I was a bit disappointed. I thought the point of the new forum software was to make sure stuff like this happens less often...What did you think of the crash happening again? Lewa0111 Nuva
