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Let's Play 20 Questions. I will think up something pertaining to Bionicle, and you must ask me questions to see who it is. Rules 1: The questions can only be yes or no questions. So "Is he pink" works but "what color is he" doesn't. 2: There can only be one question per post, and no double posting. 3: I will edit my answer into every body's post. You can only add a second question in your post if I have already edited in my response. I am thinking of a Bionicle being / character. I hope this one isn't as vague as last week's. Now, ask away, and see if you can figure it out in under 20 tries. GO! It was Roporak (the brown Visorak) and Bundalings managed to guess the correct one in the end. 22 guesses.
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Please? Over a week and absolutely no reviews... or views, as far as I'm aware? Am I not advertising this enough? Which just goes to show that I really don't have a reputation for alot of reviews.
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I recently got a catalogue from Lego... one of those smaller, special edition ones, with all the new sets and stuff. I must say, this next line of toys are lookin' cool. So why don't I share my thoughts with you on some of them. First of all, Agents. The various vehicles they have look cool and all, but they aren't necessarily revolutionary. What I'm interested in is the new minfigures, like the guy with spider legs or the dude with the chainsaw arm. That is something that is new, cool, and much needed. I also see that they have a new "Hard to Find" Indiana Jones set (based off the forth movie). It has a plane, some maintenance vehicles, a jeep, and lots of characters. I find it amusing that the set is based off a short, background scene from the movie where they relocate. That made me laugh. Then there's that new Death Star playset. Man, why didn't they come out with this earlier? When they were making huge, detailed sets of that thing, they should've instead come up with this, with a whole bunch of rooms from the movies that are mini-fig scale. If I were ten years younger... I would be drooling of that set. Heck, if I also had alot of pieces, I might've even built something like that on my own. Very cool, Lego. And then there are the Mistika. Blah, blah, seen them already. Now that I have a non-computer image, the vehicles don't look too bad, especially Jetrax in yellow. I hope to pick up those canisters... I have some money... but they aren't in stores yet and probably won't go on sale until I'm all the way back in school. Bummer. Also, let it be known that I will be purchasing none of these sets (besides a few Mistika) I am merely commenting on Lego's really cool designs this summer.
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Let's Play 20 Questions. I will think up something pertaining to Bionicle, and you must ask me questions to see who it is. Rules 1: The questions can only be yes or no questions. So "Is he pink" works but "what color is he" doesn't. 2: There can only be one question per post, and no double posting. 3: I will edit my answer into every body's post. You can only add a second question in your post if I have already edited in my response. I am thinking of a Bionicle think (AKA, it isn't a character. Any more specific and I'd give it away too quickly) Now, ask away, and see if you can figure it out in under 20 tries. GO! Answer: It was Bula berries, and Bfahome got it again. Unfortunatly, it took y'all 32 guesses, but I was being pretty vague plus I chose something that isn't too popular. Just 'cause I used Bula berries in all my epics doesn't mean that everybody does. I have an idea for next week which should be really good.
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Let's Play 20 Questions. I will think up something pertaining to Bionicle, and you must ask me questions to see who it is. Rules 1: The questions can only be yes or no questions. So "Is he pink" works but "what color is he" doesn't. 2: There can only be one question per post, and no double posting. 3: I will edit my answer into every body's post. You can only add a second question in your post if I have already edited in my response. I am thinking of a Bionicle item. Now, ask away, and see if you can figure it out in under 20 tries. GO! Edit: Final answer in! It was Lava Surfboard, and the winner is Snoopy82!
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No, I'm not creating a second, larger version of my last entry. This is something new. Let's Play 20 Questions. I am thinking of a Bionicle Character; you must ask me questions to see who it is. The questions can only be yes or no questions. So "Is he pink" works but "what color is he" doesn't. There can only be one question per post, and no double posting. I will edit my answer into every body's post, and will only answer the first question. Now, ask away, and see if you can figure it out in under 20 tries. GO! Edit: Final answer in! It was Toa Naho, and the winner is Bfahome! Would anybody be interested if I did this kind of thing once a week? It was kind of fun. See my last post for details.
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Yes, yes, paranoid people copy their posts before they hit "post new entry." I do that half the time myself, but sometimes I'm just so eager that I forget, and then the Board Message looms down on me like a dark cloud... or an evil pinkish message that no longer has cool jokes in it. But here's what irks me. I post in a topic, and I get the board message. Sometimes, I can backspace, and get the original post all written out still, where I then copy and paste. Or, sometimes, I can't get through but check back later to see that it did post... and sometimes double posts when I clicked the "post" button twice. Annoying, but all the same, it posted! Neither happen when I post a blog. And this has happened to me alot recently. So my really cool, really long, really gone blog entry is... well, non existent, as of this point. And I am too lazy, preoccupied, and tired to retype it. I'll post it later. This is just frustration and murphy's law. End, Shift Home, Pg. Up, Ctrl C
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I was thinking (a rare occurrence these days) and I got interrupted by the idea of listing my favorite Bionicle sets over the years. So here's for stuff you think up while you're supposed to be taking notes. Favorites, based off set design, not storyline. Toa Mata: Gali, Lewa, Pohatu. All the Toa Mata are just classic favorites, so I won't even bother choosing between the three listed. Turaga: Nokama. Just because. Tohunga: Nuparu, mostly because he was the first one I could get. Rahi: Of the two I got, I preferred the Tarakava. Bohrok: Kohrok. Since all the Bohrok are pretty much the same, I went with the one with the coolest shields. Bohrok Va: Lehvak Va. Love those machetes. Toa Nuva: Lewa. I really don't have a favorite out of this bunch, but I like Lewa's color and weapons. Bohrok Kal: Nuhvok Kal. Ah, it was just the first one I got, and the black and silver went together well. Rahkshi: Lerahk. Again, it's the green. Matoran 03: Um, Takua, I guess. I wasn't very impressed with the design, but the masks and colored pieces were great. Toa Metru: Onewa. His weapons are sweet, as is his mask design. Vahki: Vorzahk. Mostly because its green, I suppose. Metruan: Ehrye or Nuhri. Toa Hordika: None. Only thing that was great about them was the skull piece, really. Visorak: Oohnorak. Just because of the yellow eyes. The Visorak were bummer sets too. Rahaga: Iruini. Green. Piraka: Thok. Great color scheme, awesome head design, wicked weapon. Yeah. Toa Inika: Hewkii. His mask rocked and he had chains. Voya-Nui Matoran: Garan. Mostly because of the hordika skull pieces. Except for Dalu, all the Voya-Nui Matoran were awesome. Barakki: Mantax. Great design, especially considering he's named after a manta ray. Toa Mahri: Hewkii. A more unique design with lots of good blade pieces, as well as a unique way to hold the Cordak. Mahri Matoran: Dekar. I guess it's because of th yellow. Toa Phantoka: Pohatu. The orange is good, but the propellers are an awesome idea. Makuta Phantoka: Chirox. I dunno, his wing design looks good. Matoran of Light or Shadow: Tanma and Kirop. For their colors, I suppose. Toa Mistika (estimated): Tahu. Basic design is overused but not too bad. Rotating blade looks good. Makuta Mistika (estimated): Bitil or Krika. Both have good designs, I'm just not sure yet. Titan that I Have from 03 onward: Keetongu. New color (at the time) and useful design. Special Mention: Boxer and Bahrag. Expensive but very intricate. Procrastination is complete. Retinas have been burned out due to multitude of colors. In other news, which mask do you prefer, Mask 3 or Mask 4?
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I love it how people so easily mess up the words "not" and "now" when they're typing. By switching those two words, the sentence can completely change its meaning. For example I am not eating your arm. I am now eating your arm. "Not" implies a negatory meaning, as the user believes whatever action they are addressing will not come to pass. "Now" implies an observation, as the user is usually stating something that is obvious in the here and now. Basically, by switching the two words, you switch the meaning of the entire sentence into something that is usually opposite of what you really mean. And, by the way the English language spells the words, changing between the two of them only requires you to alter the last letters. Thus, switch the "T" in Not to a "W" and you get Now. And thanks to the common qwerty keyboard, the "W" key and the "T" key are three key-lengths apart on the same row. Thus, it is easy when one is typing something fast to accidentally spell "not" instead of "now" and vise versa. And by that one simply mistake, you have completely changed what you were trying to say. And I am aware that I am looking too deep into something too trivial, but I find it funny, because I have made this mistake many times before and I have seen it quite often recently. Is this a grammar guide? A warning? Making fun of people who make mistakes? Maybe, I don't know for sure. I just hope you've learned a little something not now. Or now not.
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I randomly looked at a new post in the Writing Tips topic, and came upon this... I find this interesting, considering I have been put off numerous times by a lack of reviewers. But I guess, to newcomers, I get a lot of good, constant reviewers. Really, I have had a really bad history for reviews. Only a handful of my epics really got anywhere, with about half of them dying out because nobody was really interested. I hit it big on TD, although for a while most of the posts were just spam. A few of my other, shorter epics got a few people reading them the whole way, but not too many. SoMN isn't really hitting it big, it's just lasting so long that the few reviewers that have stayed with it have posted alot. And MA, an experiment in a new writing style of letting reviewers answer questions that will drive the plot, is doing rather well. But short stories and comedies never last too long, and any MO or artwork topic die instantly as if they were playing with a Doom Viper. Which brings it down to, I have had so many bad experiences that I feel I hardly get reviewers at all, and enjoy the ones I do get. However, based on my good experiences, I've got a weird reputation. Hmm. How did this come by? Did my writing vastly improve so that everybody wanted to read my stuff? Well, maybe a little, but that's not the whole thing. I've found the best way to get reviewers is to review yourself. The first person who started reviewing my first epic was an author who's epic I started replying to. I don't remember his story being worth much, and he mentioned that quality was lacking in mine as well, but we got reviews from each other, and started improving. I have had many reviewers also be authors who's work I enjoyed. Right now, I am being a total hypocrite because I am only reading Kumata's stories, whereas I have a few other reviewers out there too. :annoyed2: But I make up for it in blogs; I like people replying to my blog posts, and I spend a substantial amount of time in BZP's blogs replying to other people's work. So, remember, it's a trade-off. If you review somebody else's work, they might just return the favor. Or not. But out of the names GaliGee, Xccj and Takuta-Nui, one does not belong, and that is Xccj...
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Have you ever wanted to get in a Taxi and just tell the driver, "Follow that car up there."? I just wonder how that would go down. *Has been watching Rush Hour 2 for the umpteenth time, but that's okay because he got it on sale at a really good price, so he owns it now* Anyway, I have also been making progress on my Slizers epic... much to every body's surprise, I'm sure. I don't only have one chapter in the bank, ready to be posted, but TWO! Unfortunately, they have to go through some serious revision before they're posted, as my writing wasn't at its best when I wrote some of them. And here you thought this would be some college-life entry involving a taxi cab, a rubber chicken, and a girl with a pink dress. But you were wrong.
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*Sigh* Bonesiii declared that my entry was too political (and I guess he's right). BZP is a kid's website, and discussions on stuff like this, while it can be beneficial, is not allowed. After all, while I would love to manipulate all your opinions about everything, I'm just a random kid on the Internet. Instead, I urge you to go do the research yourself, from books to websites to lectures. It's good to know about the world around you and what's happening in it... it's just not good to have heated topics discussed on BZP. If you want to see stuff a a team of international scientist have discovered, you can go use the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change link. As far as I am aware, it's a group of 2000 climate scientists from 100 countries participating in the largest peer review and scientific cooperation project in the world. I'd say that gives them some legitimacy. And, to counter Dalek, any irrational, environment-bashing posts will be deleted / heavily edited by ME. Muhahaha!
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Well, with the release of the new Toa Ignika game, there's also new bonus content when you get so many points and such. I actually like this game, and did rather well, and got the max bonus content, and had a look at it. Now I just must make a blog about it. Bonus Content: Prototype Masks I'll move from top to bottom, left to right. First Tow Row: Obviously a plastic prototype of Lewa's mask. Only it doesn't look like Lewa's mask. I'm pretty sure the reason this one didn't make it through is because it looks like a Halo guy's mask. I don't even play Halo and even I recognize it. While I don't think it would've made a great Miru, I think it would've been an excellent design for a Kaukau. It has the blue tinted visor of the Kaukau Mata, with a semi-triangular nose, and even the vent openings on the cheeks. Plus, it's designed to look more aerodynamic. It's a pity this one didn't make it into the final sets for Gali, but it was obviously good enough to actually be made into plastic. The other two masks on the top row depict the final Miru Phantoka, in it's plastic form and drawn form (respectively). I don't have anything new to say here about those. First Middle Row Mask: Looks like a hood with pinchers. It might make a good Makuta mask... maybe even resembles one (I don't really know the shapes of the Makuta Mistika masts yet, and I'm too lazy to look 'em up.) Second Middle Row: This appears to be more of an early version of the new Hau, with a more helmet like appearance. The ridge down the front seems a little much, though. Third MR: This looks like a more rounded version of the final Miru, with spaces in the forehead and the visor eyes. Personally, I think this would've worked as a good Hau, as the vents in the side resemble the traditional Hau. Even the Hau Nuva had wrinkles that could've turned into vents. Forth MR: This looks like the Miru with it's ridges from the Nuva form still on. Although I personally think it better resembles a Kakama... it keeps the ridges from the Nuva form and the basic shape better resembles the Mata form. Plus, the think looks like a fighter jet or something, which screams speed (to me). Fifth MR: This one looks like a flattened version of the final Miru. While it probably wouldn't be a bad mask, it doesn't look too much like a Nuva or Mata mask, so I'm okay with it not making the final cut. First Bottom Row: Okay, this one shouts out "Knight Helmet with Visor". It could also resemble a bird with a beak... reminds me of the moviefied Nivhawk. Good for flying types, but not for Nuva. Second BR: This looks like a non-scarified version of Vamprah's mask. Okay, but far too basic. Third BR: Lol, this doesn't look like a mask, this looks like a Space Ship! Maybe, but not for the Nuva. All in all, I could pick out three masks here that would work better for the New Nuva than their current masks... First TR for Gali, Third MR for Tahu, and Forth MR for Pohatu. But, alas, I am not part of the target range, or any range that Lego is interested in, so I can't really say anything for sure. I guess the kids who did choose had a better look at the masks made. But, hey, there's potential that these designs could pop up in later years, right (like Jaller Mahri's mask, right?)
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I stayed in bed all night long, trying to sleep, but not succeeding for very long. Now I'm awake, trying to prepare for my Math Final, and I'm so drowsy that I'm about to drop off. How does this work out? I understand staying up all night... but I didn't do that. So why can I not sleep when I want to but I can be very sleepy when I need to be awake and alert? In need to get Sylar to work on my internal clock... I hear he's a pretty good watch-maker. Another thing, who came up with the idea of tests on Saturday? SATs, Math Finals? It completely takes away the luster of the weekend. And what's all this about working to earn money for the rest of your life? When will you have time to play video games? Growing up is just not for me right now.
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RIP and Tear For Botar You try to figure out exactly what I'm saying here. What, I have nothing better to do than post this play on words. Anyway, I'm sleep deprived and have English final stuff to do.
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I don't have an anger problem. The things I'm angry at are the things with problems. Allow me to express my feelings on school right now. YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Ahem. Now that's an interesting blog entry.
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Okay, so I was viewing this topic and found a link to this news topic of old. Having remembered replying to that review topic, I opened it up to relive some of the nostalgia of olden days. I saw a few posts by older members who are no longer so active, as well as some others who've definitely changed a bit. Then I found my own post. It was obviously a winter topic because I was in one of my "post in pink" crazes that I went into for a couple of months each year. Okay, so the color is actually magenta, and not pink. Whatever, they're pretty close. Well, the magenta severely clashes with the current brown theme of my avatar and sig right now. Truly horrible. It might've been okay with the usual green avatar or multicolored sigs of my past, but brown? Nope. Worst, even the context of my post is chippier than usual. It's like I'm trying to make myself look like a stereotypical female. I don't know if I was mocking the stereotype (because, after all, it was an article on Clickits and Bionicle) or if I was being genuine there. Whatever it was, it is one of those posts that I find truly embarrassing later on. But that's okay, because I have those quite often. (Every other blog entry could even count.) And some good came out of posting in magenta. For one thing, it helped me memorize the tags for colors, which led to me memorizing the tags for URLs, images, fonts, sizes, bold, italic, underline, and other formatting options. Even though the newer formats are a bit more complex, the older ones still work. (I should know, typed in a few already with this blog, and they're working. I hope.) Plus, my crazy colored text led to more than a few gender confusions... although this new evidence may bring into the fact that the actual content of my posts was no better. Nope, I'm male and all that jazz (the new gender statuses cannot lie, right?) I still like the color magenta, and think it's a much better color to write in rather than stuff like pink, orange, or gold, because it is dark enough to read but bright enough to really stand out. Am I going to go on posting sprees with that color? Only when I change the color scheme in my sig and avatar to something else. In other news, I am suffering from writers block, both in fan fiction and English essays on the 1950s. :annoyed2: I'm going to try to put something together for my newest epic that started and then faltered, but no promises. After all, I have one more midterm next week, and then I get sucked into finals. Goodie. This school stuff never ends, does it? On another note, I had to write this entire entry up twice when the Internet crashed when I was about to post it. You'll be sure I'll make a copy in Word first this time, as I will not write it a third time.
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My user name is just long enough to be used in the BZP search engine. That way, whatever topic my name appears in the text can be found. Unfortunately, the blog search system only works by giving you the latest entry with your keyword in it and repeating that entry over three pages. And if you go on Google, you can search for my user name and the first result is another website on which I use the said nickname. Three results down, and you have BZP results. And, strangely enough, you can find my user name on a page in some sort of dictionary site. It doesn't have any definitions, but it looks like somebody searched for a definition of my user name (probably wondering exactly what it's an acronym for) and didn't get anything. Anyway, it's way early in the morning (by this, I mean the sun has not risen yet and won't for another couple of hours, but midnight was a while ago), I have midterms and big assignments due this week, and I'm tired. But this blog entry was so compelling that I had to write it up right now just to prove that I can type while half asleep. And, as another note, this blog entry will not show up for a search of my user name because my user name was never actually used here, and using it in the comments doesn't get you anywhere because the blog search doesn't cover them. So the worst you'd have to do it edit this post, and you can only do that if your staff or know my password. So, you're all otta luck. Now why don't you go try searching for your user name and see how popular you are. (Note, I am not very popular, as half the time the results come from me quoting myself or something along that context)
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I love making fun of the word filter without abusing it. And this one's caught me a couple of times in recent posts. Makes me wonder, if they made one for this, why haven't they made one for "Bionicles" when so many people go out of their mind complaining about it. So, remember, I was the Nobody cares about me. I need attenton so I wanted to be annoying. about the cool dude who made a word filter for LEGO Bricks. Very annoying, as well as the filtered His Excellency (comes when you type in xccj) Currently I should be doing math homework. Why am I blogging?
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In my recent Pohatu Phantoka Nuva review, ChocolateFrogs asked a question concerning the shade of orange used. Well, I tried to PM him the question, but I'm not sure if it made it through. So I recently took a photo, and since I've uploaded it already, why not just make a blog out of it? Any complaints? No? *Can't Hear You* Okay, here we go. Here are some pieces I happen to have in the various shades or orange / yellow. First, we have classic yellow, used on the Throwbot Jet, McToran Jaller, and the Muaka (and a manas too, right?) I don't think it's appeared since, unless you count those Rhutoka spinner rods (I think those were yellow too). Then we have the new shade of yellow, now commonly refered to as Keetongu orange (or keetongu yellow, as it could be called). It is darker shade of yellow, and is a pleasant blend or classic yellow and classic orange, in my humble opinion. However, seeing this color over and over again has made it appear somewhat dull, especially since it replaced brown in the stone sets for a while, but overall tis not bad. But it is very different from either classic yellow or classic orange. Then we have classic orange, in the form of Nuparu's mask. Classic orange has seen its days as a secondary color to Ta sets all the way up to the Toa Nuva. It's also been in the Rahaga sets, a Visorak set, and in other various places I just can't remember at the moment. This color has stayed with us since the beginning, right up there were black, white, blue (now in the form of friction pins), and breakable lime green. But has it changed this year, just as it was becoming a primary color? Well, kind of, but it's hard o tell. The final mask shown is Pohatu Phantoka Nuva's. It's more of a neon orange, a bit brighter or flashier than the original. Is this because the paint is new, or that my Nuparu mask has faded and isn't as shiny as the brand new mold? It's up to you to decide, because I can't, for the life of Mata-Nui, tell exactly what the difference is. Even in the picture above, the difference isn't notable. So this new shade of orange (if it is a new shade... I might just be being picky here) can probably be incorporated in with classic orange without too much disruption... not nearly as bad as when they switched the grays on us. And, of course, we have the Hannah crab, but it just scurried into the picture at the last moment, so it can't really be considered a shade of orange in and of itself. (Or can it? ) Now, go build an MOC in orange! (Or black, red, blue, ext...)
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Here's an idea for an epic... Okay, so I no longer have my own computer. I lost all my stories, although I have some of my Bionicle stories still saved on my home computer... (SoMN) I probably won't get another computer until after x-mas... you know, when they go on sale and such (if there's anything left) Despite my being irresponsible towards the safety of my electronics, I'll probably get lots of it replaced because we are getting insurance money from it. Anyway, when I feel that I need to bash somebody's head opened because I'm soooooo angry (like at the people who ripped me off) I find I write some pretty good stuff. Short Story Contest #4 was a good way to get me back on the key board, but if I want to write an epic, I want to do something different... maybe something that'll grab in a few new reviewers besides the... uh, few that I have. (I think I can count them all on one hand). (And when I say reviewers, I mean people who read my stories and then reply. ) So, here's an idea. I'll start on a story with only a brief plan of what to do. There'll be a basic goal the whole time, and a few basic characters. But at the end of each chapter, I'll ask a question regarding future plot, such as who wins a fight, where do they travel next, or maybe some characteristic of a new character introduced. The questions will be multiple choice, so the answers don't get way out there. Then, after each chapter, before I start the next one, I'll let reviewers answer the questions, and whichever answer is the most popular is the one I'll use for the story. So, this has a few drawbacks. Obviously it won't be well planned out, and will be alot of improvision on the spot. Foreshadowing will be minimal, since I cannot always tell what an audience will choose. Also, there'd be large time gaps between chapters as I would write each new one in sequence, so things like real life might stall me at times. And, worst, the whole thing might flop if I never get any reviews. So here's my question to you now... if I start writing an epic like this, can I count on anybody to periodically stop by and read / review the story? The magic of this idea is that the reviewers would help push along the story too, and I would use my creativity to come up with ways to mix in their choices and come out with an entertaining story. But if nobody's really interested... there's no use for me to waste my time. So, opinions on the idea? Likey? No likey? This isn't a contract... I understand people might be interested but end upnever having time to look at it. But, hey, I'm throwing this out there. Maybe it's just a way to convince more people to head down to the library topics and read my work. I also just want to write something. So, coments are welcomed. And if this does get a go-ahead, I will be able to start it over Christmas break on my family's computer.
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I was struck by random inspiration in the S&T forum to write a comedy taking a completely random and ironic look at an unknown side story in a way that would explain it all. I had a really funny idea, and I even wrote it out, with a few side jokes and rule of three gag going along the the overall ironic circumstance. Then I realized the humor I was using was inappropriate. (My humor has gotten more inappropriate since I began hanging out with certain people at the university). So I bagged the whole comedy, because I couldn't find a way to make it work otherwise. But now I still want to write a comedy. I have one idea that's been on the back burner for a while. It may involve lots of Po-Matoran and fruit. I seem to remember having a couple other ideas on the back burner along with that one, but they've apparently burned away and I can't find them / remember them. So maybe that's something for Christmas / winter break. I have finals in 7 hours, and I need sleep. Bye.
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This was prompted by CF in my last entry, so as I promised I'm going to go off the deep end on this one. (Considering I wasn't in the deep end already... but I'm diving down some more) Okay, I like bicycling as much as the next person. It's a great way to get from point A to point B very quickly... especially if its a long distance. It gives you a workout... especially going uphill. The initial reason I didn't bring my bike with me is because... well, my bike has some defects. Shocks on the front aren't so good, gears are kinda rusty, breaks don't work. Period. I've been reminded about that the hard way a few times. It's not to say I don't like the bike... it's wicked red and I've been in more accidents on it than I can count (once even broke a few bones). Basically, riding that bike has given me plenty of paranoia about driving a car. But not that I've been a pedestrian on campus for a few months... I loathe the people on bikes. Sure, bikes move faster than walking. But they don't go up stairs or do well in crowds. Unfortunately, that's what most of the campus pathways are like. You got crowds of people walking on this concrete walkways in between classes, turning corners, climbing stairs, and all the such. That's not accounting for traffic lights and street crossings to get to the building on the edge of the campus. The conditions aren't that bad for an able-minded pedestrian... but bicyclist seem to think the paths are for them too. And they're always in a rush, and woe to the pedestrian that gets in their way. In between classes, you have people zooming around through crowds on their bikes, getting to their urgent appointment or whatever. Thus, to be able to avoid any crashes, the pedestrians have to get out of the way of the bicyclists. After having numerously dodged aside from a bicyclist who seems to think they're the only important person on the path, I have developed a strong disliking for them. I'm not against all bikers... just the ones who use the pedestrian paths and thus demand room as they zoom by. I respect the bikers who use the bike path and actual roads... sometimes the bicyclists are going as fast as the cars, or faster. But those on the paths around campus who think they own the place... uhg. My fuse is burning short. However, this is not a one sided battle. Pedestrian vs car... it doesn't matter who made the wrong move, the car always wins. But the bikers don't have such an advantage. The reason everybody has to dodge is so the bikers don't crash into them. Sure, it would suck to be the pedestrian who got mauled bike a biker, but bikers can get damaged pretty well too if they're thrown over their handlebars. (Curse thy mailboxes). So if there's a collision, the biker and pedestrian both come off on the bad side of things. Thus I now have to hold back a strong desire to throw a stick through the tires of the bikes that cut me off, and then watch as the rushed bicyclist hits the ground hard. Woe if he isn't wearing a helmet. (I'm hit my head a fair share of times, but never in a bicycle accident. Wear your helmets, kids!) So I don't want to bring a bike to school for a few reasons. A: I don't want to deal with a new piece of equipment that I have to look after. If I get a bike, it'll be a new bike, and probably something I'll need to keep in a secure place at all times to make sure it doesn't get stolen. B: The trip between point A and point B might be faster, but I can rush into class with my bike, now can I? So I thus have to lock up my bikes at point B, which takes time. Since I am always running late for some reason or another, I prefer just walking than to deal with that delay. (The quicker I can travel will just mean the later I'd leave, so it would never work out). And C: I don't want to be a hypocrite. I live on campus, my classes are on campus, and I can easily walk to them. I find the obstacles between point A and point B for me are best dealt with as a pedestrian. If I were commuting a mile to the campus everyday, I might have other thoughts, but in my current situation, a bike would just e overkill. The same argument can be made for skateboarders. My ideal attack for a skateboarder involves clothes-lining him as his zips by. I still don't quite understand what my motivation for such action would be, but I think it would be cool to write about in a story. If you think I have an overly violent mind... well, you wanna make something of it punk. (Don't call my bluff) BTW, story wise, my entry to SS Contest 4 is nearly halfway done, but already at about 3500 words. It's looking cool, but it might be too long. Then again, I always use a lot of dialogue, so that'll make it seem even longer. Plus I'm even including moral! Anybody want to further guess the five Matoran I'm using with Takua. Hint: They only represent 4 Koros and there aren't any females.
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» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «RIP Kongu. You now have to look like that forever. You can bury yourself in the mud now. Why, what did you think this entry would be about?
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Are you saying there's something wrong with my weapon choice? I'm just saying this duel may be unfair...
