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I just got a phonecall from an Indian person apparently from the Department of Public Prosecution saying I defrauded the government of over $5k between 2008 and 2013, during which time I studied at high school for 1 year and TAFE for 5 years, and never had a job, and since said time I've had a police check for a job application and that was cleared. He said that unless I agreed to some compromise, I would be arrested by police half an hour later, and then jailed for 5 years. That was over half an hour ago and I'm still here. Clearly it was a scam. But he proved he knows my home address, and that distresses me the most.
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This is Charlie, a Machop who lives in a Glittering Cave on Mont Blanc, in France. He came down to Paris to pay his respects to the human journalists and cartoonists who were murdered by terrorists this week. He may be a Fighting-type, but he knows better than to murder for no good reason, making him more mature than any terrorist. He is also smart enough to know that the pen is mightier than the sword (or in this case gun). A friendly local salesperson gave him a necklace with the peace symbol, and taught him the peace sign, ergo the appearance of both above. I apologise in advance if the image is too controversial to post here, and will remove it at a moment's notice if need be. And yes I noticed I drew Machop's right hand the wrong way. I apologise for that too.
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"The hunter is nothing without the hunted." With the campaign to bring back Bionicle just about over, one would think that an addict like me would be all but lost in what do do with my life other than just buying Bionicle sets like anyone else. Actually, my campaign will continue, albeit much quieter. My aim now will be to keep Bionicle back until at least mid-2016, which would see Bionicle back for a year and a half, bridging the gap between its initial ending in 2010 and the end of its 10th anniversary in 2011. In addition, I have other goals I can now fully focus on: (However these may be considered political; I will understand if the admins wish to remove the second half of this entry) While other Bionicle fans turned to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, I rediscovered my childhood love of trains, and that reshaped my future. I've even gone as far as to design a brand new railway line for my local area. Although said railway line started out as a personal project, I've gone as far as to propose it to the powers that be in hopes of making it a reality, because I realise it can work VERY well! Unfortunately, those same powers that be would rather build roads than railway lines, and I've become one of many people in my state fighting them in order to stop a particularly expensive road and have its money spent on railway lines statewide. In addition, I need a job. I've been job-seeking for a year now, and with a looming jobs crisis (especially in my age group), I am a VERY long way from getting one, and there's also the chance that I may NEVER get a job! I am hoping to use the aforementioned railway line design as a portfolio in order to get a job as a transport planner, and the proposal as a way to sell myself and my natural creative skills. So despite Bionicle coming back, I am still very busy. Its return simply means I now have more time to focus on my other goal(s).
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What do you give the birthday boy who has everything?
Makuta_of_Oz posted a blog entry in blogs_blog_1719
$90 AUD and a drawing pad. That's what I got for my birthday today. I may amend this post with more if I get anything else. -
Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13, and I suffer from it. This is because I suffer from being stalked by the number 13. Everywhere I look, the number 13 appears. EVERYWHERE! Even when I used an online random number generator to find my Spirit Pokémon, the number I got was 13! THAT was the biggest sign of all of my 13-based bad luck! I have 13 pages of blog entries on BZPower too, which I don't like. EDIT: this entry, ironically, makes it 14 pages! Good riddance!
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and I already feel relaxed!
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My Assignment: Create an Unreal Tournament level!
Makuta_of_Oz posted a blog entry in blogs_blog_1719
That's right, an assignment I just got requires me to create a level on Unreal Tournament's Unreal Development Kit! I need to make a simple 1v1 DeathMatch map. "Simple" means no skins or backgrounds at this stage, but I might get them later on my own. The map I'm making will be inspired by Bionicle's Karda Nui. Players will fly around upside-down cones (stalactite villages) on Cicada vehicles (Rockoh/Jetrax). One cone will have a cave (Mutran's lab) which will contain a few good powerups, but (if possible) the wall above the cave entrance can be shot, causing a cave-in, and unless the player inside the cave can shoot his way out in time, he'll suffocate. At this stage there'll be no Codrex, but I might add one later on my own. I'm also undecided at this stage whether the swamp floor will contain poisonous water or a kill level (ie. you die if you fall down to a certain level). It'll probably be the latter because it's meant to be simple. -
The Carbon Tax has hit Australia. We are now being taxed for breathing! Watch as life becomes completely unsustainable in Australia. Watch as all our companies are crushed by the added burden. Watch as Julia Gillard laughs her tyrannic head off as the money comes in, not caring about the 20 million PEASANTS (because that is how she sees us) that are going through poverty because of her.
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I now have 4 weeks off TAFE, which gives me plenty of time to do some train trips around the Melbourne metropolitan area! I plan to go from Caulfield to Pakenham by diesel train because I can, even though electric trains terminate there. This is unique to Pakenham: you cannot travel between the city and any other terminus by diesel. I also plan to travel the shuttle service between Newport and Williamstown. It will likely be the last time I'll see 3-carriage electric trains, which run on the Alamein shuttle line, and probably will at Williamstown too. The rest of the electric railway uses 6-carriage trains. Might visit the Newport Workshops while I'm there too. I could also travel the Sydenham line. a diesel service branches off at a station on that line and I want to see if the automated marquee on each train says something about it. A new station called South Morang has been created beyond Epping since my last visit there. Might have a look at that too. Also, I might take a few trips down some tourist railways, and to the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre. First and foremost I need to top up my Myki card!
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I just noticed we can add "entry images". I might have to do that later so I have proof. So, yesterday I went on yet another meetup with some friends from my Pokémon family, to attend a Trading Card Game Battle Roads in Geelong. I had to travel from one end of Port Phillip Bay to the other, so I got up very early. On the way to the station I saw a possum! Even though I live in Australia, possums are nonetheless a very rare sight, especially in my area! When I got to Southern Cross station, I purchased a V/Line ticket... we were going to take a diesel train the rest of the way! I met three of my friends there a while later, and helped them purchase their tickets. On the train to Geelong, I talked to the conductor on board, and he told me about the employment process for the job, and what a conductor does. It turns out conductors, not drivers, are the ones in charge of announcements over the PA system on diesel trains. Also, the employment process is a lot lengthier than I thought. I have to apply, then take an aptitude test (this is where I'm up to), do an interview in front of four people, do ANOTHER aptitude test, and then do another interview! Even after all that, I'd go on a waiting list, and I wouldn't actually start work until next year! Registration costs $5 AUD. When we got there and went to register, I decided to pay with my debit card. However, I needed to take out at least $8 AUD to use it. To that end, I decided to look through the individual cards the venue had on sale. After finding nothing of interest, I decided instead to purchase a Next Destinies booster pack. When I opened it, one of the cards I pulled was one of the rarest in the series: a differently-coloured Zoroark! One of my friends wouldn't leave me alone for the rest of the day trying to get it off me! Apparently that card costs $25 AUD because of its rarity and power in duels! I went into the tournament not using my Eeveelutions deck, which I had scrapped, but with a s###### Durant deck. I was able to win 2 matches, beating my personal best! I came 13th in my division (a minor setback for a triskaidecaphobic :/), which was one of the best among my friends! I later got a Dark Explorers booster as a participation prize. I opened it, and... shock horror... a Groudon EX fell out! TWO RARE CARDS FROM TWO BOOSTERS! That's not gonna happen again! Even though Groudon EX is only worth $8 AUD, it was the card the same friend wanted the most, more than Zoroark! He was upset that everyone around him was pulling it except him! Naturally, he asked to trade me for it, and I agreed because I had no use for the card because I'm a battler, not a collector. In exchange, I got 2 Revives, a Crushing Hammer and $5 AUD, as well as a pledge that he'd get me an Enhanced Hammer. These are cards that I can use to improve my already surprisingly good Durant deck. A larger group of us, about 7, then went home together on another diesel train. All in all, a brilliant day! EDIT: Just looking through my old entries, I found a comment from SPIRIT saying that I had used up all the luck in my life. He was wrong.
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They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the year's condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them.
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I'm scared!
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I recently found that I literally have an addiction to the Internet. I've heard that such an addiction is as bad as various other well-known addictions (none of which can be mentioned here), and from my experience I say it's true. My addiction has been having an effect on my entire life, from my social life, to my study life, to my financial life, to my personal life and even my overall work ethic! In other words, my addiction has made me lazy. My addiction started two years ago, with online chat. When I first started going on it I was unhealthily hooked right away! Immediately I found that I would rather go on chat than do anything else, and that meant ANYTHING! I would even go on chat while watching TV, a problem that continues to this day! Nowadays I can no longer be bothered to do anything but sit down and go on chat and other Internet sites. Even things like shopping on eBay or trading on our very own B/S/T is seen to take too much effort! As you've probably noticed, I can barely even be bothered to update my blog anymore either! In fact, when the recent Pokemon tournament last January came, I couldn't even be bothered to make a new team! All of my Pokemon except Hitmontop were imported! THAT was a MASSIVE sign of how low I had sunk! These days, the only things that are able to tear me off my laptop are TAFE (and even then I spend more time online than actually listening to the instructor), train trips and meetups with Pokemon Melbourne. However I have begun to realise my addiction and fight against it. I'm now trying to limit the time I spend online, and try and focus on other projects. So far I've finished a Warcraft novel and will soon start another, and I've almost completed a Bionicle drawing. I know I have a way to go, but it's certainly a start.
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Wow. Wow. I feel old. When I was a kid in Boy Scouts, we used just used compasses. GPSes didn't even exist. I feel SO. OLD. Anyway I'd like to see bassist and drummer figs so I could make a complete band. Source: Collectable Minifigures You Want To See Was expecting him to say "Guitarist"! Or do we have one of those already? That makes two of us. This old fart didn't even KNOW today's Scouts used GPSes! I bet the group I was in doesn't!
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Today I had chips for lunch. Afterwards I got sick with stomach cramps! THAT'S RIGHT, I OF ALL PEOPLE GOT SICK!!!!! I was forced to return home and rest because I couldn't focus. I'm much better now, but I want to rest the rest of the day and reduce stress. So please, no "Bionicle is dead" nonsense for now.
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As all of you know, I am insane. However, despite being eccentric and immature my entire life, my personality as a child is nothing like it is now. Something happened around the time I reached adulthood, which started my downward spiral. When I was in Year 12, I was the most popular student at my high school. Everyone, students and staff alike, loved me, and I was happy. I also did Scouts for 12 years, finishing that same year, where I was never happy. After I graduated from high school in November 2008, my sole focus shifted entirely to Scouts. As I stated in a previous entry, my group's leader was cruel. One of the biggest bullies I had to deal with. I don't know what I did wrong, but she started trying everything in her power to keep me from getting y Queen's Scout, one of the highest awards in Scouts. She would pile on work, she would tell lies about requirements for getting the award, and she all-in-all was a total (you get it. She was a bully). She failed, and I got the award. However, her antics hardened me. I became cold-hearted, I became horribly stubborn (believing that if I could stop a tyrant like her and get my Queen's Scout, I could do anything), and my whinging worsened tenfold. I became but a shadow of my former self. When I started TAFE, I took my cold-hearted self with me, including my whinging. That whinging made me an outcast, and I was bullied by my peers because of it. Because of this, not only was I unable to recover for a whole year, but I got worse. I became colder, and my self-esteem hit rock bottom. I sincerely wanted to tell the bullies why I was how I was, that I hadn't always been like that, but they had set me on ignore irl. They ignored nearly everything I said, even when I was trying to be nice to them, and they pretty much completely pretended I didn't exist. A day when they spoke to me, even when it was abusive, was a good day. That year, the Pokemon Video Game World Championship series began, and Australia wasn't invited. Because of my new stubborn streak, I decided to challenge The Pokemon Company International about why we were, as I put it even then, banned from participating. They told me it was because it was still in its early years, and that Australia might be invited next year (making me the very first fan to find out about 2010's championships). After finally being told the latter after continuing to challenge what I was told, I finally backed down. In the end though, I had failed. Australia was not invited, and has still never been invited since. In fact, we got NOTHING for three years, until we got four local tournaments last year. After the incident, the acronym "VGC" (short for Video Game Championships) became a swearword to me. By the end of the year I had practically reached the point of no return. And then LEGO made their infamous Announcement. THAT was the straw that broke the Kikanalo's back. As a result, to this day, LEGO has been forced to feel the wrath of a victim of deep corruption. The emotional damage caused by my Scout Group leader and the TAFE bullies will never fully go away. However, if LEGO brings back Bionicle, I can finally begin to TRULY recover from my emotional scars. Even if they said it wasn't going to come back until, say, 2020, I would still begin to recover, because then I'd know when it would return, and I'd truly have something I can look forward to.
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All over the Internet, I see nearly everyone using wrong grammar. Because so many people are doing it wrong, I've started thinking: maybe I am the stupid one! Maybe I'M the one who's doing it wrong! Take a look at this older entry. Are the definitions of each word described in that entry wrong??
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So I attended the Pokemon TCG State Championships yesterday. It turns out the format was a ladder, not an Elimination like the VGCs, so I was unable to visit my nan at all. It gets worse. I lost EVERY match I was in. My only true achievement was the fact that I was able to knock out a Mewtwo EX, the most powerful, versatile and BROKEN card available! If I compete next year, I hope to use a colourless deck. Mewtwo EX's versatility means I may end up using 4 of them too (if there's one thing I learned at that tournament, it's that you must have 4 Mewtwo EXs just to have a chance at winning). I have the next year to learn, prepare and build. But will that be enough time to become competent?
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The Pokémon Trading Card Game State Championships will be coming to Victoria this Sunday, and I'll be going! The bad news is that my nan's birthday is coming on exactly the same day! Selfishly, I decided to go to the championships so the deck I built doesn't go to waste after the coming rotation. However, if I lose early enough (which I probably will, since this is a newb's deck), I will leave the venue immediately to see nan.
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Scouts was mentioned in my last blog entry, once again prompting me to express my always-controversial opinion. I was in Scouts for 12 years, in a group called 1st North Frankston. It was horrible. I was forced into camps I didn't want to go on, I and others were treated like peasants by our tyrant of a group leader, called Maroa Pedlar, and that same leader literally tried to do everything in her power to keep me from getting my Queen's Scout! While she failed to stop me from getting it, she did permanently scar me, worsening my whinging ("complaining" in America's tongue) tenfold, which directly led to me getting bullied when I started TAFE, and just plain hardening my heart. Basically she undid everything I was supposed to develop in Scouts. Even though I have since mostly recovered despite a nightmarish 2009, I am but a shadow of my former self (and I was here in 2008 before it TRULY started, in case anyone noticed the change). What did I do wrong? I have no idea. APPARENTLY I got punished because my mother got on Maroa's bad side, as if I caused it. The seeming fact that I did nothing wrong to deserve what I got proves that she was a bully at best. The moment she quits for whatever reason is the moment the group can finally become competent, assuming it doesn't die first. From what I've heard, her tyrrany has continued after I quit, and she has moved on to other victims. I know there are BZPers out there that do Scouts atm. Just take this entry as what group and leader to avoid.
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...since my grandmother died. My grandmother was a semi-famous poet, who at one point had her own poetry segment on radio station 3AW. She was even on TV once! She was the sister of famous author Frank Hardy and former queen of Australian television Mary Hardy. I wrote a poem of my own about her for her funeral last year, which I will share here:
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No, this does not have anything to do with ponies, this is to do with real life. When I started my TAFE course, I was scared I wouldn't get along with the other people in my group. Thankfully, I was wrong. My classmates are very friendly and tight-knit; maybe not as much as that local Pokémon group I can no longer name, but close. I hope it will add to the enjoyment I hope to have in this course. However, I am nervous. I've noticed a pattern in my life. If I have a really good year, it is immediately followed by a horrible year. It has happened twice before (and in one case included a certain Announcement), and I'm scared it may happen again.
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At last, I started my TAFE course! When I got to TAFE, it was so early that the campus was still closed! That's the last time I get up at 6am! My first class was Programming. We were simply introduced to the TAFE's online work delivery system, moodle. We also had to start a blog. I decided no to use this one because I felt the instructor may think I'm not taking the course seriously if I did. No offence. Our second class was Game Design. We didn't do much, but the instructor did talk about his career, including the fact that he helped create the original Team Fortress game! We found him to be a lot of fun! Our last class was IT Work Environment, the compulsory OH&S class. The instructor there also had a lot of personality, which added fun to a normally boring class. The only homework we got all day was to take a photo of our workplace. I was able to do that before dinner despite getting home at 6pm!
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...I'm a happy single, and I don't want to get married. My apparent relationship with Waffles and (I think) BioGio doesn't even extend outside BZPower!
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...before I start what promises to be my most fun TAFE course yet! Before you start, TAFE = Technical And Further Education. It's kind of a Uni with more hands-on work.