I'm sick of being treated the way I am, I'm tired of the arguments, and I'm tired of my overall mopey depression. I bring most of this on myself, and I said "most" because I will not blame everything on me, that just contributes to my depression. So if you guys go off to say "You did everything and its all your fault" you're just making this happen.

As far as I know, my immaturity cannot be changed. Maturity is natural, and we all mature eventually. It cannot be forced, and we all know this. I'm sorry that this is the way it has to be, but you just have to welcome my immaturity until I can change and become a better, more formal person.

I'm not going to run away this time. Last time I did that nothing changed and I disappointed many people. Running away will also result in me losing experience with RRU, and everything will just happen all over again. Instead, I'm just going to stay here, and I'll keep trying to fix myself until I succeed.

I am done being mopey. My mopeyness is probably one of the worst parts about my personality, and I'm sick of it. It increases my depression, and it just makes me feel worse, and hate people more. Honestly I'm sure people like Le are done dealing with this, and are sick of patting me on the back trying to make me feel better, when I just turn around and act all mopey again.

I'm going to try my best to not take what people say on here to heart. Most of my reasons for arguing, getting upset, or just flaming in general is because I take what people say on the internet as a true offense, and in response I hit back and the result is a massive flamewar. I'm done with that. If I find something really offensive, or I feel that people are overwhelming me, I just won't reply.

I'm also not going to express my personal beliefs, position on politics, or anything else. This usually starts up flamewars, and as any sensible person on the internet knows, that's a bad thing. If someone acting blind and foolish discusses the above, I'll simply leave the chatroom.

I'm also going to keep the "Global Forum Rules" tab open at all times, and I'll also check my message before I post it, and yes, I usually don't do the latter; it's a bad habit of mine.

I'm sorry for all the trouble I stirred up in the past and my rude and flawed behavior. I'd say some things about how some people on RRU should change and start following the rules, but let's face it, RRU will never change, regardless if it's flawed or not, so I guess I'll just have to do the changing.

P.S. I'm also probably going to avoid RRU most of the time but that's just a side thing.

So after much turmoil, stress and pain, I have hopes that I'll be able to find peace here again. Two years of flaming and suffering, I think things are looking up to me again.

I decided that, it would be best to reintroduce myself. My intro topic wasn't very informal in the first place anyway, so here I go...

Hi, I'm MaelstromIslander, also known as King Kahuka on Brickimedia and Wikia, Bazooka Hawkrider on Steam, TheEnderdragon59 on ROBLOX and simply Enderdragon59 on Minecraft. But you can just call me "Mael".

I coined the name MaelstromIslander as a failed attempt to fit into the community. Honestly, I don't really care about fitting into the community anymore, and I'm able to respect my own opinions now.

I'm a bit on the immature side, or I'm just stupid. Perhaps both, who knows.

As my name states, I am, or at least was, an Islanders fan. I'm a fan of LEGO Pirates as a whole now, including LEGO Space and LEGO Castle, as I grew up with those themes. I grew up with LEGO among other things, like most people would.

LEGO and... Video games. Yes, I played with toys more, but I still knew about Video Games. Believe it or not, I grew up with Plug'n'Play, oh yes the obscure Plug'n'Plays... Looking back, I assume it was a SEGA product, as all the games were by SEGA.

I didn't play games very much though, I mostly watched people play them. Especially Ecco the Dolphin, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Alex Kidd.
Those three were probably the hardest, for several reasons: Ecco is meant to be very hard on purpose, and Sonic 2 features the infamous pink lemonade of death. I can't remember why we couldn't beat Alex Kidd, I think it was these cars that would constantly run you over or something.
I've always had vague memories of getting past Chemical Plant Zone in Sonic 2; I remembered some sort of stormy dock, and a grassy, vast plain with ruins. After buying Sonic 2 on Xbox 360, I realized the dock was actually a mine, and the grassy plain was actually Aquatic Ruin Zone.

Anyway, before I go on to explain my entire experience with old Sonic games, I'll explain the real stuff:

The first ever LEGO game I knew of was LEGO Racers, and man did Basil scare me. I witnessed my father play through the game, sadly he was unable to get past Rocket Racer (Or gypsy, I can't remember) so that was a bit of a pain.

Quite a few years later, we bought LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga. I was fascinated with it, and me and my brothers played at all the time. Of course, we were able to beat it, get most of the minikits, but we weren't able to beat the Time Attack thing. I don't really have the sour feelings most of you guys have over the TT Games, as I grew up with them, and it proved to be quite the challenge for me.

After that, we attempted to collect all the TT Games. One of the things I found really annoying was that in LEGO Indiana Jones the game would freeze a lot with a "BEEEEEEEEEP", due to overheating. One of the things I found really fun however, was that in LEGO Batman, you could constantly clone Robin and Nightwing indeffinetely!

I then fell for the MMORPGs. I played Runescape sometimes, but what really caught all of our attention was Wizard101. Sadly, I fell victim to the community, who turned me into a blundering bafoon who said "wt" instead of "what". Only now I realized that the community was actually ROBLOX Online Daters who migrated to Wizard101 because they were pushed out by ROBLOX's community.

Wizard101 was the start of me getting into the Internet. I eventually discovered Brickipedia, the LEGO Enyclopedia. After a long while of lurking all over the wiki for the LEGO Racers characters, I decided to join the wiki.

I was playing Minecraft simultaneously at this time, so the idiotic community of THAT place poisoned me, turning me into a terrible person who would curse and swear at anyone who disagreed with me. When I fell for the fan-made "Blacktron III" and everyone on Brickimedia told me it wasn't real, I reacted the same way I did on Minecraft.

I was able to clear everything up even though I got a warning on my first day. Several blocks, warnings, chat kicks, chat blocks... I was a bully. Most of you would say I still am a bully, but I'm not as bad as I used to be, trust me.

At my side was DarthShlomo, my best friend on Brickipedia, and his brother JahChildren. Although they were more positive, happy, cheerful, and nice, I was cold, violent, and a huge jerk. Against me, was The Rainbow Dasher; She's basically The Ace Railgun but instead of anime being her fandom, she was a brony.

I constantly boycotted her love for MLP, and I hated on anyone who like anime. I was constantly being kicked by her, but at times it was for stupid reasons. Y'know how Someswedish likes to go around saying he's a dragon, and how I like to go around saying I'm a stromling?
Well, she had a problem with that. I used to go around saying I was a Blacktronian Commander, but apparently roleplay was... Against the rules? I have no idea, she made no sense, she was a terrible chat moderator, and she was a hypocrite. She kept saying she was a pony and SOMEHOW that was okay for her, because, y'know, she's a chatmod.

Apart from her, the other staff were constantly trying to get me to mature and fix my behavior. Trust me, even though I spammed tons of "I'm Sorry" posts and turned around and screwed up again, I was maturing, even though it was a slow process.

Eventually, The Rainbow Dasher warned me that one more slip-up and she'd block me forever. Unluckily for her, I was introduced to Brickimedia. ToaMeiko told me that we were moving to a new site because of Wikia's annoying advertisements and some other things among that.
We were preparing to fork, but sadly most of my closest friends wanted to stay behind. Not Jah or Shlomo, but just some other friends. I was dissapointed that they stayed behind, but I forked over to Brickimedia anyway.

Oh yeah, by the way... I was a slacker on Brickipedia. I didn't edit unless I absolutely had to, and sometimes I'd post fanfic into some character's pages, including Basil. Thankfully they reverted it. I also didn't know what plaguerism was, so I constantly posted artwork and MOCs that weren't mine on my userpage.

Anyway, by the time I reached brickimedia, I matured to what I am today. We'd chat, but unlike RRU, they'd just post nonsense, and were pretty much a less-mature Rock Raiders United. I wasn't very happy there, so I decided to look for a new place to go.

Then, I remembered (or jamesster just sent it to me, I can't remember) that Jamesster sent me a message about a mod for LEGO Racers that adds in classic LEGO Space astronauts, and yes, I'm talking about the mod RobExplorien made. I then discovered Rock Raiders United, and learned a bit more about LEGO Island (I had no clue what it was at the time, and dismissed it as stupid back on Brickipedia) and I learned how cool it was, including the other games.

Eventually, after several weeks (or months) of lurking, I decided to do what I did on Brickipedia, and join. On that day, April 1st 2014, I did something similar to what I did on Brickipedia: Yeah, thats right, I screwed up.

It wasn't that bad as they exaggerated it to be though. I couldn't find any sort of "you must have XXX posts to join" in the OP, so I was surprised to see everyone stacking up and beating up on me. I still have a problem with how toxic this community is, and when you single out members for one screw up, it really disturbs me. I'm sure it was probably in the link, but I didn't want to click a link to another site, so its not completely my fault. Saying "I hope you can read because you sure didn't read the MC Server rules" does not make me look at this community in a positive light.
Xiron was technically my first friend, as he cleared up the whole minecraft server situation.

Anyway, here I am now. I play several video games, some infected with CoD kids, some with fanbases that are like CoD kids that are possibly worse, and some that were cool when they started but now they've grown into this massive insanity full of OCs, bad fanfics, shipping, and spikey furball eternal doom that I try to forget even existed, so I play the older games.

Oh yeah and I'll play ROBLOX sometimes, but being, y'know, full of idiots, its hard to enjoy it.

So... Yeah, thats really all I have to say here. Hi.

So, i'm sure you've all heard about some sort of "top-secret project" me and ben were working on. I would hint it in the chat, and honestly i didn't exactly do a good job in hiding it as the hype was too much for me to contain. Well, i'm going to tell you all about this "project" in this blog post.

It all started on the 22nd of December in 2014 when Art Battle was still a thing. I had been sculpting in ark out of Art Battle, turning it into a story with the help of the other contributors (Fush didn't like it though, as it was straying away from the original formula of Art Battle). As ben was the user i decided to put an emphasis on in my comics (he was basically the protagonist really, which didn't make much sense as there isn't supposed to be a protagonist in Art Battle; Everyone is an antagonist) i decided to ask him for help with the creation of this story arc by sending him a simple message where i told him i was thinking about creating two, also protagonist-like characters named Jen (a feminine clone of Ben who was the head of Thundercorp's cloning department) and ROSS, the Robotical Operative Synthetic Scientist. (an A.I. working in the science labs who was slightly insane but still stable)

Eventually, we started fleshing out the characters and made the first comic featuring Jen, but it wasn't elaborated very far and was one of the last comics on Art Battle IIRC.

Ross, however, never got his own appearance in Art Battle and forever remained a piece of concept art.

As we started working further, i started working more and more on the "hero's journey" and the furthest we had ever gotten was when Ben goes down into the cloning pits and Joe, that stick-figure guy who kept screwing up in the beginning of the second art battle, saves him and blah blah blah.

Around Christmas art battle eventually fell apart and i decided to cancel the ideas. Before i did that, i was thinking about making a game/spin-off that would explain some of the outside parts of thundercorp but that didn't work out either (obviously).

Even though art battle died, i was haunted by great, juicy ideas but i had no idea what to use them for. Eventually i couldn't help myself and sent another private message to Ben titled "Meh, i guess it doesn't deserve to die"

I've been thinking about reviving Thundercorp into a stand-alone comic. With it not being continued off art battle (because its dead apparently) and not only that, if we don't revive it, there is going to be a lot of confusion.

 

Because i've been saving ROSS, the First Ben Clone, and Jen for future comics (For instance, stupidity comics (possibly, the RRU based stupidity comics died) or something else.) But the only issue with that is they'd be somehow not in the Thundercorp Dimension and the Thundercorp Dimension is basically frozen in time and space beyond the dimensional reality of thoughts and conspiracy.

 

Not only that, even Fund-Our-Corp is still active while Thundy is just... Frozen. Absolutely inactive. So i'm going to ask you if you'd like to help me create a comic series branching OFF of art battle so that i can actually explain some dang story.

 

Still, to this day even I don't know why art battle imploded.

 

If the answer is "No" that would be the obvious answer and the one i'm expecting because you're obviously busy with other projects.

 

And SFM.

 

But if the answer is "Yes", i should get to work and actually improve Snipe Clone or whatever his name is. That Barrette rifle needs a bit more work.

 

I don't want Thundercorp to die this horrible death. Like you said before, its an interesting plot element.

 

 

We then decided each-other's roles: I'd write the script, and he'd draw the comics.

The script wasn't very good at first because anything involving ayliffe putting on sunglasses with explosions in the back ground with his arms flinging all over the place and a canister of banana pudding flipping all over the panel is completely ridiculous.

I had started working on concept art for thundercorp vehicles, specifically the "GU-909 Prototype", "SU-4079 Dark Demolisher" (parody of the chrome crusher), and the "AU-4910 Lightning Scout" (parody of the hover scout). And Astro-Space-Guy, my real life best friend, provided concept art of the alternates, specifically Dark-Matter-Guy, and Some-Polish. We were also thinking about making the comics far more "HD" than the previous comics in Art-Battle, but i didn't exactly like the idea due to taking a very long time to create.

When JimbobJeffer's project, "Let's Make A Game" came, we had to put the project on hold which caused it to take longer. Afterwards, i took a look at our progress and all we had were three panels.

I then came up with another idea: It wasn't very realistic that thundercorp was this super-company that ruled the whole world, so i decided to make other companies and factions, which lead to Cyrus Industries, a company which produced and made the equipment for RRU and the Rock-Raiders. My idea for their soldiers were "perfected" Fund-Our-Corp drones who didn't speak, disobey orders, and were completely "dumb" and lacked A.I., and were referred to as "Hollow-Men" by Thundercorp soldiers.

We also had ideas for two more Thundercorp Alternates, which were known as "Xiton" and an unnamed Mumboking alternate, but the two had no actual concept art and were mere ideas.

As i realized more and more how ridiculous Thundercorp being the only involved company was, i decided to create more companies (my computer was unavailable at the time and so i had to draw the whole list in real life). While i was doing this, things were starting to fall apart, and Ben was unable to work on the comic enough, so i decided to ask Someswedish. However, Someswedish said he'd probably do it later on in time, but i lost contact with him and when my departure occured, the whole thing was falling through.

I wanted to announce it in August of 2015, but that never happened. However, we were still throwing around ideas (and ben had an idea of having LairofRockwhales as a Gman-esque character.) After i returned to RRU, on the 5th of August, one last idea was thrown, which was ben proposing to redraw Jen.

Finally, on Wednesday, 3:15 PM, i decided to ping Ben. He replied to me that he was unable to do the comic anymore.

I'm sorry, but I think I might as well give up on this;

I'm lazy, I don't like the stress of an unfinished project which I usually get unwillingly reminded about, and when a project becomes repetitive (drawing after drawing, in this case) I lose interest...

I'll post the strip in it's current process when I can get access to the iPad to access the latest panels I haven't sent to my computer yet...

...Sorry...

...your idea wasn't terrible in any way, nor was I not interested at the start, but I'm not really the most reliable when it comes to commissioned projects.

 

And i replied with this:

1. Yes, you're lazy, but thats not a problem: Projects take a lot of time and it just happens. I'm lazy too, really.

2. Why stress? Again, projects take a lot of time and you don't need to stress yourself out about it. If its unfinished, its unfinished.

3. It wasn't like i wasn't expecting you to lose interest: As a matter of fact, i was believing you would leave before i did (but i started to lose interest as well after a while)

4. It was actually quite terrible at the beginning i must admit but what you think is fine. Maybe Art Battle 2 was just never meant to be finished.

Maybe someone someday will approach either me or you about this and people will know: This is like unused content, really. We wanted to do something but we didn't have the time to work on it and it failed. This is natural for projects, especially ones that were hidden for a while.

I might make a blog all about this project, maybe. It wouldn't be a bad idea to let people know about what was happening and why i was talking about a top-secret project.

Who knows, we might get a new artist after i post the blog.

I could try starting a new project and we could bag in the whole comic idea. We're just not there yet and not ready for picture media.

If i have the time i could try starting another project, specifically, that blacktron fanfic thing. Or, something completely original.

If i DO come up with a new project, i'll try to give you a less time consuming, less extremely important role so that you don't get stressed by laziness. But this is only if i do come up with a new project and if you do want to join it. And i'd rather do something with more people than do something myself, because coming up with my own ideas is very boring or annoying sometimes, because i always think "What if someone else had a better idea" or "I wish someone else was working on this project so that i don't get trapped in a gruesome writer's block."

My two LEGO Space fanfics failed due to the above.

Again, i might come up with a new project, i might not; and if i do, it probably won't really get too far if i'm not doing it with somebody else. My projects tend to function socially.

 

And it was true. I was losing interest; In-fact, i was more inactive than he was. I did very little and i didn't really come up with any actual ideas after the Jen-recreation proposal.

...So yeah, this is it. This was that top secret project i kept going on and on about. It just didn't work, and this was the first project we ever worked on, and we just weren't there yet. As you see in that message above, i decided to make this blog so that everyone would know about it. I doubt anyone's ever going to approach me and say "I want to continue the development!" Because if someswe didn't want to, why would anyone else do it?

I also doubt that Ben will do another project with me: I don't know why, i just do. I feel he's burned out by this and wants to do other things, and i completely respect that. And besides, i should've known: This project was a failure at the start, because the one thing that made Art Battle so consistent and fast was because EVERYONE was contributing to it, while we were just two people and only one person was making it. It just simply couldn't be done.

If anyone wants to do something art-battle related, or if an Art Battle 3 comes along, then i'd be happy to join.

When Ben gives me the unfinished comic i might post it on here, but i won't confirm it.

Well then, now that's over, i can focus on other things now. See ya later, folks.

(Edit: wow, this blog post has lots of links)

I'm an outcast, i'm sure you've known. If you didn't know, then good for you. I'm an outcast because i do not fit in any way, shape or form with the RRU community and i am the middleground between Dellepack and Ben24x7 when it comes to my relationship with the communitee. I have not been productive in any way and all i've posted is "how do i make custom map textures for LR1", learned how to do it, then never get around to it, and just forget it later on. I didn't even know much about rock raiders other than a group of people go to a planet to mine crystals. The only reason i named myself "MaelstromIslander" was so i would fit with the community but that didn't work in the slightest. I'm a brickimedia guy trying to fit into RRU which is like a bear trying to fit into a family of penguins. The only reason i'm here is because Jamesster linked a Blacktron Astronaut for LR1 mod.

I'm a comedic failure. My jokes are not funny in the slightest to anyone other than Carcraze and Wognif, but wognif even does "..."s when i make jokes. I don't even think ben or someswedish CARE about my jokes and they're my best friends. My jokes are considered spam as everyone and don't make anyone laugh except myself. I'm a comedian at an abandoned theatre and i'm the only one whose laughing. I thought i was at the PeabodySam and Jamesster comedy level but i was actually on the bottom of the totem pole. My jokes do not ammuse anyone and just annoy them, and Legos in Castles prove this. I thought comedy was my best skill but it seems i'm not good at that either.

I'm immature. I act like ten-year old when i'm four years older, and i constantly act like a jerk to people and act like i'm the right one. If RRU was much more strict, i would've been banned in a heartbeat, no questions asked. I can't handle arguments well, and they always end up with me being rude and me losing the argument. I think Le's even yelled at me in all caps before.

Long story short, i need a break. I need to fix the above so that people can at least feel a BIT pleasant around me, but my problem is i don't know how and i don't know where to practice. Again, i need a break off RRU so that i stop making the people around me miserable as well as myself, because its not productive and doesn't help anyone. Everyone knows me as Mael: The Anime Hater or just Mael: The Unproductive Arsehole, and i seem to have grown a sort of stereotype, because even though i've become much more flexible over anime people still treat me like i was before.

I need a break from RRU so that i can be a better person and people will hopefully not hate me and my selfish behavior. I've done RRU more pain than help, and its the same way the other way around.

Hope you guys understand.