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As a victim of years of bullying, I cannot advocate any form of bullying, cyberbullying included. I do see that this topic went too far, and my "crap" post seems to mark the beginning of that decline. Yes, this topic should have just been left in the dust like the countless other introduction topics of members who don't even last a week. Yes, there is an unfortunate mentality that this forum has towards new members. Part of the problem is that, on these web forums, most of our interaction boils down to just the plain walls of text with no body language or tone of voice. That's all we have to work with. As a result, if you don't yet know the personality of a member, his/her sarcasm-laden yet light-hearted posts can come across as needlessly mean-spirited. What did JamesBrick give us to work with? Calling jamesster "evil boy" and "crap boy" as (petty and rather pathetic) insults in response to what he perceived as an attack on his topics when it was actually just an honest (if brutal) comment on RRU's perception of LMB-style RPGs. True, jamesster's response, "You wot mate...?", probably didn't help to ease the situation, but before anything else could be done, JamesBrick insulted jamesster one more time (hypocritically saying "crap") before declaring that he was leaving for good. JamesBrick has, apparently, kept to his word and has not returned since. There is nothing that we could have done; he left on his own terms. But before he did so, he had the audacity to lash out at jamesster in what he perceived as counter-cyberbulling but was, in actuality, just plain cyberbulling, since jamesster made no attack on him to provoke such a response. Granted, it's not like his insults meant anything to jamesster, but I do feel that some of what we did here was not in response to JamesBrick being a new member who left, but one who stirred up an unneeded ruckus and insulted one of our veteran members without listening to reason. And as shown here, we more-or-less laughed it off. And that's what I tried to do with my "crap" post. A bit of self-deprecation, accusing jamesster of scaring off new members like we always do, but in a light-hearted joking manner in an attempt to make light of the situation, made more obvious by the Strong Bad quote about crap. Once again, I did not personally attack JamesBrick, but tried to turn the situation into a joke. It was the day after the whole ordeal happened, and I just wanted to make a few people laugh about the situation, not at JamesBrick. Should I just have let this topic die? Yes, I should have. It may have been better that way. And yes, we did go too far, especially when we started turning the jokes towards JamesBrick himself and not the situation; that's where the cyberbullying began on our end and made us no better than the one we were mocking. And we do need to work on our attitude towards new members. But, if I'm honest, based on what little we saw his behavior, I don't think JamesBrick was meant to be a fit for the RRU community. If not now, then later, he would have flipped out at one of our members over some petty misunderstanding, immaturely insulting them and swearing off RRU forever. You're right, though. We have to know which lines we cannot cross, and we must not cross them if we want this community to improve. We must not stoop to this level. We must be more mature than that.

Today I finally realized that RRU is pretty much a circlejerk of new members leaving, regulars slowly dying, and only a brave few jump the gap between newbie and regular. The rest just leave because the higher ups are so darn rude. I've figured that this is likely due to the Magare/Devestater scare a few years ago, and the entire community is now just extremely wary of new members. Then I realized half of the current community won't even know who the heck Magare or Devestater are. Yeah, the new members can do stupid, oft times comical things. They can be immature. They don't know the "culture" (so to speak) of RRU. Sure, there's rules and stuff. But I don't recall there being a section in the Rules thread on "McJobless' Grilling Of The Newbies". Sure, everything was fine until JamesBrick said he's out. There were a couple of things people said which, if this was BZP or Eurobricks, there would be words from the moderators. And then AFTER he left... Real mature, guys. REAL mature. From my understanding, this would be cyberbullying, plain and simple. And yeah, I "thanked" a few of the posts. Then I realised what I was doing (and there's no clear "unthank" button). Yeah, JamesBrick is gone. So this thread (as well as the HQ threads that went sour) should have been shut down from PeabodySam's "crap" post (no offence to him in the least). It derailed from the thread, and (d)evolved into something else. Not really the first time we've done this either. fun, Ben, etc. We've all had our stabs at them. And the mods HAVE done stuff to prevent it from getting WAY out of hand (Cire's TSA jab comes to mind). But this thread is a testament of what other would consider "too far". Last I checked, this was supposed to be a "family friendly" forum site. sure, cussing happens. But we could at least PRETEND to be better and not fight fire with flaming. It's like having little, grammatically-correct kids doing a big circlejerk. Okay. I'm done playing moderator again. Do what you will, but unless I see some solid proof against what I've said, this is what I believe RRU is right now. I'm open to anyone's criticism, and I won't run away if I don't like it. I've been here too long for that.

I feel I need to address you directly, McStudz, because posts like this are counter-productive. You're criticizing a non-existent phenomenon. Despite your charged rhetoric, you've more or less accurately described the life cycle of any forum, or site for that matter. Ignoring your hyperbole, you've correctly identified that people join, participate for a time while the novelty of the site is still fresh, and then either leave because they've become bored, they've found something better, or simply don't have the time to invest in the site anymore. Or they become more invested and participate regularly. People change, communities change, so it's only natural that members drift away and new ones join to take their place. This isn't a good or a bad thing. It's a simple fact of life on the internet. I'm sorry? Unless you're referring to older, more established members, I take exception to the mods being referred to as "rude." We try exceptionally hard to be welcoming and impartially fair to everyone, old and new. This is your perception and a spurious correlation to boot. Magare/Devestater and people who have followed them were not disruptive because they were new. They were disruptive because they were disruptive. There is always a period of acclamation for any new member and it can sometimes be rough but that does not mean the community as a whole has a prejudice against new members. If we sampled from the various welcome topics, I would wager the majority of welcomes/reactions would be positive, not negative. It is wrong for you to assert your own view of how things are perceived as one that fits this site as a whole. Yes, this is the acclamation period I was referring to. A few things. First, things were not fine before JamesBrick said he was out. He randomly and without provocation insulted Jamesster multiple times for things Jamesster did not do. This outburst was bizare as it was unwarranted and yielded an appropriately bewildered response. JamesBrick and JamesBrick alone was responsible for the things JamesBrick said. Any resulting criticism of his words and actions were a direct result of this fact. Apparently he felt so embarrassed by this and unable to deal with it in a civl manner that he decided to GG out of RRU. He could have easily apologized and then could have gone along on his merry way, creating fan fiction RP to his heart's content, but he didn't. He left. JamesBrick is hardly a victim here. Perhaps you should refresh your knowledge on >the topic before you dismiss his actions as the reason for his leaving. Second, if you feel we (the mods) did not catch the situation soon enough you could have assisted us by reporting it. Though this may shock you, we are not omniscient. If you see something that is questionable for any reason, please report it. We cannot catch everything and we rely on community to help police RRU. If you sincerely think that this thread is the unequivocal example of "cyberbullying" and what would be considered "too far," you put me at a loss for words. Admittedly, some of the posts are probably a bit crass and not in the best of taste but none of them are outright offensive. Most are light-hearted jabs at the strangeness of the whole situation, not against JamesBrick himself. I would even contend the level of absurdity is far below the standard "oh, keep your pants on" and "have a waffle and a potato" nonsense that usually litters these welcome topics. But consider this. Instead of reporting the posts that you considered "cyberbullying" and the poison of RRU, you instead chose to grandstand and rail against the apparent injustice that is this forum. You chose to take a moral stand against what you feel is a broken system instead of actively trying to help the situation and assist said system. Perhaps you should look to yourself first before you beat the war drums.

I don't have much time to post before leaving for a day of airplanes and sleep deprivation, so I'll make this quick: I've noticed a general pattern of RRU folks just plainly taking half-amusing jokes/events/happenings and running them into the ground. Legos in Space (stop begging me to do it again) and the circlejerk that is the quotes topic come to mind. Once one member does/likes something suddenly everybody has to do/like it too, without realizing or considering what may have made it amusing in the first place or what was even actually joked about. Edit - Got a few moments in the hotel lobby, anyway this is what happens when a joke is pushed as usual except it's not only unfunny but dickish as well.

If this has become such a problem I'll gladly delete the New Members forum. I don't read ~90% of the topics that are posted here, and when I do read them it's a bunch of us posting extremely wacky things like telling people to keep their pants on and what have you. And there's always McJobless being a D; I've asked him several times to stop it but he never changes because "that's just the way he is." But I don't have the means or the right to change how people act, so we will all have to improve how we conduct ourselves around here. Remember that we are (probably) the only LEGO modding forum in existence right now, and if we're not the only one then we're certainly one of the best, in both the games we cover and general post quality. Act professionally, but don't be elitist. And for the record, I never made an introduction topic when I joined RRU in 2008. I just joined and started participating. Granted, everyone was chill back then since we were busy cracking Rock Raiders.

It's an interesting read. http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/310/proven_preliminary_planning_.php But in case you're just there for the LEGO Island-related bits: Low res, but nifty layouts, eh? Also:

I want to get one more thought in before this thread gets locked, as it's looking as though that might happen. This seems to have turned into a battle of Studz vs. Everyone Else, and I'm not really 100% on either side. I agree with what Studz was saying, to a point. I think that keeping this thread going was a little rude to the guy. Studz did go a little overboard though. My initial reaction to Studz's post was 'good for him, someone needed to say it' which quickly turned to 'Oh god what have we done?' as, ironically, his plea to stop this thread caused it to blow up into something far worse. I'm not sure where I fall on who is in right or wrong here, all I know is that this incident should have been little more that a speedbump in RRU's history yet, somehow, we made it into a huge fiasco.

LEGO Island clearly needs better safety regulations. After all, they have no fire station, the only fire trucks are busy dealing with giant pizzas below the island, and the only have Doctor Clickitt and Return and Enter

I currently have no plans to build the upstairs, however it is a challenge I'd like to tackle at some point. My major hesitation is that if the second floor were positioned around the elevator, the alignment would be off-centered. EDIT: I just noticed it technically cannot be upstairs since there are no stairs. Go figure. You do indeed! I'll upload some images featuring them in the final model.

Ta-Da! Edit: By request, this picture is now colored instead of black and white Although i might have left a mistake or two, i think it turned out great in the end

No, that wasn't the end. It SHOULD have been the end, but it kept going. People kept this topic alive when it should have been left alone, and it became something that I think we should all be a little ashamed of.

Great, I'm going to start with... Kinda went overboard, but i don't think anyone will mind So i use an app on my 3DS to draw stuff, kinda like a Photoshop lite The circle with thin black lines is the only legit circle of them all since the rest where made with an enlarged brush, but Jamester (or Crap Boy for some reason?) didn't say how the circle was to be made

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! I had a go at doing the roll cage and the drill, but it didn't turn out as well as I hoped... I assume that you meant draw hi in my style instead of as a minifig, because thats exactly what I've done. I'll try t get round to the other suggestions ASAP, but just to let you know if I've liked your post then it means I've started work on it or finished it. Bonus Drawing:

It is not physically feasible for the interior and exterior to coexist as the same model; they were built at two radically different scales. The interior itself has discontinuities, if you have studied and compared the different sides of the building as much as I have. I have concluded this is because the Infomaniac is either a Time Lord or a spy for the Mealstorm. Not only that, but the second floor is underwater when the first is above ground. LEGO Island is just a kid friendly form of LSD.

This mod will enable the tunnel transport. A file for fixing the carry glitch is included at the end of the post. Manual Install: Patchman Patch: Download LINK DOWN, use old method

Welcome! Velcommen, konichiwa, aloha! How ya doin? Yo! And in any language, welcome to LEGO Island the Information Center! Ever since I discovered my own copy of LEGO Island (>recounted here,) I wanted to build my own, tangible, Information Center. I started in LEGO Digital Designer with the "i" logo on the floor, continued with the Big blue Brick Book, and the big "i" in front of my desk. Brick by brick, tock by tick I began to construct the model in reality, from flowers to cups and red to blue to the elevator, to oh my yes, your score cube; Whoops, I forgot the radio! There's still so much to do, things like racing and jet-skiing getting a few parts in the right colors, building up the walls, and obstructing that ugly framework. Recreation Ingame Comparison See you later, Brickulator!

Posting from the airport lobby - basically everything PeabodySam said. Some things can be laughed at by everybody (if not immediately than later), but laughing at people never flies. Though I also hold the opinion that many things RRU collectively laughs at aren't funny either. Some apparently find their own "wit" to be so hilarious that they must quote "witty" blocks of text from themselves in their own signatures - which is then seen directly after their post that berates the community for being arrogant. Yes McStudz, I'm looking at you. Come on people, this is a community, focus on progress and creating stuff. Awkwardly and hypocritically proclaiming yourself and circlejerking doesn't help anybody.

I'm sorry to butt in but...

If it wasn't already clear, I don't exactly closely follow what you people do. If anyone here feels that you have lost some integrity. grief counseling will be available after this thread is locked. Until then, I would advise those who feel that there is something wrong with this thread to report it to be locked.

...You forgot the bit where the community decided to turn him into a mock inspiration for a joke. Know what? I'm out. I said my bit. What I have above will be my only retort. if I keep going, then I'll be no better off. I've got work to do today and I don't want this turning into a flame war. Let's just drop it and get on with our lives. I know where this thread will be going if we keep on about this, so I'll get off my high horse.

I'm feeling a sense of Deja Vu. This makes me feel horrible, i know that everyone treated me like a fool when i first joined, now i know how jamesbrick feels... to tell you the truth, after the "Minecraft RRU Server" incident, i suggested to myself to leave RRU forever, but instead i stayed. In an alternate universe, i left, and i was the jamesbrick of this place. Now i know how jamesbrick feels, in the truth all the newbies are treated awfully.

Alternatively, some kid made some s***ty topics that no one cared for and we told him we didn't care for them. Kid got pissed and left. The end. Good night.

Do Johny Thunder,Informaniac,Brickster and Bandit!

Bleh. Apparently the women of Lego Island have no hair. Presumably it all fell out do to the nuclear radiation that's giving everyone tumors in their stomach. That artist has issues. The world of fan works is really twisted one. With bad fanfiction, at least it's laughable, but with bad fanart, it's downright disturbing. I really think that there should be legal repercussions, not only because of using some one else's work for their own nefarious ends, but for the damage that it has caused people brains.

Pepper Roni & Rocket Racer in your Style please

Sorry to but in like this, but is it ok Ayliffe if I also join in and use the suggestions on what to draw? I have been doodling and drawing stuff for a long time myself and I think it would be fun to get suggestions for drawings

Do Sparky.

*whispers* Hrmmm, What could I do to make drawing a living hell? Hmmmmm *talks aloud* Just kidding, Sorry about that. How about... ...Have you tried drawing a rock raiders vehicle? Because if you haven't I suggest you give it a shot.

A perfect circle.

[5/16/2014 9:30:28 PM] Fush: ...seems it's safe in here now [5/16/2014 9:31:40 PM] Jim Brickkeeper: Knowing RRU, it's never as simple as that. [5/16/2014 9:31:55 PM] Fush: right [5/16/2014 9:34:31 PM] Philip: inb4 s***storm [5/16/2014 9:39:36 PM] Cirevam: á••( á› )á•— I'll get the storm if you get the s***

I'm not sure if you guys are total wimps, or if I've just been inadvertently subjected to enough legitimately mind-scarring art (even LEGO art) that this doesn't get anything more than the bat of an eyelid from me... What I mean is, once you've seen LEGO Alpha Team BDSM, and a realistic version of Frank Honey from LEGO City Undercover in a speedo, and some other things I won't mention, you start to count your blessings.

[11:19:03 PM] Alcom Isst: [2:04:06 AM] Fush: oh my god a colliiiiiiiiiiiiiie those are the best dogs <3 <<< No. [11:20:43 PM] * Ciprian explodes [11:21:12 PM] Alcom Isst: Did Ciprian just explode? [11:22:35 PM] Extreme110: I dunno. [11:22:53 PM] Extreme110: His face is always ._. so I'm not really sure what's the difference

Go to your image in your gallery. Click on 'View All Sizes.' Click on... hmm... medium, that ought to do it. Then click on the image and voila! You now have a decent-sized image Medium was huge, instead, i used Small, which looks more like a medium. And, i tried to upload the .lxf: it didn't work. Edit: Nevermind, here you go: https://ore.rockraidersunited.org/legacy/Classic%20Space%20Remade_326383.lxf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bs0IYqz-Ro So yeah. I bought some LEGO bootlegs and now I'm reviewing them. Here's the first set out of the five I bought. Enjoy/cringe.

Every building on the island is a TARDIS and/or magic and/or powered by imagination.

And thou the fourth age of middle earth began an era ended. One of the many occurrences during this wonderous age was the sudden appearance of the ruler JamesBrick, who founded several HQs cities dedicated to the development of very specific industries to improve the nation's economy. Sadly he disappeared after a devastating event, which the historians called the "Big Crap of spring 2014". Some theories say, that the king had some anger issues, which lead in combination with numerous revolts due to his revolutionary policies to the end of his short reign. Other theories are based on the notion, that the sewage system of the kingdom was disfunctional due to low maintenance. Nonetheless the citizens of this land remembered their beloved and glorious leader and raised him to the status of a god. Therefore they built several temples in his name, which tourists can visit for a nominal fee to the present day. P.S.: Sorry for that. It was just too tempting.

I love how every time I periodically check this site, I find great topics like this that I wouldn't be able to find at BZPower, Eurobricks, or any other LEGO fan forum.

This thread... this thread has lasted longer than the member who made it. That is... that is the opposite of what usually happens.

Forever just ain't as long as it used to be.

Minifigures isn't even remotely similar to Universe. It's actually quite unique, as far as LEGO games go - I wouldn't even call it similar to Chima Online. Regarding LU - the game was focused on a demographic/age group that, by and large, neither had the skill to do much with properties or the patience to deal with finite bricks/running across the whole darn universe to buy that one piece from a vendor. From what I saw, most AFOLs who would have liked the interactive building/sandbox were turned away by it being tied to a game and having a subscription requirement. Add in the fact that LU properties were glitchy as hell (breathing on a property too harshly could lead to losing work or even corrupting the whole thing and making the property unusable, and even basic things like rotating hinges ended up not working at points)... Yeah, it's not a big mystery as to why it didn't catch on with much of the LEGO community. There's a lot more I could talk about on the subject, but I >already have.

While a modern day Creator would be wonderful, I doubt LEGO has much motivation for doing so after the way most players treated the LEGO Universe building system. Admittedly, the building system was far from perfect, but most players did not seem to have the patience or skill to even create a decent facade. Most properties, if they had anything, consisted largely of pre-built models and a few shoddy originals. They didn't need to be this way. Properties like Flambridge's Dragon Knights Castle and SamuraiMaster's Knight's Tournament demonstrated what could be done with raw building, and the behaviors system allowed for far more complexity than I ever saw it used for. Might players have been more patient had LEGO Universe only consisted of properties? Perhaps. However, they had pre-made worlds and quests and battles to claim their attention. The same goes for the videogame market: LEGO can make much more money from a game in whose world the player merely participates than from a game in which the player makes worlds.

Ben, a long time ago a user who shall remain nameless attempted to copy the work of another nameless member who was well-respected within the community. It didn't end well. The short of it is that the well-respected member became infuriated, and it became one of the reasons he used to leave. I tell you this because I want you to listen carefully and respect this; This is Fushigisaur's Intellectual Property (IP). If he says that you're not allowed to use it, you're not allowed to use it. Furthermore, I IMPLORE you not to go through with this. Creativity keeps the world spinning. Copying a FF which is already essentially a copy of a bigger work (which is probably based off other works if you wanted to go even deeper) only creates a stale piece of bread that nobody will have interest in. I want you to do your own work which you can be proud of, not take something that somebody else has done and slip up the opportunity to prove you have potential.