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Okay, I honestly have no idea which subforum to post this in. LEGO Island Discussion? Island Xtreme Stunts Discussion? Heck, even Digital LEGO Creations? It's often been noted by LEGO Island fans that "Brickster Boss", the final boss theme of Island Xtreme Stunts, sounds somewhat like a dark reprise or boss remix of "The Jail" from the original LEGO Island. Rather fitting, considering that both songs are meant to represent the Brickster. What happens if you mix the two songs together? You get "The Brickster Megamix". Or, alternatively, "The Brickster Mixter". Because puns. This is something I first started experimenting on with Dino Attack: Legacy, but I never got it to work right. By the time the mix was eight measures in, the two songs had already fallen out-of-sync with each other, which is the technical reason why I fade the mix out by that point. It didn't help that the recording of "The Jail" was rather compressed and low-quality in comparison to "Brickster Boss". This time, I decided to use the unused higher-quality recording left unused in the game's data. With the crisper audio quality, I found it easier to determine and adjust its tempo in order to match that of "Brickster Boss". "The Jail" is only barely over a minute long, while "Brickster Boss" is over four minutes. As such, I had to loop several sections of "The Jail" in order to cover the length of "Brickster Boss". Since the unused version of "The Jail" has no ending, I did borrow the final notes of the in-game version to end the mix. The syncing still isn't quite perfect and there are some parts where one song overpowers the other, but overall I'm very satisfied with how this turned out.

[12:09:12 PM] Hollis Shuner: Skype should have a multipurpose "drunk" status, underneath "busy" he's technically an RRU member

Jurassic World and Marvel's Avengers. Jurassic World will actually be all the Jurassic Park films. Okay. Sources: BusinessWire

This one had been speculated for months. Finally, LEGO has revealed the SHIELD Helicarrier, seen in 2012's The Avengers and three variants in last year's Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The set will feature updates to minifigs for Captain America, Nick Fury, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Maria Hill for her minifigure debut. There will also be "Microfigures" (Read: "Those minifig-shaped trophies with Marvel printing") of Hawkeye, Fury, Cap, Iron Man, and 8 generic SHIELD agents (Or are they HYDRA??? ) The set can have Power Functions lights and motors added to it (sold separately, of course), and comes with your standard UCS stand and plaque with specs. The Helicarrier will run you $350 USD, $400 CDN, and 270 quid for our friends east of the Atlantic. It will be released officially in March, though VIP members will have access to it as early as February 17. Sources: http://comicbook.com/2015/01/29/lego-announces-marvel-super-heroes-s-h-i-e-l-d-helicarrier/ http://bzpower.com/story.php?ID=7327

I found a thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBi0Hx3RGoM Is it just me or does it look like Ekimu will have gear functions too?

I just thought I'd drop this here.

Playing games is really only a quarter of the job, most the work is in the commentary. It has to be high quality and legitimately funny and unscripted... or else it will just be throw into the pile of "can't make it" of which many thousands of LP'ers currently sit. Le717 is right though, MC LP's are way overdone now.

Hmm? More licensed LEGO games created by TT Games? Well whoopdi-doop, I stopped caring long ago. Get back to me when LEGO gets back on its creative & imaginative tracks again and makes a good game that isn't a MMO that will shut down shortly after it launches.

Really? You've never before heard anyone suggesting that "The Jail" and "Brickster Boss" sounded somewhat similar? That's funny (not the "haha" kind of funny, the... okay, forget it, I'm sure you've heard this one a million times already). While personally I have my doubts on whether or not the semblance was intentional, here's just a few quotes from YouTube: This one's not from YouTube, but it's relevant:

"Back in MY day..."

My first phone was a Nokia 2600 (Not the 2600 Classic). You had to program any other ringtones into it manually. Hmm... Seems the teacher should pay for any damage caused to the phone.

Oh you kids these days... When I was in school, if we had something to do and the teacher wasn't there, we did it. Didn't matter if it was group or solo, if you were expected to do something, you got it done. If you finished your work, you were to work on other things quietly. And what of these smartphones and tablets you guys have nowadays? When I was in middle school, there were no smartphones or watching youtube. We actually talked and were social. I didn't have my first phone til I was 16, and all it could do was call, text, and had enough memory to hold 10 songs. I learned that my high school gave everyone tablets this year, and I'm glad I wasn't a part of it. Devices distract the kids from doing what they are supposed to do. I wish all teachers were like my Government teacher. If she caught you with your phone or tablet or whatever at all that wasn't being used for school purposes, she would take it away from you all day. One time she went as far as throwing a kid's phone out the window (Her class is on the 2nd floor btw) because the kid was back-talking her about having her phone out during class. Technology is ruining the younger ages. Our world is going to crumble because the future generations are to busy taking selfies.

I'm preparing to get my youtube channel back up and introduce gaming on it. I might join in if this becomes a thing.

In fact, I could help edit the videos. But depending on how many videos might flood the account we probably should get a second video editor just in-case.

Okay, so I have been thinking about this idea for a bit now. I would really like to see this project come through, so I offer you my services (recording, editing with professional software, maybe some management), should you ever decide to actually go ahead and do this. Just give me a holler here on RRU, in case you do this.

Maybeee... Nope Possibly

Episodes 5 and 6 have been posted in Czech on LEGO's Czech YouTube channel. Look's like come episode sis we'll finally get some more of the backstory we have been clamoring for so much, including how the Lord of the Skull Spiders plays into the story. You can see episode 5 by visiting http://youtu.be/KPqb1u3JuiI, and episode six by visiting http://youtu.be/Kc3xnstQmYQ Also, how long until Kopaka going "weeeeeeeeeeee" at the end of episode six becomes an internat meme?

Last weekend I went to Aviano and Vicenza for two swim meets. The first (Aviano) was a regular meet, and Vicenza's swim meet was the second (and last) pentathlon of the season. I saw improvement in both meets and I'm getting really excited for a home meet this Sunday. At Aviano, I swam the 50 Meter Freestyle, 100 Meter Freestyle, 200 Meter Freestyle, and 200 Meter Freestyle Relay. My times for the events were (in order): 28.62 seconds (3rd), 1:06.04 (4th), 2:31.19 (4th), and 1:54.44 (1st). At Vicenza (the pentathlon), I swam in all five events for my age division: the 100 Meter Butterfly, 100 Meter Backstroke, 200 Meter IM, 100 Meter Breaststroke, and 100 Meter Freestyle. I only got about 5 to 10 minutes to recover between events, but I still managed to pull off some good times. 100 Butterfly: 1:11.27 100 Backstroke: 1:19.27 200 IM: 2:45.68 100 Breaststroke: 1:29.94 100 Freestyle: 1:03.14 Total Pentathlon Time: 7:49.30 (6th Place) I dropped 5.92 seconds from my Butterfly time, 1.40 seconds from my Backstroke time, 5.74 seconds from my IM time, 5.55 seconds from my Breaststroke time, and 0.74 seconds from my freestyle time (pre-Aviano). I also dropped about 50 seconds from my total pentathlon time from the first one back in October. This weekend I'm going to swim the 50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle, 100 Butterfly, and 400 Freestyle. My goals for this weekend are (in order): Get a time below 28 seconds, Get a time below 1:03, Get a time below 1:10, and get a time below 5:40.

So Chima -> Furries -> Japanese Anime -> Japan -> China -> Chima. ಠ_à²