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If ever asked, I'll deny myself as a feminist or a liberal or any of that bulls***. There's only one label that I feel fits me best; "Egalitarian". I've spent months trying to understand the word and its connotations, but I've come to the realisation that I knew what it meant all along, because it's exactly how I live my life. Allow me to explain; I grew up in a sort-of-Religious family in Australia. As in, we'd sometimes go to Church, I went to Church camps (mostly just for the camp bit), I went to Catholic schools and all that jazz. I'm not here to discuss my beliefs on the Church or their beliefs, but rather to discuss the one thing that stuck with me through the ages; "Love thy neighbour as you love thy self." Think about how f****ing powerful that message is. Hell, it's the entire basis for Australian life. My life in Australia has been beautiful because there were no limits and no wrong-doing. I could call anybody anything, and they'd laugh with me, shoot a joke insult back, and we'd laugh even harder. I never cared if somebody was female, black or handicapped, and it never mattered. What did matter was the standards you held, and the things you were wiling to sacrifice in order to achieve. Hell, for most people I didn't even (and still don't) bother remembering their names, since I remembered them through their key characteristics, and they would always do the same. That's the life I want my children to have. That's the life I want everybody I know to have. I grew up in a family of funeral directors. We're surrounded by death constantly, and the thing that keeps us sane is the humour. Death doesn't mean anything to me because life is one big jolly when you think about it. And as I grew up, humour became more than a coping mechanism; it was a way that my friends and I expressed our views. It didn't matter how stupid, stereotypical or insulting it sounded; every joke was there to let us know that it was okay to be open about the horrible realities that life presents us. Jew jokes, blond jokes, retard jokes, nerd jokes. That old phrase "We call our mates 'cunts' and cunts our 'mates'" rang true in my circles. Depression wasn't fixed by being gentle; it was fixed by getting people to live a life better than what they had been. I still remember all the conversations I had that helped rehabilitate people, and without humour, I doubt those people would be in the incredible state of living they're in now. In about 10 rewrites of this blog entry, I wanted to cover how my views relate to common social media trending issues, but I've decided not to. The thing is that I do my best not be offended by anything except the most inane stuff that I can write off as comedy (such as getting angry at the s***ty chairs in my local RSL). I refuse to be sensitive or fragile, because in the end that (in my view) makes me a weaker individual towards my end goals of creating high quality works or to become a mentor-like teacher. If I allow myself to get offended every time somebody pronounces somebody's name wrong, makes a joke or overall acts in an "uncivil" way, I don't know how I'd cope with the life I lead. I certainly don't have any German in me, but I believe I have a lot of German qualities in the harshness of my critiques and my adherence to standards (most of the time, when I'm not being a lazy dickhead). That's where we need to be. If we don't keep pushing each other, how will any of us learn to do the great things ahead of us? Thankfully, most of my German critique is embedded in the form of humour, which sometimes makes it easier to swallow. Anyway, this blog has been all over the place and it's mostly because I got really tired half way through, went to get a coffee, came back confused and wanted to wrap this up. The point I guess I'm trying to make is that what may come off as me being an arsehole really is me being an arsehole...because that's how I express deeper, honest opinions. I'm not going to hold back because somebody will get their feelings hurt in the process; the truth and the freedom to speak is the most important thing we hold as humans, as that is what enabled us to get to where we are today. I will embrace my right to speak, and my right to treat everybody exactly the same; all as the glorious cunts who keep this world spinning.

I've some fun shots to add, I think! =) I found this landscape in my first world and it threw me for such a loop. It's hard to tell from this shot (and I didn't catch a better one =/) but it abruptly shifted from a grassy/hilly biome into this sharp descent into a crater that I never expected to run into this early in the game's development. I wish I had moved my cursor more out of shot for this. This was my first run-in with the cherry blossom biome. I really dig the added detail with the blossoms in the water. Anyone else notice discovered islands almost always conveniently have maritime vessels spawn around them? I liked to make up silly stories of horse or zombie filled small islands being their vacation spot away from all the hustle and bustle of the bigger islands. Oh hey, a treehouse! Up to this point, I'd never run into one in-game before!

Just tried some hat modding to make this look even better

This isn't big enough to warrant its own topic so I'll post it here. I imported all my LDD-built Rock Raiders models into LEGO Worlds, but they didn't quite survive the transfer... Anyone know how to add water? I've got lava sorted but I can't find water.

For those who want a custom splash screen but don't want to install BAZ's Mod. And besides that, I upscaled the original background and added a loading bar for full HD. Loading.bmp Somehow my preview wont load and i cant get the picture uploaded as attachment on the forum Enjoy Guys

I totally didn't just downloaded icons from LEGO Universe wikia and used them in this video. I swear to Bob. Right, Bob? Bob? You there? PS: I have no idea how to link YouTube videos... EDIT: Thanks, Xiron, it worked.

Wow, I've never seen one of those treehouses before! Also, that's a pretty neat lava crater.

Oh hey, it even looks like it's from 2004, complete with OH MY WORD WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT All uppercase HTML, old HTML4 styling markup, and messages AND it probably uses Quirks Mode techniques??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!! *dies*

​You would enter the world of nothing if you fly just high enough.

A new sonic boom game was announced yesterday. Yep, another one. So I did this stupid drawing thing: You can thank me later.

Ello, i did a pic of something i said many times i would draw more of n stuff, and never got around to it. Until... THE WISE SAFETY DRAGON LIVES! HUZZA HUZZA! Just wanted to put this guy up in case anybody remembers this guy. (Ayliffe might remember, i hope...) If ya don't, here's the story. Oh and enjoy!

​Yes, you can't leave the track. This is my colliding map:

I'm just gonna leave this video here for you to enjoy:

[5:33:31 PM] bartvbl: iTunes is and has always been a disgrace to software [5:34:17 PM] bartvbl: its sole purpose is to act as a wall between the barbaric computer it is running on and the Holy B'lessed device [5:34:30 PM] bartvbl: in such a way that only Blessed bytes can reach the Blessed Device [5:35:27 PM] bartvbl: if the barbaric piece of crap complains about the rootkit that his Holyness Apple Mobile Device Service installs, [5:35:53 PM] bartvbl: there shall be no connection between the barbaric piece of junk and The Holy Device [5:37:39 PM] bartvbl: but of course, the transformation from dirty bytes to Blessed Bytes can not happen without a thorough conversion. [5:38:22 PM] bartvbl: So, by default, all dirty byte collections shall be stripped of their unholy name, and be renamed into "Track 0", "Track 1", and so on. [5:39:07 PM] bartvbl: In addition they shall be stripped of their former identity. Nothing shall be known about them anymore [5:39:41 PM] bartvbl: After this, the barbaric user shall reinvent the identity of the unholy bytes. [5:40:08 PM] bartvbl: Each individual collection shall be right clicked, and the ritual of "Get info" shall be performed. [5:41:03 PM] bartvbl: In this process, the unholy bytes shall be blessed by entering their former identity on to the altar presented.

Couldn't help it Anyways, welcome to the weird and wonderful world of RRU! Have a nice stay! ​You have no idea how much I've heard that joke from my friends. but I think I'm gonna enjoy my stay here, I wasn't expecting this warm of a welcome! We have to be nice at first otherwise our kooky insaneness scares away the new recruits JK, welcome to the crazy boards of RRU!

Fushigisaur: I actually named my old PC HAL. The one before that was named GLaDOS, and my current one is named AM. IDK why I name all of my computers after malevolent AIs Ayliffe: My computer is called "computer" Fushigisaur: lol Ayliffe: In certain situations it has also been named "JUST OPEN THE FRICKIN' FILE YOU PIECE OF ARSE", "SPEED UP YOU SLOW b******", and simply "ARSE" I am nice to my computer occasionally Fushigisaur: I think your PC is the more likeely one to rise up against humanity

"I didn't forget about rebuilding the other LEGO Island buildings, because of my memory. That being said I remember I just said that I'm not done with recreating LEGO island builds in LEGO Worlds, I can remember anything." - Ben24x7, doing a (poor) dub of Officer Nick Brick. So, I have a new LEGO island recreation complete! I'm doing the builds as though its a tour, where I'm going down a certain path around the island showing all the buildings. I've begun with the Info Center, so lets head down the overpass towards... THE POLICE STATION And, yes, the balcony provides a good view (if only there was anything out there); I plan to continue this trend, but I think I deserve my usual break.

This world came with a sphinx pre-built. thought that was sorta cool

oops? edit: that's 1024 trees in one chunk, placed 1 stud apart. I wanted to check I had the prop part of the chunk format worked out. Turns out I did.

I've had a LOT of fun recently. I created an underground tunnel network under one of the worlds. After 20 minutes of digging, I gave up and decided to paint the entire cave pink. I'ts a work in progress, but I expect to finish it by tuesday. I also spent almost two hours in a popular Steam broadcast where I didn't press any buttons in-game. I got 19 people at one point to all watch my broadcast, which consisted of...well... It was the perfect break to walk away from my computer and eat dinner while kids complained I wasn't doing anything.

Here's some more from me.

In real life, we collect Oil from the sea bed, but in LEGO Worlds... ...WE GET IT FROM THE CLOUDS

I think something went wrong during loading, because I don't remember having this much hair: And then I did some editing: Not enough editing for me: This game is great.

I apologise for the low quality of the shading and textures. My computer wasn't made as a gaming computer in mind.