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He's back?

Never thought I'd be doing this again... it's been, what, six years and a month since I made my original introductory topic way back when? Obviously I'm not exactly a new member. I mean, come on, I haven't posted here in almost two years and I still have the highest post count on the entire board by over a thousand posts. Probably have one of the oldest "active" accounts too (counting Zetaboards); from what I can tell it seems like there's only about four people who've been here longer that still appear to be semi-active, and one of them's the founder. But, well, it's been so long since I had any contact with most of you (and probably not good contact at that) that I might as well be a new member here. Even during the last year I spent on here things were changing, and I can't imagine what's different since then. Any big events on RRU? Or in the lives of anyone here? Any new pioneering into game modding? Any old games become forgotten about (let's face is, Rock Raiders modding was dying two years ago and is probably completely dead now, sadly)? Has DDI actually started doing something (probably not)? I don't know. I guess, as I said in the blog post, I wish I'd never acted so stupid and rash. Even though a number of people seem glad to have me back, I know nothing's gonna be the same. And I mean, things never are, and that's fine - what would life be if the world was static? But, well. changing with the community is one thing. Old relationships fade, new ones grow, life goes on, that's just how it is. Those changes may be happy or sad, but they're gradual, and you learn to live with them usually. But dropping off the face of the earth and then having to take in all that change at once is, well, scary, I guess. And it's my own damn fault I know but I've said that enough times and I'm sure you're all tired of the self-depreciation. I guess that's why it took me so long to finally face up to my deeds (ironically making it worse for myself), and then another three weeks to finally make an actual post after everyone had already said everything they needed to say. Anyway... I guess I'm back now, for better or worse. I don't even know what I'd say or do here now... guess that's why I posted this. Sorry if this seems a little redundant after the blog; I had intended for it to be less apologetic, but oh well. And sorry if I rambled on and on a lot, I guess I'm nervous and I ramble when I'm nervous or something idk. thank you, -- Lai

The results of using a WIP corruption tool by Will on the demo of the game. Said tool led to a lot of hilarity in McJobless's stream earlier today, I'm not sure if the broadcast got saved though.

Four words; Pictionary, session, Someswedish, Ben24x7 "How long was it since we last did this?" "Le and his Cheese Toast with Jam" "How long are you gona chew for anyway?" But now, a word from our sponsor. "It is very raining outside" "Sir, we ran out of..." "Sherif Kilroy of Fort LEGORado"

Rocket's been hitting those speed boosts too much lately.

In this topic feel free to post ideas and suggestions for Moods (If you want to you could make one that isn't even a mood), and hopefully, by sheer luck, Grapheme will take the best ideas and use them as official Moods. e.g.;

A bit off-topic from what we were just discussing earlier, but given this topic is intended for the general discussion of this sort of stuff I thought I'd share anyway. Recently I contacted Michèle Lecreux, one of the developers for the old obscure French Pirates comic LEGO LES PIRATES et la malle au trésor developed and published in conjunction with the French monthly P'tit Loup magazine by Disney, and posed some questions to her about its development. (For reference, you can find scans of the comic on this page, and it should look like this) Nothing too groundbreaking, but I figured it was worth sharing anyway: "I am glad to send you my answers. Let me know if you need other informations. Best regards, Michèle 1) Were there more mini comics like this that you or anyone else at P'tit Loup developed, or only the one? P’tit Loup magazine published within each issue a mini booklet about a playful theme. The booklet was sometimes sponsored. That was the case with LEGO. 2) How did development of this comic begin - that is, how did it originate and from where? In collaboration with the advertising department, we would rather whenever possible publish games or contests than simple advertising pages. I was then responsible for all the Disney-licensed products for French magazines when LEGO launched its “pirates” product line. We proposed to LEGO, as we often did with advertisers, to sponsor a mini booklet. LEGO accepted the idea, and we chose the option one fotonovela + one practical work section “create your own board game using LEGO bricks”. 3) Were there any other LEGO comics planned that didn't make it to release, or any story elements, such as scripts, concepts, models, illustrations that were cut or unfinished? No other projects of any kind were designed in collaboration with LEGO. 4) How much involvement did LEGO have in the development process, and how? We did all the design work (script, storyboard, game designing, photo shooting and editing). We then asked LEGO, of course, for their approval of the issue before publication but they were not involved in the process."- Michèle Lecreux