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Greetings again, Rock Raiders! I recently picked up the latest edition of Bricks Culture Magazine, Issue 7! In this issue is a brand new interview with Frank Madsen, the author of Jim Spaceborn comics, and a bit of more content from the comics itself! Here's the preview page they have posted on their website: I'm not sure if it's legible but the upper right hand corner says that these are scrapped T-Shirt designs that never made it to the finished product! I have the digital copy on me but I'm not so sure if I'm allowed to post content from it? I'd really love to, there's some really great stuff in there, but I don't want to get into any trouble! Here's the link to the latest issue! Also as an ending footnote, @Sadie Meowsalot and I have been able to acquire the Jim Spaceborn animation materials (these were mentioned in a few posts back) recently! We're still figuring out a way we can legally share them with you, as there are contracts and legal obligations to we are bound by, but we will keep you posted once we figure out a way to do so!

okay mate

Bumping the topic just to post this: Why? Well, I shared this LI2 GBC screenshot on Discord. Then @mumboking brought up the original post image. I did what I had to do

damn son that was really NOT!

I already knew about this, but I just thought about it as I was replaying the GBC port of LI2 huh

le717-Today at 10:17 PM There are plenty of single girls in your area ready to mingle

OMGOMG MY CD IS HANTED BECAUSE PEPPER FELL OF HIS SKATEBORD ONTO THE ROAD SO THEN I WENT TO CAVE ANMD SAW FACE AND PEPPER TURNED BLOOD l SCARY RIGHT BUT THEN PEPPR TELEPORTED 2 ROAD AGAIN ANED ABULINCE RAN ME OVER BUT ITS GRAPHIOC SO IM NOT SHOWING

So I'm going to start off with wondering why I never thought to write down a chronology of my life since that's what I seem to resort to when I'm feeling down or something. It's probably because I'd find a way to turn what could effectively just be The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe into a whole series and I'm not committed enough for that, but since I really, really need to write something and get frustrations off of my chest I'll focus on what I can safely call the core of everything wrong with my life: High School. For those of you who haven't heard me say it about five-hundred times in the past: I'm currently living overseas in Naples, Italy. I moved here during my eighth-grade year, October 2013, and it's what I can only think of as the start of everything rolling down a very long, bumpy hill. Don't think I don't like it here; I adore the community that I have the privilege of living in, love all of the close friends I've made during these past three years, and most of my memories I look back with fondness happened in Europe. Unfortunately, life hasn't been all sunshine and rainbows for me, especially as of late. When I moved here as a homeschooled eighth-grader who's only experiences with the real world had primarily been Boy Scouts, church, and whatever swim team I was on, I faced a pretty jarring shift. All of my friends were now six hours behind me, I was stuck in a hotel room for seven months with my brother, parents, and dog, and I had to swim on an Italian club team after being off of swim for about four months. I was too naive to realize it at the time, but my life was starting to go to hell. That first year I had a massive lapse in my studies in favor of attempting to stay in touch with my friends and that obviously wasn't an okay choice that I made, but at the time they were all I had and I tried to hold on with a steely grip out of fear that if I loosened that grip I'd lose them forever. I faced a massive backlog of schoolwork come my freshman and sophomore years that's added on to more recent stresses and I would give anything to have the opportunity to go back and remedy that issue with the knowledge I currently possess. Unfortunately, that will likely never happen unless god himself throws me back in time and it would be an absurd thing to dwell on instead of more important things in the present. The summer preceding my freshman year was where I started to try and put my exuberant personality to good use and make some new friends (I was a really talkative child who only saw the world as good and was friends with everybody). Unfortunately, that exuberant personality had deteriorated a bit since I didn't really know how to make friends anymore since I didn't really have to back in America. Where I lived and in the activities I took part in, I pretty much had friends thrust onto me. It was usually something along the lines of "Hey, you two are sharing a tent this weekend!" or "Hey, you four are on a relay together!", but I didn't really have that here in Naples because I'd hit the age where everybody becomes super judgmental about you and the things you like and are really selective with who they hang around. The first month in Scouts here I didn't really make any friends because since I was an older kid I could have a whole tent to myself so I just did that for a while, and then I made what's turned out to be one of my best friends when we bonded over Doctor Who, LEGO, and other geeky stuff. I also had the extremely important part of assistant director in a one-week drama production of Hansel and Gretel put on by the Missoula Children's Theater and made a few friends there. These few friends I made at the beginning have all moved away or are preparing to move away for college following this year and I'm pretty much the only one left now. I did make some more friends among my teammates on the swim team, but the only person left from that group besides me is going to college early after Thanksgiving, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Oh I also met my first crush who I fell head-over-heels for during that play and I made the very very cringey as **** mistake of DMing her a cheesy instagram photo that basically said "all I want is you in my life" or some bull**** like that after one week of knowing her. Fortunately, we've both moved past that and are pretty good friends now although she's getting ready to go to college after this school year. So there's a brief look into how I thought relationships worked at 13: You meet, you like each other, and then BANG, you're an item. So that was basically freshman year: failed attempt at a relationship, made some friends who have moved/are moving soon, did a thing in a play, and got behind in schoolwork. w e w Jumping ahead to the summer before sophomore year, I was elected to be the senior patrol leader of the troop here and had the absolute worst time with it. Most of that is attributable to a single adult leader who intentionally scared me at a week-long camp in Germany, undermined my decisions in favor of his which ended up being terrible ones, and shooting down proposals when they were just ideas. F U N . After that ****show ended I began taking some electives at the american high school on the base: Robotics Engineering, Engineering CAD, and Advanced Chorus (Here's a fun link). I had two teachers; one taught both CAD and Robotics Engineering, and they're some of my favorite people in the world. The Robotics teacher let me do whatever the hell I wanted as long as it kept to course material more or less (like build an R/C Tank controlled by a PS4 remote, butcher computer fans to experiment with controllable fan speeds, and mess with 3D Printing) and on top of that he was super chill and brutally roasted students daily (it was one of the most entertaining things ever). The choir teacher was also really fun and let us have potlucks during school hours while watching movies like Inside Out. Last year was where I probably made most of my friends ,most of which never talk to me because I never see them in person anymore : ( . I do have a handful of friends both from the school who still talk to me despite how rare it is to see my face and make sure I'm human for them and I couldn't appreciate them more. Sophomore year was where this really happened though... I somehow managed to stay behind in studies at home in favor of, you guessed it, hanging onto friends again. I also started battling with some pretty intense mood swings, especially around holidays and my birthday where everything just dies in me and I lose interest in pretty much everything and shut down, making it harder to stay on top of stuff. Now that I'm back to homeschool full time for junior year for a myriad of reasons (don't want GPA to take a hit from parents wanting to go on vacation early, parents finding different resources to replace classes that would be taken at the high school, etc. usually involving parents), I realize just how much of what I had I took for granted. I thought I would always have that group of people around me and I'd be comfortable like that, but I focused too much on that and slipped up. Though I did mess up on my own, I feel like I've learned from it so that it won't happen again. I learned that the people who do care about me are the ones who will keep in touch, and the ones who I'm a "b-list" friend to won't. Another thing that I learned is that if I just try to manage my emotional issues and not let people know what's going on that I will reach a point where it gets to be too much and I'll ultimately break down, which happened very recently and it wasn't pretty. I just got so sick of the direction everything was heading and locked myself in a bathroom until my mom found me a blubbering mess inside and got me to let her know what's going on. I never really want to admit things because I always think that the result is going to be worse than it actually is, mostly from wanting to talk about these things but thinking through the conversation too quickly and having it end in a worse way than it started. Thus, I just keep it all inside and try to manage it on top of everything else in life, and it just doesn't work. The main point I got across to my mom is that I feel distant and isolated from people, that I need to be around a wider variety of people than the ones who I live closest to and drive me up the wall on a daily basis and invade my privacy a lot, and that I kept thinking that if I had just spoken up sooner it would be very different. That emotional dump actually turned out to be really good for me because in the last month I feel like I've learned more about myself than before. I began figuring out what I actually want in life, in a relationship, and in myself. I figured out that part of the reason why I always turn to action figures when I feel like I need something is that they're a temporary stand-in for people in that I give them personalities and they become a part of me through my photography. I figured out that I was really only talking about wanting to be an engineer because that's what I've been driven towards since I was ten and I hate confrontation about lifestyle choices and will say about anything I need to in order to get past that. I figured out that a lot of the crap I put myself through is just me talking to myself too much instead of talking to other people. With all of that having come out of my system, it's given me room to focus more on how I can improve my junior year from my sophomore year. It's also given me more confidence to speak up for myself. In the past, whenever I'd been suggested a course, I would've just said yes and tried to deal with whatever resulted with varying results. I've been more vocal about my course load this year and how my schedule works for me and I've actually gotten things done. I went into the PSAT three days ago and left feeling good about my performance having left with answering all of the questions, the vast majority I knew how to answer. I've gotten over a lot of my timidness that I'd adopted from moving here and asked a girl to homecoming, something I previously thought would be impossible for me to succeed at, and it went really well (the girl and I are looking at going out again, actually). So, yeah, I'm not done with high school yet (I'm barely past halfway), but I've figured out that it's a delicate experience that ultimately I determine the outcome for, and that it's more of a learning experience than anything I'd previously encountered. Sorry if this seems incoherent and jumpy; I wrote it over the course of a few days as things happened and felt that I needed to actually finish it so I can close the tab.

"no! i must ride the skateboard!" pepper shouted. the radio said "no, pepper. you are the skateboard." and then pepper was a skateboard

Hey there people that might still have a slight interrest in this! I came here to admit something. I have not been working on RtPu for ages. And by that I mean, I never really actually worked on RtPu so good at all. What I just did was creating small playable mockups to pass time and to tease people. At the current moment I do not have the skills and knowledge to create this game to my ideas. I'm not saying that it's cancelled. It has always been in my head and I am still coming up with ideas, but I do not work on it at the moment. I lack the skills of making 3D models and textures, I can do the simple stuff, but creating a simple playermodel is already too hard for me. So what have I been doing all the time? Well, mostly working on my musical career and games. Alot of games, games that I have and will never finish for the same reasons as Return To Planet U. What am I doing right now? Well, music, and an MMO to try to learn more advanced programming and maybe some modelling. I cannot do Return To Planet on my own. I need a team, but I don't have money or any contact with people that might work together with me with the skills needed. So RtPu is on hold for now. Expected release date: 2 weeks after Half-life 3. I hope you understand! -Pascal (also, in 2 months it will be my 7th year here! ) Edit: sorry for the potato english, had to type this in a hurry.

le717 - Today at 7:39 PM "Introducing the new Pandora" > Website is still based on Flash Alcom Isst - Today at 7:40 PM Well all their developers are experienced with Flash. le717 - Today at 7:40 PM But web browsers are becoming less experienced with Flash (edited)

I take it back, LEGO Friends is actually the most violent theme: I know it's just a MOC, but whatever Kinda ironic when he lives in (I think) a town called Safeville, y'know?

fixed it

The mod replaces Rocket Racer's body/face textures with modified versions of his textures from LEGO Racers 1, and replaces his head/helmet model with an altered version that uses two new textures and a new skybox (for his solid black visor). Can also replace player character models/textures if you rename the files (see the Veronica Voltage mod for example). Download Original post:

im spooked

This dialogue was in the LR2 GBA Beta: Oh Steve... EDIT: The game's versions of Jan, Suzie, and Gillian

[3:01 PM] Ringtail: foresocre and seven years ago i whooped yer ass and now i'm 'bout ta do it again

Some misc points: LEGO Battles had the Mars Mission aliens crash landing on Mars and trying to use the crystals to power their ship and get back home. The human side discovered the crystals coincidentally around the same time and the two sides started fighting over them. The mission text in the game described it a bit more, but here's the cutscenes: It ends with the aliens finally getting enough crystals to leave Mars, complete with a very Rock Raiders-reminiscent cutscene of them loading energy crystals into their ship's power system. Oh, there's also a subplot with Space Police chasing criminals who'd escaped to Mars, but that's mostly irrelevant. Also, the plot of Insectoids involved a group of Zotaxians (the aliens from the UFO theme) who fled from their "cruel leader" after a civil war, and escaped to a hollow planet called Holox. The planet's surface was too barren to support life, but when they went inside they found giant Bilgen Bugs living around and hatching eggs from the energy of an "inner sun" (don't question the physics of this too much). So they disguised their vehicles as insects, made voltstones (like solar batteries) that looked like bug eggs, and destroyed bug eggs to put voltstones in their place. The bugs caught on and things generally got a bit more dangerous. tl;dr lego really likes conflicts between aliens over power sources in space

The Power Miners story was actually that the rock monsters were eating the crystals and burping or something like that so much it was causing cataclysmic earthquakes on the surface. So they were collecting the crystals to stop the most embarrassing apocalypse of all time

this is an awesome

I'm still here sometimes, but currently I'm just too busy with other things and apps. I'm currently learning C++ which is a lot more low level which will definitely makes things I made a few years ago a lot clearer when I dive into this project again. I still hope sometimes that I will pick up this project and finish it.

Think you've got that backwards - I've tried them both with the standard framerate cap (60) and uncapped (debug mode) and they play at the same speeds on both (or so close I didn't see any difference), and said speed is usually too slow for the animation to even complete (or for some, hardly even begin!) before Pepper hits the ground and they stop. There's one or two where the speed is slightly higher than it seems it should be, but nothing too crazy.

the tongue was preserved within the mouth cavity and did not decompose with all the other flesh. the orbits can move because zombie magic.

Now seems like a good time to bring up this sheet of LEGO Loco character designs, some of which obviously... got revised: Yep. Those are legitimately 3D busty minifigs. That (almost) happened.

Unless anybody knows of more, I'm pretty sure Steve and the Beach Troopers in LEGO Star Wars 2 are the only minifigures to have nipples. (They were changed to have more clothing in The Complete Saga.) What an amazing piece of trivia.