User blog:Rogaine/April Hupdate



Greetings, peasants good people of CBW, it is I, your benevolent chat moderator, Jareroden97, with the first Hupdate this year. (And the first blog in over a year.) You may say, "But Matt, you've hardly even done anything in the past year," which is quite true. So, I figured it was about time to really sit down and tell you guys why exactly I've hardly been around for the past two years.

STORY TIME
So basically after some stuff happened in 2011 that I'd rather not get into detail about, I felt myself kind of drained of energy to do things around here, not to mention the fact that I was spending more and more time live chatting with people from around here, so all that amounted to me doing basically nothing here. Then summer 2012 rolled around and I got the game Mass Effect 2, and since then the ME series been what I've played most consistently, so between school, "real life", games, and chatting my work on the wiki basically just fell by the wayside, and I'd like to issue an apology about that. I was pretty lame. But now I'm unlame. Maybe.

So anyway, now that I'm done with school for a bit, expect to see some new story updates and pages from me soonly. And also read Neon. Because I wrote that. For Josh's Cemarity Saga, which you should also read. YES. Also, I've basically got all of Ascension fully planned, so I'll start writing shortly and hopefully finish by mid summer. It'll run around 18 chapters plus the epilogue, so that's pretty swell. Also, my new cat:

Quick Tip Quickie
This is going to be a thing every month where I tell you guys about MOCing techniques I've picked up over time, for the betterment of the human race and all that.


 * You can put a Brain Attack hero visor inside most Glatorian style helmets, but I've found it looks best with Gelu's helmet.
 * You can fit those little horn/spike parts on the two bottom holes of a 2001 Pakari, so now your character can look like an Orc from Skyrim too.



Upcoming Collaborative Story
So, pretty soon me and Bond are going to start work on a new collaborative story set in an alternate universe where the Time Slip went wrong, and erased everyone's memories of their entire lives, basically leading to the entire shape of the universe changing. Now, the residents of the universe worship Makuta Teridax as their benevolent god who redeemed them from the toil in darkness under the old, hated god Mata Nui. The story revolves around three travelers who are social outcasts for doubting Makuta's sovereignty: Terull, an honorable Makuta who used to be one of Teridax's greatest followers; Vankira, a brash and explosive Toa of Water who is Terull's apprentice; and Gernakk, a pacifistic Skakdi archaeologist intent on discovering the truth of the past. We'll be getting around to writing it within the next couple of months, so be on the lookout for that.

MOCs
Hoo boy, do I have plenty to post here, considering that I haven't posted any MOCs in like a year. Some of them are kind of meh, since they were mostly built for fun and to pass time, and they'll most likely be getting updates in the future, so bare with me. Constructive criticism welcome.

MOC Evaluatin
I come to you with a proposition. I've been doing this on the chat for a couple of weeks, and now I've been convinced to make an entire thing out of it. What is it, you may ask? Well, dear user, it is MOC reviewing. Matt's MOC Evaluatin', where you guys post me MOCs, preferably of your own making, and I give constructive criticism on it and give ideas on how to improve it. I'll be making a user subpage for it soon, so when I do go on and post links to pictures of your MOCs here for me to see and evaluate at the earliest convenience. Get steppin, gents. (Also, I totally didn't copy/paste most of that from a topic on the forums.)

Until Next Time
Before I end this Hupdate, I'd just like to say thank you to everyone. CBW has been a very important part of my life for over four years, and without it I wouldn't have met some of my closest friends. So, here's to another four years, eh? See you all in the next Hupdate, maybe next month, maybe not. Who knows? WHO, nose? Tom Baker intensifies.

-Matt