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Archives Research Logs (MNADL reboot) progress update: I have done three drafts of the first part, and I'll start on the second once I've come up with the premise. My plan is to get, like, a backlog of ~3 so I can start posting them either monthly or every other week.

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I feel like back in the 90s/2000s Oakley, Alienware, Bionicle, etc shared this absolutely PEAK tribal/industrial aesthetic that I have never seen drawn attention to or referenced in any way since.

Is there a name for this trend? It feels too edgy to be Y2K, and too whimsical to be Industrial Gothic. If this is some kind of nameless fusion, I personally dub it "Ancient Aliens".

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my takeaway from playing MNOG

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haven't read the Bara Magna books in years did they ever address how Kiina gaining elemental control over water on a desert planet where survival has been a struggle for thousands of years would essentially make her a god

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some of you are trying to gaslight me I know I had this bad boy when I was a kid

this and the movie and like one encounter with the online comics are about all I know about Bara Magna okay

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haven't read the Bara Magna books in years did they ever address how Kiina gaining elemental control over water on a desert planet where survival has been a struggle for thousands of years would essentially make her a god

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Does this happen often?

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Does this happen often?

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The beginning of a series of animations done by Akaku. The perspective shot was actually pretty good!

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Metoran the disk finders. Ahkmou, Orkahm, Tehutti, Nuhrii, Vhisola, and Ehrye.

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the reason we haven’t explored the ocean is because the Barraki are in there

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9.... eleven....

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Thinking about those people who want to fuck Lego Bionicles

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I haven't played it, but Bionicle Matoran Adventures looks like. One of the games of all time.

Like what do you mean these are sprites from an official Bionicle game:

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Actually I put some of this in the tags but it kinda deserves to go here so people like. Know what the deal is.

Basically, the plan is for Archives Research Logs to be formatted as like. "Seasons" with each individual log as a chapter. Season 1 is set during the Metru era, Season 2 is set between 2003 and 2006, Season 3 is set during 2008, and Season 4 is set after 2010 and serves as something of an epilogue. I have an ending planned, and what happens in said ending would make anything afterwards feel kinda. Awkward, for reasons I obviously can't talk about.

The "interesting stuff" mentioned in the original post won't happen until the interlude between Seasons 1 and 2, and will the payoff will happen in Season 2 at the earliest (I might also do a more traditionally-formatted spinoff about the character, too). The character, whose identity I will keep anonymous for obvious reasons (though a few people on Discord know who it is and what happens to them) will get a lot more characterisation than they originally did, and will appear in way more parts than their MNADL counterpart did, before Something™ happens towards the end of Season 1 that facilitates the interesting stuff.

Deep into planning on Archives Research Logs (the MNADL reboot) and like. I have some interesting stuff planned for a certain character who didn't get to do much in the original...

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One thing I really like about Makuta's movie design is the lack of a heartlight. It's a very simple detail, easy to miss, easy to not make a big deal out of it. But also that could be a very significant choice on the part of the designers. It works for Teridax of course, he's literally heartless, but I often think about if the same would be true for the other Makuta as well. They do have life-force, but they're not the same kind of creature as anything else in the MU, just sentient energy-gas contained in mechanical armour. They don't have biological processes for a heartlight to indicate. Maybe they once did, when they were biomechs like everything else, but after their evolution those little system-function lights were removed for being extraneous. But then, we know from Teridax assuming Dume's form that Makuta can shapeshift to have heartlights, so it could be down to personal choice which still present one and which don't bother with it or actively choose not to have one in a display of strength.

And of course all of this is further complicated by the dubious canonicity of heartlights to begin with. The movies have them, some of the books mention them, but the sets never did, so we're left guessing about them a lot of the time. But I don't know, assuming we can count them as canon and something that would be present in most MU species (Nidhiki, Krekka, and Sidorak all have them in the movies, and I can't really tell for Roodaka. There might be something there in the cavity that gets filled with the Makuta Stone? Oh and the Turaga Metru don't have them, for some reason[??] Lhikan and Dume do though) Makuta not typically having them feels like that much more keen attention to detail.

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Also Vican:

Conspiracy theory that Mazeka is canonically a Ko-Matoran (as opposed to an Av-Matoran like he's clearly designed to be) to balance out the fact that we didn't get a single named Ko-Matoran character in Mahri Nui the previous year.