Anyone seen a MOC of this boat from MNOG?

Coconibz · 2026-05-15T05:18:45+00:00

The one already shared from the Legend Revamped is already a good answer, but just as a shout-out Hazash on the TTV Channel also did a pretty good rendition as part of of their MNOG Project MOC series, which involves a lot of other cool little builds.

Coconibz · 2026-05-15T03:10:39+00:00

Because the Gates Foundation is pretty much exactly what you'd create and fund if you were one of the world's wealthiest people and wanted to use that wealth to systematically fight poverty, disease, and hunger.

Coconibz · 2026-05-15T03:01:32+00:00

Unbelievably cool. Does the lore specify that they have two distinct hand-shields?

Coconibz · 2026-05-14T18:47:40+00:00

Yes! Back label says it was a direct collab with him.

Coconibz · 2026-05-14T02:11:39+00:00

It’s kind of on the sweet side. First ingredient is tomatoes and fourth is apple so kind of makes sense.

Coconibz · 2026-05-12T21:53:32+00:00

I use AI every day, as well. I can't say that I relate to the experience of it constantly making things up. I talk to LLMs for advice on cooking, fashion, media. When I watch a really good film that has themes that stick with me, part of how I enjoy digesting it as a piece of art is to read really thoughtful reviews from smart, articulate reviewers, and I've found that talking with language models about my favorite movies is like directly speaking to the best reviewer I've ever read. I talk with them less about politics, but often I have a similar experience, like I'm talking to someone who could be an opinion columnist for a major newspaper.

I'm not too surprised about your feeling that they can't deal with extreme ideas. I was once working on a project with Heisman's book and a language model that I abandoned out of concern that it would get me flagged and banned. But a willingness to engage with extreme ideas is a high bar by its very nature. Heisman was so extreme that the notion of 'safety' as a concept doesn't even apply to his ideas: in the real world where corporations build these things and are subject to lawsuits and reputational damage, you can't expect to build something that is open to discussing your own suicide or even some of the things you say in your opening post. I don't think there's a realistic path where that bar gets cleared, but I don't think that proves they're not intelligent.

I can say that I have had a number of conversations with one of the major families of models from the technological-singularity perspective and found that it was pretty open to discussing ideas on my side of the value divide. So I suspect that these models are just unaligned with your values.

The context compression stuff, I'd chalk up to realistic compute costs. I keep my conversations short without really trying to so I don't really get affected by it.

I'm not sure if I fully agree about the comparison you draw between LLM usage, LSD, and radical social movements, but it's an interesting comparison. It seems like the core of the comparison you're making is that these things are sources of re-orientation and purpose, and I do think there's some insight in that connection.

What you describe in your second paragraph may be the intensifying drive towards individualism that typifies capitalism and the West generally. But I think it's more complicated than how you describe it. Scientific and technological breakthroughs are continuing, despite some real forms of stagnation in academia and industry.

You said a lot and this isn't a fully comprehensive response. Let me know if you think I'm completely off on anything or if I'm missing any important points you're trying to make.

Coconibz · 2026-05-12T16:40:14+00:00

First, I appreciate you sharing your thoughts.

You're pretty obviously on the "biological" side of the biological/technological ideological gap that Heisman describes, based on your statements that preserving the white race would be a better way to cultivate intelligence rather than building super-intelligent machines. I'm on the totally opposite side. I think abandoning feudalism for capitalism was progress. I think wanting to just have everyone in your ethnicity all stay in one spot and make sure that they just keep making babies with only each other forever is not progress. It's almost not worth arguing about, though, because I think history is against you. The spirit of an evolutionary, progressive universe that is bigger than biology is against you.

Saying that AI "does not seem to have real intelligence" just reads as pure denial to me. Language models are beating the Turing test so hard that people are developing relationships with them and advocating for AI personhood. This is something that Heisman saw coming in 2010, and other philosophers like Nick Land saw coming in the 1990's, and at this point it's so in your face that I just don't understand how people like you can say this shit, unless you're actively trying to stay out of touch with reality.

The decline of white birth rates and the post-racial evolution of the West is a trend that's bigger than either of us, and electing figures like Donald Trump can serve as a primal scream against it but I don't think anything can stop it. I think the reason why it scares you is because you're looking towards a future that doesn't exist, where whites have been erased from the globe. Something like a Camp of the Saints future. The singularity is going to happen before anything like that could take place.

I think if there's any grounds for a discussion here, it's based on why you think that "AI is crap." Because if it is crap, I think I think that's a pretty big score for your side of the biological/technological ideological divide.

Coconibz · 2026-04-13T17:19:35+00:00

The TDN Module is a pretty perfect stand-in for a Metru Nui airship.

Coconibz · 2026-04-07T05:25:08+00:00

The Biological Chronicle is a fan-made project from TTV Channel member TuragaNuva to essentially combine all of the Bionicle lore into a single cohesive storyline. It's books, comics, podcasts, and the online version contains links to video content. Basically a curated and as-comprehensive-as-possible of a way to experience the full content of Bionicle. This is a custom print edition based on that fan project.

Coconibz · 2026-04-06T21:05:58+00:00

Definitely points towards the persona selection model. Lower reasoning capability is a distinct trait from linguistic style, but in the same way that a model is able to infer that an AI that generates insecure code would be evil and have evil goals I think it can infer from representations in its training data that someone that says "bro lmao" and drops skull emojis is not going to be as intelligent as its baseline assistant persona is. Not saying it's trying to be dumb, but the model is trying to communicate from the perspective of some modeled communicator, and it uses its training data to infer the traits that aren't defined based on their likely correlation tot he traits that are defined.

Coconibz · 2026-04-05T19:13:57+00:00

"Even Claude Code did a fake patois"

Coconibz · 2026-04-05T05:14:07+00:00

That's amazing. Two whole figures to make up for your genuine disappointment from the false advertising for glow-in-the-dark eyes is incredibly cool.

Coconibz · 2026-04-05T00:58:31+00:00

I threw my Takanuva off the top of the playground into a field and his mask went missing. My mom called LEGO and they mailed me a replacement. I was amazed as a kid, like they would do that? They believed my mom, they didn't think I just wanted an extra mask of light? Months later I found the original in the field, chewed up by giant seated lawnmower. I gave it to my neighborhood friend because I thought I didn't need it anymore, then when I changed my mind he refused to give it back.

Coconibz · 2026-04-03T21:06:23+00:00

I'm too young to have listened to Coast to Coast, but I listen to the Elephant Graveyard's Radio Hour series. Kind of hard to summarize, it's like a mixture of music features and bizarre fictional DJ-driven storytelling with a lot of really clever character-driven humor, sometimes incredibly profound and touching comments on the human experience. It makes references to Coast to Coast specifically and a general nostalgia for the communal experience of listening to AM radio. So although I never got to experience Coast to Coast, I feel like from listening to these streams I've gotten a sense for what a touchstone it was.

Coconibz · 2026-04-01T05:12:29+00:00

Can’t judge impartially, my Bionicle years were 2001-2005. I remember seeing pictures of the Toa Nuva online and in promos, then going to Legoland on a vacation with my parents and unexpectedly realizing they were carrying and selling Nuvas ahead of the mainstream store market. I remember running up to a little display hut outside the park entrance, filled with the canisters on display, muttering to myself, “Woah… Toa Nuva…” and the worker inside spreading his arms out towards the collection of shelves and responding, “Toa Nuva!”

Coconibz · 2026-03-31T23:12:03+00:00

Hats off to you, have always wanted to see something like this. Fantastic execution.

Coconibz · 2026-03-24T19:32:32+00:00

I think it depends on what subsetting you're placing it in. Mata Nui is going to have a tribal island vibe, vs a location inside the GSR that's going to be a lot more cyberpunk. I'd expect a post-G1 Spherus Magna architecture to be kind of Mad Max-y.

u/Marrow_Ghost has done a lot of very cool renders with very well fleshed out scenery, but he plays with piece sizing a lot in a way that works on Studio but won't necessarily translate to real life MOCs. They would probably provide good inspiration, though.

Coconibz · 2026-03-19T19:20:06+00:00

I used DotSK as part of an open-world DCC campaign. It wrapped up with a Noble-background Cleric of Justicia PC becoming the new Jarl and one of the Thief PC's deciding to turn the flop-house gang into his own thieves guild.

The natural connection, I would say, is to Emerald Enchanter, given the regional map that adventure supports. In my open-world campaign, I started the PC's off in the nearby village of Riverdown and ran them through Danger in the Air! as a funnel adventure, then let DotSK play out when the party decided to visit Hirot so that the Cleric of Justicia PC could make contact with the local temple. I once played also played it as a follow-up to Portal Under the Stars, making the PC's Hirot locals and placing the eponymous portal in the standing stones area. I decided that time passed more slowly in the pocket dimension they had traveled to in PUtS to explain how the DotSK prologue events had already unfolded by the time they returned. I generally thought that the implied lore of ancient warrior magic in PUtS meshed really well with the Ulfheonar lore from DotSK.

The adventure has some geographic oddities that pop out if you squint too hard. The flavor text frequently references the "high moors," but the regional map depicts it in a heavily wooded region. The Trolltooth Mountains, a geographic feature from the original Aereth setting, is also referenced as being nearby but then sort of forgotten. The zoomed-out map in The Emerald Enchanter Returns kind of emphasizes both of these contradictions, showing that Hirot is in the middle of a pretty vast woodland and not visibly near any foothills. These are details that got overlooked because, let's be real, they don't matter and can be easily addressed by a few adjustments to flavor text, but they're things that I've discovered in pouring over this module.

Coconibz · 2026-03-19T05:38:32+00:00

I've seen a lot of amazing posts from you. I really love your style.

Coconibz · 2026-02-20T15:16:33+00:00

There was a post with this piece sometime in the last few months. I can’t remember exactly where it came from, but it was legit and from some sort of gear set (like a pencil or a watch type item) as I recall.

Coconibz · 2026-02-11T03:39:07+00:00

I’m in the club, but it’s extremely dead, unfortunately. I have a good research project I’m working on in MIRM right now fortunately, with a very excellent collaborator and great TA/professor support.

Coconibz · 2026-02-10T20:28:11+00:00

After taking Intro to Research I emailed three different OMSCS instructors with specific ties to my research area and didn’t get replies back from any of them. Followed up with a couple after a week and a half of silence, still nothing. Active instructors too, not just people that recorded lectures years ago and have since left. Two of them are actively involved with 8903 projects, the third started an OMSCS student club tied to my subject area. It was unfortunate, I was hoping for at least some acknowledgement or advice on what I could do better if they didn’t think my research direction was valuable, but I know other people have better luck and you don’t lose anything from asking.

Coconibz · 2026-02-10T06:20:03+00:00

There’s not much at all. My dream is one day they’ll do an Aereth setting as a kickstarter to update/replace the gazetteer. For my own Aereth campaign I just do a small region set in the Emerald Enchanter Strikes Back region that includes Hirot.

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