[2019] What happened this year to Rayque?

It's that time of the year again! It's time for another summary!
This marks the 9th summary on this blog. Next year will be our tenth!

As always: the Rayque3 Staff wishes you a great 2020!

2019 to me was a year where the ups were fair but the downs were rough. For instance, this year marked the end of my time as a student as I've graduated from school. However, doing so was not an easy thing to do, and neither was graduating without consequences. From what I'm aware of, I now tick all the necessary boxes to apply for the job I've been working my entire life towards. But that of itself has become a difficult situation of its own.

Basically, I'm stuck in a limbo for the time being until I can apply for the job. Despite that I'm now ready for the job from an objective point of view, working abroad for the remainder of my life on my own requires more than just being a potential candidate for that Product Designer life. How long this "limbo" will take, I don't know. But what I do know is that it'll be time to finish my Hailfire Droid next year and hopefully be done with the Constructor in (early?) 2021!

Let's get to those statistics of 2019.

[Lego] So, I just got this Sealed Box of #8924...

Behold, one of the best Bionicle sets of all time! At least, that is the general consensus about this particular model.

Maxilos is one of the very few Bionicle sets to have both shoulder and waist articulation. You'd be surprised to hear that from the hundreds of constraction figures and combiner models that LEGO® has produced in two decades, only a couple of them have shoulder articulation and less than thirty have waist articulation (the majority of these being CCBS, which came out after gen 1 Bionicle).

I had to wait about a year before I could snag a sealed box from Bricklink. Most of these (larger, boxed) Bionicle sets are always in a continuous cycle of ebb and flow on the aftermarket. Sometimes there are plenty of them available, sometimes there can be years of none. That said, the 2007 lineup is truly among my favorite in the line.

That's it for today - I'll see you guys again tomorrow, with our annual tradition of the Year Summary!

[EMS] Spider in Mirror - Level 30!

Sup guys, I've managed to max out Spider in Mirror recently! There has been plenty of EXP Nodestones in the past couple of coin shops, so I managed to get my hands on enough of them to max the skill out.

Anyway, I have to bring some less positive news that I can't avoid mentioning here.

Due to a change of circumstances in my personal life, I can no longer publish my Glory's skill wave blogpost any time soon. I have to postpone it until at least February 2020, after the update is over. The first draft of about 7500 words is done, but I just can't do any of the quality checking and image building soon. I really can't do any of that earlier than until after the update. Eh well, on a positive note: we should have more information about the Rise update around that time, which I can then include in the blogpost if necessary. Apologies for the delay.

That's it for today - I'll see you guys again next post!