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The off-brand Lego brick sets I've gotten thus far have been fully up to par, and compatible with official Lego bricks. The recipient of the Avengers Tower is aware that it is not official Lego - I discussed with him which sets he did and didn't have. I expect a casual review from him. The only issue I've had so far is a color substitution on a Batmobile MOC (My Own Creation - an original design). The grilles should be red, and the flame should be orange/yellow:  But it was $18, rather than ~$30 it would have cost to order the bricks (used!) from BrickLink. I did find the original designer on ReBrickAble with the intent of paying for the design, but he was giving it away, so I just "liked" it. I did order the correct color parts from BrickLink. Under $1.50 in parts, but $5 shipping... I have another MOC coming, of an Initial D AE86.
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We all deserve a commemorative coin, but I don't care for this design. How about a "I survived the Trump administration"? It should prove to be much more harmful in the long run. By popular demand fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Jan 20, 2021 |
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By popular demand posted:How about a "I survived the Trump administration"? It should prove to be much more harmful in the long run. That one is really easy or hard if you are not in the US but remember that he could've nuked you by accident or on purpose instead.
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I've seen that magician's trick before (you can find YouTube demonstrations as it's a very old style) but the radiation defeating missile is news to me.
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i can’t find that missile on my own search, got a link?
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nishi koichi posted:i can’t find that missile on my own search, got a link? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/400...earchweb201603_
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How is that $8k for just being a model, is it like selling PS5 boxes where you're hoping to scam people who are trying to buy the real thing for a price that's too good to be true?
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By popular demand posted:I've seen that magician's trick before (you can find YouTube demonstrations as it's a very old style) but the radiation defeating missile is news to me. As in homing in on radiations, i.e. it's for blowing up SAM radar sites.
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Coxswain Balls posted:How is that $8k for just being a model, is it like selling PS5 boxes where you're hoping to scam people who are trying to buy the real thing for a price that's too good to be true?
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I believe we can find better more peaceful use for a huge metal tube than a weapon.
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 Most other lens places wanted like a $70 upcharge because of my prescription, hopefully this place can fulfill it 
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bigperm posted:
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https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1351753854422032386 turns out he was just training in 10x gravity for a while like goku and kim jong un
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Kazy posted:
Did you check zenni? The glasses I got my lenses out of on zenni were $10, and I printed my own inserts. I’d gladly print you the inserts for the cost of shipping. $60 seems kinda steep.
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bagual posted:https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1351753854422032386 Thought for sure he’d stay disappeared. Are we sure he’s not been replaced with a robot or clone?
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GutBomb posted:Did you check zenni? The glasses I got my lenses out of on zenni were $10, and I printed my own inserts. I don't know whether I got the wrong glasses or my printer's calibrated wrong, but the inserts didn't fit the lenses at all when I tried. So I just said gently caress it instead of tweaking it a million times to get it to work. e: I think it may have been the x3g plugin for Octoprint, printed straight from SD and the adapters were fine. I think I'm gonna keep my order, though, since getting the rotation right on the round lenses is very fiddly. Kazy fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Jan 20, 2021 |
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Cartoon Man posted:Thought for sure he’d stay disappeared. Are we sure he’s not been replaced with a robot or clone? Honestly the best way we can be unconcerned about replicant substitution is how fantastically expensive the technology would be when it even becomes available. It'd be honestly cheaper and easier searching the earth for that one in a million lookalike, plastic surgery what minor differences can be found and train him to act convincingly.
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GutBomb posted:Are the instructions that come with the fake Lego sets on Ali anywhere near as good as official ones? I’m thinking of knockoffs of official sets. I've purchased three sets of knock-off legos from Ali. Every time, I've received/downloaded a copy of the official Lego instructions. My last purchase was the Millenium Falcon knockoff, and it looks like they just printed a new cover and slapped it on the real-deal instructions.
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I bought two of those incredibly cheap Lockpicking sets with a transparent lock, one for me, one for my 15 year old, thinking it would be a cool activity to do with them and a fun thing to learn. Well, within 5 minutes of receiving them we were both proficient enough to open the included lock, and with about 10 more minutes of practice on all of the padlocks and door locks around our house we have come to the conclusion that locks are complete bullshit. Lockpicking is SO EASY. Fun though. Highly recommended. https://a.aliexpress.com/_mM6EaUH
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What a wholesome family activity Now do the bank
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GutBomb posted:I bought two of those incredibly cheap Lockpicking sets with a transparent lock, one for me, one for my 15 year old, thinking it would be a cool activity to do with them and a fun thing to learn. Well, within 5 minutes of receiving them we were both proficient enough to open the included lock, and with about 10 more minutes of practice on all of the padlocks and door locks around our house we have come to the conclusion that locks are complete bullshit. Lockpicking is SO EASY. Just as a protip, don't make a habit of picking locks that you are using for something like keeping your house locked or the kids out of. Having a nonfunctional hunk of metal stuck in your door is inconvenient at best.
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GutBomb posted:I bought two of those incredibly cheap Lockpicking sets with a transparent lock, one for me, one for my 15 year old, thinking it would be a cool activity to do with them and a fun thing to learn. Well, within 5 minutes of receiving them we were both proficient enough to open the included lock, and with about 10 more minutes of practice on all of the padlocks and door locks around our house we have come to the conclusion that locks are complete bullshit. Lockpicking is SO EASY. Yeah, most consumer grade locks are super easy and can be raked open in 10 seconds. Try some different locks like wafer locks (still easy but different) or commercial door front locks. Also, those Quikset locks that can be rekeyed are loving extremely difficult to pick, in fact I've not been able to pick one even when I needed to get in to my brother in laws house when they locked themselves out.
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There are three levels of locks. Level 1 - Garbage locks that anyone with half a brain could pick with a bit of practice. Level 2 - Challenging for a competent picker Level 3 - All but impossible to pick except for the most skilled (see Lockingpickinglawyer on youtube). The reason why most locks are garbage tier is that each level adds a zero onto the price and almost no-one wants to spend thousands per lock for the near unpickable ones. The good news is that only honest people pick locks, criminals will just bypass it by smashing windows or crowbaring something open. Deviant Ollam talks about this, it is things like underdoor attacks or shimming is what gets people through doors and not picking. Get a decent set of locks and make sure your door and window frames are up to a kicking and you will be as secure as you need it until you stick bars on the windows.
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bagual posted:https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1351753854422032386 did he always have a head like a lego man?
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goblin week posted:did he always have a head like a lepin man? Ahem
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Remote control boats with little hoppers to dump fish bait? There are a ton of them and they're not cheap. Not a fisherman at all but this seems like cheating. Have a ball of meat, fish.  And if you don't need to dump fish bait out you can get other features instead, like: 
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bigperm posted:Remote control boats with little hoppers to dump fish bait? There are a ton of them and they're not cheap. Not a fisherman at all but this seems like cheating. If I had a big pond I'd definitely feed my fish like that daily
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w00tmonger posted:If I had a big pond I'd definitely feed my fish like that daily Take it to the beach, make the seagulls chase it.
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Anyone order any custom photo blankets or jigsaw puzzles? For the puzzle, I think I'll just do a Ravensburger, but there are a lot of blanket printers with good reviews. Curious if anyone had done it and received a good quality one that wasn't like a plastic fabric.
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Anyone ever ordered one of those Gundam model kits from Ali? I don’t know anything about the grades it from a cursory glance it looks significantly cheaper than what I would pay retail.
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Shlomo Palestein posted:As the owner of a Neo Geo X with two sticks who modded it when it was reasonable to do so, this is the correct advice, though if you can splurge, a Vita is even better since you get everything a PSP can do with a bunch of solid Vita games and options on top of that. It's not as easy as a PSP, but it's not especially hard either. If you do remember about the submenu stuff let me know please. Also what do you recommend as far as MVS multicarts? I've still got my MVS and been out of the game for a while on what won't destroy the motherboard.
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Spring Heeled Jack posted:Anyone ever ordered one of those Gundam model kits from Ali? I don’t know anything about the grades it from a cursory glance it looks significantly cheaper than what I would pay retail. Obligatory image: 
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Anyone notice that AliExpress no longer lists shipping charges in the search result page? I ordered an electric turntable, and only noticed in the check-out stage that shipping is not only not free, it's nearly as much as the item! So, I went back to search for another option, and noticed this: no shipping fees listed, anymore! The other sellers who had this item were charging about the same for shipping, or the same as the combined item + shipping for just the item.
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Yeah, it's part of their slow descent to consumer-unfriendly poo poo I find I've gone from ordering literally 2-3 things per day to maybe 2-3 things per month because it's so irritating to browse now
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Ditto. And some of the shipping seems to have become quite predatory. That combined with price ranges (5-20 dollars, where everything is actually 20 except for a replacement button or box which is 5) is making it a lot harder to find things.
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