mf0 logs -> 2013 -> Tue, 29 Jan 2013< mf0.20130128.log - mf0.20130130.log >
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13:54
< Soren>
Ah, I thought that was you
13:54
< Malcolm>
By the randomly assigned username, you shall know him
14:21
< Soren>
Well, /whois had something to do with it.
14:55
< Madness>
:o
14:55
< Madness>
THE soren!
14:57
< Soren>
Yeah, last I checked!
14:58
< Soren>
I dunno. I could be someone else. How do you tell if you're not yourself?
15:04
< Madness>
Usually with a huge amount of introspection,
15:04
< Madness>
be careful tho, you might produce a concept album as a result.
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15:22
< Soren>
It's a definite risk.
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15:56
< Soren>
ahoy
16:31
< afny>
oh, hey
16:31
< afny>
on mac os, never notice when it autoconnects
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16:43
< afny>
o/
16:44
< Malcolm>
I think my bold move to try and get at least fifty entries into the design contest is likely to be for naught. Still, 42 entries is pretty pleasing
16:44
< huhwhozat>
...wow
16:52
< afny>
I might still get an entry in
16:52
< afny>
I had a couple vague ideas
16:52
< afny>
everything is just so unsorted it's hard to build with purpose
16:56
< Malcolm>
I know how that goes. I'm moving house again this weekend, so everything is packed up just as I've had some good ideas for new frames.
16:56 * Soren looks at the calendar
16:56
< Soren>
None of you are allowed to bitch.
16:56
< afny>
heh
16:56
< Soren>
I haven't had access to serious Lego in six months.
16:56
< Malcolm>
Here comes Old Man Roberts, telling us how good we got it...
16:56
< Soren>
It's a wonder I'm still even marginally sane.
16:57
< afny>
so I think I'm going to try to make some little water reservoirs
16:57
< Soren>
hopefully, barring any fuckups not of my making, that will change in March.
16:57
< afny>
out of those star wars planets
16:58
< afny>
ooh, that's pretty soon
16:58
< afny>
your brain might make it that far.
16:58
< Soren>
it might
16:58
< afny>
I scored two cloud car sets yesterday on the cheap, I should go back and get the third one
16:58
< Malcolm>
We should have a sweepstake on that
16:58
< Malcolm>
Sorens brain, not on cloud cars
16:59
< Soren>
I'm sure something will go wrong.
16:59
< Soren>
one way or another.
16:59
< Malcolm>
I'm betting on pirates in the Malacca Strait
17:00
< afny>
oh god, don't say that
17:00
< Soren>
except there's noting a pirate would want.
17:00
< afny>
what would they do with LEGO.
17:01
< Malcolm>
Build tiny pirate ships in their freetime?
17:01
< Malcolm>
I assume even pirates have downtime.
17:02
< afny>
they use it on opium.
17:02
< Malcolm>
Lego opium pipe?
17:05
< afny>
plastic smoking instruments probably aren't all that safe
17:05
< afny>
but then again pirates are probably not concerned with safety.
17:06
< Malcolm>
I'm sure burning ABS enhances the experience, if only briefly and probably fatally
17:09
< Soren>
I sincerely doubt it's as much of a risk as a loading accident, and in any case it's insured.
17:10
< Malcolm>
Regardless of the worries, it'll be great when everything arrives in one piece
17:15
< Soren>
yes.
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19:54
< Madness>
Hmm, I can't figure out how to shop for parts.
19:54
< Madness>
I mean, yes, I can use bricklink just fine
19:54
< Madness>
but deciding on the pieces to buy is driving me insane.
19:56
< Soren>
In what sense?
19:56
< Soren>
just not sure what parts are good?
19:56
< Madness>
Well, this is the situation, I used to have a ton of bits
19:58
< Madness>
when I was a kid
19:58
< Madness>
I recently tried to recover them
19:59
< Madness>
but my mother gave it to a person, I managed to get them back, but she couldn't find most of the good bits
20:00
< Madness>
So basically now I have less than half of what I used to have and a desire to build with what I don't have anymore.
20:00
< Soren>
ouch.
20:00
< Madness>
but hey, 2x4 bricks.
20:00
< Soren>
They do make very good terrain.
20:01
< Madness>
Plus I see what the people on flickr is posting, and I see they use a ton of cool colored bits to hide the hinges and inner things.
20:02
< Soren>
I would load up on: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=4599b http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=2555 and http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=4081b
20:02
< Madness>
Plus I'm being OCD as heck, and I can't settle on buying the garage list on its own because I keep thinking "but what if I wanted to do that thing I saw from that guy and I don't have the bits to do it".
20:03
< Soren>
The classic dilemma.
20:03
< Madness>
But I'm being a hypocrite because this kind of first world problem is just a symptom of the fact that lego is fricking cool and we are lucky it was invented the way it was.
20:03
< Soren>
It's true, but there's always room to make your fun better.
20:04
< Madness>
yea, I just need a vision.
20:04
< Soren>
It's why we dip things that are already tasty in chocolate
20:04
< Madness>
In form of an affordable wishlist.
20:04
< othila>
I'd say don't go with the garage kit in its entirety. Stock up on those pieces Soren linked (and some 1x1 bricks w/ 5 studs)
20:04
< Madness>
This weekend we will be going to a friend's house in the mountains near here, we plan to pop our MF0 cherry there.
20:04
< othila>
and then work outward from there in increasing size
20:05
< othila>
limit yourself to a few colors; get 1x1 plates in those colors, 1x1 tiles in those colors
20:05
< Madness>
I need to make a decision on the matter fast.
20:05
< othila>
1x2 plates in those colors
20:05
< othila>
1x2 plates with bars in those colors
20:05
< othila>
and, uh
20:05
< Madness>
othila, that's another thing.
20:05
< othila>
there's probably no way you can get bricklink bits by this weekend
20:05
< othila>
well, it might happen, but it's not a guarantee
20:06
< Madness>
I like green, I always have liked it as a color, but ijad frames are so f'n cool in white. :)
20:06
< Soren>
Get a bunch of 1x1 and 1x2 tiles. Those little bastards will cover a multitude of sins
20:06
< othila>
because some guy on the other end has to parse out your order into little baggies
20:06
< othila>
and get around to sending them
20:06
< othila>
yes, 1x1 and 1x2 tiles (and their respective plates) are absolutely vital
20:06
< othila>
for the afformentioned covering of inner things
20:06
< Madness>
plates are the slanted ones?
20:07
< Soren>
Here, let me link you to Bricklink's categories
20:07
< Madness>
ah no wait, you mean the modified plates
20:07
< Soren>
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=P&catString=26 plates
20:07
< Madness>
with the clipts
20:07
< Soren>
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=P&catString=37 tiles
20:07
< Madness>
*clips
20:07
< Soren>
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=P&catString=31 slopes
20:07
< Madness>
lol, the minecraft plate is too cute to be true.
20:08
< Soren>
'plate' is the generic term for things that are 1/3rd brick height.
20:08
< othila>
with studs
20:08
< Soren>
yeah
20:09
< Soren>
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3794 this little guy, for example,is a jumper plate. Also good to have on hand
20:09
< Madness>
I probably should give up, get a garage list of stuff, with maybe a bunch more of aesthetic tiles/slopes and surrender to having to make a second order in the future.
20:10
< Soren>
Well, if I do say so, the garage kit is a pretty good start ;)
20:10
< othila>
if you've got the money, definitely
20:10
< Madness>
I'm ranting here solely because I know that you guys have a ton of experience for it.
20:11
< Madness>
othila, uh, I'm kinda broke atm, is it that expensive?
20:11
< othila>
I dunno
20:11
< othila>
it depends where you buy the bits
20:11
< Madness>
bricklink, any shop in italy or around it that sells me the stuff cheap and fast
20:11
< othila>
I'd suggest NOT buying one of those pre-packaged garage kits a Bricklink user is selling
20:11
< othila>
they seemed overpriced
20:11
< Soren>
What, Paul?
20:12
< othila>
if you piece together your own orders (probably from multiple stores) of parts on the garage kit list
20:12
< Madness>
if I had the money I'd start by buying the wolverine/magneto/deadpool/helicopter set.
20:12
< Madness>
Because Deadpool.
20:12
< Soren>
No, that's the minimum he's can sell them at for it to be worth his doing them in the first place
20:12
< othila>
like I said, I don't really know the initial cost
20:12
< Soren>
it's about $75 on PaB.
20:13
< othila>
oh, how much is he selling them for?
20:13
< Soren>
figure there's about a 20% margin of error, the cheapest you're likely to get the bits for is about sixty bucks.
20:13
< Madness>
Soren, it probably is overcharged for the convenience of having to manually create the list, but I have the time.
20:13
< Soren>
$120 with a discount for two or more
20:14
< othila>
yeah, I mean
20:14
< othila>
it's a large convenience
20:14
< huhwhozat>
othila: it's not that bad
20:14
< Soren>
I got four of them to do the stuff for the Customs, and while it seems like it's kind of a minimal pile... it's really, really not.
20:15
< Madness>
uh, there's a nifty xml export thingie.
20:15
< Madness>
NICE.
20:15
< huhwhozat>
only took about an hour for me
20:15
< Madness>
Btw, the garage list is geared for how many ppl?
20:15
< Madness>
ppl/frames
20:15
< Madness>
ballpark.
20:15
< othila>
one?
20:15
< othila>
is?
20:15
< othila>
+h
20:15
< Soren>
it depends. It'll make five of any of the three basic frames, but people have had a lot of luck getting more out of it.
20:16
< Soren>
if you have or are willing to buy even a little extra lego you can probably stretch one to two people easily
20:16
< othila>
that's partially why I suggest starting with the garage kit part list, but maybe not buying it pre-assembled
20:16
< othila>
if you know you only want to build six scramblers, for instance, you can buy JUST those parts
20:16
< Madness>
Well, we have other lego.
20:16
< othila>
and then use your leftover money on the start of a Chub company or something
20:17
< othila>
sorting what you have already will help cut down on costs, too
20:17
< Madness>
But I need a base.
20:17
< Soren>
I'll vouch for it as a good base.
20:17
< othila>
I'll vouch for the parts list, certainly
20:18
< othila>
I can't comment on the kit itself as I don't have one :P
20:18
< Soren>
four garage kits plus selected other orders were what made the, what, eleven companies I had to build for the kickstarter. And they provided a lot of my fill-in parts.
20:18
< Soren>
I also had a couple big bags of taps, clips, etc, but for things like gray tiles and plates and things, even a little adaptability will go a long way.
20:19
< othila>
and messing around with a garage kit (or the pieces in a garage kit) will give you a much better sense of the kinds of pieces and the quantities you need to make frames
20:19
< Madness>
btw, how do I transform a wishlist in a query?
20:19
< othila>
what I did at first was just buy taps, clips, plates, 1x1 5 stud bricks etc in somewhat random quantities (in grays and blacks)
20:20
< othila>
it happened to work out, but it certainly could've gone bad
20:20
< othila>
and...I have no idea
20:23
< Soren>
Bricklink is an obscure and dated system. It may be possible, but men have gone mad trying
20:23
< Madness>
I'm a webdev, I should be able to crack the code.
20:24
< othila>
I stopped going insane once I learned, vaguely, what's in each category
20:24
< Madness>
But yea, *inser ramble about asp developers*.
20:24
< othila>
then I stopped using wishlists completely
20:24
< othila>
it's much easier.
20:25
< Soren>
Yeah, I just brute force it through the catalog.
20:25
< Madness>
But you need to know which store to use, innit?
20:25
< othila>
yeah, that's the key
20:25
< othila>
the reality of the system is that some of your part choice will just be
20:25
< Madness>
I still don't.
20:25
< othila>
what the store that has X, Y, and Z has in stock beside those bits
20:26
< othila>
you go there for, say, black taps and 1x2 plates in light grey
20:26
< othila>
and they have a bunch of 1x1 tiles in a nice color for a good price, so you add those
20:27
< Soren>
It's like going to a farmer's market.
20:27
< Soren>
But with Lego.
20:28
< Madness>
wow
20:28
< Madness>
70 items in 10 lots EUR 4.82
20:28
< Madness>
This can't be right.
20:28
< Soren>
if you're not looking for rare or weird parts, it can be pretty cheap.
20:28
< Madness>
oh, I see, there's too few items in there.
20:29
< Madness>
I'm using your list
20:29
< Soren>
ah
20:48
< othila>
all this talk about bricklink has me fired up
20:50 * huhwhozat needs bircks
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20:50 * huhwhozat needs ring more
20:50 * huhwhozat ponders lego ring
20:50
< Madness>
hmm
20:53
< othila>
a real ring
20:53
< othila>
with 1x1 trans-[color] plate
20:53
< othila>
(or round plate)
20:53
< othila>
would be fucking awesome
20:53
< MoF0-240925>
Christ, I've not been on Bricklink for ages and now you bunch of twats have got me wanting to spend more money I don't have
20:53
< othila>
but I don't know how you'd do it without melting the plastic
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20:55
< huhwhozat>
bahaha that's a fun idea
20:56
< Malcolm>
The very idea of melting bricks makes me shudder
20:56
< Malcolm>
Shudder, I tell you
20:57
< huhwhozat>
1x1 trans, it's like >$0.03
20:58
< othila>
surely there's a way to make the ring and leave an open inset on the back
20:58
< othila>
that can be closed with some other non-heaty method
20:58
< othila>
considering rare gem mining practicies, I'd actually prefer a ring with a 1x1 trans lego bit in it :|
20:59
< huhwhozat>
yeah... about that :/
20:59
< huhwhozat>
I actually have the ring picked out though. I'm waiting on my paycheck
21:00
< huhwhozat>
in the mean time, I'm not letting myself by anything but gas or food
21:00
< huhwhozat>
*buy
21:01
< huhwhozat>
I've been pretty bad about budget recently
21:01
< huhwhozat>
to the point where I'm dipping into savings
21:01
< Malcolm>
Gah
21:01
< Malcolm>
Always a trauma
21:01
< huhwhozat>
then again, car repairs are a major factor in that
21:01
< Malcolm>
Happens to me too regularly. The pains of being a full time graduate student
21:02
< othila>
personally I find the exorbitantly costly wedding ring tradition abhorent
21:02
< othila>
but I'm not married so whatever.
21:02
< Malcolm>
Ah well, I'll need to go on to Bricklink for the parts for the design contest prize, so....
21:02
< Malcolm>
My wedding ring cost ?16
21:02
< othila>
nice
21:02
< othila>
that's how you do it.
21:02
< Malcolm>
Plain silver, nothing fancy
21:02
< Malcolm>
Jaqui got hers for ?20
21:03
< Malcolm>
To hell with this ?1000+ diamond nonsense
21:03
< Malcolm>
No offence to anyone who has bought such a thing, just not my cup of tea
21:04
< huhwhozat>
yeah, I'm not going that expensive, but I do want it to be precious, monetarily as well as sentimentally
21:04
< Malcolm>
Each to his/her own.
21:04
< huhwhozat>
the point being, it represents a significant effort on my part
21:05
< huhwhozat>
and yeah, I definitely considered going cheap and it makes a lot more sense
21:05
< huhwhozat>
but hey
21:05
< Soren>
Yeah, we've deferred rings until we can make them ourselves, which for me seems like the only kind of ring i would want anyway.
21:05
< huhwhozat>
ooooooooooooo
21:05
< huhwhozat>
I would be all for that, if I had any means/skill in precious metals
21:13
< huhwhozat>
hokay gotta go folks
21:13
< huhwhozat>
catch you later
21:13
< othila>
o/
21:13
< Malcolm>
Au revoir
21:15
< Soren>
later!
21:15 * othila goes afk
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21:50
< Madness>
quick question, how many single bits are in the garage kit?
21:51
< Soren>
a ton. Let me look it up.
21:52
< Madness>
Gonna vent some bricklink frustration on street fighter.
21:52
< Madness>
Need to virtually punch stuff.
21:52
<~McMartin>
Street Fighter X Mega Man!
21:53
<~McMartin>
Get your punchings *and* your giant robots
21:53
< Madness>
haven't tried that one yet.
21:53
<~McMartin>
It's pretty solid
21:53
< Madness>
I was going for a sf3.3 .
21:53
<~McMartin>
But it's also very explicitly a Mega Man game.
21:53
< Madness>
yeah I know the gist.
21:54
< Madness>
btw, curious to see which weapon beats which.
21:54 * McMartin whistles innocently, having in fact cleared it
21:54
< Soren>
590 parts.
21:54
< Madness>
:O
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22:35
< Madness>
uhm, the garage list is supposed to be able to create crawlers right?
22:36
< Madness>
Yet I see no white bits.
22:38
< Madness>
aah, ok I got it.
22:42
< Madness>
uhm how interchangeable are 44675 and 30602 ? (Slope, Curved 2 x 2 No Studs, 3 Side Ports Recessed/Slope, Curved 2 x 2 Lip, No Studs)
22:46
< othila>
totally, or not at all
22:46
< othila>
depending on what you need them for
22:46
< othila>
if you're just using them as Scrambler knees or Chub bellies, it really doesn't matter
22:47
< othila>
the 3 side ports one is a bit smaller
22:47
< othila>
low profile
22:47
< othila>
the other one is bigger and sleeker
22:55
< Madness>
uhm, an almost complete version hits me for about 30EUR
22:55
< Madness>
it would be nice to figure out what is NOT in the list, but yea.
22:56
< Madness>
ah, pincers.
22:56
< Madness>
1L with Clip Mechanical Claw
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23:44
< Madness>
Interesting. There's a LOT of speculation on a small amount of parts.
23:47
< Soren>
yep
23:48
< Madness>
Plate, Modified 2 x 2 with Bar Frame Octagonal and Brick, Modified 1 x 1 with Studs on 4 Sides seems to be the main culprits.
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23:49
< Madness>
and they both have "33" in their code.
23:49
< Madness>
Coincidence?
23:49
< Madness>
I DON'T THINK SO.
23:50
< Soren>
I'm going to come clean here. t first, we thought we were protecting people.
23:50
< Soren>
at*
23:51
< Madness>
dang.
23:51
< Madness>
I need Cage's number.
23:52
< Madness>
Man, I'm so tempted to seek out the lowest price stores for each piece, bulk order, and resell packaged.
23:53
< Soren>
some sellers do that. There's not a ton of money in it, but there's some.
23:57
< othila>
there's certainly a little bit of a market for it right now with mf0
23:58
< Madness>
hmm, I might take the garage kit
23:58
< Madness>
remove all the aestethic parts
23:58
< Madness>
and sell the geary bits in a set
23:59
< Madness>
and multiple colored part kits
23:59
< Soren>
we thought about doing that, actually.
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