Pet peeves?

[masterX244]

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That helps a bit on the reddit LEGO trading board, but it's unnecessary clutter because it makes a whole new post every time someone puts a set number (even if they also write the name of the set). Bricklink's method works, too - where you'd put [s=#] and it changes it to a thumbnail with the set number, name, and a link to it's page on bricklink. It's been suggested that we do that here, too, but the moderators pushed back - I forget the reasoning. Even if they did it, the problem is that people are still too lazy to use it. A lot of the the knowledgeable posters on bricklink don't even use it. When a seller there say he's got a xxxx on sale for $yyy, I don't even look anymore if they can't be bothered to use the helpful notation.

the method i saw on the page i visit regulry is a script that works similar to the bricklink method of making the #number to a link to the page sorta like a hashtag

[Hobbythom]

Seeing the minifig head I want in the minifig-head-zip-lock-bag, carefully opening said bag, inserting my small lady like hands with the upmost care only to have the desired head inevitably slip, turn and disappear amidst all the other heads.

[PaulCasey]

Most annoying thing I have found so far is wondering whether all the unmade pieces left on the table the night before are all still there. Have the children wandered by for example and picked one up and walked off with it? I'm always left wondering despite clear intructions not to touch anything on that table. Children are children though aren't they. Inquisitive.

[kibosh]

I care. It's annoying. There's a right way to say it, why can't people respect what the company says it's called? GIF is "jiff," like the peanut butter, despite the G standing for "graphics," (iow, a hard "g") because that's how the people who created the format say it's pronounced. They get to say how it's pronounced because they made it. If you make something and don't care what people call it, that's great. If we hung out together, and someone kept mispronouncing your name despite knowing full well the correct way to say it, it would bother me, too.

But no, I don't walk around correcting "lay people" when they say "legos." Co-workers, family, friends... in fact, I don't recall ever correcting anybody, but I find it more annoying when people who should know better do it. I'm not that OCD about it, but people in the LEGO community should know better. People on Eurobricks should know better. In fact, I just watched two documentaries (I would assume blessed by TLG) - LEGO, A Brickumentary, and Inside LEGO. In both cases, even the people doing the interviewing were saying "legos."

How are people supposed to know what the company wants us to call it? If I wasn't on these message boards, I would have no clue that TLG wants me to refer to them as LEGO bricks, not Legos. Has it ever been sent out to the public? Have there been ad campaigns? Have they included messages in their sets? I've never seen this actively communicated. So how are people to know? Do you go to the website of every product you buy to see how the company wants you to refer to it as?

Along those lines, I think even a lot of AFOLs give into saying Legos when speaking to people not in the know. It's just easier. I would think you'd get tired of fighting the battle; a battle that not even TLG is fighting. Everyone knows what "Legos" are, right, wrong, or indifferent.

[Immo]

Lots of them.

Some are technical:

- realizing that LDD seems to be unsupported by TLG now and the new pieces won't be coming any time soon...

- ...and the lots of LDD shenanigans and bugs (damn rotation tool!) are still there to ruin my fun

- parts that always fall on the ground and are hard to find...

- ...and those that are hard to find among other pieces (but actually they are right in front of me, in plain sight!)

- parts that break for no apparent reason

- lacking that one small element that would render my Alternative Build/C Model perfect

- parts impossible to separate with anything else than razor-sharp and razor-thin tool

- "Legos" (in my native tongue it'd be even more gross to create such a "word-cancer", as we call it, because inflection of the nouns is a tricky thing in Polish; hence, I transferred that dislike towards English as well)

- assembling and disassembling again and again for so long my fingers start to hurt (maybe even are cut) but I still want to finish the damn MOC!

Some more personal:

- people that make me feel like a childish person despite the fact I usually don't mind being childish (it's that special kind of people who put you in the "oh, you poor, retarded thing" paradigm, I think some of you would understand what I mean)

- being too poor to afford all the bricks I want/need

- my cats marching through my workspace, unable to comprehend how intimate and spiritual MOCing is

- last but not least, the most personal thing: when I build a really cool C Model of a Technic set, post it online and nearly no one notices because I just recently came out of the Dark Age and I'm not a huge persona in the AFoL communities

Edited January 7, 2016 by Immo

[Soupperson1]

When BIONICLE/Constraction/TECHNIC fans complain mini dolls aren't LEGO :(

[fred67]

How are people supposed to know what the company wants us to call it?

They aren't - before getting bent out of shape, reread my post. I don't sweat people that wouldn't know otherwise, it annoys me when people who should know better use it. If someone mispronounces your name, though, you correct them... if they continue to mispronounce it, it's annoying.

[Immo]

Okay, one more thing that really drives me nuts:

Used sets for sale on the Interwebs (usually OLX) with "condition and completeness in the pictures" adnotation.

My dear seller, how the hell am I supposed to see if the important (and usually rare) element that keeps the whole thing together and/or gives it sense is still there if you say that and then add two 400x300 pics taken with 2005 telephone's digital camera? I usually assume that the set is incomplete and (if the price isn't overwhelmingly good anyway) ignore your listing.

EDIT:

And another one - knowing that a new set/parts package is en route to you and waiting for it and waiting and waiting and post not delivers today and courier didn't make it and no one was at home when he came and you have to pick it up by yourself but it's not addressed on you so tomorrow and... UGH!

Once again I realize I'm a walking meatbag full of frustration. Can I be cured?

Edited January 8, 2016 by Immo

[Actor Builder]

Once again I realize I'm a walking meatbag full of frustration. Can I be cured?

Nope. Sorry.

That'll be 5 Cents.

[N-4K0]

When I'm finishing a build and there's only 1 part I don't have to complete it. Even in WIP stage, it's annoying.

[fred67]

And another one - knowing that a new set/parts package is en route to you and waiting for it and waiting and waiting and post not delivers today and courier didn't make it and no one was at home when he came and you have to pick it up by yourself but it's not addressed on you so tomorrow and... UGH!

That applies to everything, though. I have Amazon Prime, and not only are a lot of prime things NOT guaranteed to arrive in 2 days, a lot of things don't even when they say they are.

But I get what you're saying... shipping/delivery can be a big headache. I make a bricklink order on Saturday or Sunday; get invoiced on Sunday or Monday and pay immediately, and become a little enthusiastic that I might actually get the parts I want by the next weekend. Don't get a ship notice until Wednesday, but great! It's got tracking... arrives in my local post office on Friday... and then I don't get it until Monday for some unknown reason.

[Space Police XVIII]

Inconsistent minifig head prints.

I had to put an opaque visor on McTinyface over there.

[badchriss]

Shesh,the Heads from SW the Clone Wars still creep me out.Also those Anime Eye styled Minifig Heads.....that`s some weird Stuff.

[Zoshi]

Shesh,the Heads from SW the Clone Wars still creep me out.Also those Anime Eye styled Minifig Heads.....that`s some weird Stuff.

Agreed. I definitely think that less is more when it comes to minifig head prints, trying to cram as much detail or weird eyes onto them just make them look old or just plain weird looking. Like old man Skywalker here.