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  1. andythenorth
    Bricklink is a potentially powerful circular economy platform. TLG are under pressure about that.
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    Lego: we bought Bricklink to safeguard it for our AFOL community. AFOL community: Lego just destroyed our hobby. Keep up the lolz internet.
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    "The LEGO Company has alienated its most vocal evangelists...I have friends who are very angry about it and, I feel their pain. I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of your product in future." Some will get the reference
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    It's remarkable eh? On a fan site. For Lego. A community for people who spend thousands of dollars, pounds, euros or whatever on Lego. Where official sets are endlessly discussed, raved about, hated on, dissected. That Lego. Is so mis-trusted.
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    April 1st already? Hanlon's razor. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor TLG will screw this up. I think it's an interesting move though. Bricklink has been one of the great examples of a non-evil marketplace community in an internet that's increasingly full of twisted nonsense that's rotting society. On the other hand...nothing lasts for ever.
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    I didn't want to start a trend of threads for 'things people might want to MOC', but this was too interesting to not share, so I'm leaving it here... Half-track Claas tractor, with full suspension. As tractors go it's pretty rad. Looks odd but good. Someone's going to build this surely?
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    I pay for Vimeo for business to host work-related videos. Their claims on privacy and selling data are better than Google's. As you said, many 'free' services are imposing costs in other ways, either directly on the user by harvesting data, or to society (negativity externalities in economics speak). That said, I haven't quit watching YouTube yet.
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    Absolutely categorically want this. This is a total nostalgia trip for 8438, which was a benchmark set when it was released :) https://brickset.com/sets/8438-1/Pneumatic-Crane-Truck Haven't bought Technic in ages, it's all blah-blah, or just too big and expensive. Nice to see this set Also, it looks...rad. Good stance. Clean lines. No waste.
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    Another way to look at this.... Do creators want to participate in a business model that enriches Google by defrauding advertisers whilst simultaneously exploiting data generated by kids with no valid consent mechanism? And whilst leaving content creators open to the risks of arbitrary de-monetisation, or total closure of account by YT with no warning? Background my kids have watched thousands of hours of (mostly) age appropriate YT content, where the ads placed are of no value to the advertisers (4 year olds don't buy cars, or anything much), but Google get the $$ anyway popular channels such as Stampy (Minecraft) and Bushka (World of Tanks Blitz) have been arbitrarily de-monetised or banned by YT, with a murky appeals process, all the power is with YT I'm not framing this as a personal moral question. I haven't stopped watching YT personally. Tech ethics is a very valid question, but is also bigger. The localised question is: how much autonomy do you want to give up as creators compared to the convenience and revenue YT provides?
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    I like the v8. A v8 always beats realism :D
  11. andythenorth
    The angle on the u-joints near the sprockets looks brutal, but does it run well?
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    Engine was https://www.deere.com/en/industrial-engines/tier-3-stage-iii-a/powertech-plus-6-8l/
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    Stalin! I have killed so many of these in Blitz. The Boomz!
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    Very very common, even in low-stress situations. I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
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    The actual real-life size of the wheels is irrelevant, within the MOC all scale is relative. This isn't building a model train to fit precisely into a 1:72 world or something. Scaling relative dimensions is trivial if there's a plain side view. Just need a tool for measuring on screen. Or on a printout. Like a ruler.
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    Eh what? No blueprints? But there are images of the car, why are blueprints needed? Just scale from the images, no problem
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    When performance is the goal, one motor per wheel is quite a ruthless approach I have tried the alternatives with realistic transmissions, and hard-coupled XL motors and crap. It's quite lolz how much that stresses Technic parts, and how the performance is never stellar There's a truck here with 3x XL, differentials, and pneumatic lockers https://www.flickr.com/photos/andythenorth/albums/72157633468817167 This is is version 2, it kind of works. Version 1 had 2 hard-coupled XL and a proper transmission with 2-speed gearbox. Version 3 will be L motors, driving direct where possible.
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    Yup. There are various videos here, not all the same gear ratio though. Can't remember all the details. https://www.flickr.com/photos/andythenorth/albums/72157649987860696 There's a test rig with 8 L motors here, failed experiment, quite lolz https://www.flickr.com/photos/andythenorth/14071162377/ And for the original poster, just two of the older RC train motors will move a fair size train quickly. https://www.flickr.com/photos/andythenorth/15097651796/in/dateposted-public/ Sadly that video does not include the epic crash where my two-year old sat down on the train. Maybe I should add that.
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    +lots. TLG ain't renting bricks. The rental is just a newspaper putting a flag up a flagpole, newspapers need ad clicks. Lego need to address consumer concerns about plastic and carbon emissions (some valid, some less-valid). Lego give an interview to try and be ahead of the issue, journalist on deadline spins it to get most eyeballs, news site gets traffic, and a lot of people express a lot of opinions about a non-thing. Happy days. What a time to be alive, so excite. such wow. Etc.
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    A train with 4L would be...over-powered for every situation I can think of 4L motors can move this no problem, it's about 7KG.
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    Eh what? This is an oxymoron. Customer need is marketing.
  22. andythenorth
    +1 Bumping the limits of... how much I'm prepared to pay for a Lego set how much time it takes to build, and when the fun runs out how fun the model is to play with / how well it performs, bigger isn't always better how much space the model takes up to store And most of all, how much my wife is going to troll me about buying more Lego. 'It cost how much?' Fortunately, smaller sets are available
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    Do we need to bag on the kid here? It's not like the internet is short of that already.
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    The old 24t clutch is an absolute dog. As Lego parts go, it's one of the worst. Totally useless Clutch is an essential safety feature in some models, but it has to carry *some* torque before slipping. The white 24t clutch does not
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    I prefer tactile controls to those on glass. But to be strict, in at least one of the US Navy crashes, the reported issue was that the controls can be moved between workstations, AND they were believed to have been moved to the wrong workstation causing a perceived loss of control over the vessel's steering, AND certain safeguards were disabled which are supposed to prevent these situations arising. For Control+ the loss of tactility is a trade off against having very custom, very flexible control interfaces. PF bang-bang and train remotes are also pretty underwhelming as tactile controls go. Bang bang has no proportional control. The train remote is borderline unusable as it's a continuous dial in both directions, but offering +/-7 speed increments, which is confusing, so it's hard to use even though it's tactile. Swings <=> roundabouts.
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