JesseNight

Yeah true. I for one am happy these regulations exist. We need more universal standards to keep the market healthy. Funny how every business calls out that we need universal standards, only to add a new one and hopes theirs becomes that standard

I think buying MISB is only good if you are a collector intending to keep it that way. If you wish to open and use it, you end up paying premium and it won't ever be truly "new" when it's decades old. Like people already said, degradation over time remains a thing and you never know how it was stored. Don't blame Bricklink, that's only a medium on which lots of sellers sell their items. Where there's a lot of sellers, there are always scams and ripoffs too (not saying this is one, just saying they exist). One more tip: don't look solely at the % of positive feedback, but also the amount. If a seller has 100% positive but only 10 feedbacks, it can just be family/friends, or very old feedbacks of purchases they made rather than sales. BL is a pretty good medium if you ask me to know what you're getting into, but there's always a small risk that's obviously our own to take.

I'm just glad they stuck to universal ports so we at least have a choice, I am completely fine with that. I am not fine with companies who develop proprietary ports or protocols solely to be able to charge insane prices because there is no choice anymore (in the cases it's not as simple as a cheap conversion plug that is). As for the stickers... I can make those myself a lot cheaper too But yeah I'm the kinda person who would rather print box art to hang on the wall rather than investing serious money into original boxes to fill a lot of shelf space with. To each their own.

Aftermarket parts is in electronics usually where the bigger profit margins are. I've seen some ripoff cable and connector prices, this is surely a "winner" too. Let's consider ourselves lucky they didn't put a proprietary connector on it like so many manufacturers have done before. Always be cautious with 2A multi-port adapters because in most cases the mentioned current is the total over all ports, and not per port. Read the details and if "per port" is not clearly mentioned, assume it'll be total. That being said, they're indeed not hard to find for a fair price. I think these themes never intend to be 100% realistic, but just add some recognizability for people in many different regions. Have to admit the Aqua color as a full color makes no sense, and yet is recognizable when seeing it on the minifig outfit. Ambulance vehicle main colors seem to be mostly Vibrant Yellow or White depending on which country, I'm sorta surprised not having seen this yellow having been used more yet. Let's just assume in the end it's a fictional standard. I am happy to see that they are at least consistent keeping the color theme the same over all City emergency vehicles.

Nice job, and very happy with the dark mode! One small thing, the quoted text blocks still seem to have a rather light gray background (with white text), can this be set darker gray? It applies to some other blocks as well like the bar underneath the quick reply with the attachments interface. One other thing I noticed about dark mode is that every page loads in light mode first, then switches to dark mode. Side effect from going with cookies rather than a theme?

You have... a lot of tags! What are they all about if you don't mind me being curious? (too bad they say nothing when I mouse over)

Thanks! Yeah that pretty much is the same reason I always say there were only 6 system colors in the 80s (white, yellow, red, blue, light gray, and black). Because other colors were for some exclusive parts only. Green existed but only for trees, flower stems, and base plates. Brown was even more limited until Pirates came along with their guns, treasure chests, and tree stems. And dark gray I only remember as train rail sleepers. Might have been more parts but not the full assortment of standard building bricks. Even light gray was still on the rise in the early 80s, until Castle theme started making full use of it. There is definitely no universal truth. I feel those new sets have more details for sure, but when I look at the new ambulance vehicle it doesn't remind me as much of a real ambulance as the older one. Then again, maybe they've changed irl too bc it's been a while since I've seen one (not complaining though!). Think the key of my previous reply remains that the older sets were more about the building experience than the amount of detail on the final result. And the building experience just felt better (to me). More creative, more about doing something that felt impossible at first with the limited bricks and colors we had. But for a part that's probably just nostalgia talking.

I'm rather curious to learn what all these tints of blue had been used for in their early days? All I know is they weren't mainstream in my childhood days ('80-'90), I didn't even know they existed so unless they were on a hiatus it must have been some limited unique pieces? (but correct me if I'm wrong, I'm just curious) I'm not saying it's better... I'm saying it's easier to manage and more challenging and rewarding (and therefore more fun to me) to succeed at building stuff. More colors allows for a lot more variety, but like Danth says, results in needing a lot more parts to cover availability in all possible colors. And why would we need that? Because if we are limited by the brand, we can still do the best we can even if it doesn't look perfect. But if we're limited by our own collection, a result might be a lot less satisfying knowing we could have done much better if we had the budget to keep expanding on all the colors. This was already a problem with 6 colors as a kid, because my budget for toys was limited and Lego wasn't the only thing I played with. Now I have more budget, but I am left with a feeling I have to invest into much more storage space and spend more money on expanding my collection to move forward into making new designs. As for expanding... I stopped doing that and kinda gave up on physical MOCs. I am glad we have Stud.io now to experiment before buying bricks, but when a 1000+ bricks MOC ends up costing me well over 500 Eur on BL orders, I honestly think twice before doing that. Some people complain about original Lego being expensive but I keep ending up a lot worse on parts orders. Honestly as a kid trying to make a big MOC, I sometimes wished I were color blind

That's a problem of this time and age that's happening everywhere (just look at movies industry for example). Don't get me wrong, I'm all about equality but that should just be the norm rather than requiring special attention and forced down people's throats. I feel ya on the colors discussion. Ngl, I do like a lot of the new colors but it makes it harder to keep up with a collection. Back in the 80s we had 6 colors (not including brown and green that existed only on specific parts) and it is true that this wasn't much, and we often felt like missing some. Now we have so many available that it's easy to constantly feel like needing more bricks, knowing that special shade exists but we don't have it. I'm all for having light and dark shades of each color, but I feel 4 or more shades of 1 color is a bit much. And I'm much against limited editions (of any kind). (and if anyone doesn't agree... ~points at topic title~)

It's gotta stand the test of time after all

Looks good! Going to make a 2002 version as well? I know the movie wasn't as popular as the 1960 one, but the time machine itself looked quite nice.

I see. And yeah makes sense prices aren't great, they have to cover costs and make profit too. Pretty much the price for the convenience of not having to document & photograph your sets, put them up for sale, and spend time dealing with contacts or meetings. Would always sell myself, though not sure if that even works on BL... It doesn't seem aimed towards people with only an occasional Lego yard sale.

Personally I would never send stuff and get paid later. I think nobody really would. That's a big risk, and if anything goes bad, good luck getting it back.

I think in the end most people (but correct me if I'm wrong) just care about it being there, and sticking... no matter how. In which case I'd rather opt for the more reliable method of it depending on a flag per user in the forum database, rather than on cookies.

I clear my cookies frequently because it adds up pretty fast. Not weekly ofc but at least a few times a year. Depends a bit on what sorta stuff I'm working on. The choice between a button or not would probably depend on whether there's people who do actually like to switch more often. Btw what should I think about when you speak of an "implemented dark mode" in the software? What would it be more than just a dark theme?

While I appreciate a dark mode, such a button has little value to me. Because I will switch it one time, hope the setting will be stored in my account rather than a cookie, and will never look back. I don't know if there's people who actually switch it around more often.

That's partly because people always search for others to blame instead of taking responsibility. For example when a child is exposed to wrong content, parents don't take responsibility for it but point fingers at the hosting platform that let it happen. That results in serious investments being made in automated security and detection processes, something the smaller platforms don't have the resources for. Therefore only the few biggest survive. And once the competition is all gone they can do whatever they want.

There are always open back doors and there always have been. But obviously that is not a reason to open any more. Exceptions can be made on centralized domains like Jim said, but assuming PeerTube works with a network of peers, that's probably not working. P2p networks do have risks, 1 peer spreading malicious content can affect a lot of peers in the long run. Don't get me wrong, I'm no Youtube fan anymore either with how commercial it's gone under Google but it's still considered the most used reliable video source. There are more though, that still work with centralized hosting. On your last paragraph, it'd be a lot of work to keep up. People run websites like this as a hobby aside from other activities. Having done this many years myself in the past, I know work can stack up fast with regular software updates, keeping up with security breaches, managing content, managing & communicating with staff, and all the stuff that comes with it. It may be a hobby to someone in a hackerspace to be active working on that, but probably not in a Lego community (no offense ofcourse!) ;-)

I think it will be required for PeerTube to have direct video links to support this rather than going through alternative domains (like in this case "interhacker.space") because the links will have to be recognized through the domain name, therefore that needs to be universal and recognizable. I'm not even sure which is the original PeerTube site. If I google it, I get results from "Peertube.tv" to "Peer.tube", but they look slightly different so might not even be the same?

I always had a love/hate thing with 4 studs wide vehicles (not that 6 wide was any better). It made no sense to me for only 1 person to fit in a car and I couldn't help being bugged by that, even as a young kid already.

Sure, I'll be around! Busy times with the holidays but I'll be around either way.

Photoshop is something I can most definitely do. My html/css skills are very limited and outdated, and I don't know how much time I'll have to brush up on that since it's been a long time since I've used that. So I cannot make any promises on that one. I probably can still understand it if I see it, but not make something from scratch anymore at this point. @aFrInaTi0n I love how customized Pirates section is, I'm sure it's possible with just the right adjustments to fit that into a dark theme. It'll just need the right adjustments and I can probably try something on the graphic part. I'll have a look at it soon, just might not be until after Christmas.

Ngl I hated the original Renegade. But this one seems quite nice. I'm not a fan of asymmetrical designs but I am happy to see the base frame being symmetrical, so I might just order extra parts and put 2 cockpits on it (Deep Freeze Defender style). Unlike the original, this one has plenty of space to do that.

I had no idea there were multiple themes. Would really love to see a dark theme though, white backgrounds give me a horrible headache and third party apps forcing dark mode aren't always working well with every website. If I can somehow contribute to making that happen I would be happy to (25 years Photoshop experience can be useful).

Yeah that'd be this one (instructions available online only):