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Everything posted by Eggyslav
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OMG, I just had this thought: What If TLG and Nintendo colaborated and released Nintendo themed CMF (With Mario, Zelda and other games characters?) line, but with Amiibo functionality?
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Lego should connect it's fans, not divide them, and yet, just like in some Marxist wet dream, there are two struggling classes: IRL Builders in their ignorance shun away those unfortunate ones who have no choice but to use LDD and other programs to build their MOCs. While IRL MOCers bask in the glory of their constructs made with physycal bricks, and praise eachother in a cycle of arrogance, narcissism and self adoration, We are the dirty brickless plebes to them. I tried, many times, to explain, to show how it hurts, when you are alienated from a community you try to be a member of. LDD users are ignored and unappreciated, and when they try to make their voice heard, they meet with patronizing, ridicule, sometimes disgust and hatred, and ultimately they are pacified by the moderators, like in some sort of police state. My tone may be harsh, my words crude and unpleasant but they are true, and the truth bites. All that I, and other digital builders want, is some understanding and just a little bit of recognition. We want to be able to participate in contests, we want to be treated with equal rights, we don't want to be ignored, shunned and pushed over by anyone. DIGITAL BUILDERS UNITE! The time of our Emancipation is nigh! This is our Manifesto, sign in if you're a LDD, MCLad, Stud.io, and other digital Lego builder, and you agree with me! Eurobricks need to change, and we need to fight for our rights!
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So, what you say is basically: I should be content, that me and other Digital builders are TOLERATED by others? Imagine how the world would look if minorities were fine with them being just tolerated. What if Women in 19th century were fine about being just housewives with no voting rights? What if Ghandi was OK with Brittish oppression in India? What if Martin Luther King jr. was cool with racial segregation? What if George Washington and other Founding Fathers settled on United States being just King George's colony? We don't want just TOLERANCE. We want EQUALITY and RECOGNITION. You can't tell me to know my place, I am as passionate with Lego as you, or other AFOL, and I want you to respect me as one.
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I don't know how many people bear a personal grudge against digital builders and are disrespectful to you as a result of your way of MOCing. I have a feeling it's almost negligible, but if you have evidence that suggests otherwise I'd be interested to know. Many people may not like digital MOCing itself, and that's a completely different thing. Anyone is free to (dis)like what he/she (dis)likes, that cannot be changed. In short: being discriminated is unacceptable, being disliked and tolerated is fine (yet slightly unpleasant).
You have some good historic examples where people stood up for their rights and the situation changed for the better. In this case I think the most important goal (or 'right', if you will) is to have contests where digital builders can participate and actually win physical prizes. I would suggest talking to the LDD forum moderator and otherwise try to source prizes from bottom-up within the digital builder community.
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Well, It all started when I posted a digital MOC, and no one even looked at it, I felt ignored, and betrayed, I thought about it and other such cases, and my conclusion was, that the digital builders are victims of marginalization and disdain because of their medium and methods. My theory was proven right, when I tried to disscuss the issue by opening a certain thread, I was treated with contempt, and the IRL builders didn't even try to understand my point of view. Their remarks were arrogant and hostile, they treated me as if I was stupid, which angered me, and when I retaliated with my contrarguments, the Mods closed the thread, saying that the discusson is pointless, and I won't convince anyone to my standpoint. Then there was Peppermint_M's contest, and since some time ago I made a MOC in LDD, which after some alterations could be a good entry there, but I then I saw that digital entries were not allowed, I was dissapointed and really annoyed: Yet another instance of Digital Builders being discriminated. So I allowed myself to express my objections, and yet again I was scorned, ridiculed, and pacified by Eurobricks staff. I'm afraid that if I start another disscussion I'll get banned. I want to fight for my rights, but I don't want to become a martyr for a lost cause. I really try to be polite, I try to be patient, but I only meet with ignorance and loathing.