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* First of all, this topic is intended as a discussion and not intended to offend any users, on this site or otherwise. If it does, and I do get banned, let me say it has been a privilege being part of such a great mature community and I wish you all the best for the future. But without further adieu: Hai guise, lemme sho me noo MOC! Epic MS Paint, my services are available at very unreasonable rates! Enquire within! Okay, so maybe it's not quite finished, but you get the idea, yeah? You can see the shape and how I want it to look and that's all you need right? No? Okay, fine, I'll moc it up in LDD. There. Finished. That's all that's necessary for a Moc to be validated, surely. It can be built out of bricks and look like it can hold itself together, that's got to count for something. Look at all the pretty colours I can make it with! I actually like the pale red one myself. Now you can see my building technique with the brick outlines, and can reasonably tell how it's been built and if it's feasible. Sure, who knows if those parts are actually available, but who cares, "amirite" ("bro")? I've built it in LDraw and rendered it with POVRay. That's as far I can go without forking out the cash ("fork" that!) to actually build it. It's taken time and effort to get to this stage, through design, assembly and a time consuming render. Lego bricks are really expensive, especially in the quantities we often want them in and the channels for their aquisition aren't ideal. Everyone is fighting over the best parts so getting what you actually need is generally convoluted. To try and get a collection to experiment with is a continuous expense as new parts are introduced and you use your parts in creations. Storage and sorting is also a huge problem: as your collection grows, so does the space needed to keep it. A container for which you had parts in may no longer be sufficient, so that ongoing cost is another sundry expense that is often not taken into consideration. Having shelving for you to store your creations is really unreasonable for many people too. If you're away from your collection than these digital tools are essential to keeping your mind engaged in the hobby. To me, these tools are computer games to be played with and don't translate into my head as Lego. It can't be picked up, felt how it's weighted and can't be feasible or known if it's just a bunch of bricks floating as the structural integrity is removed to add detail. I understand their uses as developmental tools, but personally, I can't completely appreciate a digital creation until it's been realised in the brick. My question to you, dear reader, is this: At what point do we say a MOC is a MOC? I do not mean offence with this post, rather to start a discussion with both users and non users of the Lego based digital tools. For that reason, I have put it here as opposed to the "LEGO Digital Designer and other digital tools" forum.
