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11/19/09
I hope that the fundraiser doesn't end up like this.
From the website of the venue.
11/17/09
I'm not that much interested in Wii games, but if Nintendo picks up the fitness+fun idea, I'm all for it.
Because I hate walking on treadmills and riding ergobikes while staring at walls, and it's the main reason (boredom) why I won't do those.
And yes, I know I should go walk and ride bikes outside, but it's not that simple living in a city that not only rains a lot, but also is kinda dangerous to go walking around at night (which is when I have free time). #thesportsauthority
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Wii Fit is pretty much worthless exercize-wise. It's a little pathetic that a sport/exercise store would push it like that. Kinda like if they started selling those fat jiggling machines you see in cartoons. #thesportsauthority
11/17/09
@WhiteMåge: Oh. They were real my good man. Those jiggle machines existed. For what reason? Who knows.
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Go ahead, partake.. I'll also accept "shenanigans", "bull" and "bogus" #thesportsauthority
11/17/09
What is all this skullduggery? #thesportsauthority
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@cokefan999: I CAN GIVE YOU THIS INSTEAD
[i165.photobucket.com] #thesportsauthority
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:D #childsplay
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Edit: Actualy, are those lego pieces that color or did they just go back and paint them those colors? Some don't look like whole lego pieces. Either way, it looks nice but it takes away from that Lego Pixel effect =/
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Pfft, back off, it's awesome. It's lego, all lego. Insult the statue again and you'll get a shoryuken! #childsplay
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Still, have you noticed they placed the blocks lengthwise, along the z-axis?
I think it's legit.
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In my point of thinking, and this is going to be different for everyone, had those pieces been painted it would have taken away from my perceived view of the concept of building Ryu out of Lego as in my view creating the shape and then painting it wouldn't be as honest as building it out of appropriately coloured blocks in the first place.
However, if those block colours are not lego colours that are available then I would have no problem with the artist first painting the blocks those colours and then using them in construction, as this would be somewhat different in my mind to just going back and painting them afterwards, that to me would be akin to telling someone you had completed a rubix cube by peeling all the stickers off.
In my view making Ryu out of lego, is completely different to making a Ryu shape out of lego and painting it to look like Ryu. I guess that's where its legitimacy comes into it, and really that's going to be more a case of each to their own really isn't it.
Personally I'd like the blueprints to this design as I think it's brilliant. #childsplay
11/17/09
When I have a bit of spare cash I might make something similar myself. #childsplay
11/17/09
Ryu is made from black, white, light bluish-grey, red, dark-red, tan, and either dark-orange or reddish-brown (all legit LEGO colors).
Baby Mario is made from black, white, light-bluish grey, dark-green, green, lime-green, red, dark-red, orange, dark-orange, tan, and reddish-brown (all legit LEGO colors).
The Tentacle is made from black, green, lime-green, and two shades of pink. I'm not that well-versed in the various shades of LEGO pink, but I think it's dark-pink and either pink or light-pink (again, all legit LEGO colors).
In the last couple decades, the LEGO color pallete exploded, to the point that Peeron.com has identified at least 127 unique colors (some colors appear to be intended to look the same, but vary a bit based on what material the part was made from (they make parts in at least ten distinct materials). Some of these colors are extremely rare, with the rarest color that I know of having only been used on one part (that being trans-neon red, which was only ever used in the original BIONICLE Toa eyestalk). A few years ago after Kjeld Kirk turned over control of the company to someone outside of the Christiansen/Kristiansen family, it was decided that the color pallete needed to be seriously cut back, so a lot of those colors have been permanently declared off-limits for future sets. The current color pallete is probably closer to 50 unique colors, and all of the parts used in these mosaics appear to be on the list of active colors.
Oh, and these appear to have all been made four studs thick. Not only does it significantly improve the travelability of items like these, but some of those parts aren't as easily obtainable in 1x1 or 1x2 bricks. Building this way, you'd only need to be able to buy 1x4, 2x4, and maybe 2x3 bricks. #childsplay
11/17/09
All the pieces are legit LEGO bricks that I got from the giant stock of LEGO bricks we have here at Netdevil that the company was super cool with donating to the Childs Play cause.
[www.netdevil.com]
And no, none of them are glued together (I would be blacklisted!).
Glad everyone likes them, and I hope everyone who can will be able to make it out to the party to try and win them! #childsplay
11/18/09
Um...you do realize that the real LEGO Master Model Builders glue nearly everything that they build for work, and most of the LEGO Certified Professionals probably glue their commissions as well.
Gluing MOCs that you plan to keep (even if you never plan to disassemble them) is a no-no. Gluing LEGO sculptures that are meant to be permanent installations, or that you're building for hire gets special dispensation. I've even helped build a model that eventually got mostly glued together, and it's also the only model that I ever received a paycheck for (everything else I've done for fun and un-profit). #childsplay
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11/15/09
I didn't know they sell Princess Peach plushies.
Well it's about time i pay a little visit to that store ^_^ #newsupermariobroswii
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hold down the "Alt" key and type
1044 and you'll get Д
0176 and you'll get °
Have fun (^_~) #newsupermariobroswii
11/15/09
I don't...really know why. I want one. ;-; #newsupermariobroswii
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I think I just like the idea of having a princess doll, and the novelty of that doll being Peach. #newsupermariobroswii
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I liked FFXII's system, but even then, you really only controlled one character at a time (the Gambits did most of the rest), and it still paused at certain times so I could think.
I love Final Fantasy, and I'm going to get this in March, but I hope that I can actually do the battle system. #finalfantasyxiii
11/13/09
I think that's why I liked LO so much. Since time isn't a factor, it's all about strategy :D #finalfantasyxiii
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Another system worth mentioning was Chrono Cross'. If you haven't played it, try it. You'll love the system.
I hated Lost Odyssey's battle system. I know it's a throwback to the genre's old systems, but its so slow (no skipping repeated animations), and I hated selecting actions for characters that aren't executed immediately because then I can't strategize correctly. Like when the spell your casting should depend on whether Kaim hits or not. I still played it though and got 995 points of achievements (I didn't get the collect all treasure things). #finalfantasyxiii
11/13/09
And a lot of games used the "choose all the attacks and then everyone goes" system and I didn't mind it. Once you figure out what order people will attack in, it's not too hard to predict what'll happen.
And yeah, I too was disappointed with X-2, but that was for a lot more than just the battle system. #finalfantasyxiii
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