somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.
and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.
I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me
A new mode of production arises out of the newly networked masses.
Fanartists:
Thingiverse users:
Royalty free sounds
Flash games
Productivity has always been there
hestianerd1
Because shockingly when people enjoy what they do (you make it enjoyable instead of just hammering on them) people WANT to do things!
thehottestmess
Fanfiction authors!!
Where is the button to shout this from the rooftop?
rowantheexplorer
They’re also shooting for 100% renewable plastic sources by 2030! All of the soft plant/leaf elements in sets right now and going forward are made out of bioplastic made from sugarcane, and they’re working on getting the regular hard plastic bricks out of that, too.
They’ve done it, actually! The full bricks are in the prototype stage now, and are expected to be 100% biodegradable without the need for a commercial compost facility. It’s very cool. Right now they’re testing the durability and playability of the bricks and seeing what needs to be revised/reworked on their final model.
apurplefriend
So its that easy huh
Of course it is
Actually, this isn’t “easy” and is huge news. You see, Lego is absolutely meticulous about their quality control. Their standards for manufacturing are stupidly high, as are their safety requirements. You know that distinctive “click” when you pop two Lego bricks apart? They engineered that. That sound is so distinctive that it can be used to tell genuine Lego bricks from counterfeits and it’s a sound that would be based on shape and material.
Furthermore, one of the hard requirements for a Lego brick is that it must be compatible with any other Lego brick. If I buy a set today and pull a set from the 1980s? Those bricks would fit together perfectly. This requires a huge amount of precision engineering and controls on manufacturing quality. (I can’t remember the source, but I’ve at least heard that once the brick molds wear to a certain point, they’re pulled from the line and either melted down or turned into construction material for Lego HQ. Point being, no one is getting their hands on a worn Lego mold)
Recycled and non-petroleum plastics are different from other plastic. The chemistry is different. The timing and process to use them is different. This has been a reason why more companies haven’t moved to them, because there’s a drop in quality for material (so they claim).
What Lego just did is completely obliterate that argument. The corporation with some of the strictest quality control requirements for plastic just kicked the basic foundation of the “bad quality” argument out from under it, because if they feel confident enough to guarantee the same experience as using a brick from over 40 years ago, if they are confident enough that they can meet their own metrics at a huge industrial scale….
Nobody else has any excuse.
well we had a terrible run guys. just absolutely godawful. the worst anyones ever done it. i forgot where i was going with this
for anyone whos dash hasnt updated yet:
the fact that they did this the day AFTER the @wip inbox closes so people cant give feedback until next week……….
yall we gotta stop apologizing for making slightly horny remarks we aren't catholic
it's alecto and rayiin's one year anniversary! one year ago i posted them for the first time, for the occasion I drew them with their original color palette. I wanted to do something more but im currently way too busy with commissions oop
in this past year i definitely did not learn how to draw rayiin properly, shared 0 lore and didn't even come up with a proper title for their story, but thank you everyone for enjoying my doodles of them!
my 2 year old son DEMANDED a terrorist themed birthday party. what ever happened to LOVIG AMERICA?
it's funny (not really) because imperial measurement system hahahha
also, i tried some moon girl colouring style for miles and gwen!!!! i love moon girl sm omg, so i'm probably gonna draw miles' hair like this from now on
it is comforting to me to think that somewhere there might be some of my hair weaved into a bird's nest
We're all made from the same as the earth
And someday we'll roam it together
Particles gliding
Dancing, colliding
We'll wander, entangled forever - Order and Chaos, Lady Maisery
Please click each one for full details! I couldn’t work on this any longer, ever since experiencing that last dragon tear I knew I had to make something, a Zelda game has never struck like that before, but I’ve had such a busy, devastating month or two, I could only finish it now. The horrors of this moment sucker punched me. Then Lady Maisery came at me swinging too.
As a nonbinary person it feels uncomfortable when strangers perceive my partner and I as a straight couple,
But it's hilarious to me when they perceive us as father and son.
"Does he have his own luggage?" the agent behind the check-in desk asks brightly, making eye contact with my partner.
"Just carry-on," I say as I slide my driver's license across the counter toward her. Confusion dawns on her face. She glances up at me briefly before printing my boarding pass in silence.
"A soap making booth!" I exclaim. I've been to the renaissance faire a dozen times but I've never visited this shop. "Let's make soap!"
"First you have to ask your Responsible Adult for five dollars," says the vendor in a measured, singsong voice, and wags her index finger at me.
I look around, confused. Who is she talking about? Does she mean the young man trailing behind me? I turn back to her.
"I have five dollars ..."
"Well you still have to ask him," she smiles sweetly.
As I open my mouth to ask why, I suddenly realize she has misjudged my age by at least two decades.
"I'm older than he is," is all I can think of to say.
"Would you like a children's menu?"
"Sure, and if you're taking drink orders, I could also go for a Corona."
Hey op?
HOW???
I'm short
A dude I've known for 5 years asked if my ID was fake because he didn't realize I was 28 and thought my birth year was doctored. So yeah.
an under-discussed feature of chronic illness + pain is how fucking boring it is. Like I know that I will get better and stop hurting if I lie down with my eyes closed in a quiet dark room but holy fucking shit if I do that for five more minutes today I’m going to totally lose my marbles.