Look what I found, lieutenant! Sketch of Connor from Detroit Become Human.
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.
Anonymous asked:
Promot:
"You know old man, you should have turned left when I told you too..."
“We’re going to die here,” Ahsoka declared. Anakin couldn’t find it in him to argue.
The trio’s teeth rattled as they jackhammered up and down on the rough road, if it could even be called that - more pothole than surface. The pavement had run out and given way to a hard packed dirt path that would through the thick wood that they could barely see, the headlights not able to penetrate more than a few feet of the thick fog.
It looked like the perfect setting for a horror movie. It looked like Anakin’s childhood nightmares. It definitely didn’t look like anywhere he wanted to be.
“That’s not very helpful,” Obi-Wan scoffed, leaning forward over the steering wheel in intense concentration. “If either of you would like to help us reach our destination before midnight I suggest you help me look for the sign. It should be around here somewhere.”
“We won’t need directions,” Anakin said in a poor imitation of Obi-Wan’s accent. “Back in my day there was no such thing as GPS. We remembered the way or we didn’t get there at all.”
“It’s the truth,” Obi-Wan winced as they bottomed out in yet another crater sized hole in the road he’d been unable to anticipate and avoid.
“Right,” Anakin rolled his eyes. “And you also walked 15 miles to school, uphill both ways, in two feet of snow…”
“That’s enough out of the peanut gallery,” Obi-Wan snapped and Ahsoka smothered her laughter with both hands.
The fog suddenly cleared as if they had driven through an invisible wall. They could see the outline of a tall foreboding building looming up ahead.
Anakin turned to Obi-Wan accusingly, “You never said it was haunted.”
Obi-Wan was frowning at the building, deep in thought. “What are the chances there are two properties like this out here? It looks the same as the place I remember coming with Qui-Gon. And yet…” he drifted off in thought.
“And yet?” Ahsoka promoted.
“It just feels…different,” Obi-Wan decided. “Off.”
“Great,” Anakin muttered. “You know old man, you should have turned left when I told you to. I could have sworn that’s where the map had said to turn left, but no, you had a feeling about that fork. You had to go with your gut-“
Ahsoka gasped as the wide entryway doors flung open and a dark figure stepped out into the night.
“-and just look where your gut brought us,” Anakin concluded darkly. “A murder mansion.”
Obi-Wan put the car in park with an exasperated sigh. “Enough with the dramatics. Murder mansion. Honestly.” Though it was dark the eye roll was clearly evident in his tone. “I’m going to go speak to the caretaker.”
“Maybe don’t,” Anakin suggested.
“I have a bad feeling about this,” Ahsoka muttered under her breath.
What is it about laying on the floor when you're overwhelmed that makes everything feel so much better?
When God has ceased to answer your prayers, it feels good to distance yourself from Heaven.
Adding this to my list of incredibly raw fucking lines gifted from the impossible wonder that is tumblr
OK ALSO THO you know you’ve been reading too much gay fanfic when:
You open a drawer in the air b&b looking for coffee and find individual serving sizes of olive oil and immediately say to the room “oooOoo look - are they well prepared or what?!” 👀 👀👀
