| --- Log opened Mon Jan 05 00:00:17 2015 |
| 00:06 | < FlakManiak> | I'm here, if distracted. |
| 00:06 | < Shades_Corvid> | Like the rest of us |
| 00:15 | < Shades_Corvid> | brb, need to restart |
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| 00:29 | < Shades_Corvid> | and back |
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| 17:21 | < Mantisking> | Allo? |
| 18:54 | < mraichelson> | hola |
| 19:03 | < Mantisking> | How was your trip? |
| 19:11 | < mraichelson> | a week away from home was plenty. |
| 19:20 | < Mantisking> | Looked like the MFZ games you played were good. |
| 19:20 | < mraichelson> | yeah, totally forgot to try to get pics of the second one. :\ |
| 19:21 | < Mantisking> | I've had that happen. |
| 19:21 | < Mantisking> | Gotten halfway through a game and forgotten to take pictures after the round ended. |
| 19:21 | < Mantisking> | This looks interesting. http://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Creative-Supplement-10693;jsessionid=91A00BD4A5B 25A658A4CAB647E3C4369.lego-ps3?fromListing=listing |
| 19:26 | < mraichelson> | he he, i got a target card for xmas and had no idea what to spend it on so i think one of those is on its way to me in a box. |
| 19:31 | < Mantisking> | That's cool. |
| 20:19 | < Mantisking> | Any new builds in the pipeline? |
| 20:20 | < mraichelson> | [type type delete, logged channel] |
| 20:20 | < mraichelson> | (unrelated to actual builds) |
| 20:21 | < mraichelson> | I should. I havenât really been poking about with stuff. I got a stash more parts I can try to use for playing around with the peach pickers some more though. |
| 20:21 | < mraichelson> | because, they won, so now i like them more. :P |
| 20:31 | < Mantisking> | Nothing wrong with that. :-) |
| 20:38 | < Mantisking> | A couple of pictures tonight and Wednesday's review should be all set to go. |
| 20:38 | < mraichelson> | noice |
| 21:04 | < Mantisking> | Yup. |
| 21:17 | < Mantisking> | The Hangar's been kinda dead today. I guess everyone is back at work or school. |
| 21:31 | < mraichelson> | post-vacation hangover |
| 21:37 | < FlakManiak> | Hmm. I still have an unphotographed company and a couple one-offs... And now that I've built a straight-up dragon I should photograph that. Oh, and that one-off my friend built from my parts ages ago. And then I ought to order more parts and build some stuff that's in the pipeline. |
| 21:37 | | * mraichelson cracks whip |
| 21:39 | < FlakManiak> | I've at least two super-frames in the pipeline, and a company, and then a couple one-offs related to that company. |
| 21:40 | < FlakManiak> | As things I have designed but not yet gotten parts for. |
| 21:40 | < FlakManiak> | And then a few more super-frames currently in the design process. |
| 21:46 | < Mantisking> | I really have to sit down and sort all the Kre-O sets I bought over the last couple of months. |
| 21:46 | < Mantisking> | And build some Frames from pure Kre-O. |
| 21:51 | < FlakManiak> | I think I'm an accidental purist. |
| 21:52 | < FlakManiak> | I want colors to match, obviously. |
| 21:52 | < FlakManiak> | And then, for most other brands, the /style/ of colors doesn't really match, you know? Their colors just don't look right next to Lego ones. And then same for the shapes of pieces. |
| 21:53 | < FlakManiak> | And that's leaving aside part quality concerns. |
| 21:53 | < FlakManiak> | But I guess even if I overcame that, uh... They're not on BrickLink. |
| 21:54 | < FlakManiak> | So I guess the right part in the right color from some other manufacturer may come in eventually. |
| 21:54 | < FlakManiak> | But it seems unlikely right now. |
| 21:54 | < Mantisking> | I wonder if someone will ever establish a Clonelink, or if Bricklink'll incorporate clone parts in the future. |
| 21:54 | < FlakManiak> | More likely for a newer site like BrickOwl, I think. |
| 21:55 | < FlakManiak> | Given BrickLink's glacial pace of change, I bet it's pretty much exactly the same in 2020. |
| 21:55 | < FlakManiak> | And people are still complaining about features that were promised but haven't happened. |
| 21:55 | < FlakManiak> | But at the same time I'll be ordering parts just the same, and things will be fine. |
| 21:56 | < FlakManiak> | Because atxdad's cost minimizer scripts are the best thing, and make the site usable. |
| 21:57 | < mraichelson> | yeah, was going to say, if they would incorporate that directly that would kind of be game over. |
| 21:57 | < mraichelson> | âit does everything you need nowâ :) |
| 21:57 | | * mraichelson should find out how to just use the raw matlab stuff |
| 21:58 | < mraichelson> | been trapped behind âthis gui app for the matlab stuff for mac just crashesâ for better part of two months now. |
| 21:58 | < mraichelson> | :\ |
| 21:58 | < FlakManiak> | I don't know MatLab at all but thankfully running the scripts in Octave on Windows works fine, so after only a tiny bit of fiddling I had it working. |
| 21:59 | < FlakManiak> | And then suddenly I could get parts. |
| 21:59 | < FlakManiak> | And the ones I wanted, not just some set of parts close to that. |
| 21:59 | < FlakManiak> | Because finding exactly what I wanted on BrickLink, all in the right quantities, at a decent price, was... A chore, at the least. |
| 22:00 | < FlakManiak> | Now it's still slightly tedious but at least I only have to do things twice, basically. |
| 22:00 | < mraichelson> | yeah. trying to restock chub kits has beenâ¦difficult, to put it mildly. |
| 22:00 | < FlakManiak> | Write the wanted list in BrickStore, search, pore through the stores to put things in cart, look for other parts they have that I want... And then done. |
| 22:06 | < Mantisking> | Okay, I'm done. Catch y'all later. |
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