BeardedGingerWonder
@BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 3 days ago:
Gears 3
- Comment on Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not unheard of for anyone using Chinese manufacturing, like Lego, to have slaves in the supply chain.
- Comment on Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th? 3 weeks ago:
Got any evidence for that or do you mean the robots at the highly automated factory?
You realise Lego make bricks in China too, right?
- Comment on Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th? 3 weeks ago:
For clone kits, no doubt Lego have some licensing costs, but £3-400 per set on bigger sets? Titanic has zero licensing costs. Same goes for design costs, Cada, Pantasy, Mould King, Reobrix etc are paying designers for original IP and are still a lot cheaper than Lego original IP.
I’ve got 2x Reobrix 8 stud wide cars and 2 x Mould King 8 stud wide cars in the backlog, all 4 are boxed (in higher quality boxes than Lego provided) with manuals, all 4 shipped from China for ~£30 all are original IP. The Mould King cars even come with display cases!
I’ve also got a Reobrix T6 shuttle waiting to go, around £120 shipped (shipping price varies through the year, it’s high ATM), it’s been highly reviewed, it’s by a known MOC designer who got paid, 5k+ pieces.
I’m eyeing up a Baka Rocinante at the minute 6k+ pieces, shipping is high so it’d be £150 or so shipped, but that’ll likely come down. I’ve not built Baka before but some of their other sets look phenomenal. Their Rivendell is stunning looking (and not a clone set).
I’m not saying Lego don’t make a good product, but they are taking the micky with pricing - just look at the price of the X-Jet, £80 retail and under 500 pieces.
- Comment on Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th? 3 weeks ago:
I strongly disagree in general, some manufacturers are terrible - but this is only characteristic of the cheapest sets. Good quality sets are fantastic, I’ve built multiple 1-5k+ sets from china and none of what you’re describing is true of them. I’ve seen poorer quality, but it’s always on the cheapest of the cheap, 1k+ sets for £15.
Minifigs and stickers are often lacking, I’ll grant you that.
Lego is also not the be all and end all of quality - broken brown bricks, mould marks and colour mismatches I’ve all seen on genuine Lego sets.
To say you get what you pay for is patently wrong, 98%+ of the quality for 20% of the price.
- Comment on Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th? 3 weeks ago:
Never heard of JIANPINWORLD sounds like a rebrand set. There’s various tiers of quality, anything that uses bricks made from GoBricks bricks like Mould King, Cada, Pantasy are top tier, tbh Jie Star are excellent too and Reobrix which use Jie Star bricks. Consistency and clutch are all fine. Stickers and minifigs can sometimes be a bit lacking, but if you value those at £-5-600 more power to you.
- Comment on Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th? 3 weeks ago:
And yet Chinese brick companies can do it for a fraction of the price.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, I’ve misunderstood I thought you were talking about the average musician earning £14k.
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 5 weeks ago:
I’d probably also somewhat blame the person that drove off the bridge that clearly goes nowhere.
- Comment on Dormant Assets Scheme: Allocating £350 million for England 5 weeks ago:
They should start teaching money management in school though. It’s ridiculous I had to learn about how drastic compound interest is my 30s. I’m not intelligent but I feel like if someone pointed out 20k put away in my teens and early twenties would set me up for financial security later in life and provided me an easy way to ferret that away I’d be a ton less stressed now.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful 5 weeks ago:
We’ll bankrupt the NHS if we’re all living on fois gras and wagyu, my arteries are bound to be struggling as it is.
- Comment on How a post on Reddit accidentally kickstarted the revival of Angus Steakhouse 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been wanting to go for years, especially around Christmas, but it’s a bit of a trek from NI and money’s always tight this time of year. Maybe I’ll get some time.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 5 weeks ago:
I’m lost, if they’re under the threshold why would you need to set up a company to make yourself under the threshold?
- Comment on Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing 5 weeks ago:
They should totally host a mastodon instance at infowars URL
- Comment on AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING 5 weeks ago:
Unspecified amount which is greater than two.
- Comment on AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING 5 weeks ago:
It’d have a fair go at manipulating your arm off your torso given the chance.
- Comment on You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit 1 month ago:
I’m not saying you you should or shouldn’t, but if you did, I’ve heard it’s possible to access a backup of the original even if you don’t have an original disc.
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 2 months ago:
Certainly it could be, I would like to see some proper study done into it, but it’s probably borderline impossible.
Conversely patents are somewhat unobtainable by the average Joe, I think I saw it costing somewhere in the region of 25-50k to patent something by the time you factor in the cost of a decent patent lawyer.
Maybe a 10-15 year patent period with lower barrier to entry would be a good thing.
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 2 months ago:
I’m in the same position as you. From what I gather you can still transfer files, I’m still buying a kobo when my voyage bites the dust.
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 2 months ago:
Isn’t that pretty much how parents work already? They’re extensible, sure, but only up to 20 years total. Not only that but you’re forced to document it too.
- Comment on An investigation exposes data brokers using ads to help track almost any phone 2 months ago:
Thank you
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 2 months ago:
If I remember correctly the Skype for business still identified as communicator on the about page.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 2 months ago:
If I’m not having a whoosh moment, the fact they have bases in Ireland and the Netherlands very much sounds like they’re operating a Double Irish Dutch Sandwich.
- Comment on The 1900s 2 months ago:
Ah, just at the turn of the century.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 2 months ago:
Just download a book on tech savvyness.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 3 months ago:
Ah, my misunderstanding - kernel level anti-cheat is also a bit bizarre tbh, like people really really don’t understand the level of control they’re handing over to random games companies.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 3 months ago:
Seriously, personal documents? What in the ever loving fuck. Jeez, no I don’t want to play your game so bad I need to prove it with a passport.
- Comment on Huawei unveils world’s first tri-fold phone, the Mate XT Ultimate Design 3 months ago:
My concession here would be wink devices, kindle voyage and an A4 device Fortnite taking. Don’t need them, but they are handy AF.
- Comment on Bread 3 months ago:
Yeah, largely depends on whether I’ve lost the clip in the 30s I had the bag open
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 3 months ago:
Are you a mechanic, cause that sounds like a decent job perk.