Silly toys of childhood days
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It's still an issue in my eyes
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Real wood and paper cardstock for the green vane things; no plastic.
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To be fair, the original plastic toy displayed the same issue.
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Grrrr. Thank you.
At least nobody here (that I've seen yet) has run afoul of wiseacres that use rewrite rules to serve up...different...content. (I know of one guy who used to serve up a huge strobing gif with "please don't hotlink" on it, and I know of one that supposedly puts up a rude picture (I've never seen it.)
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Real wood and paper cardstock for the green vane things; no plastic.
They hadn't invented plastic yet when your parents bought that particular set for you?
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To be fair, the original plastic toy displayed the same issue.
The original plastic toy drew over the toolbox?
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They hadn't invented plastic yet when your parents bought that particular set for you?
I am frequently saddened by the fact that the Pacific Trash Vortex has taken less than a single human lifetime to become a thing.
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This is not what I had as a kid, but it was the closest thing I could find a picture of. I can't even begin to guess the name of the real thing to do a better GIS.
Mind was constructed of steel tubing, except for the plastic seat, didn't have the cage, and the pedals were inside the frame, rather than outside.Also, earlier childhood:
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The original plastic toy drew over the toolbox?
No, its tools semi-transparently occluded part of your drawing.
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Right. And that's nothing to do with what I posted above, where the drawing is over the toolbox.
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You can look at it that way if you enjoy being enraged for the sake of it. I have no trouble thinking of what I'm seeing there as a skeuomorphic echo of the original toy.
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If you're not going to bother reading my posts, then don't bother replying to them.
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You're not the boss of me.
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Then by all means, continue replying to posts I didn't write. Whatever.
Just don't expect my responses to make sense.
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I knew this image would come in handy!
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@HardwareGeek said:
Real wood and paper cardstock for the green vane things; no plastic.
They hadn't invented plastic yet when your parents bought that particular set for you?
Certainly plastic had been invented1; they just hadn't yet replaced natural materials in everything.
1The first synthetic plastic was invented in 1856. PVC and polyethylene (one or the other of which is probably used in modern Tinkertoys) were invented in 1872 (first produced commercially in the 1920s) and 1933, respectively.
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nothing to do with what I posted above, where the drawing is over the toolbox
If you shrink the window to the point where the simulated plastic gears overlap the toolbox, you will find that clicking the place where toolbox and gears overlap activates the toolbox, not the gears. Therefore the toolbox is the top layer. Therefore the toolbox is over the drawing, and translucent; the drawing is not over the toolbox. Therefore you are wrong. You could not be more wrong if you used an electric wronging machine. Also, u hav a face liek a sqashed tomato.
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Can you see the drawing in the toolbox area? Yes? Then is bug. I couldn't give a rat's scrotum about the layering; a bug is a bug.
At least this time you actually read my post first.
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Can you see the drawing in the toolbox area? Yes? Then is bug.
No, it's a translucent toolbox.
/me returns to happily drawing epicycloids
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Because it's obviously a good thing for a toolbox to be full of stuff that isn't tools.
I think I might adopt that philosophy elsewhere; I think I'll start by cooking food in my fridge.
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/me returns to happily drawing
FTFY. An epicycloid is a special case of an epitrochoid in which d == r, i.e., the drawing point is on the edge of the moving gear, which is never the case for the Spirograph. d < r, always, so the figures are epitrochoids when revolving one gear around the outside of a circular fixed gear. When the moving gear is inside one of the large, hollow fixed gears, the figure is a hypotrochoid. Finally, when using one of the linear gears, the figure is a general roulette (the base class, if you will, of epitrochoids, hypotrochoids, epicycloids, cycloids, involutes, etc.), part curtate cycloid (the linear portions of the gear, and part epitrochoid (when rounding the end of the gear).epicycloidsepitrochoids
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Tinkertoys! Meh. Baby stuff. This is what we had:
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Apropos of not a lot...
http://funnystack.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Funny-Parenting-53.jpg
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Dude.
That middle building with less color would just like SHADO HQ from UFO.
well, kind of similar...at leastI saw a new set of those just a couple of years ago... almost bought them, but I realized there was no possible way to make my family believe they were for the kids.... Since we already have: mega-blox, Lego, Kinnex, Lincoln and Frontier logs, a set of 500 plastic connector doo-dads for joining anything to anything, marble tracks, not to mention staples tape and glue.
Filed under: Father's day is coming Spawn! wheeze I am your Father...wheeze ... buy Girder and Panel Set!!
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I wonder if you're all too old farts to have experienced this.
I was aware of them, but didn't want/had one.
I do own the CD that features this song though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY8kxbaIDmg
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I am frequently saddened by the fact that the Pacific Trash Vortex has taken less than a single human lifetime to become a thing.
I'm reasonably sure it's not a thing now.
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In games with not-insane (read: remotely realistic instead of utterly cartoonish) male models (NWN makes the grade on this one, for instance), I'm more than happy to play a male char with a third person camera.
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The idea is that he'd rather look at a female model or be a male character.
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I'm reasonably sure it's not a thing now.
On what basis do you disagree with the observations of people who have actually been there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFSv2eW7g6E
Bear in mind that what I'm sad about is the actual Pacific Trash Vortex, not the random garbage piles that lazy media use to illustrate stories on it, like this one:
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The idea is that he'd rather look at a female model or be a male character.
Which makes me wonder what sorts of male models the artists for the games he's playing have put in...
(Besides, I have a sneaking suspicion I have a female char who he wouldn't want to stare at all day, when modeled properly that is...)
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I'm reasonably sure it's not a thing now.
The few pictures of piles of trash are all you generally see--and if you press, you'll find out they're actually pretty isolated. What's mainly there is (generally, at most) a few hundred grains of plastic per square kilometer.
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What's mainly there is (generally, at most) a few hundred grains of plastic per square kilometer
which is still pretty much a big deal for a lot or organisms, but it's not an "OMGBBQWTF WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!" big deal that certain segments of the press like to portray it as.
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You missed the point entirely.
Hint: when I look at the screen, what do I see?
Either the screen has no central character, in which case I in the central character, or I'm looking at someone's ass. Now think about what asses I'd prefer to look at.
EDIT: it doesn't hurt that female characters invariably have better voice-acting for some reason.
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Bear in mind that what I'm sad about is the actual Pacific Trash Vortex, not the random garbage piles that lazy media use to illustrate stories on it, like this one:
The vid makes me wonder what's acting as the trash-grinder to create all the little pieces of plastic in that vortex...
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A combination of water movements, solar radiation, and simply the bits hitting each other would be my guess
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Apparently these days we're supposed to feel awful about that.
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Apparently these days we're supposed to feel awful about that.
I just find it annoying that the male char models wind up apparently looking like fried donkey rump roast half the time...
Are guys not allowed to be suave and handsome from a rear view?
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which is still pretty much a big deal for a lot or organisms
What kinds of organisms? How much of a deal?
@flabdablet's video linked above talked about how it was actually providing new habitat for some animals (e.g., barnacles), which I guess is a big deal for them. The other effect discussed was how it made the people on the ship sad, but no talk about dead birds or androgynous fish or toxic plankton or anything like that.
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Now think about what asses I'd prefer to look at.
I'm told that would be sexist, so I flipped a coin and the result was "male".
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A combination of water movements, solar radiation, and simply the bits hitting each other would be my guess
It's how sand is made, so it makes sense. Plastic's less tough than rock.
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What kinds of organisms? How much of a deal?
The first and obvious thing that comes to mind is anything with a mouth approximately the average grain size, which seems to be roughly the size of a modern phone's notification LED.
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What kinds of organisms?
mostly plankton and other microorganiosms
some like the garbage some don't both kinds were in balance before the garbage, now they're out of balance, and since such microorganisms are the foundation of the food chain.... goddess only knows what the effect will be.
like i said, it's a big deal (for scientists more than average joe), but not as big a deal as hippie news sources make it out to be, and it's not situation normal as corporationalist media says it is. it's somewhere in the middle and whether it'll be good, bad, or indifferent is yet to be determined (right now it's looking indifferent leaning towards slightly bad, but we're still getting more info on it so that will probably change)
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@boomzilla said:
What kinds of organisms? How much of a deal?
The first and obvious thing that comes to mind is anything with a mouth approximately the average grain size, which seems to be roughly the size of a modern phone's notification LED.
That's just your guess, though. I mean...my guess is that if there was good evidence of serious harm the sad chick in @flabdablet's video would have told us about it.
some like the garbage some don't both kinds were in balance before the garbage, now they're out of balance,
Got a link about that?
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That's just your guess, though.
Well, of course.
I mean...my guess is that if there was good evidence of serious harm the sad chick in @flabdablet's video would have told us about it.
The kind of person who exists to "raise awareness" of a problem but does nothing to actually attempt to solve it wouldn't bother to check.
I mean, I'd respect someone who went out with a boat and some kind of a net to try to clean some of that up. I'd think they were stupid for setting a Sisyphean task for themselves, but I'd respect their attempt to do cleanup.
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The kind of person who exists to "raise awareness" of a problem but does nothing to actually attempt to solve it wouldn't bother to check.
Eh...she works for Scripps, seems like a legit researcher, not an activist. I was being snarky about the sad thing. I mean, I hate to see litter out and about, too.
I mean, I'd respect someone who went out with a boat and some kind of a net to try to clean some of that up. I'd think they were stupid for setting a Sisyphean task for themselves, but I'd respect their attempt to do cleanup.
They didn't go to clean up, but they were using their nets to survey stuff (I have no clue if you watched the video).
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I have no clue if you watched the video
I didn't. That probably explains why I was apparently wrong with the first thing you quoted above.
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My son and daughter had both "masculine" and "feminine" toys available. They naturally tended to play mostly with the "traditional" gender-role toys, anyway.