Trip Hazard

This is a fine time to remind ourselves that those who follow a doctrine or tolerance and acceptance are under no obligation to tolerate or accept those that speak or act on the basis of bad faith.

@id_armed @TheLiegeDecado There is someone impersonating you under the handle id__armed. I just hope I haven't screwed myself. >_< This is why I don't use twitter, fucking hell...

@id_armed @TheLiegeDecado I was also interested in the Laserbeak

@dilophosaurid Found a rack of him at Target, bought on sight. Never saw again. Zero regrets.

I bought this but is earthspark deluxe soundwave really as rare as everyone is making it seem

@SixoTF @JoeyfromdaDMV At the time, those two extra bits for the date made a pretty huge difference for memory and storage and processing. They very reasonably assumed something better would be in place later. Reality is lazy though.

@JoeyfromdaDMV By today’s standards, perhaps, but then a lot of those systems had been programmed in the 60s or 70s without thinking ahead to when this might be a problem. It was a big thing

It’s wild that some folks *still* think this was all just hysteria because “nothing happened” when in reality a lot of folks worked really hard to solve the problem beforehand so it didn’t become a thing on the day

(GIVEAWAY) To celebrate the holidays im giving away a Fractured Friendship 2 pack!!! All you have to do is retweet this tweet, winner will be announced on Tuesdays December 24th

@Thewolfamonggus @KennyLauderdal3 Inspector Gadget is a cyborg, not a robot. Mm.

@KennyLauderdal3 INSPECTOR GADGET SHOULD BE IN THESE COMMENTS AND HES NOT

"Robot Detective" has to be my favorite design in Japanese media. It works well every time it's done.

@damnyouwillis I spent a non-trivial amount of my childhood learning to read and write this stuff and I can barely read *this*.

maybe historical documents should be written in more legible handwriting

@camzilla51 Reduces the parts count a bit. If you're recreating it anyway, may as well!

WAIT HOLD UP I knew retro cartoon g1 Optimus had a newly molded trailer, but I had no idea they removed the missile triggers! The missiles just kinda… *click* into and out of place now. Wild.

@damnyouwillis Just think of it as weathering?

some corners are really stubborn

Just realized I painted the wrong electro-scrambler blue, leaving me with no regular black one! ....time to depaint one, I guess you foolish fool

@ChromeTyranno I swear it's like they're working harder and harder all the time to make it more difficult to disassemble these guys.

Ended up trying to push out what I thought was one long pin, only for the smaller ones to sink into and get trapped inside the neck piece. Had to use another pin to push them all the way through to get them out.

Had a fun little disassembly scare with the new Jawbreaker toy. Turns out the neck piece is held to the torso by two very small pins.

@SixoTF @AtarasiHida I mean, I wasn't joking. I took it in for the new battery and it included free installation of it. Then I watched, dumbstruck, as they removed the entire wheel to do it. I literally could not have replaced the thing myself. Just the battery.

@triphazard1000 @AtarasiHida No, it’s very true. I’ve just picked up a Subaru myself but I was sure to find one that had a timing belt replacement already for fear of further costs down the line. But yeah, running & maintenance costs is a whole other conversation!

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@AtarasiHida @SixoTF My old car required the full removal of a wheel to replace a failing battery. May as well have had a "no user serviceable parts inside" sticker.

@SixoTF The real cost is complicated maintenance and rare parts. I remember how a Saturn needed to have the engine removed to replace the timing belt, a consumable part. I worked with a guy who sold his car when replacing his headlamp was $350, a decade ago.

@SixoTF That second pic gives off big soap bottle/toothbrush holder energy.

what are the youths doing

A series of comics of Photoshop tools as superheroes: A mega-thread (1/7)

Why don't they make Cheeto gloves? 🤔

@damnyouwillis Child has dirty face? Situation normal.

no his face isn't covered in M&Ms and pizza, you're just bad at looking at things

Soccer?????