Re:Ranking the 25 Most Painful Lego to Step On
by slowmovintarget on Friday September 02, 2022 @11:45AM
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Getting a few in top X list wrong can actually increase "engagement."
Re:Ranking the 25 Most Painful Lego to Step On
by zaroth on Friday September 02, 2022 @02:25PM
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> This person clearly didn't actually step on any of these.
Well that’s no fun at all!
I was hoping for human trials of sleep deprived adults, with scoring metrics like “Number of hops” and “Number of shouted obscenities” and a probability likelihood estimate of all visible blocks being tossed into the trash after impact.
Re:Ranking the 25 Most Painful Lego to Step On
by BrandoElFollito on Friday September 02, 2022 @03:04PM
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When you are a parent, the obscenities are shouted in your head, or into your first when biting it.
I was surprised how efficiently my children picked up the ones I muttered in the middle of the night when stepping on stuff.
I know they they picked them then (and not, say, when hitting something with my small toe) because they were particularly inventive to keep sputtering them while the pain lasted.
Re:Ranking the 25 Most Painful Lego to Step On
by tda on Friday September 02, 2022 @12:22PM
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Can confirm everything you said from experience, including the remarka on the hubelino marble run. Quite a fun set but clearly not the same quality as real lego
Re:Ranking the 25 Most Painful Lego to Step On
by bombcar on Friday September 02, 2022 @01:11PM
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Hubelino is awesome, and in my perfect world Lego would buy them and do the minor changes necessary to make it perfectly Duplo compatible.
Meanwhile we're stuck with the Great Ball Contraption which is amazing, but not exactly the same. https://www.greatballcontraption.com
Re:Ranking the 25 Most Painful Lego to Step On
by r00fus on Friday September 02, 2022 @12:52PM
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Obligatory "rounded rect" reference:
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_...
#4 is NOT Lego ABS, it is another Lego plastic and is actually quite "soft" and will bend easily.
#5's clips are really too small to be incredibly painful - you need something more like #2.
And if you really want to suffer you will step on something like the off-brand Hubelino Marble Run pieces: https://www.hubelino.com - they, unlike Lego and Duplo, have extremely sharp edges on the blocks, perfectly molded 90° angles. Almost all Lego and Duplo bricks actually have slightly rounded (rounded rect!) corners.
And walking on a entire floor of bricks won't be that bad, as they will move aside like walking on sharpish gravel. The real pain is when you hit a lone brick on a hard floor.