Talk:2049: Unfulfilling Toys - Revision history

172.69.194.139 at 23:31, 16 December 2024

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Cheesesentience at 16:29, 16 December 2024

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Solomon: prank gift

2023-12-06T05:37:04Z

prank gift

GreatWyrmGold at 05:06, 3 October 2023

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162.158.75.22 at 23:41, 27 September 2018

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172.68.65.6 at 14:01, 24 September 2018

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Probably not Douglas Hofstadter: Signed my comment.

2018-09-23T04:40:48Z

Signed my comment.

Probably not Douglas Hofstadter: Added a comment.

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Added a comment.

162.158.78.130 at 20:41, 22 September 2018

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Dgbrt at 18:33, 22 September 2018

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	A disappointing Rubik's Cube could just be a solid, non-twisting Cube with an unsolved cube painted onto it. [[User:Cheesesentience\|Cheesesentience]] ([[User talk:Cheesesentience\|talk]]) 16:29, 16 December 2024 (UTC)		A disappointing Rubik's Cube could just be a solid, non-twisting Cube with an unsolved cube painted onto it. [[User:Cheesesentience\|Cheesesentience]] ([[User talk:Cheesesentience\|talk]]) 16:29, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
		+	:There is a (non-twisting, but pliable) Rubik's Cube-styled ''stress ball''. Or possibly more than one, from the various links (mostly commercial/advertorial, so not bothering to repost here) that a quick check via [[993: Brand Identity\|an internet search engine]] reveals. It is(/they are) 'solved', which may not be disappointing in the same way... but it would probably frustrate me insofar as one ''couldn't'' mix it up (or do patterns, like "dot and ring" every face) and do anything more than scrunch it up and/or thrown it around the office without much more damage than knocking a few pencils off some desks. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.194.139\|172.69.194.139]] 23:31, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

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	I think you might be able to pull this off if you market it as a prank gifts, for people to buy for their friends as a joke. [[User:Solomon\|Solomon]] ([[User talk:Solomon\|talk]]) 05:37, 6 December 2023 (UTC)		I think you might be able to pull this off if you market it as a prank gifts, for people to buy for their friends as a joke. [[User:Solomon\|Solomon]] ([[User talk:Solomon\|talk]]) 05:37, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
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		+	A disappointing Rubik's Cube could just be a solid, non-twisting Cube with an unsolved cube painted onto it. [[User:Cheesesentience\|Cheesesentience]] ([[User talk:Cheesesentience\|talk]]) 16:29, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

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	Glass glow-sticks? Isn't that the principle behind Mike Thompson's blood lamp. His design, in my opinion, is less fun than the design suggested in the current explanation. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.22\|162.158.75.22]] 23:41, 27 September 2018 (UTC)		Glass glow-sticks? Isn't that the principle behind Mike Thompson's blood lamp. His design, in my opinion, is less fun than the design suggested in the current explanation. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.22\|162.158.75.22]] 23:41, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
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		+	I think you might be able to pull this off if you market it as a prank gifts, for people to buy for their friends as a joke. [[User:Solomon\|Solomon]] ([[User talk:Solomon\|talk]]) 05:37, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

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 : The cubes are only attached magnetically. It takes a lot of force to break a lot of magnetic connections at once. Some of the cubes they actually take apart and you can see it’s just magnets. The video might be longer than ideal, but it does demonstrate the concept. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.141.94|172.68.141.94]] 11:17, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 : It is theoretically possible to build a cube with arbitrary dimensions without using magnets, though the mechanism required for certain shapes is much more complicated than a standard cube. [[User:Probably not Douglas Hofstadter|Probably not Douglas Hofstadter]] ([[User talk:Probably not Douglas Hofstadter|talk]]) 04:40, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 Isn't a wingless sky dancer just an upside down beyblade? {{unsigned ip|172.69.55.166}}
 '''Broken toys'''

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	::: "Broken" != "Unfulfilling". Over this weekend, my son and I blitzed his dump, sorry, room. There were a large number of broken toys (especially those "Hero Mashers" action figures - lifetime measured in hours...) that I was not allowed to get rid of because he still plays with them. He has some perfectly intact items that are much more unfulfilling - racetracks where the track pieces don't quite match up leading to stuck cars (when new out of the box) being the one most guaranteed to create the disappointed face. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.65.6\|172.68.65.6]] 14:01, 24 September 2018 (UTC)		::: "Broken" != "Unfulfilling". Over this weekend, my son and I blitzed his dump, sorry, room. There were a large number of broken toys (especially those "Hero Mashers" action figures - lifetime measured in hours...) that I was not allowed to get rid of because he still plays with them. He has some perfectly intact items that are much more unfulfilling - racetracks where the track pieces don't quite match up leading to stuck cars (when new out of the box) being the one most guaranteed to create the disappointed face. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.65.6\|172.68.65.6]] 14:01, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
	Wanna nerd-snipe the next commenters? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.130\|162.158.78.130]] 20:41, 22 September 2018 (UTC)		Wanna nerd-snipe the next commenters? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.130\|162.158.78.130]] 20:41, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
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		+	Glass glow-sticks? Isn't that the principle behind Mike Thompson's blood lamp. His design, in my opinion, is less fun than the design suggested in the current explanation. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.22\|162.158.75.22]] 23:41, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

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 :I'm sure I still have working toys somewhere that have survived my childhood. :) I think Randall just aims to deprive of the satisfaction of playing with them for children, thus the comic name "Unfulfilling Toys". -[[User:Asdf|Asdf]] ([[User talk:Asdf|talk]]) 14:47, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 ::"toys ... have survived my childhood" emphases exactly that what I'm saying. Most of them didn't survive... And try to remember your own annoyance about all those broken ones, there's probably not much in your memory, you just threw them away. But your parents were annoyed about all that waste. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 18:33, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
+::: "Broken" != "Unfulfilling". Over this weekend, my son and I blitzed his dump, sorry, room. There were a large number of broken toys (especially those "Hero Mashers" action figures - lifetime measured in hours...) that I was not allowed to get rid of because he still plays with them. He has some perfectly intact items that are much more unfulfilling - racetracks where the track pieces don't quite match up leading to stuck cars (when new out of the box) being the one most guaranteed to create the disappointed face. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.65.6|172.68.65.6]] 14:01, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
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	:I'm sure I still have working toys somewhere that have survived my childhood. :) I think Randall just aims to deprive of the satisfaction of playing with them for children, thus the comic name "Unfulfilling Toys". -[[User:Asdf\|Asdf]] ([[User talk:Asdf\|talk]]) 14:47, 22 September 2018 (UTC)		:I'm sure I still have working toys somewhere that have survived my childhood. :) I think Randall just aims to deprive of the satisfaction of playing with them for children, thus the comic name "Unfulfilling Toys". -[[User:Asdf\|Asdf]] ([[User talk:Asdf\|talk]]) 14:47, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
	::"toys ... have survived my childhood" emphases exactly that what I'm saying. Most of them didn't survive... And try to remember your own annoyance about all those broken ones, there's probably not much in your memory, you just threw them away. But your parents were annoyed about all that waste. --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 18:33, 22 September 2018 (UTC)		::"toys ... have survived my childhood" emphases exactly that what I'm saying. Most of them didn't survive... And try to remember your own annoyance about all those broken ones, there's probably not much in your memory, you just threw them away. But your parents were annoyed about all that waste. --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 18:33, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
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	Toys often don't have a long lifetime, in particular children tend to act not much carefully and sometimes they even destroy them deliberately as a part of their playing. Parents know what I'm talking about. It can be annoying how fast kids are able to destruct things. So literally Randall just sells toys in a state in which they always end up anyway. Worth for the explanation? --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 13:59, 22 September 2018 (UTC)		Toys often don't have a long lifetime, in particular children tend to act not much carefully and sometimes they even destroy them deliberately as a part of their playing. Parents know what I'm talking about. It can be annoying how fast kids are able to destruct things. So literally Randall just sells toys in a state in which they always end up anyway. Worth for the explanation? --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 13:59, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
	:I'm sure I still have working toys somewhere that have survived my childhood. :) I think Randall just aims to deprive of the satisfaction of playing with them for children, thus the comic name "Unfulfilling Toys". -[[User:Asdf\|Asdf]] ([[User talk:Asdf\|talk]]) 14:47, 22 September 2018 (UTC)		:I'm sure I still have working toys somewhere that have survived my childhood. :) I think Randall just aims to deprive of the satisfaction of playing with them for children, thus the comic name "Unfulfilling Toys". -[[User:Asdf\|Asdf]] ([[User talk:Asdf\|talk]]) 14:47, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
		+	::"toys ... have survived my childhood" emphases exactly that what I'm saying. Most of them didn't survive... And try to remember your own annoyance about all those broken ones, there's probably not much in your memory, you just threw them away. But your parents were annoyed about all that waste. --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 18:33, 22 September 2018 (UTC)