The Voice of Labor posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3982991

The Voice of Labor posted:

k lego thread I will let you decide. I got the sembo night club/sex tourism spot set.

crazy eyes mustafa posted:

I get that there’s a pandemic and some serious global economic upheaval occurring peripheral to that, but have they considered me, the person completely unaffected by and insulated from all of this who still has time and money to play with toys all day? How inconsiderate.

Lady Militant posted:

yah you could say im a tankie;

Maguro posted:

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I am addicted to buying Lego and it just ruined my life.

I have been buying since I was a kid and, until now, its always been something I could keep under control. A few sets a year, splurging for loose pieces at conventions, stuff like that. But in the last 5 years or so it’s gotten worse. Unfortunately that also coincided with meeting the love of my life and getting engaged.

My fiancé (ex now I guess) realized I had a problem and made me keep a tally of how much I spent on Lego a month. At my worst I was dropping 4-500 a week on Lego. I had a massive backlog of sets to build, filling up my parent’s entire spare bedroom since my one room apartment was already filled with completed sets.

We cut it down to 100 a month, at least that’s what I told her. In reality I purchased a storage locker for cheap and kept buying Lego. I’d either go build them and store the finished pieces in the locker, or just leave the unopened boxes in there. We hadn’t combined finances yet so she had no idea.

I proposed to her after 4 years of dating, and her one rule was I keep my Lego addiction under control. I lied through my teeth and said I would. I also got her a cheaper ring (about 300 dollars) and instead spent double that on Lego in the same trip. She wasn’t my priority, sadly.

We started wedding planning and this is where things fell apart. I was in charge of certain things, and one item was building the centerpieces. My fiancé designed a pretty cool thing - some fake water lillies in a bowl of colored water with an LED light in it. We needed to make 17 of them, she had the exact pieces picked from the craft store along with the total cost - 126 dollars to make every single one. She gave me that money to pick up the raw materials.

I never did it, I just went to Toys R Us and threw that money towards Lego Star Wars sets that were new. I kept lying and putting it off, then she got pissed at me because the store discontinued the LED lights, so we had to buy a different type.

I finally got off my rear end and bought the stuff, but couldn’t justify making them until I finished some of my Lego backlog. Our wedding date was supposed to be this June. and I hadn’t even bought the materials until February.

My fiancé was justifiably mad and told me I needed to help out more, specifically by booking the hotel block, meeting the DJ and giving him his down payment, and printing up our table placecards.

I didn’t do any of this because Lego released set 75192 - the 800 dollar Millenium falcon. I bought it with the DJ money and spent 3 days building it.

My fiancé found out and threatened to cancel the wedding unless I “came clean” about everything. So I did.

I showed her the storage locker (full) and my bank account (empty). I figured I spent around 35,000 on Lego in the 2 years we were supposed to be saving for the wedding, honeymoon, and house.

She gave me back my ring that night and said she couldn’t trust me enough to marry me. I don’t blame her, not really. Her family hates me and now so does mine. A lot of people already have emailed me saying I wasted her life and their time. My parents threw all my Lego out of the house into the yard, so I spent a night having to drive over there and save them. Right now I’m still in my apartment, I just set up some Lego stacks to work through.

My ex has blocked me and hasn’t reached out to me. Her family refuses to get me in contact with her. I barely feel motivated to build my Lego backlog now.

Please don’t end up like me. I read the Lego thread in DIY a lot now and see so much of myself in those people.

I will not sell the Lego though, so please do not ask. They still mean a lot to me.

My Gimmick Name posted:

i keep a legos.txt on my desktop. it has since collected other posts, but that one is at the top

My Gimmick Name posted:

My Gimmick Name posted:

i keep a legos.txt on my desktop. it has since collected other posts, but that one is at the top

The Voice of Labor posted:

sometimes you want to go
where nobody asks your name



oh god damnit, I forgot to take a photo of the instructions

"sembo block facilitate communication between children and parents"

lol no sembo I'm not explaining this one to the kiddo just yet

The Voice of Labor posted:

sometimes you want to go
where nobody asks your name



oh god damnit, I forgot to take a photo of the instructions

"sembo block facilitate communication between children and parents"

lol no sembo I'm not explaining this one to the kiddo just yet

shyduck posted:

Daughter is getting her first Duplo blocks for Christmas

Marzzle posted:

that sky is really cool. did you just make it out of stuff you had lying around or was it part of the set? love the colorful pillar on the right. very seedy "been here since the googie era" vibe

The Voice of Labor posted:

I been doing big dioramas and stuff, sky was supposed to be a pacific ocean island sunset for this

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3983694

but I just could never source enough tiles, so I've kind of relegated it to good enough status and just try to remember to put some extra tiles into every bricklink order I do.

funny, looking back through this thread, I started do the sky just with bricks for the clouds and it looks better than the tiles, but the 3 dimensionality in a background still bugs me

Lady Militant posted:

well at least this thread has something for smythe now

The Voice of Labor posted:

sometimes you want to go
where nobody asks your name



oh god damnit, I forgot to take a photo of the instructions

"sembo block facilitate communication between children and parents"

lol no sembo I'm not explaining this one to the kiddo just yet

The Voice of Labor posted:

I have a tiny, empty house



and a tiny, empty soul



but my car's kickin' rad



and john constantine and michael jordan are my gay neighbors and they're raising, I guess, one of the dragon ball dudes



so I mean like really all I can say, all any of us can say, is that china owns

Cloks posted:

alienated from the products of his labor in modern society, Elmo is falling into an abyss that can only be filled with cheap opiates

Cloks posted:

alienated from the products of his labor in modern society, Elmo is falling into an abyss that can only be filled with cheap opiates

The Voice of Labor posted:

give me your power thread. it's time to source parts to build a lego guillotine

The Voice of Labor posted:

give me your power thread. it's time to source parts to build a lego guillotine

Cloks posted:

is this gonna be a functional Lego guillotine or for staging pictures only?

The Voice of Labor posted:

it'll be minifigure scale if that's what you're asking. the blade'll come down if I build it right, but it's made out of plastic so it won't like, realistically sever any minifigure heads. that's o.k. really, minifigures get kinda expensive

The Voice of Labor posted:

it'll be minifigure scale if that's what you're asking. the blade'll come down if I build it right, but it's made out of plastic so it won't like, realistically sever any minifigure heads. that's o.k. really, minifigures get kinda expensive