I’d say this was quarantine related, but probably not since quarantine wasn’t as in effect a month or so ago. I have to say it’s pretty fun though. Some unnecessary jump cuts in the video, but overall it’s neat.
Kind of makes me want to try it too. Also seems like all the LEGOs are still usable which makes sense given that these are small “depth charges”, and the water should distribute the pressure pretty well.
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Science is so cool. Did you know that? I can’t imagine what I would have done with things like this when I was a kid. As far as I would have been concerned, it was magic. And when you think about it, magnets are kinda magical aren’t they?
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Reddit user ducain23 posted a track in Halo 5 Forge which reminds me an awful lot of TrackMania. The dumb reddit video system doesn’t let me embed videos on other places sadly, so you’ll have to go to reddit itself to view the clip, needless to say, it’s pretty cool. I like the way he’s used the geometry to counteract gravity and keep things from falling apart. I’m not so sure I would be able to drive on this course without falling off. I’m totally more of a gunner, and my game stats will back that up (though they haven’t been refreshed in years sadly).
I can envision a really interesting game mode here with drivers, gunners, and passengers. The passengers are holding a bomb and you gotta drive through moving checkpoints to drop it off. It might work similar to stockpile from Halo Reach. It’s a work in progress but I think it could be tons of fun.
That is a life-sized working car built out of LEGOs. Yes, you read the correctly, life-sized, built from LEGOS. In fact, it doesn’t even use any glue, all the pieces are being held together by the inherit force of nature that is LEGO. Based on estimates, this cost about $1 million to make. Which when you compare it to an actual Bugatti, is a bargin.
However, if you’d like something more affordable, check out the LEGO Technic 42083. It’s only 3,600 pieces, but it’s also $350. I guess you can’t win either way.
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Event 9 just went live and if anything, these games have proven to be a shocker! As much of a fan of real life curling I am, I couldn’t watch the Marblelympics version. It was just too boring. I’m sorry.
However, the other 8 events are quite engaging, you should skip around the playlist, watch at your leisure. It’s quite fun!
Did you watch the Opening Ceremony of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games yesterday? I watched most of it. Unfortunately I was not up early enough to enjoy it live. It was quite entertaining though. I did very much enjoy the lighting of the cauldron. In honor of the Games, watch the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron from all the games from 1948, through 2016. As many different nations have hosted the games, there are that many different types of ways the cauldron was lit. My favorites are below:
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You’ll have to be up in the early morning this Friday to watch the opening ceremony live. That is if you can find it streaming somewhere online (if you’re in America). Dang stupid NBC is putting it on a 10 hour tape delay for “prime-time” Oh boy I just can’t wait!
https://youtu.be/05VXgM6KrhM?list=PL-RXmnw758NH0bj5KIbpiDrLygvT7k9un
I stumbled on the qualification round for the 2017 MarbleLympics last night. I proceeded to watch the first 4 events before I realized the time. This morning I finished the entire games. What a rush of excitement it was. I won’t give many spoilers, except to say that there were plenty of upsets and new records set this year.
The production quality of this series is top notch, it looks professionally done. The commentator – Greg Woods (F1FanWoodsie), does a superb job on the entire games, he has gotten very into each of the events and shows genuine enthusiasm for everything. I like all of the little details added to the games – each marble has a name, each team has a history and the crowd is very into everything going on!
Replays, picture in picture, overviews of the standings. Everything about this is amazing! Each of the courses is very well thought out and unique. Block pushing was fun, the sand race from the qualifier round was my favorite I think. Fidget spinning was a long event, too long in my opinion, but still enjoyable to watch. It’s almost more fun to watch then the real Olympics, and I love the Olympics! I can’t wait to see what the 2018 games bring about.
Often called a Pop bottle rocket, or something similar. This is something else entirely. This is a true multi-stage rocket powered by water and air that reaches up to 800 feet in altitude. I particularly like the Red, White, and Blue “exhaust”
I remember spending Saturday afternoons with the car compressor and a cork launching empty 2 liter bottles half full of water in my back yard. It was a process to see how much water would give us the greatest height. I never put a parachute on it though, this was 20 years ago, kids had stronger bodies back then, it’s a scientific fact.
There’s something about watching thousands of dominoes fall down in a choreographed way that is soothing. I think it’s the dedication to the colors that gets me. All that time spent getting the hues to line up, especially with the two-toned dominoes, so the setup side is one color, but when knocked down you get a different one. There’s a lot of dedication to setting something like that up.
Lilly Hevesh, who goes by Hevesh5 on YouTube has some pretty neat setups. Including this mesmerizing triple spiral. Honestly, I think I would call it a quadruple spiral, but I’m not the artist, so I won’t complain.
She has quite a lot of domino videos. It’s amazing the amount of time spent setting all those up only to destroy it in under a minute. I guessed wrong in this race. Will you? Hint, pay attention to the lines and the ways the dominoes are knocked down.
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