Squorlple

Squorlple, 4 days ago

Just wait until you hear about stuffed crust

Squorlple, 6 days ago

The choice to make it out of miscellaneous parts rather than the 1x1 round plates or 1x1 round tiles found in most mosaic sets makes it look like Lego just wanted to get rid of the parts that they had sitting in surplus. Even shaping the details with wedge plates such as in The Rolling Stones (31206) set, or a mix of 1x1 rounds and wedge plates such as in Hokusai – The Great Wave (31208), would look much nicer and less slapdash.

Squorlple, 6 days ago

To clarify, the octopus mold itself isn’t particularly rare or expensive. The article refers to this individual piece as a “holy grail” because among the parts of the Cornwall flotsam, the “octopuses are considered the most prized finds as only 4,200 were onboard” in the lost cargo. The family in the article has been scavenging for years to collect the various parts, so this is something that is valuable to their subset of collectors but not really valuable to the typical Lego collector or fan.

Squorlple, 6 days ago

Probably by the degree and type of erosion, I would guess. Sellers and traders of these pieces also likely would have to keep up some level of reputability in order to remain in the market.

Squorlple, 7 days ago

Hmmm… Lost a planet Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing.

Squorlple, 9 days ago

Where is the Alaskan Bull Worm?

Squorlple, 8 days ago

Here is another camera angle. Source

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d1caa7c3-8063-402d-8248-ce5f401d8491.jpeg

Here is a LinkedIn post from at least 1 month prior with a photo of a similar sign. Source

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e1ae731d-a073-44f2-a9f2-e4897bf2afa2.jpeg

Here is a LinkedIn post from at least 3 weeks prior that has been edited but contains the same phrase. Source. Because the post has been edited, it does not act as standalone evidence but it is supporting evidence.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bee91ddc-21b5-4321-8967-5428991baa74.jpeg

The phrase seems to be an existing slogan for the campus, and there seems to be signage with that phrase and color of background of text. The photo in the original post seems to be plausible.

Squorlple, 10 days ago

Thank you! Such an iconic scene with some great lines, yet it has a negligible presence in official Lego sets.

Squorlple, 9 days ago

Thank you so much! If I had my way, I’d make one set that came with the Lobby, two Cell Doors, a Garbage Chute module, and the Endless Void module; a separate set that came with the Hallway module, the Endless Void module, four Cell doors, and a Garbage Chute module; and a third set with just a Cell. That way, people could easily buy however many they want of each unit to customize their setup without having to order pieces and the redundancy of extra modules is minimized.

Squorlple, 9 days ago

Thank you, I appreciate it. I do wish he wasn’t so smiley about the torture though — it’s a bit off-putting!

Squorlple, 10 days ago

Steely Dan also mention it in “Any Major Dude Will Tell You”

Squorlple, 10 days ago

old.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/…/l0sas2a/?context…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9f4c55f4-be47-4199-b0a3-2638366eb8f0.jpeg

Squorlple, 10 days ago

I recognized this image since I had seen it posted on Reddit by the bots on multiple occasions a couple years ago as I was an avid bot hunter at the time, and I know the patterns of how the Lemmy OP gets much of their content to post (commonly the top posts of the current day/week of the analogous subreddit). It was a simple matter of locating the Reddit bot’s post among recent posts and verifying that the Reddit OP is a repost bot. I had seen the post content numerous times prior to seeing it on Lemmy, and the post content was sourced from a Reddit repost bot.

Squorlple, 10 days ago

Looking back on your posts on this community, I do realize that I was a little quick to judge. Many, but in fact not all, of your image-based posts on this community are just reposts from what was top-rated from the Lego subreddit that day/week.

The reason many have left Reddit is because of the bots that repeatedly just repost top posts, which is not what I want to see here. I don’t see how you can attract an audience by giving them exactly what they would otherwise get from your competitor. In your methodology, you’re not only offering the same content, but you’re also offering the same audience deterrent in the form of copy+pasting top posts. This approach is functionally identical to Reddit’s repost bots.

I would suggest that you draw from more varied sources, rather than just what was top on the Lego subreddit at the moment. If you have no OC and you want to post, there are other sources for Lego content. You can draw from Eurobricks, BrickLink MOCs, Rebrickable, and other social media such as Instagram, YouTube, or Flickr. Even obscure and underrated posts on Reddit (even old ones) can help to demonstrate to a potential audience that we have what none of our competitors have on their own. I do see that you have on occasion drawn from some of these various sources in the past, but I think a more diverse and esoteric pool is what would interest people. People aren’t going to leave Reddit just to see a sliver of what they would go to Reddit for.

As for this particular post, I wouldn’t have minded seeing it shared if there was not already a pattern of posts being copy+pasted from the top of the Lego subreddit for a given day. I don’t want to go to Lemmy just to be late to the Reddit party. The post being a Twitter screenshot doesn’t matter as it’s not an issue of who made what here, but a matter of rehashing; I’d liken it to the Buzzfeed articles or YouTube content farms that copy several Reddit posts/comments and turn them into content for their own media. The case of this Lemmy post is made worse by the sourced Reddit post being made by a repost bot, which is exactly what I wanted to escape from by leaving Reddit.

Another technique of recruiting new users may be through posting direct links to content that is a “Lemmy exclusive” of sorts. For example, posting a link on Reddit to somebody’s OC Lemmy post, or tweeting “Found this cool build on lemmy.world/c/lego!”.

As a (typically) OC poster in this community, I feel demotivated to post OC that would have to compete against the “farmed” content which has proven successful.

Squorlple, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

The tweet itself is from June of 2022. I know from my bot-hunting at the time that it was posted to Reddit within days of being tweeted, and that there were bots reposting it prior to the API changes less than a year ago. If you were browsing Reddit (or Twitter) at the time, then you may have seen it then.

I wouldn’t have minded seeing it shared here if there was not already a pattern of posts being copy+pasted from the top of the Lego subreddit for a given day. If the Lemmy OP had posted this two days ago or if they had posted it a month from today, I wouldn’t have associated the post with the Reddit post from yesterday. It’s that the content is being “farmed” in a way which bothers me. The case of this Lemmy post is made worse by the sourced Reddit post being made by a repost bot, which is exactly what I wanted to escape from by leaving Reddit.

Squorlple, 14 days ago

1 mile ≈ 528 halves of a giraffe

Squorlple, 14 days ago

POV: you are French

Squorlple, 15 days ago

The school:

“We’re all trying to find the guys who bully”

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/78aa255c-e5ac-4d32-a57a-25d3423e9ec6.jpeg

Squorlple, 17 days ago

Gru when he sees one of his adopted daughters:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4f5e7936-a1e3-45e4-acce-71ff7d023096.jpeg