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If you have inventor conceits nothing can give you a deep inferiority complex like browsing Lego videos, especially of very spartan technic mechanism builds. The big builds just look like a lot of patient work, but random little assembly snippets show how seriously creative a lot of people are. The design language is way more expressive than you might think, and it takes only a few parts to get very clever results. In other fields imagination and creativity are not always this starkly obvious and you can delude yourself you’re more talented than you think. Not in Lego. Most people will just create dull and uninspired sculptures and mechanisms. The official builds are usually not very inventive compared to amateur ones, since they have the luxury of designing new parts if needed, and are usually going for visual appeal over inventive construction.
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Warpcast gang is literally trying to do a kind of quantitative easing of the internal economy 😂 I keep getting between $5 - $25, but have hardly distributed any. Random tipping seems both silly to me and more thinking than I want to do. Crowdfunding is marginally more interesting. But basically a mini-cantillon effect is likely kicking in because I suspect people getting the payouts are holding on to more than they’re disbursing. It’s a good experiment on the supply side, but the demand side sucks. I’d be happy to pass through everything I get if there were more interesting mechanisms to receive it that required less thinking to use. Possibly no thinking. I like the automation ideas I’m seeing. I’d like a little wallet genie I can configure to just send out the rewards stuff as quickly as I receive it. Maybe retaining a 2% management fee and receiving 20% upside return claim tokens in some cases. Except automation probably means an arms race of farming bots.
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