Vainamoinen

I know fatherhood isn't a common trait shared amonsgt males on EQ2Flames, but this issue is dire enough that I figured I needed to bring it to your attention.

My 4 year old son is a LEGO fan. These days, LEGO is not the red brick and sloped green roof pieces it used to be. There's all sorts of crazy shit now. Gantry cranes, ancient castles, hovercraft, AT-ATs. You name it, LEGO might have it.

Anyway, like in any business, LEGO has its competitors. One such competitor is MEGA BLOKS. Obviously, a company name created by some illiterate focus group. The "engineering" behind MEGA BLOKS must have been driven by the same group of illiterate would-be marketeers.

LEGO lays out each of its sets in sealed bags which hold the pieces specific to certain step of the set (eg. Bag 1 will hold of of the pieces necessary to build the fuselage of a plane; Bag 2 will hold all of the pieces to build the baggage carrier; Bag 3 will hold all of the pieces for the wings and ailerons of the plane).

MEGA BLOKS takes a similar, but significantly tangential approach to their sets. To be as succinct as possible, they have decided to take all of the pieces that sound like vanilla and put them in Bag 1; all of the pieces that rhyme with silver go in Bag 2; and all of the pieces that have a specific gravity of 0.2 and put them in the 16 other bags.

So far, I've managed probably around 150 pieces of the 955 piece Xtreme Sports: Radical Games set. The remaining 805 pieces will have to wait until I am thoroughly drunk and addicted to crystal meth.

Let this be a warning to you dads (or potential dads). As fun as these hands-on, "educational" toys might seem, they can be as dangerous as just letting your children SCUBA dive with plastic bags.

P.S I am a structural geologist, so 3D visualization and whatnot is not something that generally challenges me. Discerning instructions created by some Fine Arts grad with a minor in stupidity, however, generally perplexes me. Imma go punch a baby now.

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Faabio

Nice copy and paste

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Vainamoinen

of?

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Otis

ROFL

Nice job Vainamoinen

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Faabio

Like anyone would believe you are actually a father (or have had sex with a woman to create said baby).

I DO on the other hand believe you are one of those fat nerds whose entire house is made completely out of Legos though.

After spending every dime from your part time retail job on real Lego parts you had to take one for the team and buy cheap imitation which leads you to your current predicament.

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Vainamoinen

Listen, son. I know I told your mom I had to leave her because of you (there's only so much creepiness a parent can take from thweir offspring) but I'm sure you've grown up and overcome that need to publically pleasure yourself to pictures of shellfish. Even if you haven't, I still respect you as a human being.

By the way, I'm quite happy that you and Gnarkill have made me a proud grandfather (x2)!

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Narkle

Bahaha thanks for that Faabio

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Faabio

That was was subpar retort, even for you.

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Narkle

Thanks your daughter was amazing..She even let me and Faabio wipe off on her forehead

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Vainamoinen

gnarkill + faabio << 955 pieces of mega bloks.

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