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Subject: 
Re: play on (why yes I will)
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lugnet.color
Date: 
Tue, 25 May 2004 23:04:47 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Justin Pratt wrote:
   I hate to point this out to you, but if you’re hurt by something you claim to enjoy, that’s not a hobby - that’s a fetish.

By that rationale, everyone who drank old Coke -- and hated it when the Coca-Cola company changed the formula -- had a fetish for Coke?

   What? ‘Deep wounds’? You need a new hobby. This one’s a threat to your health.

I think he probably means emotional wounds. Please try to understand that a lot of us have very large investments in gray bricks over the years due to the type of sets we buy (for example, Space) or for other reasons.

I can completely sympathize with Matthew on this one. Although I’ve got enough real gray in most elements to last me a lifetime of projects, there’s one thing that I’m pretty upset about and that’s baseplates and 2xN bricks. If the baseplates don’t match, it makes for a very ugly moonscape. And the 10,000+ 2xN bricks that I bought for sculpting a moon crater are now obsolete. I need another 50,000 or so 2xN’s -- but I need them in real gray, not in blay.

It’s not causing me to lose sleep or wake up vomiting, but it is causing me to rethink how badly I want to buy any more new products. If I stopped buying new LEGO products, however, it wouldn’t be to “stick it to LEGO” but simply to spend my money elsewhere (old sets, second-hand) where I’ll be happier with what I buy.

   Some of us would prefer you put the adult into AFOL and get over it.

Matt is actually one of the most kind, considerate, thoughtful, mature, adult people that I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.

--Todd



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(...) I hate to point this out to you, but if you're hurt by something you claim to enjoy, that's not a hobby - that's a fetish. (...) What? 'Deep wounds'? You need a new hobby. This one's a threat to your health. (...) Some of us would prefer you (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX) ! 

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