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Re: play on (why yes I will)
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lugnet.color
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Date:
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Tue, 25 May 2004 23:04:47 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Justin Pratt wrote:
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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.
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By that rationale, everyone who drank old Coke -- and hated it when the
Coca-Cola company changed the formula -- had a fetish for Coke?
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What? ‘Deep wounds’? You need a new hobby. This one’s a threat to
your health.
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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.
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Some of us would prefer you put the adult into AFOL and get over it.
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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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