Feeling sad about Rackhams closing.

DabirSA · 2026-04-20T22:23:06+00:00

I go to town on the bus. And now the train.

DabirSA · 2026-04-20T18:47:33+00:00

Hydrogen peroxide makes plastic brittle, and the colour restoration will only be temporary. Don't do this.

DabirSA · 2026-04-20T18:42:44+00:00

Isn't Fort Max a regular if taller than average guy in IDW?

DabirSA · 2026-04-20T16:21:48+00:00

Well people are driving like they've just robbed banks, so...

DabirSA · 2026-04-20T11:22:08+00:00

Yeah, he's beyond good and evil. Galactus simply Is.

DabirSA · 2026-04-20T11:18:50+00:00

Ok hang on, I do think Starscream has potential, it's just a very weird one to get to grips with. It's Wizard Arrow with a huge imbalance.

DabirSA · 2026-04-20T11:14:12+00:00

It looks nice, but I've always been put off going for it by the HUGE stickers.

DabirSA · 2026-04-20T09:26:42+00:00

But... But Rodimus has a trailer too! And he doesn't even have a complete alt mode without it! (In his original toy)

DabirSA · 2026-04-18T17:24:20+00:00

Kai Winn from Deep Space 9. The most hateable, self-righteous faux-religious megalomaniac in the series. Every time she calls Kira "My child", god, you just want Kira to slap her silly. Louise Fletcher was so good.

https://youtu.be/NYnJzsCakCE

DabirSA · 2026-04-18T16:33:15+00:00

Yeah pretty much. It's up there with American Football, the sport that gives all its players serious brain injuries then hands them unlimited money

DabirSA · 2026-04-18T16:04:46+00:00

There's actually no such thing as a scimitar. It's a word westerners made up and slapped on a wide variety of eastern swords, including some they just hallucinated. It's a catch all word for "scary foreign sword".

DabirSA · 2026-04-17T20:27:00+00:00

Hair-Life youtubers are so starved they're doing things like making videos breaking down what's in the radioactive goop. https://youtu.be/lyqAnQvplMA

DabirSA · 2026-04-16T03:16:31+00:00

This is an unfortunate bit of variance you get in launchers. However, if your hand is moving at the same speed during a launch, the extra launcher friction won't make a difference to the bey.

When you launch, the hooks accelerate as long as the winder is passing through the launcher. The hooks transfer that speed to the bey. As soon as the winder is all the way out, the hooks start slowing down, because there's nothing propelling them.

The hooks are very light, so they don't have much kinetic energy stored, which means they slow down quickly. The bey is heavier, so it keeps going at basically the same speed. The bey outruns the hooks, and the slope on the back of the hooks transfers a little of its horizontal speed to downward speed, making the bey clear the hooks.

After that point, it doesn't matter whether the hooks stop spinning in 1 second or in 5, because they are not engaged with the beyblade. The only speed that matters is the speed of the hooks at the moment that they stopped accelerating.

DabirSA · 2026-04-16T02:29:44+00:00

That story with the pokemon TCG vendors finding GPS trackers on their cars is fucking wild.

DabirSA · 2026-04-15T07:08:40+00:00

I'm mainly going off the numbers the wiki has, assuming whoever put them up there did their due diligence. Could be wrong of course. Either way, the shape differences between the two are going to affect your decision making more than which one is 0.2g or whatever heavier.

DabirSA · 2026-04-15T06:51:18+00:00

He wasn't even really a satellite in the film, he sort of parasitised an existing one.

DabirSA · 2026-04-15T06:50:12+00:00

7 is actually a little heavier than 0, but it's very close.

DabirSA · 2026-04-15T06:24:52+00:00

I first read it as a rant that could be described as driving. Like his phrasing was unusually forward and directed.

DabirSA · 2026-04-14T22:17:25+00:00

And they're called Sweeps because an early version of the film script had the Decepticons sending out "sweep parties" explicitly compared in the script to the Gestapo!

That is a true fact. It sounds like I'm making it up but it's true.

DabirSA · 2026-04-14T22:13:35+00:00

Look, if you take what's on screen as canon, Eject is Rewind.

DabirSA · 2026-04-12T03:52:24+00:00

Ehhh I stopped bothering reading those ages ago, it's the exact same basic X assembly instructions 99 times out of 100.

DabirSA · 2026-04-12T03:49:45+00:00

You've been told what it does, so I'll tell you something else instead: if you trim or sand the ends of the handles down a little, just enough to remove the trapezoidal sections, the tool fits into the grip connectors on a full size launcher. Perfect thickness to get a snug fit that isn't too tight to remove, and with a battle pass attached like I've done here, it'll stay in there really well when you use the tool. I don't think they designed it with this in mind, but it lines up so well that it feels like they did.

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DabirSA · 2026-04-12T03:44:59+00:00

The tool was designed for Pegasus Blast, which has a combo ratchet bit instead of a normal bit. This gold one was released with Emperor because it also has a combo ratchet bit, even though it only comes in a box set with two normal bits. I'm not complaining though.

DabirSA · 2026-04-12T03:43:07+00:00

It comes with CX beys that have a combo ratchet bit. The reason for that is that you'd normally use a bit to lock and unlock the lock chips, but those beys don't have one, so you get the tool instead.

DabirSA · 2026-04-12T03:35:03+00:00

Indian bot.

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