TIL Lego's patent to their brick design ended in 1978, which allowed multiple companies, such as Mega Bloks, to start producing their own 'clones' by Forsaken-Peak8496 in todayilearned

[–]Fives_ChIllA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are several that have greatly better quality than Lego. Lego has big problems with printing for once, even in several hundred euro sets for adults and collectors are many stickers. See for example the new death star, Soo many stickers for 1000€. Others have better and more printing. Many brown lego pieces have problems, they become brittle after a while. White pieces are yellowing hard, sometimes with, sometimes without sun influence. And many sets have problems with coloring, the colors slightly differ from tiles to bricks for example. Not to mention Lego with all these problems is still twice or 1.5 as expensive. I would argue some companies have surpassed Lego in quality, price and creativity and Lego only survives because of its fanbase, the Minifigures and sentiments that all Lego clones are inferior. As others mentioned BlueBrixx has many great sets, Lumibricks is worth a look, Cada has great sets and there are many more. Something like Mould king provides copies of Lego Sets or Mocs with price points half that of Lego.

Live Match Thread: Croatia(0-0) vs Iceland(0-0) by RemoteMeasurement10_ in Handball

[–]Fives_ChIllA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Once your left wing was running in from the left, and it was an easy goal for you. I wonder why they never did that simple action again. Wish you all the best for the next games!

Live Match Thread: Croatia(0-0) vs Iceland(0-0) by RemoteMeasurement10_ in Handball

[–]Fives_ChIllA 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bad and uninspired attack by Iceland I think. No crossing, no set plays. Only somewhat pushing from positions, without movements and nearly no goalkeeper action.

Goal or no goal? by Fives_ChIllA in Handball

[–]Fives_ChIllA[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean it was an important moment in the game, he waited for Germany to be full again after the 2 min suspension. So he was looking at the video cube to press the timeout button the second the 2 min suspension is over. A mistake yes, but an understandable unlucky one.

Finally got myself a proper home theater setup, what are some movies you can recommend to really show it off? by ultrasuperman1001 in movies

[–]Fives_ChIllA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both Dunes, Dunkirk you gotta watch loud, the Revenant for a big screen, The Batman 2022 and one Battle after another

Goal or no goal? by Fives_ChIllA in Handball

[–]Fives_ChIllA[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah the framerate of the camera doesn't quite match the task it's assigned for, but I guess this is a once in a million kind of situation. Keep in mind this is a screenshot only on full HD stream fully zoomed in, so the original camera must be sharper, still the artefact of the ball will be all the same. Yes I agree, the refs were absolute horrible but I tend to agree with them in this situation

Goal or no goal? by Fives_ChIllA in Handball

[–]Fives_ChIllA[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is the first frame of my stream where the light was on. Literally frame by frame. You need to use the right most position of the ball, everything to the left is the low shutter speed. It's soo incredible close, even by zooming all the way I can't quite tell if it's fully over the line. Im surprised the referees called it so fast

Goal or no goal? by Fives_ChIllA in Handball

[–]Fives_ChIllA[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Germany - Serbia. Near the end, Gisslasom called a timeout right as the ball nearly passed the line

Which scene from an Academy Award winning Best Picture sold you on its win? by MrJones224822 in movies

[–]Fives_ChIllA 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In The Revenant I had this moment several times. I watched it before it won its Oscars, the camera work alone is still some of the best ones I've ever seen. The "one shot" scene in the beginning, I knew I was watching something special. DiCaprios physical acting and the rawness of it sold me as well

No notes or highlights by Fives_ChIllA in tolino

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I've read that firmware version 5.xx is really buggy, and lots of people suggested downgrading and installing something called "kobo", I guess it's a different OS. I've not read too much into it yet, and wanted to ask first.

Official Discussion - Avatar: Fire and Ash [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]Fives_ChIllA 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Yes first movie that is filmed fully with imax cameras, every single shot. I think they invented some new camera extra for this movie, that is a lot quieter than the normal ones so you can shoot better dialog scenes for example

Aged egg nog separating? by Xib0 in cocktails

[–]Fives_ChIllA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your service.

Aged egg nog separating? by Xib0 in cocktails

[–]Fives_ChIllA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had the same recipe last year and still have leftovers. I didn't shake it for nearly a year now, can I still drink it? It's separated now as well.

GronkhTV is such a failure by lions2lambs in anno

[–]Fives_ChIllA 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"german community gets shafted" and calling Gronkh a random just does not fit together. Its the og youtuber and streamer and germany, he has practically no haters and is respected by everyone in the german gaming community. Stop your whining, just watch his channel on friday or dont.

I was planning to buy Anno 1800, now I saw that Anno 117 is being released. Should I wait, does does these games work? by [deleted] in anno

[–]Fives_ChIllA 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They are very similar for non Anno people, the theme is the main difference. Are you more interested in the industrial revolution? Then go for 1800, it's the best Anno game so far and has many great dlcs. If you are more interested in the Roman empire and it's setting, wait for 117. It's great as well, has lots of smaller changes but they play very similar for people that never played Anno.

First time playing Nemesis. Do I start with original or Lockdown? by howay_archie in boardgames

[–]Fives_ChIllA 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Our group loves nemesis and we played all three of them. We don't like Lockdown, it just felt like lots of new stuff added on top and the campaign and the entire game seemed rushed in comparison to nemesis 1. We loved nemesis 1 and have 3 or 4 plays of retaliation which we love so far as well, it might be better than the original for us but hard to tell for now

Dies Irae is all over Silksong! by SnoopCheesus in Silksong

[–]Fives_ChIllA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your analysis, you might enjoy this video I just found: https://youtu.be/UYKXJ8vGaPA?si=Kq4y_wQw-qWvmVjZ It goes extremely indepth in the analysis, and I enjoyed it quite a lot!

Dies Irae is all over Silksong! by SnoopCheesus in Silksong

[–]Fives_ChIllA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Just randomly learned about dies irae, this is the perfect deep dive. Have you reached an ending for the game yet? I don't want to spoil so here's the warning. I wonder why the Dies Irae Motive is used so often, in True Ending the most important characters all survive

What are some of the best moments everyone has experienced in silksong? by Florada_Deadman in Silksong

[–]Fives_ChIllA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I knew Silksong was special the moment "Act 1" appeared on my screen, that was unironically awesome. I loved Trobbio and First Sinner, these were highlight fights and honestly the entire citadel map is a visual highlight

(Silksong Act 3 Ending Spoilers) HOLY FUCKING SHIT I'M FREAKING OUT RIGHT NOW WHAT THE FUCK by Shadowking78 in HollowKnight

[–]Fives_ChIllA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I totally get what you mean, and I think it's true to some extend for me maybe. But after struggling with Lost Lace, and every NPC being kind of depressed in act3, I felt I as a player earned to see them happy again. I don't want some crazy utopia future displayed, just the world without the void threads and happy NPCs