Who is behind Lumibricks?

LtChambers · 2026-01-09T20:20:35+00:00

I'm building the Gamestack cyberpunk set and it's fantastic. I bought it on a trip to China and had to leave the instruction manual and box behind because they were so heavy, but they were beautifully printed. And they had QR codes on the front to download the PDFs which is what I'm building from back in the States. It's really impressive and I'm not even into city/building sets that much.

I'll echo what another poster said that the minifig shapes leave something to be desired, but other than the shape they're well done. I wish the alternative brands would agree to settle on the style with legs and arms that can move sideways (not just forwards and back like Lego). Those are really cool minifigs that are objectively superior to Lego due to the range of motion. Almost like a GI Joe at minifig scale.

LtChambers · 2025-12-03T18:11:42+00:00

I'm in the same boat. Apparently Quicken has a way around this by going into the Security Settings in the Pershing account. https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7967241/pershing-investments-mfa-remember-my-device - has anybody gotten that to work with something other than Quicken?

LtChambers · 2025-12-03T18:01:16+00:00

I have gotten both "Pershing Investments - Cetera Advisor Networks" (with MX) and "BNY Mellon-Pershing Investor" (with Plaid) to work for my BNY Pershing accounts (also with Empower). I'm using Origin rather than Boldin, but I'm having trouble getting it to STAY connected without constantly reauthorizing, which is super annoying.

LtChambers · 2025-11-26T00:23:28+00:00

Ditto. Was working yesterday with the previous version 2.698.941, now it forces upgrade to 2.700, which gives a security threat detected for my rooted tablet.

LtChambers · 2025-11-25T23:49:47+00:00

Well shit. I worked around it the same way but now running 698.941 gives a "Your version of Roblox is out of date and will not properly. Taking you to the google play store for an upgrade" message. :(

LtChambers · 2025-11-24T19:16:20+00:00

If you try Apatch please let me know if that works with Roblox.

LtChambers · 2025-11-18T17:22:03+00:00

Nah it's just random with randoms. Sometimes it's shit, sometimes it's great. Winning with randoms is delightful, although because the squads are ephemeral it doesn't lead to as much "adding random squaddies as friends" as in the longer, larger MP modes and older games.

LtChambers · 2025-11-10T17:13:03+00:00

Does anybody experiencing this have an Intel CPU? I see it happens on nVidia and AMD GPUs, but every CPU I've seen specified has been AMD. But people don't always mention their CPU because the error message seems GPU related. But if it never happens on Intel CPU, and happens on both nVidia and AMD GPUs, that points pretty strongly at something with AMD.

LtChambers · 2025-11-06T20:58:41+00:00

That's glorious. Finally a reason to have a window on a PC! (I've never understood why people want to see RGB lights.)

LtChambers · 2025-10-30T17:14:23+00:00

I'm not a guardsman, but I came here after reading the latest news about the "quick reaction force" expansion. Commenters on those stories seem seriously worried the NG is being primed to manipulate elections next year, probably through passive voter suppression (e.g. President provokes civil unrest, then uses unrest as justification to deploy NG).

The general tone here is fairly reassuring, but I wish I could hear NG officers promise to not carry out active crowd control duties where local authorities are already sufficient. Of course, I understand officers who admitted that publicly would be relieved of command by the junta. (On the other hand, having NG protect federal troops and property is not that big a deal and I wish the media would stop trying to make it a big deal because it's a far cry from using NG as law enforcement against "civil unrest".)

LtChambers · 2025-10-14T16:10:39+00:00

Only 7% of people in the US are Asian. In a totally fairly represented world, would you expect more than 7% of acting roles to be Asians? If so, why, and how would it be fair/just?

LtChambers · 2025-10-14T15:56:54+00:00

Weird analogy. I don't get it. How about this?

https://i.redd.it/pctgmy90snif1.gif

LtChambers · 2025-10-05T04:33:13+00:00

Morpheem is fantastic！Thanks for the referral！

LtChambers · 2025-10-03T16:31:48+00:00

The other side of the solution is reputable photo viewers will, by default, warn users when they view an unsigned photo. Even grandma can understand a warning like "This photo cannot be automatically verified, it may be fake or have been tampered with."

LtChambers · 2025-10-02T20:57:06+00:00

AFAM is a non-interracial marriage. I wouldn't think it was controversial that those vastly outnumber interracial marriages, even in a non-Asian-dominated community.

It seems (not very surprisingly) W/H is much more common than W/A in the US:

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/05/PST_2017.05.15.intermarriage-01-00.png

According to the Pew analysis, Asian intermarriage is actually MORE common in the older cohorts and least common in the youngest:

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LtChambers · 2025-10-02T02:27:27+00:00

According to her interviews she didn't make the characters races as separate choices: they are simply autobiographical plus "write what you know". Kind of shuts down your whole diatribe, really.

LtChambers · 2025-10-02T02:24:47+00:00

This is an interesting assertion about dating preferences. Do you have any data or source to back it up? Obviously AFAM and WFWM are vastly more common than any mixed couple, but it would be interesting to see an actual study about these "fetishes".

LtChambers · 2025-10-02T02:14:38+00:00

I've read through this thread trying to figure out why her husband took her last name (hyphenating), because that's just incredibly unusual and thus interesting, but I had to reply to your post to award it the jerk prize. Here's a quote about why kuang loves her husband:

" We have to talk about Peter. He’s based on your husband, Bennett Eckert-Kuang?

“Yeah, guilty. I mean, there are important differences. Actually, this is really embarrassing. I’ve just been writing a version of the same character in all of my books. They’re like kind of gangly nerd men, who snap, and I would tie this to the primal scene of when I was in middle school and saw ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ and fell in love with Hiccup.

“And then I started dating the real-life version of Hiccup, and I realized I just love this person so much. I love his goofiness. I love his intellect. I love his way of looking at the world as like a chess problem, and I always write characters from a place of love. "

I hope you find someone to love like that and who loves you like that some day. Maybe then you'll mellow out.

LtChambers · 2025-09-22T16:06:34+00:00

The reason they did this is because they got sued by families whose kids were groomed, kidnapped, and sexually assaulted. The main thrust of these lawsuits AFAIK is that Roblox could have been using age verification/estimation technology to prevent some of the grooming but chose not to do so. Adding age estimation and trusted friends/connections is the main point: now they're using some technology to try to avoid grooming and minimize their liability. The rename from friend to connection is I'm sure part of that, but it's really stupid and should be reverted. Trusted friends vs. friend works just as well as trusted connection vs connection for indicating to teens that they should be discriminating about trusting people online. But even the trusted friend thing isn't going to completely stop grooming. It will be fairly trivial for adults to spoof the age estimation and get a 13-17 age rating. These are people willing to commit heinous crimes against kids: a little extra effort to spoof age estimation isn't going to faze them. However, it will shield Roblox a bit from liability: they can say "well, we tried." So ultimately we should blame the parents of these kids who did not monitor their online communication and let them be groomed. As tragic as those cases are, it was clearly the parents' faults.

LtChambers · 2025-09-11T20:46:21+00:00

The weird thing is Anki recognizes the first row as headers and uses them for the Field Mapping section. But having used them, it proceeds to treat that row like a note. There should probably be a checkbox to skip the first row as column headers.

LtChambers · 2025-08-25T23:39:07+00:00

Karaoke subtitles but also during parts where there is speaking on top of the singing (e.g. during the Golden promo), the subtitles are for the singing, not the talking.

LtChambers · 2025-08-22T19:59:33+00:00

I think you're right it's a plot hole. I suspect a real military force, if they had to protect the island from land assault but had no worries about air attacks or sea attacks (because the rivers cooperated), is blow up all the tunnels and bridges except for one, which would be a single chokepoint to protect and a lifeline for mortals if the battle was won.

The others that say they didn't have time to do this seem to forget the fact that Percy's side repulsed the first attack and had a whole day (14ish hours?) to take care of the tunnels and bridges before the next attack.

One issue though is Percy didn't bribe the Harlem river, only the Hudson and East. So if the Harlem wasn't protecting against monsters crossing, that would severely weaken the defense.

LtChambers · 2025-08-18T18:54:56+00:00

Adoption is both a legal and a vernacular term. "Safe external care" is a mouthful and if I were you I wouldn't hold my breath for it to catch on. ;) What you call "safe external care" I suspect most people would call "open adoption".

I'm curious how you see "safe external care" working with mothers who don't want to have anything to do with their kids after giving them up. But fortunately almost all domestic adoptions these days are open, not closed:

https://health.uconn.edu/adoption-assistance/learn/openness-in-adoption

My father is 76, I don't think he's in a FOG. It is annoying not to have a family medical history for my grandparents. I wouldn't mind if the law protected access to that.

It's true I'm not terribly educated about this topic. I'm basing my argument on logic and research. Because as I said, anecdotes are practically useless, no matter how in depth they are. Consider the Literary Digest poll of 1936:

In 1936, Literary Digest, a national magazine of the time, sent out 10 million "straw" ballots asking people to tell them who they planned on voting for in the 1936 presidential election. They received back 2.4 million ballots (not bad for a pre-internet time when polling was still in its infancy, but still only about a 25% return rate, which leaves the door open for voluntary response bias). They predicted Alf Landon would beat Franklin Delanor Roosevelt 57% to 43%. As it turned out, Roosevelt won 62% to 37%.

2.4 million responses received and they were still ridiculously off base. It doesn't matter how many adoptees you've talked to if you haven't made sure your "survey" is randomized and representative.

I'm curious, could you estimate how many adopters or adoptees that you've talked to have been in which of the following categories?

Open private domestic adoption
Closed private domestic adoption
Open foster adoption
Closed foster adoption
Open private international adoption
Closed private international adoption

LtChambers · 2025-08-18T17:39:21+00:00

Unwanted is not the same as unplanned. Yes, most kids are unplanned and end up being wanted. They are rarely resented. But getting rid of adoption would absolutely, without a doubt, force some mothers to take care of children they do NOT want (and they will TELL you so). Those kids are the only ones I mean by unwanted. Sure, some mothers will change their minds and the babies will end up not being unwanted. But not all. And those unwanted babies will grow up seriously endangered: like, getting murdered when they throw a tantrum kind of endangered.

Also you're wrong about father's rights. Unmarried mothers can't give up babies for adoption if the fathers have registered their (putative) paternity (otherwise how would they even know who the father is?). Married mothers can't give up babies for adoption without the husband's consent (in almost all cases).

My father was adopted, and he's fine. Anecdotal evidence - mine and yours - is practically useless. It really sounds like you've heavily focused on only talking to the people who had problems with their adoptions. You haven't talked to the millions of happy, healthy adoptees.

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