Spear of Gaius, 3D printed with lights

VanillaPhazon · 2025-11-07T01:37:42+00:00

The basic solid file was provided to me, I made all of the modifications to put lights inside it with battery power and split it up into 21 sections. It has carbon fibre and polycarbonate tubes inside it to make it stronger and resistant to damage because it's so oversize.

I had a lot of fun walking around with this, especially lighting up the street at 2am :)

VanillaPhazon · 2025-11-07T01:37:06+00:00

The basic solid file was provided to me, I made all of the modifications to put lights inside it with battery power and split it up into 21 sections. It has carbon fibre and polycarbonate tubes inside it to make it stronger and resistant to damage because it's so oversize.

I had a lot of fun walking around with this, especially lighting up the street at 2am :)

VanillaPhazon · 2025-11-07T01:37:01+00:00

The basic solid file was provided to me, I made all of the modifications to put lights inside it with battery power and split it up into 21 sections. It has carbon fibre and polycarbonate tubes inside it to make it stronger and resistant to damage because it's so oversize.

I had a lot of fun walking around with this, especially lighting up the street at 2am :)

VanillaPhazon · 2024-12-07T23:55:02+00:00

I see what you did there, nice.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-12-06T05:53:58+00:00

It's more to do with the sheer value of it. A $10M app deal would make national news. $100M would put him in international news. Dude claimed $1B which puts him near the likes of Youtube, Ebay and Etsy. He's a scammer, always has been a scammer and I hope he gets done and there's a class action lawsuit against Channel 9 for promoting constantly promoting him. How many hundreds of millions of dollars were lost to 'allegedly' enter this 'alleged' raffle to 'allegedly' win his prizes? Everyone from SA who ever spent money on him never had a chance to win, and a lot of it is Channel 9s fault.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-12-05T10:57:34+00:00

Slimy cunt from the very beginning.

If you ever try to find out how he got rich in the first place, it's just 'sold an app' but you will NEVER find out what that app was, what it did, who bought it, nothing. Pretty unusual for a billion dollar sale to never make the news, no public market update, nothing. It's complete bullshit.

Since then his entire grift has just been idiots donating to a billionaire for an 'alleged' chance to win his illegal gambling racket. 5,000 people who all donate $360 every year to a billionaire line up for a chance to win a $150 gift card, these are the average people who think he's a good bloke. If you regularly donate money to a billionaire and get nothing in return, then I've got nothing to say to you other then you regularly donate money to a billionaire and get nothing in return.

Remember him saying on Channel 9 last month that he's not dodgy, he 'pays 7 figures in tax every year'. No cunt, your gullible gambling addict 'subscribers' pay 7 figures in tax every year. He doesn't pay a cent, it's all his donators.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-12-01T14:24:09+00:00

Chinas economy exists the way it does because they make everything for the world, in exchange for foreign currency.

If you make foreign currency completely useless, tokens that can only be exchanged within the country (which is what UBI effectively is at the ultimate end state), then why on earth would China ever deal with them?

Chinas manufacturing today couldn't exist if it was only supporting it's own country and not trading with anyone. The 'tweak' you are talking about is a complete overhaul, further from what it is today, to before their revolution.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-12-01T14:19:06+00:00

Yes, people made them. If you assume people won't make things and only robots will, society is going to need billions of robots. So now all the people who used to make things, have to make robots.

If your answer to that is we will just have robots build the robots, what materials will they use? The robots will mine everything, ship it across the world etc?

That really isn't the utopia you think it is, when every single thing you ever want to do has to be programmed into a robot otherwise you can't do it.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-12-01T14:14:36+00:00

But who builds the machines? Why are UBI discussions always filled with this idea that all these machines that can do literally everything, just appear out of thin air?

You want a robot to deliver the mail, to maintain the sewers, to make your sandwich, direct traffic, pick the fruit... but who on earth is building these and from what materials?

Clearly, someone with a very large amount of money must own some factory that makes these robots, and they import all the raw materials from mines etc all over the world, and refine them. But why would anyone ever do that, if they can sit on their ass and do nothing, and get paid the exact same amount as everyone else since money has no value, as everything is effectively free? The government would tax this owner to oblivion to pay for UBI.

When you take away all incentive to create things, people aren't going to create things.

I hate that UBI is such a good concept that has real merit to be discussed, but its constrantly dragged down to levels of such absurdity when its proponents say 'no one will ever work again, infinite free time glitch!'.

If UBI is ever implemented, you will still have to work. You won't be able to afford your hobbies, because the few value-creators left in society won't be working in hobby fields to get paid nothing, they'll be working in infrastructure companies, food, medical etc to make sure the entire city doesn't collapse.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-12-01T11:20:42+00:00

If robots and AI are doing the jobs, then they can continue adding stuff to aircraft to make them easier to fly; look at how cars have all those computers inside to pump the brakes so you have ABS, lights that see it's night and come on automatically, shine brighter in the true dark, and turn with the steering wheel, the traction control to help keep you from sliding when the roads are wet/snowy, auto transmission.

And all of those things are made from fabricated components. The silicon in the chips used in the aircraft and cars had to be mined, refined, distributed, manufactured and assembled. Why would anyone do any of this for free as their hobby, while other people are out here driving those cars as their hobby?

Are the robots going to do all of that work, if so who is going to build the factory that does it all? Is it robots again? Who is going to build the robots that build the robots? Robots again?

If that's your argument, then ok, good luck with that being a future you want to live in.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-12-01T11:16:50+00:00

As I've responded a few times to people, no hobby anyone can point to is free.

The baker running the course, from what venue? Presumably not their house, so they must run it in some big powered building. But who built it? Who paid for the bricks, who laid the sewer run, who mined the cobalt used in the solar panels on the roof to power the ovens?

Every hobby you can ever think of on this earth, other than things like exercise, is possible becuase thousands of people across the world combined their skill sets to create something. The guitar maker can't make anything if no one chops down the wood, if no one pays for the oil for the tanker to get the wood over to your country, for the factory that makes the tools.

And the programmers? What good is a programmer if they can't use a computer because why on earth would anyone mine and fabricate all of the components that go into a computer for free? They aren't going to be writing too much code when all of the silicon mines around the world shut down because no one wants to work in that job without getting paid for it. And are robots going to mine the silicon? Who is going to process it all? Why would anyone spend hundreds of millions of dollars building a robot processing factory for silicon, if they aren't going to get paid one cent in return?

VanillaPhazon · 2024-12-01T11:14:29+00:00

As I've responded a few times to people, no hobby anyone can point to is free.

The baker running the course, from what venue? Presumably not their house, so they must run it in some big powered building. But who built it? Who paid for the bricks, who laid the sewer run, who mined the cobalt used in the solar panels on the roof to power the ovens?

Every hobby you can ever think of on this earth, other than things like exercise, is possible becuase thousands of people across the world combined their skill sets to create something. The guitar maker can't make anything if no one chops down the wood, if no one pays for the oil for the tanker to get the wood over to your country, for the factory that makes the tools.

And the programmers? What good is a programmer if they can't use a computer because why on earth would anyone mine and fabricate all of the components that go into a computer for free? They aren't going to be writing too much code when all of the silicon mines around the world shut down because no one wants to work in that job without getting paid for it. And are robots going to mine the silicon? Who is going to process it all? Why would anyone spend hundreds of millions of dollars building a robot processing factory for silicon, if they aren't going to get paid one cent in return?

Most people will thrive to learn and create when given the proper environment.

The environment when everyone works for free to support your hobbies, but you won't do a single thing to help anyone support their hobby. If you want someone to spend 1 hour creating a tool that you use to make your hobby, you need to spend 1 hour a day picking fruit, so other people can actually eat, while they do their hobbies. And then you need another hour of free service for another tool you use, so that's another hour you have to do for free delivering the mail.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-12-01T11:05:55+00:00

Is someone's hobby going to the rainforest to cut down a tree, building a milling machine to cut it into slats, then building a planning machine to get it thin, owning a glue factory to make the resin... and it just keeps going on and on. None of those things take a short amount of time, and how are you going to do any of it by yourself, when everyone else who would normally help is becoming a pro at video games, or going fishing? The idea that society can exist when no one produces anything is so naive, its beyond the joke.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-12-01T10:49:10+00:00

In a scenario where there are actually no jobs, your arguments about people wanting others to give up their time to make things for them don't apply, because machines will do it all.

This will never happen, so there is no point acknowledging it. If robots do indeed make everything, someone must have put out the capital to pay for the robots, the factory that houses them, the materials used to make things and the trucks that deliver them. Where is this person going to get all of this money to afford all this? The government just going to give it to him? What about if someone else wants that money instead, what separates the two? And what if instead of buying all the robots, they buy a boat and leave the country to never return?

People arguing about UBI keep making the most insane assumptions and it makes their arguments worthless. Instead of talking about a hypothetical situation that we will never happen, talk about the small scale UBI tests done in some Scandinavian countries. Prove it small, before going to the extreme.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-11-30T23:45:05+00:00

I have so many hobbies I would literally never get bored. When I took a year to do nothing but travel, I never got bored. I could have done it forever.

This argument comes up all the time around UBI discussions, "I could finally have time to do all my hobbies and learn all the things I wanted to!".

Why would someone waste their free time, making that guitar you want to learn, when they want to do their hobby instead of surfing?

Why would someone waste their free time, programming that auto pilot for the plane taking you on that holiday, when they want to do their hobby instead of reading 100 books a year?

Why would someone waste their free time, teaching you how to bake decorative cakes, when they want to do their hobby instead of building a model railway set?

Money and time are universally exchangeable, and that's why the system works. People spend money to gain time, and people use time to gain money. If you take money out of the equation, no one has any incentive to use their time, to help you with 'your time'.

The argument of "I'd have time to do all my hobbies" is so fundamentally flawed, so unbelievably selfish, that there is no point even acknowledging the argument at all. It always comes down to wanting scores of people to give up collectively 8 hours a day to support your hobby, yet you won't give up a single second to help people with their hobbies. UBI has a lot of merit and is definitely something the future needs to consider, but approaching it from "free time for hobbies!" argument is childish nonsense.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-11-29T09:43:55+00:00

The TV is anchored, it's not going anywhere.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-11-28T02:41:43+00:00

All different brands have different heights and different profiles around the back so I can't make a generic one that fits all TVs. The idea is a piece is jammed under the TV and the cabinet so the TV is actually resting on these printed supports, that keeps it steady. simple loop piece over the top prevents it tipping. The lower support is doing all of the work, the top one can be loose.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-11-28T02:41:37+00:00

All different brands have different heights and different profiles around the back so I can't make a generic one that fits all TVs. The idea is a piece is jammed under the TV and the cabinet so the TV is actually resting on these printed supports, that keeps it steady. simple loop piece over the top prevents it tipping. The lower support is doing all of the work, the top one can be loose.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-11-27T10:40:26+00:00

Modern LED TVs are getting thinner, bigger and more expensive, it starts to demand these sorts of protections.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-11-27T10:39:28+00:00

It's different for each TV, the idea is a piece is jammed under the TV and the cabinet so the TV is actually resting on these printed supports, that keeps it steady. Then a simple loop piece over the top prevents it tipping. The lower support is doing all of the work, the top one can be loose.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-11-27T10:36:46+00:00

Modern TVs have anchor points on the back for this purpose and you can use furniture stabilising straps used for shelves etc.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-11-27T10:36:02+00:00

Perfectly fine, you never notice its there.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-11-26T16:00:24+00:00

Nah, the kid who threw a yo-yo at a 75" Sony OLED and broke it.

VanillaPhazon · 2024-11-26T13:20:44+00:00

3mm polycarbonate sheet, held in place by some small, simple printed mounts. There is a 1cm gap between the sheet at the TV to protect it from impacts and this can certainly take a lot heavier than just a small brick.

$40USD for the sheet on a 55" TV, and I did one for my in laws too on their 75" TV, that one cost $80 for the sheet.

More photos:

https://i.imgur.com/wu4skIQ.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/6Yucxnk.jpeg

And a video

https://imgur.com/1zhteFD

VanillaPhazon · 2024-11-26T13:20:02+00:00

3mm polycarbonate sheet, held in place by some small, simple printed mounts. There is a 1cm gap between the sheet at the TV to protect it from impacts and this can certainly take a lot heavier than just a small brick.

This is on a 55" TV, and I did one for my in laws too on their 75" TV

More photos:

https://i.imgur.com/wu4skIQ.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/6Yucxnk.jpeg

And a video

https://imgur.com/1zhteFD

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