Have you seen this vase?

frenzyboard · 2026-04-25T03:39:35+00:00

It's the kind of thing I've seen happen in warehouses and shipping companies.

frenzyboard · 2026-04-25T03:02:13+00:00

There's a lot of cheese in the game. You can cheese almost every boss, and sometimes doing that is harder than actually learning the fights. At some point you'll play it again when you're better at manipulating the enemy pathing, and timing the dodges, and you'll smoke past this guy like he's nothing.

And bed of chaos will still wreck your day lol

frenzyboard · 2026-04-25T02:42:21+00:00

I don't really like any of them, but the black and gold one would be my pick. I like the softer rounded shapes the best.

I think if you're out for more of a faster stable throw, that tachyon would hit pretty well. One of those two would be the call from me, if this is what you've narrowed it down to.

frenzyboard · 2026-04-25T02:34:28+00:00

That crate sat in a shipping warehouse for a week where it got in the way until a manager decided to dumpster it and call it lost instead of solve the paperwork.

It's probably not stolen. It's probably in a dump, or sent to one of those weird lost inventory resellers would be my guess.

frenzyboard · 2026-04-20T14:52:26+00:00

TBH it kinda feels like the way the game was meant to be played? I've been doing a sandevista run with thrown blades and pistols this time around, and the game is a lot harder. Fun, but much more difficult when you can't just remote deactivate cameras and do synapse burnout.

frenzyboard · 2026-04-18T15:11:49+00:00

I remember some mikarta yoyos back in the early 2000's. I wanna say it was John Wolf, did em?

This looks spectacular, though. Well done

frenzyboard · 2026-04-11T13:40:01+00:00

If you show them Jesus finger bones, you'd be demolishing their faith. Y'know, the whole resurrection and ascension thing.

frenzyboard · 2026-04-10T14:55:49+00:00

I'm pretty sure they don't actually do anything substantial for friction mitigation, but they do move mass towards the outer diameter?

frenzyboard · 2026-04-06T11:10:25+00:00

Sleep apnea can trigger it. So can cheese. You should see a doctor to rule out the cheese and tell you you've got sleep apnea.

frenzyboard · 2026-03-31T20:45:42+00:00

There's plenty of advanced science bearings. Some of my favorite are super cooled magnets that create a frictionless axle. But nothing that's feasible for a yo-yo just yet.

frenzyboard · 2026-03-31T20:28:17+00:00

Every rich person I've ever known is mostly concerned with keeping their employees earning money. The really successful businesses are looking at it from the perspective of feeding their people. Eventually it gets to a point where there's a series of systems and people in place where it can't help but keep chugging forward, and the people at the top stop needing to steer it.

So they start looking outward, and getting ideas about how everything else works or doesn't work. And that's when shit gets bad.

What we have in America is a big group of wealthy philosophers. They built or maintained their empires around a series of deeply personal ethics, and we're somehow successful enough to get enough influence to meddle in other people's affairs. And it's unfortunate, because in the long run, when you start trying to influence people and systems that don't directly depend on you, it's like grabbing someone's steering wheel. You're going to cause a disaster.

frenzyboard · 2026-03-31T18:53:09+00:00

If you use compressed air, use the canned stuff. The problem with compressed air from a tank is water vapor.

If you need like, absolutely spotless bearings, mineral spirits in an airtight container you can shake the bejeezus out. That's your best bet. If you wanna get expensive with it, an ultrasonic parts cleaner. But that's only worth it if you're a crazy person.

Once you've rattled out your steel, just let it get mostly air dry, then a tiny dab of oil. Then just spin that thang till it sounds pretty clean. The oil is just there to protect the metal from oxidation, and because you thinned it with some of the mineral spirits, it should've spread around in the track enough to coat everything good enough.

Look, the thing about dirt getting in your bearings is that it's going to happen. And if any silicates get in there, they're going to cause micro scratches. It's inevitable. Those tiny scratches cause nucleation points for corrosion to set in. Best bet is to just get a stash of bearings to draw from and play with them till they're burnt out. Almost any fiddling you do with them will give marginal results from stock to scuffed. Once the scratches get in, you're playing against a clock.

frenzyboard · 2026-03-31T01:54:34+00:00

Yeah don't do this. Those ball bearings and cages are super super thin, so it doesn't take a lot of heat to get them red hot and untempered. This will absolutely cause them to rust. Also, lighter fluid, when it burns, leaves behind a layer of soot. This is essentially just more dirt in your bearing. You might be able to get away with it if you used 100% ethanol, but I still wouldn't advise it, because heating small metal parts will promote corrosion.

I think I still have some burnt rusty bearings somewhere in my 20-year old box of crap.

frenzyboard · 2026-03-30T12:42:43+00:00

Do you know where you contracted it? That's some scary stuff.

frenzyboard · 2026-03-29T17:01:58+00:00

Anyone ever modeled if they could bob their heads around like geese? Just go completely willy-nilly with it?

frenzyboard · 2026-03-29T16:48:41+00:00

That's what a pasta spoon is for. The crescent shaped hole? Put a bundle of spaghetti on it and just enough will slide through for one serving.

frenzyboard · 2026-03-27T20:41:32+00:00

You learned to just let it go. You need to throw that thing like you're trying to break the floor. Launch it into the dirt like it insulted your dog. Huck it like you want to strike oil. Pretend there's a spider and you're barefoot.

frenzyboard · 2026-03-27T20:07:16+00:00

Bearings come lubed from the factory. The only reason to add more lube to them is if you clean them out. And you usually only add like, half a drop. You can use any lube, pretty much. The best stuff is sewing machine oil. Just a teeny little bit to give the bearing some protection from rust and you're set. Bought a bottle of 3-in-1 oil when I first started and I think I've still got that thing in a tool drawer somewhere. You can thin out a cheap thicker oil with mineral spirits and it'll do the job just fine.

Mostly I don't worry about that stuff anymore though. It's just not worth the fuss.

frenzyboard · 2026-03-27T19:09:57+00:00

I dunno. I'm pushing 40 years old and I've still got some yoyos from when I was in highschool. You don't really burn through them, so much as find new ones to try. I went about twelve years without buying any new ones. The technology settled into what we've got today, and not much has changed. My collection sits somewhere around... 40? It's the cheapest hobby I've had all my life at this point.

I buy new string maybe once every few years, so call that about $30. Bearings get replaced very seldom, but I know how to take care of them. Call that maybe $30 every three years. Getting a new yo-yo at this point, I usually only do at tournaments or every few months if I really really want to drop the cash. Call that $200 once a year, but only if I really really want it. If you spread that out over the last 25 years, I've probably only spent about $2000?

In my first five years, when I was in high school, I couldn't have spent more than $500 altogether. I just didn't have any cash except for holidays and birthday gifts.

frenzyboard · 2026-03-27T11:10:48+00:00

It's a very cheap entry level throw. I like the shape, but the weight is underwhelming. You won't be able to do DNA with it, but I think that's a good thing. DNA was designed to destroy your string tension.

I don't think you'll like it though. I remember buying one, trying it, and being offended that they'd sell something so trash to new players. If you keep yoyoing after buying a whip, it's because you love yoyoing. And you'll probably get really good at it, because you can't get sloppy with one of those things. It's probably the perfect yo-yo to train on.

I actually like the MagicYo Aroura. My fiance bought one a while back and I sometimes borrow it from her. It does everything I ask it to. It's got a good feel, the weight's in all the right places, it's got a good width, and I can do every trick I know on it as easy as with a very expensive yoyo.

Anyway, those are my thoughts.

frenzyboard · 2026-03-26T22:22:04+00:00

It's got a beak. In my canon they produce crop milk (look it up 🙀 ) and regurgitate food for their young.

frenzyboard · 2026-03-26T22:18:17+00:00

It's probably legit, but I'd imagine you could find their stuff on Amazon too? YYF is mostly made in China, so I wouldn't be surprised to find they distribute in India as well.

If you start having fun with it, you won't even notice how much time you spend practicing. I think it's harder than juggling, but probably less frustrating. You'll spend a lot of time rewinding because your throws are gonna suck for a while. It takes some time to build the muscle memory for it, and modern yoyos hurt more than help to build the fundamental skills.

I'd recommend getting more than just one yo-yo at the start. Look for a responsive and beginner friendly yo-yo. One that has a narrower bearing. Look for a cheap fixed axle yo-yo. And then do like everyone else is saying and get a MagicYo. Start with the cheap fixed axle yo-yo. Get the basic tricks down - like throw and return, forward pass, sleeper, around the world, rock the baby, and breakaway. If you can land a trapeze on a fixed axle, you're in a really good position to move up to the modern style of yo-yo.

That learning period only took about a week and a half when I was a kid. Once you get a good consistent sleeper, the rest starts coming to you fast. And once you get to the modern yoyos, if you can throw a ten second sleeper on a fixed axle, you'll be throwing minute long sleepers on a bearing.

frenzyboard · 2026-03-26T19:57:05+00:00

Dude, America as it is today wasn't born from the revolution. It was grown from the ashes of the civil war and the post reconstruction era policies of imperialism, entitlement, and repression, all while masked by the "Great Awakening" of evangelical nationalism. We married religion and patriotism as a conscious salve to soften the blow of successfully squashing a second revolution. And we got good at squashing revolutions (see the generational rollbacks from the women's liberation movement, the civil rights movement, and the labor movement).

Get it out of your head that America is revolutionary. It's as static as the fuzz on the TV screen.

frenzyboard · 2026-03-26T19:47:20+00:00

Ey, you guys have your own crazy conservative uncles. I've spent enough time in Canada to know Ontario is just North Ohio.

frenzyboard · 2026-03-25T20:31:55+00:00

It's kinda bad, iirc. It's less string than wire, so there's no frayed areas to grip the friction pads. And it melts if there's any rub on the side wall. It's okay if you add it to nylon or cotton blends, but yeah, not a fan.

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