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At this past LEGO club meeting, I noticed a profound theme of creativity and the fundamentals of imagination. At the meeting, all the members brought a polybag, and put them into a container. Everyone drew a random polybag, and were tasked with building something original with the parts. Discarding the instructions, I was unsure what to build with my unconstructed Bat-Tumbler. It could instead become a mech (or a Bat-Mech), a whale, a plane, a house-- yet I decided on a space shuttle. Players were allowed to exchange parts, but required to use all they had obtained. My model was relatively simple; the cliped, sloped flags and 2x3 wedges became my wings. Everything was mounted on the two 2x4 plates of my 2x8 frame, and the wheels were retooled as my thrusters. Some participants did not complete their model in time; the finished models included an alien expresso machine (mug not included) and your run of the mill doomsday machine from two separate Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Kraang turret; how Legends of Chima Season 2 should have ended from the Eagle Glider, and a creature greatly resembling a chicken Mixels' Zaptor. The winning model was built from a Friends Penguin Playground, becoming the Penguin Police Boat, complete with penguin pilot and fish canon! As the meeting concluded, I was fascinated by the uniqueness and individuality exhibited in each creation. Before we went home home, some members stopped by the junior LEGO club (conveniently on the other side of the city.) The junior clubbers brought their "MOCs," the designs of which were primarily pirated from their original LEGO sets. One model in particular, however, stood out. The construction of the model was simple, a flying vehicle with two 3x3 quarter circle plates as wings and trans-red 1x1 round conesmounted by two modified plates with studs protruding horizontally. Mounted on the aircraft was a plain blue minifigure with a plain blue torso and legs, yellow hands, and, of course, ninja cowl, named Denny. What truly set this model apart was it's story. Denny was Benny the 1980-something space guy's brother, who did not like spaceships. Instead, he loved hovercraft! One day, Denny went into spess on his hovercraft until he was orbiting earth. He quickly realized the planet was "square," like a 2x2 brick; this shape apparently screwed with the planet's gravity, so every time Denny neared a corner, he fell of the edge! This delightful anecdote embodies what LEGO stands for. Each individual, in the adult and junior club alike, had their own ideas interests, abilities, and resources, yet they all found their own way to Play Well.

The Situation On April 27th, 2014, several images were found, developed by Eurobricks user 'Bbqqq', that had LEGO Digital Designer at an enhanced field of view. Infuriatingly, Bbqqq did not include instructions on how to increase LEGO Digital Designer's field of view angle, so I proceeded to contact the guy via Eurobrick's private messaging system. Operation Barbeque is a plan to retrieve information from Bbqqq, which will allow myself and anyone to modify the Field of View of LEGO Digital Designer to something reasonable. The Conversation (If you could call it that) Message 1: Initial Contact Message 2: Subsequent Contact Message 3: If I didn't know better I'd say this guy was trolling me. Message 4: Alcom is a total sell-out. Message 5: The plot thickens. Well now he seems like a nice guy. That solves the secondary mystery. :)

After watching the Star Wars Kinect Video on Cinemassacre.com (some of you may know the AVGN) I thought: "A game, where you can do different things like dancing etc.? Okay, maybe the games itself aren't half bad, but what has Star Wars to do with dancing?" My next thought was: "What other game/ film/ book etc. has the potential to make a ton of Off Topic games out of it?" As a RRU-member I naturally had to choose Rock Raiders and I wrote down some titles, which where for the most part parodies of other games titles.. ...and one of the examples was Caffeine Hero. Why? I don't know. I probably remembered the South Park episode with "Guitar Hero" and the two parodies "Heroin Hero" and "Rehab Hero". I know, that Sandwich Hero would be way to obvious. Therefore I took something sophisticated Sparks' addiction to coffee and made this crazy video game cover. FAQ: Q: That's crazy/ pure madness/ insanity etc.! A: Of course it is. Did you expect something sane? I hope, that answered all your questions PS: I will try to make other Rock Raiders themed video game covers, too, but I had to start somewhere and I thought, that Caffeine was a good (or "good") idea to begin with. Sparks' Caffeine Hero Elbows&Knees Another hypothetical game with an imaginary background story: "Talking about controversial video games in the Lego world: Developed by Heretic Brick, "Elbows&Knees" was the first game, which depicted minifigures with actual elbow and knee joints. Angry mobs, moral outrages and panics followed shortly after. It was also the first game, which got the "HI"-raring, because of its content, which challenged a taboo in the minifigure world." FAQ: Q: Wait... ...this game got an actual rating and an official release, although it almost lead to collapses of several Lego minilands? The whole story is bogus! A: Of course! Sanity has no place in the Lego world. The background story is based on absolutely nothing on reliable sources.

You know, sometimes you have to record the worst moments as an example piece. Zephyria MFW Seaborgium can't tell when I'm talking about the title of something, and this tries to appear smart, but just f****ing fails. I absolutely "love" our new members. Ben24x7 Well, I can certainly "not" understand th... ...Wait, what... ...Oh, darn it. Shadowblaze MFW Ben posts a comment but he doesn't know what to write so he just types senseless stuff. Quisoves Pugnat Beg pardon? Seaborgium @Zephyria: What does "MFW" stand for? Shadowblaze "My Face When". I searched on Google. Seaborgium No wait. It isn't even about the Latin, is it? It's about that whole "Prepare to Die" thing, isn't it? So you have publicly declared me a disgusting human being because I failed to get your little reference and made a little joke about it. I am a horrible person who must be publicly derided, because of that? Seriously Alcom1 Yes seriously. This is a serious issue. There are conflicts between the crowd of newer members and the old Veterans-of-forum-Life that should be fixed. Otherwise we are going to have more outbursts like this. Alcom1 Also, you appear to have been labeled a 'nuisance' and not a 'disgusting human being'. Zephyria's comment is of no threat to you. Just tank it and post with finesse. Quisoves Pugnat @Alcom While I agree that he's probably best to ignore the insult, I don't think that it can be written off as a conflict between a newer member and a forum-veteran. It's a matter of charity, or a lack thereof. If you don't respect someone when he's new, you're not going to truly respect him simply because he's spent more time here. TheDoctor My drama. Quisoves Pugnat Don't get me wrong, I understand that in any community, there will always be a certain tension between newcomers and old-timers. But there are some things that time alone cannot not change and that tension cannot be blamed for. If you prick a newbie, will he not bleed? TheDoctor I harbor great contempt for a large numbers of active members, but I simply do not involve myself. I have no interest in their matters and have a much nicer time only replying to that which hold any appreciable interest in. Seaborgium @Alcom: I see that there is a rift. However this conflict between "veterans" and newbies is simply immature and pointless. If what you say, Alcom, is correct(which it probably is) this isn't a response to an offense, it's simply a pretense to vent out general anger against newcomers. It's certainly not mature and does not lead to healthy forums or making friends. Seaborgium I have dealt with people whose sense of humor befuddles me. When I saw some of your posts on the LU Gallery, I was under the impression that you were a pretentious person. At some point I realized that this was your sense of humor and that you meant no wrong, and are in fact a decent person. If I had decided to make angry comments at the time, and I am glad I didn't, because you and I would likely be enemies. This kind of behavior is bad for the whole community and doesn't just seem e... Seaborgium xcusable as 'vets vs. newbies'. Sadie Meowsalot @Zeph: MFW you're being a d*** to people @Ben24x7: you aren't funny @TheDoctor: and that's why you always feel bitter @Seaborgium: you. You live up to your name in instability. stop it. @Alcom: "alcom... I like you" - Lair

Thanks for posting this and supporting my videos! I have to admit that my Lego Racers 1 and 2 reviews weren't as good as they could have been. My newer reviews are a lot better. I will get to reviewing a TON more Lego games like Stunt Rally, Rock Raiders, Creator, Island Extreme Stunts, and others. Thank you again Cloudstrife987!

Well lookie here it's another one word post, time to chalk up another post of the year candidate... Welcome to RRU Tagnol, It's Bat S*** insane.

I'm sorry Alcom, but the best line in that was this. Yes, largely because it's almost Lair being here. [4:41:21 AM] Ciprian: A computer gremlin did it

I'll play LEGO Racers 1 over Mario Kart any day.

I read on Wikipedia that there was a patch for LEGO Chess, so I went looking for it. First result: ftp://ftp.ea.com/pub/LEGO/patches/LegoChess/ Seems a bit strange that it's on EA's site... Did they ever publish LEGO Chess? The patch doesn't work for me, it just makes the game keep asking for a disc, even though it's there. Thought I might as well post it here anyway. EDIT: Just found this patch: http://support.selectsoft.com/download/chesscdfix.exe I don't need the CD in the drive any more, but it crashes randomly. EDIT 2: Archived patch from EA's FTP server: Information: https://archive.org/download/ftp_ftp.ea.com_2014.03/2014.03.ftp.ea.com.tar/ftp.ea.com%2Fpub%2FLEGO%2Fpatches%2FLegoChess%2FLchessupgr.txt Patch: https://archive.org/download/ftp_ftp.ea.com_2014.03/2014.03.ftp.ea.com.tar/ftp.ea.com%2Fpub%2FLEGO%2Fpatches%2FLegoChess%2FLchessupgr.zip Archived patch from Selectsoft's website: https://web.archive.org/web/20070319195837/http://support.selectsoft.com/download/chesscdfix.exe Archived patch from FocusMM's website: https://web.archive.org/web/20180830130334/http://supportfiles.focusmm.co.uk/updates/lego/chess/chesscdfix.exe EDIT 3: RRU Download link: https://www.rockraidersunited.com/files/dl-r267/

LEGO Racers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16msOSwgR5c LEGO Racers 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvX4fmyguO0 Vectrex4life is a smaller youtube channel, only 600 subs. He PM'ed me saying he plans to do more LEGO games. I think his reviews are great, what do you guys think?

Am I the only one out there who believes that LEGO Racers 1 is better than any Mario Kart or Crash racing game? I can go back to it again and again, it just never gets old.

Baaaaaaaaty Basil is best bat. ...yeah, I was bored and recently found this catchy song, and felt like putting Basil to the music just cause. I'll just go work on the voiced scripts mod now... or something. Too bad I was unable to put Basil's proper hat.

*starts singing* Everything is awesome.... Everything is cool when you're part of a team... It reminded me of later on in the movie, when (SPOILER) This is why I love Lego: "If you don't like what you see, you can change it!" It's not just an action model. If you treat it as an action model anyways, then if it breaks down, instead of getting a new one, you can simple repair it! (What's stronger anyway - those puny little figures or Lego bricks?) And if you absolutely hate the set because it was given to you by a daft old auntie (not true in my case; they all live in South Africa ), you can just salvage it for parts and not put the stickers on. I would rant more, but hey, this is supposed to be a reply, not another rant.

Should have gone for the bat-whale...

In response to my blog post, aidenpons said I will be drinking coffee to the point of over-addiction studying for the Security+ exam. If that may be, this might as well be the agent to do so. At least I know where the coffee addiction stems from. :P

That was Oboe, sorry for not being clear. Yeah, I do prefer Oboe myself now that I've actually seen them in action.

Another video regarding the stupidity of the AI. No modifications done this time though: I didn't post this right away because I wasn't sure if I should make a new topic or post it here. I almost forgot to post it too!

I wish you good luck, Alcom . I hope, that his final answer won't be "Thanks for the free advertisement. btw: I only made several screenshots in LDD, used Photoshop etc. and created those pictures with another FoV. *insert trollface* "

I've seen it before yes. I like the part where he falls out of his chair because the LR menu music.

I love that guy!

We have technology in the modern day called "Video Cameras". Most of our mobile and desktop technology now comes bundles with some form of "web camera", we have VR sensors like the Kinect and LeapMotion. Many vehicles, including trucks, buses and police cars have cameras installed to record incidents that might occur on the road. Many places in public we visit also use Video Cameras to record for security purposes. Most importantly, a significant number of people doing incredible physical activities, from snowboarders to surfers to Police/SWAT officers to Military Personnel all use Video Camera technology (such as the GoPro) to record the things they do from their own perspective. A hundred and eighty years in the future, why the f**** aren't military personnel on extremely important missions in dangerous territory given any kind of camera to record what happens to them? We know that other sci-fi games like Halo have this tech. We know that recording hardware exists in Mass Effect, since it's used consistently throughout the series. We know that a lot of the headwear Shepard and Co use can be fitted with all kinds of crazy and awesome tools. If Shepard had just recorded his incident with the Prothean Beacon and his conversation with Sovereign, the council (even "Reapers" Turian) would have HAD to agree about the existence of Reapers, and as such the galaxy could have probably prepared a lot earlier. Now, granted, it probably wouldn't have done *that* much in the long run, but at least we'd be all feeling a little less annoyed by the Council.

"Ah yes, 'reapers.' We have dismissed that claim." "But I have video evidence right here." "It's shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from having seen quite a few shops in my time." "Damn. And this was my favorite shop on the Citadel too."

They HAD Surveilance cameras. Remember the Eden Prime video feed? Guess Bioware's writers just got lazy.

This blog post.

Hey all. This is the beginning of my latest LEGO project, A motorised Supermarine Spitfire. I'm going to try and pack as many functions into it as possible such as the rudder, elevator and ailerons all controlled from the cockpit, motorised engine (Also controlled from the cockpit) and working landing gear (Hopefully ). Here's my progress so far: As you can see I've done the very front section which also includes the engine. I still need to figure out how to attach the wings as well as how to do the landing gear. If anyone as any suggestions I'm all ears. I'll leave you with a few more pictures:

Well after another month I finally have another update to this build. (Which is taking way longer than I planned.) I've gotten quite a bit of progress done since last time but there's still a bit more to do. First up I've done quite a bit of the tail section since last time. I've added the tail fin as well as the rudder control surface although the elevators are proving to be a bit tricky. The current way I have to control them isn't really working at all so I need to come up with a better way to do that. If anyone has any ideas feel free to suggest them. Looking a bit more like it should now isn't it? The wings have also been worked on and are now pretty much at there full wingspan which at the moment is about 89cm or about 35 inches. The ailerons have also been added and they actually work quite well. The entire left or right wing depending on which way you look at it. Both of the mechanisms for the landing gear and ailerons. I've also built and added the propeller which I think turned out pretty good if I do say so myself. Also looks quite good when spinning but you'll have to wait for the video to see that. Finally a view of the overall progress I've made. Really starting to look like a Spitfire now isn't it? One last thing is that I've also put in the M motor for the landing gear just in front of the IR receiver. Forgot to take a close up picture of that.

Huh. Both are the same, but just so happens none fixes my problem. I am playing, but suddenly it just crashes. Tried doing it on Windows XP compatibility mode, lasted longer, but still crashed. I use Windows 7 x32. Help me out, I really love this game. EDIT: Solved. Needed to run it in Win 95 Compatibility Mode.