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Fixed that for you.

[15:38:03] JAL: All the stuff I ordered for my controller will get here tomorrow, but I won't be there to get them. I'm working 9am to 10-11pm tomorrow [15:38:19] bartvbl: order stuff? [15:38:22] bartvbl: for you controller? [15:38:30] Bonkle Medical Examiner: It's like his pet [15:38:33] Bonkle Medical Examiner: He's going to bath it [15:38:38] Bonkle Medical Examiner: And put it to bed [15:38:41] Bonkle Medical Examiner: And feed it [15:38:50] Bonkle Medical Examiner: Good controller. [15:39:02] bartvbl: hmm.. since when does the slave control the controller? [15:39:23] Bonkle Medical Examiner: Since Thursday. [15:39:34] bartvbl: hm. must have slipped the radar. [15:40:17 | Edited 15:40:29] JAL: I bought it a keyboard so it can texts its friends, new thumbstick grips so it won't get cold, and an adapter for it so it can be awesome [15:41:13] bartvbl: it has friends? [15:41:14] bartvbl: .. [15:41:17] bartvbl: I should talk to mine [15:41:28] bartvbl: maybe the compatability issues are just the result of a depression [15:42:44] JAL: It's a little sad though. Its parents, the nintendo rectangles, left it and never came back... ;-; [15:43:50] bartvbl: I took away his crippled brother [15:43:53] bartvbl: never to be seen again [15:43:57] bartvbl: to make an example of course [15:44:03 | Edited 15:44:13] bartvbl: keyboard gave up shortly after [15:45:36] JAL: it still lights up with joy from time to time though [15:46:02] bartvbl: mine likes to spin its wheel during boot time [15:46:05] bartvbl: not much else though [15:46:14] Will Kirkby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsDk7SIXa8 [15:46:36] bartvbl: do what? [15:46:39] bartvbl: kill my controller? [15:46:42] Will Kirkby: it. [15:46:45] bartvbl: .. [15:46:51] bartvbl: that's a f@#$#@ fantastic idea [15:47:03] bartvbl: I must release myself from my constraints [15:47:08] bartvbl: to excel [15:47:10] bartvbl: to perform [15:47:14] bartvbl: to reach my full potential [15:47:16] bartvbl: to.. [15:47:19] bartvbl: CONTROL the WORLD [15:47:21] bartvbl: hang on [15:47:26] bartvbl: that requires that I control the controller [15:47:30] bartvbl: and I can [15:47:33] bartvbl: this is easy [15:47:44] bartvbl: you guys should FEAR [15:47:52] bartvbl: MWUHAHHAHAHAHHHAHAHH [15:47:54] bartvbl: .. [15:47:56] bartvbl: ahem [15:48:24] bartvbl: what were we talking about again? [15:48:26] bartvbl: oh right [15:48:29] bartvbl: babysitting controllers

Well. This is a thing.

I know you're all just dying to see what the Angry Birds figs will look like. Allow me to oblige. http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/07/01/thats-lego-angry-bird-looks-like

LEGOs In Space?

Well that is a lengthy bit of my life. That length of time is my total playtime in LEGO Universe, the amount of time I spent logged in as Alcom. So I certainly played the game a lot. Yet, contrary to a lot of opinions I've been seeing, I don't recall the game being very good. It was more like I needed my virtual LEGO fix, which LEGO Universe offered but in some rather nastily diluted amounts. As a whole, LEGO Universe felt awfully disjointed and overscoped. It was a collection of environments, combat setups, races, minigames, and building environments, none of which felt complete, fully thought out, or like it reached its full potential. Actually, the pirate minigame felt complete, but that hardly counts for anything. My two particular bugbears were racing and the building. Racing, the whole design of the thing baffled me. First off it didn't seem all that kid friendly. Vehicle handling had a lot of weight to it, and some of the track designs, most notably the Frostburgh and Forbidden Valley tracks, were remarkably unforgiving with the low friction of Frostburgh and the insanity and narrow paths of the Forbidden Valley track. Far more insane and downright awful was the setup of the speed boosts. Tracks were littered speedboosts, and the leader always got first dibs to them. Unless the leader made some horrible mistake, they would have a permanent lead, so most races were not just challenging, but dull and disheartening too. Building in properties was a total mess. First there was the UI. The UI didn't label its colors which is really unfortunate because I am colorblind. Bricks in your inventory were ordered chronologically so the resulting order made no sense and was unfriendly to memorization. There was no search function, so players had to burn their time rummaging through their inventories looking for a single brick, if they even had it. Oh, and if a player didn't have it, they would have to exit build mode, leave their property, guess or recall which vendor had that specific brick, waltz through 1-3 loading screens and a load of terrain to get to the vendor, buy the brick, and return through the same terrain and loading screens. It was an absolute waste of a good builder's time. There was also the method of picking up models which had me frequently and accidentally picking them up with no way to put them back. There was the fact that the game would forget some models ever existed, usually the more complicated and difficult to build models. There was also the server-side physics of the property behaviors which were wonky on good days and dysfunctional on bad days. The result was a building system that had me building for 1/4th of the time and compensating for its awfulness 3/4ths of the time. Most annoyingly, most of my issues wouldn't be too difficult to solve. Making the speed boosts based on a meter, redesigning the build UI, and making bricks purchasable as needed would without a doubt have improved LEGO Universe immensely and would have helped it not explode so spectacularly.

This is really an interesting experiment. CaptainGolem made a great discovery! It is possible to join the files. But you will need one for the GAMEDATA\COMMON and a different one for MENUDATA\PIECEDB folder: You can see parts of the building chassis. But that could be removed if we edit the corresponding LEB files. I will try to use my HQ version of the car next.