Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | SylvainLS  | | Posted: | Jan 23, 2023 11:30 | | Subject: | Re: sign in | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| In Technical Issues, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Technical Issues, mophead writes:
| | why all of a sudden do I have to sign in to my
account evertime I want to get on Bricklink.
Just started in the last week.
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Bricklink be like that sometimes but perhaps try accepting all the sites cookies
🍪
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“Preferences” should be enough: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/cookies.page
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2023 17:17 | | Subject: | Re: Wanted the brown spaceman | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, maxx3001 writes:
| | […]
You see Sylvain, now Pop and I are on the same wavelength 
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Yeah, you’re both subtractive while I’m attractive, er, no… addictive, neither…
ah, additive!
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2023 15:49 | | Subject: | Re: Wanted the brown spaceman | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, maxx3001 writes:
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No you are not, he has a blue spaceman and you a yellow one, how is that the
same wavelength?
Now if you merged, you’d have a green space-baby
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If we’re talking wavelength, blue & yellow are complementary, so adding them
leads to white 
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2023 14:30 | | Subject: | Re: Orange spaceman | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, Darth_Smithy writes:
| | In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | In General, rtzx9r writes:
| | […]
| | But orange you glad you found five? Thanks folks, I'll be here all night.
Don't forget to tip your server!
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I’d like to “book” a few orders for those orange spacemen. Ba da tish
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Is it “everyone is a comedian” day?
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LOL, isn't it always?
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Yes, but without the “tip the veal” and “ba da tish” 
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2023 14:17 | | Subject: | Re: Republic Gunship | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| In Buying, LeeGo73 writes:
| | In Buying, Jrjlc23 writes:
| | Are any stores selling all the pieces to make my own 2013 republic gunship?
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Maybe, but it's probably cheaper to just buy the set.
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Unless they don’t want the minifigs, no?
Or are the stickers / stickered parts expensive too?
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2023 14:13 | | Subject: | Re: Wich part is this? | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, Darth_Smithy writes:
| | In Catalog, FantasyBricks writes:
| | Do you have the actual part? If so, does it say "Lego" on the studs?
Otherwise, it does not look like Lego to me -- unless it is a new or uncatalogued
part.
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Or neatly Dremelled
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I don’t know any LEGO part that could be modified to look that way.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2023 14:11 | | Subject: | Re: Orange spaceman | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, rtzx9r writes:
| | […]
| | But orange you glad you found five? Thanks folks, I'll be here all night.
Don't forget to tip your server!
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I’d like to “book” a few orders for those orange spacemen. Ba da tish
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Is it “everyone is a comedian” day?
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2023 11:40 | | Subject: | Re: Down the rabbit hole? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, yorbrick writes:
| | In Off Topic, zzed writes:
| | For a consumer, what % of income is appropriate to spend on LEGO before it is
considered a..."problem"? Or is it calculated based on square feet overtaken
by LEGO in the home? Asking for a friend.
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It depends what other outgoings you have.
20% is a huge amount to be spending on lego if you are spending 95% on essentials.
Whereas 20% is not much if you are only spending 10% on essentials.
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Isn’t LEGO part of the essentials?
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2023 16:56 | | Subject: | Re: Excluded countries for wanted list | | Viewed: | 14 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, prikkel_ writes:
| | When i check the setting to only show shop in the european union, the easy buy
for my wanted list keeps showing stores outside of it.
Why is this?
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Because EasyBuy doesn’t care about filters.
Use the Buy page ( https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/buy.page ) and Auto-select,
it obeys the filters just above the list of shops ((3) on the first image here:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2445 ).
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2023 16:54 | | Subject: | Re: Part Editor | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
| In Related Software, FreakySnuke writes:
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The solution(s) outlined in this thread don't seem to work anymore for this
latest update bug - at least for me. I've completed wiped every possible
folder related to Stud.io 2.0 and Part Designer but upon reinstalling both programs
it still throws the same error.
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1. You could (actually should) have answered in said thread
2. You need to install December’s version of Studio (and refuse to update)
if you want to use PartDesigner before the devs fix the problem with the new
version.
(Explanations / links are in the thread, 3rd page.)
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2023 15:07 | | Subject: | Re: 42145 Airbus H175 Rescue Helicopter | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, SJMarty writes:
| | Hello,
I'm building the 42145 Airbus H175 Rescue Helicopter. On step 142, the instructions
show inserting a red pin with axle through two narrow beams, through a wide beam,
and in step 143, placing a pinion on the axle end and another pinion on the axle
beneath it. After installing both pinions, the longer axle is almost impossible
to turn due to the friction from the red pin with the axle end holding the pinion
above it. Before continuing, I want to make sure this is correct as it doesn't
seem right.
Thank you!
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Hi, I haven’t built the set or looked further in the instructions but it looks
like a classic brake, to prevent the axle from rotating freely.
Is it part of the landing gear’s up-down mechanism?
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2023 13:16 | | Subject: | Re: So I had a chat with "Chat GPT"... | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, cycbuild1136 writes:
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Open source culture is foreign to artists and scientists.
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I don’t really agree with that, or that depends on whom you label “scientists.”
Open source is the fundament of science: you share what you do, how you do it,
with what you do it.
Grafted on that is the people who pay the scientists and want something in return
or want to know how/to whom to distribute the money. And those people are therefore
interested in technology and applications, not science, and there you get patents
and secrets.
As for artists, well all the artists train by looking at and reproducing others’
arts (works for paintings or books). Then they find & do their own things and
add their creativity… or not, when they found the “cash recipe” and rehash the
same work / story over and over.
Those AIs do exactly as the latter: they are trained on what exists, find the
recipe (in a totally obscure way for us) and produce similar things over and
over.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2023 11:41 | | Subject: | Re: So I had a chat with "Chat GPT"... | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | For anyone new on this topic and don't know what Chat GPT is: Chat GPT is
a AI-based program that people use for generating dialogues.
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Thank you for wording it this way 
Those AIs are indeed not answering questions, they are generating
text (or images) as a continuation of what precedes, mimicking answers, mimicking
a dialogue.
They are like your phone’s keyboard app’s (or Google’s search bar’s) completion
on steroids. They don’t know anything and they even less understand
anything.
As such, they are reproducing what’s more probable to happen, that is, the average.
(And therefore they need to be “curated” because 80% of everything is crap.)
| | […]
I'm flabbergasted by Chat GPT. What seemed unlikely 30 years ago (for example
in science fiction films) is now just everyday reality.
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Well, in movies / books, the AIs know things and think. There’s
no thinking or even knowledge here.
(One could argue there’s knowledge in the sense that the AI “knows” how to make
sentences… but it’s not organized knowledge, it’s fine-tuned reflexes.)
| | I am personally convinced that it will not be long before we can no longer differentiate
between real people and robots.
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Well, Eliza already fooled enough people almost 60 years ago.
| | It also raises the question to what extent you
can still trust written communication in the future.
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And pictures and sounds and movies.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2023 11:20 | | Subject: | Re: IOSS number Question / Customs Form | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
| In Shipping, brac.brick writes:
| | I'm thinking about adding in a few international countries to ship to. If
and when I receive an international order, does the iOSS number for BL show up
in the order or where would I find it ?
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It’s in the order’s details:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2517
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2518
| | Also for those countries where the customs form is the shipping label, is that
sufficient or do I have to add additional customs forms attached to the package?
Not sure if this is has been asked before - I couldn't find it in the forums.
thanks
Alison
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 20, 2023 15:46 | | Subject: | Re: Part Editor | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
| In Related Software, Mr.fish writes:
| | In Related Software, Pizmology writes:
| | I have not been able to open Bricklink's part editor without it giving me
the "Failed To Initialize" message. It opened once no problem and now
it refuses for no reason. Anyone with information on this problem please share
and solution you might have.
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I have the same problem! If you fixed it or somebody helped you it would be great,
if you could help me.
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See https://forum.bricklink.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=8130
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 20, 2023 12:35 | | Subject: | Re: Automated Wanted/Have Updates | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, roeland writes:
| | To whom it may concern...
Wouldn't it be nice if completed orders did not only have a button "add
this to my wanted list" but also a "tick this off my wanted list"?
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It exists, but on the Wanted List side: the Apply Order button
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=1
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2023 17:57 | | Subject: | Re: Studio | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, LegoBadger87 writes:
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Are you talking about this just today? I just updated after it was working fine
this morning, and the entire app is screwed up (on a macbook). Did this update
do something?
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It seems there’s been an update of Unity (the game engine on which Studio is
built).
That’s what triggered the last big change in support for MacOS (add support for
M1 = lose support for MacOS 10.9 to 10.13; the True Apple Way).
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2023 17:24 | | Subject: | Re: Need one, buy 12 | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, legomalego writes:
| | So I'm fairly normal then.
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Well, “normal” compared to a bunch of BrickLinkers
| | Can't stop thinking about Nubs cornering the market on CP heads.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2023 16:54 | | Subject: | Re: Need one, buy 12 | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, legomalego writes:
| | Curious if everyone does as I do.
When I need a part in a quantity of one or two I will often buy a bunch of extras
if the sellers inventory permits.
Obviously thinking the next time I need one I will have it. To date, that has
yet to happen.
Thoughts?
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Yep. Need 4. Think of buying 8 because, eh, maybe I’ll build two or another
similar thing. Hesitate in front of the cart: “so 8 or round up to 10?” Or
“eh, they have 11, I can’t leave 1 all by itself.”
Then I eventually validate the order.
And 5min after that I look at the MOC and find another idea which either means
I actually don’t need the part at all… or I now need 12 and bougth 10 (or 11)….
That’s why I take a long time between orders
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2023 14:13 | | Subject: | Re: seller is off | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| In Buying, Nicolasamico37 writes:
| | As you said, there are a few nuances in French
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There’s some in English too… but less in Globish
| | And I wrote YOU SHOULD, not YOU MUST !
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Well, it removes a few possible back-translations / nuances but then again, it’s
not obvious whether someone (sender or receiver) uses English or Globish / understands
all the nuances.
| | I sent him a message back, with a bit of apologies... But I was wondering if
I should remember him that as a seller here, he also has obligations ?
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(‘Remind,’ in modern English, not ‘remember’ )
I would let it go: they are obviously not in a mood to receive advices, however
they are expressed.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2023 11:47 | | Subject: | Re: seller is off | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| In Buying, jennnifer writes:
| | I agree with you that your seller is way out of line.
I would just mention that, human nature being what it is, you should always expect
a defensive or negative reply when you tell anyone: 'You should...!"
Good luck,
Jen
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You shouldn’t say “you should…!”!
As both buyer and seller are French, I suppose they spoke French and so there
should be less of a language barrier.
There’s several nuances in French that can be reduced to “you should…!” in Globish.
For starters, there’s “tu” (singular & colloquial you) or “vous” (politeness
plural) or the impersonal “ça” (it, but then it would translate to “it should”)
or the impersonal “il” (similar to “it should” but translates to “you should”).
Then there’s the tense: present (obligation) or conditional (advice).
So it’s hard to judge just on a translation what could have triggered that answer.
Also, these social codes are not always understood or shared and it seems the
seller is under stress at the moment.
I mean, the answer is still out of line but it may not just be the exclamation
point
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2023 18:51 | | Subject: | Re: Part out Wanted List from Lego Set Bag Number | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, somnambulyst writes:
| | I would love to build the T-Rex from the T. Rex Rampage set but don't want
to buy the whole set with the tower and gates and mini-figures. Is there a way
to generate a part list not for the entire set but just for the first 7 bags
of the set? Have tried searching a few different ways but haven't found
an answer.
Thanks!
- Pete
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the best was would be to watch a youtube video of an unboxing of the set to see
what you need for it as bricklink (or any other site i think) don't have
the option to see what is included in certain bags
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The simplest would be to look if someone hasn’t already done the job.
For instance on Rebrickable, where they sometimes do “sub-sets” inventories.
And indeed, the T-Rex is there: https://rebrickable.com/sets/75936-1-s1/jurassic-park-trex-rampage-trex/?inventory=1#parts
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2023 11:19 | | Subject: | Re: Most wanted list per item of one category | | Viewed: | 18 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, 1977_mauro writes:
| | Sure, I can do that. I am trying out to see what are the most wanted parts and
thus need most storage place.
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Hmm, there can be two reasons they are most wanted:
— they are rare, and therefore you don’t need a lot of storage place,
— they are sold as fast as the the stock is replenished, and therefore you don’t
need a lot of storage place.
On the contrary, parts that are least wanted aren’t sold and therefore accumulate
in your store and need more storage place.
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