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✨ these dorks ✨

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Prompto Argentum icons ✨️ for @chivalrousvictini hope you like them <3

Illegal building techniques are ones that aren't allowed in official LEGO sets, which always use building techniques designed for and intended by LEGO. The reason they're called illegal is because they stress the blocks in a way they weren't intended for, causing various kinds of material failure overtime.

Thanks, Anon!

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Armatron was amazing. Your own robot arm! You could do experiments with it! The kids on the box were wearing lab coats and safety goggles!

The reality was very different, but pleasantly bonkers. Armatron actually only had one motor, which kept spinning continuously. The joysticks used to control it were like a gearbox, pushing different gears against the spinning motor which transmitted the power through linkages to the degrees of freedom. With absolutely no computer assistance, and no chance of ever having any, it could be a frustrating affair to try and lift a ball up and put it on a stand. But it was the 80s, and kids loved frustration because there were only 4 TV channels.

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The Sord M5, marketed in the UK by CGL, was an also-ran of the home computer wars in the early 80s. I only ever saw one once, in the computer department of Debenhams. To program it you needed to have a BASIC cartridge plugged in and the keyboard sucked worse than any other keyboard of the time. (Look where the space key is!)

Day 33– Hatteno Village

Welcome to Hatteno Village! They like to insist Link and Zelda are their local cryptids.

(Wanna see more of this totk au? It’s called familiar familiar and it’s a what-if-zelda-doesn’t-go-back-in-time and then spiralled into crit-rewrites-totk-into-a-self-indulgent-botw-continuation)