Also, they’ve sucked ever since they stopped having just basic smiley faces.

Come at me!

  • @[email protected]
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    445 months ago

    This is exactly the kind of post this community is for. You’re couldn’t be more wrong, take my upvotes you incorrect bastard!

      • @[email protected]
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        Nvidia (who makes the RTX 4080Ti graphics card) can tell me the Ti is pronounced “tie” all they want. They are wrong. It’s “tee eye”. I will die on this hill.

        • @[email protected]
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          95 months ago

          Pretty sure the inventor of the “gif” stated that it’s supposed to be pronounced “jif” but he too is completely wrong.

        • @[email protected]
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          55 months ago

          Ngl I assumed this (pronouncing the letters as letters) was the correct way, because I thought that the Ti had something to do with a little element called Titanium, and last I checked that is how one read symbols on the periodic table.

            • @leftzero
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              25 months ago

              I read the Ti in the periodic table as “titanium”, not as “tie”… I mean, if you don’t read them as the names of the elements, what would you even read, say, Pb or Hg as…?

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                  35 months ago

                  Yes, of course, but I was trying to point out how claiming it means titanium doesn’t really work as an excuse to pronounce it “tie”; it’s either “tee eye” or “titanium”, but “tie” makes no sense.

              • @[email protected]
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                15 months ago

                Right but you wouldn’t say “the symbol for lead is ‘peeb’” you’d say “…P b.”

                • @leftzero
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                  25 months ago

                  Yes, exactly. It’s either tee eye or titanium, but I can’t see how it can possibly be tie.

  • Admiral PatrickM
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    Our advertising policy requires us to call them “generic Danish interlocking children’s building set” men. 😆

    But yeah, agree. I think they were better when they were just generic yellow humanoids with smiley faces and assorted wigs/hats.

    I don’t think as I child I ever ascribed them a gender of their own; they were always the player character in the world’s I’d build. e.g. if I was playing with them, they were boys and they were girls when my sister was playing with them.

    • @[email protected]
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      55 months ago

      FWIW, one of the best parts of the Foosball Table set (21337) is the shear number of wigs and faces it comes with so you can totally customize your players. It comes with 22 “generic Danish interlocking children’s building set” men and 44 unique wigs/heads. It’s pretty cool imo

  • BigFig
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    115 months ago

    Flying Squid, I usually like your posts and comments but today. Today you’ve made me angry.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      85 months ago

      Whatever. You’re a “BigFig.” You won’t even fit with regular Lego blocks.

      • BigFig
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        45 months ago

        Leave my Dollar Store Chinese knock offs alone!

  • @[email protected]
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    105 months ago

    I don’t rememeber ‘men’ being prominent in the packaging and we just called the people ‘legos’ like the rest of the sets. So i’m half with you on them being kegos and not minifigs, but all of the people in the sets are just legos.

    • @Blueberrydreamer
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      There’s nothing to remember here, the dude just didn’t know what they were called as a kid. They’ve been minifigs since their creation in the late 70s.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        Yes there is. At least in in German everyone used to call them “Lego Männchen”, which means “little men”.

  • @Blueberrydreamer
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    75 months ago

    Yeah, this one definitely deserves to be unpopular. They’ve always been minifigs, they’ll always be minifigs, you don’t mess with perfection.

  • Björn Tantau
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    65 months ago

    Was always Lego figures for me. Or whatever specialty the figure I wanted had.

  • @[email protected]
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    55 months ago

    You only like the plain faces? Man. I used to take a soldering iron to the beat up ones so I could create mutants to attack the ‘good guys’…

    • Flying SquidOP
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      105 months ago

      What- I ask you- what is the point of throwing a Lego space ship at the wall if your space man isn’t going to smile when he’s dead?

  • @[email protected]
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    45 months ago

    I feel like this would be a popular opinion amongst the Lemmy general demographic but then some psychopath below proved the opposite to be true.

    I find the use of “Legos” more triggering, the plural is Lego ffs.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        No, that is equally abhorrent. It is a brand name, you don’t add anything to pluralise.

        • @[email protected]
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          15 months ago

          Roombas

          Teslas

          Burger Kings

          Band-Aids

          I do agree that “Legos” is wrong, but it’s not because you don’t pluralize brand names in this way.