i played with lego quite a bit.
rough estimate of ages: 4-12. 

Indeed. Specialising in anything to do with the space stuff, and Technics (full motorised of course). Never used to build from the instructions, every new box was just more fuel for my fiendish factory furnace, churning out Lego masterpieces.

Actually, when I was young, stuff like, well, eating, and, errr, bodily functions, tended to have second priority when I was building Lego. In my defence, this prioritisation only led to it's seemingly inevitable conclusion a couple of times...


P.S.

I worried very much that I'd emerge from my apartment two weeks later, scruffy and unkempt, having spent upwards of a thousand dollars on a large, colorful, and fully articulated Baneblade or something.


LOL! 

This doesn't help our statistics AT ALL! 

i wasnt much of a lego builder, I preferred to spend my childhood smashing my he man figurines into each other than build stuff. 

your childhood was spent wisely ^_^ 

yes I think so 

I thought he just sort of congealed. 

#10908 best czg post ever!!!

shambler go map :p we want judge u!!! 

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Kinn liked HE-MAN??

That explains a lot. Too much in fact. 

I mostly made scenery for my WH40k armies to play around, before I got into WH40k though I tended to make these large combat arenas where pirates would fight space-men! (LOL)

I would make big rocket engines and attach them to the pirate ship so it could fly, but I didnt like pirates much so they would always lose.

Though I do remember once the pirates captured a spaceman and made him walk the plank (In SPACE) and he would fall into a planet (the wash-basket in this case), then the spacemen would get ultra pissed and blow up the pirate ship! 

I would make tiny figures out of play-doh and then build machines in lego to squish them and drag them through cogwheels and chop them up and stuff like that. 

after building I had this domino-fall dream of long trajects of standing legoparts that felt one after each other after one touch...

We had a dominoday in holland that reached the 3.467.000 pieces! Good we have no Eartquakes, although I heard the aplause of the 2milion limit almost shattered the rest of the standing parts. 

The only bad thing was that some good pieces were destroyed in collisions or simply didn't stand the tension from the rubberbands.

Also played a couple of warhammer 40k games with a lego dreadnaught that was pretty close to the standard space marine design and used lego sets for stop-motion productions featuring rancor and clay blood among other silly kids stuff. 

Tyrann updated his engine:
http://disenchant.net/
This release includes some patches from the FreeBSD port and reworking the CD audio drivers.


Lego rocks! I was rather the "player" while my older brother was the "builder". I always wanted to play with the things we build. He always destroyed them shortly after assembling to create something new.
This totally reflects in my (poor/short) mapper experience. I tend to build, play, play, build, play, build, build, play. Almost 2/3 of the time I spent on mapping is spent on play-testing the maps. Ok, I only released speedmaps so far but I mapped quite a lot mini-/fun-maps. 

... amsp1? =) 

I was rather the "player" while my older brother was the "builder".

Was that comparable to, say, the "receiver" and "giver" scenario...? 

We were both building stuff. But I wanted to play with afterwards (pirates, cowboys, marineships, whatever) while he wanted to build more/new things. 

I know one kid who didn't like lego at all as a kid, some just are like that. He also stopped computer gaming at the age of fifteen. He will probably be much more successful in life than I ever will. ;)

Or, he'll end up with a fat, bitchy wife, working in a stale prison-like cubicle, for a bank or something, denying loans to people as his only form of gratuitous pleasure while he dreams of what his life could have been if only he'd had an imagination . . .

I got my first Legos in the 70's from my Aunt, as hand-me-downs from my cousins. Mainly just the red and white bricks (but lots of them). I purchased a small set of six Lego knights (the oldschool ones from the yellow castle generation) - and built massive blocky white and red castles for them to attack and defend. Eventually when Lego came out with their more modern grey castle lines, I ended up with a number of their castle sets, and many more knights and peasants and horses - so then I was able to have some larger battles and sieges with some more realistic looking castles!

I had a few of the space sets too. I remember the red and black astronauts were "Klingons," the white Human, the blue "Romulans," and the yellow were other aliens.

That Lego mail-order store got a lot of my cash when I was a kid!

Ah, nostalgia . . . 

Being a lonely child, I would pull the legs off spiders so that they wouldn't be able to run away while I talked to them.

But my life changed once I discovered Lego. I would build the little houses, and plant the little Lego flowers in the little Lego gardens, and put the spiders inside the little houses. I found I could seal all of the little gaps that the spiders might have escaped from by using Plasticine, which meant I could talk to the spiders at anytime of the day or night (mainly at night I admit) and say to them anything I wanted, for as long as I wanted, as loud as I wanted.

It was fun to watch the spiders trying to get out of the little Lego houses, trying to run away because I was taunting them so much. You know the sort of thing, "You might have eight legs, well OK, now seven, but you can't play football like our Billy."

I even introduced them to some other friends I had at the time, namely several house flies that I had caught and put in the little Lego house with the spiders. (Did you know that the story about drowned flies could come back to life if you rubbed salt on them was a load of old baloney? I lost some of my best friends before I realised that I�d been taken for a ride.)

Unfortunately, the flies always seemed to say the wrong things at the wrong time because the spiders inevitably ended up killing the flies in a fit of pique. I think it was this lack of anger-management on their behalf that eventually made me fall out with the spiders, big time.

But I didn't stop playing with Lego, no sir. I shared my early Lego building days with lots of my friends of the period: worms, ants (they were always running away and I stopped talking to them for many years because of that), beetles and grasshoppers. I even built a stable for a hedgehog that used to frequent the bottom of the garden at night (yes I know, night-time again). I became one of the first of the local kids to be able to converse with hedgehogs, although I am still quite indignant over the fact that no matter what I asked them to do, they never seemed willing to cooperate; plain ignorance if you ask me.

Like some others on the forum, I have kept all of my Lego from those halcyon days and even used to get it out in the evenings after a hard days work at the abattoir and set up whole villages For My Babies. We would sit there being amused until the wee hours, talking to the spiders and flies� 

Hmm. I seem to remember something about that? I don't remember what it was, though.

Speaking of which, does anybody have any thoughts on doing mapping from a USB memory drive? Something along the lines of installing GTKRadiant and several wads onto the thing, and then just plugging it into a PC and running it from the USB drive whenever I wanted to do a bit of mapping? Obviously, compiling and playing would wait until later. 

didn't you say you wanted to finish it? Concerning the USB stick idea, I can't see why it wouldn't work. I think they're handled like floppy disks or digicams by the PC (i.e. basically like hard drives.) And if you run Radiant from it, why not qbsp (or quake)? 

See next link for subject

http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=46806 

Well: GTKRadiant has lots of stuff in the registry, dunno how that would work. 

Radiant would probably write its stuff into the new host system's registry then. 

gtkradiant is the only program that might not work that way. All the others (qbsp/light/vis/quake) don't care about the registry. Of course, you said you just wanted to edit brushes...

I wonder if the old QERadiant would work without the registry?