I remember kids with meter long rip cords and giant knock offs and extra large metal disks that terrorised the playground back in the day lol. There were also kids with knock off metal disks with flints that spark when 2 bayblades hit each other so that was cool.
I remember one kid saying he was going to attach razor blades or sharpen the fins on his Beyblade. I also remember seeing him crying the nurse's office the next day with his hand bandaged.
I remember those fake beyblades that were completely made out of metal. Those things were dangerous. Never used my original beyblades against those death machines.
Wholesome: dad gets involved with his kid's hobby and helps him win
Not wholesome: kid shows up to play with a rigged beyblade someone else made for him, in order to participate in a one-sided competition, predictably breaking the other kid's toy
As a kid, my friends also realized this. We started using glue guns to glue more weight disks on our beyblades. It turned into an arms race lmao. It didn't get super crazy since people didnt own that many beyblades but I do remember i had a beyblade with 3 weight disks.
Lol nice. I wonder if he used tungsten carbide blanks. Probably densest cheap metal if lead isn’t an option. Would need diamond cutting discs/bits to fit it tho.
Edit: probably for the best that I didn’t become a parent lol
I watched a video where some crafters used tungsten powder mixed in an epoxy for a really great effect. Get that heavy and metallic look of tungsten but easy to cast like epoxy.
Haha exactly! That would’ve been my mistake. Helping them trounce other kids would’ve felt natural, much easier than helping them become a better person.
Well yeah, and winning’s great if it’s theirs. Sorry I’m bad at explaining. It was my first attempt.
I meant that, given my disposition (competitive bitch, often lucky, won more than my share) I would’ve fought the kid’s battles too often, compounded my winnings into theirs, and failed to let them learn to fight for themselves, for others. I’d have created the privileged rivals of my youth instead of helping other’s children succeed. I think.
E: they’d be no more than primary school age today, so maybe I’d have grown up enough in time to fix my mistakes. Just seems like a gamble when a child deserves better.
Its funny. I had never heard of Beyblades before last year. A kid/young man came it with his improved beyblades designs he had done in tinkercad. I helped him with how to 3d print them. Somewhere he still competes with them. He is twenty or so.
My young colleagues (early 20s, I'm in 40s) found some real cheap beyblades in nearby Lidl, set up an arena and started fighting at breaks. They asked if we could 3d print custom parts. I'm not that interested in participating but I'm very interested in engineering the shit out of them.
When I was a kid, my parent found some cheap china beyblade kit box, it came with random stuff to make beyblade. One of the stuff was kinda heavy metal core and it had 4 small plastic bits sticking out, and they CUTS. I fucked up couple of my other beyblades before I notice the damages.
59 Comments
ceenote@lemmy.world · 242 pts · 293d
Step up your parenting game: Study metallurgy.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 109 pts · 293d
Learn CAD. Build a CNC machine.
Donkter@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 293d
Invest in tungsten
CluckN@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 293d
Drop it from space on your enemies
overworkedandundersane@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 293d
Nothing like a Rod From God
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 32 pts · 293d
Helicopter parenting?
More like geostationary orbit parenting.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 293d
overworkedandundersane@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 293d
Nicely done, lol
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 293d
A depleted uranium core with tungsten carbide cutter blades.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 293d
Why deplete the uranium? Go radioactive. Cobalt!
Warning on bay blade : spin and run
joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 292d
Not that kind of CNC.
RandomStickman@fedia.io · 152 pts · 293d
I remember kids with meter long rip cords and giant knock offs and extra large metal disks that terrorised the playground back in the day lol. There were also kids with knock off metal disks with flints that spark when 2 bayblades hit each other so that was cool.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 108 pts · 293d
I remember one kid saying he was going to attach razor blades or sharpen the fins on his Beyblade. I also remember seeing him crying the nurse's office the next day with his hand bandaged.
Valmond@lemmy.world · 78 pts · 293d
And they say you learn nothing valuable in school. Smh my head.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 293d
Knew a guy who sharpened his fingernails before a fight. Realized his mistake when he hit someone with his fist and cut himself up. Poor planning .
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 6 pts · 293d
Sharp the left hand nails and punch with the right hand
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 292d
Oh dear, I remember that episode of Oz! Sharp nails are lethal.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 293d
Get discs of steel and ferrocerium. Even more sparks than flint!
mcforest@feddit.org · 79 pts · 293d
I remember those fake beyblades that were completely made out of metal. Those things were dangerous. Never used my original beyblades against those death machines.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 293d
They had real all metal beyblades
mEEGal@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 293d
Peak parenting
yakko@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 293d
It's a ballsy move
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 293d
You could say, balls of steel.
Thank you. I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 293d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 293d
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 293d
prex@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 292d
phdeeznuts@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 293d
Let it rip
ook@discuss.tchncs.de · 47 pts · 293d
capuccino@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 293d
Its dad:
TastyWheat@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 293d
No kid, you got banned for cheating!
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 292d
The duality of man -
Wholesome: dad gets involved with his kid's hobby and helps him win
Not wholesome: kid shows up to play with a rigged beyblade someone else made for him, in order to participate in a one-sided competition, predictably breaking the other kid's toy
idunnololz@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 293d
As a kid, my friends also realized this. We started using glue guns to glue more weight disks on our beyblades. It turned into an arms race lmao. It didn't get super crazy since people didnt own that many beyblades but I do remember i had a beyblade with 3 weight disks.
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 293d
As kid I know only those made of wood
hayvan@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 292d
Real ones remember.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 20 pts · 293d
Lol nice. I wonder if he used tungsten carbide blanks. Probably densest cheap metal if lead isn’t an option. Would need diamond cutting discs/bits to fit it tho.
Edit: probably for the best that I didn’t become a parent lol
Sunforged@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 293d
I watched a video where some crafters used tungsten powder mixed in an epoxy for a really great effect. Get that heavy and metallic look of tungsten but easy to cast like epoxy.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 293d
happy cake day!
Quatlicopatlix@feddit.org · 1 pts · 293d
Even and katelyn?
Sunforged@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 293d
It was a guy and gal talking to Adam Savage.
TheOakTree@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 293d
It was Evan and Katelyn being featured on Adam's channel lol
Quatlicopatlix@feddit.org · 1 pts · 292d
Yea thats them, they have a channel where they do lots of cool stuff with resin, can only recommend!
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 293d
But lead would be an option. Just don't lick it and it's fine.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 293d
Yeah you’re right. I’m too used to worst-possible-case being min req but you’re right.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 292d
What? Why? You sound like you'd solve all yo7r hypothetical kid's problems!
Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 292d
Haha exactly! That would’ve been my mistake. Helping them trounce other kids would’ve felt natural, much easier than helping them become a better person.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 292d
I don't see the problem here. Your kid would be winning!
Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 292d
Well yeah, and winning’s great if it’s theirs. Sorry I’m bad at explaining. It was my first attempt.
I meant that, given my disposition (competitive bitch, often lucky, won more than my share) I would’ve fought the kid’s battles too often, compounded my winnings into theirs, and failed to let them learn to fight for themselves, for others. I’d have created the privileged rivals of my youth instead of helping other’s children succeed. I think.
E: they’d be no more than primary school age today, so maybe I’d have grown up enough in time to fix my mistakes. Just seems like a gamble when a child deserves better.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 292d
'Better' as if any kid born today is going go get old!
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 293d
Its funny. I had never heard of Beyblades before last year. A kid/young man came it with his improved beyblades designs he had done in tinkercad. I helped him with how to 3d print them. Somewhere he still competes with them. He is twenty or so.
hayvan@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 292d
My young colleagues (early 20s, I'm in 40s) found some real cheap beyblades in nearby Lidl, set up an arena and started fighting at breaks. They asked if we could 3d print custom parts. I'm not that interested in participating but I'm very interested in engineering the shit out of them.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 293d
I need to find this man
atocci@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 293d
Beyblade X is so good again
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 293d
Now bring back Pogs.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d
Alf pogs?
GiraffeNeckInKnot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 293d
When I was a kid, my parent found some cheap china beyblade kit box, it came with random stuff to make beyblade. One of the stuff was kinda heavy metal core and it had 4 small plastic bits sticking out, and they CUTS. I fucked up couple of my other beyblades before I notice the damages.
manmachine@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 293d
and here’s Bringus with another suggestion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2onc721XBs
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 292d
It's those fighting-spintop thingies.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 293d
I read it in his voice.... I hate it. I enjoy merry but man his voice gets to me.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 293d
This makes me wonder if any of the cheaty things you were supposed to be able to do to conkers actually worked.
falseWhite@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d