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Peter is my favorite artist and he has such a great catalog of other music that I could have chosen to post here. I don’t usually listen to the OVO album, and even though it has some of Peter’s boldest explorations of different sounds and styles, it’s probably my least favorite album by him since not all of these ventures are successful. However, I think this song has just the type of sound and message for what I needed to hear for my life right now.

Gotta say I’m really disappointed with all of the specialty large molded parts. It feels like Nintendo doesn’t understand what makes LEGO special compared to competitor brands and is trying to push them toward the Megablox or COBI direction. These specialty pieces is part of what almost killed LEGO as a company in the early 2000s.

Special thanks to Duane Collicott & co. as well as Skyline High School for putting on a great show for everyone!

Users should be within their rights to use trademarked/copyrighted terms in the names of their MOCs with free instructions. It sounds like Rebrickable is being bullied by an unjust copyright holder. According to an admin, this copyright holder also “most definitely went through and visually identified a lot of MOCs too” — this may mean in the future you cannot have builds which are too well-made in resembling their source material.

I’ve yet to receive takedown notices for any of my MOCs, but it sounds like this situation is developing so we’ll see if existing names can remain going forward.

Context: Every part of this false. Even the base pretense is false. But Trump espouses it to be true so the red hat cult also believe it.

Old symbol:

Somebody on a Lego-based Discord server was trying to include this symbol in their MOC instructions, but Stud.io for some reason doesn’t have that as a feature. Image search results were limited as well, so I acquired the best resolution images of the new and old symbols that I could find and LukeSkydragon on the Discord whipped up these clean transparent png versions. To add these symbols to your MOC instructions on Stud.io, save the images from this post to your computer, open up Instruction Maker Mode, go to Page Design, click the button that says +Insert, click on Image, and select the images.

I’m gathering data for a hobby project and notating where the triangles in the data correspond to Pythagorean triples, but sometimes it doesn’t seem clear to me with certain data.

Can there exist Pythagorean triples in which the leg lengths are not coprime with each other but both are coprime with the hypotenuse? i.e., a right triangle in which (leg~1~, leg~2~, hypotenuse) = (a * n, b * n, c), in which a, b, c, and n are whole numbers and n is not a factor of c?

How can I determine if a right triangle with given lengths can scale to be a Pythagorean triple? If any of the values in (leg~1~: leg~2~: hypotenuse) are irrational, that does indeed mean the values cannot scale to be whole numbers?

Once it is determined that the triangle can scale to a Pythagorean triple, what is the best method of scaling the values to three whole numbers?

Thanks for any help

Edit: I’ve found an effective way to determine primitive Pythagorean triples from given leg lengths. Using a calculator that can output in fractional form, such as wolfram alpha, input leg~1~ / leg~2~ and the output will be a fraction with the numerator and denominator denoting the leg lengths of a primitive Pythagorean triple. Determining the hypotenuse is then simply using the Pythagorean Theorem.

I honestly feel like it would have been better if they didn’t even make the 2025 figure. Such a downgrade and missing key details to the character.

What are your favorite and least favorite figures? Any other downgrades as bad as this one that you can think of?