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[–] 225 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Step up your parenting game: Study metallurgy.

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  • [–] 105 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    Learn CAD. Build a CNC machine.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Drop it from space on your enemies

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago* (3 children)
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    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.

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  • [–] 105 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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 .

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    [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No kid, you got banned for cheating!

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As kid I know only those made of wood

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    for the best I didn't become a parent

    What? Why? You sound like you'd solve all yo7r hypothetical kid's problems!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't see the problem here. Your kid would be winning!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Beyblade X is so good again

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    and here’s Bringus with another suggestion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2onc721XBs

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    Beyblade

    It's those fighting-spintop thingies.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    This makes me wonder if any of the cheaty things you were supposed to be able to do to conkers actually worked.

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