That softness is critical. Not for the kids, but for the adults who have to clean up after them.
Stepping barefoot onto a Lego brick hurts, but stepping barefoot onto a Duplo brick is much worse. Those things look innocent enough, but in the dark they turn into veritable caltrops!
You think so? The Lego bricks have sharper edges and also I think that you put the same weight (of your body) on a comparatively larger area on the Duplos, so less pain. But, well, who am I to argue about your experience. (Never stepped on either of these in our living room although we had both systems).
They are probably partially compatible. With Duplo for example, it's easy enough to stack Duplo on top of regular LEGO bricks, but not the other way around. For stacking regular bricks on top of Duplo, you need to have bricks of the proper multiple in each dimension -- they need to be full height and a multiple of 2 in the other dimensions. The Quatro bricks are compatible in the same way -- you can easily stack them on top of Duplo or regular bricks, but not the other way around; You probably also need to do a transition layer from Quatro to Duplo to regular bricks.
I've seen people use Duplo and Quatro for space-filling when they needed a large amount of structural brick somewhere that won't be seen in the final model. Think having a LEGO city setup that has an underground level.
New title: 16yo watched ALL the Ian Hubert tutorials
But who can blame them? Ian's tutorials are some of the most entertaining videos out there, especially his lazy tutorial series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjnyapZ_P-g
Assuming you mean "free" as in "I don't need to provide a credit card to sign up", then https://ghostfol.io/
If on the off chance you mean "free" as in "freedom from having my data sold", then You Need a Budget (YNAB) is a popular option. But be warned, YNAB is more than software...it's a new way of thinking about budgeting. It takes some getting used to.
https://www.ynab.com/
All the art and sound assets are loaded from a local copy of C&C that the user must purchase on their own before running OpenRA (specifically the "C&C Remastered Collection" on Steam or Origin). OpenRA uses the assets from that local install, so it's all legal! Stratagus does the same thing with Warcraft assets.
I remember my earliest LAN game was the first Warcraft RTS, mainly because slower school computers could still run it and it allowed for "spawn installs". I got to experience real LAN gaming later in the 90s because I traveled to Europe. Sure, my friends in the US would play Tribes, Descent, and Quake, but we never had a room full of powerful enough computers to play it on a LAN.
When I got back to the states, I was hooked. I built my first PC (a Pentium III with an ATI RAGE 128, I believe). I must have been 14. A few years later, I made a video* about the LAN parties. It's a good time capsule of the experience.
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Ralphs and Vons in California have been doing the charity ask for years. I always assumed it was their way of bragging later "how much they gave back to the community" while conveniently forgetting to mention those funds came from customer donations. I hate it, too.
Ordered, and excited to try! That free shipping offer got me to go back and add an item, so kudos. Once I taste the product, I might just submit a pav bhaji recipe.
Can't comment on pricing until I taste and get a sense of quantity. Certainly reasonable enough to let me try.
Some feedback on the site:
- Love the pastel colors and packaging design. Very clean, with excellent photos. Any concern about appearing too feminine for your target customer?
- I feel like the "Details" should already be open when I go to a product page. I ended up having to twirl it open each time I visited a page. Also annoying that the Drift pop-up covered up those details every time!
- I got confused about bundles, quantities, and meal counts, and just ended up ordering enough to get free shipping. Maybe that's the intent?
- Loved the "How to Eat" section. Helped me decide what to buy, but once again, it was hidden.
- I would suggest left aligning your text on product descriptions. Centered text is harder to read, especially with the bulleted lists.
- I want more imagery of the food! Photos of the ingredients! Videos of the cooking process! "How to Eat" as a video or photo series, instead of text!
https://en.brickimedia.org/wiki/QUATRO