quote:The heavy cruiser Takao was one of the mammoth Japanese "treaty cruisers" (or "A" class cruisers) built theoretically to the limits of the Washington Naval Treaty--10,000 tons but modified during construction to reflect the London Naval Treaty of 1930 and eventually displacing nearly 15,000 tons. These ships were fearsome surface combatants, and in 1942 ships of a similar class were responsible for handing the United States Navy the greatest defeat in its history at the night battle of Savo Island. Takao itself was primarily support for the fast carrier and amphibious assault units that expanded Japanese territory before May 1942; afterwards, she and her three sisters (Chokai, Maya, and Atago) were primarily retained as carrier escorts or as a raiding group. Takao was in fact close in many ways to being a capital ship; although she only carried a cruiser's guns, the torpedo tubes, displacement, and speed were closer to being worthy of a battlecruiser. During the war, these ships survived massive damage, and Takao herself ended up surviving the war (if resting her keel on the bottom of Singapore's harbor), being scuttled in 1946 in the Straits of Malacca.
Here is the link to the story about the inspiration, design, construction, and showing of this Lego creation.
quote:If you don't care for Lego, don't waste your time or mine in posting.
So now you're creating threads in which the only people you want to post can post in? Isn't that ever so slightly going against the spirit these Forums were created in? Or rather, the spirit they should have been created in, when in fact Charles did them for "Show And Tell" at school. What next? Omey or Farquad starting threads in which only people who think there is a God, and his name is Bush, and he likes guns but not girlfriend-abusers, can post in? Do try to lighten up, Jeffrey.
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Because I think you might be interested in them. Duh. The correct question is, if you don't care for lego, why do you keep clicking on my threads?'
Excuse me, and why did you edit my post? I wasn't aware posting of images into the body of the thread was verbotten.
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While not verbotten, posting an inline image that's 70+ kilobytes and measuring 760 by 567 pixels is a tad inconsiderate for those people browsing Flare on slow dial-up connections.
Plus, you had no warning about this being yet another Lego thread until the end of your post when you decided that everyone who'd rather not deal with Legos just sit down, shut up, and deal with it.
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quote:no warning about this being yet another Lego thread until the end of your post
I see. Siggy, you're saying that when you saw the "inline image that's 70+ kilobytes and measuring 760 by 567 pixels" you didn't know this was a thread about lego?
Second, as explained earlier, I posted the last bit because I don't care for certain individuals with asshole tendencies (Tahna, The359) to continue what they started in my ::drool:: thread.
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Jeff, how many threads haven't you ruined? Ponder that before you start in how Tahna Los and The359 ruin your Lego threads.
As for the picture, I could not tell that this was a Lego thread since my roommate was sucking up all the bandwidth using KaZaA. In doing so, the text loaded completely before the image did. That's a similar phenomenon to people on slow dial-ups.
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Everybody take a deep breath and calm down. Name-calling isn't very nice, and should be kept to the Flameboard if anywhere. I'll be keeping an eye on this thread, and remember: this thread has a lock, and I have the key (among others).
Now,
*clicks link* Ah, I see...
Now, Jeff, I don't think people really have a problem with checking out things that you think are cool its just that you post threads like this so often. Then again, if there were more posters that were interested in this kind of thing, we'd be a little better off.
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I am not claiming to be a nice and kind person, but that simply I have tried to post on Flare in the past few months without violating Charles' "I AM DISSAPOINTED" thread. I don't believe I've "ruined" a thread in a very long time.
I've also never before had a problem with posting large images in a thread per se. So I was more than a bit miffed when my post was edited out and a few people decided to get on my case about it. If I'm not allowed to do it, tell me I'm not allowed to do it.
Topher -- I don't post stuff like this "all" the time. Once or twice a month, sure. That's not "all" the time. Or maybe it is. In any case, I won't be posting stuff like this again since clearly, it's not welcome.
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You recall incorrectly. Tim editted your post to replace the picture with a link to it instead. The comments that have been in regards to the picture itself have been from Tim and myself. Tim asked why you were posting other people's work instead of your own. I stated the rationale behind not having a large inline image. The other comments have dealt with your post's ending where you stated what wouldn't be allowed in your thread.
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I edited the post because an issue w/ the CSS code here makes Mozilla do funky things. Specifically, if an image or unbroken line of text is wider than the the window, I can't scroll all the way over, so I can't see the ends of lines in people's posts. You are, by far, not the first person to whom I have done this.
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I think it's a hell of a good looking lego ship. I'm not a "Lego" builder myself, but I can certainly apreciate the skill and time that went into that piece. Where was that pic taken at? There seem to be several diffrent likds of models in the background.
...now, if he builds the Yamato in that scale he's insane.
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