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[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 245 points 2 months ago

Step up your parenting game: Study metallurgy.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 110 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Learn CAD. Build a CNC machine.

[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 91 points 2 months ago
[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months ago

Drop it from space on your enemies

[-] overworkedandundersane@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 32 points 2 months ago

Helicopter parenting?

More like geostationary orbit parenting.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 months ago

A depleted uranium core with tungsten carbide cutter blades.

[-] Aeao@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Why deplete the uranium? Go radioactive. Cobalt!

Warning on bay blade : spin and run

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[-] RandomStickman@fedia.io 158 points 2 months ago

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 110 points 2 months ago

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 79 points 2 months ago

And they say you learn nothing valuable in school. Smh my head.

[-] Aeao@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

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 points 2 months ago

Sharp the left hand nails and punch with the right hand

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[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

Get discs of steel and ferrocerium. Even more sparks than flint!

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

ha that's sort of what I did, not knockoffs but I used the largest diameter weight disk combined with the smallest diameter bottom and top , so the metal corners(it was hexagonal iirc) of the disk would stick out further than the plastic 'blades' of the topper

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[-] mcforest@feddit.org 80 points 2 months ago

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 points 2 months ago

They had real all metal beyblades

[-] mEEGal@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months ago
[-] yakko@feddit.uk 15 points 2 months ago
[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

You could say, balls of steel.

~Thank you. I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.~

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 61 points 2 months ago
[-] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 2 months ago

Fuck yeah. You can tell that dad was both proud of his kid crushing other beyblades and also proud of his own engineering skills.

[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

No kid, you got banned for cheating!

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 months 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

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 months ago

As kid I know only those made of wood

[-] hayvan@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

Real ones remember.

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months 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.

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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 14 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

But lead would be an option. Just don't lick it and it's fine.

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[-] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

for the best I didn't become a parent

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

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 5 points 2 months ago

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 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

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 points 2 months 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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[-] atocci@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Beyblade X is so good again

[-] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 months ago
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[-] GiraffeNeckInKnot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

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 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

I read it in his voice.... I hate it. I enjoy merry but man his voice gets to me.

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Believe in the heart of the ~~cards~~ spinners"

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Beyblade

It's those fighting-spintop thingies.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months 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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