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The box that Doom comes in will play Doom (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apologies if this breaks any rules about promotion, but Limited Run Games is a pretty cool outfit, and this is some pretty awesome merch.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I was wondering what the catch was here, since Limited Run Games is widely known for producing absolute shit products branded as collectibles. $700 for this, lmao.

LRG is the company that sold $150 CD-Rs for 3DO, produced NES cartridges that can fry consoles with unsafe voltage (big preservation W, amirite?), pressed vinyl records from lossy compressed source audio, regularly sells "physical collectible games" that require patches, and justifies the low quality of their "premium collectible" products by saying that their customers don't play the games so it's okay.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

"Look at all this future landfill!" - Mike Stoklasa

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

The most gen-x/millenial throwback thing about this set is the random card pack that has a chance to include a "signed cacodaemon rookie card". Genuinely funny that you'd have to buy multiples of this set to try and collect the whole set of cards.

I don't mind this stuff, I mean people spend stacks of cash on far more worthless and non-functional collectactables.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I assume the Box plays a video of Doom? I don't See any controls, and it says the Box plays Doom, not that you can play it with the Box.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

You can probably still get signed box sets of sigil 1 and 2 direct from John Romero. Plus you avoid LRG as a perk.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 day ago

this is one of the most stupid ideas i've ever heard. I love it

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So like $150 of stuff for $666... lmao

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Ah you see, there will only be 666 copies sold, so most of that price is just for the privilege of being able to buy it!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Yeah I'm not seeing the value anywhere near the price. Playing a box holds virtually no value to me.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Fuck me, that's kinda awesome... buuuut...

For fuck's sake, Limited Run Games? Will the discs be on CD-Rs and the floppies be of the 5.25 variety just to really fuck people off? I really like the idea of Limited Run but their attitude to consumers is fucking awful.

I've got a massive id collection (up as far as Quake 4 anyway), but I'm really torn on this one.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

$666.66, the price of an Apple I lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Handheld Cacodemon
-plays Doom-

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

This is the only part of this set that I actually want

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Funny to see someone calling LRG a cool outfit. I'm so used to reading seething hate towards them on reddit. I'm pretty neutral towards them, personally.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm just gonna say it.

Not everything needs to be a meme.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I couldn't resist

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Hah. Hey, I walked right into that one. That one gets to be a meme.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

How tf can they get the caco to float above the magnet? Attached with a string or something?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It is done entirely with magnets.

There's a few ways it can be arranged, but typically, there will be a large, powerful magnet in the base, a small magnet at the bottom of the floating object that is attracted to the big magnet (to keep the object upright), and a series of other magnets around the object that are repelled by the big magnet (to make it float).

I've seen some that use a secondary "key" magnet on the base and object that is the opposite polarity of the base magnet, that forces the object to sit in a specific orientation. Otherwise, the object can just kind of freely spin/float, so long as the bottom magnet stays pointing down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That sounds cool af and difficult to get a system in balance like that. Do you know of any videos anywhere where someone has magnets like that set up?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

I don't know of any videos, but the concept seems to have gotten pretty popular in the last year or two. I'm in the 3D printing community, and there's pretty frequently a "magic floating <whatever>" in the "popular" section.

I assume the most difficult part would be determining what size magnets to use to achieve the desired float height. The rest should (in theory) be relatively simple; the magnets' natural characteristics do all the hard work.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

They've clearly manufactored a room temperature Superconductor just to have a floating demon on a magnet. Almost makes it worth the $666 price tag

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Magnets…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

How do they work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Some push that way, others push the other way, object go up, thingy go down (gravity).

In my experience these things are stupid hard to balance on the magnets in mid air