Stick figures

January 12, 2008 9:33 PM

This is a Flash drawing toy involving gravity.
posted by shakespeherian (59 comments total)

is this all it does? IS THIS ALL????
posted by Henry C. Mabuse at 9:38 PM on January 12, 2008

Cool. Like, um, open-source Tetris.
posted by koeselitz at 9:39 PM on January 12, 2008 [3 favorites]

Also: NEEDS MORE GRAVITY. A variable gravity, even. C'mon, people, it shouldn't be that hard.
posted by koeselitz at 9:42 PM on January 12, 2008

Right now I'm trying to build a Roman arch. I am a bad Roman.
posted by shakespeherian at 9:43 PM on January 12, 2008 [1 favorite]

I drood a piktur of a willy
posted by Henry C. Mabuse at 9:44 PM on January 12, 2008 [1 favorite]

I had fun. Draw a seesaw, and then play with putting heavier and heavier objects on either side.
posted by fungible at 9:49 PM on January 12, 2008 [1 favorite]

I drood a picture of a willy too, but the jism wouldn't squirt. It just dropped out like frozen blocks of iced cum.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 9:49 PM on January 12, 2008 [1 favorite]

Gravity gets me down. This exercise gets me up.

UP WITH GRABBITY.

Fun! Thanks, shakespeherian.
posted by bonobo at 9:52 PM on January 12, 2008

I had fun. Draw a seesaw, and then play with putting heavier and heavier objects on either side.

That's the first thing I did.

OK, I lied. The first thing I did was drawd a piktur of a willy.
posted by gummi at 9:57 PM on January 12, 2008 [1 favorite]

I keep trying to make ramps but my ramps are so STUPID!!!
posted by nola at 9:59 PM on January 12, 2008 [3 favorites]

this is great. I made a tower.
posted by milestogo at 10:01 PM on January 12, 2008

I love it when mefites act retarded in the comment section!
posted by newfers at 10:01 PM on January 12, 2008 [1 favorite]

By "retarded" , I mean no offense to the many people afflicted by Down's Syndrome, who frequent this blog.
posted by newfers at 10:03 PM on January 12, 2008 [2 favorites]

hahaha, I said retarded!
posted by newfers at 10:03 PM on January 12, 2008 [2 favorites]

If you can figure out what happened here you will immediately understand how awesome it was.
posted by shakespeherian at 10:08 PM on January 12, 2008 [1 favorite]

Flagged as more fun than it should be.

"I've been falling so long
it's like gravity's gone
and I'm just floating."
posted by Sailormom at 10:13 PM on January 12, 2008

I love it when mefites act retarded in the comment section!

Really? I hate that.
posted by Avenger50 at 10:18 PM on January 12, 2008

Once upon a time, there was a toy just like this on the internets -- only it supported expansion and contraction of individual elements, and you could make fun robots and bugs and such with it. The name and URL completely evades me right now. It's been seven years or more since I saw it first. Anybody have a better memory than I?
posted by lumensimus at 10:18 PM on January 12, 2008

Ha! It was (and continues to be) called Sodaplay! It's got a ton of applications now, but the original was Constructor. Java-heavy, but neat.
posted by lumensimus at 10:23 PM on January 12, 2008 [2 favorites]

Wow. Borked that first link. Sodaplay (I mean it this time!)
posted by lumensimus at 10:24 PM on January 12, 2008

I want bounce, dangnabbit.
posted by AwkwardPause at 10:25 PM on January 12, 2008

I love it when mefites act retarded in the comment section!

Really? I hate that.

Really, cuz I love that!

Your turn.
posted by newfers at 10:26 PM on January 12, 2008

I only got a third of the way through the first level before I gave up.

Fun game though.
posted by aubilenon at 10:44 PM on January 12, 2008

Catapault!
posted by NikitaNikita at 10:48 PM on January 12, 2008 [2 favorites]

This is pretty cool.
posted by Mitheral at 11:11 PM on January 12, 2008

More impressive catapult!
posted by Krrrlson at 11:14 PM on January 12, 2008 [5 favorites]

i see your crappy flash/physics posts, and up you...

mr doob's desk is full.

and that's just the beginning!
posted by localhuman at 11:25 PM on January 12, 2008 [1 favorite]

Wait, what were you saying earlier, newfer? I'm not sure how comfortable I am with your language. but check me on it. Maybe I'm soft.
posted by localhuman at 11:37 PM on January 12, 2008

More impressive catapult!

Ha!
posted by gummi at 12:32 AM on January 13, 2008

Im through with the catapults, but I am having a bitch of a time building a trebuchet.
posted by subaruwrx at 12:37 AM on January 13, 2008

I don't know why, but I can't stop!
posted by ORthey at 1:01 AM on January 13, 2008

I made a scale, like everyone else.

However I couldn't get a pound of flesh to balance with a measure of wheat.

So, for the record, Shakespeare and God are wrong.
posted by sourwookie at 1:48 AM on January 13, 2008

I fail at catapults =(
posted by Stunt at 1:49 AM on January 13, 2008

More impressive catapult!

If you continuously dray in the same circle for a bit, till it's a solid dense mass, you get a much heavier weight and a much better launch.
posted by IronLizard at 1:50 AM on January 13, 2008

draw, that is
posted by IronLizard at 1:50 AM on January 13, 2008

Nice!
posted by asok at 4:02 AM on January 13, 2008

I drew Road Runner and then a big piano over him. Damn bird didn't escape this time!
posted by ersatz at 6:03 AM on January 13, 2008

[NOT ROAD RUNNERIST]
posted by ersatz at 6:04 AM on January 13, 2008

here's another that has bubbles and rope.
posted by timb at 6:35 AM on January 13, 2008

it needs more bombs.
posted by oddman at 6:48 AM on January 13, 2008

By "retarded" , I mean no offense to the many people afflicted by Down's Syndrome, who frequent this blog.

You don't call a retarded person a retard. You call your friends retards when they're acting retarded.
posted by The Deej at 6:57 AM on January 13, 2008

that is fun! Thanks for the link!
posted by HappyHippo at 7:00 AM on January 13, 2008

more fun at Yellowtail
posted by HuronBob at 7:32 AM on January 13, 2008 [6 favorites]

See also: Crayon Physics
posted by gwint at 8:06 AM on January 13, 2008

N00bapault!
posted by Demogorgon at 8:42 AM on January 13, 2008 [1 favorite]

I like that bubble one timb.
posted by bluefly at 9:46 AM on January 13, 2008

that Yellowtail link is great
posted by strontiumdog at 12:00 PM on January 13, 2008

I made my own linerider.
posted by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 1:14 PM on January 13, 2008

I played with this for about fifteen minutes with my daughter on my lap. Then I remembered the wood blocks I got her for Christmas. Flash physics are pretty cool, but woodblock physics is better!
posted by lekvar at 2:10 PM on January 13, 2008 [1 favorite]

Trying to build a shooting catapult that looks like a willy.
posted by ikalliom at 2:15 PM on January 13, 2008

1,000 imaginary points to the first person who makes a perpetual motion device in this "game."
posted by mccarty.tim at 3:55 PM on January 13, 2008

1,000 imaginary points to the first person who makes a perpetual motion device in this "game."
posted by mccarty.tim

An untold real riches to anyone who can make one with real parts and gravity.
posted by The Deej at 5:09 PM on January 13, 2008

After giving up on catapults, catapults that smash walls of stacked bricks, and catapults on levers, I graduated (?) to ferris wheels. Now THAT's a challenge. :/
posted by rokusan at 5:16 PM on January 13, 2008

great thread. I made a blimp with the bubble one that actually flies..
posted by rubin at 8:22 PM on January 13, 2008

Idle fun, thanks shakespeherian.
posted by tellurian at 10:22 PM on January 13, 2008

i just spent the past 30 mins stacking rows of dominoes!
posted by TechnoLustLuddite at 11:19 PM on January 13, 2008

i just spent the past 30 mins stacking rows of dominoes!

It's so sad that you are proud of this.

Sadder still that I am jealous.
posted by The Deej at 5:56 AM on January 14, 2008

^I played with this for about fifteen minutes with my daughter on my lap. Then I remembered the wood blocks I got her for Christmas. Flash physics are pretty cool, but woodblock physics is better!

That's awesome, lekvar. I'm thirty-two years old and still remember lessons learned from woodblocks. Building bridges/spans flummoxed my toddler brain. I must have been a "slow" child about some things because I remember spending many hours upon the shag carpeting attempting to make a bridge of rectangular blocks without supports. Last year I bought a set of blocks and made a series of 35mm black-and-white film images based upon those experiences. Can you imagine my triumph, thirty years later, from finally developing the motor skills to make it (tenuously) happen? I may lose at life, but I finally kicked your ass, physics!

(Still, I do not mind being the un-fun celebrator who gives wood blocks and other building toys to children for birthdays and holidays. Life lessons arrive in many guises.)
posted by bonobo at 6:52 PM on January 14, 2008

[...many hours spent upon the shag carpet...]
posted by bonobo at 6:58 PM on January 14, 2008