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thenewgreen  ·  4098 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's something you're interested in but too lazy to learn?

I imagine it's hard to find time when you are conceiving of and creating such amazing things as dice for giants. -Not being sarcastic. I think they look awesome. Nice work.





user-inactivated  ·  4098 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Alright, story time: Years ago, my dad started a mobile storage business, moving around those big shipping containers and renting them out for storage. The only problem was that it's damn hard to move those things, so he created a special flatbed truck that can move giant containers by themselves. This flatbed has a special chain system that pulls the container on top of it. It's completely revolutionary, so he's been spending the past year or so getting a factory ready to manufacture them. One of the key things he needed was an industrial plasma table to cut steel precisely, sort of like a 2 dimensional 3D printer with steel instead of paper. Of course, it's difficult to have a plasma table without making stupid shit all the time. One day he was sitting at the table, and since we play a lot of board games, he saw a dice sitting on the counter, and it hit him that giants can't play with dice because they're too small. So, he sketched out some giant metal dice with skulls and shit instead of regular dice pips and handed it to me to draw on the shop computer. By that evening, we had the drawings mapped, cut out of steel, and welded together by the welding robots, and we have a Dice for Giants. We kept refining them and realized that we could sell them. Our marketing department contacted ThinkGeek, and we got an order for 100 of them a few weeks ago.

b_b  ·  4098 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would love to see a pic of the giant dice, if possible. They sound really awesome.

thenewgreen  ·  4098 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have a link in my comment to a demo video of them.

thenewgreen  ·  4098 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nice! First of all it sounds like you have a pretty kick-ass dad. Secondly, when you have an online store set up, drop a link. I'd potentially be interested.

Cortez  ·  4098 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ohhh, I thought he was youtubing as in procrastinating. Damn I need to watch that as soon as I get home, I'm anxious.