LOL
fixed it: teacher: justanotherguy:Not really. It’s trying to steer this mess BACK to topic. I’ll just turn of notifications and hope I don’t miss the day when the codes come out.
Hmmmm……. Ironically, your location seems to pretty well also describe your feelings about this matter “you” refer to as a “mess”.
(“personally”, I find the vast majority of it very interesting, informative, & some parts just outright funny…that’s just me thoughseems like more than a few others do also. )No, I suspect it’s a few of you making a lot of noise a most of us keeping quiet not to make things worse. We have a whole subforum for Off-topic Chatter As you said:
teacher:Try it… I bet you’ll like it.
If anyone considers some topic slightly related to this discussion, posting a link to it is very easy. Someone who’s not interested then only has a single post to read, not 50.
When you quoted me you took out all the “educational” parts??? Not cool……
What do you mean?
BrianK:OK, now I’m on a roll… I also brought in the sound of a submachine gun firing, complete with brass hitting the concrete (from a game). When management would have a scheduled meeting during a shutdown (for the required quiet for best effect) , I’d play it over the PA system. There was a price on my head if I ever got caught. Then that audio took on a life of it’s own and others would play it. I was safe.
That sounds just outright hilarious…. Priceless & well done…… I was in on a few workplace pranks in my time…. but never one as neat as this one sounds.
sparkyDK:Yeah that place in Germany are just Ho scale, but none the less mighty impressive.
I was just pulled over tonight at 01:30 some 6 hours ago, now my otherwise clean rep sheet are marked with me driving with a deadly weapon in my car ( a child baseball bat made of like .08 mm alu )
Fawking unbelievable in this POS country you cant even have a toy ( you can buy then in every sporting goods store even the grown up ones too )
BUT ? you just cant have it in your car.
So i will be replaces with a pice of 2 X 4 that’s totally legal to have lying around the car.
But good thing i wasent padded down cuz i was carrying my EDC folding knife, and that would have landed me a weapons conviction and a hefty fine.
Im like so not cut out for this spineless country. :confounded:
That is just sad…… :person_facepalming: …
Sad indeed!
DB Custom:A simple point…. how difficult and time consuming is it to keep up with this thread as compared to Tom fixing up Narsil for us? Or The Miller keeping track of all the “I’m in”s? Surely it’s worth some reading in order to get an epic light for $40, yes?
Bottom line Dale… it is not “difficult” at all.
End of story………….
Yup, real easy!
justanotherguy: pommie:hmmmm going on about going off topic is going off topic yes?
Cheers David
Not really. It’s trying to steer this mess BACK to topic. I’ll just turn of notifications and hope I don’t miss the day when the codes come out.
Hmmmm……. Ironically, your location seems to pretty well also describe your feelings about this matter “you” refer to as a “mess”.
(“personally”, I find the vast majority of it very interesting, informative, & some parts just outright funny…that’s just me thoughseems like more than a few others do also. )But you have all kinds of options my friend.
- 1. You can do what you said
- 2. You can do what RobertB said
- 3. You can turn off email notification to suscribed threads
- 4. You can make sure that email notification for PM is turned ON.
Now, all that said; I can more than understand why you are “ILL” if you have gotten 8055 notification emails about this thread alone. … :person_facepalming:
I’d be “ILL” too.That is why I turned email notification of post in a subscribed thread OFF from the very beginning & just check SUBSCRIBED THREADS when I sign in.
Go to USER MENU on left side of page. Click My Subscriptions. You will then see your subscriptions that have new posts. Click on the “new #” and you will be taken to the first new post in the thread since you last looked.
Try it… I bet you’ll like it.
I bet I would!
justanotherguy: Wieselflinkpro:This thread has over 8000 posts. Its hard to stay up to date with this flashlight.
Please do not post hundreds of posts with discussions of batteries, chargers and so on. That would make it easier to follow this topic.I will second this, but it will go unnoticed…
This %(&%(& thread is like the dog in Up ———— SQUIRREL!
8000 posts.
EIGHT THOUSAND.6000 off topic… My God, whats wrong with people??
Batteries…chargers…peppers… and now trains???
Nope, I noticed it. But I think this post is actually 8044.
I think your answer lies in the quoted words of wisdom below from “The Resident BLF Goddess”.
ToyKeeper:I think the time for staying strictly on-topic has come and gone and come and gone again. Brevity no longer matters. Not just in this thread, but for BLF in general… it’s a playground, not a press release. Some threads here are more disciplined, but not many.
Besides, The Miller keeps the good stuff indexed and updated in the first post or two. The rest is mostly how we pass the time until release, and also has a side effect of keeping the thread on the front page for more visibility. The lengthy brainstorming and chatter has also significantly influenced the design of the light. So, it may be a mess, but it serves a purpose… or several purposes. And for those who want a slow trickle of updates instead of a raging river, the topic and first post cover everything really important.
You said it, teacher!
TK, that’s already been done; sort of. Every time the thread changes subject line something major has happened and that’s seen in the email notifications … just go to the first post for the “Cliffs Notes” version.
Oh, I agree. I think The Miller is doing a wonderful job. Some people remain unsatisfied though, so I wonder if maybe there’s something to what they’re saying? Maybe there’s a need which hasn’t been adequately addressed?
Now, it’s not the responsibility of the Q8 team to make sure all 1000+ people in the thread are 100% satisfied. Volunteer-based systems don’t work that way. But perhaps someone who isn’t happy with things as they are might be willing to scratch their own itch and provide a solution for the benefit of other like-minded folks?
I have no idea how the “other” forum is run, but …
Each forum has its own purpose and audience. For everyone’s sake, we try not to make judgments about other forums… it tends to get awfully political.
You guys in the “anything goes” camp need to keep in mind that some people don’t have an infinite amount of time to keep up. And they might still have useful contributions to make to the project.
There’s a huge difference between a few off topic posts in a 5 page thread and a few hundred off topic posts in a nearly 300 page thread. What you’re doing is effectively a denial of service attack on the project. Yes, that’s harsh, but it’s what it is. You’re saying that because you have a lot of free time on your hands, only people with as much free time are allowed to contribute. That’s selfish beyond imagination, no matter what rhetoric you use to justify it.
And seriously, registering a new user just to spam the thread? That’s just childish.
Hmmmmm, it would seem there is a prankster at work possibly……
Welcome to BLF, quite an entrance; enjoy the party.
And seriously, registering a new user just to spam the thread? That’s just childish.
You guys in the “anything goes” camp need to keep in mind that some people don’t have an infinite amount of time to keep up. And they might still have useful contributions to make to the project.
There’s a huge difference between a few off topic posts in a 5 page thread and a few hundred off topic posts in a nearly 300 page thread. What you’re doing is effectively a denial of service attack on the project. Yes, that’s harsh, but it’s what it is. You’re saying that because you have a lot of free time on your hands, only people with as much free time are allowed to contribute. That’s selfish beyond imagination, no matter what rhetoric you use to justify it.
I totally & completely disagree with what you have said here. BrianK, TK, and others have mentioned ways to easily keep up with what is going on in this thread. You have no idea who has “time on their hands” or in what amount either.
So yeah what you said is “harsh” but it is far from “what it is”.
And seriously, registering a new user just to spam the thread? That’s just childish.
Totally agree.
fixed it:And seriously, registering a new user just to spam the thread? That’s just childish.
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fixed it:You guys in the “anything goes” camp need to keep in mind that some people don’t have an infinite amount of time to keep up. And they might still have useful contributions to make to the project.
There’s a huge difference between a few off topic posts in a 5 page thread and a few hundred off topic posts in a nearly 300 page thread. What you’re doing is effectively a denial of service attack on the project. Yes, that’s harsh, but it’s what it is. You’re saying that because you have a lot of free time on your hands, only people with as much free time are allowed to contribute. That’s selfish beyond imagination, no matter what rhetoric you use to justify it.
I totally & completely disagree with what you have said here. BrianK, TK, and others have mentioned ways to easily keep up with what is going on in this thread. You have no idea who has “time on their hands” or in what amount either.
So yeah what you said is “harsh” but it is far from “what it is”. fixed it:And seriously, registering a new user just to spam the thread? That’s just childish.
Totally agree.
I disagree to agree.
C’mon fellows, don’t you realize what’s going on here? Thorfire promised us one lumen per post on the production Q8. We need to keep this up so we’ll all have a 12,000 or even 15,000 lumen Q8 in our hands! They might even throw in an Ove’Glove!
Click < first (below the “reply”) button to see the first and frequently updated post with all the vital news and information linked there.
I am still so tempted to swap in some xhp50.2’s into the Q8 and make 15k lumens, even though I know it will overheat in moments. Or go really crazy and put 4 xhp70.2’s in it and make 25k lumens….
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That would be amazing!! Even more so if you could find a way to transfer the heat from the light & dissipate it.
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That would be amazing!! Even more so if you could find a way to transfer the heat from the light & dissipate it.
No way in heck you would be able to disapate xhp70.2’s. That would be around 350W+ from rough math, you would need a massive CPU heat sink to even hope to try to keep that reasonably well cooled.
The xhp50.2 should be a bit more tame a mere 225W. Still impossible to cool in basically any flashlight though. Based on my 17k lumens SRK I have now, You would be lucky to get the same turbo runtime as say a triple S2 before it overheats. Or about 30-45 seconds.
TK, that’s already been done; sort of. Every time the thread changes subject line something major has happened and that’s seen in the email notifications if one is the least bit attentive. Then one doesn’t need to chase down the posts at the end of the thread, but just go to the first post for the “Cliffs Notes” version. The rest is just minutia. Maybe these folks don’t understand that.
To those unhappy folks, Sorry, but it’s friends discussing stuff with friends. We’re waiting the same as everyone else and it does no good to take it out on others, it won’t get the Q8s here any quicker. Learn to speed read and skim posts to get through the minutia if you won’t use the navigation aids at the top of the page to get to the first post in the thread for the latest news. The Miller does a great job keeping it up to date as major events occur. .
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I am still so tempted to swap in some xhp50.2’s into the Q8 and make 15k lumens, even though I know it will overheat in moments. Or go really crazy and put 4 xhp70.2’s in it and make 25k lumens….
Do you have any links were someone converted an SRK style light to 2P 2S? I’m drawing a blank as to how you would do it with the twist on battery tube.
BTW, Vinh over at Sky Lumen has got some 70.2’s and made a few 20k+ lumen monsters with them.