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Good one Yourrid!! So true…… :wink:

Weird, Creepy, with a touch of Irredeemable

Sounds really bad

Ascended: Are blind

:frowning:

It’s a first draft. I was mostly wondering whether people think the categories make sense, whether anything seems to be missing or extra, whether any items are in the wrong place, etc.

As is, there is probably too much detail to put things into an image. And I’m not sure things are really in the right places.

In particular, I was really tempted to make “Flashlight phone app” its own category… either above Muggle or perhaps way down at the bottom as “Ascended”.

I jumped from Enthusiast to Irredeemable by buying a cheap soldering station with hot air.
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No, actually my first flashlight was Creepy. Because it used 10440.

I would add that westerners who use Taobao are Creepy.
Also I find 21700 not more weird than 14500. Actually I bought my first 26350 and 10250 before 14500, is that unusual?

Let's see what I am...

Looks like I'm mostly a weird enthusiast.

Maybe you were just marching too far ahead of the music :wink:

But I also have some 26350’s just sitting in a drawer. Maybe it’s time for a coming-out?

We all are unique snowflakes (i machined my own FL and assembled it with a hand wired driver before i even got a 100lm) but the Tier settings are very good as is imho.

(but i +1 the “Hosted a Group Buy.” Fallen :)) )

Updated the tiers a little. Still not sure how the different battery types should be categorized.

18650 ships with many of the “enthusiast” brands’ onboard-charging products, so I think it goes there. Acebeam bundles 21700s with several of their lights, so again, they probably go in the same category.

Where does writing a phone app for testing flashlights go?

It seems that Irredeemable or Fallen both feature very significant investments in the flashlight hobbies, either with time or with money.
But buying a light with battery X doesn’t fit the pattern, unless that light is a one-off custom.

One of My clematis’s has a new flower , that’s unusual for this time of year.

I think it’s safe to say you walk among the fallen.

I think ascended is just not going out where it’s dark

It’s a class of its own: ‘Monolith’

You can place it before ‘Muggle’, or under ‘Ascended’, or even in one of 4=7 parallel universes.

I had a nice 10 item list of how deep my iceburg goes, found it pathetic and deleted it. :stuck_out_tongue:

If you really wanted to get anal, then you could assign each milestone a point value. For example:

Milestone Points
Walmart, Harbor Freight, dollar stores 1
Camping/hiking stores 2
6500K 3
Olight, Zebralight, Nitecore, Thrunite, Armytek, Klarus, SureFire 3
1000+ lm 4
Lumintop, Sofirn, Acebeam, Manker, Imalent, Rofis, Astrolux 4
Neutral white 5
Okluma, Sinner, McGizmo, Hanko, Oveready, Sigma 5
DEFT-X 6
CRI 7
Building from parts 8
Hosted a group buy 9
Having your own flashlight brand 10

Then add up the points, and assign a status based on the sum. Example:

1 - 10 = Muggle

11 - 20 = Fan

21 - 30 = Enthusiast

31 - 50 = Weird

51 -70 = Creepy

71 -100 = Irredeemable

101+ = Fallen

Also, I though that it may be appropriate to have a status entitled, "Demi-God." TK comes to mind for this status.

I would be interested in two of these.

I have blossomed Lilac. Unusual for the season (autumn) too.