2-Pack: Speks Original Mashable, Smashable, Buildable Magnets
- These may appear to be a toy, but they are not for children younger than 14.
- 2 packs of 512 2.5mm magnetic balls (1024 total) that are compatible with the 2 packs you got the last time we sold them.
- Great for fiddling and forgetting about the daily existential crisis that is adult life.
- Model: Speks512. We won’t spekulate what this stands for.
Sweat The Small Things
While they’re made by the same people, these are smaller than the Buckyballs we sold a million online years and one whole site ago. Those who purchased them the last time noted as much. Some didn’t see this as an issue. @whistlingwilly, for example, said:
Much smaller than expected. Still fun.
Others took issue. @djslack went into great detail with his concerns:
When I got them I broke out a set and played with them. Trying to get them back into the original cube was pretty frustrating. Once I got good enough to not completely screw it up by like the third or fourth layer I always wound up with one layer that wanted to sightly offset in the middle. They still have a little shift in the middle on one side I couldn’t work out, but I had to settle for good enough and go to bed that night.
Now, we would never think to insult @djslack. They are, quite possibly, the most valuable member of our community: always thoughtful, always willing to go along with our dumb games, always ready with a helpful suggestion for what to sell. But here, they’re dead wrong.
Sorry, not dead wrong, really. Who are we to say what is and isn’t frustrating for another person? But it’s the implication–that the Speks ability to frustrate is a bad thing–that we take issue with. Because as far as we see it, a little bit of mindless frustration is a great thing.
Think about doing all the dishes, or organizing your closet, or doing all the laundry, or mowing the lawn. It’s annoying, right? But it’s a nice kind of annoying. Because while you’re doing it, you’re thinking only about surface level stuff. You’re not worried about whether or not you’ve chosen the right path in life, or if you’re always being your best self. Instead, it’s all about cleaning the next plate, or or moving this over there, or getting the next load in, or how much lawn you have left.
That’s what minor frustrations provide: the most effective distraction from the major frustrations. It’s the Starbucks cup left in the shot so we don’t talk about other, more problematic flaws. (Speaking of GoT, have you seen our sweet shirts?!)
In other words: yes, they’re a little annoying at times. And no, we don’t charge extra for that.
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