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adorfer

@Natasha_Jay this has been debunked so many times.
It was just right for people in Japan. it does not work well with the regular pencils from US or EU markets. those BIG branded ballpoint pens worked a lot better. YMMV.
youtube.com/watch?v=vaSN4J3a_6

8 August at 15:18 | Wall-to-wall | Open on chaos.social
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Ash_Crow

@adorfer @Natasha_Jay it does work with regular pencils in Europe.

8 August at 16:09 | Open on mastodon.social
dasgrueneblatt

@adorfer what do you mean "debunked"? I've done it lots of times myself with all sorts of European pencils and pens. 🤷 @Natasha_Jay

8 August at 19:41 | Open on wien.rocks
adorfer

@dasgrueneblatt @Natasha_Jay during the 80ies and 90ies it did not work with pencils of Faber, Städtler and Rotring. But with the plastic ballpen writers of BIG.
(off course you can tilt the pen in an angle or fling the cassette around the pen with centrifugal force, then you can use smaller pens too.)

8 August at 20:29 | Open on chaos.social
dasgrueneblatt

@adorfer That's possible. I don't think I had such expensive brands of pencils as a child/teenager :masto_lol:

@Natasha_Jay

8 August at 22:33 | Open on wien.rocks
Zylann

@adorfer @Natasha_Jay I used a Lego connector. Also made a custom rewinder with a motor
8 August at 20:37 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
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