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My son is obsessed with water towers. So I bought a Lionel one that goes along with one of those fancy train sets. It has a little light on the top of it that would light up if I could plug it in. The problem is it is designed to be plugged into the track and then into a large power source. I just want an adapter to plus it into a wall or battery or something.

Is anyone here nerdy enough to be able to direct me to where I can find an adapter from a 3-pronged male Lionel train plug to something i may have?

You can go to Lionel’s web site and look up the product manual. That will tell you what to use. Check to see if there is a little, like 3mm, circular plug. That could go to a 12v-18v AC power supply; many of their scenery pieces use that. Otherwise, well, it might be more trouble than it is worth to light it.

How many people will but the wrong xbox this console this generation?

Stealthpizza wrote:

How many people will but the wrong xbox this console this generation?

I said that in the Xbox thread, but was pooh-poohed and told this wasn't a Wii U situation.

But the sales charts on Amazon would seem to indicate a problem.

Still not as dumb as the NEW Nintendo 3DS XL!
Nintendo really keeps the bar for sh*tty product naming high.

It's funny, but I still don't think it's a long-term issue for most buyers.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

It's funny, but I still don't think it's a long-term issue for most buyers.

Yeah, we saw the same stories at Wii U launch, then they faded away.

Jonman wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

It's funny, but I still don't think it's a long-term issue for most buyers.

Yeah, we saw the same stories at Wii U launch, then they faded away.

Because no one bought the WiiU?

I agree it won't be a long term issue because MS will remove X1X stock, so it won't be an option outside of ebay and GameStop.

EverythingsTentative wrote:

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Did you check to see if that was actually true tho? As far as I can tell on US and Canadian Amazon websites the XboneX is not in the top sold items at all but the Series X is the #1 sold item in video games.

Microsoft has already removed X1X stock. They discontinued it awhile back.

Also, keep in mind that that's a percentage increase. The screenshot is from the "movers and shakers" chart where it (briefly) had the #4 biggest movement on the charts, but it never actually cracked the top 100 sellers in video games.

To put that in perspective, despite a 747% surge in sales for the Xbox One X, it's still being outsold by used PlayStation copies of Chrono Cross, third-party replacement power bricks for the Xbox One, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, and about fifteen different kinds of headsets.

Another way to look at it: it's the #98 best-seller in the Xbox One category. More people are buying Xbox One media remotes on Amazon than Xbox One X consoles.

It's not a widespread issue. It is funny, though.

To me that sounds like no one was buying the XBox period until a naming issue potentially caused sales to soar.

There's an XBox Period now, too? When will the madness end?!

(I do get why they changed the name, though.)

Something I noticed today is Amazon has the new Series X controller listed as Xbox One Core controller. That is a little confusing but makes sense if it’s the new controller people would buy for Xbone and XbSeries and the older Xbone controllers are going away entirely because the new one is cross compatible.

I’m encouraged that the Core controller is the same price as the old controller. AFAICT the new PS5 controller is more expensive than PS4 controllers were. I really want to try a PS5 controller on my PC but not sure I want it that much.

Robear wrote:

There's an XBox Period now, too? When will the madness end?!

Yet another clueless attempt by the industry to attract more female gamers.

CaptainCrowbar wrote:
Robear wrote:

There's an XBox Period now, too? When will the madness end?!

Yet another clueless attempt by the industry to attract more female gamers.

HEYOOOOHHHHHHH

I'm looking for an exercise (hike/walk) logger that has group functionality, allowing each member of the group to record a hike that they've done (distance at minimum, location recording would be nice) and making an aggregate for the total distance hiked by the group. I feel like this is a thing that must already exist. Any ideas?

(This is for a Beaver Scout group, so added bonus if there is no need for individual logins)

I do know that I can do it with Google Forms, but I am hoping for some visualization, and my scripting using Google Sheets is minimal.

My employer has an account with Virgin Pulse where we do exactly what you're looking for. We get groups together online and have team challenges for most number of steps, distance walked, exercise per day, that sort of thing. I'm sure there's some cost involved with that, but maybe Virgin Pulse have discounts for groups like the Beaver Scouts?

Feegle wrote:

I'm looking for an exercise (hike/walk) logger that has group functionality, allowing each member of the group to record a hike that they've done (distance at minimum, location recording would be nice) and making an aggregate for the total distance hiked by the group. I feel like this is a thing that must already exist. Any ideas?

(This is for a Beaver Scout group, so added bonus if there is no need for individual logins)

I do know that I can do it with Google Forms, but I am hoping for some visualization, and my scripting using Google Sheets is minimal.

Strava with a group? That doesn’t do per-activity though, more weekly stats.

Feegle wrote:

I'm looking for an exercise (hike/walk) logger that has group functionality, allowing each member of the group to record a hike that they've done (distance at minimum, location recording would be nice) and making an aggregate for the total distance hiked by the group. I feel like this is a thing that must already exist. Any ideas?

(This is for a Beaver Scout group, so added bonus if there is no need for individual logins)

I do know that I can do it with Google Forms, but I am hoping for some visualization, and my scripting using Google Sheets is minimal.

Maybe a common Strava account? Everyone logs in the same and then it automagically adds everything up? That would work, unless people also want to track individual accounts.

Maybe AllTrails? I know you can both view trails and record your distance walking on them, as well as sharing your hikes with others. The only issue would be collating the hikes into a group, which I doubt it does. I'm not sure if it records distance off trails, I'd have to play around with it. I nearly signed up not long ago because there's a ton of trails near us, I just wasn't sure I'd use it much.

Feegle wrote:

I'm looking for an exercise (hike/walk) logger that has group functionality, allowing each member of the group to record a hike that they've done (distance at minimum, location recording would be nice) and making an aggregate for the total distance hiked by the group. I feel like this is a thing that must already exist. Any ideas?

(This is for a Beaver Scout group, so added bonus if there is no need for individual logins)

I do know that I can do it with Google Forms, but I am hoping for some visualization, and my scripting using Google Sheets is minimal.

Maybe Runkeeper?

These are all great recommendations, thanks. I'll start to poke around with some of them.

One of the challenges is that beaver scouts are ages 5-7, so they're not going to be logging this stuff themselves. And I'm reluctant, knowing our parent community, to use a tool that requires each person to make an individual login and connect through an app, because I worry that the uptake won't be very good.

Feegle wrote:

These are all great recommendations, thanks. I'll start to poke around with some of them.

One of the challenges is that beaver scouts are ages 5-7, so they're not going to be logging this stuff themselves. And I'm reluctant, knowing our parent community, to use a tool that requires each person to make an individual login and connect through an app, because I worry that the uptake won't be very good.

Still giggling about Beaver Scouts.
But yeah parents are often not reliable for the tech. I struggle to get cub scout parents into scoutbook used in the US for tracking advancement and events.

You'd think that Beaver Scouts would be the best-equipped for logging.

These days, the logging is completely automated, and the Scouts concentrate on analytics and reporting. Every year they get together for the big Auditboree, a long-standing tradition in their training, so they can work together on datacenter scale projects. It's truly heart-warming.

I hear all the puns (dirty ones included) and know that I appreciate this community more and more every day.

My understanding is that in the States, you folks have cub scouts from ages 5-10, or thereabouts. Scouts Canada divides those kids into two separate sections - Beavers, from 5-7, and Cubs, from 8-10.

As a Scouter, I wouldn't have it any other way. I can't imagine trying to program content for kids from a six-year age spread. O.o

Feegle wrote:

I hear all the puns (dirty ones included) and know that I appreciate this community more and more every day.

My understanding is that in the States, you folks have cub scouts from ages 5-10, or thereabouts. Scouts Canada divides those kids into two separate sections - Beavers, from 5-7, and Cubs, from 8-10.

As a Scouter, I wouldn't have it any other way. I can't imagine trying to program content for kids from a six-year age spread. O.o

Yeah, it's a bit much. But even kids at the same age can have wide maturity levels, so it's always tough to get a good program for all of the kids.

There are different types of Cub scouts, based on age - Lion, Tiger, Wolf, Bear and Webelos. Webelos is an acronym and is a stage that prepares them for joining the local Scout troop. I started out as a Wolf, but when I was a Webelos, we moved and I didn’t join again until I was Boy Scout age. I was a Tenderfoot... 7 times. (I was not big into God or conformity or make-work, my parents kept pushing me until it was obvious I was not going to be pushed any further lol.)

Robear wrote:

Webelos is an acronym

Since nobody asked...: "We'll Be Loyal Scouts"