# What did you get in the mail, 2024? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [January 1, 2024, 9:39am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106 "2024-01-01T09:39:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 251
**Author:** ![YoyoGeezer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyogeezer/32/755_2.png) [@YoyoGeezer](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/YoyoGeezer)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 1:55am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5036 "2024-12-23T01:55:37Z")
I want to stop people describing a yo-yo as being good because it is “smooth”. It is meaningless and is also old-fashioned since every yo-yo is smooth these days. Describing a yo-yo as smooth is like saying that a drink is wet. Other than it is a liquid; this tells me nothing. If you were an alien that never drank any liquid in your life; you might describe a drink as “wet”. Similarly, if you have no experience with more than one yo-yo; you might believe that smooth was an important property that only your one yo-yo had. After buying many yo-yos you would realize all yo-yos are smooth and therefore, stop using the term to describe a yo-yo. ---
**Author:** ![kretzschmar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/kretzschmar/32/668707_2.png) [@kretzschmar](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/kretzschmar)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5037 "2024-12-23T02:00:04Z")
Thank you to @AudreySickburn for fronting me the cash for this beautiful piece of functional art. ILYY Noctu custom anodized by @England1414 and named the “Clown Town Noctu” ![1000002679](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/c/7/1/c71b953e32aa9fa4546a44032f280f497b6ab706.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![AudreySickburn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/audreysickburn/32/313292_2.png) [@AudreySickburn](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AudreySickburn)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5038 "2024-12-23T02:03:43Z")
Hooray! Glad it made it to you safe and sound. ---
**Author:** ![Yodaddyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yodaddyo/32/602050_2.png) [@Yodaddyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yodaddyo)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 2:04am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5039 "2024-12-23T02:04:00Z")
Sheez!! Everyone involved in this one was on top of it! That was so fast! Love that thing! ---
**Author:** ![kretzschmar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/kretzschmar/32/668707_2.png) [@kretzschmar](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/kretzschmar)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 2:08am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5040 "2024-12-23T02:08:38Z")
Pictures don’t do it justice, it was such a nice thing to come home to today. I also like that this Noctu is from the 2012ish era when they were 55mm diameter. I feel like Batman when I throw it ---
**Author:** ![Splizacular](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/splizacular/32/640487_2.png) [@Splizacular](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Splizacular)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 2:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5041 "2024-12-23T02:30:13Z")
you misunderstand me. im well aware of what your intentions are. im saying myob. its odd that you care how ppl describe yoyos, doubly so when they aren’t talking to you in the first place ---
**Author:** ![pinhead](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/pinhead/32/123421_2.png) [@pinhead](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/pinhead)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 9:06am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5042 "2024-12-23T09:06:46Z")
Man, the Noctu was a piece of really painful art. Playing with it felt like throwing a ninja star attached to a string, cool to watch, but painful on the return because of the edges that would bite my hand on a hard throw. Especially when I’d hit a snag trying to feed it too much string and pay the price by it slicing through the air like a pendulum blade wanting to turn me into Edgar Allan Poe’s next protagonist. ---
**Author:** ![SlowThrow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slowthrow/32/307451_2.png) [@SlowThrow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlowThrow)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5043 "2024-12-23T13:05:27Z")
@sven dies on the hill of Mint, @YoyoGeezer dies on the hill of smoothness ---
**Author:** ![Sven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/sven/32/604919_2.png) [@Sven](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Sven)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5044 "2024-12-23T13:24:19Z")
So, Kyle @SlowThrow, where is your hill? And Thomas @Splizacular whats yours? Grading Guidelines? ---
**Author:** ![SlowThrow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slowthrow/32/307451_2.png) [@SlowThrow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlowThrow)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5045 "2024-12-23T13:28:20Z")
Im not sure yet lol, all in good fun Sven Oh wait wait, I got one Chinese machining is just as good as US machining, the end product QC is where the real problem is. Okay, FIGHT ---
**Author:** ![Sven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/sven/32/604919_2.png) [@Sven](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Sven)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5046 "2024-12-23T13:46:16Z")
Good point. I agree. ---
**Author:** ![Splizacular](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/splizacular/32/640487_2.png) [@Splizacular](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Splizacular)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5047 "2024-12-23T14:30:24Z")
> [@Sven](#): > > Thomas @Splizacular whats yours? this one looks nice, but i dunno I’m not really a hill guy ![1000001837](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/5/a/2/5a22228734cad50bde394262949401e256374733.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Xanadu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/xanadu/32/84910_2.png) [@Xanadu](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Xanadu)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5048 "2024-12-23T15:02:02Z")
lol, I think this is a burial mound. :joy: So yes, a good place to die. ---
**Author:** ![Sven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/sven/32/604919_2.png) [@Sven](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Sven)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5049 "2024-12-23T15:31:49Z")
Oh, I see your hill now! Pulling everything so deep into relativism, that nothing means anything anymore. Like saying “cup” so many times, that it loses any meaning. If evrything is nothing, then you also never have to defend anything. A kind of mental minimalism. I see. 👉 ---
**Author:** ![cowmamba](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/cowmamba/32/270859_2.png) [@cowmamba](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/cowmamba)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5050 "2024-12-23T16:23:47Z")
That’s a smooth hill ---
**Author:** ![Slestak75](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slestak75/32/212315_2.png) [@Slestak75](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Slestak75)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5051 "2024-12-23T17:21:55Z")
If it wasn’t for nothing… we wouldn’t have nothing at all :thinking: ---
**Author:** ![Sven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/sven/32/604919_2.png) [@Sven](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Sven)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5052 "2024-12-23T19:08:59Z")
Pop referance? If you treat “nothing” as an entity, sure. But nothing is also no thing, in the sense that it has never been observed in reality. There is no nothing, just like there is no infinity. (But that’s not my hill. So take it or leave it) ---
**Author:** ![Slestak75](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slestak75/32/212315_2.png) [@Slestak75](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Slestak75)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5053 "2024-12-23T19:19:54Z")
Not a Pop reference. Just dumb stuff from the bowels of my mind. 🤣🤣🤣 ---
**Author:** ![pyrotechnic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/pyrotechnic/32/689058_2.png) [@pyrotechnic](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/pyrotechnic)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5054 "2024-12-23T19:19:54Z")
![1000006022](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/c/d/8/cd83e69006c399137020d41873d31ec87ee72890.jpeg) #mailday #secretsanta ---
**Author:** ![POspot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@POspot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/POspot)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106/5055 "2024-12-23T19:48:02Z")
Did I say the last of the year on my last forum post well I received a blue CLYW Leaf ![IMG_0829](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/9/7/5/975b10075ec26ab8e25fce84b835a4b6d2e799cf.jpeg) ![IMG_0830](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/5/d/1/5d11a584e5a448ad5c13852e803014b7ba7af365.jpeg) And these wood masterpieces from @Thruwell thank you ![IMG_0827](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/2/6/8/26891bab9abd6dfc274952512df1d3a9ec93b248.jpeg) ![IMG_0828](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/a/e/e/aeec7e355c0a8a922476181c35652626d3e2d7dd.jpeg) [Previous page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106.md?page=250) [Next page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-you-get-in-the-mail-2024/391106.md?page=252)