I admit it’s not my favorite, but I do still love that it’s actually distinctive and has a specific “vibe”. You look at it and you know exactly when it’s from and what it’s about.
I can’t think of any ‘style’ in the last 20 years that has that.
Art deco for sure, possibly turn-of-the-century industrial as well.
Seriously look at this steam engine. It looks like it belongs in a massive cathedral or something.
Recently rebuilt my computer, so as soon as I get a spare case I’ll finally have a full spare PC tucked in the closet to serve as a backup in case of a primary system failure. That’s a step forward!
But a lot of the auxiliary devices, I don’t have (e.g., no spare modem or router). Fortunately, I learned how to tether my phone to use it as an emergency backup internet source for the PC (also useful for internet service outages).
Well, I mean I guess after a long day or working really hard it can get a little achey and-
But my lower back will randomly act up, sometimes it gets so bad that I about black out from the pain.
No. Holy shit, no. Not normal at all. Go see a doctor ASAP. If you’re ever in debilitating pain for no obvious reason, that is a colossal flashing “go see a doctor now” sign.
Ehhh, I don’t see how that proves intention. Neither Fuji TV nor ADV films meant for their slapdash dubbing effort to become a cornerstone of anime comedy; in fact, that both ADV and the voice actors hired by ADV were individually given free reign pretty clearly shows lack of intent.
Ghost Stories
This one is an unintentional classic. My D&D group still has “Run, she’s a ghost and a bitch!” as a catchphrase for nasty monster encounters.
Bought a “gaming laptop” (needed it at the time. Not the best call in retrospect). Bought an extended warranty for 5 years, at it was fairly expensive.
Mere days after the manufacturer warranty ran out, one of the keyboard keys stopped working. I sent it in for repairs. They estimated 2 weeks, including shipping both ways.
Weeks later, they finally claimed they couldn’t find replacement parts (for a laptop less than 1 year old?) and refunded me the entire cost of the laptop. The warranty itself cost roughly ~20% of the laptop cost, so I figure I effectively “leased” a laptop for a year instead of buying it.
Hey, they also sent me back the HDD, which went on to serve for another few years in the desktop I built with the returned funds.
(Engineering)
According to movies:
We spend our entire workdays in the lab.
Whenever anything is turned on, there’s a loud whirring and a big shower of sparks. Computer screens with big flashing “WARNING!” signs are optional.
Something is inevitably spinning on the lab bench. It’s unclear if it does anything.
Fixing a major problem is solved when someone has an “Ah-hah!” brainstorm moment, wires up something on the spot, and it magically works perfectly.
Assembling a new thingymajig involves lots of power tools and pieces which fit together seamlessly. If they don’t fit, they can be made to fit with some elbow grease and definitely won’t fail horribly the first time you turn them on.
Labs are festooned in such random pieces of hazardous equipment as high-voltage power lines, random chemicals, blowtorches, and radioactive materials.
In reality, we spend a lot of our days at our desks, the equipment is surprisingly quiet (and that which isn’t, you stay well away from while it is operating), and spinny stuff largely went away in the 1980s. Assembling a new thing is 30 minutes of grumbling, 3 hours of pulling your hair out, and day(s) of waiting for a new part because someone screwed up tolerances or signal polarity. The most dangerous thing in the lab is stuff sloppily left laying on the floor, which I have tripped over and nearly cracked my skull before.
In fairness, #4 happens sometimes. It’s extremely rare, but occasionally you do get those moments where you figure out what the bug in the system is and can rectify it in an hour or two. Most of the time, a fast fix for one problem causes another.
This. I don’t understand why murdering your alt-self is “necessary”. Wouldn’t you actually want to preserve your alternate-self at all costs, to ensure you can continue to make return trips?
The real issue here is that - if your home reality works by the same rules - once you leave it, you can never return home ever, because no alternate version of yourself exists in the one you originated from after you leave it.
Before you say “hey, that sounds awesome, this place sucks!”, consider that finding a better reality is not guaranteed.
You know those people who restore old machinery and equipment? Locomotives, historic warships, industrial sites and so on? I’d absolutely be dedicating my day to that. There’s something so satisfying about seeing that old stuff work, but they’re always chronically understaffed and struggling to keep up with everything.
Oh, and write a novel.
Before my time, but they tell tales of the “Phantom Shitter”. Someone had… issues, physical and/or mental, and would leave streaks of waste both going to and from the bathroom. Very liquid waste. Sometimes stepped in. “Phantom” because initially no one knew who was doing it. They just found the results. Eventually he was found out, sent home for a bit, and then fired when it happened again after he came back.
Since I worked there: Guy came in for an interview. I don’t know if he was already having a bad day or what, but he got upset that his first interviewer wasn’t there to greet him at the front door. It escalated, rapidly, leading to threats of violence, an arrest, and a couple of cops searching his car.
It doesn’t look like they’re carrying any weight. If you look at this video of the opening ceremonies, right at the beginning you can see the athletes in the torch not actually touching the level above them.
Longer versions of the ceremony seem to show moments where the acrobats on lower levels both have their hands out into the air, or are even hanging from the level above them - suggesting any given level is capable of supporting both the weight of those below and above it.
I once heard greyhounds described as “zoom potatoes”, after their exactly two modes of existence.
For what it’s worth, Ublock Origin seems the most unaffected by this latest attempt. A lot of people I’m seeing are finding success just by switching from other blockers to UO.
On the one hand, I’m glad someone’s finally dragging us back into using one of the most potent energy sources available to mankind. On the other, of course it’s being driven by the miserable mess called “corporate AI”.
Best case scenario, the infrastructure for new nuclear platforms is available by the time the AI bubble bursts, leaving low-cost systems available for useful power generation. Worst case (or more likely, depending on your point of view): Manufacturers go bust after investing all that money, leaving people yet again mistakenly viewing nuclear as a pointless money pit.
“Everything I’ve made is shit.” And then he posts some really damn impressive art…
They’re actually modeled! I do these in CAD software, so I just make a “pie slice” of the wheel, model in the tread cuts once, and then instruct it to duplicate the whole thing in a circle to fill out the rest of the wheel, treads and all.
Annoying thing is, the CAD workflow has totally ruined my ability to use more traditional “art modeling” software (e.g., Blender, 3DS Max).
Struck by railgun fire.
Those are some spectacular sky shots! Like, all of these are good, but those really stand out to me as impressive.
I really wish there was a good airsoft group nearby me, but it seems like the only ones who are close by don’t play on a schedule that works for me. It’s really frustrating.