... and then the world cracked open...

INTJ-A. Instant Swimmer: Just add water This blog is mostly stuff I like... My face pops up sometimes too

[chrissongzzz]

if I can’t be weird with you then wtf

[incidentalcomics]

The Haunted House

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[wendou]

ADHD

2016

Zhou Wendou

[bakwaaas]

I love people with a friendly, down to earth, chill vibe. people without pretence or pride, who don’t make you feel like you have act a certain way to impress them, or that they’re silently judging you. you‘re comfortable around them and you can just be yourself. their whole aura is so welcoming and warm

[memeclassheroes]

[kristoffbjorgman]

are you ok

disney built the biggest and most expensive animatronic ever in their history and then built a mountain around it and it BROKE a couple of months after the ride opened and it’s impossible to fix it without dismantling the entire mountain structure and that’s honestly the most hilarious verified disney fact™ ever

the second most hilarious being that the chum animatronic on the finding nemo ride at epcot used to pop out of the barrel to scare guests but one time a cast member was walking past it during an opening/closing procedure and it popped out and smacked them clean in the face so now it’s turned off permanently

[prokopetz]

The really hilarious part is that the busted Yeti is even worse than this description makes it sound.

TL/DR version: the structural layout of the Expedition Everest attraction is so complicated that Disney had to use a technique called “previsualisaton” to construct it - essentially a four-dimensional blueprint that specifies not only how the structure should be put together, but the exact point in time that each step should occur. That precision in timing is actually kinda critical, because if certain parts of the structure are subject to stress too early (e.g., before the concrete is fully cured, before additional supports have been installed, etc.), they’ll be permanently weakened.

Well, long story short, when the ride went into action, Disney’s engineers quickly discovered that the numbers weren’t adding up: the internal stresses the ride was producing every time they turned the animatronic yeti on were literally tearing the whole mountain apart. It’s clear that something got screwed up during construction: either somebody performed a step with the wrong timing, or in the wrong order, or the previsualisaton was messed up to begin with. The trick is, they have no idea what the actual error was - and the ride can’t be repaired until they figure out what went wrong in the first place.

So now they just point a moving strobe light at the motionless yeti to create the illusion of motion, which is why it’s been nicknamed the “disco yeti”.

[jemthecrystalgem]

When companies have too much money and need to chill

[furbearingbrick]

here’s an example of what the yeti looked like when it actually worked.

[wizardshark]

yo uhhhh thats fucking terrifying

[altospaceangel]

THE YETI IS AMAZING and I so badly wish I could have seen it action. (Disco Yeti is my friend tho)

But this is a very important point.

The yeti is not broken.

The yeti works perfectly. But due to some calculation error

They can’t turn the yeti ON or else he’ll tear down the mountain.

So now their biggest and most impressive animatronic ever gets strobe lights flashed at it so your eye is tricked into thinking it moves.

Disco Yeti my beloved <3

[klefable]

[monasticmaestoso]

open the doop, get on the floop. everybody walk the dinosoop

[anarchapella]

I think eating food with friends is the most fundamental form of connection it just doesn’t get better than sharing a meal w friends

[memewhore]

[lousydrawingsforgoodpeople]

[tothechaos]

concentrates really hard and turns all the microplastics in my body into a gift card for olive garden that has $2 on it

[dutchster]

nothing makes me happier than making eye contact with a dog in public and their tail starts to wag

[dankmemeuniversity]

[raccooninapartyhat]

baby me, sorting m&ms by color and then into a gradient: now this is how you have fun!

[loremipsumflotsamandjetsam]

[bakedbananners]

I love when dogs and cats just let you pat the shit out of them and they enjoy it so much. Like yeah dude real quick I just need to play you like a bongo and they’re like god yes I’ve been waiting for someone to play me like a bongo

[1st-1]

[satansonmyside]

I know I just called you dude but I’m trying to flirt with you