HAL

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[thegroovyarchives]

70′s & 80′s Local Television “Technical Difficulties” Station IDs/Bumpers 1. WPTF-TV, Durham/Raleigh/Fayetteville, North Carolina, 80′s 2. WTTW-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 1981 3. WPXI-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1986 4. WGN-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 70′s 5. WZTV-TV, Nashville, Tennessee, 1977 6. WXNE-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, 1986 7. KYW-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1977 8. WGN-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 1983 9. WNEV-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, 1984 10. KMGH-TV, Denver, Colorado, 1981

[theogm-art]

Custom Boss NPC, based on the Kampfer and Sinanju. With funnels, explosive mine whip and a big machete =w=

Commission for MariusTheOtter on twitter

[prokopetz]

Being the one pilot with a HORUS license in an otherwise straight-laced Lancer group is objectively hilarious, like everybody else is tooling around in off-brand Gundams, and then there's this one fucker whose ride is an uncontained Keter-class SCP object, and the people cutting their marching orders are like "should we... say something about that?" "probably, but we need the manpower."

[prokopetz]

The party's main armaments are like shotgun, flamethrower, rocket launcher, another shotgun,

[alharinish]

I love that the damage this fucked up thing we're pretending is a gun deals is just "1 AP". It doesn't fire a bullet, a rocket, a jet of flame or even dust at relativistic speeds. No, this thing instead somehow just makes it so you were, at some point recently, damaged. How exactly is a moot point because it already happened.

[prokopetz]

My favoured interpretation is that the Pegasus frame's omnigun is simply subtracting 1 from your hit points directly, in the same way that its AI co-pilot's Probabilistic Cannibalism technique lets it reach out of the simulation and fuck with the physical dice on your gaming table.

[antisolanum]

The idea of warfare expanding and the arms race continuing to the point that armaments move on to META-armaments, warfare progressing outside of guns pointed at each other to guns pointed at the world to guns pointed at reality itself, is so fucking horrifying. Mutually assured destruction not by nuclear devastation but on a quantum level, like "if you shoot me, I will burn the board game we are inside of and we will all die" is so fucking metal what the fuck

[prokopetz]

Roll tech attack to slap the GM's bald head.

[moiderahart]

The Promised Land won't Build Itself.

GRIMM N' SONS!

A @lancerrpg third party supplement by @nightmarework and myself!

Still a work in progress but I finished all the designs of the mech in the supplement!

Still got some more art to draw but it should be playable soon!

[hal9ooo]

The Śa Carim Salvage and Cargo Vessel

Run by a small crew of four, they specialize in finding and transporting Pre-Separation ship parts.

[guerrillatech]

[reluctantbroodingdads]

So as an Antarctic expert I need to add to this that we had not in fact been to Antarctica when it was named. The ancient Greeks decided that because there was an Arctic at the top of the world, with bears, there had to be an opposite at the other end, without bears. Which is kind of ridiculous except that the fuckers were dead on

[moiderahart]

THE HAMMER STRIKES FOR THE PROMISED LAND!

The Grimm and Sons JOHN HENRY, now redrawn after four years.

[hal9ooo]

Fish boob

Yes

[spitblaze]

frankly I think a lot more people would be open to postmodern art if we all stopped pretending you had to be very smart to understand it and start acknowledging that the starting point for deriving meaning from it is frequently ‘this is stupid bullshit’

[spitblaze]

To clarify- it’s not just ‘this is stupid’ and then you’re done, finding the meaning in something that seems meaningless can usually be found by starting with that base feeling, ‘This sucks.’ Okay- why does it suck, specifically?

‘This is just a vaccuum cleaner, it doesn’t belong in a museum’. Okay, follow that thread- why is that weird? Is it the elevation of normal commercial products to be put on a pedestal? Does that sentiment remind you of anything? How does that make you feel?

“This is just splatters, anyone could do this.” Anyone could, couldn’t they? Anyone can create things, anyone can make these movements and gestures. Dancing does the same thing, doesn’t it? How do the splatters imply the artist’s movements? What does it say about them?

“This person made a mobile out of twine, flower pots, and pictures of cats. How is this art?” What mediums do you define as ‘art’? Paint? Marble sculpture? Photos? Why are you so sure that this is what art is? Doesn’t this remind you of the kind of crafts a child would make, or maybe a first-time DIYer? Is that intentional? Does the construction or material evoke any other emotions?

This isn’t an end-all be-all, of course- among many other things, there’s postmodern art that’s just for a show of mastery, there’s art that’s commenting on a very certain time in history or about something within the art community you may not be privy to, and there’s art that’s simply about creating and the creative process. It’s hard to approach a full narrative with just a single sentiment. This can’t cover every single topic, obviously.

That being said, it’s just as important to note that in many cases, there’s no wrong answers in art or interpretation. If your takeaway is completely different from the artist, as long as you don’t try to insist that the artist has no real say over their work’s meaning, that’s totally fine. A large part of non-representational art is reliant on emotions, and emotions are informed by your experience as a human being. Your interpretation is just as right as anyone else’s. And you don’t even have to LIKE everything- I hate Jeff Koons and his stupid balloon dogs! Cremaster makes me incredibly uncomfortable and even if that’s the point it’s still uncomfortable enough that it makes me not like it! You can just not like certain art, it’s not all-or-nothing it’s good or it’s not.

TL;DR- if you have a hard time ‘getting’ art, try listening to your base reaction to what you’re looking at, and then ask yourself why it makes you feel that way, and why it’s constructed the way it is.

[deadpanwalking]

[kanemlem]

JUST FINISHED A COMM FOR @hal9ooo

[hal9ooo]

Chrimsmis

[hal9ooo]

The Calami-Class Laser Destroyer. Its purpose is less to engage other vessels, but rather use its array of laser turrets to engage and disable incoming missiles

[hal9ooo]

are they little o’s and not 0’s sir

also hi <3

hi <3 also shhh

[tagfer]

cell phone doesn't like water because it is a combination of the other three elements. it is a rock (earth) that we fill with lightning (fire) that can control radio waves (air). if it contained water too, it would be too perfect; it would be like a god. to prevent this, the universe kills the would be uniter-of-the-elements. it's basic science.

[heronbrew]

Hey op google what LCD stands for

[tagfer]

i took an oath in third grade to never do drugs

[thewanderingace]

I feel compelled to share one of my favorite bits from the Martian

[planeyboys]

Hangin out

[hal9ooo]

"Hurry up with the unload guys, I don't like how close the fighting is to this island." A rocket unloads its cargo at a makeshift landing pad during the homestead war. This type of spacecraft, called "Hoppers", would do sub-orbital jumps around the earth to rapidly deliver cargo to locations. This allowed for the rapid transit of man and materials during wartime or emergencies.

[argumate]

The Titanic Was On Fire For Days Before The Iceberg Hit

“From the day we sailed the Titanic was on fire” — John Dilley, fireman aboard the Titanic

what in the heck

[wirehead-wannabe]

“The obvious question you might come up with at this point is, “why can’t you just put out the fire?” That’s because of the incendiary nature of coal. In general, a coal fire is extremely difficult to deal with under the best circumstances. If you had all the resources in the world and a good deal of space to work, they can be impossible to put out. Aboard a ship in tight quarters, it gets even more difficult.

An example of the difficulties with a coal fire would be the coal fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania. This fire broke out in a mine in the Northeast United States and has proven impossible to put out. How impossible you ask? It’s been burning since May 27, 1962.”

Holy shit

“Another issue that has always caused confusion was the Titanic’s speed. It was running at full speed when crossing the Atlantic Ocean, even when there were warnings of icebergs in the area. There were rumors that the ship was trying to break some kind of speed record, but the Titanic was not built for speed. This mammoth ship was a luxury liner. Molony indicates that this could have been caused by the fire-fighting activities.

In order to fight the fire, the stokers had been shoveling the burning coal into furnaces to burn the fire away. If the stokers had been shoveling as much coal as possible that could be the reason for the speed of the ship. As excess coal was burnt, the engines would work harder, generating speed. The stokers had been shoveling coal into the furnaces nonstop for 3 days fighting the fire during the maiden voyage. Molony thinks this is the reason why the ship was going at full speed when it hit the iceberg.”

Wow that makes *so much sense.*

[tuesdayisfordancing]

I saw this article and just assumed it was political satire. What the fuck.

[isaacsapphire]

Ditto. What the fuck.

[alexanderrm]

( DuPage County Register, 26 Apr 1912, Fri, Page 7 - I found this in the Snopes article on the subject)

Dilleys’ report was in newspapers in 1912; how did this not get into the massive cultural memory of the Titanic? I’ve heard accounts of how it sunk at least 10 times and never about this.

[hal9ooo]

there are some conflicting reports, however on how much this fire played into its speed of it. One interesting theory I did read however was that this coal fire actually helped keep the vessel AFLOAT during its sinking. Due to the fire, this bunker was given preference for using the coal in it, leading to an unbalanced weight and a slight list to port (about 2.3-2.5 degrees). When the ship started taking on water, the list caused by the intake of water was counteracted by this list of the coal unbalance. In simulations of the sinking, when this list was not inputted, the Titanic would roll over and sink much earlier on instead of staying afloat for as long as it did

+adding this after the fact, if you want a super in-depth look at the events. I HIGHLY recommend the "Well there's your problem" podcast's two episodes on it. They are nearly 6 hours in total on it, but it goes into incredible detail and a lot of factors about it that are not talked about.