Oddly Obsessive Over Obscurities

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I wonder if there's anyone at Digital Extremes still that was a part of all three of these

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Styanax improving camp morale, with our Corpus pal Olvar-D having a perfectly timed voiceline as I was setting up to record

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23 years of use has not been kind to this battery. bout time it got replaced don't ya think?

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all I'm sayin is with the whole bioengineered techno-organic monsterpeople lore DE could totally have a Warframe with a veiny bulge going a bit down one thigh and assure investors that it's just some weird infested tumor

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Play once, listen forever

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I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

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Since I hate having to do my own searches to verify stuff, here’s a Science Daily link and the journal article it cites for any similarly lazy-but-conscientious people after me. (And the University of Michigan press release, for what it’s worth.)

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Green Man (1981) by Code 53, Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC), Hawaii Laboratory. The "Green Man" is an experimental telepresence platform. An instrumented exoskeleton worn by the operator outputs servo-commands and the hydraulically actuated “Green Man” replicates the same motions. Two cameras attached to the robot’s head relay stereo images back to a pair of eyepiece video-monitors mounted on the operator's helmet. This August 1988 photo (top) shows “Green Man” posing with student aid JoJo Aledo at the Hawaii Lab. The second photo shows an Early “Green Man” prototype, and the 1985 version (bottom) mimics the head and torso movements of operator Dave Smith.

"Intended to support development and demonstration of remote-presence technology, the Remote Presence Demonstration System (nicknamed “Green Man”) was a hydraulically actuated anthropomorphic master–slave configuration that remotely mimicked the upper torso of a human operator. The early prototype ... was assembled in 1983 using a pair of MB Associates arms and a NOSC-developed torso and head. The 1985 version ... provided additional degrees of freedom at the hip, torso, shoulder, and arms, and featured an exoskeletal master controller with kinematic equivalency and spatial correspondence of the torso, arms, and head. “Green Man’s” stereo-vision system, two 525-line, 35-degree field-of-view video cameras and a corresponding pair of video-camera eyepiece monitors mounted on an aviator's helmet, provided valuable experience in telepresence design. Even with the simplistic claw hands and no force or tactile feedback, novice operators could readily perform manipulative tasks without extensive training." – H.R. Everett, Pictorial History of the Code 717 Unmanned Systems Group: Air, Land, and Sea.

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something interesting happens when I try to rip my On-lyne CD...

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I want to go back

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this stuff sure does pile up quick don't it

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Displates mounting sticker won't stay on this 70s 'palm' textured spackle wall, but I think I figured out a simple fix

couple'a these to hold the weight, and a magnet to keep them from floppin off the wall

completely nullifies the 'no damage' selling point, but that's alright that Metru Nui skyline on the right is covering a couple dozen holes lmao

wonderful art by Iron Duck, and havin it on a sheet of metal is real neato, go check 'em out https://displate.com/artist/iron6duck

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sometimes I wish I wasn't stuck inside all day