funmanguy posted:

I open beer bottles with my teeth.

Well, I did when I had teeth.

funmanguy posted:

I open beer bottles with my teeth.

Well, I did when I had teeth.

Hogge Wild posted:

and you are posting about posters in pyf

who is owning who

DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:

well you're not really ever involved anywhere in the owning process so I'm not sure what your stake is

Adam Vegas posted:

Can someone post the Noni quote about pillow modifications? It's still one of the best things these forums have produced.

uwaeve posted:

Considering the goon community, I can't believe I'm the first to mention this, but have you considered pillow mods? Forget about those expensive, off-the-shelf premium pillows and build your own pillow rigs that have the qualities that you desire. Heck, some of those fancy commercial pillows should be avoided for their outright theft of components and ideas that were developed in the pillmod community. Notably, Serta's FaceHugger line was recalled entirely after they realized the looming PR disaster that a bunch of sleep nerds would incite.

I've been into pillow modding for a few years now and have managed to improve my sleep efficiency index from 0.69 to 0.85 (I'm a class 4b sleeper). You can build a full-featured pillmod for less than $100. Hell, I've made a half-dozen models and not spent more than $200.

Before you start modding, you should heed the standard warning and check if you have sleep apnea or anything medically obstructive. Sure, your vanilla pillows are probably annoying to sleep on, but sleep apnea could be compounding the issue by permitting minor annoyances, like pillow temperature, to wake you easily. More importantly, a few people with pillmods have died while sleeping. Although many of us doubt the involvement of their mods (people who enter the community are prone to sleep issues in the first place), it's still good advice to follow.

If you do have sleep apnea, then pillmods should be hugely advantageous. In fact, the pillmod community began around sleep apnea machines (CPAPs) and their inconveniences, especially for those whose preferred sleep postures are obstructed by CPAP facepieces. The earliest mods involved simply cutting channels into memory foam pillows, and then using freezer gel inserts to cool the pillow. They would also have to reinforce the channel so that the weight of a person's head wouldn't crush the air tubes.

But now, especially with the availability of Arduino kits and cooling systems intended for electronics, there are hundreds of pillmods that you could complete in a few hours.

It seems like most people are drawn to do PCS projects for their first mods. That's fine, but be aware that the better PCS (Pillow Coolant Systems) typically are of moderate difficulty or higher. They are also costly and time-consuming, relative to other mods you could start with such as glowmods, larms, and just simply modding a pillow's material and shape to your headspace.

Here's my first glowmod larm, for example:



This is a good starter mod combination because people like it for light therapy and smooth awakenings. The pillow gradually gets brighter until your wake-up time. You can also set it to gradually get darker at night. It's the adult version of those Glow-Worms that infants love.

But if you are dead-set on a PCS mod, I suggest strongly that you forget about those flashy, complex pillmods that involve watercooled networks of capillaries or, even worse, active heat sinks (such as piezoelectric heat transfer plates). Instead, opt for something silent, passive, and/or battery-based. For example, I have build a mod called "The Vulcan Nerve Pinch" that will get you about 20 degrees F in cooling delta on soft air ducting alone. Yeah, that's not much, but don't be the guy who blows $300 on his first project and builds a pillow that gives his face hypothermia on the first test run.

Once you get some basic know-how, and you're beyond the flashy mods and ready for something purely functional, check out shape or volume mods. These will actively keep your head at the perfect elevation. JB_Artgow is well known for his expertise in this area. I'm using his Face-Lover v3 mod (Affectionately also known as "Face-Fucker v3") every night. That's where Serta hijacked their FaceHugger brand name from. Allegedly.

The Face-Fucker involves inflation and deflation of semi-rigid water bladders to redistribute the pow's volume. It sounds complex, but it's easy if you buy a parts kit. It uses a silent pump and osmotic gradients to work. You can calibrate it based on both your head's weight and angle. Unlike many other volume mods, this is one-mod-fits-all, so you don't have to design around your giant noggin.

Artgow also has a ebook on Amazon (It's only $2), with instructions for something like 100 mods. He doesn't make money on the book, but he does make a few pennies if you buy parts kits from him directly. This beats the poo poo out of finding a Radio Shack that still stocks diodes and capacitors.

Now I'd like to brag for a bit and talk about some of the more exciting, extreme pillmod possibilities, some of which I just warned you against doing. I'm in the middle of building a custom, arduino-controlled pow with about 12 different mods. Although piezoelectric coolers are all the rage right now, I'm sticking to good old fashioned microducting for cooling. However, I'm using infrared LEDs for heating. The latter are normally expensive, but Dealextreme sells them in bulk for cheap. I think they're sold out recently thanks to jerks like me, however.

I don't like a warm face. The heating mod is just for camping in the cold or when I want to use the pillow as a heating pad for sore muscles. Also: sheer awesomeness.

Here's a schematic (not mine):



As for straight-up ducted cooling, the next image is my take on how one spiderwebs their coolant ducts. You have to be careful here not to bend the tiny tubes more than about 60 degrees or put them in a position where your noggin might bend them. That might look complex, but I used only 4 channels with a coolant turnover (in this case, just water) of 2 seconds for the entire surface to cycle.



By the way, medical tubing works just fine, but make sure that it's both flexible and a directional heat conductor, like Vekspan, which is used for anastomosis. If you buy non-direction stuff, hose down the pow-side with some plastidip from your hardware store, or just throw down a layer of aluminized cloth. The lovely crinkly stuff costs a whopping $1 at Dollar Tree, labeled as an "emergency blanket." You can pilfer the softer stuff from a BBQ apron.

Once this thing is done, I intend to stress test it by running both the heating and cooling systems and letting them fight it out to the death. Of course, in a battle of the PCS vs PHS, I suspect the PHS will win and then torch my pillow.

This pillow is directional, obviously. Because I can't flip it over, I've build the base and core layers from flexible expanded polystyrene and ceramic fibers, which will probably give me mesothelioma eventually, but drat if I won't be well rested at least. I was inspired by a dude who made a low-rent version of aerogel so that he could win an award for "Lightest Pillow" at Pillowcon 2010. My pow, without the mod gear, weighs 2 ounces.

Now, uniquely for me, because my bed is up against a brick wall, I need a pillow that can deal with a little bit of moisture. I like the brick wall for it being a huge heat sink, but it causes moisture to condense on pillows, especially fancy modded ones. This problem is solved by the combination of my core layers and a rechargeable dessicant. During the day, the dessicant tumbler is turned and heated, thus expelling moisture. It's so powerful that it'll suck the sweat right out of my massive head, but at least I'll never again have sweaty pillows.

Speaking of which, at Pillcon 2011, I was the massive fucker who won the door prize of John Cezrik's faux rabbit fur surface:



You'd think that such fur would be irritating against your face after a half-hour or so, but Cezrik's material has microcapillaries built to certain OCT ranges (OCT is optimal cheek temperature). It's like sleeping on a cloud of baby buttcheeks.

Speaking of babies, I actually enjoy the sound of water pumping through the coolant tubes right next to my ears. It's very soothing. Babies, apparently, are calmed by the sound of water swishing in your mouth right next to their ears, and that's what this is like.

Also being built into this pillow o' mine will be some alarm aromatics. Not only can I wake up to a gradually-brightening, sunny pow, but the aroma of my choice (Bacon) can also waft out.

And if the gentle sound of the water pumping isn't soothing enough, I've got three speakers and the Arduino can easily generate some white noise or play sounds of various environments like the motherfucking ocean. I prefer low-range, soft brown noise. I'll have none of that hissy poo poo that store-bought machines put out.

The nice thing about having noise generated in your pillow is that the sound doesn't permeate the rest of the room. So if your significant other likes a dead quiet room and you need some noise, this is a fine solution.

Of course, all those mods result in an awful lot of wiring:




That's enough pillmod talk, I suppose. gently caress it bitches, let's glow this joint:



If this kind of thing appeals to you, there's also the blanketmod community. However, I tend to stay away from them due to it being populated by perverts who essentially make sex toys out of their comforters, which they call, obviously, "cumforters." Pillmodders are, in essence, nerds who are poor sleepers. Blanketmodders, in contrast, cut dick-sized holes in blankets with anime patterns on them and think they're engineers.

There is, however, a clever mod that came out of that community that involves a mere $30 in parts and makes your bed vibrate like the "magic fingers" machines found in crappy motels. It's really just a few off-balance weights powered by scrap motors, but entertaining.

Solice Kirsk posted:

One of the greatest things I've ever seen was my buddy sucking the last bit of meat off a beef rib and then popping a bottle cap with the bone.

Outrail posted:

That pillowmod talk. Holy poo poo.

I'm on the fence believing it's real, who would write that many words about omitting they just made up? It's like sarcastically learning to play the lute.

Outrail posted:

That pillowmod talk. Holy poo poo.

I'm on the fence believing it's real, who would write that many words about omitting they just made up? It's like sarcastically learning to play the lute.

GreenMetalSun posted:

Please go die in a fire.



tl:dr, I checked their blog, which I reeeeeeeeally should not have done, because I probably don't have to tell you they're creeping on/internet stalking a bunch of underage girls and claiming they should be allowed to rape any girl who hits puberty.

Gorilla Salad posted:

How does that stupid diagram even make sense?

Each different version of pedophilia is a subset of MAP (Monstrously Awful Pedophilia). Sure.


But what are the overlaps between each type?



EDIT: here, I think I've made the diagram clearer.

NLJP posted:

Used to be similar threads about margharita machines though I think the best one of those is long lost to time, not even in archives. I could be wrong.

Ugly In The Morning posted:

If anyone has any choice marg machine quotes, I would love if they could share them. There was some great stuff in those threads.

NLJP posted:

Used to be similar threads about margharita machines though I think the best one of those is long lost to time, not even in archives. I could be wrong.

ultrafilter posted:

That is a really well-done photoshop job.

Putty posted:

It's actually not but i don't feel like breaking down cannibal porn into a compositing lesson

U.T. Raptor posted:

Southpaugh posted:

I really like the idea of Aldo chasing McGregor through different weight divisions in a Frankenstein style chase.

Work Friend Keven posted:

INTERIOR, A PARTY, NIGHT

CONOR MCGREGOR stands in the center of a circle of adoring fans, holding his new championship - the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Austin trophy.

MCGREGOR:
Look what I did! Look what I fookin Dreamed into reality! The first five sport champion! I'm the greatest of all time!

The crowd CHEERS wildly and everyone does the matrix 2 techno dance, except everyone is ORANGE and has BAD POSTURE instead of being MULTICULTURAL PEASANTS.

CUT TO:

EXTERIOR, A FIELD, NIGHT.

It's RAINING. A half dozen MAGIC THE GATHERING PROS are facing off against a shadowy figure. The figure quickly dispatches each in a short, one sided fight. A strike of lightning suddenly illuminates the field and we see the figure clearly. It's JOSE ALDO. He shuffles his Magic The Gathering deck before throwing it on the defeated body of the nearest MAGIC PRO.

ALDO:
My horny blood sings, Conor. I'm close this time. Run all you like, I'll see you soon.

The lighting flashes a second time, striking dangerously close to ALDO. In the earie half light, we see that he's wearing the UFC 145 interim belt, the UFC 155 interim belt, the WBA 151 interim belt, the Formula 1 Interim belt, and now he reaches down and lifts from the body of a MAGIC PRO - the Magic The Gathering Pro Tour Interim Championship.

King Doom posted:

I've had worlds slowly be filled with synths - they migrate in from elsewhere, and the locals all happened to be xenophobes who migrate away, opening more space for more synths and driving away more locals.

LonsomeSon posted:

Ah yes, the well-known 'Meat Flight' phenomenon.

Leperflesh posted:

The California Condor is the correct symbol of California.

On the one hand, it's a bird that we've brought back from the very edge of extinction, by caring about the environment and making an effort to save a critically endangered species. And, much like California, it's the biggest - the largest North American land bird, with a wingspan of almost ten feet. And it's mostly due to California's efforts that now garbage states like Utah and Arizona get to have this bird back again. At enormous expense, mind you, no Republican would think of spending $35M to save one endangered species.

On the other hand, it's a hideous giant vulture that eats rotten roadkill.

Look at this majestic animal:


Look into it's eye. That expression is 100% "gently caress You." Perfect.

Neophyte posted:

Knees are a poo poo-tier joint and proof that if intelligent design is true God 's some random jackleg they picked up at a celestial Home Depot parking lot.

tumor looking batty posted:

*brain straining hard, thinking about the pi sign and godel’s incompleteness theorem, thinking about the surface area of the Great Pyramids of Giza, thinking about The Hanged Man tarrot card and Nautilus shells and Fibonacci numbers* Two first names.

FreudianSlippers posted:

He's obviously talking about Cab Face where Al Pacino plays a make prostitute and says "Are you talking to my little friend?!?" in 'Nam.

Say Nothing posted:

Platystemon posted:

Police have released a sketch of the suspect:

Hihohe posted:

Mods rename me Cooch Puff

Pvt.Scott posted:

I'm coochoo for Cooch Puffs!

Winkie01 posted:

What is the problem with this analasis? the theory is tiny hands tiny dick he is trying to set his daughar up on a date

this one time I was on a trip to band camp and the teacher and her assistant was trying to group us on the bus before we showed up to save time right, so she was measuring our hands and as a trombone player I had smalle hands and had to set in the back while those loving trumpet players with all there brash style and dressing abilities not to mention there muscial skill all got to set in the front, I got not proof but I think they got jacked off from the ta while I was looking out the window with tears in my eyes feeeling like the rosa parks or sexual opression

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

From the NFL draft analysis thread. Yes, really.

Triticum Guzzler posted:

Mein Führer, I've done it! *Smoke clears top to bottom in a giant glass cylinder, revealing a shock of blonde hair, a chiseled jawline... then some weird dangly pecs, a muffin top, and then a pile of comics at his feet*

Wang_Tang posted:

The storyline sounds like it's been ripped straight from the next Fallout game. Ben is the lone wanderer, picking up a few quests here and there before tackling the main quests.

OwlFancier posted:

Failed a speech check to resolve the race war peacefully.

Phanatic posted:

She had a massive heart attack, had no heartbeat, and had CPR performed for 10 minutes before paramedics got there. The percentage of people who have a heart attack outside of a hospital setting, receive CPR, and survive to be discharged is in the area of 10%. The percentage of people who survive without long-lasting health impacts is in the low single digits.

That's not insignificant, those are about double the chances of people who *don't* receive bystander CPR. But "stable" after a heart attack that you had outside of a hospital which turned out your lights until someone turned them back on with CPR is still pretty much a death sentence in twelve systems.

areyoucontagious posted:

Dead Leia Chat

Karate Bastard posted:

Well shyeah imagine your chances having a heart attack around VY Canis Majoris fucker ain't even got no planets around it

FactsAreUseless posted:

That's what you get... when you mess with the Big Dog!