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it's always super apparent when you use a piece of software that's been exclusively written and designed by engineers
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the product designer vs mechanical and industrial engineers give and take has nothing on the thermonuclear war that is the architect and civil engineer relationship.
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May 11, 2017 04:15
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Sagebrush posted:i once worked with a designer who wanted to make a magnetic something-or-other, and specified the substrate material as aluminum. when i questioned that she said "oh it's magnetic aluminum." i blinked and stared and she was like "wait, don't they have that?" right now im working with a packaging designer who keeps specifying a certain type of packaging that by all accounts seems to be literally impossible to manufacture. everyone keeps telling her this but she just shuts down and says "we're not supposed to be a company that makes cheap products" and gets mad and yells at everyone. this fight has reemerged every 2-3 weeks for the past 5 months and its getting pretty annoying
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May 11, 2017 05:25
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Student designs that uh look great but require a magical 8 axis mill that can move in 4 dimensions to make 
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also yeah gently caress engineers too they're also terrible like I said I'm stuck in the middle
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Mister Sinewave posted:Student designs that uh look great but require a magical 8 axis mill that can move in 4 dimensions to make uh it's called a 3d printer
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May 11, 2017 05:50
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imagine when we have home hobbyist powdered metal sintering
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May 11, 2017 07:13
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Yodzilla posted:it's always super apparent when you use a piece of software that's been exclusively written and designed by engineers or "linux" as it's commonly known
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May 11, 2017 11:35
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or "any ticketing system I've ever seen." user interaction doesn't seem to be a consideration in most cases. beep boop.
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May 11, 2017 15:52
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was helping my sister looking into a local ferry trip here, and it was super nice just big screens with big buttons, clear icons & numbers asking in order: return or one-way, which direction, car/hanger size if any, # of passengers, and finally preferred dates & then it throws out a set of trips with prices to compare probably the nicest ticket system ive seen tbh dunno if it works in english: https://www.molslinjen.dk/booking/
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May 11, 2017 18:09
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a mini tent, for your office nappy-naps https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/egoistemondiale/pause-pod-your-private-pop-up-space-for-relaxation
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May 19, 2017 00:02
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about $5,000 worth of jpegs
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May 19, 2017 01:01
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kevin, no. No. KEVIN, NO.
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May 19, 2017 01:26
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that username tho 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BBOWsWODX4
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What better describes kickstarter than a steampunk, leather stovepipe hat with brass gear accents and a flipbook in it? How about if it's $300 and pledging only $100 gets you a basic flipbook kit that has a cardboard body? The prices get better from there, $600 gets you the flipbook sans hat but made from thin sheet brass. I should point out the actual leather hat is $700. The wifi underwater drone felt like cheating since for ~$600 ($1024 retail) you get a wifi drone with gps for underwater usage, both technologies that are blocked heavily by even a small amount of water.
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evilcat posted:What better describes kickstarter than a steampunk, leather stovepipe hat with brass gear accents and a flipbook in it? The underwater ROV indiegogo isn't fully wireless; it's basically a buoy that floats on the surface. You can still have a fully wired configuration if you want, though the tethered buoy isn't anything new. They are heavily misrepresenting their shipping dates though (and I'll be surprised if their first wave actually gets out by June)
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Are there any steampunk centric folk that are actually self aware of the criticisms lobbied against the aesthetic / genre? There apparently still is a dedicated steampunk section at places like the Bay Area maker faire, and I have doubts it's progressed much more than slightly more elaborate, slightly more expensive cogs strapped to goggles and prop guns.
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moron izzard posted:Are there any subculture centric folk that are actually self aware of the criticisms lobbied against the aesthetic / genre? 
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moron izzard posted:Are there any steampunk centric folk that are actually self aware of the criticisms lobbied against the aesthetic / genre? There apparently still is a dedicated steampunk section at places like the Bay Area maker faire, and I have doubts it's progressed much more than slightly more elaborate, slightly more expensive cogs strapped to goggles and prop guns. I think they generally take the same approach to criticism that the renaissance fair folks do: "yeah yeah whatever. we're having fun so why don't you go gently caress thyself?" there are going to be the creepy people who take it entirely too seriously but that's a problem in almost any subculture.
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y'all should watch Steampunk'd, the steampunk artisan reality show. poo poo is hilarious and sad
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Shifty Pony posted:I think they generally take the same approach to criticism that the renaissance fair folks do: "yeah yeah whatever. we're having fun so why don't you go gently caress thyself?" I meant the more fundamental issues of fetishizing the victorian age (though I guess not as terrible as the couples who dress up themselves and live their life like they were in the 40s?)
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i've never met a steampunk person who didn't fully acknowledge that the whole thing is completely ridiculous. i assume there's some crazies that actually take it seriously, but i'm confused by the idea that they're the norm
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Plorkyeran posted:i've never met a steampunk person who didn't fully acknowledge that the whole thing is completely ridiculous. i assume there's some crazies that actually take it seriously, but i'm confused by the idea that they're the norm i can't imagine being into that poo poo even ironically
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May 24, 2017 19:16
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is it still a hot take to point out that steampunk fetishizes being the 1% of the 1% in an era when that wealth was built on literal slavery
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May 24, 2017 19:49
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Sagebrush posted:is it still a hot take to point out that steampunk fetishizes being the 1% of the 1% in an era when that wealth was built on literal slavery i thought it was like cyberpunk where people just had computers and fancy sunglasses
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hifi posted:i thought it was like cyberpunk where people just had computers and fancy sunglasses the first couple books did sure but it's now "the adventures of colonel muttonfucker and lady corsetgears in the dark continent, also there are blimps"
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media always has the hero protagonist though. my only experience with steampunk was arcanum and it's like your party is the only people capable of leveling up. in books it works a bit differently
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steampunk is a stupid misnomer anyway because it has stripped away all of the elements that make it "punk" cyberpunk is called that because it combined elements of computing, information, programming, electronics with the anarchist anti-establishment views of punk culture. the good guys are the downtrodden rebels using decks cobbled together out of junk, and the bad guys are the wealthy suits with all the resources. in (modern) steampunk the computer stuff is replaced with steam stuff, sure, but also the heroes are explicitly the wealthy dukes and landowners who fly around on their private airships and own technology that's worth as much as a small nation
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Sagebrush posted:is it still a hot take to point out that steampunk fetishizes being the 1% of the 1% in an era when that wealth was built on literal slavery the origin of steampunk is always the difference engine people's lives back then were redolent of some kind of mysterious substance called crinoline and the notion of taking your clothes off to gently caress was a novelty so they were all slaves in a sense but you're not wrong, imo computer touchers were always yuge assholes, even lady ada
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i just defended hundreds of years of devastating cultural oppression by trying to paint a mental picture of kate winslet in titanic, btw so feel free to disregard also, kate winslet for ada lovelace
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part of the issue is that it makes story sense for cyberpunk neat poo poo to be obtainable by your "not the richest guy in the world" cyberpunk protagonist bulky rear end neat steampunk poo poo is usually just so blatantly expensive that most writers are just gonna say "ok so my character is actually pretty rich that's why he can afford this thing" a good writer figures out a way to make it work anyway, but the amount of good writers for steampunk settings ain't too high
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the laces you'll love to pull!
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moron izzard posted:I meant the more fundamental issues of fetishizing the victorian age (though I guess not as terrible as the couples who dress up themselves and live their life like they were in the 40s?) again same as the ren-fair folk the few I've interacted with "address" this by owning the fact that the whole thing is a giant game of calvinball where they make it up as they go along and don't even pretend to try and make it accurate because that time sucked to live in. the people you have to watch out for are war re-enactors. they are the people that will do things like demand the black guy be assigned to digging the latrine ditch instead of playing an officer because that's more realistic.
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May 24, 2017 20:33
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gadget superheroes (bruce wayne, doc savage, tony stark) all tend to be independently wealthy for much the same reason
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Sagebrush posted:look at this fuckin dude from the wikipedia page. jared kushner has one weird hobby
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