ekuNNN posted:

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qp4ixrSlz61r0uzl6.mp4

Der Kyhe posted:

So they did not need to look that far.

Hyneman is the guy who designs, and designs, and designs a prototype with the least amount of moving parts that most likely produces the results, then makes a prototype and adjusts it, an approach with the brutal Occam's razor.

Adam is the guy who makes a prototype based on the first intuition, and adds stuff and then stuff, and then stuff until something works well enough to not break down.

And that is also why Hyneman was usually the one to win competitive myths, but his approach is, for a TV show, boring as gently caress.

Scratch Monkey posted:

and Kari was there because she a good combo of photogenic and ambitious.

From everything I've heard (mostly from Adam) Jamie's a curmudgeonly pain in the rear end

Nth Doctor posted:

Whenever "did they like one another" chat comes up, I think about this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmUJDBOFG20&t=232s
Jamie is being a straight dick about the shop station, which was fine and to his specifications to the camera guy whose "primary" job it is to stock them. "There isn't a sharpie here" nevermind the one you just pulled out, or the one you eventually found. Or the loving paper towels right loving there. God he seems like an rear end in a top hat right here.
I never caught it before, but you hear the camera guy suppress a groan. But the consummate professional just keeps filming.

"It's like a derailed freight train in here" gently caress you.

mng posted:

Interesting, no one gives a gently caress.

PinheadSlim posted:

Actually I think they do ya big doofus

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

But what about the boss's side of the story?

Genocide Tendency posted:

Oh no.. Franklin unwillingly made the best possible case for the Bald Eagle when complaining about it being chosen.

The story that Franklin proposed the turkey as the national symbol began to circulate in American newspapers around the time of the country’s centennial and are based on a January 26, 1784, letter in which he panned the eagle and extolled the virtues of the gobbler to his daughter, Sarah. In doing so, though, he was not delivering a critique of the Great Seal but a new medal issued by the Society of the Cincinnati, an association of Continental Army veterans. “For my own part I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country,” he wrote. The Founding Father argued that the eagle was “a bird of bad moral character” that “does not get his living honestly” because it steals food from the fishing hawk and is “too lazy to fish for himself.”

Der Kyhe posted:

My point being that this is what happens when Mythbusters is brought up. Not any of the ~400 tests or things they built, interesting stuff they tested, nor the elaborate scenarios they built up, but always this or something related to the ones they hosed up.

Azathoth posted:

Also, what was up with the pyramid razor episode that made them regret it? A quick google isn't giving me a good idea and I don't really want to spend 40 minutes finding out.

Elendil004 posted:

Its baseless pseudoscience bullshit.

Azathoth posted:

okay yeah, but ... most of what they looked into was bullshit? did they say that it might be real or something?

boar guy posted:

no but most of what they tested was at least plausible. 'pyramids keep razors sharp' is just straight woo

they never tested one of my favorite myths, which is that a confederate soldier in the civil war got shot through the testicle with a musket and the ball lodged in a woman's uterus and impregnated her

you'd think that's the kind of thing they'd think of!

Azathoth posted:

okay yeah, but ... most of what they looked into was bullshit? did they say that it might be real or something?

poo poo POST MALONE posted:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615921120985481246/814790262558818314/vibration.mp4

Azathoth posted:

I've worked for a number of folks like him over the years.

Not exactly a bad guy, just perpetually grousing about one thing or another, and being just enough of a jerk to make you not want to talk to them unless absolutely necessary.

More thoughtless than malicious, but they just add a low level of friction to everything that needs to involve them. If they actually have a heart of gold, you call them a curmudgeon, if they don't, they're just an rear end in a top hat.

The impression that I've gotten of Jamie is way more the latter but he got along by being really drat good at his job, so people were willing to put up with him both in terms of hiring him and working for him.

BlueBlazer posted:

I worked for a couple production companies over the years. Jamie types are producers, they are effective operators but are absolute assholes about keeping things a certain way so he can swap them out. It only gets worse as they do it longer too. Their system works and he's the boss that makes sure poo poo is kept together.

It's a necessity working in production companies where each project requires an intense amount of high paid coordinated labor. The drat pens/cables/tools/equipment better be where they are supposed to be because I'm paying the guy that I brought in for the day 300$ an hour to support that actor that costs me 1000$ an hour to have on set.

It's a very specific type of rear end in a top hat. Not saying it's at all good, but it's a specific set of personality quirks that develops in hollywood.

Sagebrush posted:

No, a ton of the stuff they studied ended up either confirmed or plausible. And even the dumb ones that seem obviously false ("a duck's quack does not echo") still lead to some interesting discussions of the scientific framework they used to test it (anechoic chambers, frequency analysis, etc).

The pyramid power one was just: putting things inside a copper-wire pyramid makes them better through unexplainable new age energy. Razor blades get sharper and food doesn't go bad, it's magic. There isn't even any discussion to be had because the explanations from the proponents, if any are forthcoming, are unfalsifiable. Oh it didn't work this time because there's a thunderstorm in the next county that's absorbing all the orgone energy? Great.

Adam has also said before that he didn't want it to become a James Randi style show where mystics and weirdos would go on and get OWNED BY SCIENCE and become embarrassed/confrontational. That's why they never tested dowsing, despite many people asking them to. Pyramid power is down that same line.

Cojawfee posted:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768500/

Humphreys posted:

RE: Mythbusters

I kinda want to know how Jamie is going. Like, I'm sure he is just knuckling down on some crazy project hating publicity, but I would like to say 'hey buddy, I appreciate you' one day.

Phy posted:

I remember seeing a picture years ago of like a dozen or so bald eagles that had gorged themselves in a dumpster full of fish guts and couldn't get out because, well, their flight feathers were soaked in fish guts

and I remember thinking, "Apropos"

LanceHunter posted:

I feel like there’s also an element of flakiness common among some people you can get on a production (or other arts-related endeavor), that also ends up inviting this kind of strictness. The “no pens, only pencils and sharpies” and “just one calculator, no more” feels like the kind of orderliness you emphasize when you’re trying to make sure can quickly catch and eliminate the PAs who think the job is beneath them as they daydream about what they’re gonna say for their Oscar speech.

It’s calls to mind Tom Sach’s “10 Bullets” rules for people working in his studio:

https://youtu.be/49p1JVLHUos

BlueBlazer posted:

That video sums it up nicely.

Radio Paranoia posted: