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smellmycheese posted:The genius critical minds of our best billionaires on display as they decide descending to the deepest depths of the Atlantic in a metal tube accessorised with bits from B&Q, Camping World and Game Spot is a smart and rational idea. Now I'm just imagining the walls are a video screen showing old episodes of On The Spot
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That same guy in the video I posted last page is the guy screenshotted here https://twitter.com/halkyardo/status/1671000633845993473 https://twitter.com/halkyardo/status/1671003148842835970 So he directly witnesses a five hour MIA, where they cut off his internet access to prevent him documenting it, and he just peacefully smiled and said "this is fine" and never told anyone until now.
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Tesseraction posted:Sure, but I've used that very controller and it's a piece of poo poo. Unreliable, and the analogue sticks are unreliable for precision. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance's sword controls are nigh on impossible because the stick does not track correctly. Yeah the wireless knockoff circa 2014 design is a profoundly weird choice. I'd have defended the choice of a PS2 sixaxis (or even dualshock) though, that way you get analog readings from all the inputs
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Chubby Henparty posted:Matkatz->saitek->logitech handmedowns are not product lines to be trusted Logitech can be trusted. For $250k per ticket they probably should have went with the £150 Xbox Elite controller though.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Logitech can be trusted. For $250k per ticket they probably should have went with the £150 Xbox Elite controller though. Love my Logitech G-13, but then i'm at sea level and no lives are at risk when i move the thumbstick.  It was a matter of ''when'' not ''if'' a clusterfuck would occur.
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 I gotta say James Cameron's gamepad looks a lot more like it was made for return trips
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:
Looks more like a Sky Remote tbh 
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So for more detail, that pad is the F710. It's s decade and a half old design at least and they're still selling it, far as I can tell unchanged. Its predecessor, the F510, was lovely, I used it for years, and I'd still be using it if the right stick click hadn't worn out playing Dark Souls. I struggled with the F710 for a few months before giving up. Its wireless was intolerably laggy. I don't know whether it was getting interference or what. If you want a good, recent controller, go for an 8bitdo, not that crap.
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:
In the course of researching Titanic, James Cameron spent longer exploring the ship than the actual passengers did. Say what you like about the script and acting, but you can't fault the effort.
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Do you remember that guy in Denmark who invented his own submarine and ended up killing and dismembering the journalist who went to him for an interview? Apparently, he was quite well regarded in his field before he went to jail. So, the submersible field. Full of a lot of fine, trustworthy sorts.
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smellmycheese posted:Gazing on the desolate majesty of The Titanic while curling out a morning steamer A Seabed Loafer. blunt posted:NASA too I got to see one of the imaging teams at NASA using a gamer joystick to track the launch on camera.
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Weren’t there rumours that the Danish Submarine murderer was a goon?
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The Question IRL posted:Do you remember that guy in Denmark who invented his own submarine and ended up killing and dismembering the journalist who went to him for an interview? Oh yeah, he scuttled the sub with her body in it and tried to claim it was all a tragic accident, didn't he.
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Weird connection. https://www.explorers.org/search-for-titanic-expedition-intensifies/ quote:Dear Fellow Explorers, Unfortunately, Hamish may now be in the ultimate underworld.
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smellmycheese posted:Weren’t there rumours that the Danish Submarine murderer was a goon? Rumours? His sub and rocket construction threads are in the goldmine somewhere.
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The goon helped build the sub as I recall, he was not the murderer himself.
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Have ‘explorers’ always just been idle rich cunts looking for something to do or is that just how it works in the modern era
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Looking at the construction of this sub it also looks like it was done by a goon, but more on the goon project side of competence.
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History Comes Inside! posted:Have ‘explorers’ always just been idle rich cunts looking for something to do or is that just how it works in the modern era Explorers not paid by the crown of their particular empire to discover new lands, yes. As said above, James Cameron actually puts a lot of effort in and actually contributes to marine biology - he discovered new species in the Marianas Trench, and he submitted his diving capsule to some marine society so that his innovations could be used to benefit deep sea research for everyone else going forward.
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History Comes Inside! posted:Have ‘explorers’ always just been idle rich cunts looking for something to do or is that just how it works in the modern era Any analysis of Scott’s trip to the Antarctic gives off very strong “upper class twit goon project” vibes
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Spangly A posted:Rumours? His sub and rocket construction threads are in the goldmine somewhere. That goon was just one of the many people who were involved in building the sub, not the murderer. e:f;b
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The Question IRL posted:Do you remember that guy in Denmark who invented his own submarine and ended up killing and dismembering the journalist who went to him for an interview? Apparently the sub company CEO was in the
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smellmycheese posted:Any analysis of Scott’s trip to the Antarctic gives off very strong “upper class twit goon project” vibes Using horses instead of dogs was a bit of an oopsie along with the way fuel differs at high altitudes compared to sea level. 
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Tesseraction posted:If you want to trigger your claustraphobia check out how loving micro the inside of this deathtrap is btw https://twitter.com/FnpMarieOH/status/1670931677013524487  I've changed my working theory to "they went mad and ate each other." Tesseraction posted:Looking at the construction of this sub it also looks like it was done by a goon, but more on the goon project side of competence. History Comes Inside! posted:The bit that gets me is there only seems to be a window on the toilet end, so unless you’re using the facilities you’re only going to be seeing everything through a camera, in which case why the gently caress go down there at all just send a camera *Assuming the water was clear.** ** And the external lamp was working.*** *** And nobody was taking a poo poo.
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Spangly A posted:Rumours? His sub and rocket construction threads are in the goldmine somewhere. Well this is a new twist on that horribly grim story I wasn't aware of.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Well this is a new twist on that horribly grim story I wasn't aware of. Somebody who worked on it was a Goon, not the actual mad killer.
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smellmycheese posted:In other good news… Good! Hope he gets well convicted.
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domhal posted:Weird connection. Not that weird, after Richard Garriott got rich he spent his time doing that kinda extreme exploration, he's been in space, and in the mariana trench. He's the exact person who would be connected to them. Probably spends more on his game controllers though.
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Tesseraction posted:Looking at the construction of this sub it also looks like it was done by a goon, but more on the goon project side of competence. Some people on reddit described how they were part of the OceanGate project but left it due to what they considered to be shoddy workmanship and a lack of professionalism, making them feel way too nervous about the whole project. I can't watch the video showcasing the interior of that deathtrap and not think Groversub
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Not that weird, after Richard Garriott got rich he spent his time doing that kinda extreme exploration, he's been in space, and in the mariana trench. He's the exact person who would be connected to them. Probably spends more on his game controllers though. And there was that Yank who did around the world ballooning with Dick Branson. Steve Forbes? Fossett? Foster? Something like that anyway. He ended up dying in a plane crash in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Which is why all these billionaires who fancy themselves as explorers are my favourite billionaires. Spangly A posted:Rumours? His sub and rocket construction threads are in the goldmine somewhere. At some point I half expect to find out that the student whose paper was nicked for the dodgy dossier that justifies invading Iraq was a Goon. Someone from this dumb has been involved in almost every other decision the last 20 years. Wonders never cease forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Jun 20, 2023 |
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Kavros posted:Some people on reddit described how they were part of the OceanGate project but left it due to what they considered to be shoddy workmanship and a lack of professionalism, making them feel way too nervous about the whole project. Load bearing toilet window.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Not that weird, after Richard Garriott got rich he spent his time doing that kinda extreme exploration, he's been in space, and in the mariana trench. He's the exact person who would be connected to them. Probably spends more on his game controllers though. It was a bit surprising as a name only familiar to me from early 2000s issues of PC Gamer. Guess it's not unusual after reaching a certain level of richness.
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https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1671018038370467845 otoh The Super Mario Bros Movie wouldn't have been made in 1975, because nobody would know tf it was about, which is about as interesting a point as when the press keep doing this.
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i was just thinking, having seen some of this 'partygate' bs in passing while walking past the tv recently, that i think it would be cool to try a sort of politics that treats campaigning the way cigarette packets aren't allowed any branding on them any more. just anonymize it all and only allow statements which directly pertain to policies they will be introduced or revoked. probably a stupid idea as a basic statement like that but i think the whole thing of personality based politics is an insurmountable problem while it is the primary focus of public life. it's almost completely irrelevant and usually counterproductive. i'm just trying to think of some rules you could put in place to cut out the majority of the stupidity.
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