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I sort of want to know what O'Brien said, but also I don't want to give even a scrape of ad revenue to the Times.
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https://twitter.com/ianbirrell/status/1670836548705632257 I wasn't aware of this until now, but it looks like a lot of Boris' supporters might be getting into trouble 
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I sort of want to know what O'Brien said, but also I don't want to give even a scrape of ad revenue to the Times. Almost any paywalled/fash paper article is auto-archived https://archive.is/B2QdC The gist of it is that back then they were writing without caring if they offended people and now he's more sensitive about whether what he's doing would upset people and he feels that he would likely have made a different film under those circumstances. He doesn't ascribe blame to modern snowflakes so much as just observe that people have different sensabilities now.
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smellmycheese posted:In other good news… quote:There are also separate charges still under investigation which could lead to a separate indictment, including money laundering and trafficking of minors.
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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 I like reading about Victorian era explorers who seem to be a bunch of rich people who seem to love going to places where black people live to "discover" things then making a series of stupid choice that end in their painful death.
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The beloved genre of "the superstitious natives told us not to go there, so naturally we called them all slurs and went there anyway. Yes half the party is now dead, but that's entirely unrelated."
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The line "I'm a sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania" would probably not get written today you do have to admit
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I figure that as he says "It’s become a kind of family favourite, which is very odd when you think about the subject matter we deal with" the people most upset if you made Rocky Horror for the first time in 2023 would be the people protesting non-existent drag shows.
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If they made rocky horror today they'd put all the male characters in dresses!
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Being a hetro cis male I'm probably not the best judge, but other than some archaic language used around gender Rocky Horror seems like a fairly humane and progressive film about sexuality. And the Meat Loaf song whips. keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Jun 20, 2023 |
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Yeah I don't think anyone who understands the context is offended at a play/character created by a non-binary person using some dated terms in a self-referential or tongue in cheek manner as part of the show. Unless they don't like that a certain level of shock and subversion are an inherent part of queer cinema in which case they should stay well away from all John Waters movies. The offended parties are, as usual, the same people who were calling it 'degenerate homosexual garbage'* back in the late 70s, now recycling their outrage for trans and drag and other things they can't tell the difference between. *also probably the name of a lost John Waters movie
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Was Tim Curry's look based on Lou Reed or was it the other way round. *staunchy refuses to look up any of Lou Reeds later views on gender
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Apparently yeah, it was Curry adapting Reed's look.
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keep punching joe posted:Being a hetro cis male I'm probably not the best judge, but other than some archaic language used around gender Rocky Horror seems like a fairly humane and progressive film about sexuality. Excuse me? Frank is a sexual predator who seduces both halves of a couple by pretending to be their partner and has literally created a personal sex slave to replace his ex-boyfriend who he murdered - twice. He's not exactly a positive portrayal!
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Lol. Keith akehurst Isnt it MI5's job to bump people off that work for rival governemts trying to medle in our buisnes?
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I always liked the argument that the big-bearded scientists, explorers and whatnot of yore weren't necessarily geniuses or even that clever, but they had the luxury of time to dedicate to their weird hobbies and that's all you really need.
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Turns out all this PC stuff is having some good observable effects. https://twitter.com/elliemaeohagan/status/1670911425739468803
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The Mail have created a handy graphic to show how you curl one out while gazing at the wonders of the ocean 
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Is there a chance that the submersible could just flip over as it drifts around because drat imagine the clean up job if that chemical toilet emptied out 3 days into the trip and you still had a day to go
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That's probably why they opened the door.
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Pretty sure it's not actually a chemical toilet it's just a hole in the seat because until now no-one's decided to poo poo in such a closed environment, so I've been kinda giggling all afternoon about the first person taking a poo poo and getting the cold shoulder from the other four who are now stuck smelling that apocalypse.
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One of the articles said that it's got some bags of lead shot for ballast underneath, but that they're attached by something that will perish after 16 hours in seawater. So I imagine it's off on its merry way now.
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The worst part is even if it bobbed back up to the surface and washed up on an island somewhere and there’s even one of those emergency phones you see on the motorway right there on the beach next to a fully stocked and fitted holiday villa with flushing toilet, they’re going to die inside the stupid thing because it’s bolted shut from the outside
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You just know making GBS threads whilst gazing at the wreck was a selling point.
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Billionaires: at long last we have created the Volumetric poo poo Compressor
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Load bearing toilet window. 
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Is there toilet paper?
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Little nozzle to the outside you can open for a 5000psi bidet.
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Using an xbox controller for an input device is probably quite a good idea if you can get away with it because they're generally quite well made and you could pack a spare, and it's one less bit of custom poo poo you have to build. Skimping out on a third party one maybe less smart.
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domhal posted:Is there toilet paper? OwlFancier posted:Using an xbox controller for an input device is probably quite a good idea if you can get away with it. nicholson_nodding.gif
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OwlFancier posted:Using an xbox controller for an input device is probably quite a good idea if you can get away with it because they're generally quite well made and you could pack a spare, and it's one less bit of custom poo poo you have to build. If it's replaceable, and you have multiple spares that you test regularly, then yeah it's fine. That assumes everything else is MILSPEC, including that bluetooth receiver and that's there's a wired option. poo poo, since this is absolutely critical to the operation though, what's the computer that it's going through? Can it be replaced if it dies randomly for some reason, and if not, can you at the very least use manually operated controls to navigate? Whether it's a good idea probably comes down to what everything else looks like. I think the ick comes from when you look at that sub, it seems spare in the rugged controls department.
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OwlFancier posted:Using an xbox controller for an input device is probably quite a good idea if you can get away with it because they're generally quite well made and you could pack a spare, and it's one less bit of custom poo poo you have to build. I mean my immediate thought would be “what else has he scrimped on?” and it would appear it’s quite a lot
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Using a wireless xbox controller seems extremely ill advised yes. I was thinking just using the joypad to replace like a custom joystick set that is also wired into the sub.
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OwlFancier posted:Using a wireless xbox controller seems extremely ill advised yes. Even if it's wired, an xbox controller isn't an analog device, it's digital. You can't just feed an xbox controller into a system of hydraulics and have them react to it, it needs to be electrically powered and for the signals it generates to be interpreted by a computer. If your computer dies and it can't be replaced, then the sub dies and there's nothing you can do about it even if the engine is top quality and still running. Disclaimer: I have no idea about how this sub works, I assume they thought of that, but lmao if they didn't.
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I was assuming you could get a microchip or a circuit that would be able to parse it directly into simple electrical signals to send to the actual thrusters. Though that might be just as optimisitic as expecting manually/mechnically operable backup controls in this day and age. Probably you just plug it into a raspberry pi or something lmao. Submarine controlled by bluetooth xbox controller connected to an actual xbox which connects to a web server which reads the xbox live pings and translated them to thruster inputs using javascript. Version 2 is just a copy of subnautica and a big tv screen. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Jun 20, 2023 |
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OwlFancier posted:I was assuming you could get a microchip or a circuit that would be able to parse it directly into simple electrical signals to send to the actual thrusters. In that sense yes you could probably make a simple rugged system which has firmware which is specifically programmed to only read/write the HID protocol and convert it to some whatever signal, and have that replaceable, I doubt it would be a spacious system. The wireless is more concerning, more because this guy seems like he's the type of guy whose idea of a rugged DAC is a raspberry pi that he put together one day because it comes with a wifi receiver.
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Dive by wire has some big advantages over mechanical systems when you've got two miles of seawater trying to get inside your pressure vessel. You definitely want your external thrusters and internal controls to have redundant systems though.
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Well yeah that's a good reason to not have mechanical backups because those need to be put through mechanical sized holes in the pressure hull.
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