Broke: sci-fi technology, plasma weapons, lightsabers, lasers, and more will most likely always be fiction
Woke: tech youtubers have literally created plasma laser guns because they wanted to make an irl plasma laser gun from a videogame they like
you guys know i’m not fucking kidding in the slightest right.
this dude created a working plasma laser canon based on an overwatch weapon
also made a lightsaber
this dude was able to turn a microwave into a low tech microwave gun
the dude again made a cryo gun
HERES AN INTERVIEW FROM A NEWS STATION, OF THIS GUY LIFTING A TRUCK WITH HIS EXOSKELETON
AND THIS ISN’T IT. THERE IS SO MUCH MORE THIS, ABSOLUTE, FUCKING MAD GENIUS HAS DONE.
THIS FUCKER HAS MADE A LITERAL FUCKING ROCKET HAMMER.
GRAPPLING HOOKS
PLASMA RIFLES
A GOD DAMN EXOSKELETON, THAT LETS HIM LIFT CARS WITH EASE
SPIDER MAN GRADE SUCTION CUPS
STILL NOT DONE
THIS FUCKER MADE A JET SPRINTER IN ONE FUCKING DAY,
AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE, YOU KNOW WHAT HUGE FUCKING PROJECT HE’S DOING RIGHT NOW?
HE’S CREATING A LITERAL FUCKING, FUNCTIONING MECH SUIT, AND HE’S GOTTEN THE CLAMPS DOWN SO FAR
OH AND BEFORE I FORGET.
THEY ARE CREATING THEIR OWN BUISNESS, AND THEY’RE HIRING.
irl iron man
All these big tech companies are just rereleasing the same product every year whilst some bored guy who plays video games is making fucking plasma guns and mech suits
Hello yes i would like to obtain mass numbers of these to create a technologically advanced paramilitary.
For uh, research purposes.
I am not 100% certain of the validity or long term use of these things but good on him for finding a lil niche on youtube he likes.
You all are sleeping hard on Colinfurze, a man who started life as a blue collar plumber that got really interested making his own cheap jet engines:
And went on to create an honest to fuck hoverbike:
Ooh, this is actually kinda a neat thing, because you can think of it as a checklist:
Who: Main character(s)
Why: Character goal or desire (stated)
Why: Character need (implied)
When: Inciting Incident
What: Means (that achieves the goal/need)
Where: Place A >> Place B
How: The Plan
Obstacle(s): antagonist or challenge
For example:
Who: Bilbo Baggins, a respectable hobbit of Hobbiton
Why: Treasure, wealth (stated)
Why: Adventure, self-respect (implied)
When: After supper
What: Quest
Where: Hobbiton >> The Lonely Mountain
How: A company of dwarves, a wizard, and an ancient map and key
Main antagonist(s): a dragon
Thus, in less than 100 words:
Bilbo Baggins is a respectable hobbit in Hobbiton, never making any trouble or having any adventures. But when a wizard and a company of dwarves invite themselves to dinner, Bilbo finds himself joining their quest from the shires of Hobbiton to the legendary Lonely Mountain, the home of a long lost treasure, and quite, possibly, a dragon.
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The Anatomy of Story by John Truby is a really good book by the by, if anyone’s interested in this sort of thing.
Since Youtube is pretty much my main study tool and I’m always looking for channels in my target languages, I thought I’d compile my favourite youtube channels in German. (These are not channels about studying German, they’re just channels I as a native speaker like to watch.)
HYPERBOLE they’re best known for their “frag eine/n…” series where they interview all kinds of people from different walks of life
KARAKAYA TALK political and social issues, specifically aimed at german poc
Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos. You can always check the audit course or no certificate option so that you can learn for free.
Day 286 of quarantine I have discovered www.webstaurantstore.com
It is, I BELIEVE, a website intended to be used by restaurants for bulk ordering food and utensils. And this is bringing me such unbounded delight scrolling through and recognizing that I, a single individual, ALSO can order ridiculous obscene enormous offensive-to-all-common-sensibilities shipments of BULK FOOD, to my LITTLE LITTLE APARTMENT, for PENNIES on the dollar. I have this god given power to flood my entire living space with bulk grains and it is one single button click away from my reality.
30 POUNDS of chocolate for $100. 20 POUNDS of peas for $13?? $13!!!! I will wake up every single morning from now on knowing that a box of donuts and a sack of dried split peas heavy enough to bodily injure someone both carry equal monetary weight. 25 POUNDS OF ONION POWDER for $50. Do you understand the enormity? the accessibility? the potential here? With the single click of the button I can put myself in a position of bequeathing more than a humanly comprehensible amount of onion powder in my will. AND IT WOULD ONLY COST ME $50 TO MAKE THIS A REALITY.
But what gets me
What truly gets me
is the 50 POUND BAG OF RICE
FOR LESS THAN $20
Do you know how much that kills me? How much I’m losing my mind? that I can order MYSELF WORTH OF RICE for something to the tune of $50? I can OUT-RANK MYSELF WITH RICE, DEMOCRATICALLY OVERRULE MYSELF WITH RICE, IN MY OWN APARTMENTfor the fucking PENNIES that is $50
I’m so sorry for the normal person I’ll be after quarantine because the cabin-fever version of me I’m inhabiting right now is perhaps just uninhibited enough to follow through on this dream I’ve just discovered of out-ricing myself.
this is where I ordered 36 lbs of european style butter for myself. Shipping can be expensive but it’s a good site with products as described.
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