Who figured out this is a thing that works?

Would it have been a meme 20 years ago?

White collar engineers? Paying attention to blue collar techs? That’s the plot of the next Andy Weir novel, isn’t it? A hilariously naive notion of people working together to solve problems? Sounds like his work.

I couldn’t solve all the world’s problems if I was given this power, but it would make people who are damaged in the same way I am laugh for a couple months out of the year.

There needs to be a required summer semester of engineering school called “being a mechanic.”

Okay college boy, put on a shirt with your name embroidered on it and come out here into the shop. Yeah it’s 110 degrees in the shade, you’ve got your buddy Tom Midgly Jr. to thank for that. Now take this wrench and take that bolt out. Oh it doesn’t come out because the oil pan is in the way? I wonder whose fault that is. No, we’re not gonna let it cool before dropping the oil pan, the customer is in the lobby. Yeah. It is 240 degrees. No, it doesn’t all drain out through the plug, there’s a half quart that doesn’t come out. Yes, you’re getting that on you. Don’t get any of it on the interior of the car when you back it out. Now take off the oil filter. Yes, you’re gonna burn the back of your hand on the exhaust manifold. You’re taking every Toyota oil filter off this summer. You’re gonna hold the burn mark on the back of your hand up like Tyler Durden.

Oh you’re going to be an aeronautical engineer. c’mere boy, we’re gonna take the wings off a 152 Aerobat, you get to pick the spar bolts out of the catalog, we’ll safety wire the control cable turnbuckles through those little inspection ports you types are so stingy with, and then we’ll take the bird you just reassembled up for a couple two or three hours of spin training to see if ya done it right. You ever do a snap roll? I’ll teach you more about the aerodynamics of maneuvering flight in 1.5 seconds than your physics professor did in a semester. Eat bananas for breakfast, they taste the same coming up as they do going down. And buddy they’re coming back up. Because of the special jug bolt wrench I had to buy, I’m gonna pull at least one breakfast back out of your face using nothing but stick and rudder.

It has achieved the same level of awareness as the average emacs user.

No mine is more of just a bell sound, because it heard the complaints from players about it talking all the time but it took it too literally.

Before watching, is this going to be A Fistful Of Rupees?

No, it’s some shit GuruLarry did? And Fistful Of Rupees isn’t up on Youtube anymore? But here it is on Dailymotion?

In English:

Braising: A method of cooking meat moist but not immersed in a fluid, often broth or wine, in a tightly sealed vessel over low heat for a long time, often used to soften tougher cuts of meat by rendering connective tissue into gelatin. “Roasts” are often braised. Compare with stewing, in which meat is cooked immersed in a fluid; contrast with barbecuing in which meat is cooked at low heat for a long time in a vented chamber flooded with smoke from a wood fire.

Brazing: A method of joining two pieces of metal by hard soldering using bronze as a filler material. The base objects are heated to cherry red, flux is applied to eliminate any oxides and bronze filler is applied to wet the surfaces and when cooled strongly bond them. Contrast with welding where the edges of the base materials are heated to melting and the puddles allowed to flow together such that when cooled they form one object. Brazing is often done when joining dissimilar base metals which cannot be successfully welded.

No it doesn’t. That’s an extremely naive understanding of open source software.

Open source is not the same thing as public domain. Linux and GNU are very much copyrighted and remain the intellectual property of the Linux Foundation and the Free Software Foundation, both are American organizations. Do not mistake copyleft license terms for “heritage of all mankind.” No one alive today will see public domain Linux.

My back pain is why I lost my mind.

How’s your back?

That’s kind of my point. in BOTW and TOTK, the story is thin on the ground.

Literally. It’s thin, and it’s on the ground.

I’ve watched streamers who played BOTW first then play earlier games, and reacted with surprise at how much lore was in them.

I don’t see it failing, sheer force of brand recognition will fill theaters. I’m just not sure they’ll get anything good done.

Anyone else feel like the time for this was 2008? Circa Twilight Princess? Fans were clamoring for a movie back then because the games hit peak “cinematic” around that time, TP directly references events of OoT, it feels like a continuity, a single story.

Now? They’ve done so much with the franchise that it’s become a paint color like Star Wars. Is there an appetite for it like there was 20 years ago?

I like how they left “Lima” alone.

So you’re a normie who charge thay phone, eat hot chip and lie.

It becomes an issue when you’re in the habit of such poweruser tasks as plugging an external display or external graphics card into a laptop or dealing with bulk file transfers.

Long Live Buffalax!

I just gave up entirely. I never tell your wife her ass is hot.

No I don’t.

This is a discussion between Andy Weir and his book editor Julian Pavia. At the 6 minute mark, he talks about how both he and screenwriter Drew Goddard wanted the scene to be in the movie, but “It would have added about 6 minutes of runtime, and it’s like aaah, we’re getting pretty long, so.”

I haven’t seen the movie, I’ve read the book and seen interviews with Weir.

A couple details in the book that aren’t in the movie: To farm astrophage, they pave over the Sahara desert with solar powered breeders. This, among other things, starts throwing the climate out of whack even faster. Stratt, Grace and a climatologist character who isn’t in the movie muse about how manmade global warming was erased in a month. No, check that, global warming bought them an extra month. Well, if we were able to get that accidentally, imagine what kind of global warming we could do if we really set our minds to it. So they nuke Antarctica to break off a giant ice sheet, to release huge quantities of methane trapped in the ice.

Weir often mentions regret that he didn’t get to add that scene. It was written in the screenplay, and would have been relatively cheap to make because there’s no compositing. Just a dialog scene with no special effects, cut to a pure special effects shot. No editing puppeteers out of the set or layering a live action astronaut in front of a CG planet.

It got cut for time, and I don’t think the scene even got filmed, so I don’t know if a future special Weir Edition blu-ray will include it.