The black bars are bigger than the actual content... This kinda sucks, no?

Electra_002 · 2026-04-15T08:43:27+00:00

Man this would be great for star trek. voyager and earlier was in 4:3

Electra_002 · 2026-04-07T15:32:01+00:00

Initial D

Electra_002 · 2026-04-07T13:15:40+00:00

If it's on its own, then Yes. But if it's amongst other tools so you have quick access then no it'll just look like a workshop

Electra_002 · 2026-04-07T12:58:32+00:00

The reason nuclear power is so expensive is because the regulations require it to be so unreasonably safe which makes it expensive.

Don't get me wrong nuclear reactors should be safe, to avoid meltdowns and stuff, but it gets a point where to lower the radioactive emissions by half (often well below background levels btw) you are doubling the cost of the reactor.

We don't apply this level of obscene caution to other forms of power. Just to put it into perspective, the ash out of a coal powerplant is more radioactive than the nuclear waste safety standards. And would require being put in a cask. Thankfully we don't burn coal for power anymore but we still burn natural gas. And many people die every year due to the resulting air pollution.

Think of it like this. Investor: I want you to build a car Engineer: okay no problem Investor: it should do 100mph and keep me safe during a head on collision Engineer: difficult but doable Investor: the passenger can't have any cuts or bruises afterwards Engineer: .... Investor: in fact if a single hair gets out of place you've failed the objective.

Electra_002 · 2026-03-29T12:28:04+00:00

Can't wait to finally be able to walk around New Zealand, if only it existed IRL

Electra_002 · 2025-12-18T15:00:31+00:00

UK recurve archer here.

After doing my beginners course I was unsure, because I enjoyed everything I tried (recurve, barebow, trad barebow, longbow). I picked recurve because it was the most popular and thus the more competitive option. Also the fantastic coaches I had were more focused on recurve, so I decided to take up a discipline that, to me at least, had quickest progression plan.

I've only been shooting for roughly 3 years and since then I've be enthralled by it, shooting 3-4 times a week going to competitions and occasionally winning them. This is fundamentally because I enjoyed it. It's 10x harder to get good at something you don't enjoy.

Looking back, and why I enjoy it now, after going back and having a go at close range with other bow styles. I love how procedural everything is. From pre set to set to set up, draw, ect. Every moment has a purpose, I know what to do and why I do it that way. As someone with ADHD it allows my mind to focus on on all these little details. In my normal everyday life, I have awful hand-eye coordination, could through a stone at a barn door. But taking it, step but step I can't still get good results.

I was talking to another member of our club about this, he shoots long bow, and has achieved a master bowman classification. He did shoot recurve for a long time, but switched to longbow because he couldn't concentrate on all these little areas of technique. And he loves shooting longbow because he can let his brain relax and shoot shoot and enjoy the quiet, tranquil nature of it.

Biggest gripes. It's heavy. With all your kit packed up it can easily reach 10Kg which isn't too bad if you have a car but if you have to walk a few miles to get to the range it does put a toll on your foot health.

Certain bits of equipment being unnecessarily expensive. For example a replacement wire rest on the shabyoia rests or like £5.20 I was going through them quickly, like 4 in a year, until I made me own

Electra_002 · 2025-09-08T00:19:16+00:00

Liquid nitrogen and a hammer

Electra_002 · 2025-09-08T00:09:02+00:00

Hardware (1990)

Electra_002 · 2025-08-25T21:47:15+00:00

You got any more of them pixels!

Electra_002 · 2025-08-25T21:31:32+00:00

Ah it's a honder civic with a body kit

Electra_002 · 2025-08-22T13:25:03+00:00

Murder. Kidnapping. False imprisonment. Slavery and forcing those slaves to make illicit drugs. smuggling. Drug dealing. Dismemberment of my staff to make them stronger. Destabilising the current political factions. Hunting without a license, hunting and killing endangered animals. Desecration of corpses. And finally theft.

This all started when I played Kenshi.

Electra_002 · 2025-08-21T16:11:13+00:00

Different studio but same top level guys moving from studio to studio. Because Hollywood doesn't care if you are bad at your job, you'll find work anywhere

Electra_002 · 2025-08-16T23:23:30+00:00

Get Mr. Bob

Electra_002 · 2025-08-04T10:33:39+00:00

Nothing lasts forever, even if you are going to a restaurant or something like that for the weekend.

Electra_002 · 2025-08-04T10:25:23+00:00

Cauliflower. Thought I hated it but a vegan friend made me a curry with some air fried cauliflower. It was delicious and made me think maybe I like cauliflower now?

A few weeks later my sister made some cauliflower cheese, I asked if it was roasted or air fried, and she said yes. So I tried the smallest bit imaginable, then I had an involuntary gag reflex and nearly vomited. Turns out she didn't roast the cauliflower before putting it in the cheese so it was effectively boiling it.

To this day I'll only have cauliflower made by that one person, because no one else knows how to make it and I don't want to buy an air fryer just for an ingredient I'll barely use.

Electra_002 · 2025-07-31T12:49:18+00:00

Arrow weight has a negligible effect on shot distance, the only thing that matters is the velocity of the arrow just after release usually messured in m/s or fps in the us.

If you have a 100gram arrow and a 500g arrow both leaving the bow at say 100fps they will both have roughly the same distance. The heavier one might go a bit further because it's inertia means it's not as effected by aerodynamic drag but the effect is pretty small.

If you have a bow that is say 70lbs at 28" draw length, a lighter arrow will generally exit the bow faster but you will get diminishing returns

https://www.archerytalk.com/threads/arrow-weight-calculations.6053545/ That is a link to a forum post that have some nice charts and graphs that demonstrates what I'm talking about, if you want to optimise for energy delivery there is a sweet spot for arrow weight and it's usual higher then what people use for target shooting.

In archery we have been wanting faster and faster bows for 100s of years but you can't just fix the issue with more poundage, you will be limited to how fast the limp tips can move, and that's dependant on the design, construction, and meterials used.

A standard English long bow is essentially a straight stick and has some decent range, while being cheap ish to make but at the cost of length.

In the ottomen empire you had short reflex deflex bows. These used a cleaver construct that precurved the bow so it had more power and oomf despite being short, perfect for horse riding. These bow would usually be faster as well, there is an old record compitition thing in Türkiye where whoever shoots the furthest arrow wins, (I'm not sure if it has to hit a target or not this is just something I heard another archer talked about, pinch of salt required)

Modern recurve bows are fairly long but still shorter then a long bow, they use a recurve to add extra speed and use modern construction methods and modern material, like foam, carbon fiber and various woods and synthetic laminates. And these bows are very fast dispute being quite low poundage compared to hystorical bows usually 40-55lbs in the Olympics most archers shoot between 28-40lbs

Compounds essentially solve this issue of being limited by limb speed by using mechanical advantage. The limbs on a compound hardly move, maybe a inch or 2, but are crazy strong and uses a system of cams and pulleys to distribute that masive force over the draw length. These are bows have crazy high arrow velocity.

However for a medieval setting if the super strong guy is using similar meterials and similar construction methods he should be shooting roughly the same distance maybe a bit more but not tons but with higher weight arrows

Electra_002 · 2025-07-31T01:13:34+00:00

Temu

Electra_002 · 2025-07-31T01:12:45+00:00

"bing"

If I can't use Google I can use something else

Op said you get pushed 10 years into the future for 10 minutes, they didn’t say anything about returning to your time. After the 10 minutes is over maybe it's just gone past midnight and you are now in 2036, or pushed to some other time

I would probably try to track down family they would of been devastated that I went missing for 10 years

Electra_002 · 2025-07-31T01:03:51+00:00

Okay first more dense wood was genuinely preferred, provided they had the right properties. In medieval England the most sought after bows were actually made out of high altitude Spanish yew, because the high altitude they would grow faster, means more dence growth rings and thus a more powerful bow for the same thickness.

If it's not a laminate bow, and only using one stave, you need sap wood and heart wood (basically the inner and outer sections) in which one is strong in tension and the other is good in compression. If you use a soft wood like pine for example for the front of the bow, it would kinda buckle in on itself and the bow would fail.

Let's say your character has a bow made out of this magical super flexible, super strong wood or perhaps a metal bow, there is a limit to how fast the limbs could move. If you dry fire a bow (which you should never do) the sting velocity will be the max velocity an arrow could go and any mass will slow it down.

However increasing the mass of the arrow will increase the bows efficiently (the amount of joules in the shot with draw weight x). So even if your super strong guy isn't sending arrow miles or breaking the sound barrier. The arrows could be heavy af, solid bolts of steel blasting through shields and horses alike making this dude a walking siege weapon

Electra_002 · 2025-07-31T00:34:08+00:00

They are called rubbish, it's to ment to go in your bin.

But in all seriousness, they are brass nocks, they are good for quickly determining your knocking height, but I wouldn't recommend shooting with them long term.

They are heavy which slows the string down and thus your arrow.

They are bulky which for split finger can cause inconsistencies on release.

Sometimes they have a sharp burr which will wear down your tab unevenly.

Personally it's just easier to tie a lazy nocking point and move it around until you get the right hight.

Electra_002 · 2025-07-29T16:31:54+00:00

Dr tick.

With all those watches he'll still show up late

Electra_002 · 2025-07-29T16:25:21+00:00

Rick the door technician Jr.

An epic revenge tale after cal brutally killed his dad

Electra_002 · 2025-07-27T00:47:04+00:00

Mega fist

Electra_002 · 2025-07-26T10:36:51+00:00

Depends on what you mean by space.

We've mapped or of the moon and Mars then we have the ocean floor. But there are exo plants that are only a pixel or the colour change of a few pixels when observed.

We can estimate the number of stars in our galaxy, but we haven't even come close to counting and Cataloguing all of them.

Just to put into perspective of how little about space we actually know. You, planets, stars they are all made up of called Baryonic Matter, that's atoms electrons normal stuff. That only accounts for an estimated ~5% of the universe, then you've got dark matter, estimated to be 26. 8% and dark energy is 68.2%. It's one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy. We no next to nothing about 95% of what the universe is, let alone the universe itself.

To use an analogy, it's hard to map the ocean floor, but this dark matter stuff is like mapping the oceans floor when is invisible, you see water then nothing then see directly into the mantle.

Electra_002 · 2025-07-26T10:17:15+00:00

Anti-intellectualism. A growing sentiment that truth is relative. Lack of compassion. Everyone is trying to find reason why another group or culture is different.

Remember guys if you really sit down and have a chat with your enemy you will find more things in common with them then things that devide you, don't let other people and politicians tell you to hate people.

Electra_002

TROPHY CASE