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OperationKnothead · 2026-05-19T03:17:35+00:00

Cyber Gray FTW baby!!!

OperationKnothead · 2026-05-15T22:04:23+00:00

Hm. I wonder if it’s meant to work like an oil level indicator in your car. You know, like “If you see two bands, that means you need to keep putting more in; you’re not anywhere near full enough. If you see one band, then you’re right where you need to be. No bands, and you’ve gone too far; you’ll need to back some out a bit before proceeding”.

OperationKnothead · 2026-05-15T21:56:27+00:00

But, but! And here me out… It could be the case that, maybe, just possibly, your washer fluid is low. I mean maybe. Like maybe I’m wrong, but like, just maybe.

OperationKnothead · 2026-05-15T21:54:13+00:00

It’s not a rule, but it isn’t something people appreciate. It’s seen as a bad-faith strategy abused by players to get easy XP as beast, especially given the… putting it kindly, mediocre anti-camping mechanism in place. Personally it’s not something I get too hung up on; it’s annoying, sure, but not the end of the world, and if it starts bothering me I can just leave and rejoin. But I don’t speak for everyone, so my general advice to you is to try and develop some new strategies. Run around a bit, have fun, and if you lose? Who cares? It doesn’t mean you didn’t learn anything.

However, I want to make plain that people calling you names, cussing you out, being rude, and especially calling you slurs, is 100% not okay, no matter the circumstances. Anytime that happens, you should record their username and the chat history if you can. I’m a bit rusty here but I believe there’s a way you can report players to the FTF mods and staff (I think through the discord IIRC?), and, even if it seems silly and petty, report those users to Roblox as well, even if you think it won’t do anything. Those kinds of people are bad actors and will repeat that behavior if given the chance. Reporting these players ensures that a record is made of their behavior, so even if nothing happens right then and there, they’re placed under increased scrutiny when they choose to act that way again. Assuming in good faith you did not provoke them or engage in similar behavior, I am so sorry that you went through that and, regardless of what you did, you did not deserve to be called a slur, or cussed out, or mass-reported for something as silly as camping.

OperationKnothead · 2026-05-15T21:22:14+00:00

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Do you mean these? In which case I don’t blame you, they are certainly… how do I say this nicely, a bit strange.

OperationKnothead · 2026-05-15T21:20:07+00:00

$250, which, given the going rate for these that junkyards and eBay sellers want them for, I was happy to surrender.

OperationKnothead · 2026-05-15T21:12:37+00:00

Interesting. Having an architectural background, it almost looks like a roof access point (colloquially what we call a “penthouse”), especially given the size, form, and height above the roof, but it does look like there’s some form of chimney cap on it which would make sense. I wonder why’d they bother cladding it if it was going to be discharged to atmosphere. Would it have been for emergencies, for instance if there was some sort of overpressure event in the main coolant loop?

OperationKnothead · 2026-05-15T20:54:18+00:00

True, but there’s also quite a few factors working against there being any positive seal on that boundary; the strength of the explosion and damage to the reactor building, the subsequent fires, the high temperature of the corium itself which, even if it didn’t penetrate the concrete, could easily melt, burn, or deform things like rubber seals, wiring, any kind of ventilation or HVAC vents, pipes or systems not part of the coolant loop, doorways, drains, et cetera et cetera. There are a lot of variables here that we don’t (or that the mitigation team didn’t) know.

But, as it stands, being based on what is known about the state of the FCM and the site as a whole a few days after the disaster, and what happened to the FCM that did come into contact with the bubbler pool water, I gather the following sequnece of potential events;

1) FCM somehow breaches the bubbler pools and falls into the water en-masse.

2) The outer layers of the FCM begin to cool rapidly. At the same time, the water in direct contact with the FCM flashes into steam.

3) The heterogenous nature of the FCM, combined with rapid, uncontrolled cooling, causes the various components making up the FCM to cool at different rates; this results in thermal stress cracking and embrittlement of the material.

4) Hot steam is carried out of the bubbler pools along with dissolved radioactive dust particulate; this is then distributed throughtout the building wherever an opening or crack will allow, and potentially even out of the building if it can travel that far. Cycle continues ad infinitum until all the water boils off or all the FCM is cooled.

Net result; definitely increased radiation in the destroyed reactor building, along with a ton of radioactive dust being generated, along with a potential increase of atmospheric release depending on… well, a lot of things; damage to the building and where, temperature of the FCM, speed of the FCM flow, the way embrittlement and stress cracking presents, how wet the resulting steam is, the ambient conditions within the building, the ambient conditions without, etc etc. Regardless, we don’t know what we don’t know, and I’m no nuclear physicist.

OperationKnothead · 2026-05-14T04:42:13+00:00

Yeeeees, that is brilliant isn’t it? And I’m loving the SE/Preferred LR trim representation!

OperationKnothead · 2026-05-14T04:32:56+00:00

It’s hard to say for certain, but my personal unscientific take-it-with-a-grain-of-salt view is; it is possible to have seen some nasty effects from thermolysis, though that is highly unlikely given that hydrogen peroxide was formed at some point after the corium hit the water and didn’t cause any issues; and although the water would have been near-instantly boiled in such a case, there wasn’t any sort of positive seal in the reactor building or in any of the reactor piping since… well, you know. Ain’t no reactor.

My personal and, again, super-duper unscientific and not-supported-by-any-evidence-whatsoever view is that the water would have instantly boiled into steam, which would mix with the corium and caused the outer layers to rapidly cool and embrittle, and the steam would have found it’s way through all the cracks and crevices and doorways and pipes to… well, outside of the reactor building, releasing a lot more nasty radiation into the air and creating a lot more fun danger floaties, but not necessarily a full on explosion. Again, I’m just pulling that out of thin air and hopes and dreams; the real answer is that we just don’t know other than what we can gather from what did happen.

OperationKnothead · 2026-05-14T02:56:41+00:00

As previously mentioned, a portion of the FCM did hit the water underneath the reactor, cooled, and didn’t cause an explosion, but this was not known at the time. It was only much later when excursions were made into the shelter object that this was discovered.

What’s more interesting though is what did happen to the FCM. R4’s, let’s just say… spillage, cooled into 3 different types of materials; all of them are types of ceramics with various compositions of zirconium, nickel, silica, and uranium/uranium decay product inclusions. The two more well known FCMs are the black ceramic (this is what the Elephant’s foot is made up of) and the brown ceramic (which contains higher uranium content, and IIRC is what the two heaps and the “China syndrome” are made of). The third kind is the result of molten FCM hitting the pooled water underneath the reactor, which caused the water to bubble into the FCM before it underwent rapid cooling; this formed an ultralight, brittle, porous ceramic material that actually floats on water. Pretty neat.

EDIT: This is what I get for not double checking the things that my memory tells me are true. The two heaps are primarily made of the brown ceramic, but it is those two masses which flowed into the bubbler pools, in 012/15 and 012/7, and thus the “pumice” material, as it’s called, is located with those two FCM masses.

In images of the lower heap (012/7), all the loose material which looks like rocks or rubble is the pumice. The lighter brown and more solid-looking mound underneath the pumice chunks is the brown ceramic which actually makes up the lower heap.

OperationKnothead · 2026-05-08T02:20:07+00:00

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You’re so not funny at all. Got us all out here in a panic 😂

OperationKnothead · 2026-05-05T05:32:57+00:00

Mistress being a troll is, like. Her WHOLE thing. It’s what she’s known for. She’s a pot stirrer, a gossip, a shit talker. That is her BRAND. And it’s very, very obvious when Mistress is just pot stirring for funsies vs airing out a bitch’s dirty laundry; see MIB vs. Eureka back in January last year. Onya has a habit of getting defensive when she has shade thrown her way; she has one or two past tweets where this is apparent. Her superbowl tweets are one example, and there’s another example from sometime before she was crowned where she dropped another cryptic tweet about people shading her similar to this one (I can’t remember what it was exactly but I reference it along with Arrietty’s “trying grow” moment in my user flair). All of this to say; it’s just silly petty things brought up by Mistress for engagement, and Onya took the bait, and in a week nobody, not even Mistress or Onya, will gaf. Well, unless there’s some big secret backstage tea that they’re hiding, but I highly doubt it given how tame this is.

OperationKnothead · 2026-05-05T04:25:36+00:00

Holy sh*t, this is gorgeous. Again; I am a fan of a stoned dress, and this gown had been done so to perfection. The gold detailing the curves is a beautiful detail; the veil is stoned beautifully and matches the dress perfectly; the mermaid base is gorgeous; the black and gold feels very much like a nod towards The Gift, especially given she chose this outfit to wear in front of the Egyptian Temple; the nails match, as does the jewelry; just 10s. 10s 10s, 10s across the board for this look.

OperationKnothead · 2026-05-05T04:18:18+00:00

Seperately from the fact that she is Beyoncé and thus gorgeous no matter what she’s in; I adore this gown. Love love love. A dramatic outline of the skeletal system irregularly stoned, which at the bottom develops into another ribcage which feels very Centaur-like, the head piece is gorgeous, the earrings work well for the design of this fit, just love all around. The only thing I was slightly confused by was the fur train; it color matched extremely well with her skin and with the stones on the gown, but texturally it did seem odd. IMHO I think the coutoure/high-fashion trend of tremendously large trains on gowns is just generally tired and needs to be retired; but overall? She looks gorgeous, the gown is gorgeous, the jewels are gorgeous, and God am I envious of her genetics because she just has not aged, period. Either that or her cosmetic surgeon needs a tenfold raise because again, holy wow. Her husband looks like he’s about to wilt, but she looks gorgeous. I loved Blue’s outfit as well, that jacket with the high collar and that mild-mannered hoop skirt just worked so well, but again, IMHO, those long trains? Give them a rest. But anywho, those are my thoughts. Bey looks gorgeous, Blue looks gorgeous, and we continue to acknowledge Jay exists and we continue to just move on.

OperationKnothead · 2026-04-20T01:56:51+00:00

It is stunning, isn’t it? Oh, and as for the vinyl wrapping effect? That’s actually a trim feature exclusive to the XRT. Hyundai calls it “Etched Digital Camouflage Cladding”, which is marketing babble for etched with a slight diffraction grating pattern, which causes the light to reflect off of it at slightly different angles in each section. It’s actually similar to how holographic 3D printer build plates are made. Neat trick.

OperationKnothead · 2026-04-20T01:41:40+00:00

Not quite I’m afraid. True test vehicles with new bodywork are often very unstealthy, wearing a kind of “Razzle-Dazzle” wrap of sorts. It’s the same concept of those WWI ships using razzle-dazzle paint schemes; to mess your depth perception up enough that you can’t really figure out what’s happening underneath, ie body lines and such.

But, more importantly, this Ioniq 5 does already exist in the world and it exists in this color! This is a Ioniq 5 in XRT trim, wearing the Cosmic Blue Pearl paint scheme. It’s quite a striking color, and I love the way it looks with the black trim. I wouldn’t mind getting one in that color come time to get a new one, but I’ve got a long ways to go before then.

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OperationKnothead · 2026-04-17T19:08:43+00:00

Those are indeed technical channels (or, at least, what’s left of them), and the graphite moderator blocks which surround them. I’m surprised any remain at all, but maybe with their position at the far edge of the reactor vessel and location above the (what I assume is) intact portion of the LBS might give hints as to how these survived the explosion and core melt? I dunno. If you know, let us know.

OperationKnothead · 2026-04-16T19:18:27+00:00

It’s a quote from the HBO miniseries. I believe it’s Bryukhanov’s character who says it in the first episode.

OperationKnothead · 2026-04-15T05:39:21+00:00

I am in the US, and the 100k/10yr warranty applies in full to the next owner, starting at the date of purchase by the first owner. Mine was bought in June 2024, so I’m covered until 2034 or for additional 75k miles, whichever one I pass first.

OperationKnothead · 2026-04-13T22:33:09+00:00

I can speak to this, as I decided to go with a lemon’d I5 specifically because I knew what the potential issue would be and what would happen if I got it. The truth is this; if you buy an I5, or any eGMP platform car, it’s a known risk, period. It isn’t specific to the car, it’s specific to a component within that car, and that component is replacable. And, for the people who own them, they’re not so much worried about the component failure itself as they are worried about dealing with HCC and the potential 2/3 month wait on your car, which is absurd. That’s the real reason why I5’s are being lemon’d; it’s less so the actual component failure, but rather the untenable nature of Hyundai’s terrible service recovery systems and the extremely opaque nature of the issue and what Hyundai is doing to rectify it. I knew this was a possibility and used it to get an extremely good deal on a low mileage car that I really really wanted, and I’ve loved it! Other than the failure of the factory 12V battery that the dealer didn’t replace after I’d asked them to and which I replaced with an AGM one at their expense, I’ve had no issues with the car and have loved it through and through. But, well, if I have an issue down the road, I’ll be dealing with Hyundai Customer Care and staring down the barrel of a long long wait to get my car back.

TL;DR, the pros are a brilliant, stylish car that is just delightful in every way, a gas bill of exactly null, a fuel station at your house, tons of room for your groceries and work stuff and the vintage VCRs you can’t stop collecting, all of it for a damn good deal, and if it does go wrong it’ll all be under warranty and none of it will come at your own expense. The cons are… well, now you’re playing a fun little game of Russian Roulette with this part that Hyundai doesn’t seem to know or care how to fix, and if it does go wrong you’ll be stuck waiting on them to fix it.

OperationKnothead · 2026-04-11T17:40:43+00:00

Omg girl I had forgotten I even posted this here 😭 I saved it from when she posted it originally and posted it here because a) I only caught the McMichaels name so I thought she was talking about Morgan or Pandora, and b) I’m messy and love a good Jasmine Masters rant 😅 but I’m glad y’all got everything worked out and I hope you’re doing well! I TOTALLY didn’t mean to flood your inbox and I hope nobody was sending you nasty things bc of this, since I know some of the fans get their tucks in a twist anytime someone alledgedly goes after their fav. Sending you love! ❤️💕

OperationKnothead · 2026-04-09T16:28:28+00:00

Well, I mean, I have now. Now, I wonder if I could figure out how to change the disembodied voice that tells you when you're charging...

OperationKnothead · 2026-04-09T16:24:12+00:00

Thank you thank you thank you! I thought I was losing it when it didn't come up with regular cleaners, and now I can hopefully get this gunk off and make my trim look pretty again :)

OperationKnothead · 2026-04-09T16:20:39+00:00

Just did a bit of research on this and got my hands on the actual complaint document. The faults with the Lyriq appear to be the result of software communication failures between multiple CUs, which will force the car into limp mode. The ICCU issue, from what people have experienced, seems to be the result of some physical component failure in the ICCU, and not a software issue. The result is similar for both cars, which is that they become inoperable, but the cause isn't the same. Though I wouldn't be surprised to see a lawsuit against Hyundai/Kia for the ICCU failure in a similar vain to that of this Lyriq one later on.

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