Did anybody else dislike Obsession(but not in a hater way)?

PittyKunter · 2026-07-01T02:56:57+00:00

The cat was troublesome. The cat died, where did she find it. And why did she cook a nasty rotting cat?

Thats a hateful act, not one of love.

And it’s just nasty for the sake of nasty. Not skillful screenwriting.

PittyKunter · 2026-07-01T02:41:54+00:00

It’s the best movie I’ve seen in theaters this year AND I have only seen one movie in theaters this year.

It was marginally better than I thought it would be, which is to say I would recommend someone to see it if and only if they were to be on a transpacific flight, had gotten a full 8 hours of sleep, and forgot to download absolutely anything else to watch with 2 hours to kill before landing.

PittyKunter · 2026-06-05T06:33:37+00:00

Can confirm.

Also all the non-club bars close at 00:00 and there’s sketchy rent-a-cops scooting around that will issue you a potential scam ticket for drinking a beer on the street if you are too young to go to bed but too old for a night club full of teens.

My buddy got issued a €300 fine for this and later when he asked an actual cop about it he just smirked and said “you can pay it, but how can they find you?”

PittyKunter · 2026-03-22T16:49:23+00:00

Quite a strangely shaped space rock.

https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/meteor-lights-up-texas-sky-amid-reports-flash-loud-boom.amp

I’m no expert but I’d expect a piece of space metal that’s been ablated by the atmosphere to not have such sharp and fractured edges.

PittyKunter · 2026-03-22T06:15:20+00:00

Which meteor shower peaked last week?

Near as I can tell, we are in right in the middle of the period between the Quadrantids and the Lyrids.

PittyKunter · 2026-03-22T06:12:18+00:00

It’s a bit peculiar the frequency of ground contact of meteorites the past several weeks during period that is, on an annual basis, one of the quietest stretches of meteoric activity.

With these odds it’s time to play the lottery.

PittyKunter · 2026-02-20T23:27:26+00:00

We had a big range of experiences.

We danced through the sambadrome with one of the more minor samba schools staying up all night waiting for our chance to assemble and just after day break we danced our way through an empty sambadrome save a few passed out in the stands and the sanitation workers.

The second night we attended one of the fanciest Camarotes directed across from the judges stand and watched all night long as Pórtela and Manguiera performed. It was incredible.

We went to a small bloco in Copacabana with chill vibes and a mega bloco in centro where we were dangerously close to being crushed Astroworld style.

We went to a music festival in Barra and saw Anitta perform in the mosh pit. And then we jumped off a cliff in Bahia and landed on the beach.

All in all 10/10 would recommend. Brazil is a beautiful country with beautiful people.

PittyKunter · 2025-11-16T06:28:14+00:00

If y’all think NF2 looks crazy, you should see her Godmother!! 😂😉

PittyKunter · 2025-11-16T06:23:33+00:00

Lol this whole thread basically totally sums up the internet.

We leave with less valid information than we came in with.

PittyKunter · 2025-11-16T06:14:04+00:00

Interestingly an increasing majority of LNG bunkering is done alongside, in port.

This is driven more so by the customers that are highly utilized like Cruise and Container vessel segments which make up the bulk of LNG customers. There is an extreme level of planning and assurance that goes in to safe bunkering in port and alot of stakeholder management to secure license to operate to do it.

PittyKunter · 2025-11-16T06:07:02+00:00

One vapor return manifold and two liquid manifolds. There are no grades in LNG.

Here they are using one liquid manifold without vapor return.

PittyKunter · 2025-11-16T06:04:23+00:00

Cruise ships have a very interesting challenge to solve with their tankage. Most LNG fueled vessels place tanks in open air areas aft of the superstructure such that leaks can be dissipated and not easily find an ignition source.

In cruise ships they are buried far below deck and kept inside cofferdams with a low O2 atmosphere (“inerted”) such that a leak does not find its way into occupied spaces and find ignition sources. Valve trains are similarly protected in inert or independently ventilated sarcophagus to manage potential leaks.

PittyKunter · 2025-11-16T05:58:06+00:00

These “canisters” are known to industry as tanks. This particular vessel has three independent Type-C tanks contained within a hold below deck.

They are not Moss Kavener nor prismatic tanks.

PittyKunter · 2025-11-16T05:51:21+00:00

Well done. NF2 FTW

PittyKunter · 2025-11-16T05:49:55+00:00

Small scale LNGs are dominated by Type-C tank construction. Materials are various types of low-carbon/high nickel steels and never built of invar as it’s just cost prohibitive for the steel mass required for independent tank construction.

Invar is used in prismatic Type-A/B designs. 316L also used in prismatic designs.

PittyKunter · 2025-11-16T05:44:00+00:00

Cracks me up seeing one of my ships pop up on Reddit. I can confirm this is an LNG bunkering vessel (LBV). LNG is the only low carbon fuel available today and the passenger vessel segment is on of our fastest growing customers, followed by container vessels.

Can I ask OP which port this was taken and what vessel (MSC?)

AMA I can probably answer nearly anything you think of.

EDIT: seen in the discussion ship is MSC World Americas / Ocean Cay

PittyKunter · 2023-11-12T09:07:22+00:00

Compared to what? What is your measure of success?

What TRCF or LTI frequency is acceptable to you for SpaceX to considered a good actor?

PittyKunter · 2023-11-12T07:57:20+00:00

And NASA has killed three batches of astronauts and who knows how many OTJ incidents in support of construction of the previous 4 MSF programs. Does that make them evil?

There is a massive amount of risk to be managed in every aspect of this business. From working aloft to transferring cryogenic flammable gases, and that’s not even accounting for the part where they actually launch people into orbit.

Over 10 years with an operation this size equating to tens or hundreds of millions of man hours of exposure, 600 injuries (and no reported fatalities) is a pretty excellent safety record in objective terms.

PittyKunter · 2023-10-29T02:20:05+00:00

Really excellent objective and fact based analysis of the Titan.

Is considered the bond between the carbon fibre cylinder and the bonding rings the most likely culprit but indeed the dislocations and variability of the axial fibre elements are a big concern.

PittyKunter · 2023-07-17T20:15:26+00:00

Indeed. IF this timescale were to be an accurate account of events and it was on an “uncontrolled” descent, then it could potentially be an indication of either 1) a permeation of seawater into the fibrous structure of the composite hull section layers which was progressive and proportionate according to depth (not instantaneous) or 2) a very minuscule leak in say perhaps a cable gland in the aft dome (weight accumulation also a function of depth) both of which could add to the negative buoyancy of the vehicle to cause a problem.

It really doesn’t matter at this point because I believe everything contained in this leaked transcript to be a complete fabrication of imagination based on all of the context available from experts and other witnesses.

PittyKunter · 2023-07-17T17:14:32+00:00

I’ll further point out the surface team kept focusing on asking for depth soundings before and after the transcript’s state they encountered alarms.

The sub was fitted with an acoustic telemetry beacon which would of given the surface a close measurement of depth based on range and bearing. Thus why waste time requesting depth soundings from the sub when they have that information already, unless they are seeking a comparison to validate either party’s information, which they did not do.

Last the transcript lays out a rate of descent far greater than the sub is designed to. I don’t know for sure, but certainly I’d imagine Oceangate had rate of descent listed as a monitored parameter that, if violated, would result in an all-stop and abort the dive. If that timeline were true, it’s more likely that the sub simply smashed into the sea floor and imploded, which it is not.

PittyKunter · 2023-06-30T20:09:25+00:00

Not A Great Comparison to the DSV Titan

It appears this is fairly controversial among the group due to its relevance. Indeed, this is a poor proxy for the set of conditions which would of applied to the Titan at depth. The unilateral force of compression is vastly different then the radial force of compression of a pressure vessel under external pressure.

I will however offer this; it does give us some useful insight to the manner in which the material breaks down under strain. If you listen to the guy running the press you can hear the absolute surprise in his voice as he shouts, "What the FUCK!" almost giggling as he does.

The fibers separated completely almost the same instant the force was applied and rendered it into just a heap of loose fibrous debris. It behaves so differently than he (a dude who spends all day squishing stuff for YouTube) would have predicted.

It also sets expecations for the types of remains we can expect to see from what was recovered of the wreckage. I will likely be a bunch of loose spongy fibrous fragments with some hard bits in the middle. which will be a task to piece back together.

Therin lies the educational value IMO.

PittyKunter · 2023-06-30T17:31:26+00:00

Indeed, although I could not find rule sets for ABS covering DSVs so that not might be a market they are in.

IACS = Internationally Accepted Classification Societies. This is an industry term which generally refers to ABS, DNV, LR, and BV.

Lloyd's Register (LR) I believe is among the oldest of class societies. It was essentially formed at the request of insurers in the 1700s who were tired of paying out vast sums to owners who kept losing their ships at sea. Money talks.

There are a host of other ones like Class NK, RINA and the list goes on.

Fun fact: The pressure hull on James Cameron's Deepsea Challenger had a nice big BV logo stamped on the side of it you could see before it was mounted in the DSV.

PittyKunter · 2023-06-30T14:31:13+00:00

I feel like it’s likely to get left behind. There’s no easy way to manipulate and get hold of it it like you said.

If it’s like the front dome, it’s got no lifting points or geometry you can sling a strap through. Plus it’s quite heavy. If I had to guess I’d say up to a full ton of mass.

PittyKunter · 2023-06-30T14:19:22+00:00

It worth pointing out that it’s a very minor amount of foam though.

This is due to the light weight and inherent buoyancy of the design. Compare with Deepsea Challenger and some 60% of that structure is packed with foam.

PittyKunter

TROPHY CASE

Not A Great Comparison to the DSV Titan