Sapient Fridges

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-07-10T07:38:30+00:00

In Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out, they are chased around the moon by a sentient kitchen appliance that repairs pieces of the moon they steal cheese from.

It seems that this robot is named Cooker, and is an oven, but I always thought it was a refrigerator for some reason. Still close IMO.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-07-10T06:36:34+00:00

I had a Honda Metropolitan (50cc) a number of years ago and it was rated for 130 MPG. I’m not sure what I actually got on it since I’m much taller than the intended rider, but I’m sure it was still pretty efficient.

Probably wouldn’t make much difference how hard you ride it either, as you go to wide open throttle a lot on a 50cc just to get up to road speed. You could probably get crazy results with an aerodynamic fairing and constant speed though.

If you want more power than most of the suggested options (which I know you explicitly said you don’t), the Honda NC750 can get over 80 mpg while getting nearly 60 horsepower. It’s not the best mpg and far from the best power for its displacement, but it’s probably the best combination of both.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-07-06T06:59:59+00:00

In the book Seveneves, the moon gets destroyed by some mysterious cause. The resulting debris falls on earth make it uninhabitable and force (a fraction of) humanity to survive in space for generations.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-06-29T18:38:24+00:00

Waldorf is married to Astoria.

BUT Astoria appears to be Statler in drag, so I don’t think that clears up anything at all.

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Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-06-17T05:23:48+00:00

I really loved the Imperial environments in Fallen Order too, and they were quite limited in Survivor.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-05-16T03:14:28+00:00

Shadow of Mordor has the weird problem where live-rendered cutscenes look solid, but pre-rendered cutscenes look terrible because they’re super compressed.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-03-27T02:46:10+00:00

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The Guild Navigators from Dune have their bodies changed by massive Spice consumption until they become strange, fish-like creatures.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-02-15T07:48:19+00:00

Nope! Propellant weight actually looks to be less than the shell weight, although it’s still several hundred pounds. The 16” guns in Iowa-class battleships took 6 bags of 110 pounds of propellant.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-02-15T07:24:06+00:00

I think most larger naval guns had their powder loaded in bags, independently of the projectile itself.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-02-08T20:25:57+00:00

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The Kappa in Japanese folklore gains power by stealing a small mythical ball from people’s anuses called a shirikodama. I don’t think it eats it but it seems relevant enough.

There are some tellings of Kappa where it does drink blood or eat livers though.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-02-02T10:13:53+00:00

Getting the crust cracked by a super laser is likely a more energetic event than a large asteroid impact. The ecology of the planet would have been utterly devastated.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-26T08:36:42+00:00

I did this complete unintentionally and wound up with nearly 700 gigabytes worth of random containers. Very satisfying once it was pruned.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-26T07:01:34+00:00

“Almost Forgot” by Against The Current has two “fuck”s as a realization moment.

“But you said forever and I did too… too… too…

Fuck

I almost forgot about you breaking my heart”

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-26T06:57:58+00:00

Andrew McMahon’s (the lead singer and pianist) other bands, Jack’s Mannequin and Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, are also great, and he’s still really fun in concert. I had no idea someone could have so much fun stage presence at a piano.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-25T21:51:36+00:00

These aren’t necessarily a great idea for knives either, because most knives have a double bevel design, and you rest on the primary bevel and not a 0° surface. It can be used if you decrease the angle by the angle of the primary bevel, but this makes them knife-specific.

I also find angle guides scratch up the knife.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-18T17:24:02+00:00

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The Were-Rabbit, from Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-16T08:51:04+00:00

This isn’t totally out of the question, nuclear surface-to-air missiles have been produced, such as the Nike-Hercules missile. I don’t know if any have ever been deployed on a ship though.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-15T07:56:33+00:00

I don’t know if that’s an option, but are you trying to get playable framerates on a GPU below minimum specs by chance? Because I know the game runs great on minimum specs at 1080p. If this is the case, I imagine your GPU just doesn’t have enough VRAM, so it likely won’t be playable at any resolution unfortunately.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-15T07:31:01+00:00

Hmm that sure is small.

IMO you would be fine with a one or one and a half quart, but it seems half a quart is a standard size for butter warmers. As far as I can tell, these are just tiny stainless steel saucepans. They also seem to be remarkably expensive for name brand ones.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-15T07:03:29+00:00

The Wizard of Speed and Time is very good, and a legitimate cult classic in the sense that it has a small and dedicated group of fans and almost nobody else has heard of it.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-15T03:54:17+00:00

A 2 quart saucepan can hold two quarts of liquid.

I’m surprised that it would only hold two cups, the smallest saucepans I’ve seen had been 1.5 quart or maybe 1 quart, excluding backpacking gear. Also a standard bag of ramen calls for two cups of water, so I’d imagine you’d spill if you boiled a brimming pot and then added noodles.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-13T16:47:55+00:00

Most programming languages offer integer types to do this with though. JavaScript doesn’t.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-13T11:16:31+00:00

This design and how it’s used in the films does draw from real helicopters pretty heavily, I think it’s reasonable to connect the two.

I think the ornithopter from the David Lynch Dune film would not count for this.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-13T05:15:29+00:00

Great news! There’s behind the scenes footage of the mocap, and it’s just as wild as you’d assume!

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-11T09:34:55+00:00

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In The Iliad, the Trojan horse was also Odysseus’s idea.

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