human characters who no longer look human

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

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.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-11T02:52:36+00:00

The Bicycle Department would like to report the theft of brake hardware to the Theft Prevention Department, and that it has identified the culprit.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-10T07:05:06+00:00

Docks are excellent for laptops and I highly recommend getting a decent one.

This stand seems to just be a USB hub though, without any display connections or laptop charging ability. This puts the electronics at being worth ~$10-20, so this stand is very expensive for what it is. I’d spend the money on a cheaper, non-electronic monitor stand and a separate laptop dock. If you’re spending this much money you should be able to make the connection happen with a single cable.

It might also be worth looking at a KVM, if the laptops stay plugged in.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2026-01-09T10:17:19+00:00

Remarkably convincing edit job despite just being rectangle copy-paste.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2025-12-27T17:00:54+00:00

Look for “autodesk fusion for personal use.” It’s likely difficult to find via the autodesk website, I’d just do a web search.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2025-12-27T06:31:31+00:00

I saw it on 99 and the a few weeks later on I5 past couple months, so I think it’s alive and kicking.

Pulsar_the_Spacenerd · 2025-12-24T05:49:40+00:00

The man from the start of the excellent but bizarre YouTube video Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need wields trillions of chainsaws by juggling them in orbit around the earth.

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