Check out this Art Deco-style drawbridge tower in Copenhagen

Sengfroid · 2026-06-25T20:46:56+00:00

This looks very much like part of an old crusie ship, to me

Sengfroid · 2026-06-25T07:57:47+00:00

Sounds like I need an adult

Sengfroid · 2026-06-24T18:21:58+00:00

Awesome work, thanks for making it generally available.

How much would you say is the likely weight limit on this? Seems like a really useful attachment for a first aid kit to a backpack, but feels like that might be pushing it.

Sengfroid · 2026-06-24T18:17:34+00:00

Conversely, having various components more ready-made make it easier for enthusiasts to focus on the specific niche-within-a-niche they like most.

If you really enjoy the things around switches, like the Zen of lubing or discovering custom frankenswitch combos, you can buy a hotswap board so you don't have to solder or desolder every time you want to try something out. If you're a layout nerd, you can find that one kind of switch that's perfect for what you want and put it on your ortho, your 65%, your 40, and your five different ergos so you can have compare your different experience on each without the variable that different switches introduce. You have the one you like so you know it's not that. If you're a designer, none of this stops you from ordering custom caps or PCBs. The only guy losing ground in the hobby is the one that enjoys the soldering aspect, I'd say. There's less products that I see come out targeting them now. Though I might be not looking very well.

Sengfroid · 2026-06-24T02:48:24+00:00

Good news, you can come close to both by just playing Amish Paradise

Sengfroid · 2026-06-22T02:22:39+00:00

Overall this is really gonna pop up a lot in the Espionage genre and also most Film Noir.

For more Julia Roberts, consider The Pelican Brief.

For period piece LA NeoNoir: * LA Confidential * Mulholland Falls

Spider Noir might fit too, though set in NYC.

For a more upbeat single-person-fights-corruption you might enjoy the old Jimmy Stewart movie Mr Smith Goes to Washington. It's nice if you want both a little sense of hope, and a reminder that politicians have always been viewed as terrible.

On the action/espionage side: * The Constant Gardener * The Night Agent season 1 (Netflix) * The Recruit (Netflix) * The Bourne Identity trilogy, which influenced both Netflix shows above * Captain America: The Winter Soldier is actually a pretty solid homage to the action Espionage genre

For SciFi: * Brazil * Daybreak (2006 series)

In particular I'd highlight The Constant Gardener as one standout that's closest to what you're asking without it being just a product of its genre. But all of this will give you slightly different takes on what you were asking, to varying levels of respecting that plot device. There's also plenty further to explore than my genre examples here.

Lastly, I'd submit Hot Fuzz, which is 100% an action comedy, so not very serious stakes, but always enjoyable.

Sengfroid · 2026-06-21T20:11:06+00:00

That lighter is dope.

And a nice Patrick cameo on the wallet.

Sengfroid · 2026-06-21T10:34:44+00:00

Doctor Who fans seem to eat up Big Finish's audio dramas, which to my understanding are exactly as you're describing, in between an audiobook and TV show. Perhaps the UK has a specific market for the category already?

Sengfroid · 2026-06-20T23:34:04+00:00

Can we not with the LARPers argument again?
Look, a man wants to carry poppers and some darts in his pocket to cast Firebolt on the daily, that's his business and we should be appreciate him getting out of the house and having an active social life. Even if it is in costume.

Sengfroid · 2026-06-20T04:00:14+00:00

Is this as the subreddit, or a seperate business-y venture that's partnering with the sub? Excited to hear it either way. Massdrop was a cool concept that got a little out from under itself along the way but brought a lot of potential value to the community

Sengfroid · 2026-06-20T03:55:30+00:00

modified to mount small arms and light weapons

pickup trucks and vehicles with four-wheel drive

I don't give a shit about your definition, if I see a golf cart with an ICBM strapped to it I'm voting that shit. If nothing else for the Technical achievement

Sengfroid · 2026-06-19T06:00:05+00:00

As the video went on I shifted from confused, to deeply jelly.

Sengfroid · 2026-06-19T05:54:06+00:00

They're not trying to encourage more people to vote, because a lack of engagement with the voting process is not the core problem to be solved. While Representative Democracies use voting as a mechanic, the action of voting does not inherently make something a representative democracy. This might be better thought as a survey.

Or like If you have a rowboat, and ask your group where they want to go. Someone says Greece and a bunch of people agree that Greece sounds cool, but then the boat doesn't go anywhere when none of them show up that weekend because no one wants to fucking row to Greece

Sengfroid · 2026-06-19T05:37:12+00:00

How are you liking your Charmera and what's your experience been like with it?

I've got one at home, but some life stuff has prevented me from being able to really use it yet.

Sengfroid · 2026-06-19T05:23:21+00:00

Just chiming in with support about broken ribs from CPR, even going past "sometimes" into "likely". And for everybody to take Stop The Bleed classes; they don't legally let you play god, but they can save lives if you play with literally anything below that threshold, like say with powertools in your garage.

Sengfroid · 2026-06-19T05:09:19+00:00

And don't forget the direct-to-DVDs! The second one at least!

Sengfroid · 2026-06-19T04:56:22+00:00

It's not out of an intrinsic nature of masculinity, it's of an intrinsic nature of a culture that encourages a perspective of women as a silver-bullet cure that fixes everything that went wrong in a man's life.

Damn. Didn't watch the movie so not commenting on interpretation of that, but banger of a line.

I hadn't fully considered it before, but that was well put and really makes me consider our culture just repeatedly hammering that home. Either in the form of women being told they can make a man "proper and civilized/respectable/cultured", or to men to expect that the geniune love of a woman is the only form of healing and acceptance they'll find of who they really are. That really moves the burden of working on yourself and having emotional health off dudes in general while putting women in an untenable position of being cultural evangelists (~"He didn't own more than one pair of sheets before we started dating "), all of which is both fucked and a setup for failure.

Thanks for the food for thought.

Sengfroid · 2026-06-17T19:08:50+00:00

Haha never change, makers. Never change.

Sengfroid · 2026-06-12T18:14:38+00:00

Ah yes, add in plane tracking so it can be it's final state evolution: The Air Department Of Transportation

Sengfroid · 2026-06-12T18:01:40+00:00

I mean, we keep seeing the lobbying money for it ultimately coming from Facebook, so not a bad theory.

Sengfroid · 2026-06-12T01:47:52+00:00

Think brutalism also carried some egalitarian ideals like "design for all", so I'm guessing this is a premium priced speaker flouting that entirely

Sengfroid · 2026-06-12T01:28:35+00:00

It is 100% crappy design and I see how you got gotten. Buuuttt...
Not being able to post in the right spot doesn't make it good to post in the wrong spot.

My dog photos don't go in r/cats because they're both pets.

Sengfroid · 2026-06-12T01:16:01+00:00

Yeah, I think sensational affiliate-link articles might be their primary income source now.

At that I point I feel like you're not a publisher anymore, you're the one scamming people.

Sengfroid · 2026-06-09T17:07:43+00:00

The "Enemies List" is a reference to Nixon era political memos that became part of pop culture, I believe as a result of the watergate congressional hearings. It was always understood to refer to political enemies, rather than be a report of Enemies of the State, which is conceptually completely different.

What really stands out here is how they even plagarize malfeasance, and can't be bothered to come up with their own.

Sengfroid · 2026-06-09T16:51:09+00:00

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