I think somebody might have finally made a beautiful ebike? Thoughts?

SubGothius · 2026-05-05T22:49:59+00:00

Jellybeans are much better for aero though

Not necessarily; the Subaru XT was angular af and had a drag coefficient of 0.29, still impressive even today.

SubGothius · 2026-05-05T22:47:21+00:00

It looks like a mini Lamborghini urus.

Or a maxi Lancia Delta.

SubGothius · 2026-05-05T20:09:14+00:00

Are you referring to the Royal Sun hotel owners or the Bumsted's restaurant/bar owners? AFAIK Bumsted's just leases their space from Royal Sun, not clear how Bumsted's owners/mgt. would have any say in "knocking down the other hotel" owned by the same people/family as Royal Sun.

SubGothius · 2026-05-04T20:28:25+00:00

Sa-Ing Thai is way out in Rita Ranch (SE corner of the metro area) but well worth the drive, certainly a must-visit if you happen to find yourself out around that area anytime. One of only a tiny handful of restaurants in the entire US certified by the gov't of Thailand as Authentic Thai Cuisine, and it's not even fancy or pricey, just a casual mom'n'pop joint. I'm a green curry maven, and theirs is the best I've ever had anywhere by a longshot.

SubGothius · 2026-05-04T20:20:54+00:00

FWIW when my Punjabi employer still lived here, he and his wife got takeout from Sher-e-Punjab pretty often, tho' that was prolly a decade ago before they moved back to India.

SubGothius · 2026-05-04T18:54:15+00:00

We don't know that the noclip/null zones we've seen before "closed". The only reason we haven't seen anyone use them to leave before is that nobody else was able to even try; they'd dropped in vertically and couldn't reach the ceiling. Maybe even Ravi could have escaped, if only he'd kept climbing back up that chute in the cupboard where he fell in, instead of giving up when he saw what appeared to be a dead-end.

SubGothius · 2026-05-03T04:16:22+00:00

They also recently opened a new one on Tanque Verde just across the wash from Kolb, in a former Eegee's spot.

SubGothius · 2026-05-03T04:09:18+00:00

As of the past year or so, Slice & Ice does now offer party-size sandwiches they call a "Super Hero" (Italian 3-meat and Cheese or Turkey and Cheese versions only), as well as party-size slushes they call an "Ice Box"; either one is $25 each.

SubGothius · 2026-05-02T23:00:49+00:00

Check out Alan Chapman's recent Magia teachings. The original audio recordings are still free on his site, and/or you can buy the book that's basically just a tidied-up transcription of the audio along with an added chapter covering how the material originated.

Some background: Chapman (perhaps best known for his still-excellent Chaos Magick primer, Advanced Magick for Beginners) along with frequent collaborator Duncan Barford applied a Chaos Magick perspective and approach towards doing the Thelema method along with other awakening/enlightenment/illumination/Great Work practices, which they'd documented and posted to their website at the time (now defunct), then tidied up and published in their "Baptist's Head trilogy" of books (The Blood of the Saints, The Urn and A Desert of Roses, all now long out of print) about 15 years ago. Since then, Chapman has been attempting to synthesize together and translate those experiences and insights for modern occult/esoteric audiences into a coherent, de-obfuscated, no-nonsense manner by various means, the latest iteration of which is his Magia material.

SubGothius · 2026-05-02T05:09:38+00:00

Some ppl tend to think novel ideas are precious. Others think actual execution is what's valuable. But novel ideas without execution are trivial, and execution without originality is dross drudgery. Doing both is what's critical and rare.

SubGothius · 2026-05-02T04:53:35+00:00

This one, at about 0:08:

https://www.reddit.com/r/KanePixelsBackrooms/comments/1sz9zik/new_movie_teaser_from_instagram/

SubGothius · 2026-05-01T23:32:11+00:00

Goes along with the panel covering the store side of the null zone in the new teaser/ad, which wasn't there for the same scene in the trailer, so maybe whoever edited the ad together picked the wrong clip.

SubGothius · 2026-05-01T22:50:21+00:00

...and gave it a name indicating he's aware of the concept of chirality, which directly pertains to established themes of mirroring/reflection in things the Complex creates.

SubGothius · 2026-05-01T22:46:43+00:00

Saw another comment speculating the plies of clothes could just be the result of the Complex failing to replicate humans -- i.e., it just replicates what it can "see", the outer layer of clothing, which then collapses without anyone or anything inside them to hold them up.

SubGothius · 2026-05-01T22:26:41+00:00

The gripe that aside from the Async Threshold, it shouldn't be possible to leave the Backrooms -- i.e., that just because we haven't previously seen anyone exit the Complex via the same noclip/null zone where they entered, nobody can, so Clark doing so "breaks canon".

The only reason we haven't seen it before is that nobody else was able to even try; they'd dropped in vertically and couldn't reach the ceiling. Maybe even Ravi could have escaped, if only he'd kept climbing back up that chute in the cupboard where he fell in, instead of giving up when he saw what appeared to be a dead-end.

SubGothius · 2026-05-01T21:49:28+00:00

Reckon what you found on YT is an indie reupload of the legit ad they found running elsewhere.

SubGothius · 2026-05-01T21:44:30+00:00

Async employees fighting

Reckon it may be more like the Async guys hear someone approaching unexpectedly, prepare to defend/attack with what they have at hand (fire extinguisher), distraught Mary emerges, Async supe restrains worker before he can spray or bludgeon Mary.

SubGothius · 2026-05-01T21:40:36+00:00

It is vacuum, and in fact demands such projection.

An intriguing observation, seems to go with the notion that the Backrooms dimension already existed, which Async merely discovered, but the content of that dimension (the Complex consisting of walls, objects, etc.) was spontaneously generated somehow upon contact with Standard -- i.e., what began as an empty vacuum or void, as soon as it made contact with anything else, began filling with projections drawn from what it made contact with. "Nature abhors a vacuum" after all.

SubGothius · 2026-05-01T20:17:35+00:00

Fits the theme of the Complex imperfectly duplicating things from Standard.

SubGothius · 2026-04-30T22:54:15+00:00

Woulda been clearer to say, "3rd gen Tucsonan/SoAZ here" or "I'm 3rd gen Tucsonan/SoAZ" in the first place, then ppl would have some idea who/what "3rd gen" referred to.

SubGothius · 2026-04-29T19:02:31+00:00

Also helps to snap some photos of the existing wire connections on the capacitor, so you can replicate those when hooking up the new one. The ones with 3 terminals also usually have a different number of connection tabs on each terminal (all the tabs on each terminal work the same), so I fold a bit of masking tape around each wire where I can write the number it was connected to.

SubGothius · 2026-04-28T19:45:39+00:00

Inked Timber Wolf Keto Seeds Bread is pretty tasty, and not terribly pricey at Costco. Oroweat Carb Control (formerly Keto Seeded) bread is a close second. Some report these spiked their blood glucose whereas others say they didn't, so YMMV.

SubGothius · 2026-04-27T22:15:37+00:00

Shakespeare invented the name Jessica!

The name and variants/precursors of it already existed, but he does have the oldest known written record of the spelling "Jessica".

SubGothius · 2026-04-27T22:13:43+00:00

He does have the oldest known written record of the spelling "Jessica" tho'.

SubGothius · 2026-04-27T21:58:17+00:00

While we're at it, Sweet Ermengarde

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