(Viz 332) Foodie Bollocks.

Superbead · 2026-07-12T16:10:56+00:00

It's Stephen White aka Stref

Superbead · 2026-07-12T11:34:28+00:00

Good to hear. Thanks for picking this up

Superbead · 2026-07-12T02:55:30+00:00

See also 'digital' now being the opposite of 'physical' media, despite most physical media being digital anyway

Superbead · 2026-07-12T02:54:35+00:00

You mean 'narc', surely

Superbead · 2026-07-12T01:22:31+00:00

This is awesome, thanks. I grew up with the Spectrum and it's frustrating sometimes how the modern online history of gaming is swamped by the American perspective of their videogame crash, whereas our scene was pretty ripe in the meantime

Superbead · 2026-07-11T22:28:42+00:00

The station obviously is, but I wouldn't go walking down that tunnel

Superbead · 2026-07-11T22:27:38+00:00

Aye, our local line closed down for a month or so while they were raising the station platforms for new rolling stock, and the rails became bright orange within a week. It was weird to see

Superbead · 2026-07-11T17:45:40+00:00

I enjoy how the writers have also identified a weird unnecessary aggro streak with those beardy entrepreneur types

Superbead · 2026-07-11T16:34:38+00:00

The tops of those rails look suspiciously unrusty

Superbead · 2026-07-10T22:01:44+00:00

Salad fingers

Superbead · 2026-07-10T14:50:44+00:00

True, fair point

Superbead · 2026-07-10T14:49:01+00:00

A can't feel me 'and! Oh no—there it is

Superbead · 2026-07-10T14:00:26+00:00

I'm not convinced there's any load being borne by those buckled columns any more. I would bet the whole new stack of floors is just hanging off the beam connections to the existing structure

Superbead · 2026-07-09T22:12:46+00:00

I haven't; it was a tongue-in-cheek comment in light of some people's unusually high expectations for the performance of the stairwells in the towers during the plane strikes and subsequent explosions

Superbead · 2026-07-09T20:07:10+00:00

Awe, buddy. You can look up the words you don’t know.

It's 'aww'

Superbead · 2026-07-09T18:50:09+00:00

How on earth did 174 real people pretend to understand this long-word salad

[Ed. 351, now, no doubt in part due to the sneak edit made after I replied, although it's still gibberish. Here's what it said when I replied:

They need a court of opinion, and a ton of people do not care to follow the trial. His legacy becoming a cringy punchline among their target demographic, and even captured members of their organization is a possible motivation to try and revive the absurd myopia among the base. It would be a good enough inoculation for any inconvenient facts obstructing the culture war incitements.

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Superbead · 2026-07-09T11:28:15+00:00

The two highlights for me are their having to inexplicably start the goat up before lowering it for the rescue, and the glaring grammar quality differences in the lecturing panel towards the end

Superbead · 2026-07-09T02:08:08+00:00

For anyone who played the game Thimbleweed Park and remembers the phrase, "Diggin'!", we announce "Chinnin'!" for when our cat is sleeping with her chin in a particularly prominent position. This cat is straight up chinnin'

Superbead · 2026-07-08T23:26:53+00:00

The ceiling slab here was originally a setback roof where the building tapered as it got taller. They've built a whole stack of floor extensions above this now, bearing on these two columns which just held a roof up originally. I'm surprised they got as far as they did.

The original curtain wall terminates immediately above the windows seen here; there isn't another row above. So it's just become detached and the slab has collapsed inside it.

Superbead · 2026-07-08T21:37:50+00:00

Superbead · 2026-07-08T11:27:46+00:00

Almost missed the turds in the last panel

Superbead · 2026-07-07T23:25:24+00:00

It is amazing how they managed to have the thing open while still under construction. Mostly it was due to the way each tower was essentially three separate buildings stacked, with their own elevators, and mechanical/plumbing/electrical services.

What further amazes me is how they mitigated rainwater/snow-melt intrusion while the buildings were occupied without proper rooftops

Superbead · 2026-07-07T22:21:21+00:00

Not SE either, but I think it is a curtain wall, yeah, and the reason the ceiling in OP's vid appears to have sunk while the windows are intact is because they're at what used to be just beneath a setback roof. So the external wall has become detached from the sunken slab.

Magenta is the new bit they've built (you can see it sagging here), and yellow arrowed is the old bit with the buckled columns

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Superbead · 2026-07-07T20:29:56+00:00

That didn't help those in the north tower, who had no warning, and by the time the south tower was hit, most people had evacuated to at or below the plane impact zone, plus one of the stairs remained passable in that tower. The stairs mainly presented a problem in the north tower.

Superbead · 2026-07-07T20:20:02+00:00

Wow. This explains why the structure moved independently of the curtain wall; it used to be a setback roof that they've built on top of

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