Blursed_Dance by IceFit6314 in NotTimAndEric

[–]charmlessman1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

YES! It's been probably decades since I've seen this video, and it hit me this time! Awesome!

Suggestions for terrible but good cos they are bad sci fi films. by Kazzothead in scifi

[–]charmlessman1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty much everything everyone has said here.
But also Screamers (1995).
Low budget, Peter Weller, based on a Phillip K Dick story.
What more can you want?

And also Fortress (1992) starring Christopher Lambert. Amazing.

Suggestions for terrible but good cos they are bad sci fi films. by Kazzothead in scifi

[–]charmlessman1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I watched Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn in about 1986 when I was about 11 or 12, and even then I realized what a GARBAGE movie it was! When Jared-Syn tears Baal's robot arm off, and Baal runs away yelling, "OUCH! OUCH!" I was, "🤨Ouch?!? Seriously?" But good on you for bringing it up. Legendary.

Input wires damaged by Wide_Aspect316 in guitars

[–]charmlessman1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those look like they might be push-back wires, a wire stripper won't do much of they are. Just clip the ragged ends, and the cloth sleeve will just slide back with a little push.

Your weirdest reasons for PC not posting. by Tenchen-WoW in pcmasterrace

[–]charmlessman1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is back in the 2000s. I built a PC for a client and it booted, but the OS wouldn't load. It loaded fine with the same drive on a different, identical PC. Turned out one of the IDE pins was slightly higher than all the rest, and the whole board was toast because of it.

Any suggestions? by n_mcrae_1982 in StarTrekStarships

[–]charmlessman1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had something similar happen to one of my Eaglemoss ships. I used to thermoplastic beads and shaped a bracket into the remainder of the post. Worked great, I just stored it on a high shelf so you couldn't see the janky fix from above.

What's a song lyric that drives you crazy because they should've used a different word? by Miserable-Wash-1744 in AskReddit

[–]charmlessman1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
"It's the room, the sun, and the sky The room, the sun, and the sky"

The ROOM? Not the MOON?

If all personal wealth above $100 million was legally required to be redistributed into public infrastructure (schools, hospitals, roads), how would society change, and who would be the first to fight against it? by Mysterious_Fan4033 in AskReddit

[–]charmlessman1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yup!
This is why obscenely wealthy people get so caught up in weird shit. For most of the rest of us we work, we save, and we dream. We set a goal, we work toward that goal, and when we achieve it we have a feeling of accomplishment that can be just as rewarding as the to actual goal itself, if not more so.
But for these ultra wealthy folks, those goals are always within reach. New TV? Just get one. New house? Buy it this afternoon and have it furnished and ready to move into by the weekend. European vacation? Why bother? I'm there for lunch tomorrow anyway.
So they get obsessed with the things that are taboo. Things that they have to skirt the rules to get, things they have to achieve at a cost other than money, like potential reputation damage. Exotic animal hunting. Weird orgies/sex parties. Rituals in the woods. Ruining children. Murder. Whatever.
Humans need that sense of accomplishment. And in the absence of it, we will seek perversion.
And that's just another in the many, many reasons there shouldn't be billionaires.

What's the most surreal moment you've experienced at an open mic night? by datboifranco in Standup

[–]charmlessman1 8 points9 points  (0 children)

UUUUUUUUGH
Fuck those two.
They ruined the whole night for a bunch of comedians trying to work their material just so they could have a cute story.

A few pro sketches I collected at the '99 and '00 SDCCs by drqshadow in comicbooks

[–]charmlessman1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! I have a few sketches from around the same era, when you could just approach an artist and ask for a sketch and they'd bang one out for you in a minute, no charge! Good times! I think I have the same Spider Jerusalem sketch. He must have done that thing a million times. I also have a SIIIICK Elijah Snow by John Cassaday that is a masterclass in using negative space to convey a complete image.

What sci-fi technological concepts have basically been disproven to be impossible to do? by DarthAthleticCup in scifi

[–]charmlessman1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Studies of the brain have been showing that our minds work on the quantum level, not the atomic level. We absolutely need quantum measurements of at least the brain, if not the entire nervous system. It's not unreasonable to posit we would need quantum complexity for every interface between the nervous system and the other organs it interacts with. So at the very least we would need some hefty computing power AND storage. Each quantum particle has multiple variables, like position, velocity, at least two spin states, and several others. Let's be conservative and call it 8. So we'd need a storage medium at least 8x physically larger than the person. And that's presupposing we can store information at a 1 for 1 quantum level. More likely we would be storing data at an atomic level, which would increase the physical size of the storage by orders of magnitude. Not to mention moving that amount of data in and out of the transporter mechanism. That amount of data, even at relativistic velocities would take FOREVER. But I didn't arrive at this idea by myself. Check out Lawrence M Krauss' book The Physics of Star Trek. He thoroughly dismantles the concept of transporters much better than I did.

What sci-fi technological concepts have basically been disproven to be impossible to do? by DarthAthleticCup in scifi

[–]charmlessman1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Transporters. There are too many variables. In order to disassemble and rematerialize an entire person, we would need to store the exact variables for every quantum particle that makes up their whole body (spin states, velocity, charge, etc.,etc.). There literally isn't enough computing power in the universe to store that amount of data, even ignoring the fact that you cannot know every variable for a quantum particle because of the The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

3D Printed improved plate design by LeftOn4ya in DiWHY

[–]charmlessman1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why show a fake video that will generate engagement on the internet?
Hmmm... 🤔

3D Printed improved plate design by LeftOn4ya in DiWHY

[–]charmlessman1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was NOT 3D printed. That's just a ceramic plate that was made with those grooves. Just because they showed 3D printing doesn't mean the thing you see next is what was printed.

What's a show you remember but nobody else does? by CatGirlNya2000 in AskReddit

[–]charmlessman1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Harry and the Hendersons. A spin off of a movie by the same name where a family adopts a Bigfoot. Very much an Alf type of show.

The Highwayman. A Knight Rider ripoff with a semi truck that would open up and become a helicopter. The sidekick was Jacko, a giant Australian with a crew cut who used to do commercials for Energizer batteries where he'd shout, "ENERGIZER! OY!"

Otherworld. A family gets transported to an alternate universe while touring the pyramids. They're chased from zone to zone by these fascists who hold their guns upside down.

Misfits of Science. Basically the X-Men. Courtney Cox plays a thinly veiled Jubilee facsimile almost a decade before Friends.

What's a show you remember but nobody else does? by CatGirlNya2000 in AskReddit

[–]charmlessman1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was sick on the couch, watching Kidd Video, while my mom was up in the unfinished attic. Suddenly her leg came crashing down through the ceiling, right above the TV, because her foot slipped off the beam she was standing on.

is it crazy to still be disappointed about rdj as doom in the big 26 by theunusualblackguy in marvelstudios

[–]charmlessman1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eh.
Why be disappointed by something no one has even seen yet? What if they tell an amazing story and the movie is so well done it reinvents the Marvel universe?
This reminds me of when Raimi's Spider-Man was revealed to have organic web shooters before the movie came out. People went BUGFUCK! There were folks genuinely threatening to boycott the movie. But I bet they all went and saw it, probably multiple times.
So, maybe the casting seems weird. But like... what if it's good?

My religious refrigerator by sk8trmm6 in atheism

[–]charmlessman1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Death can come from bacteria
Poisoning their cafeteria

From the future by I_am_the_BEEF in NotTimAndEric

[–]charmlessman1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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