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@hexbear.netThat Star Crash episode was an amazing ride. I loved it. I actually really liked the Jonah run. I think any long-running show needs regular cast changes to keep things fresh, even in a comedy show with robot puppets.
I've often thought that Monster a Go-Go was also a great introduction. The intro host segment, the short, the feature, it's just a fun ride start to finish. In terms of "syllables to laughs" ratio, Tom Servo's "'Oops'." is probably one of the best in the series.
Thanks for the link! I really like this man's speaking style. He's obviously carefully prepared his script and he's speaking very clearly. Both are such rarities on youtube. The dry joke about Lockheed Martin's timeframe at about the 20 second mark in this video made me do a genuine spit-take.
Hey, I've seen this done before, it's basically limitless power. In Minecraft.
No, really, in Minecraft - albeit modded. Some sort of chunk loader in the Nether, plus some means of pumping fluids, plus some sort of interdimensional transport of fluids, plus some sort of lava-fueled power generator (all pretty standard and easy to make in an average tech-type modpack) equals unlimited free power.
Way back when I was admining an FTB server running on Minecraft 1.7.10 and dealing with lag issues (fucking Railcraft tanks...) I just decided to put an infinite lava source at spawn using the EnderTanks mod so that players wouldn't need to put chunkloaders all over the Nether to get their lava power fix. They could just tune their own receiving tank to the same "frequency" (a three colour code) and voila, lava for power (or whatever else, like Tinker's Construct smelteries, I love that mod) without lagging the whole damn server.
And of course the second tragedy is that the AI is absolute dogshit. They're not powering an artificial general intelligence that could do useful things like help in running a modern global-scale Project Cybersyn. All this staggering amount of electricity wasted so that Github users don't need to search Stackoverflow, so that people can say "hey google set a 4 minute timer" in their kitchens instead of hitting a half-dozen buttons on their microwave, so that people can tell Alexa to play Despacito.
Funny thing is, that's already happened for Apollo 11, 14, and 15. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite has imaged the Apollo landing sites and could only see the flags standing upright for Apollo 12, 16, and 17. After 11's flag was unexpectedly blown down during the return to Earth from the ascent stage rocket's exhaust gases, NASA decided to put the flags on subsequent missions farther away from the lander. Didn't seem to work for 14 and 15.
But there's a fun and actually heartwarming twist. All the dye in the flags has been bleached out by solar radiation. They'd be recognized as American flags by the sewing stitches if you look really close-up, because the Apollo flags all had the stripes and stars stitched together. But from a distance they'd be pure white, as if we really did come in peace.
I will never forgive the administrations of George HW Bush and Bill Clinton for strangling normalized usage of PGP in the cradle by their vicious persecution of Phil Zimmermann.