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May 20 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Possibly my most basic art opinion is that this era of Chuck Close's stuff was phenomenal. Image
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So maximally 90s.
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May 5
@adventuresinod2 @Crime_Penguin @JoelLoren1 [points to protocol droid] "Listen, call [the CFO] and tell him that a little mynock told me that we might need to divert some more resources towards landing that freighter contract with the Trade Federation than we were planning to."
@adventuresinod2 @Crime_Penguin @JoelLoren1 [The engines spool up, they sound very exotic and unusually powerful]
@adventuresinod2 @Crime_Penguin @JoelLoren1 [He takes a moment to make a personal call] "Hey honey! I hope you're not busy." "Oh, nothing new, just more of the usual, you know how it's been lately. Just more of the same." "Listen, things are kinda pear shaped right now so I'm going to have to stay another night."
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Apr 13
Redditors hate the quad cab shortbed half ton with >300hp because it's literally the perfect truck and beat out everything else in the marketplace of ideas on the virtue of its own endless merits alone over the course of a 20 year grind from nothingness to total market dominance. Image
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Can it haul most anything?
Yes.
Does it have room for your whole family?
Yes.
Can it off-road?
Yes.
Can it tow most everything?
Yes.
Is it fast?
Also yes.
30 years ago this truck literally didn't exist. Most half ton shortbeds were stepsides, and the closest you could come to a quad cab on a half ton were those extended cabs with Porsche 911 tier seats fit only for small children or adults that you really hated. Image
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Mar 28
@tsarlet2 @TuckerCarlson These things are cool from an engineering design study perspective but the reality is that they're always highly compromised in terms of what average people actually need from a car (too small, too unsafe, too expensive, too impractical). But I applaud the people who build them.
@tsarlet2 @TuckerCarlson This thing, like the Aptera, etc, has more in common with aircraft design practices of like you saw used in solar cars in the 80s and 90s, and almost certainly obtains its mpg numbers from a combination of extremely light weight, low rolling resistance, and extremely low drag.
@tsarlet2 @TuckerCarlson Probably impractical for anybody but the sort of guy who drove a Honda Insight or a Tesla Roadster in the 2000s, but he should be able to build it and sell it to consumers, and these principles deserve to trickle down to more practical cars.
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Jan 16
Yet another reason why music sucks now.
Even the catered predictability of Pandora doesn't hold a candle to the tastefully varied explorative playfulness of a good DJ.
There was a time when in more or less every format your average big city had the corporate owned station playing the corporate playlist but also had 1-3 independent or locally-owned competitors that kept it on its toes with their far more varied and independent playlists.
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Jan 6
Holy shit look at how much bigger his head is than hers lmao. In awe of the sheer cranial volume of that holy noggin. Literal galaxy brain material.
Indian subcontinentals getting brutally mogged by east asians is a particularly delicious form of racial pornography.
Real "I hate you!"/"I don't even think about you." energy.
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Dec 2, 2024
That's not to say that a properly done new Star Trek show couldn't do any meta callbacks, but they'd have to be fun and reinforce the spirit of the current show rather than remind people of something better that came before.
Like, if I was a showrunner, it would be a lot of fun to do a TNG s7e11 Parallels style episode where a character gets unstuck in the present universe and starts to cycle between all of the different styles of Trek that came before.
Like, during the cold open he gets shocked by the tachyon buffer of a Class 22 probe that's going to study some nebula/anomaly/stable subspace rift, and wakes up and everyone is now wearing the red TOS movie uniforms and is anxious about the upcoming summit with the Klingons.
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