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the choo choo train making veiny gains
May 5 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@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]
Apr 13 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
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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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.
Mar 28 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
@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.
Jan 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Jan 6 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Dec 2, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Dec 2, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
By TNG/DS9/VOY canon I'm talking carpeted hallways, cozy interior sets, noncorporeal lifeforms of the week, tachyon rifts that shift people to parallel dimensions where everyone acts like it's England in 1422, and long lingering shots of the ship in space with soulful horn music. Sound design based primarily on the ambient sounds of the ship, too. Music is incidental, not constant. No flashy camera work either, it needs to be shot like a Law and Order episode.
Oct 2, 2024 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
This isn't helped by the fact that most men these days dress like disorganized schlubs and suck at conversation. Dress sharply in a way that communicates self confidence while looking good to most women and be fun to talk to and the (dating) world is your oyster. Dressing well starts with being in shape. Don't look like you try TOO hard to be fit, but look like you take care of yourself. Only men find muscles and vascularity attractive. You can do that for yourself, but it's all for you. For women, the 1960s look is the sweet spot. Image
Oct 1, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I'm convinced that the answer to this is temporary plural marriage as good guys take the single women in their spheres underwing as 2nd, 3rd, etc wives, solving the unmarried millennial women crisis while acknowledging the real dearth of marriageable millennial men on the market. Obviously you raise the kids with the explicit message that the circumstances of their upbringing was a strictly temporary measure in response to unprecedented social pressures. It's unconventional, but it seems far better than the alternative we seem headed for.
Sep 18, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The problem is that the Avatar sets were all gay na'vi animal shit instead of Heinleinian RDA machine porn and so of course the sets were all pegwarmers. Make a $300 minifig scale playset of the fusion-powered whaling ekranoplan that's nearly 3' long and has all of the whaling vehicles and that shit would have sold like hotcakes.
Sep 10, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I actually tend to get very bleeding heart with this one. The idea that everyone has infinite potential and poor people are just temporarily embarrassed neurosurgeons and L7 dev leads and ivy league humanities professors is possibly the cruelest thing that we've come up with. Because it gives us moral cover to allow the blue collar economy to implode while the reality is that every factory that shuts down doesn't free these people to become PMCs or whatever.
Aug 24, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Donald Trump should demonstrate his keen understanding of just what being "a celebrity" ACTUALLY means in The Year of Our Lord 2024 by having The Costco Guys start showing up at rallies and being his hype men. Would be worth more to zoomers than 100 washed up 90s/00s celebs.
Image His people should just start spamming YouTube and Tiktok with Skibidi Kamala Harris memes and surreal content farmed out to those Indian CGI sweatshops that make those bizarrely bad YouTube kids vids.

"We want the brainrot vote."
Aug 11, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
What an incredibly bearish outlook for the mouse. >they recast it and completely blew it up and remade it after the disastrous fan response to the set leaks

Ok maybe now I feel bullish about this part

Jul 30, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
If you actually gave a shit about the environment you'd throw Iran tier trade embargoes on ALL economic activity with China, India, and every single nation that doesn't meet US/EU industrial emissions standards while fast-tracking >200,000MW of nuclear generation capacity. So that electricity is now essentially free and EV/heat pump/induction cooking uptake becomes such a no-brainer that it becomes a default consumer preference within half a decade.
Jul 11, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The real moment that killed passenger zeppelins wasn't the Hindenburg, but the loss of the R-101 when it crashed and took a lord with it and erased any interest that the Brits ever had in large passenger airships. Without transatlantic competition, they became a German curiosity.



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Image There's a parallel world where the R-101 doesn't embark on an ill-conceived demonstration flight to India before promptly lawn darting into the French countryside and becoming a multillion quid fireball because they hadn't worked the kinks out of the design.
Apr 29, 2024 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
@GlomarResponder D&D's hearts clearly weren't in it anymore and the actors were all off of their original contracts and were getting punishingly expensive to re-sign with each successive season and so what should have taken all of S9 was compressed down to a single incoherent episode. @GlomarResponder S8 should have been The Long Night, S9 The Fall of Danerys, and S10 A Dream of Spring.
Apr 28, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Jimmy Carter, in response to the '79 oil crisis, pushes rams through a Shinkansen style upgrade of the NYC<->DC corridor to 150mph+ service. Despite the '80 election and cost overruns, Tip O'Neill sees to it that service starts by 1984, on the condition that it extends to Boston. As Governor Michael Dukakis cuts the ribbon to the Boston extension (on a new ROW via Providence, Hartford, and New Haven) in 1987, pressure mounts to have similar services built on the West Coast and in the Midwest. Ground doesn't break until 1993 after Clinton gets in.
Mar 24, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
It's not that George wasn't political with Star Wars, it's that he was way better at being political with Star Wars than Disney's 115IQ redditors will ever be and he had far more interesting things to say politically than the superficial idpol pandering that's come in his wake. A Lucas helmed sequel trilogy probably would have had cool things to say about how hard it actually is to wield power once you win or how fading empires chase the highs of their better predecessors to distract from struggles and failures at home.
Mar 20, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
It's not a "practical effects power armor", it's a "suit". A plastic costume dept suit, no different from hundreds hundreds of others that have been in movies or on TV. Also, the "practical effects" canard has never meant less in an era when you can just up and 3D print shit from renders. True model making is a dead art now. These days someone probably just stole a fan's mesh and ran it through their resin printer and spent a day airbrushing it.
Mar 19, 2024 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
This observation is actually a great example of good art coming from limitations. Say, 90s era Trek etc had a meager per-episode budget because a season was 24+ episodes, so they went with simple sets and static camera work that allowed for quick takes to keep on schedule. This meant that necessarily a lot of the episode was going to be people standing and talking while the camera barely moved. So the dialogue needed to be tightly written and enticing and the costumes needed to look GREAT, or else Joe Sixpack would change the channel.
Mar 3, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@EricRichards22 My headcanon for an adaptation would be to do Feyd as a Jaime Lannister/Prince Hectoresque figure, a good man born into a shitty family and corrupted by it so that he eventually gives his life for it out of a sense of honor. A better man than Paul, in a lot of ways. @EricRichards22 Then treat the otherwise two dimensional Rabban as more of a cold, calculating Tywin Lannister sort of figure. A "I did what I did to secure Arrakis and a future for my family and nobody else had the courage to do it!" sort of anti-hero.