If you’re collecting your wife because Plod have seized her untaxed car
Maybe you should check whether the car you’re using is taxed too.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 18:00,
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If Jaws was set in the North East of England
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 17:00,
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I've recently discovered this chap
and I heartily recommend the one where he speaks to the man in the crisps.
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Varmint, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 17:47,
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Big fan myself. May I recommend this
Edgar Allan Poe murder mystery?
mobile.twitter.com/MisterABK/status/1309418988003352577
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 19:44,
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He's spot on with the black sands
A few minutes down the road we have a black beach caused by decades of coal mining.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 7:13,
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whenever i think of north east beaches
I think of the end of Get Carter
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I spent several happy holidays on the beach at Bamburgh as a kid
and didn't once get shot in the head by a sniper.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sat 6 Feb 2021, 18:07,
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The KLF - Come Down Dawn (Chill Out plus and/or minus)
Sounds the same to me, I'm a few tracks in. This is the one I was waiting for.
Edit - It's in all the streaming places, this official vid was just the easiest way to share.
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George Blank my 2nd last sig was funny, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 13:21,
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Apparently it's significantly different from about 20 minutes in - the theory being that they couldn't get clearance for some of the samples.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 13:57,
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Makes sense
Haven't listened to it through in a while, but really missed Elvis popping up.
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George Blank my 2nd last sig was funny, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 14:12,
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The Daily Braille
Coverts all your favourite Daily Mail articles to braille
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 12:18,
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Are you meant to print it out?
It might be too rough on the bum
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 13:08,
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They must have sensitive fingers.
I can't feel a thing on this tablet.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 20:03,
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OK, which one of you.....
Yorvik Grass carvings
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Hummel Who died and made you....oh wait...., Thu 4 Feb 2021, 11:24,
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I reckon it's aliens
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 11:28,
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Blob Opera
Here's a fun machine-learning experiment thing from Google Arts & Culture. Make four blobs sing.
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smiggy, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 11:20,
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made my day
Ta clickly
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slartifartfast When all around are losing their heads, duck., Thu 4 Feb 2021, 11:50,
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Nice isn't it.
My pal who sent me the link works in speech therapy, and apparently it is something they are making use of.
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smiggy, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 15:34,
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science!
just remembered how much i loved this show as a kid
edit: poster's youtube account's been fried. that'll learn him to poach auntie's gold
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Yes!
And Prof. Heinz Wolff's appearance on Desert Island Discs made me cry when he played a recording of his wife singing 'The Man I Love' that she made in one of those recording booths that used to exist (see Brighton Rock for one in action)
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Thu 4 Feb 2021, 11:22,
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I think they mean
their dad did a lot of heroin
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 5 Feb 2021, 12:19,
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That a lot of cactusesesss
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 10:12,
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Customs officers described her demeanour as “prickly”.
They explained there would be a serious penalty, but she said there was no peyote.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 11:16,
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Investigating officers said "Aloe, aloe, aloe!"
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MyFrontFellOff ; his mouth full of teddies, urinating defiantly, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 13:11,
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"Agave my statement already,"
"If you plan to detain me further I needle lawyer."
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the prick of misery pierced my foot on a spiiiike on, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 15:55,
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I wouldn't feel quite as comfortable holding it as she seems...
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 23:08,
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She?
Have you convinced yourself that it's a woman because you want to convince yourself those are small hands?
I bet they're huge hands, like docker's hands. A yoga ball would look like a cricket ball in those hands.
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Any Goldeneye Fans?
It seems to work pretty well if you want to try for yourselves.
xenia.jp for the emulator
The game. Feel free to remove the link, mods; it's not exactly hard to find.
You'll probably need an XBox 360/XBox One controller.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 22:49,
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Depends on what has been fixed
youtu.be/7RR5V0rmN4o
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 15:53,
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Goldeneye was ace
Perfect dark was great too.
I still play Farcry 1 and 2 now and again.
Cheers for the link on this one.
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Project Super Orion
If you can use nuclear bombs as fuel, how big could you build your spaceships?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 21:45,
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channelling the blast in one direction can be a bit tricky
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 21:48,
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They largely solved that problem with clever shaping of the warheads. In any case there's such a surplus of power it pretty much didn't matter.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 21:51,
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is this shaping with Unobtainium? Because it's not the power it generates but the material strength of the channel to withstand it that's the limiting factor
As far as I understand it, a nuclear reactor is a controlled fission reaction and is basically a big steam engine. one atom only splits one other atom, keeping the k value at one. A supercritical fission reaction, a nuclear bomb, where each splitting atom splits multiple other in a rapid explosive reaction, gives off a shitload more energy and containing and directed that without vaporising the spaceship and its passengers with it might prove a little tricky with today's structural materials
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 22:15,
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That's what the pusher plate is for. You don't contain the blast, you drop the bomb out the back and explode it against a pusher plate connected to your craft with massive shock absorbers. It's just an engineering issue of how massive does that plate have to be as you're ablating a bit of it each time, and how far away from it do you need to detonate the blast.
The shaping of the blast is actually similar to how you shape plastic explosives to channel a blast. Nuclear bomb cores are typicaly spherical - because that's the easiest shape to get the compression you need. However the theory was that a core that's shaped more like a disk would create a blast concentrated along the axis of the disk. It'll be harder to get even compression of that core, but it's an engineering problem not a physics one.
There's a great book by Freeman Dyson's son George about all the work Freeman did on this project.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 22:26,
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Very special shock absorption given the speed of the shockwave.
(Oddly there doesn't seem to be a world record for largest spring).
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 22:41,
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Time well wasted
As someone once remarked
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 23:10,
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Ah might have helped if I'd watched the video instead of the screenshot. However I don't think that's your only issue in this hypothetical set up
nuclear bombs aren't just fissile material, which is highly efficient (I think Hiroshima converted less than a gram in weight) they need something to hold it, a detonator, a case, timing, all of which is several kilograms of metal. So even finding some optimal sweet spot to surf the blast which might be a kilometre away (and hence several orders of magnitude less power as it expands in a sphere) you're still losing a fair amount of mass as you go, which is a similar problem as rocket fuel. anyway, it's an interesting thought experiment
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 22:47,
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It was a bit more than a thought experiment. There was quite a bit of research done.
www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist3.php#boomboom
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 0:29,
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ah, blue-sky-filled-with-fallout research
my better idea is that some comets are really motoring, 2l/borislov was going at 175,000 km an hour relative to earth. All you need is a net and a long bungy cord attached to your pimped out space limo, and bob's your uncle
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 5:15,
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Christ just admit there's something you don't know and you regret opening your mouth.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 14:22,
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actually, reading through the research evil andy's posted, unlike the video it appears its main utility was getting heavy things into orbit, rather than travelling between orbits
for the weight issues I presciently speculated. And why would I regret speculating about some hypothetical science video some member has posted anyway, even if I was wrong? I'd have to have a pretty immature ego to worry about that. Adults are able to discuss these things and speculate about flaws, and thanks to evil andys link, as a result, I'm probably better informed on the shelved research than anyone would want to be.
what is interesting is you and tweedledum seem to spend your time hovering around b3ta in a funk of bitterness hoping I'll make a mistake, like some infantile tesco-value Salieris unable to move on from being intellectually humiliated and obsessed with some form of revenge that never happens due to your increasingly obvious limitations. Nobody else ever joins you two in your outbursts of invective, it's just your petty hatred on display. In contrast, I don't think about you and prufock much at all. Well, no more than some guy with tourettes who yells at me when I'm walking past the bus stop
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 21:02,
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You could, I suppose...
...drop a subcritical mass out of the back, with none of that casing bollocks.
And then fire another subcritical mass at it.
In the vacuum of space it shouldn't be too difficult to drop both critical masses such that their orientations remain precisely where you expect, so that the shapes of the complimentary masses will lock together when joined.
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in the research they were quoting a tonne and a half for each bomb, though that was in the 60s
it's not a bad idea, but like a lot of the research it's "assuming we somehow get all this untested technology to work"
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 22:28,
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There isn't any channelling.
The bombs explode externally, behind the spaceship, and produce a force against a pusher plate mounted on the bottom of the craft.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 22:26,
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As shown from 2:45 onward in the video...
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 22:28,
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ah, probably should have watched it all with the sound on
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 22:32,
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This doesn't seem like it would produce a particularly smooth ride.
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Have you ever watched the on-board footage of a Shuttle launch?
Riding a rocket is many things, but “smooth” isn’t one of them.
In this case though, the sheer inertia of the eight million tonnes of mass ought to go a long way towards damping the shocks.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 16:53,
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This is absolutely the best use for nuclear warheads mankind has ever imagined.
One of my favourite non-rocket propulsion methods. One quick way to get hundreds of people to a different planet in a short period of time, too.
Though if your pusher plate fails halfway to Mars, good luck getting rescued.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 14:28,
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Teller had a few suggestions for using them in construction
mostly excavation
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Don't know how this passed me by. David Guettta does a tribute concert to george floyd during lockdown and solves BLM
"Shout out to his family"
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 21:27,
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I look forward to the day "influencers" will be hunted down like the remaining Jedi
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RompaStompa Stick it up your jumper, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 0:06,
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Felt tip pen review show!
I made this!
This week I draw Carol Vordemen
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Vision Tatt... Tatt Beat...
One of those Tony Hart shows, you just need a Morph :)
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Ahhh
Maybe a talking Magpie. Or some Papier mache mush with googly eyes called Mashy
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Last year was meant to do my sequel stage show The Tattening
Based off Highlander 2 The Quickening, nothing went wrong there...
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80 Robert De Niro posters turned into a looping animation
I made this!
Latest in my Star Turns series
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dunk3d, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 16:00,
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Haha!
The mole-centred version was a great idea, but all I can see is the mole!
The animation is brilliant - I wonder what a deepfake would be like if was made from different photos so the face looked different as the head turned. Probably shit.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 17:16,
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Thanks!
I’m not really into deep fake stuff. I kind of enjoy making these by hand. For my Meryl Streep gif I was able to make it serious faces one way and smiling on the way back.
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dunk3d, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 18:15,
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Wonderfully done
although having his age and appearance flip around so much made it hard to see them as a continuous animation, maybe if they were cut in sections where he had a beard or not and was old or young and the framerate slowed?
But then maybe not.
Well done anyway!
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 20:48,
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Thanks
The best way to view them is when you can control the speed yourself. I wish there was a way I could share them like that. This speed was the best compromise for me between having animation that works and having glimpses of recognizable posters. A lot of people find them too hard to watch though. Focusing on the eyes helps.
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dunk3d, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 21:26,
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Have you tried a rapid cross-fade
Instead of a hard cut? It might be difficult at the speed you've used but it would be interesting to see if it made it easier to watch.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 23:05,
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I think I tried that
It’s been a while so I can’t remember why it didn’t work. Maybe I’ll try again next time. Someone in a reply to a widely shared uncredited tweet of my Nicolas Cage gif said it helped to blink rapidly while watching
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dunk3d, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 4:44,
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Excellent stuff
(The video ends a little abruptly for me though, it doesn't quite get to the A in media. Dunno if that's important, thought I'd mention it.)
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 15:02,
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Excellent, and ace to see practical effects.
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RompaStompa Stick it up your jumper, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 15:36,
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Very nice kitbashing :)
Maybe consider adding some practical lighting into the models and subtly moving key lights - it'll give the objects a little more scale.
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Beautiful stuff.
The thing about practical/in camera effects is that despite knowing how they're done (all those books about 2OO1 A Space Odyssey), they don't take away any of the magic in the film. I have no idea why.
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Thu 4 Feb 2021, 11:25,
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Jewish Space Laser! (Globalisation version of Paperback Writer by The Beatles)
I made this!
The only cure for an ear-worm is to complete the song. So here we are. Thank you, Patton Oswalt.
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Manic can teach you the secret of fire, Wed 3 Feb 2021, 10:57,
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