
impossible whilst bouncing around in the passenger seat of car going down the motorway...
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 21:30, Reply)

Given that it requires multi-touch in order to function, it's a reasonable request.
( , Thu 1 Jun 2023, 14:38, Reply)

I made Ten of these now. And the world still isn't destroyed yet. Hadn't realized it'd be such a long job to chronicle the end times. This time the existential risk is AI.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 20:30, Reply)

The time when Talking Telephone Numbers went completely wonky, then replayed with the talkback from the gallery as they madly scramble to save the show (plus, bonus certain presenter losing his cool at the end).
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 20:20, Reply)

What the numbers being read out over the human league mean?
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 21:00, Reply)

Here's a more plausible explanation from the yt comments..
I don't know all the ins and outs and the various people involved OR how the tech worked at the time, but roughly: A member of the production team will have prepared a shot list, planning cuts between the various cameras and zooming in etc to give a dynamic feel to the song, as was the fashion at the time. It wasn't all made up on the fly, I think this would have been prepared this at the rehersal. For example, it looks like at 21:05 we have shot 72, an arty zoom in by a camera into the keyboard player. For the live performance, the vision mixer needs to make all these cuts but they can't operate the desk and read from the shot list, so the PA (production assistant) is "calling the shots". They are counting to keep in time to the music, and to keep their place in the song, although at times this has gone out of the window due to all the fuss going on. She holds it together very well. Interwoven with the shot numbers are beats in bar 1, 2, 3, 4 so she knows where she is, but as muscians do, they will often count "*1*, 2, 3, 4, *2*, 2, 3, 4, *3*, 2, 3, 4, *4*, 2, 3, 4" so they can keep track of the bar and the beat. It looks like the shot 72 on the keyboard was planned to last 2 bars so she called "72.....(pause 3 beats) 2 (second bar), 2 (beat) , 3 (beat), 4 (beat), 73 (next shot, band in a line looking stoopid)". It seems a lot of the planning went out of the window and the vision mixer was guessing a lot of the time.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 21:58, Reply)

I worked for a short time back with the old beeb of the C and it was when people thought it was "cool" to try and use video and visual effects in the same way that we used lighting effects in a nightclub. It required (along with many other things) some technical savy and indeed a feel for music (or at least the ability to keep time to the beat)
Nowadays its all computerised and controlled but then it was a bit of MIDI, some SMPTE codes and a lot of manual fading and switching using clunky controllers and more often that not some home made kit to keep it all together (in one instance we welded a massive iron bar on springs with little nipples (arf) that when pressed down would trigger multiple presses at once (for lights/smoke/confetti cannons etc) on a keyboard - itself most likely home made in a steel box that may or may not have been grounded - no idea how we got out alive now I think about it. Pyrotechnics controllers with the safety keys bypassed as they required a 3rd hand to use and there was never enough staff to go round so foot pedals for guitars would also be modified and used. Good times, if somewhat dodgy elf and safety wise :)
( , Thu 1 Jun 2023, 14:59, Reply)

and add a wheelchair session.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 20:07, Reply)

but I fucking hate cunts on youtube who do shitty stunts like this. I hate the fact that it makes economic sense to waste resources and poison the environment for stupid youtube clicks.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 14:58, Reply)

Wait 'til you discover the sheer waste of the Russo-Ukraine war.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 17:27, Reply)

Probably why they get on with Tories, that and the money.
Here's another car launch, for those who haven't seen it yet.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yAc0uqrSkPU
Seems The Dukes of Hazzard carries on.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 21:03, Reply)

You're thinking of anything bigger than a handful, but that's still wrong.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 20:46, Reply)

I've never liked youtube videos where people blow stuff up and they don't tell you that they clear up the resulting mess
Fly tipping would be much worse if people smashed up the items in to hundreds of fragments too
( , Thu 1 Jun 2023, 21:13, Reply)

and they could cause a terrorist attack - say on downing street
that would be terrible
( , Fri 2 Jun 2023, 11:44, Reply)

to launch an object into orbit with a single impulse (like the idea of Superman punching villains into orbit for example) and it's mostly true. To reach orbit, vehicles need to perform a circularisation burn to raise the perigee to orbital altitude.
However, it is possible to launch an object with a single impulse to escape velocity, and if it's done at the right angle and at the right time, you could launch into a resonant solar orbit that intersects with Earth in such a way that results in recapture and a stable (probably retrograde) Earth orbit.
I feel (but don't know) it would be possible to do a similar trick without achieving escape velocity and instead shooting for a lunar gravity assist, but the chances of such an orbit being stable seem slim; the object's final orbit would have to intersect with the moon's and so would be regularly perturbed, probably getting chucked out of the Earth/Moon system if not colliding with the Earth or moon.
The delta-v requirements for either option are huge, and the object you send will need to be protected both from the force of the impulse and from the ablative effects of the atmosphere on a hypersonic object (which will increase the weight of your payload meaning you need a bigger explosion meaning you'll need more protection which will increase the weight of your payload and so on).
tl;dr: I'm not saying he couldn't, just that it's not a trivial thing to try and do.
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( , Wed 31 May 2023, 18:11, Reply)

and concluded it would have ablated to nothing before leaving the atmosphere.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 18:44, Reply)

Some crazy results
twitter.com/_Borriss_/status/1663568770408013831
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 10:20, Reply)

LinkedIn who has no technical skills, but will check boxes like "Wordpress" because they've used the admin.
Most people selling themselves as an AI "expert" reminds me of that. They've got an OpenAI account and read a few blog posts, and then flog their training courses to the gullible.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 12:02, Reply)

where do you even start
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( , Wed 31 May 2023, 17:26, Reply)

— Link to tweet
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 7:12, Reply)

Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Score New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie

( , Wed 31 May 2023, 2:31, Reply)

That TMNT movie looks gorgeous.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 6:47, Reply)

In my defence, Dave Grohl did play drums on some of With Teeth.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 14:46, Reply)

His never-ending quest to make the dullest music imaginable has claimed two lives already.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 15:45, Reply)

That TMNT had a rival comic called Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters.
Really.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 22:04, Reply)

This was years before it had any cultural recognition. I remember picking it up and looking at the box and thinking that it was fucking weird name for a role playing game
{edit} looked it up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_%26_Other_Strangeness
It says you can make your character a pedophile, so better not let sockcooker know or he'll be hounding anyone who reviews it, bless his mentalist heart
( , Thu 1 Jun 2023, 12:13, Reply)

( , Thu 1 Jun 2023, 14:12, Reply)

I did the Psycho Mutant Sadist Hedgehogs (which is where my b3ta usernames were derived from) and he did the Bunnies Wiv Machine Guns. They were as deep and thoughtful as you'd expect from a couple of 12 year-olds.
( , Thu 1 Jun 2023, 15:37, Reply)

I don't believe anything these people say. Like Russian propaganda telly, it's a scattergun firing anything and everything that might get attention or confuse and manipulate.
Fuentes hung around Trumpf for a while at Mar-a-lago, picking up tips I imagine.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 2:10, Reply)

Likewise, Extinction Rebellion and their many splinter groups are part of a false flag psy-op conducted by the Far-Right.
It's a complete zero-sum situation.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 6:57, Reply)

Fun fact: “laying an egg” is a German euphemism for taking a shit.
Some nice animation work on the faces in this one. I just love the slap.
( , Tue 30 May 2023, 22:39, Reply)

A reminder of when singing in a breathy voice wasn’t just an excuse for not being able to hold a note.
( , Tue 30 May 2023, 4:43, Reply)

But I'd recommend ignoring the video - it's very striking but for that reason detracts from the song IMHO. Eyes closed every time.
youtu.be/WxL1rw6cw-E
( , Tue 30 May 2023, 20:30, Reply)

With second place still to play for!
( , Sun 28 May 2023, 17:19, Reply)

They did not exist back then you know... I remember when this was all fields.
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( , Tue 30 May 2023, 11:01, Reply)

Please go easy on the misogynistic "I would" type posts whenever a picture of an attractive lady is posted on the board. Not only can it get a bit tiresome, but it can be intimidating and unwelcoming for a lot of lady boarders. Besides, even if you would, she probably wouldn't.
( , Tue 30 May 2023, 15:41, Reply)

And not posting pics on the main board of barbarians with giant ejeculating magenta cocks, as that would make you a fucking hypocrite, wouldn’t it?
b3ta.com/board/11394389
Oh, wait…
( , Tue 30 May 2023, 16:14, Reply)

YOU DECIDE.
( , Tue 30 May 2023, 11:10, Reply)

Sex, to desire or be desired, is one of the fundamental motivational impulses of human behaviour. Rather than being automatically wrong and offensive and objectifying to reference, it’s those that can articulate and acknowledge it directly that are generally the ones that have relationships.
Toyah has great tits, as a self-evident observation, and goes to a fair bit of artifice in order to flash them on a weekly basis. I reckon she’d be far more likely to appreciate an honest compliment than feel offended by it
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 0:35, Reply)

He's just being a chippy little twat. He enjoys shifting the focus away from his own repressed issues by pointing out how absolutely terrible everybody else is.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 13:34, Reply)

more an opportunity to trot out some nebulous counterargument of my own.
the pivot to being offended about tits is funny, though, on a board that currently has a a bunch of cocks on the main board.
As to female boarders, I don't think it was the puerile nature that scared a lot of them off, it's always been that way, and is much milder now because there's less people. My recollection was it was more the creepy whiteknighters who treated any woman they identified as some unicorn princess to be fawned over, instead of just a normal boarder wanting to join in. Everything they posted got gushing compliments and needy attempts at personal intimacy. Probably got a bit much for many of them.
( , Thu 1 Jun 2023, 3:21, Reply)

Like women never comment on others bodies, I smell double standards.
( , Tue 30 May 2023, 15:02, Reply)

invariably turn out to be more awful than the target of their bile.
( , Tue 30 May 2023, 15:54, Reply)

Anger is also a common symptom of depression in older men.
( , Tue 30 May 2023, 17:38, Reply)

b3ta.com/users/searchposts.php?id=99401&board=links
odd for a place where we come for a laugh
is everything ok, porgs?
( , Tue 30 May 2023, 15:59, Reply)

( , Tue 30 May 2023, 16:51, Reply)

to actually find a use for an old TV aerial.
( , Tue 30 May 2023, 11:47, Reply)

#lads #fhm #loaded #trump2024 #igetthisweirdrashappearingafterIremovesmegmafromundermyforeskin
( , Tue 30 May 2023, 17:51, Reply)

I remember stealing that and winning the question of the week.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 7:00, Reply)

and offer you a hearty commendation for an accomplished piece of plagiarism, an underrated skill in the modern world
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 12:24, Reply)

Cannot wait until AI deepfake tech progresses to the point where I can do a full bodyswap and live out my dream of making £500 a day as a camgirl on OnlyFlans.
( , Wed 31 May 2023, 7:00, Reply)

If Ernst Stavro Blofeld was a b3tan I guess this would be his hideout...
Apologies for the portrait aspect (but not really you worms)
( , Sun 28 May 2023, 10:32, Reply)

Turns out even Mr Bowie knew it.
( , Sun 28 May 2023, 7:36, Reply)
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