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Wait World Record (2003) is a John Henry adaptation isn't it.

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According to The Oracle of Bacon, Will Rothhaar has a Bacon number of 2 via (among others) Fail Safe with Noah Wyle, who was in A Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon. Fail Safe is notable for being a made-for-TV movie filmed and broadcast live -- that's about as good an analogy for a YouTube livestream as I can imagine! If Fail Safe is good enough for Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, I see no reason SpireStream For Trans Rights wouldn't be a candidate for Six Degrees of Tom Scott.

your Scott Number is 3.

(sorry for the small image)

the real challenge now is to figure out if appearing on the SpireStream For Trans Rights tomorrow is going to lower that number at all. (that's assuming "appearing in a youtube livestream together" counts as a proper youtube collaboration. which I think it does?)

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Roses are red, vermilion is too Though I always thought it an emerald hue

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Finished reading Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind* just now. It was good! Better than the film, I think -- if only for virtue of being much, much longer. The film sort of crushes down the seven- or eight-way conflict of the manga into a neat little three-way fight with less room for thematic exploration. The Torumekians suffer for it the most; anime Kurotowa is only a pale shadow of his manga counterpart, Kushana is only a titch better.

There are still a few things that I think the film does better, though. 1-dimenensional though she may be, anime Kushana's design is way cooler. I was so disappointed not to see her golden prosthetics! Anime Asbel is also a bit more interesting arc-wise, I think.

Only a bit, though. Character arcs and interactions are a weakness of both projects, and it's a damn shame. I want to see our major characters in conflict with each other! I want to see Kushana take Asbel up on that duel! I wanna see Chikuku and Nausicaä argue! I want them to make mistakes! For a story so focused on dispelling dualistic notions of good and evil, nobody seems to really struggle with staying good. Princess Mononoke does these story ideas more justice.

Story is only half the product, though, and Nausicaä excels most in the visuals. The manga and anime are on even ground here. Every panel and every cel is some of the most beautiful shit you've ever seen on paper or screen. The Ohmu, the rest of the insects, the aircraft, the Sea of Corruption, even the God-Warriors! The faction clothing! Every faction's clothing is instantly recognizable as their own, despite looking nothing like anything I've seen before. There's so many details and I love them all.

If you love the film, you'll love the manga. If you don't, you probably won't find your problems addressed. Personally, I'm still a fan. Gonna go re-read my copy of The Art of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and The Road to Nausicaa, then re-watch the film again. :)

*The English-language Viz Media 2012 'deluxe' box set, to be precise. With the original page/panel order and untranslated sound effects.

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Rath?

#wisdom #truth (this is about planes in a worldbulding/story and aesthetic sense, not about sets or mechanics btw)

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Guy who's definition of 'bug' is all non-arachnid arthropods

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Definitely concur on being all for it :P

As for MTGRemy, I can't deny he's pretty funny, but my opinion of him soured a lot when I realized he was the same guy who worked with ReasonTV to make all those libertarian 'parody' videos. :/

Jester’s Cap

“Know your foes’ strengths as well as their weaknesses.” —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Artist: Dan Frazier TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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They were on some real weird ones in the 90s, man

Jester’s Cap

“Know your foes’ strengths as well as their weaknesses.” —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Artist: Dan Frazier TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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I think it'd be interesting to see an adventure/horror film (or maybe just a short) where the camera is always pointing in a particular cardinal direction -- namely, away from the destination.

Like, imagine a film where the protagonists have to escape a zombie apocalypse in City A by walking several days to City B, which is, I dunno, west of City A, and consequently the camera spends the entire runtime only facing east. I think that would be interesting.

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There are so many kinds of arthropod that you'd think at least one would be four-legged. but alas no.

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Scientists predict the invention of long-rumored "wonex" photocopy machine by 2030

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What on Earth is this motherfucker talking about

Joe Biden has literally nothing to do with the F-35. The Joint Strike Fighter program (which produced the F-35) was started under Bill Clinton, the design finalist (the X-35) was selected under George W. Bush, orders for the aircraft were placed under the Obama Administration, and the F-35A and C actually entered production during-- you guessed it, the Trump Administration. (F-35B started at the tail of the Obama Admin) The only thing Joe's done is not cancel the order- something Trump could have done when he was president!

The F-35 in question did not fall out of the sky. In fact the problems was that it did the opposite-- kept flying on autopilot after the pilot ejected. If it dropped like a rock, it would have been much easier to find.

"Two Engines for reliability" -- ha! Here's a list of manned, single-engine aircraft in active use by the U.S. military: the MH/AH-6M Little Bird (attack helicopter), the F-16 Fighting Falcon (Fighter Jet), the T-6 Texan II (Turboprop Trainer), the T-45 Goshawk (Jet Trainer), the TH-57B Sea Ranger (Helicopter Trainer), the T-41D Mescalero (aka the Cessna 172), the T-51A Cessna (aka the Cessna 152), the T-53A Kadet II (aka the Cirrus SR20), the TH-1H Iroquois (Trainer Helicopter, aka the "Huey"), the U-2S Dragon Lady (High-Altitude Reconnaissance), the U-28A Draco (aka the Pilatus PC-12), the UH-1N Twin Huey (Utility Helicopter), and the AV-8B Harrier II (VTOL/"Jump Jet" Fighter); that's 13 aircraft, not including the F-35! You'll note the Harrier sounds a lot like our friend the Lightning-- that is because the F-35(B) is the AV-8B's replacement. I have no idea why he thinks two engines is always better. The F-16, arguably the most cost-effective modern fighter ever built, is a single engine plane. Literally nobody is going to argue we should retire the F-16 because it doesn't have redundant engines. That's absurd.

The "Praying Mantis". I have literally never heard anyone call the B757 the "Praying Mantis". Perhaps he's simply lost his mind.

The most popular airliner among commercial pilots? The data is a little sparse, but the most commonly recurring aircraft I've seen are the 777, the 747, the A380, the 737. The 757 comes up occasionally, but it's not exactly a domineering position. Most pilots' favorite aircraft is the one they fly. The most produced airliner? The 737 with ~11,000, then the A320 ~10,000, and then the 727 with ~1,800.

Literally nobody should have listened to you regarding the 737 MAX. In fact, it's worth pointing out it was your FAA that allowed the 737 MAX to certified as a 737, that the MCAS and Fly-By-Wire were not substantially different from previously certified 737s, and that Boeing was capable of and trustworthy in conducting their self-evaluation. Your administration chose to leave the "red tape" and regulation at the door, and it killed 346 people. (Obviously Trump did not make decisions in the FAA, but he's as guilty as he reasonably could be)

Eat My Ass

The 737 is not ugly :(

Eat My Ass

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Excited to see The Black Hole (1979) was nominated for best picture for the 47th year in a row!

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rasterized milk

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Well at least they aren't hardlinks :/

I hate smylinks with the burning heat of a thousand suns. Why does linux not have plan9 style union binds? I'm screeming.

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Why do people keep commenting "if only we could see her take wing" on that picture of wave the swallow, what am I missing