#Tech Specs

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Where is technology taking us? The more we depend on the technology, the more we should talk about it, evaluate it, and spot both risks and opportunities.

Take a look at tech quotes by Pablo Picasso, Douglas Adams, Stewart Brand, and Northrop Frye that are visualized on vintage patent drawings.

(via Thought-provoking tech quotes on vintage patent drawings)

[inioranackatori]

Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale

Alternatively, writers for children’s cartoons have no sense of scale.

(look GaoGaiGar is amazing but I have no illusions what it’s target demographic was supposed to be, and I am not it)

Instead of putting art in-between commercial segments, GaoGaiGar puts tech specs. For everything. Everything. Up to and including Leo Shishioh’s gag inventions that show up for five minutes in a single episode and never appear again.

This is a wonderful gift to fic writers, because we can go look up exactly how tall the dreamboat BFF Guy Shishioh is. You can even look up if his name’s spelled Guy or Gai (the answer is yes).

Let’s take a look at one of those tech specs, hum?

Soldato-J 002. The man who’s face gracefully adorns this blog as a profile picture.

Now, there’s a lot of stuff here, so let’s take it piece by piece.

I know nothing about electricity, so let’s hop over that for the moment. Instead, let’s look at this man’s max speed: 2 X 10 to the 7th power meters per second.

That’s 20,000,000 meters per second. Or for those of us not on the metric system, that’s about 12,427 miles per second. For comparison’s sake, the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. To pile on the comparisons, the speed of sound is 750 mps. Soldato-J is going sixteen times the speed of sound. Sonic booms should be going off all over the freaking place.

Switching gears, now. Let’s dive into this bit of tech spec:

The first thing to catch my eye is the - er… “Reft” hand? I’m just going to hand wave that as an Engrish mistranslation - Japanese has no hard “r” sound, and so substitute in the letter “l”, leading to all the shenanigans.

Let’s focus instead on Soldato-J’s dimensions.

2.1 meters works out to 6 feet 11 inches. Da man would be snapped up by every basketball league in the US by that metric alone. Which is to say, extremely tall, but not too far outside the norm.

His weight, though, is 0.2t. The “t” stands for “tons”. The man is 400 pounds. He weights as much as a freaking sports motorcycle! (And looks better than one, too.)

But now… Now we’re at the part that breaks my brain.

Span: 3.0 meters. That’s 9 feet. As tall as an ostrich and arguably just as dumb sometimes. It’s also three times the width of the average door.

If the span is measured from the tip of one of his shoulder armor bits to the other shoulder armor bit’s tip, that means -

Soldato-J cannot walk through doors.

[orionsbelt929]

Name: swoop

Gender: female

Personality type: good natured, friendly, kind, prone to tangents where she utilizes complicated technical terms to describe things

Faction: autobot

Subgroup: dinobot

Function: aerial combat specialist, bombardier, technological specialist

Weapons: underslung wing mounted single fire twin missile batteries, thermal arming sword, thermal spiked flail, retractable combat claws

Bio: originally serving as the dinobots' air combat specialist, while also providing support to her ground bases allies via targeted bombardment of ground targets. Following her team's escape from shockwave's lab, and the experimentation the amoral decepticon scientist had performed on them, swoop found herself fulfilling a role better described as part technological support and part older sister to most of her team. This is a peculiar situation when, of the original five members of the lightning strike coalition team, swoop was the youngest of the five. Swoop has a tendency to go on tangents, with a related predilection towards using complicated and advanced technical terms to describe things, however while the complicated terms may fly over the heads of the other dinobots' they still listen quite happily to her tangents with good cheer and a fond smile. Even if the complicated terms swoop uses leaves the rest of the team utterly confused on what she's talking about, they'll still happily listen to their sister as she goes on a long winded and complicated explanation that may or may not actually relate to the current situation or environment.

[redwidowym]

If you look closely, you can see the small gap where the suit actors can see out of the helmets.

It always amazed me how the suit actors in tokusatsu shows could still do what they do when they have to wear helmets that limit their vision like that.

When it comes to the Yukimori helmet, even though I rely a lot on the blindfighting techniques mom taught me, I still need to see as clearly as I can, despite the visor being lit up like it is. If you look close you can see slits under the visor that help me see.

[stunticonbreakdown]

LEGACY BREAKDOWN TECH SPEC, 2023

[aviatrix-ash]

Last time I scanned one of these Tech SpecsQR codes for Twincast it took me to a hasbro pulse(?) Sale page for just Starscreams. This time for an actual Starscream it takes you to his actual Tech Specs. 😆

[karanseraph]

Once again I am asking y'all to call the items in question spectacles or specs so we can have the "tech specs" joke work when Scalpel is looking at a bot through a doctor's technical spectacles and sees their technical specifications.

I'm sorry Hasbro did away with the tech specs plus red decoder gimmick, but it was a thing and our real world play pattern should parallel a process in their fictional universe.

Also, yes, it's for aesthetics sometimes, like if Starscream does it. Thundercracker may actually wear readers that throw a bunch of Earth grammar tools on his HUD that he didn't fully assimilate internally because that spelling and grammar software looked suspicious or something.

And removal of optical wear is a key lesson in how to be a handsome actor, if I recall correctly. Very dramatic.

“why would robots wear glasses if they could just replace their eyes” you fools. you ignoramuses. this is transformers NOTHING is ever explained about their anatomy except for like 3 organs. the rest is literally bullshit. ive written 55k words of bullshitting my way through theoretical robot biology disguised as a fic with a story. live your life and make up some space magic reason to put glasses on ur robot

[gaykarstaagforever]

I don't feel obligated to keep up with the latest hardware specs anymore when 1) most of the cards are either way too expensive or completely unavailable due to chip shortage issues, and 2) all the modern AAA games that will take advantage of cutting-edge hardware are unfinished pay-to-win live service garbage based on Ubisoft IPs no one has ever remotely cared about.

[gadgetshowtech]

LG say they sell 5 year old tech

LG say they sell 5 year old tech

I’ve been having an issue with my LG NB2530A Soundbar becoming less reliable for Windows 11 sound output on my 2019 Dell OptiPlex PC, and new Acer Nitro laptop. Even though it worked on my Alexa, Samsung TV and mobile phone, it still would not connect to Windows 11. I have been messaging LG via twitter since 25 August 2022. On 9 September they raised it with the technical team, giving reference…

[karanseraph]

This is important. I need y'all to call them "spectacles" if bots wear them to justify the "spectacles" page on tfwiki which is separate from the glasses page.

Also, TC in specs needs to be added to that page.

Let me have this.

It allows us maybe potentially say Animated Scalpel could be wearing "tech specs" (specific opticwear) to potentially view tech specs (technical specifications) as he has been depicted in red-lensed optical devices.

Also, we can joke about how some versions of Air Raid enjoy looking at spectacles.

Also, if you legit write for TF, just call them "spectacles" once, OK?

I am very normal about Thundercracker and Starscream in glasses.

But also the absolutely fascinating worldbuilding of glasses existing still interests me. Everyday glasses for Rung. Reading glasses for these two. How does it work? Do the magnify? Help sort data somehow? Switch the color? Is it something that can't be fixed by getting new eyes? Is it still an issue if they got a full reframe which Starscream is prone to? I would love to know.

[mish-mash-marsh]

A-spec people in tech crew

I am of the opinion that every theatre tech crew has at least one a-spec person in it. Surely I've talked to enough a-spec techies for it to not be a coincidence... They say the gays like acting, I guess they left the stage setup for the aroaces! XD

I gotta know though:

reblog if you're a-spec and/or a techie? :0 /nf

Edit: For the sake of this poll, let's say stage crew counts as a tech crew

[starrytalking]

Do you ever meet someone and think that they are so cool that if you were attracted to people in that way you would have a crush on them?

[ghostmistdraws]

Tech: is that vodka?

Crosshair: Yeah.

Tech: Straight?

Crosshair: Nah, Bi.

Tech: thE VODKA NOT YOU-

[phoenixiancrystallist]

@blogquantumreality Whatever the heck this nonsense means. My roommate who set me up with this thing wants me to upgrade my graphics cards to D700s, and we also plan to max out the RAM but he says first order of business is beefier graphics cards

Month 3, day 30

Uh... I crashed Blender so hard my computer forgot how to computer again 😬 Luckily this time I did a smrt and saved before I tried to render, so at least we got a screenshot!

Anyway I followed a tutorial on making a procedural icy snow texture. I can follow it through all the way to the end but the rendering engine that plays nice with my computer does NOT like how the texture works, and the one that plays nice with the texture wanted to take 48 hours. Actually 48 hours, not me misreading the time stamp this time. So I tried to fix the texture so it would play nice with Eevee (the nice render engine that doesn't take forever), but it still crashed my computer.

So yeah. I need money to upgrade my graphics cards, because the set my computer came with is not powerful enough for my needs.

[flyingfabio]

every new iteration of the rear tire michelin brings seems to suit the ducati even better and the other bikes even worse than the previous one*

*i wrote this a few months ago and this just been clearly explained by peter bom. as long as michelin keeps developping their rear tire without giving a flying fuck about the front tire, the rear focused bike ie. ducati will keep winning.