🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Already hit and been reverted. Where have you been?
We mostly reverted it premptively and so the change was largely missed when we got beta 9.
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I did a fire safety course at work and they made us watch the whole thing.
It was other incidents on our fire safety course. Just as bad.
when it comes to fire, you don't screw around.
QFFT
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WHAT THE FUCK
Is this real?
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As far as I know it's some 80s German infomercial. I mean, who would bother to do something like that otherwise?
Shit! It has a Wikipedia page!
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I've seen it many times.
The instructor shows it almost every time I renew my IPAF, presumably in an attempt to keep us awake.
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Amusing to think that it's become what it parodies...
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Bad Idea: a hamburger with a hot dog in it:
Because who doesn't want a nice chunk of space-age polymer in their burger?
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Ew
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Exquisite! I almost expected it to be produced by Monty Python.
Have an extra , because one is not enough.
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Meh, I'd rather have the Ariane rocket chick.
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While I don't think I'd necessarily want one, that article was full of wahing about fat, I noticed. No doubt they'd prefer you had a big ole pile of carbs instead.
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How about a pizza with a hot dog in it?
Or Dominos' response to that, a pizza with burgers in it
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This one requires some explanation:
- The origin is a Doner kebab (t0)
- At some time (t1) it evolved by replacing the bread with french fries
- At some time (t2, not extremely distant from t1 it further evolved by making the whole shebang a pizza topping.
Wraps itself like cotton around the heart. :-)
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Is that... a cucumber?
Well, there goes my appetite...
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Doner kebab pizza is tasty (after a certain quantity of alcohol). Putting the chips on it rather than having them with it is the next logical step.
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What could possibly go wrong?
Scientists have figured out how to brew morphine using the same kit used to make beer at home.
They have genetically modified yeast to perform the complicated chemistry needed to convert sugar to morphine.
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What could possibly go wrong?
It depends on the efficiency. Merely creating the pathway that produces some morphine as a product isn't enough; you need to be able to get a substantial fraction of the material you put in the vat converted to the product (several percent would be great, and that's quite achievable with brewing of alcohol) and the process of boosting the efficiency is both difficult and very time consuming.
I wonder what they're using as a nitrogen source…
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They aren't doing it all the way. Other things I saw on this is they figured a step needed to do it, so a big stopper is gone but more work till they can really do it.
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Other things I saw on this is they figured a step needed to do it
Is that all? Pah! BFD. Just grab the genes from the poppy if that's all you want.
The real skill is in getting a whole pathway going inside your platform organism and getting that optimised to push a significant proportion of the cell's metabolic throughput that way.
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It depends on the efficiency.
Sure, no doubt there are scaling issues, etc, though this could have rather interesting consequences, especially when you consider that it's possibly pulling the rug out from under Afghanistan's main export.
We get our legal stuff mainly from Turkey IIRC.
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"Natural Born Keller"
I guess so long as she wasn't adopted...
It's also great how they have braille just printed onto the poster. The poster that has no texture. Braille that can only be read visually.
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"Water?"
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$30? I don't think so.
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Bad idea: Including USB3 ports on a computer, but only on the back. Which is what prompted the previous post.
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Bad idea: playing custom Alien Swarm campaigns from when Alien Swarm was first made available to every 12 year old with a Steam account.
This one is a box that spawns aliens at the end of each spotlight. Also, there are supposed to be fires at the corners of the platform, but the mapper didn't know how to make fires correctly. Also, every time you finish a wave of aliens, there's a blue rectangle that covers the screen for 20 seconds. This one is also a box, but it's less apparent at first glance. It spawns aliens outside of the box and they walk in. Or at least they're supposed to. 15-year-old me didn't test this one very well. Also, I apparently made the rain particle effect by firing a bunch of 0-damage tracer bullets into the ground. This one is a smaller box. It only has one alien in it. Damage is disabled, so you can't kill it. You have to move the barrel to the big target on the ground so the alien attacks it for 10 seconds. Then you win. Good job, 15-year-old me. This map is supposed to be a puzzle. How can you get to the exit? Those brown boxes aren't normally movable, but I made them movable 5 years ago. See, that's the puzzle. I'm misusing gameplay features. You have to figure that out. Enough about me. Back to boxes that spawn aliens at one corner. This one is titled "small room". Get it? Because it's a fucking worthless piece of shit. (Do you like my @blakeyrat impression?) Yes, those are sliding doors. They slide into each other, so you can trap someone in a room by going into the room to the left of it. Here's a map from a mapper who realized that your map doesn't need to be a box. Instead, they made a bridge that breaks when you go near it, followed by infinite spawning parasites (which jump on your head and can only be killed by healing), followed by a 60 degree slope that pops up the message "THERE ARE SOME ALIENS COMING DOWN THE HILL" when you go near it and it spawns five thousand aliens in front of you. The same mapper decided to make a second map. It contains a single brick texture used for every flat surface and an elevator that is so poorly built it managed to throw half of my squad out of the map. The map ends with a Skyrim-like tomb (assuming Skyrim was made in the GoldSRC engine) that contains a generator and a room labeled "SUPPLY ROOM" which I can only guess is a dentist's office. This map spawns aliens outside of the box and you complete the objectives by waiting 3 minutes each. There are 10 objectives. This map was well-made, but what ruined it for me was that you get dropped off by a ship, then you push some buttons, then you wait 10 minutes while aliens attack you from every angle, and then you get back onto the ship when it comes back. You don't do anything except push the "make a bunch of aliens attack me" button, so I can't imagine what the ship was doing for 10 minutes. This map took cues from freshly paved parking lots at night and decided to not put any lights in. Well, there are lights, they're just turned off for the entire map. Your objective is to kill 11 eggs and leave -- wait, that sounds familiar. Night vision activate! That's a map generated in TileGen, the crappy random map generator for Alien Swarm that was never finished. The only thing they've done is turned off all the lights and removed the starting room and the ending room. You start in the middle and end in a box that is supposedly an elevator. There is also a second map to the "I don't like having lights turned on or having good level design" campaign. It's pretty much the same map, but with the rooms organized in a different order and the exit room not removed.
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And that, kids, is why turtles are reptiles and not amphibians ...
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But Slow Tortoise can swim! You have to scoop him out of his shell with your paw to eat him; if you drop him in the water he just swims away.
Also I'm fairly sure that what Stickly Prickly turned into was a pangolin, not an armadillo.
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You can see it in his eyes: "Hehehe. Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen"
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Did the driver just forget to shift? lel.
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Good job, 15-year-old me.
I wish my only 15-year-old shame was making a lousy game map.
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I've forgotten almost everything that happened to me at 15
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Wooden table evolution
http://imgur.com/gallery/UL2NY
(embedding seems to work 50% of the time, not my fault)
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That's not bad, that's brillant!
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Really? How many times do I need to remind people where they are.
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Wooden table evolution
BULLSHIT. They're clearly the product of intelligent design.
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They're constantly pushing to get them into gender study majors at younger ages. Business as usual. Still awful.
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This best use of this book would be to watch who buys them. They'll be like Bill Engvall signs.
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Fears have been raised over the man's mental health
No shit…
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And that, kids, is why turtles are reptiles and not amphibians ...
Wrong. Did you even read the screencap? Or do any rudimentary research before posting?
First off, as pointed out in the screencap, that's a tortoise, not a turtle. Second, while you are correct about turtles being reptiles instead of amphibians, you are correct for the wrong reasons.
An amphibian is distinguished by:
- Having an aquatic, gill-breathing larval stage
- Which metamorphosizes into
- A typically terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage.
- Being a cold-blooded, vertabrate animal.
Further, amphibians do not have fur, scales, or feathers.
As you stated, turtles are not amphibians, but for the reasons below, not the idiotic "and that" stated by you.
- Turtles do not have a larval stage, gill-breathing or otherwise.
- Turtles do not metamorphosize.
- Turtles have scales.
enjoy another - bz