The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah Now I really want to try that art installation idea I had a few years ago.
- Take a box full of spent shotgun shell casings from the range.
- Fill in the dents in the primers, and place the casings in the box so that they look new.
- Gut a cheap rotating disco-ball for the motor unit.
- Attach motor to box with extra-thin fishing line, to get the floating and rotating in the air effect.
- Make a fake sewer-entrance some 2 feet in diameter. Paint the insides with 99% light-absorbent black (important for the illusion).
- Hang the motorized box in the sewer entrance.
- Hide LEDs around the edge of the entrance, so that the box gets illuminated from every angle. Having no shadows makes it extra magical.
- Install a grate, so that the hanging, rotating box is just out of reach.
I honestly can't tell if you're trying to simulate something from some meme-worthy movie, or just creating some random vision you once had.
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I interpreted it as him giving her CPR and other girl not looking because it's traumatic
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@da-Doctah Just about every PC first-person and 3rd-person shooter in the '90s and early '00s had mazes. Usually made of some kind of tunnels, catacombs or sewers. A "classic" design feature was to place some kind of desirable item in a place where you can see it, but not immediately get at it, to prod you into exploring the level beyond the immediately obvios path.
Hence, a box of shells in a tunnel behind iron grating.
With lighting to provide a sense of un-real-ness. And crafty painting to hide that the "tunnel" is goes no further than a foot.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
And crafty painting to hide that the "tunnel" is goes no further than a foot.
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@Gąska Nah. It's easier to just paint it with Black 2.0 . A paint that absorbs 96% of the light that hits it.
So black that it makes it hard to focus your eyes on objects painted with it, like so:
Would make it look like an absolutely dark tunnel that "eats" all the light. Kinda creepy, really.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
So black that it makes it hard to focus your eyes on objects painted with it, like so:
Dunno. What makes it hard for me to focus are compression artifacts and low framerate.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
So black that it makes it hard to focus your eyes on objects painted with it, like so:
Dunno. What makes it hard for me to focus are compression artifacts and low framerate.
Everything looks more impressive live.
Or at least this particular phenomenon does.
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@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I interpreted it as him giving her CPR and other girl not looking because it's traumatic
Cunnipenile reaming?
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@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I interpreted it as him giving her CPR and other girl not looking because it's traumatic
If that's your image of CPR, that may mean you're at a high risk of a sexual harassment lawsuit
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
So black that it makes it hard to focus your eyes on objects painted with it, like so:
Dunno. What makes it hard for me to focus are compression artifacts and low framerate.
Everything looks more impressive live.
Quick googling indicates that Black 2.0 is one of the things that looks LESS impressive live. The quality is allegedly very lacking and it's not black enough many optical illusions that are possible with Vantablack.
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@izzion said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I interpreted it as him giving her CPR and other girl not looking because it's traumatic
If that's your image of CPR, that may mean you're at a high risk of a sexual harassment lawsuit
To be fair, it's a garbage image of nothing.
But I'm not picturing him on top of her, but off to the side.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
So black that it makes it hard to focus your eyes on objects painted with it, like so:
Dunno. What makes it hard for me to focus are compression artifacts and low framerate.
Everything looks more impressive live.
Quick googling indicates that Black 2.0 is one of the things that looks LESS impressive live. The quality is allegedly very lacking and it's not black enough many optical illusions that are possible with Vantablack.
True. But unlike Vantablack, you can buy Black 2.0 in a can, and spread it with a brush like a normal paint. Vantablack needs high-temperature and vacuum post-processing.
Also, I can't use Vantablack for anything resembling art, since I'm not Anish Kapoor.
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@acrow There's a Black 3.0 now.
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@loopback0 I know. But it's too fragile for outdoor use.
From the website selling it:
Q. Can I paint my car / bike etc…
A. NO - 3.0 is quite fragile and will just scratch off, it won’t weather well.
Q. Can I put a topcoat over it then?
A. NO that will destroy the matte effect, and many topcoats (including our COAT) will react with the paint and ruin the finish.
Q. I got some weird white marks form on my work, why?
A. You didn't let it dry fully between coats or you painted it on an absorbent surface without sealing it first.EDIT: P.S.:
This still cracks me up for some reason:
*Note: By adding this product to your cart you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor, you are not purchasing this item on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information and belief this material will not make it's way into the hands of Anish Kapoor.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There's a Black 3.0 now.
I know there's a heavy overcast, but I didn't realise that the Black was in the Cloud.
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@dkf It's distributed black with machine learning!
You send the object you want on the cloud where an AI decides whether it can or cannot see your object, and sends the result back to you.
Or, more realistically, you first wait a few hours for the object to upload because each byte of it is wrapped in a 2 MB JSON file that has to be processed by 42 different JS frameworks on the way to the server, ensuring that the object received by the server does not look at all like the original one, then the server responds with either "500 OK" and nothing else, "this object is actually a penis" or Vogon poetry.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Absurdist: I can eat glass; it does not hurt me.
(Google everything after the colon if you need an explanation.)
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow There's a Black 3.0 now.
There'll be Black *checks browser* 82.0 in no time.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow There's a Black 3.0 now.
There'll be Black *checks browser* 82.0 in no time.
You missed a couple upgrades. There were a couple 82.0.x releases and we're now on 83.0.
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow There's a Black 3.0 now.
There'll be Black *checks browser* 82.0 in no time.
You missed a couple upgrades. There were a couple 82.0.x releases and we're now on 83.0.
Ugh. That's what you get for leaving your browser open for 20 minutes.
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No, not accidentally.
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@loopback0
Slacker! I posted this earlier after it got referenced by a colleague who lives in the town Of The Christmas Penis
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: Some books are released audio only
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
After years of failure, Wile E. finally decided to switch brands...
Why was STARK painted on the inside of the front panel?
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler wasn't there something in one of the MCU movies about someone stealing/borrowing Ironman suit and having a reeeeeeeally bad time?
You're thinking of the companies that were trying to reproduce the suit, like Hammer Industries - one of their test pilots got twisted in half.
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@abarker said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
After years of failure, Wile E. finally decided to switch brands...
Why was STARK painted on the inside of the front panel?
It's the panel that was nailed down the wrong side out.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Turns out, they added the u, we didn't take it away.
Wut? Wasn't the removal done single handedly by Noah Webster in 1786?
Sort of. At the time, both "color" and "colour" were commonly used on both sides of the pond. Thanks to Webster's efforts, "color" became the standard in the United States. Some of the spelling choices that Webster made also became the common spellings in England – such as "music" instead of "musick". In other cases – like "color" and "colour" – those in England chose to do things differently.
EDIT: https://www.livescience.com/33844-british-american-word-spelling.html
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@Dragoon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
: Some books are released audio only
OMGWTFBBQTDEMSYR etc etc...
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Huh...was expecting slime, not...whatever that stuff is. Anywho:
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@abarker said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
After years of failure, Wile E. finally decided to switch brands...
Why was STARK painted on the inside of the front panel?
It's the panel that was nailed down the wrong side out.
I like the idea that that is the outside of the panel.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I get the joke about the transmitter, but what is that thing?
Are your turkeys killed with a nail gun and the nail left in as a proof it was killed in the proper American way (with a gun!)?
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I get the joke about the transmitter, but what is that thing?
Are your turkeys killed with a nail gun and the nail left in as a proof it was killed in the proper American way (with a gun!)?
It's a thermo-mometer. Pops out to let you know the bird is cooked so you don't give your Thanksgiving guests salmonella.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It's a thermo-mometer.
Pops out to let you know the bird is cooked
Oh that's nifty, TIL. Thanks.
so you don't give your Thanksgiving guests salmonella.
So the reason I didn't know about it is that we have proper food safety standards