Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[I Dont Care]

 

[raman]

First Mario was Donkey Kong, was it not?

Unchallenged.

You fulla sheeeit, Spec Mod.

 

[chiwigi]

Civ VI - awesome. A good review on some of the changes here: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/civilization-6-revealed-brings-major-changes/1100-6439691/

I've been crying out for unstacked cities since number 2 (which was easily the best).

Can't wait!

 

[glitch01]

Piston_Broke and others - In the desert outside Las Vegas, Hyperloop One has demonstrated a futuristic transporter that might one day carry people or cargo at speeds of more than 1000 kilometres an hour. The three metre prototype hovered over magnetically charged rails enclosed in tubes. A three metre sled hit speeds of about 186 kilometres an hour before crashing into a pile of sand. It was meant to end this way as the early version does not have brakes.

Brogan BamBrogan, Hyperloop One's co-founder and chief technology officer, was happy with the demonstration. "Well that's what it was supposed to do. So we always like it when engineering tests go that way." Any number of things could have gone wrong. That's engineering on the edge of a new frontier. Mr BamBrogan is a former engineer with Elon Musk's SpaceX company, the 25th employee hired. He's thrilled by his latest challenge. "Technology development testing can be a tricky beast, so you never know on a given day if things are going to work exactly like you want, so I'm happy for the team and certainly I'm happy." Read more at http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2016/s4460817.htm

What a great name - for a great engineer - working on a great idea. This is the story behind his name
http://www.techinsider.io/how-hyperloop-founder-brogan-bambrogan-got-the-greatest-name-ever-2016-5
BamBrogan formerly went by "Kevin Brogan." He formerly worked at SpaceX where he was fondly called "K-Bro." But in 2013 he married a woman named Bambi Liu. As part of the nuptials, according to Forbes, the couple decided to merge names rather than hyphenate. Hers became "Bambi BamBrogan" and his, simply "Brogan BamBrogan." Forbes wrote about the name change in a long story about BamBrogan and Hyperloop One here:
"...it’s easy to poke fun of Brogan BamBrogan. The singular name came when the former Kevin Brogan decided last year to merge more than just lives with his new wife, Bambi Liu, now Bambi BamBrogan. He’s got a Sgt. Pepper’s-era handlebar mustache and wears deep v-neck T-shirts and a skeleton key around his neck. But get behind the pretension and you find a world-class engineer, who did all of the design work on the second-stage engine of the Falcon 1 and was the lead architect for the heat shield of the Dragon capsule."
http://www.techinsider.io/how-hyperloop-founder-brogan-bambrogan-got-the-greatest-name-ever-2016-5

This is what happened today.



This is how its supposed to look in the future

Apparently Dubai are keen to get this system - has been in the media a lot recently.
The 1.5 hour trip to Abu Dhabi is considered a major trek......

 

[Dylan8]

Unchallenged.

You fulla sheeeit, Spec Mod.

just sighed for 5 minutes straight

 

[raman]

just sighed for 5 minutes straight

Yes, Dylan, there were people named Mario in 1962.

 

[StuMan]

I've been crying out for unstacked cities since number 2 (which was easily the best).

Can't wait!

I agree about both unstacked cities and Civ2 being the best.
The first Civ I played, and still the best.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Phooar.

 

[ozph1870]

Power teddy on maidens drum kit....

 

[Dylan8]

Phooar.

This is the sort of metal people who own several fedoras listen to

 

[Dylan8]

They're gunning for this bloke to kill himself aren't they

****ing feral media.

 

[proman_x]

They're gunning for this bloke to kill himself aren't they

******* feral media.

Ahhh yes the Aussie battler. The lad must be our Joe the plumber.

Same bullshit just a different country. No surprises. Had this been the Tiser, they would have found a way of linking his behaviour as simular to that ex Port Power player ''Nick Stevens'.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

To paraphrase the great Rampaging Roy Slaven who lip read Mal Meninga on the victory dias of the 1994 NSWRL when the audio feed dropped out and received the trophy from Arko and Quaylie

I've never seen a nicer bunch of corrupt officials as the B.R.I.C.S leaders.

 

[Del165198]

First Mario was Donkey Kong, was it not?

 

[Dylan8]

Ahhh yes the Aussie battler. The lad must be our Joe the plumber.

Same bullshit just a different country. No surprises. Had this been the Tiser, they would have found a way of linking his behaviour as simular to that ex Port Power player ''Nick Stevens'.

What's the point you're making here

A lower class man has raised legitimate concerns about inequality in this country and has been quickly championed by the people so the right wing media has made personal attacks on him. He has no national television timeslot like Andrew Bolt or a newspaper column in a national newspaper to defend himself. It's ****ing disgusting.

 

[CrimsonRaven]

Why was he named as a hero in the first place? He asked a question on Q&A, he didnt save someones life. Ludicrous from sides of the media.

 

[Dylan8]

Why was he named as a hero in the first place? He asked a question on Q&A, he didnt save someones life. Ludicrous from sides of the media.

He's been championed by the public not the media. For good reason. He didn't just ask a question on QnA he got a little bit more involved than that.

 

[manureid]

I think because he exposed the farce of the $6000 toaster.

 

[Dylan8]

I think because he exposed the farce of the $6000 toaster.

How does more efficient technology help employ people anyway? You get a bigger toaster to employ less people.

 

[tribey]

What's the point you're making here

A lower class man has raised legitimate concerns about inequality in this country and has been quickly championed by the people so the right wing media has made personal attacks on him. He has no national television timeslot like Andrew Bolt or a newspaper column in a national newspaper to defend himself. It's ******* disgusting.

He was always going to be a shady grub I mean look at him

 

[Papa G]

I can't watch that show. What was the thug's question?

 

[Dylan8]

I can't watch that show. What was the thug's question?

he asked why he wasn't getting free money from the government for smoking ice and beating people up on the street every day

 

[Grave Danger]

In protest against Q&A I went to bed at 9.30 on Monday.

 

[Papa G]

he asked why he wasn't getting free money from the government for smoking ice and beating people up on the street every day

Because he should be smoking cigarettes silly...

 

[tribey]

His son's name is Aztec Major so serious credits in the bank for that