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The [GIF] thread is mourning Stephen Wilhite by arguing about pronunciation (nsf56k)

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  • Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    is there actually a way to get extra ice AND extra water AND room?

    my brain is failing

  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    My wife's old office was above a starbucks, and sometimes they would run out of milk for the coffee room so she would just run downstairs and order 2 venti cups filled with milk

    she got a lot of weird looks

  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular

    I think my leg broke just watching that.

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    That backflip looks impossible

    the pistol squat after I know how hard that is to do and holy fuck

    that is one hell of an athlete

  • Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2021
    Orca wrote: »
    That backflip looks impossible

    the pistol squat after I know how hard that is to do and holy fuck

    that is one hell of an athlete

    yeah i'm pretty sure if i even tried to do the first half of squatting with one leg i'd just straight up fall over

    Houk the Namebringer on
  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    I can barely squat with two legs

  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    edited April 2021
    Orca wrote: »
    That backflip looks impossible

    the pistol squat after I know how hard that is to do and holy fuck

    that is one hell of an athlete

    yeah i'm pretty sure if i even tried to do the first half of squatting with one leg i'd just straight up fall over

    That pretty well describes the first month of attempting it for me

    and I can't drop all the way to the floor like that

    fuck

    She makes it all look easy, which is how you know it's impossible to do.

    Orca on
  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular

    "Dammit, why do they always put the stuff you want on the top shelf?"

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    How much for the lizard

  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    What a strange-looking puppy

  • BedlamBedlam Registered User regular
    That is a dragon. It has claimed its hoard.

  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • darunia106darunia106 J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    What a strange-looking puppy

    Clearly a cat.

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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    Sound

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    Orca wrote: »
    That backflip looks impossible

    the pistol squat after I know how hard that is to do and holy fuck

    that is one hell of an athlete

    Now imagine doing the same thing on ice skates

  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    Ah yes the backflip that she received no point for because women figure skaters weren't allowed to do them. She was also routinely scored lower because she "didn't fit the image and her style was too athletic for a female figure skater." Clearly not racist undertones there.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    figure skating is one of those things where the obvious bullshit judging makes it hard for me to understand why anyone takes it seriously

  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    Every time someone mentions they want to see x sport in the Olympics I'm like "why so it can also be ruined by bad officiating and corruption?"

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    the only good olympic events are the ones nobody gives a shit about, like curling

  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    I really like olympic tetherball!

  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited April 2021
    the only good olympic events are the ones nobody gives a shit about, like curling

    I would expand that to ones that have minimal chance of being ruined by bad judging. What with judges being pulled from countries that are likely to not make the final thus being inexperienced in their sport.

    TheStig on
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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    well the other issue is that judges are often biased towards their own country

    the russian figure skating judges are notorious for that

  • ASimPersonASimPerson Cold... and hard.Registered User regular
    Curling is so good, I should really try to watch it more often than every 4 years.

  • ZibblsnrtZibblsnrt Registered User regular
    TheStig wrote: »
    Ah yes the backflip that she received no point for because women figure skaters weren't allowed to do them. She was also routinely scored lower because she "didn't fit the image and her style was too athletic for a female figure skater." Clearly not racist undertones there.

    It wasn't even "no points" - they actively penalized her for the flip, and specifically claimed "insolence" as the reason.

    If I remember correctly at that point in her career Bonaly was basically Done with the racist bullshit in the competitive world and knew the judges would ding her on general principle; she did the backflip (1) for the audience and (2) as a way of saying "fuck you, we all know who's the better skater right now" to the judges.

  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    As I recall she wasn't able to execute the planned set due to a previous injury (omitting a triple Lutz, I believe, which seemed to be basically a requirement for a high score), did the flip, and finished her routine with her back to the judges

    Marty: The future, it's where you're going?
    Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    edited April 2021
    Wait for it...

    Orca on
  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    If you change the ".MP4" on an imgur link to ".gifv" it'll embed the video. No IMG tags, just change MP4 to gifv.

  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    Thanks for the tip

    (just the tip!)

  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    Orca wrote: »
    Wait for it...

    Someone's been working on their pyromancer build.

    No matter where you go...there you are.
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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Orca wrote: »
    Wait for it...


    his occasional looks to the camera are extremely threatening

  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    Orca wrote: »
    Wait for it...


    his occasional looks to the camera are extremely threatening

    I like that satisfied smirk he gives at the end.

    "Yeah, that's right, check out that crazy shit I just did. It was awesome, wasn't it?"

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Orca wrote: »
    Wait for it...


    What the fuck

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    Orca wrote: »
    Wait for it...


    What the fuck

    What, you never filled a bubble with flammable smoke before? what are they even teaching in wizard schools nowadays.

    Steam! Battlenet:Wisemantobes#1508
  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    Anyone with a candle can witness some incredibly fucking weird shit that I don't understand myself.

    If you light a candle, and let it stay lit for a few minutes, it does this weird thing. You can extinguish the candle, and while smoke is coming off the wick, light the smoke and the flame will just zip down the smoke and reignite the wick.

    I'm not sure that's what's going on in the video, but it might be!

  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Anyone with a candle can witness some incredibly fucking weird shit that I don't understand myself.

    If you light a candle, and let it stay lit for a few minutes, it does this weird thing. You can extinguish the candle, and while smoke is coming off the wick, light the smoke and the flame will just zip down the smoke and reignite the wick.

    I'm not sure that's what's going on in the video, but it might be!

    So it's not smoke (or at least not entirely). A distinct portion of that is aerosolized wax. (That's actually what burns when you light a candle, not the wick itself, nor the solid wax, nor even the melting liquid wax, it's the wax that heats up so much that it becomes a gas, then it ignites). So because this is what is actually burning when you are burning a candle, you can then re-ignite it. The flame expands in _both_ directions from where you light it, though it usually runs out of wax to burn in the upwards direction, until it hits the candle again, which is still putting off the gaseous wax, and it re-ignites.

    What's going on with the bubble, though, looks like he puts accelerant in the lower bubble, uses differential pressure between the large bubble and the outside air to begin ejecting the gas from the bubble, and just lets it ignite. The differential is just slight enough that it escapes slowly, at effectively the same speed that the gas burns, otherwise it would either gutter out or accelerate down the plume and ignite the reservoir in the bottom of the bubble (like it does at the end of the video, just more vigorously).

  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    Imperfect wrote: »
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Anyone with a candle can witness some incredibly fucking weird shit that I don't understand myself.

    If you light a candle, and let it stay lit for a few minutes, it does this weird thing. You can extinguish the candle, and while smoke is coming off the wick, light the smoke and the flame will just zip down the smoke and reignite the wick.

    I'm not sure that's what's going on in the video, but it might be!

    So it's not smoke (or at least not entirely). A distinct portion of that is aerosolized wax. (That's actually what burns when you light a candle, not the wick itself, nor the solid wax, nor even the melting liquid wax, it's the wax that heats up so much that it becomes a gas, then it ignites). So because this is what is actually burning when you are burning a candle, you can then re-ignite it. The flame expands in _both_ directions from where you light it, though it usually runs out of wax to burn in the upwards direction, until it hits the candle again, which is still putting off the gaseous wax, and it re-ignites.

    What's going on with the bubble, though, looks like he puts accelerant in the lower bubble, uses differential pressure between the large bubble and the outside air to begin ejecting the gas from the bubble, and just lets it ignite. The differential is just slight enough that it escapes slowly, at effectively the same speed that the gas burns, otherwise it would either gutter out or accelerate down the plume and ignite the reservoir in the bottom of the bubble (like it does at the end of the video, just more vigorously).

    Magic. Got it.

  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    TIL candles are magnets.

  • BedlamBedlam Registered User regular

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Ice cold, baby.

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