Really? It just seems like the NOS stockpile is endless… though I had read somewhere that there was still a factory operating in the early 90’s… guess you did say most.

Doorknob operators, love it! 😊 And thanks for the explanation, Mr. Ellness (which I’m almost certainly misspelling) really couldn’t articulate the reason behind it, nor did his “minder” offer any explanation.

Hopefully I didn’t come off as glorifying the system, it certainly wasn’t my intention to do so.

Thanks for the recommendations! I vaguely remember Louis Rossman video (back when you made repair videos) where he sort of flashed the watermark on the screen for a second. Always thought I would go back and find that video, never did :-)

IDK… I would have liked to visit in the 80’s or something like that; peek Soviet propaganda, factories still churning out Nixie tubes by the truckload because it was part of the last 5 year plan. Jr. Highschool history teacher visited, said they employ old ladies in the Moscow subway to watch the escalators just because everyone needed a job.

So uh… what Soviet electronics forums should we be visiting OP?

Hopefully a few thousand of them were the ones responsible for making the website dog shit 😅

Comeon 0.0001%! Let’s get those last 5 people who know what an extension is but were holding out for…???

Yeah… These articles are like reading the tally marks on a prison wall. Let it go.

For sure. Especially if you’re ever planning to work at a smaller company, have any interest in showing off your own work, generally enjoy 3D… really it was a bit of a joke.

If I knew a bit more about blender specifically I would have said something like, “Good news! With the xyz fur shader even a crudely drawn grayscale map will blaj* the hell out of that shark.” ^*I also didn’t know Dutch? ;-)^

making materials/textures sucks

Don’t. In a production pipeline, that’s someone else’s job ;-)

I remember when he bulldoze a bunch of people‘s vehicles… and part of me was like “Cool, riding an ATV in Central Park for fun probably should result in your vehicle getting crushed…” and the little voice in the back of my head says this is a bit over the top, even for a publicity stunt. 

Need to listen to that little voice more often 😅

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We’re calling it Proposition #66 😉

Obviously you’ve never been… everything here causes cancer. We’re amending the law next year so we can just label everything that isn’t carcinogenic because it will substantially reduce the number of Prop 65 labels that end up in landfills ;-)

Try picking your front door… could be very instructive ;-)

To soon!

Yeah, it was definitely intended as humor an attempt at levity.

Pagers, often used by civilians and healthcare workers for communication, are small, battery-powered wireless devices that receive text messages, audio, and visual signals.

Boy do I feel old now…

According to Walla, the operation "neutralised a significant part of Hezbollah's military command and control system."

This was the next sentence. My personal pity-party was subsequently cancelled.

A further linked article speculates that the pagers were rigged with explosives. As their main power source is an alkaline AAA battery. No crazy Mr. Robot hack, just regular depravity.

Followed shortly by ‘oh shit’ and ‘we dropped two weights’ then ‘guys, it’s getting kind of wet in here…’

Just kidding, mostly.

Serious question: how does a submarine know how much it weighs?

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Dopemobile?

Is there an award for the most British headline?

We were doing fine until the SuperCoral™ evolved the ability to breath air back in 2047… must’ve been some of that salamander DNA that we used. 

There was always that rumor he was a military sniper before becoming a kids TV show host.