Plz Play Fire Emblem :)

every time i see a furry redesign of hatsune miku i just think "why, she is already a creature"

she's in the same genre as n64 mario

She's even a Legendary Creature going by her Magic card

cats know keyboard shortcuts even microsoft doesnt know about

One time one of our cats sat on one side of the keyboard and turned the screen sideways. It took us ages to figure out what the shortcut until we discovered it was a five key command that used both sides of the keyboard. We still have no idea how she did

every day in the comments of my video about the /hj tone indicator I get someone saying "what you don't understand is [thing that was stated directly in the video]"

every week someone watches my video about how I think it's annoying how many different contradictory definitions of /hj there are and says "oh, personally I think /hj has this other definition, which is different and contradicts the ones you said in the video. this is the only thing it means" and none of them ever give the same definition as each other and they never argue with each other for not agreeing on what one singular thing /hj means

I think the only thing I regret not spending more time on in the video (because it's the only common response I get that isn't literally directly addressed in the video itself) is how a lot of people misinterpret the title and by extension the thesis of the video.

a lot of people think that by "the /hj tone indicator is worse than useless" I'm being hyperbolic and actually just mean that it's useless, so they counter this by saying of course it's not useless, because it has so many situations it can apply to and they use it all the time and so forth. but they're misinterpreting what my point is! I do actually literally mean "worse than useless". I don't think /hj is useless; I would prefer if it were useless.

been a while since I've done this but check out this comment. what are they talking about (transcription under the cut)

I like that they end this on an essay about how Autistic People don't understand certain types of logic after dropping one of the most bizarre definitions for /hj, possibly ever, that is almost completely contradictory to all other definitions of /hj, possibly including itself

I think about British Airways Flight 5390 a lot

OKAY STRAP IN because this is one of the WILDEST stories in aviation history.

In 1990, a British Airways BAC One-Eleven, captained by Tim Lancaster and co-piloted by Alastair Atchison, was cruising at 17,000 feet.

Around 15 minutes after take-off, flight attendant Nigel Ogden entered the cockpit to bring the pilots something to drink. One second everything was fine. The next second, the pilot's side window blew out from the force of the pressurized cockpit. Even though he was strapped in, the force of the explosive decompression ripped the captain out of his chair and pulled him though the window.

The flight attendant immediately leapt forward and grasped the captain's belt. The force was so strong - due to the plane's speed - the captain slipped and was pulled almost entirely out of the plane, but the flight attendant caught his leg. The captain laid on the roof, then the side of the fuselage (the above image is an inaccurate recreation - the side window was smashed) and the flight attendant's entire arm was soon outside of the plane, gripping him.

(Recreation from the show Mayday at the point of decompression)

At the same time, the event caused the autopilot to disengage, and the captain's body hitting the flight controls caused the plane to enter into a deep dive. The throttle was set to full power and could not be accessed due to debris, meaning the plane was descending rapidly. The co-pilot, experiencing hypoxia, fought to control the plane's dive while allowing it to continue descending to a level the passengers/crew could breathe at. He attempted to contact air traffic control, but the wind made communication impossible, so he broadcast a mayday signal. Finally, he was able to re-engage the autopilot and level the plane out at a breathable altitude.

Soon, the flight attendant's entire arm was burned from wind shear and frostbite, and his grip began to slip. The other attendants entered the cabin to see what was wrong and took over holding the captain's body. Seeing the blood covering the windows from the captain's severe wind sheer burns and frostbite, the attendants and co-pilot knew he was dead. However, they could not let his body go because it could smash into the wing, horz stabilizer, or engine, and bring the plane down.

For 30+ minutes the co-pilot flew a jet plane with an OPEN WINDOW and his co-worker's body hanging along the side of the plane. Finally, clearance to land from ATC came across over the sound of the wind and the flight attendants were able to dislodge the captain's ankles from the flight controls without letting him go. The co-pilot successfully landed the plane.

(tw below for blood)

(Taken same day as the incident)

BUT HERE'S THE KICKER: when they reached the ground and evacuated, they realized THE CAPTAIN WAS NOT DEAD.

He SURVIVED being outside the fuselage of a jet airplane traveling 550mph at 17,000 feet. His only injuries were extensive - but mostly superficial - frostbite and windshear burns, bruising, fractures in his hand, and shock. He has since stated that he remembers the event and was conscious for much of the time he was outside of the fuselage. The only other injury was the flight attendant's frostbitten/windshorn arm. Captain Tim Lancaster returned to flying five months later.

(Captain Tim Lancaster in bed several weeks after the incident, with flight attendant Ogden (+ Ogden's wife) above him and co-pilot Alastair Atchison to the far left, along with the two other flight attendants)

Why did this occur? Because the plane had received maintenance the day before, and the maintenance supervisor did not check he was using the correct screws in re-installing the windscreen.

(Recreation)

So yeah: you can apparently survive clinging to the side of a jet airliner traveling 500+mph at 17,000 feet.

Wow! Didn't expect this many likes for an aviation post.

Just a note that I was wrong - it was the front pilot's windscreen, not the side-window! I'm used to looking at Boeing windows with different positions :)

If y'all want the full story & more analysis of what exactly went wrong, Mayday: Air Investigations did a pretty decent special on the incident. It's free on YouTube here (and here on dailymotion if you're outside the US).

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you really couldn't film a scene like this for a movie without it looking too fake to be believable.

Buddy, you breezes over the incorrect bolts part but that parts also insane.

The maintenance supervisor was doing this a) at night and b) without his glasses, and when he went to the depot to get the necessary bolts the station wasn't manned so he couldn't get in. There was a deliberatly unmanned depot a bit aways but when he got there it was pissing rain and the lights were out.

So you have this essentially blind man, with no one to help him, fumbling in the dark and wet for a bilt that looked identical enough to the one he brought with him.

Also, no one checked his work because only essential maintenance needed to be checked by a person who wasn't the maintenance supervisor and, for some ungodly reason, "whether the windows of the plane were properly installed" wasn't flagged as essential so no one else checked it.

There are so many things in this sequence that went wrong because of systemic problems (the basically blind maintenance supervisor not having any help, his work not being flagged for needing double-checking, if anyone bothered to man the depot) that it's very easy to forget that the plane also arrived to the airport with the wrong bolts installed anyway.

I will repeat.

Before that entire chain of events that led to the wrong bolts being installed, the plane had ALREADY ARRIVED WITH THE WRONG BOLTS INSTALLED!!!

I'm sorry but this is such a funny ask in concept.

"Hello Mr. "Person who worked on the show," do you think the show you worked on is any good? You would obviously be an objective source on this"

I mean I trust Neil to not fudge his opinions just to get us to watch something but this is such a strange question when you deconstruct it like that

Neil Gaiman quit Tumblr because someone decided to send him a terrible crossover fic of Good Omens, Deltarune, and Brooklyn 99 in which he was a character and there was a scene of him pegging Jake Peralta.

Neil Gaiman is mentioned in a tumblr post. The timer starts. We await the runes that inform us he has seen and appreciated the post. The timer will start again.

Slender Man kidnapped me but we became partners because he was just lonely.

Hades and Persephone

This has become a "Tell me you experience Seasonal Depression without telling me you experience Seasonal Depression" test

Tag your age if you wanna bc I was just thinking about how I have used floppy disks before (I'm 25 and used them in elementary computer lab) but my 22 y.o. brother hasn't which is so weird to me like 3 years isn't a long time at all to me

Drop your age and country/state in the tags ☀️

This is probably super US centric but I’m still interested to see the results! Please don’t include weather drills in your response.

For those unaware, a lockdown drill is a drill schools will run to practice in the event of a danger to students and staff. This could be anything from a swarm of bees (happened at my elementary school) to an off-campus police presence or an active shooter event.

When I was in school we did lockdown drills only, the district I work in now does lockdowns and active shooter drills, but they’re conflated and the kids are taught to barricade during a lockdown when applicable.

you can tell a lot about a person by who their first fictional crush was. it also explains every fictional crush they’ve had since

who was yours? i’ll go first: mine was batman :x

I have never felt this strongly about the National Archive and Records Administration of a country I do not live in than I do when it's up against the people who killed my beloved NASA

I can't believe NASA is not only losing but losing by a hair to the NATIONAL PARK SERVICE?!? "Oooh, but Yellowstone is such a nice place to visit!" Have you considered the beautiful, magnificent, and still not fully understood marvel that is the cosmos? That NASA's efforts to better understand it has led to multiple generations of not just scientists but outright optimism? That the tech advancements brought on by literal decades of NASA funding are often quite literally out of this world? And y'all think that the poeple who keep the parks pretty are a better agency despite being better funded* than NASA, how dare you all!

*relative to it's needs