Does anyone else remember the time that Bryke was mad at the Avatar toyline? Because the company just kept demanding more and more ludicrous ideas for action figures? (But still refused to make female action figures.)
And one day, the company asked them to make a battle outfit for Aang.
And Bryke was just like, “…The airbenders were pacifists?”
And the toy company was like, “Just give us something!”
So Bryke literally told everyone in the studio to come up with all of these ridiculous ideas and they actually combined them all together and made this:
Needless to say the toy wasn’t passed.
I think about this a lot.
this is just the classiest and most hilarious “FUCK YOU” ever
god i loved that scene. IIRC aang tried to take one step and then just fell the fuck over because of how impractical all that junk was
upload the nematode / lock it in a box / keep it there for fifty years / then see if it talks!
but, like, it’s a worm. its behavior isn’t that complex.
if it’s not accurately behaving like a worm, how would we tell?
^ an important point. IIRC they don’t even really have a complete characterization of the worm’s nervous system, so C. legogans here is at best a preliminary test. Still pretty cool, though.
I looked at the article, and to my mind the significant thing here is that the lego robot demonstrated consistent behavior with no programming. They didn’t program any stimulus-response behavior into it. They just gave it their best approximation of worm neurons, and it made up the behavior.
I may be misunderstanding some aspect of this but to me that feels kinda huge?
They made an artifical reactive set of neurons with consistent observable behaviors. Yeah, this is a big deal. It’s the first step towards ‘uploading’ minds.
Josephine Cochrane invented the first commercially successful dishwasher out of frustration at broke and chipped fine china. She also wanted to relieve tired housewives from the duty of washing dishes by hand, but most houses didn’t have hot water systems at the time so initially only hotels and restaurants were interested in the idea. She was said to have exclaimed “If nobody else is going to invent a dish-washing machine, I’ll do it myself!”
The first model was designed in the shed behind her house in Shelbyville, Illinois. Unlike earlier designs that were made out of wood and used hand-cranked scrubbers, Cochran’s design was the first to use water pressure to clean the dishes. She received a patent for her invention in 1886 and went on to show her invention at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where she won the highest prize for “best mechanical construction, durability, and adaptation to its line of work.”
I talked to a young man with white hair on a boat cabin in the middle of a stormy sea. He forgot everything about himself exept for the fact that his name rhymed with ‘Time’ so he started calling himself Time.
I offered him an orange in exchange for a meaningful chat. He took the slice and told me “Nothing’s set in stone, but they’re set in a dirt road. If you roll your wagon in the same path too much it’ll soon be the only path you can take without struggling.”
sounds more like you talked to an old god more than a weird dream.
Yall gotta stop starting a post by talking about names like “Tim”, “Jack” and “Bruce” with no further identifiers cause there’s a thousand different people both real and fictional that your post could be about and if I can’t gather who you’re talking about in the first sentence then I’m out
