Mike B

Video games, rhythm games, cars, motorcycles, bikes, skateboards

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

@NoGoodCitizen Liquid death cherry is the only one I've found to be not appalling

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

@LauraJean911 @James_J_Marlow What in the fuck is this picture. What the fuck. The Internet has made everyone collectively dumber. I hate it here.

[Alex Boge @alexboge]

I find these World Trade Center simulations by Kostack Studio fascinating because they remove the smoke and let you see the collapse much more clearly.

In the real footage, so much is hidden by fire, dust, debris, distance, and chaos that many people come away with the impression that the towers simply dropped straight down into their own footprints.

But that is not really what happened.

These simulations make it much easier to see that the collapse begins in the heavily damaged and fire-weakened region, the upper section starts moving and tilting, and the destruction then propagates downward through the structure.

The towers do not simply disappear vertically into their own footprints. Large portions of the upper structure and exterior are moving outward and to the side as the collapse develops. Much of that motion is simply obscured in the real videos once the enormous debris cloud forms.

And this is also why I find these simulations useful when people describe the collapses as looking like “controlled demolition.”

Strip away the smoke and dust and the resemblance becomes much less convincing.

What you see is a highly asymmetric structural failure beginning around the aircraft-damaged and fire-affected floors, followed by an enormous moving mass progressively overwhelming the structure beneath it. There is tilting, rotation, exterior columns peeling away, debris being thrown far outside the building footprint, and structural failure occurring chaotically as the collapse moves downward.

That is very different from the neat mental image usually implied by “controlled demolition,” where structural supports are deliberately severed in a carefully timed sequence to produce a predetermined collapse.

And importantly, we already know what preceded these collapses.

Both towers suffered massive aircraft-impact damage. Fireproofing was stripped from portions of the structure. Large, uncontrolled fires then burned across multiple floors - for about 56 minutes in the South Tower and about 102 minutes in the North Tower - heating and weakening structural components until collapse initiated.

Once that upper mass began moving, the loads imposed on the floors and structure beneath became vastly greater than anything they had been designed to carry.

The result was progressive collapse.

No, an animation is not proof simply because it looks convincing, and these are not official NIST simulations. They are visualizations built under particular assumptions.

But as visualizations, I think they are extremely useful.

They let you see something the original footage often cannot show clearly: beneath that enormous cloud of smoke and debris was a complicated, violent, asymmetric structural failure - not two buildings neatly dropping straight down into their own footprints.

A note on the simulation: this is not intended to reproduce the collapse down to the exact motion of every beam, floor panel, and fragment of debris. No practical simulation could do that. Its value is in modeling the large-scale structural behavior - how the major sections deform, move, tilt, separate, and progressively fail. Think of it as a visualization of the mechanics and overall collapse behavior, not a frame-by-frame reconstruction of where every piece of steel ultimately landed.

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

@DestinyBulletn They stretched D2 so long to keep making money and then pulled it because it wasn't doing well. The devs had all this waiting and ready!!!! I hate you sony.

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

This garbage is being advertised to boomers on the radio

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

Who gives a shit? Do you have to stop playing a game that you like because not as many other people are playing it anymore? It doesn't make sense.
WELL I CANT PLAY IT UNLESS THERE ARE 200,000 PLAYERS ONLINE

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

@swanstaforever He gives them all the chance to sit and talk to him like a human. Some of them choose not to.

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

@RockstarGames @netflix Pay wall trailer is wild work

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

@ZacksJerryRig @Ford Does that place it as midsize above the maverick but not as big as the F150?
I think a very small gas generator option will be the transition point for attracting the most potential buyers.

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

@povcops Some Harley VRODs had a side mounted plate that would let it flip back if it hit something. Some states found this factory equipment to be illegal because it was on a moveable bracket.

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

@FirstAauditt There is no way they acting like someone flagged down the police over a car having window tint

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

@charlieINTEL Call of duty should remove muzzle flash and recoil and sights and guns and players and maps. That way nobody can complain.

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

@Pirat_Nation Id rather have some fan noise than boiling hot plastic

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

@MarcusHouse Block and report all "privileged broadcasts" if this takes place

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

@BoundaryBreak All digital is instant purchase, no disc related logistics, no 3rd parties selling, and no product reselling. One game per account to play. Of course the investors love it.

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

@FlaccidEggroll @charlieINTEL They know GTA6 is coming out and it's the only way to play it. There will for sure be people who buy one just for one game.

[❄️Char❄️ @FoxyyChar]

Just gonna leave this here 💀

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

@insomniacookies Pretty wild that your delivery service ate my food and was 2 hours late with my room temperature milk and you won't even respond to my customer support form a month later.

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

@TheEXECUTlONER_ Even worse than getting your phone thrown is having to listen to that guy

[Mike B @NizmoMike]

Wow the Concorde needed a flight engineer that's crazy woah unheard of