Only guys will understand

#OffTopic@GameDEV

If you think you're useless, keep in mind that some cephalopods can mimic color pattern of their surroundings in near absolute darkness which is both cool and absolutely damn pointless.

#OffTopic@GameDEV

Crazy Engineering story of Nissan getting around the rules by storing tons of energy in a 100 000 RPM flywheel.

Which they've had to wrap into carbon fibre and place into vacuum box, then simulate all racing tracks with the special software to make it actually usable and find the sweet spot between two energy sources.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--gfBRgeIZo
#OffTopic@GameDEV

Just met an adorable African gray (Psittacus) named Barry (but it's a girl). It's 17, lives in a tiny pet shop, talks, dances, all the stuff. The owner allows it to hang outside of the cage, it looks happy.

Another one lives in a cafe nearby, and a whole bunch of them lives in a local zoo as well. Sadly, one of the zoo grays is seemingly a home bird, so 20 crazy neighbours are screaming around it and it says "hello" to humans and suspiciously look around.

They are extremely social, sensitive, require tons of care, and most likely outlive their owners (they live up to 80 years). And way too many of them are being taken from nature to only end up as neglected or abandoned.

#OffTopic@GameDEV

A custom indie team got into 24 hours race on Nürburgring. With slightly modified Renault / Dacha Logan.

It was not any fast, compared to other cars. But it finished the race, ended up not the last, and was extremely steady while turning.

Two moments became iconic: how racing cars lose the grip while following the Logan and the moment when much more powerful Mercedes wasted over a minute unable to bypass the tiny car.

Ollis Garage Racing barely made it to the event since they've had to modify the car but keep it under tons of regulations. Technically a group of friends fulfilled their lifetime dream.

#Racing@GameDEV
#OffTopic@GameDEV

Off topic: Prototaxities, the only big land life for tens of millions of years that dominated the surface before trees, is apparently not made of mushroom (as it was believed for ages).

Both chemical and structural analysis of well-preserved fossils in Scotland failed to match mushrooms from the same sediment. It's an absolutely new form of life. And studying a 400 million years old life is not easy.

It used to have huge ring-enforced structures inside to pass liquids and gases + smaller ones to distribute it further (very similar to lungs and blood vessels). But there are no signs that it was an animal either. But what do we know about life if we fail to determine WTF is Paleodictyon nodosum which still exists, we just can't find anything but traces of it.

#OffTopic@GameDEV
#Science@GameDEV

Yeah, it's a pain. Also, most of the people do not believe that I can't recognize faces, but can obviously keep in mind that the person is blonde or tall and slender or wears certain items.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcj-KIMp1VQ
#OffTopic@GameDEV

Off topic: most of the countries place recycling bins that are not connected to anything = strait to landfill. And the only way to make any impact is to reduce the use of these materials in the first place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68zjxTTl5Ik
#OffTopic@GameDEV

We have a permanent pond in the park with huge red-eared turtles, frogs, fishes, snails, and such. It's just about 50 meters in diameter and made out of the old fountain frame by the nearby university.

During the heavy rain frogs inside make such a loud noise altogether that is audible from a mile away. Such a wonderful place!

Kind advice: do not get these turtles as pets. They are hard to care about, their enclosure must be big, they are nasty eaters, male ones are aggressive and territorial and grow up to 30 cm, they are hunters capable of biting a mouse in half and tear apart any fish.

#OffTopic@GameDEV

A Russian couple climbed up to the Empire State Building skyscraper with Jimi Hendrix's quote for peace, engaged up there, then got arrested and released (to wait for the second court hearing). Nice folks 😁

When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace!

#OffTopic@GameDEV