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What does the titan do? Bath bomb? Pressure sensor? Maybe a coin bank? You smash it when it's full.
Looks like it doesn’t do anything. just for sitting on desk or putting in aquarium
Oh man now I’m imagining having two tanks set up side by side, one labeled “before” with the little prop suspended on fishing line somewhere around the middle of the water column, and a second one labeled “after” with a crushed craft little chunks scattered all over the bottom..
You could print the main body in a water-soluble filament and have it break down in hours.
Now I want a Titan-wreckage aquarium decoration.
Vacuum or pressure washer would be fun
I vote "novelty vacuum sealer."
Confetti grenade
Alpaca 3D my main man!
(not really, I don't know who he is)
34% relative humidity. Not great, not terrible.
Ngl this seems like a great conversation starter.
Ehhhhhh.
Stuff like this is hilarious up until you meet someone who had family in the area or who has memories of everyone panicking around them when the NPP failed (said panic spread pretty far throughout Western Europe...)
Don't get me wrong. I am all for some dark edgelord jokes. But the kind where I can choose my audience. Because, best case scenario, stuff like this screams "I'm an edgelord" and, at worst, it leads to someone calling you on your bullshit when they come over.
Its similar to big titty anime girl figures. Yes, it will probably cause a conversation. Think through what kinds of conversations would result and... are those conversations you want to have?
Too soon still. In France they were bullshiting us that the radiation had stopped at the border, while all the radiologic alarms in the fire stations were going off.
Yeah. Some very good friends of mine are a German couple and one of them has talked about how she remembers being scared shitless one day and all the precautions that were taken for the next year or three over radiation and the like. She'll join in for jokes about russia mismanaging things and actually really enjoys the STALKER games, but I also remember how she was very clearly having a mild panic attack all throughout the Fukushima incident and the like.
Its a mindset I see with a lot of American millennials. Our big "disaster" was 9-11. And, unless you lived in NYC (or I guess near the Pentagon), odds are it was just a weird day where you got to go home from school early and weren't allowed to watch TV. My uncle was in one of the towers and I remember the panic as my mother was frantically trying to figure out if he was fine (he ended up walking home without his shoes and we still don't know what happened during his trauma induced blackout). But, for me? It was just sitting around at home with no real impact. And while I suspect this is why the Cranston Godzilla REALLY hits for me, yeah.
But if you were a kid who has memories of your family going batshit insane trying to protect you? That leaves trauma marks.
Isn't trauma the best part of a joke though?
I very much align with the WKUK gag of "comedy is tragedy remembered"
But the key is: it is YOUR tragedy. Not someone else's. Hence, know your audience.
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Yeah put it across from the model of MH370, by the photo of JFK getting shot
When you want your skin to radiate its best.
And now a word from our spokesperson, Dr. Bruce Banner..
3.6 Roentgen, Not Great, Not Terrible
That ~~inherits~~ radiates a certain kind of humor that could be considered funny. I want one 😁
inherits? Is that really the right verb?
How about "elicits"?
I think it’s radiates a certain type of humor
Nailed it
You will fission your sides with laughter!
Perfect fit. Corrected. Non-native-speaker might get a pass here 😁
Metastasizes fun all over your body
Break up pencil lead on the top of it and scream "THERE'S GRAPHITE ON THE ROOF"
It's so wrong, yet it's so right.
I don't want to banalize a tragedy but it.. Might help us remember it..? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Reminds me of this like inflatable titanic water slide i saw while driving through San Diego
I'm reminded of that Loriot sketch in Germany, with grandpa buying a game for Christmas.
"And when there is an accident all the little trees and cows fall over."
Do a 9/11 one! With aroma diffuser
Surely thats a commemorative Jenga set
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
It's wrong for you to want a funny thing, yes.
I could think of a few worse ones. Like "Thích Quảng Đức sitting in Lotus position Ari humidifier".
Wow. A 3d printer, an ultrasonic humidifier module, and a completely sociopathic grasp on world affairs could see the most offensive Etsy store ever.
There’s basically no limit to the depravity one could stoop to in pursuit of money.
I sense a business opportunity, but at what cost?
No, I mean, literally, what’s a steaming Krakatoa worth?
Now I just need to find a 3D artist willing to make my vision for a Charlie Kirk fountain a reality...
That’s horrible. I love it.
I saw a store selling "drop and run" cobalt replicas. Some things are just distasteful.
That’s kind of fucked up if there’s not an indication that it’s a replica. Akin to yelling fire in a theater if someone used one of them maliciously.
Perhaps it could be kind of neat as a curio if it’s a highly engineered/beautiful work of art (that is maybe too expensive to use for malicious ‘jokes’). But I’d still want it to have some sort of indication that folks aren’t getting dosed/they don’t have to trigger a response by your local atomic energy officials.
Editing to add that before I picked Krakatoa (fingers crossed on my inability to predict natural disasters), I actually searched for “disasters with no death toll” to use as an example for a potential model without much success. It is in poor taste and my comments are definitely parody.
I hope it’s safer than the real one.
It comes with a 100lb concrete dome to contain it when you're not using it ... crane sold separately.
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