Those that now go and watch a rugby match will be sorely disappointed. Hairy sweaty men with missing teeth. No oiled up hot chicks unfortunately.. *cry*.

>> ^marinara:

Exactly how does some office furniture burn for 7 hours, and then raise (fireproofed) steel to over 1000 degrees? What we know from other videos of WT7, is many of the fires extinguished themselves (burned themselves out).

I really doubt that a failure of a steel beam, which supports the floor (and nothing else), could take down an entire building.
Otherwise the facts in this video are generally correct, but misleading. (because office fires don't burn over 1000 degrees)


Actually, cinder blocks will ignite and burn if hot enough and they make up most people's chimneys in their house. Different materials burn at higher and higher temperatures. The heat from the fire pulls in more air, which causes higher temp things to burn, which pulls in more air, etc. etc.

ANY large fire can burn over 1000 degrees. It just needs oxygen in quantity. If some sweaty bastard with a set of bellows can melt iron and steel in a forge, then air sucked in by a huge, uncontrolled fire can do the same. The whole structure doesn't need to bend, just parts of the bottom.

You can't equate a single-room fire test of material combustion with a fully involved structure fire.

...and yes, you are quite right, most fires, if not brought under control, make highrises into death traps.

Cave Desert Spider Internal Monologue:

-DAMN, my balls is hot and sweaty...
-SCRATCHSCRATCHSCRATCHSCRATCHSCRATCHSCRATCHSCRATCH
-Ahhhhhh...

-Oops, sand's gettin' warm...
-SCRATCHSCRATCHSCRATCHSCRATCHSCRATCHSCRATCHSCRATCH
-Ahhhhhh...
-SCRATCHSCRATCHSCRATCHSCRATCHSCRATCHSCRATCHSCRATCH
-Ahhhhhh...

Looks up.

-OH SHIT! It's that fucking human again with his iPhone. Oh when my friends see this on you tube????
-SCRATCH
-SCRATCH
-SCRATCH
-Dammit.

>> ^Reefie:

Surprisingly interesting - gave me insight into my fellow men which is always helpful. I'm a guy but I see other guys as being different to me in the way they think and behave, whereas I'm much more in tune with women, their thoughts and their needs.
Mind you haveing said that, choice between watching the Superbowl on a big screen in a bar full of hairy sweaty guys or being able to partake in a sexual encounter with a very desirable female partner, the latter wins every time Jennifer Lopez doesn't quite cut it as an example of a desirable woman, sorry J-Lo!


completely agree! I didn't realize the numbers were quite that skewed in favor of girls though, maybe it's time we form a man's club for manly men that have given up their porn? OH wait..

Surprisingly interesting - gave me insight into my fellow men which is always helpful. I'm a guy but I see other guys as being different to me in the way they think and behave, whereas I'm much more in tune with women, their thoughts and their needs.

Mind you haveing said that, choice between watching the Superbowl on a big screen in a bar full of hairy sweaty guys or being able to partake in a sexual encounter with a very desirable female partner, the latter wins every time Jennifer Lopez doesn't quite cut it as an example of a desirable woman, sorry J-Lo!

>> ^Hybrid:
sweatypalms


I've got sweaty palms just from watching this sift!

On a different note if he falls does a pointy eared green-blooded alien wearing rocket boots catch him by the ankles?

I used to have a SuicideGirls account. It was pretty cool back in high school but...meh.

After watching this though I think they've rather missed the point of "Fight Club" as a movie. Whereas Fight Club was about brotherhood and finding manliness again and such this seems more like celebrating a victory and brutalizing your opponent. Fight Club was much different in that after a fight it was customary for the two men to hug, it wasn't about celebrating the victor, there was no real winner in a sense. In fact the time when Jack (narrator) wins and then brutalizes a fellow participant so he cannot get up on his own is one where everyone acknowledged he deviated from the spirit of what Fight Club was about. He was cast as the villain for what he did to Jared Leto's character.

SuicideGirls may have tried to show how it would be if women got together topless to fight in a warehouse but this isn't anything to do with Fight Club. Whoever wrote and directed this just missed the mark and I'd like to see it again done right.

...Or maybe I just want to see topless girls hugging after getting all sweaty...dismiss me if you wish.

Thank you for welcoming me into the new age of computing! I totally did not know that millions of devices with touch interfaces had been sold. That is amazing. As you are well aware, the popularity of something is direct irrefutable proof of it's greatness. Millions of people bought Milli Vanilli albums and Beanie Babies and Pet Rocks and all those things are great! I would definitely use the general public to try to prove my own points if only they agreed with me. Typing on a smeary screen, using up valuable visible display space to show a keyboard and getting no tactile feedback is surely the wave of the future! What could be better when gaming than looking at the back of your own hand? What is more immersive than using imprecise finger pointing to generally direct game elements? I can't think of anything really. Joysticks and keyboard/mouse combinations have just been holding us back. It's all so clear now.
P.S. Where can I get a some of that iPhone kool-aid you've been drinking? The game shown here looks to be in the RTS genre. The generally accepted measure for proficiency in RTS games is actions per minute. Top players in Starcraft perform several hundred per minute on keyboard/mouse. This kludgey junk you are so quick to praise because it looks like Minority Report or something from a hacking scene in a movie would never come close to that in APM. It's junk for casual gamers who are easily impressed. So I guess I should say "Enjoy!".
>> ^jmd:
Btw friz, welcome to 2011, with millions of touch phones and tablets all over the world being used. Todays glass can be coated in a way where thumb prints don't cause to much of an issue. May be a slight prismatic look when sweaty, but people have no problems enjoying gaming on them. The touch interface shown here is far more superior then a gamepad or mouse could do. Having one hand on a keyboard to help facilitate issuing command types with your next touch could easily be handled with an onscreen panel too.

At first I thought they were using empire at war as the engine, but it does indeed look 2d so it is totally custom. Unfortunately it is kinda sad too, there is no excuse for that display to be chugging like that for 2d images (yes, even at a super high resolution wall display like this, todays consumer CPUs would make hundreds of thousands of 2d objects a joke to throw around).

As for the interface, well to be fair, the people who created this demonstration are probably not game creators. The interface looks nothing more then a simplistic method of choosing what ship types to spawn for an unwinable demonstration battle. In a real game things would be more stream lined. Empire at war is a good example of that. Alot of options can be automated, much like what would happen in a real battle, would you be the fleet commander and not worrying about the deployment of tie fighters from destroyers.

>> ^frizlefry:

Fingerprints on my screen and inefficient slow controls with the possibility of repetitive stress injuries? Sign me up!


Btw friz, welcome to 2011, with millions of touch phones and tablets all over the world being used. Todays glass can be coated in a way where thumb prints don't cause to much of an issue. May be a slight prismatic look when sweaty, but people have no problems enjoying gaming on them. The touch interface shown here is far more superior then a gamepad or mouse could do. Having one hand on a keyboard to help facilitate issuing command types with your next touch could easily be handled with an onscreen panel too.

>> ^MarineGunrock:

Awwww..... FUCK that stupid "DING" sound. OMFG.


Agreed. It was *DING!* annoying, *DING!* pointless and *DING!* did I mention fucking annoying.

I like the concept of content producers agreeing to make more stuff in exchange for policy changes though. We could get another season of Firefly if they slash the military budget. Or Pink Floyd could reform if they repeal the patriot act. Or Simon Cowell could come back to American Idol if they get rid of the TSA... actually, fuck that. I'd rather be groped by a sweaty man at an airport than have more of that shit on tv.

'Homosexuals are hot sweaty muscly glistening barbarians that act like savage animals that just see what they want and take and take and they're so rippling hard.... to convert and.... ooOoOoOoooo.'

True quote from him I swear O_O

I think she's hot... like sweaty hot... drunken, B.O., sweaty hot.
Also, looks like these are the people keeping tobacco companies alive. Haven't seen that much smoking since Cool Hand Luke.

It's called being a fat, sweaty slob. Kid's gunna be seriously fucked up when he grows up from all the mental abuse he's gotten from his horrible parents.

How did the trip to asia go?

In reply to this comment by youmakekittymad:
hello all.

i'm david. i was a longtime lurker here on the sift before finally signing up for membership, partially due to prodding from RhesusMonk, who i've known since i was 10.

i'm 25. i grew up and currently live in new york city, and work as a ballet/modern dancer. went to college at Skidmore in upstate NY, got a degree in philosophy, and became the token catholic-school-surviving atheist of the department. after, i had a brief relationship with political work in D.C. (we split due to irreconcilable differences) before returning home and coming back to dance. the company i dance for is gearing up for a tour to macau, china in october which is pretty exciting, but that's about where the glamour ends. when i'm not being a gracefully sweaty mess, i spend time with my friends, work my silly night job, play video games, and work (slowly) towards a future in architecture, as, unfortunately, you can't dance forever and i'm not that far from middle-age for the field.

the sift is easily one of my favorite things about the interwebs, so cheers folks!

>> ^Seric:

Stay classy WWE....


They will and do whenever they go and put on show's for our Troops.