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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why isn't Elon swooping in, offering to build a carbon tunnel to the Titanic ("funding secured") and calling people pedos along the way? Seems like exactly his cup of tea.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think his days of pretending to be a good guy are over.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So he can just skip the helping part, just start calling people pedos

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

He’s busy waging a war on trans

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

There’s a great punchline about boys hidden somewhere in there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

He has done it once and cannot be bothered to do the same things over and over again. Rescuing people is a solved problem after all and there is no more challenge in it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

NEXT: Hideo Kojima makes a VR Game that realistically simulates what would be to rescue the Titan, however no player managed to succeed yet, as their submersible also gets stuck in the middle of deep sea, thus also prompting a rescue operation.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

One of the most bizarre non-the-onion headlines I have read in a while.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It really is

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But the real question is: is it steered by a Steam Controller?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

"Great, now that we're close, use the touch pad to extend the robot arm"

They are doomed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Steam Deck. Linux. They will need to Bing the correct magic for GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, /etc/default/grub, in order to get rid of spurious interrupts.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I wonder what controller his sub uses

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Hey the steam controller was kind of a flop but I got one when they went on closeout at like $5 and it's actually pretty sweet. Very niche but definitely unique.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

They're making a new one and calling it the "Steam Quarter-Deck"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It runs off of the steam deck

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it time again to start praying to Lord Gaben?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Are you ready for a miracle?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Too bad the Titanic is below 3000 Meters, we know he won't pass 3

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

If only they had sunk to 2999 meters 2: episode 2

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

What happened to James Cameron's stuff?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Deepsea Challenger isn't operational. It's a decade old and in a museum right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It belongs in a museum!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That tracks. Surprised he doesn't have a new one, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is James Cameron.

~James Cameron

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please tell me this site is a joke

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This site is not a joke, and nor is the headline.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

So, /c/nottheonion? We really need that

You ain't kidding, that sub his GabeNs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSV_Limiting_Factor

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

the weird part is that even though it says he has it on that page, if you check Gabe's wiki page there is literally 0 information on it there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Here : ... [email protected] exists since 7 days (or more : it's 1st post is 7 days old)

Right now lemmy is such an active and vibrant place !

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Had no clue Gaben ran anything besides steam, especially not a company like Inkfish. Pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

This thing would be useless in the search effort

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

...huh? Even DSV Alvin is still active. I'm sure there are more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It's true that after the overhaul about 10 years ago Alvin can dive to nearly twice the Titanic's depth, but Alvin and Atlantis are in the Pacific Ocean right now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

And it's also named after GOU Limiting Factor from Iain M. Banks The Culture series!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

People, just trust me, Gabe Newell: it's actually really safe! It's controlled by a Steam Deck hot wired into a version of Source that runs Half-Life 2 and Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines at the same time it controls the sub. Just don't pick Malkavian on the selection screen, otherwise the lights might flicker, and the sub might malfunction, leaving you stuck deep at sea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Honestly, this is a headline I would never have expected in 2023.

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