#rusticles

[aurelion-solar]

Legends of Runeterra: Dev for a Day The story of Andrew "Rusticles" Liebel, a LoR player living with ALS, and how he and the dev team created the cards "Trusty Adnere" & "Adnere's Aviarists" based on him and his children.

[vox-anglosphere]

Titanic graves in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Many bodies were never found.

[heyiappreciateyourshoelaces]

I’ve been watching Titanic documentaries for like six hours, and I think I’ve heard the word ‘rusticles’ far too many times.

[tt-squid]

loving these guys

[interretialia]

Nova Iuncta Verba Latina / New Latin Compounds

ferruginistiria -ae f. “rusticle”   [ferrugo “rust” + stiria “icicle”]   [ferrugin- + stiria-] stems   [ferrugini- + stiria-] with Connecting Vowel i   [ferruginistiria-] new stem   [ferruginistiria] nominative singular

(Fons Imaginis.)

[somelazyassartist]

I still wish that there was a larger amount of subjectively "recent" Titanic footage to look through. I know it's really expensive and I know Oceangate Expeditions is trying to keep documenting it but like. I'm genuinely so fucking heartbroken knowing the Titanic will probably erode completely within my lifetime. Seeing the total collapse of the Captain's Cabin felt like a sledgehammer to the chest. I totally love projects dedicated to what the Titanic was like in her prime, but none of that compares to the absolute beauty of her current rusticles and bamboo coral and sea life and Halomonas Titanicae, life where there should be none. I just can't stand the thought of it being gone before we can- if nothing else- properly document her final resting place before we lose our chance at seeing her ever again

[elizatungusnakur]

Now with rusticle colouration to the grooves… Looking good, bro. 👀👍🏻

How would you hang, wear or display this piece? Curious to hear all your thoughts. 🤔

[lonestarbattleship]

Side-scan sonar mosaic of the USS NEVADA (BB-36) shipwreck site, it was discovered by Pacific Constructor in April 2020. It lays upside down, 4,715 m (15,472 feet) approximately 120 km (km) (65 nautical miles) off Pearl Harbor.

The debris field 1,968 ft (600 m) from the main hull.

Two Inverted turret on the wreck site. The turret sat in the barbette and rotated on the rollers visible in the image

Painted hull number 36 preserved on the side of NEVADA’s stern.

5-inch shell handling room and mount for a dual 5-inch/38 gun

Dual 40-mm mount and tub with toppled Mk 51 gun director

Shell fire damage to the tripod foremast

View aft toward the aft compartment with a watertight bulkhead and hatch, shut for Condition X-Ray. Note the rusticles eating at the metal like the ones on Titanic.

Overturned Crossroads Test Tank from the deck of NEVADA.

source, source, source, source, source, source, source, source, source

[blueiskewl]

Stunning New 8K Footage Shows the Titanic as it's never been seen before

New footage has been released showing the wreck of the RMS Titanic as it's never been seen before: in full 8K quality, the highest screen resolution currently available.

That's a horizontal resolution of 8,000 pixels, or twice as clear as a 4K TV. And it means there's an unprecedented level of detail and color in this latest exploration of the 110-year-old shipwreck.

The video was captured by OceanGate Expeditions on its 2022 visit to the site, which lies 2.4 miles below the surface of the North Atlantic, some 400 nautical miles from Newfoundland, Canada.

OceanGate runs expeditions to the Titanic wreck with crews of submersible dive experts, Titanic historians, and research scientists, alongside civilian "mission specialists" who pay $250,000 for the privilege of being one of the few people to have ever seen the legendary ship's final resting place first-hand.

"The amazing detail in the 8K footage will help our team of scientists and maritime archaeologists characterize the decay of the Titanic more precisely as we capture new footage in 2023 and beyond," said Stockton Rush, president of OceanGate Expeditions, in a press release. What's even more remarkable, he added, is "the phenomenal colors."

The extraordinary wreck is decaying at a rapid pace. Saltwater and sea pressure have silently been wreaking damage over the past century and more, while microbes eat away at the steel hull, creating thousands of rusticles -- those oxidized orange-green formations that hang off the Titanic like so many thousands of icicles. Some estimates say the ship will vanish in a matter of decades.

[the-finch-address]

Last Line [tag]

Thank you for the tag, @writer-artemis! I don't have the strength to tag so many people lol - I'll do a few, but consider this an open tag!

Rules: Make a new post and post your latest line from your WIP & tag as many people as there are words.

The ship's pale and muddy color resembles the same seabed with which it rests, and a host of sessile biology already calls the ship's surface home; lophelia coral and bright flytrap anemones catch the eye, and lengthy rusticles can be seen from several meters out.

tagging: @dogmomwrites @winterandwords @riftversus @oh-no-another-idea @peepos-prose @sharraus @agrimedena-drax

[elbiotipo]

I find it weird that people are so obsessed with the Titanic, but at least we got some good marine biology done from it. I don't really care about the ship though. Rusticles? Those are fascinating...

[archaicbro]

y’all really wasted eugene mauling rusticles because of a little silliness!! losers

[draculagerard]

Anyway I'm done talking about colors, the Titanic houses like a species of bacteria that live in the rusticles (rust icicles), they bleed.

Omg bleeding bacteria no way

[frontmezzjunkies]

#frontmezzjunkies reviews: #Shakespeare's #TheTempest #TheatreRusticle at @BuddiesTO d: #AllysonMcMackon w/ #BrefnyCaribou #JillGoranson #BeckLloyd #TrinityLloyd #AnnieTurna #BuddiesInBadTimes #Theatre #TheaTO

Theatre Rusticle’s "The Tempest" Energetically Passes the Baton

https://frontmezzjunkies.com/2024/01/26/theatre-rusticles-the-tempest-energetically-passes-the-baton/

(via Theatre Rusticle’s "The Tempest" Energetically Passes the Baton)

[dkplayer]

Работа по поддержке нативного Wine Wayland продолжается

На прошлой неделе на XDC 2023 в Испании было много интересных докладов, посвященных Rusticl, драйверу NVIDIA Vulkan с открытым исходным кодом, графическому драйверу Raspberry Pi, трассировке лучей RADV, управлению цветом AMD и HDR с помощью Steam Deck / Gamescope и др. Один из докладов, который наверняка заинтересует многих читателей, посвящен состоянию драйвера Wine Wayland.

https://www.gamebuntu.ru/news/rabota-po-podderzhke-nativnogo-wine-wayland-prodolzhaetsya/

[shootertron-stuff]

Royal Mail Ships of the Great Warp Storms

I was inspired by a post positing potential names for RMS Titanic sister ships if White Star had kept to their naming scheme and made more Olympic oceanliners.

A lot of them sounded like Chaos spaceships. Perhaps the "Royal" in "Royal Mail Ship" refers to being under a daemon prince.

The RMS Septic and RMS Carcinogenic are two Death Guard mail and passenger ships themed after deep sea life. The RMS Septic looks like a dead whale and the outside is covered in space barnacles that can survive in the tides of the Warp. The inside contains animals such as bone-boring worms, polychaetes, sea cucumbers, octopi, and isopods. It smells really bad.

The RMS Septic's sister ship, the RMS Carcinogenic, looks like a shipwreck that has been on the bottom of the ocean for at least a century, covered in rusticles and more sea critters. It's also very stinky. There's also crabs, lots of crabs. Not just actual crab, but crab-themed furniture, crab-themed kitchenware, sculpted crabs on door handles...

The lodgings on the two ships are the most luxurious available by Death Guard standards. Despite everything looking like it's been at the bottom of the ocean, there's a grand staircase, a dance hall, a gym, a swimming pool, sports rooms, gardens, a grand dining hall, room service, and Art Nouveau-style furnishings.

The food, though, will give you food poisoning and/or cancer. If you're on board the RMS Carcinogenic, you may turn into a crab, or multiple crabs. But it's alright, you won't die.

As passenger ships go, the RMS Septic and RMS Carcinogenic are the safest around. Construction-wise, the ships have more safety features than average, and are designed to take a beating without falling apart. Nobody has ever died onboard even though you're guaranteed to catch at least one disease.

While they're pretty slow compared to ships aligned with the other gods, they're exceptionally reliable, and you and the mail are guaranteed to get where you need to go...eventually. Even if you don't look quite the same as you did when you boarded.

The RMS Probiotic is also a Nurglite ship, but themed around a swamp. Try the kombucha! It's got billions of microbes.

The RMS Parasitic gets around by hitchhiking on larger ships, like a remora on a shark. Somehow, it hijacks the brains of the crew so they go where the crew of the Parasitic wants to go. Once attached, it's nearly impossible to pry it free or break open. The attachment method that lets it hang on without being jolted off is a top secret.

The RMS Hallucinogenic are two identical ships owned by a Tzeentchian warband. One will make you trip balls, while the other has a 50% chance of turning you into a hallucigenia, the Cambrian animal. This is referred to as "getting shrimped".

Both ships have a habit of picking up stranded spacefarers or people fleeing warzones, people desperate enough to take the chances of losing their humanity. It's common for one of the Hallucinogenics to arrive at port with the swimming pool filled with hallucigenia, the passengers who didn't get shrimped instructed to gingerly transport the passengers who did. There's a reason the pool water has the same composition as Cambrian seawater.

The final destination of shrimped passengers is a marine sanctuary world somewhere in the Great Warp storms, where they will live out their lives in peace, at least until something eats them.

The RMS Plutonic looks like a regular Khornate ship on the outside, with red paint and lots of spikes. On the inside, it looks like a volcanic zone, with extreme heat, magma tunnels, lava flows, and volcanic rocks. Owing to the nature of Chaos ships, the Plutonic doesn't fall apart from all the molten rock inside of it when by all means, it should. All the furniture is made of rocks. All the amenities are combat-themed. You have to kill and cook your own meals.

Perhaps it's a good idea to only mail heat-resistant materials on this ship.

The RMS Dramatic is a Khornate ship that only hires the worst drama queens as its crew! Everything is a big deal to them! If you complain about the food you get food thrown on your lap. If you look at the crew wrong you get thrown in the brig!

Sometimes the crew has gotten in trouble for tossing mail out of the airlock because they got mad.

The ship is known for causing drama when it arrives at port, for one reason or another. Explosions, fistfights, missing passengers, near collisions...

The RMS Unrealistic manages to sail despite looking like it shouldn't. It looks cobbled together, or too big and awkwardly shaped to hold together in flight. Looking at it, one feels like when a work of visual fiction has a certain art style, and an object from another series with an completely different art style is inserted into it.

Onboard, the laws of physics become wobbly. The floor becomes the ceiling, and passengers may get turned inside-out. It's good not to have realistic expectations for what may happen to you!

Nobody knows anything about the RMS Enigmatic. All the reviews are very vague about what the onboard experience is like, but somehow tickets get sold. People who've seen the ship dock and take off can't remember what it looked like. As soon as passengers get off they forget everything about the ship. They usually agree that it was a nice experience, though.

The RMS Erotic is adults only and mainly delivers sex paraphernalia such as dildos, vibrators, buttplugs, whips, paddles, erotic publications etc. It is a Emperor's Children vessel, so most likely highly unethical things happen onboard!

The RMS Alcoholic is filled to the brim with booze. Its cargo hold contains all manner of alcoholic beverages, and every level of the ship has a bar or pub. For humans, there's drinks from different worlds, made from all sorts of different plants, and even drinks from the distant past, for alcohol can make its way into the far future through Warp portals.

For transhumans there's stronger drinks: warp moonshine made from jet fuel and tortured souls or something like that.

The crew has high alcohol tolerance so its okay if they drink on the job.

The RMS Pathetic looks pathetic, like its sagging. All the decor is depressing and the crew are bummed to be there. It's populated with sad, droopy daemons that look like they came out of a Salvador Dali painting. The food is bland and sad looking. Legend says the ship used to be prouder, but Perturabo yelled at the captain and it hasn't been the same since.

The RMS Elastic stretches and bounces back as it moves, like a giant rubber caterpillar. Onboard everything acts like rubber. People, furniture, machine components. Somehow all the machine components stretch like rubber and still work. The food is different types of taffy and gelatin. It's the place to go if your body needs to be stretched out.

Executions of unpopular public figures are a common sight on the RMS Antagonistic. It's one of the main attractions, and passengers will cheer on the brutal deaths of awful people from places they've never heard of before while wining and dining. It's obvious they deserved punishment!

The ship is equipped with a full weapons array, and captain will divert the ship to engage in space fights with people who obviously deserve to be fought if the mood strikes.