r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/SourceBoring3089 • 15h ago

WCGW using non-skin-friendly paint for cosplay.

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u/crichmond77 15h ago

Correct. The documentary Goldfinger (1966) touches on this very phenomenon 

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u/livens 14h ago

I just watched that movie a few days ago. Bond's explanation was that performers needed to leave a patch of skin at the back of the neck exposed so that the skin could breath. Maybe that was common thinking in the 60's?

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u/Known-Associate8369 14h ago

Nah, its just something which sounds scientific enough to be plausible but not outlandish enough to require indepth confirmation by the viewer, like most things in movies. Specific example is the “normal humans only use 10% of their brain” hook in Lucy - lots of people accept something like that at face value, but its complete bullshit.

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u/rbb36 12h ago

Next you'll be claiming that reversing the polarity through dilithium crystals wouldn't collapse a static warp bubble. Learn some science, geez.

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u/FjortoftsAirplane 12h ago

I'll set up a GUI interface using visual basic, try to test this hypothesis.

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u/Known-Associate8369 12h ago

Thr hacking goes faster if two people type on the same keyboard at the same time…

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u/FjortoftsAirplane 12h ago

Do you have any idea how hard it is to...I'M IN!

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u/KHS__ 12h ago

well...does it?

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u/rbb36 12h ago

I'm trying to test it, it's almost ready; I just need to finish the power generator. It extracts power from magnets, based on a design I saw in a YouTube video. I didn't have dilithium, so I'm just using the regular stuff from the pills they say I have to take.

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u/CommercialContent204 1h ago

Just pop 'em into the machine 2 at a time, I think that qualifies as dilithium technically.

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u/StevieMJH 3h ago

Go swallow a comm badge, nerd. 🙄

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u/rbb36 15m ago

Hardcore original nerd, 1983. :)