The only manned submersible that could reach the missing Titan is owned by Steam's Gabe Newell
The only manned submersible that could reach the missing Titan is owned by Steam's Gabe Newell
Gabe Newell may now be the Titan's only hope.
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.
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.
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.
Probably he's still been saying that stuff but not enough ppl are left on Twitter to realize it
Because that tunnel would end up having a Tesla inside of it
Best comment I’ve read in a long time. A thorough breathe out of my nose couldn’t cut it
One of the most bizarre non-the-onion headlines I have read in a while.
It really is
But the real question is: is it steered by a Steam Controller?
"Great, now that we're close, use the touch pad to extend the robot arm"
They are doomed.
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.
It's got a steam deck bolted to the front with controls and readouts.
Too bad the Titanic is below 3000 Meters, we know he won't pass 3
If only they had sunk to 2999 meters 2: episode 2
Best I can do is 2999 meters: alyx
Is it time again to start praying to Lord Gaben?
Are you ready for a miracle?
It's never not the time to pray to Lord Gaben.
Had no clue Gaben ran anything besides steam, especially not a company like Inkfish. Pretty cool.
I wonder what controller his sub uses
Just to defend this as an engineer (though not one that works with submarines in any capacity), using a video game controller might sound funny, but it could actually make sense vs. using a device of your own creation. They're highly replaceable, so you have an infinite supply of reliable backups to draw upon. It's not prone to design flaws in the same way a "homemade" controller would be. OTS devices are often designed to withstand certain conditions or modes of use, such as force or moisture or whatever else you anticipate in your environment. They're also widely used, so there are troves of publicly available information on them to draw upon. It might seem silly, but if I were building a titanic submarine YOLO ship thing, I'd probably use something similar.
$30 Logitechs are awful controllers though.
Ask any serious video gamer and they'll talk your ear off about highly reliable hall-effect sensor joysticks and other such high-reliability parts (Cherry switches, etc. etc.) that kick the ass of cheap potentiometers + dome-rubber style switches (like found in a cheap-ass Logitech).
And such parts are available at... $50 to $80. Choosing a cheap-ass $30 piece of junk isn't even saving much money.
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.
They're making a new one and calling it the "Steam Quarter-Deck"
"My son calls it an Upper Decker." Merideth from The Office
It runs off of the steam deck
If it's a steam controller we're in real trouble 😂
Please tell me this site is a joke
This site is not a joke, and nor is the headline.
So, /c/nottheonion? We really need that
You ain't kidding, that sub his GabeNs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSV_Limiting_Factor
@dustojnikhummer @botlt_test I know how do you feel.
Since COVID 19 everything feels like a South Park episode. Nothing is real anymore!
Gaben pls
sadly GabeN can only count up to 2
Rescue operation will happen on Valve Time.
So, when we get our crowbar back? Yikes...
What happened to James Cameron's stuff?
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
...huh? Even DSV Alvin is still active. I'm sure there are more.
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
other submersibles can reach 4k meters. Why they say only gaben?
Gabe uses a Steam Deck for the controls instead of that cheap Logitech model. Much more reliable.
Are Angry Upvotes a thing on Lemmy? 'cause you've got mine.
Maybe they mean the only one that could make a rescue mission?
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.
This thing would be useless in the search effort
I agree. Don't they need 1-2 deep sea divers or a small robot to go down and connect a winch to pull the sub up?
I'm not sure what deep sea diving refers to, but this is the bottom of the ocean where metal submarines are crushed like tin cans from repeated exposure to these depths.
Just don't expect him to make a 3rd submarine guys
Honestly, this is a headline I would never have expected in 2023.
Half Life 3? ... More like Zero Life 5 I'm afraid.
Crazy to think about these guys sitting in a big tube 4km under water right now with no connection to the outside world.
Technically, I believe they are considered objects at this point.
I wonder if they'll have to pay the extra minutes?
And it's also named after GOU Limiting Factor from Iain M. Banks The Culture series!
He's too busy making Half-Life 3 instead of saving lives. Let the man cook.
He's probably sharpening knives HL3 will never come out until vr is mainstream.
Yo for real how are you a billionaire got sub but you're gonna use a 30 dollar knockoff controller with bad connectivity?
Now that's some bait.
Would be great that Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, Rothschild, Soros and Larry Fink would went on that submarine...