#thermopod

[dm-tuz]

Unbound Monsters - North Pole

Once thought to be the embellishments of a liar grasping for fame, the creatures of the North Pole are horribly, horribly real. The brave adventurers who wish to explore this frozen land should bring a competent adventuring team and plenty of ammo.

Graphic design work by Kanehon.

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #dnd 5e #dnd 5edition #5e #dnd community #ttrpg #tabletop games #rpg #homebrew #dnd monster #monster #dnd enemy #enemy #thermopod #moonkin vagabond #corrupted ice #foyleter #ice #arctic #snow #cold #freezing

[nickalart]

I’m also working on a series of monster illustrations for a certain someone named @dm-tuz. Keep your eyes peeled for when that drops on his end.

Not posting the full illustrations is killing me slowly, but I must be patient (I got the green light to post design sketches for now).

#art #digital art #sketches #design #creature design #monster design #ice #ice monsters #thermopod #wandering moonthing #lyrgholf #corrupted ice #dnd #dnd 5e #5e #dnd art

[harnitek]

COP(DHW) 4.287, Harnitek Solar Assisted Heat Pump System was awarded the TICK MARK Certificate!

Recently, Hunan Harnitek Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Harnitek") was awarded the Tick-Mark certificate for high energy efficiency of their solar assisted heat pump water heater issued by Intertek. It is the first enterprise in the water heater industry to obtain this certification.

This shows that the structure of the Harnitek solar-assisted heat pump system (hereinafter referred to as "Thermopod unit") meets the requirements of the IEC 60335-2-40 standard, which not only meets the basic functions of the water heater, but also has excellent performance in terms of product safety and energy efficiency.

Intertek tests the thermal efficiency of solar collectors according to the ISO 9806:2017 standard, obtains the coefficient for calculating the heat output of the collector, and calculates the solar collector panel with reference to the test conditions and requirements in Table 3 and Table 4 of (EU) No 814/2013. The heat output of the device and the energy efficiency test according to the performance test section of EN 16147:2017, the following three important data are finally obtained:

1. The energy consumption of the Thermopod unit under sunlight is 46% less than that without sunlight;

2. When there is sunlight, its water heating energy efficiency is 186%;

3. The COP (DHW) value is 4.287 when the test environment temperature is 7℃ and there is sunlight.

Different from conventional heat pump water heaters, the Thermopod unit is designed for multiple heat sources, it can absorb heat energy through two external heat collecting panels and automatically provide you with hot water, all natural elements such as air, wind, rain, sunlight and even snow can be provide a heat source for it. Even when there is no sun or night or in bad weather conditions, it can absorb thermal energy and operate normally, which can greatly meet the actual needs of the European market.

At the same time, the Thermopod unit does not need a motor fan, and the noise level during operation is ≤41dB, which is like a whisper, which solves the noise problem that has always existed in traditional heat pump products.

Considering the convenience of installation and use, Thermopod units can be quickly compatible with existing hot water systems. No matter what system the user is currently using (natural gas, oil, electricity or liquefied petroleum gas system, etc.), just turn off the original system and add it to the hot water system, and it can be used directly.

As of today, the Thermopod unit has obtained CE, ERP, MCS and TICK MARK certificates, and is rated A in the ERP report, which is currently the highest rating among similar products.

With a strong engineering and design team, Harnitek has gathered leading heat pump technical talents engaged in the research and development of thermodynamic systems, continue to provide the best solution for the user's heat pump application.

#heat pump #waterheater #solar system #solar #greenlife #green energy #Harnitek

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Why I believe “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension” is a wonderful, uplifting, and ultimately Antifa, Political film (an enumerated list):

These comments are mostly taken from this post, and were written in response to Kyle Kallgren’s excellent literary review of this movie (I encourage you to watch that video, and not just ‘cause I’m the one that wrote up 90-ish% of the closed captions).

I’m posting them in celebration of “Buckaroo Banzai”’s 35th Anniversary.

And as of July 1, 2019 the movie is FREE on YouTube.

Watch the whole thing here.

If you don’t like it, you can click away. But if you’re one of my followers, and like the stuff I post, my guess is you’ll find it, at worst, to be a mildly pleasant diversion, and at best, it’ll leave you grinning for days.

My comments contain “spoilers,” if you want to call them that. Though I’d argue the strength of this film is not in the plot details, but in the execution. Still, you may want to watch the movie, first, before reading my thoughts, so I’ll put them behind a cut.

Anyway, on to my list:

1) The movie came out during the first year of Ronald Reagan’s second term, and pointedly critiques, through mockery, the Military Industrial Complex, and the zeal behind the rhetoric of Mutually Assured Destruction.

2) The evil aliens are explicitly modeled after the Fascists (John Lithgow, who plays their leader, watched old films of Mussolini to prepare for the role). Furthermore, the threat they pose is ideological, not advanced technology. . They are so focused on their racial superiority, and crushing “lesser beings,” that they have no real interest in science – their tech is downright shoddy.

3) The good aliens are modeled after the Rastafarians – they are the ones who are the engineers, scientists, and diplomats. They defeated the evil aliens in the past, and imprisoned them in the Eighth Dimension. Buckaroo Banzai’s successful experiment inadvertently gave the evil aliens a potential key to that prison, with the Planet Earth as the doorway. So the Good aliens are prepared to fool humans into starting a nuclear war to keep that from happening.

If this movie had played the tropes as usual, the humans would have just destroyed the Good Aliens’ ship, and let the Evil Aliens escape, because their planetary politics is none of our business. But in This Movie, the real threat is framed as the intersection between Fascists and the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction. And the titular hero recognizes it was his actions that gave Space!Mussolini the potential means for escape, so he takes it upon himself to stop him -- he never once even contemplates attacking the Rastafarian!aliens.

4) The one who first raises the alarm when Buckaroo has his first close shave with the Baddies is a little black boy named Scooter Lenley. He tells his father, and his father believes him (There’s none of the usual adults-are-incompetent-fools-who-ignore-the-kids trope in this film).

And Scooter is the one, at the end, who gets the better of the militaristic Secretary of State, and returns the Magic-technobabble-watsit to our titular hero, and it’s strongly implied, in dialog and and visuals (during the closing credits) that the future belongs to the young black kids.

5) Yes, the closing scene of the movie is of Our Hero kissing his Love Interest as sparks Literally fly, before the screen fades to black. But then the script puts a lampshade on the fact that this plot element is -- and always has been, throughout the movie -- peripheral to the actual story (Quote: “So What? Big Deal!”). So it tweaks its nose (gently) at hetero-amato-normativity, too.

6) “Don’t be mean. There’s no need to be mean. No matter where you go, there you are.”

And. None. of the. Good. Guys. Are.

#Buckaroo Banzai 35th anniversary #free movies online #Sci-fi comedy #queue #Don't be mean -- there's no need to be mean #You want it Artie? You Got it! #It's like one of our thermopods -- but it's a very bad design

[milkakira]

some of the German pokémon names for Sword and Shield are so good and I love them?? take for example:

Snom is called Snomnom! it was already a cute name, but they made it even cuter!

Sizzlipede is Thermopod

Coalossal is Montecarbo

Indeedee is Servol (which is an awesome pun on ‘to serve’/’servieren’ and ‘sehr wohl’)

although my personal favourite is definitely Sinistea‘s German name: Fatalitee

#although I really don't like Sobble's german name Memmeon #the english one is better imo #pokemon #pokemon sword and shield

[bbdeathz]

Den ersten orden erhalten.

Ich fand es im Kampf selbst ziemlich hype durch den OST und die Zuschauer. Ich muss aber wohl nächstes Mal die Effekte leiser machen, weil man da den OST weniger gehört hat, weil das jubeln so laut war D: Muss sagen, dass der Kampf nicht soo schwer war. Habe es mit Thermopod geschafft und meine lvl waren auc schon höher. Starter war Lvl 25 und ich hab nicht mal eines verloren

Ich bin niemand, der sich über Schwierigkeit/einfach beschwert, aber ich hoffe, dass ich nicht immer zu overleveld bin, obwohl ich nur normal spiele

Ich habe NIE über die Arenen nachgedacht und fand mich dann in einer netten Herausforderung. Man muss nach wie vor gegen Trainer kämpfen, aber musste auch eine Aufgabe erledigen und ich fand das ziemlich nett. Besonders mit den Wolly.

Bin super gespannt wie die anderen Arenen aufgebaut sind

#SWSH

[mtgbracket]

Round of 8192 - Batch 27

You can now vote in Batch 27!

Currently open batches:

Batch 27 Batch 26 Batch 25 Batch 24 Batch 23 Batch 22 Batch 21

Batch 20 results will be up shortly.

Feature match: Elf combo engine Nettle Sentinel takes on classic painland Underground River.

Full list of matchups:

Sphinx of the Steel Wind vs Beloved Chaplain Bow of Nylea vs Null Rod Tar Fiend vs Jelenn Sphinx Spitting Image vs Stone Idol Trap Murmuring Bosk vs Martial Coup Wall of Tears vs Magmatic Force Jace's Sanctum vs Witches' Eye Fortuitous Find vs Godo, Bandit Warlord Magical Hacker vs Marsh Crocodile Silent Sentinel vs Great Whale Edge of Autumn vs Mana Crypt Arcades Sabboth vs Diluvian Primordial Excavation vs Pious Evangel Spire Phantasm vs Angelic Accord Bloodcrazed Neonate vs Thought-Knot Seer Crypt of Agadeem vs Wild Beastmaster Goblin Battle Jester vs Spider Umbra Souls of the Faultless vs Endless One Nettle Sentinel vs Underground River Gerrard Capashen vs Archmage Ascension Waning Wurm vs Duskmantle Seer Felidar Cub vs Crux of Fate Muzzio, Visionary Architect vs Veteran Bodyguard Chilling Shade vs Pulse Tracker Stonehewer Giant vs Thermopod Skull Catapult vs March of Souls Fire Servant vs Undead Slayer Kavu Primarch vs Trace of Abundance Severed Legion vs Dross Harvester Fevered Convulsions vs Faerie Swarm Whisperer of the Wilds vs Ebon Praetor Capital Punishment vs Wistful Selkie

#mtg #magic the gathering

[dm-tuz]

Unbound Monsters - Thermopod

Somehow, in the North Pole there lives a worm that can tunnel through ice using heat generated within its own body. Oh, also it’s absolutely gigantic. Pray you don’t cross paths with this monster, or better yet, avoid the frozen North.

#dnd #dungeond and dragons #dnd 5e #dnd 5ed #dnd 5edition #5e #dnd community #ttrpg #tabletop games #rpg #homebrew #dnd monster #monster #dnd enemy #enemy #unbound #thermopod #ice #worm #giant worm #fire worm

[nickalart]

Now that these monsters are posted... check out the concept sketches and the final version + quick background (because Tuz wants to have the transparent PNG be exclusive).

Done as a commission for DM-Tuz.  Check out his stuff, he has some good DnD 5e homebrew content!

#nickalart #digital art #thermopod #worm #ice #ice worm #fire worm #arctic #north #snow #cold #boil #monster #dm tuz

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

A line from the Movie “Buckaroo Banzai” that I wish had become a well-known catchphrase:

[Image description a vaguely humanoid alien wearing a silver jacket, bending over the controls of a space capsule.  The capsule is dark and shoddily built, with various parts held in place with badly fitting duct tape and clips. There is a pair of yellow fuzzy dice hanging from the ceiling. A line of dialogue is written to the left of the alien: “It’s like one of our thermopods ... But it’s a very bad design.” Description ends]

I wish “Buckaroo Banzai” had achieved the cultural recognition it deserved. Because that line pops into my head when I, a wheelchair user, come across some half-assed attempt at accessibility that actually makes life harder (like when there are steps up to a ramp, or the grab bar in a wheelchair bathroom stall is on the wrong side, and blocked by the door every time you try to go in, or, or, or...).

I wish I could just say: “It’s like one of our thermopods...” and people would know what I meant.

#Buckaroo Banzai 35th anniversary #favorite movie lines #accessibility fail

[nickalart]

Not sure if this is my fave or if the Thermopod is my fave, but I do love my vaguely invertebrate-inspired monster design.  It’s a snaggle-toothed, four-eyed snake/lizard/crab thing called a Foyleter.

This one took a lot of workshopping to get right, both design and pose.

#Nickalart #dm tuz #foyleter #crab #snake #lizard #teeth #scavenger #brown #creature #monster #concept #art #illustration

[mtgbracket]

Round of 16384 - Batch 190

Batch 190 voting is now open. The following polls are currently open:

Batch 190 Batch 189 Batch 188 Batch 187 Batch 186 Batch 185 Batch 184

Batch 183 results will be up soon.

The full list of matchups for today is:

Goblin Sappers vs Myr Landshaper Decimator of the Provinces vs Mold Adder Thermopod vs Clinging Anemones Rancid Rats vs Chaos Imps Secret Plans vs Seismic Stomp Scalding Tarn vs Consign to Dream Raging River vs Silverclaw Griffin Pardic Arsonist vs Spark Jolt City of Brass vs Mob Justice Scarscale Ritual vs Kjeldoran Knight Flamekin Village vs Living Wish Flames of the Blood Hand vs Caldera Kavu Shriekhorn vs Mungha Wurm Ulrich of the Krallenhorde vs Demonic Tutor Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch vs Lightning Diadem Wizard Replica vs Stonework Puma Sprouting Thrinax vs Ondu Greathorn Krosan Cloudscraper vs Silumgar's Scorn Vizkopa Guildmage vs Fiend Binder That Which Was Taken vs Mana Screw El-Hajjâj vs Crusher Zendikon Tromp the Domains vs Wolfbriar Elemental Colossal Heroics vs Viashino Bladescout Jalira, Master Polymorphist vs Nezumi Ronin Burst of Speed vs Battleflight Eagle Ordeal of Erebos vs Sprouting Vines Pearlspear Courier vs Raging Cougar Quest for the Gravelord vs Darksteel Reactor Ancient Ooze vs Forbidden Crypt Goretusk Firebeast vs Firehoof Cavalry Tower of Murmurs vs Zof Shade Drogskol Cavalry vs Last Kiss

#mtg #magic the gathering