Archive for the ‘Engineering Failures’ Category

Engineering Failures – Part 3

2015/04/17

There’s a good reason why transporters shouldn’t be field-tested.

I'll take a sarcastic comment from my ex-girlfriend over outrage from a female supervillain over my surprise nudity anyday. :P

I’ll take a sarcastic comment from my ex-girlfriend over outrage from a female supervillain over my unexpected nudity any day of the week. 😛

Today’s revealing malfunction has been brought to you by Legion of Super-Heroes #42 (April 1993) by Mary Bierbaum, Tom Bierbaum, Tom McCraw, Stuart Immonen, Ron Boyd, and John Dell III.

Engineering Failures – Part 2

2015/01/19

You know, when Egon Spengler said that “simply turning (the Containment Unit) off would be like dropping a bomb on the city”, I never suspected that he was tactfully neglecting an even worse scenario.

How the heck did this ever get past the prototype stage?

Evidently, someone’s never heard of redundant safety devices.

Today’s worst case scenario has been brought to you by Ghostbusters #19 (August 2014) by Erik Burnham and Dan Schoening.

Engineering Failures – Part 1

2014/12/30

Unless you’re building a robot to, I don’t know, test motion sickness on amusement park rides, I’m really not too sure why you’d do this either…

I think a better question would be why he programmed your robot dog for nausea too. o_O

I think a better question would be why he programmed your robot dog for nausea too. o_O

Today’s example of questionable coding has been brought to you by Mega Man #43 (January 2015) by Ian Flynn, Powree, and Gary Martin.

And so another year of blogging draws to a close on The Raging Fanboy. A big thank you to all my subscribers, both old and new, for continuing to visit. Please feel free to spread the word and encourage others to visit my little corner of the Internet, as it would be a nice surprise for my blog to experience an increase in traffic for the first time since 2012 by the end of next year. 😦

See you all in 2015! 🙂