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Granting a 14-year-old’s wish for a dragon

59 points by tpoindex 5y ago

Izkata 5y ago
News story with video of the dragon moving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_RS5alv6QA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_RS5alv6QA Looks like this isn't the first time it's happened, back in 2014 there was another based on Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHfJ1gby8_Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHfJ1gby8_Y
tyingq 5y ago
That's really cool. A year and a half of effort from different people with different skills. The video from a another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27097418 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27097418) does a better job of showing how well done this is. Off-topic: That's perhaps the most annoying paywall I've encountered yet. It first pretends to give you the whole article, then revokes it when you reject the page's attempt to sign you up for notifications. Then there's a separate count-down timer to trigger it too. https://archive.is/yCN1m https://archive.is/yCN1m
- deanclatworthy 5y ago
  I’m getting a cloudflare captcha on mobile for archive.is but it’s rendering desktop mode. So the images are off screen and I can’t proceed.
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ExtraE 5y ago
What are the challenges in making a website that only scrolls vertically? The content fits nicely in the viewpoint but it really wants to scroll horizontally on my phone. (Not a front end dev, genuinely curious)
- nicoburns 5y ago
  There's probably something with a fixed width somewhere in the markup that's causing the scrolling even though the content has been corrected scaled to fit.
- _def 5y ago
  The data consent script seems to break it. Can't wait until that stuff disappears again.
tlack 5y ago
Some more information from the designers here: https://www.arrow.com/en/fiveyearsout/stories/belles-dragon https://www.arrow.com/en/fiveyearsout/stories/belles-dragon
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macromaniac 5y ago
Reminds me of a faerie dragon from homm3, I am jealous of this 14 year old, especially because a long term personal dream of mine is flying to downtown fort worth on a mechanical ornithopter dragon.
suifbwish 5y ago
I’ve been noticing that 99% of the time when an article mentions the age of an individual, it’s usually a clickbait bullshit appeal to emotion/cocktail of other logical fallacies waiting to be gobbled up by unquestioning ninnies.

59 points by tpoindex 5y ago

News story with video of the dragon moving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_RS5alv6QA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_RS5alv6QA Looks like this isn't the first time it's happened, back in 2014 there was another based on Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHfJ1gby8_Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHfJ1gby8_Y

tyingq 5y ago

That's really cool. A year and a half of effort from different people with different skills. The video from a another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27097418 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27097418) does a better job of showing how well done this is. Off-topic: That's perhaps the most annoying paywall I've encountered yet. It first pretends to give you the whole article, then revokes it when you reject the page's attempt to sign you up for notifications. Then there's a separate count-down timer to trigger it too. https://archive.is/yCN1m https://archive.is/yCN1m

deanclatworthy 5y ago
I’m getting a cloudflare captcha on mobile for archive.is but it’s rendering desktop mode. So the images are off screen and I can’t proceed.

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ExtraE 5y ago

What are the challenges in making a website that only scrolls vertically? The content fits nicely in the viewpoint but it really wants to scroll horizontally on my phone. (Not a front end dev, genuinely curious)

nicoburns 5y ago
There's probably something with a fixed width somewhere in the markup that's causing the scrolling even though the content has been corrected scaled to fit.
_def 5y ago
The data consent script seems to break it. Can't wait until that stuff disappears again.

tlack 5y ago

Some more information from the designers here: https://www.arrow.com/en/fiveyearsout/stories/belles-dragon https://www.arrow.com/en/fiveyearsout/stories/belles-dragon

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macromaniac 5y ago

Reminds me of a faerie dragon from homm3, I am jealous of this 14 year old, especially because a long term personal dream of mine is flying to downtown fort worth on a mechanical ornithopter dragon.

suifbwish 5y ago

I’ve been noticing that 99% of the time when an article mentions the age of an individual, it’s usually a clickbait bullshit appeal to emotion/cocktail of other logical fallacies waiting to be gobbled up by unquestioning ninnies.