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Turbo Encabulator

Turbo Encabulator

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0 HN recommenders · discussed 2017–2018
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About this video

A short comedy video of the Turbo Encabulator, a piece of technobabble nonsense describing an imaginary machine in deadpan engineering language.

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HN uses it as a joke reply to threads full of dense or impenetrable technical jargon.

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nn3 · 2017-10 · joke

The beginning narration sounds very similar (down to choice of words and sentences) to the famous Turbo Encabulator text [VIDEO]

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vinchuco · 2018-01 · joke

This is not a case of the turbo encabulator [1] which you may seemingly enjoy. What he likely meant is that it is well known from the literature. Or there's an easy explanation that supersedes the verbose notation. [1] [VIDEO]

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sheltron · 2018-04 · joke

Wow these are really great thanks for sharing. Heres a couple of others that I like. Differential Steering: [LINK] Turbo Encabulator: [VIDEO]

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