That entire game is fucking nuts. Pretty sure all of the dev crew was riding an LSD high through the entirety of its creation.
Video game music, especially for the less popular ones like Jetforce Gemini or weird shit like Okage.
Alumium came before that!
...shoulda just left it at that.
Rice Paddy - little hole-in-the-wall Thai take out restaurant in Marquette (upper peninsula). Best Thai food I've had to-date.
Grain of salt: this was over a decade ago, so no idea if they're run by the same people / to the same quality today. Or if that building is even still standing.
/shrug
Yea once you know why it looks off, it switches from uncanny to plain ol creepy. At least, subjectively for me it does - idk if that uncertainty is definitively a criteria for uncanny valley, but that's what makes it a distinct experience from creepiness imo.
I've always understood it as the perception that something isn't quite right (usually with a person, but I've seen it used in non-human contexts too) without being able to immediately describe why.
A great example is Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One - the actor who played him on the original trilogy died in 1994, so they just deep-faked him into the scenes he was needed. When I saw Rogue One initially, I didn't know that actor was dead, and didn't connect the dots that even if he wasn't dead, he'd look like a zombie this many years after filming the OT... but in Rogue One, he just looked like Tarkin. Mostly. The scenes that featured him gave a kind of uncomfortable "what the hell is wrong with that guy" feeling, but I still didn't connect the dots and couldn't put my finger on why it looked so wrong.
Then later I learned is was a deep-fake, and now it just looks like a deep-fake; the uncanny valley sensation went away once I finally understood why he looked the way he did.
The internet is full of creepy looking 'examples' of uncanny valley, but they're all shit imo, cuz they're all just blatantly creepy shit; well beyond the uncertainty that goes along with uncanny valley.
Surgical tech here. July 4th is always a busy night on call.
Sometimes we can reattach hands/fingers. Sometimes we have to cut back until we get to tissue that isn't char-broiled, and just sew it shut.
Our flesh doesn't do super great against explosions. Please don't fuck around with them.
Eh! This thread just reminded me of something I've been meaning to buy, but only ever think about buying when I'm at work or something and not able to get online to make the purchase:
Key-chain pouch with a CPR face barrier that has a one-way valve.
I've never had to give CPR outside of a hospital environment, but there it's much more controlled w/ supplies readily available like a resuscitation bag that you just slap onto the patient's face and squeeze to give breaths. I know how to do the field version without any supplies, but when you give breaths in that scenario, YOU are the resuscitation bag, and it'd be nice to be prepared to give rescue breaths without needing to worry about shit like picking up herpes off some dying stranger's face.
Also CPR is NOT hard to do or learn, so if I've piqued your interest and you're not already familiar with it, plug your city in here (https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class) and set it to CPR and see what's in your area. Price varies a lot, but expect $30-$100 (WHY ISN'T THIS FREE/SUBSIDIZED?!). Learn some shit, get that cert, save a life. Make sure the class you sign up for good for first-timers and not a refresher course; and I STRONGLY recommend doing in person vs online so you can practice on a dummy with an instructor present to let you know if you're fucking something up.
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The military has surgeons. Or, failing that, scissors.
We can make this work! :D
I unironically kinda wish that would take off. The concept of a super simple bridge language is great.
Yaaaaaaaay! (:
.../wrists
That place does seem to have a certain effect on people.