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[thanathicca]

Pathologic 3: Quarantine - Thanatica and the Capital (3/?)

Footage credits: Andy North & Zuzup | ID in alt text

[sandplague]

Ice-Pick Lodge's post on Steam:

Hi everyone! We’re finally ready to share a little mischief with you, called Pathologic 3: Quarantine.

Quarantine is a free prelude to Pathologic 3 that you’ll be able to experience before the main game’s release. It’s akin to a demo version, but not quite. Our longtime followers might recall The Marble Nest—a playable teaser released before Pathologic 2. Quarantine follows a similar format but with slightly different goals: unlike The Marble Nest, which was a completely separate story, it will showcase fragments of gameplay mechanics, set the stage for the story, and pull back the curtain a bit for those curious about the game’s world.

This free prologue ties directly into the main game and partially overlaps with its intro, but has several unique scenes as well. For the first time in the series, we will see the Capital — where Bachelor’s poor lab is located. (Telmann is a traitor.)

Stay tuned for more details about Quarantine coming next year! Don’t forget to follow us on social media to grab front-row seats. And please add Quarantine to your wishlists: a small step for you — but it means a lot to indie developers like us.

[vorakh]

a. pathologic you will always be famous to me

[thanatika]

that makes sense! i definitely think there's a middle ground between isolationism and imposing The Law of TPTB on the town, which is probably what she's going for, but it is interesting that (off the top of my head) Capella is the only future town leader who doesn't have some mention of limiting the influence of TPTB towards the end. i guess it might have to do with the metaphor of the Termites growing up, in contrast to the other two factions staying the sandbox with their miracles.

i guess there's also some vagueness about how exactly Thanatica could get saved via Simon, not to mention Thanatica's actual level of public popularity. honestly in my mind, i think Dankovsky was naive enough to think that he himself could persuade TPTB/the Institute/Professor Telmann to reinstate the lab based on his own Sound Logic And Solid Evidence (simon immortality juice). despite the fact that they probably planned to shut it down no matter what. what you describe would probably be smarter and more strategic, but i'm not sure it would occur to him, or that he'd be able to inspire a public to support his cause. like, he's doing it all For The People, but then when it comes to actually interfacing with them... idk. (i also don't think Simon ever even planned to give Bachelor anything to take back with him, though, but that's a whole other thing.)

as for the ferries, i guess they're kind of a middleground of public/private transportation in the same way taxis are, since you can basically only fit one or two adult passengers! so, Train Freak Dankovsky would probably not see it as "good enough" on that grounds... and also he has a 0/0 track record for getting along with odonghe so something would probably go terribly wrong. though it's kind of funny to imagine a shared love of improving transportation efficiency to be what finally leads him to see eye to eye with them (it does seem to be the second most common occupation for odonghe behind herb gatherer...)

you ask me what kind of car daniil dankovsky would drive and i tell you he would be one of those annoying public transportation evangelists. he's on r/transit looking at the idealized, will-never-be-built public transit systems random people are coming up with for their cities for fun and smiling. he's a supporter of the car-free movement on the grounds that personal vehicles are logistically inefficient and one of the leading causes of death. someone tries to tell him that there are some places where personal cars would still be a practical necessity, like rural areas out in the middle of nowhere, and he tells you that with enough investment in public infrastructure and a shift in social values, public transit could be feasible even in the most rural areas, and it's really annoying that he's honestly kind of right.

[vardhanlezuz]

חרדה מעבודה מקימה אותי שמונה שעות לפני היציאה... המון זמן להתכונן אליה ויום ארוך לסידורים. בשמונה דואר, לשלוח מכתב תחינה לעירית אשקלון לביטול/הפחתה  500 שח קנס חניה בחניה לא מסומנת, חתירה אחרי בים שקט נפלא חמים קם נופל קם נופל. מספיק מרווח להפנים טיפ מחותר מנוסה, שעדיף להזדקף תוך כדי תנועה .... הכי רציתי להשמיע לה את אושרם של האזרחים הדנים, הנורבגים והגרמנים של טלמן מבוקרביעיקלאסי אבל לא נבאס אותה בהתנשאות פריבלגית, נחזור לבייס #קליניקהברבים פרק ט

George Fest - I Me Mine [Official Live Video]

[cactus-in-art]

Hermione von Telmann-Preuschen (German, 1854 - 1918) Blooming cacti

[pauldeckerus]

Fake Views: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Soviet Photoshopping

Photoshop 1.0 was first released as the Soviet Union was collapsing, but long before the software made photo manipulation easy, Kremlin censors went to extraordinary lengths to touch up history.

An undated image of Russian animal trainer Vladimir Durov. Much of the early image manipulation involved scratching the negative with a scalpel or needle, and painting fine lines directly onto the emulsion (seen here in the monkey’s hair and lips).

A heavily retouched image of Josef Stalin. Some of the Soviets’ image-doctoring was apparently to crisp-up blurry or low-quality images.

But occasionally, heavy-handed Soviet “airbrushers” literally blur the lines between painting and photography, as in this undated TASS photo of German communist leader Ernst Telmann.

Image retouching to prettify portraits was widely popular during the early 20th century, but in the Soviet Union, highly skilled retouchers were also employed for a more sinister role: as comrades fell out of favor with Stalin and were removed from office or executed, the politically inconvenient figures were carefully scratched and painted out of the frame. Original photo shows from left to right: Nikolai Antipov, Josef Stalin, Sergei Kirov, and Nikolai Shvernik.

As the head of Stalin’s secret police, Nikolai Yezhov (right) oversaw the executions of more than half a million Soviet citizens during the “great purge.”

After Yezhov himself was executed, the photos of Stalin and his honchos strolling along a Moscow canal was neatly updated to remove “the poison dwarf.”

During World War II, a sacred period of history for the Soviet Union during which it lost some 20 million lives, the retouchers attempted to improve on reality. This clumsy photo montage of Red Army troops crossing the Dnieper River was probably created by stacking a snippet of one photographic negative atop another.

Hours of delicate work would have been required for this montage of geese and a downed Nazi warplane “sinking in a river.”

Even the latest digital cameras would struggle to create a crisp image of an airplane plummeting to earth at close-range. This “action” photo from 1942 includes a hand-sketched tree as a bonus.

This despondent German soldier and his splintered artillery piece was probably the most iconic photo from the Red Army’s victory over the Nazis during the Battle of Kursk in 1943.

But Soviet retouchers couldn’t leave well enough alone and added cannons and a cluster of shells to the image.

Even the legendary Soviet photojournalist Yevgeny Khaldei admitted to altering photographs when his editors required it. In this image, a fleet of Soviet bombers swoop above Germany’s Reichstag as the Red Army battles its way through Berlin.

A smooth-skinned Stalin in 1945, though in reality he had a pock-marked, poor complexion. After World War II, image retouching became more subtle and is harder to identify.

A major challenge for the Kremlin’s airbrush department was the famously speckled forehead of Mikhail Gorbachev.

Most photographs from Gorbachev’s early years are from angles that conceal his birthmark, but in official Kremlin releases, like this 1978 portrait of the future Soviet leader, some masterful airbushing was employed.

Although the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Patriarch Kirill I, the head of Russia’s Orthodox Church, showed that old habits die hard in Moscow’s corridors of power. In 2012, his office was outed for photoshopping a $30,000 Breguet wristwatch out of a publicity photo.

About the author: Amos Chapple is a Kiwi photographer who makes news-flavored travel photos and writes for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He started off at New Zealand’s largest daily paper in 2003. After two years chasing news, he took a full-time position shooting UNESCO World Heritage sites. In 2012, he went freelance but kept up the travel. Since then, he has been published in most major news titles around the world. You can find more of his work on his website, Facebook, and Instagram. This article was also published RFE/RL.

from Photography News https://petapixel.com/2018/07/31/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-soviet-photoshopping/

[thanathicca]

Pathologic 3: Quarantine + The Persecution of Daniil Dankovsky and Thanatica (1/?)

Footage credits: Andy North & Zuzup on Youtube and u/chu_e_ on Reddit, who also made an English translation of Thanatica's lecture schedule | ID in alt text

[thanathicca]

imperare sibi maximum imperium est ramblings: Telman Edition

mostly related to this post (the news from the Pathologic Fest Day 1, From the Other Side)

Okay, okay. (vibrates a little) So, I have seen Telmans who were legitimate professors. I like the headcanon that he is the de jure head of Thanatica, since Daniil was too young to get any respect or legal authority (obviously, Dankovsky is the de facto leader). I also enjoy the headcanon that Telman is an obstructive bureaucrat - making Dankovsky's life harder every damn time, such as having blackmail material about him being trans, inventing HRT, or performing abortions in secret. A Telman being a liaison between the lab and the authorities/TPTB/Inquisitors is also compelling.

Now, for my 22nd century Thanatica AU, I go to another, and very noncanon direction. I present to you a Telman who is just Elongated Muskrat. Vector Tech (or maybe I might rename it Upward Vector, or a variation on that. I am shaking in excitement here.) is a technological company made to realize the sci-fi dreams of its trillionaire "founder" (who bought it from probably legitimate businesspeople and engineers). It is fitting that in a universe where teleporters are a viable transportation method, deepfaked news is commonplace, physical media is almost dead, old movies have to be pirated because the publishers pulled it out of print, and water coolers have timers to prevent workplace chats and unionization, Telman's dreams would 10000% include an invention that has been tried and failed multiple times: mind-uploading. And Thanatica actually did it!

The excerpt from that post reads like so: (this is a rough draft)

Is this the end for Thanatica Labs? THE CAPITAL, 1 OCTOBER 2165 Daniil Dankovsky, founder of Thanatica Laboratories and lead scientist of the first successful mind-uploading device AVA Project, has once again declined an offer of cooperation from a multinational company. The cooperation deal by Vector Tech, which would have netted Dankovsky a record XXX billion, would have Thanatica Labs give away their exclusive rights to the AVA blueprints and let the company build new AVA units with a tiered subscription program. "We regret that the deal couldn’t be done," Mr. Telman, CEO of Vector Tech, has gone on record to say. "It’s a shame that Thanatica hoards all their progress under Dankovsky’s influence. Our company would have brought your AVA to the whole world! What kind of scientist are you?" When requested for an interview, Dr. Dankovsky responded, “Thanatica has, and will always, stand with ethical practices. We are scientists who would not gate one’s life behind paywalls. The deal would have made a version of AVA with proprietary Vector Tech operating system, which has gone on record to sell people’s data to third parties, including intelligence agencies. Would you want data submitted the AVA, which would contain your most vulnerable memories, to be sold to the highest bidder? Would you want targeted advertisements in your brain? Moreover, the deal also mentioned using the subscription programs to access certain memories or even brain functions, which meant you could randomly forget the most important moments in your life, or even forget how to solve a crossword, just because you are a little short on money.” Vector Tech has not responded to an interview request.

Thanatica and Vector Tech might even have beef dating back a few years. Imagine if the whistleblowing incident of 2163 also involved Telman's company (as in, a whistleblower from there) - although, I imagine it would be a different company, since, if Dankovsky has fucked them up before through the incident, why would he try again to get the rights to the Ad Vitam Aeternam (AVA) Project?

Okay, maybe if he is truly based on Elon Musk, maybe he just... doesn't have the good sense to avoid bothering Thanatica again. But, on the other hand, why wouldn't he? I think multiple companies would bother Thanatica about the AVA, actually. Mind-uploading is just nuts. It is probably one of the most idealistic and difficult-to-realize science fiction tropes. As of Chapter 11, the fact that Dankovsky has moved to a robotic chassis has not been publicized yet... but when it does, it has to be done wisely, and probably slowly.

That's going to be part of the story too, of course - if you are interested, you can hop on the ride and see the public relations mayhem Thanatica will be subjected to (and subjecting itself to). There is no need to be afraid about missing things, for now - imperare sibi maximum imperium est is extremely slow-paced for now, with its chapters clocking less than 3k words each (some even less than 2k), and it is only beginning. Act 1 isn't even halfway done, and if our physical ability and time allows, there should be more Acts to follow.

So! What do you all think of this Telman and his company? What are you interested in seeing re: the reveal of Dankovsky's survival from the plague? Or do you think other companies should be made here, perhaps using the names of the Inquisitors? I would be highly interested in hearing all your(&) answers. Feel free to reply to this, DM us, send an ask, or even speak your mind in the tags :>

[thanathicca]

Pathologic 3: Quarantine - Thanatica and the Capital (5/?)

Footage credits: Andy North & Zuzup | ID in alt text

[arcanescribbler]

It's me! Ozzy/Ozzie, or Oswald Wanita Telmann, represents One Weird Tip! He volunteers at grocery stores and other such shops in his area to do stock in exchange for broken items, oddities, coupons, and such, and gets the majority of his actual funds by scamming and stealing from people he doesn't like. A favored target is Fantasy PETA But Worse. Most of the time he talks a lot like his song with added glitch, advertisements, and such, but he is capable of being lucid- he just doesn't show it to just anyone, and the conditions aren't always met. A good fun guy, but with danger potential. >;3c I'm having a lot of fun creating him! Thanks again, friendo! I'm so glad you like my Neil design!

APPARENTLY ITS LEMONVERSE WEEK BUT IM STUPID AND ALREADY BEHIND SO HERE’S SOME PICTURES

Nathan (“Nothing Worth Loving Isn’t Askew”) is in every picture here, which is noticeable by his 3D glasses.

Next to him in the first picture is Elyssa (“Everybody Likes You”), with her curly hair and pink-green attire.

At his sides in the last picture are Ozzie (left) and Neil (right). Ozzie (“One Weird Tip”) is actually a friend’s OC, but partially designed by me, so I can’t say much about him other than I think he’s rather interesting. Neil (“Touch Tone Telephone”) is my OC, but was designed by the same person who made Ozzie! Neil was the first of my Lemon Demon OCs, and I didn’t think I’d be making any more, so he’s got That Name, Y’know.