#terrifying technology

[bruh-please]

HSO thought

So, doctors will sometimes cauterize wounds to stop or minimize bleeding (I think), I guess it's just kind of crazy to think about that. But imagine an alien visiting their human friend, and for some reason cauterization gets brought up, and the human friend casually talks about themself getting a wound cauterized and the alien friend is horrified bc that isn't something that happens in space?

Idk y'all, human medical technology and techniques are absolutely wild and bonkers, we see it all as normal and whatnot, but what about aliens that have never seen or heard of techniques that we use regularly?

[bloomingbluebell]

hi im ranting (positively! this game kills me but in a good way) about breath of the wild again

i know it's controversial but i love the way the story of the game is told. because you start the game in the middle, perhaps near the end, of the story. the game is entirely through link's perspective and he wakes up knowing and remembering nothing. in turn, the player starts off knowing nothing. the past is revealed as the story goes along, and the player learns about the past and about the land as link does. there are little tidbits about hyrule and about the calamity scattered across the land. an old woman in hateno village tells you of an age of desolation that she grew up in. the travellers you see on the road are younger people because they're described by older characters as more bold, whereas the older characters grew up being told to never leave the village, it's too dangerous outside (compare this even to tears of the kingdom, where travellers are more common because the land has been safer. even older characters have left their home to travel elsewhere (not including the lurelin villagers)). battlefields are still strewn with old rusty weapons and deactivated guardians that no one but monsters will go near. myths and legends about the princess and hero have been passed down, to the point where their legitmacy is questioned and everyone has a different opinion on them.

it's environmental storytelling. it's things like seeing drawings and a bow in zelda's study and seeing a child reading a storybook with a hero that wears a blue tunic similar to link's. it's the stories that the villagers share about old myths that turn out to be true. it's the ruins scattered across the land, long since overtaken by monster camps but still unmistakably being houses that people once lived in. it's the utter lack of civilization anywhere remotely near the castle and the feeling of dread in the ruins of the town that surrounds it. it's a kingdom entrenched in its past, with no ability to move away from it until the calamity is finally defeated.

[lengthofropes]

June 6, 2023. waking up to horrific news

[forcedhesitation]

why should it just be steve who has all the torturous purgatory realm fun?

[gaillol-13]

Shower thoughts today.

[llitchilitchi]

ngl while it's good that people are becoming more wary of new technologies and would rather take their time with integrating it into their daily lives I do fear that the climate of tumblr is turning many people into technophobes

[r3dlif3]

Rest in peace Obito Uchiha you would have loved Godzilla and its monsterverse

[irradiated-radiance]

Woe, angst be upon yee

Think about this plot for more than a minute and it'll start to fall apart probably but just uhhh please don't think about it too much😞🙏

So Sosu has been frozen for over 210 years, they came from a world that wasn't as irradiated as the Commonwealth is currently, so, why not give them radiation poisoning?

They feel fine when they first step out but even still, they can just feel things are different, everything, even the air, feels contamimated. Over the many years, most of the radiation has disappeared, people of the Commonwealth have grown a tolerance to the low amount of radiation that still persists, but Sosu being completely new to this world has no such tolerance and even with a radiation suit slowing the process, the poisoning still seeps into them, slowly starting to kill them. At first it's barely noticeable but the closer they get to their goal, the weaker they seem to get.

First true problem presents itself, the Dimly-lit desert- I mean the Glowing Sea. Even with the power armor taking most of the radiation, by the time they get to the insitute, they're severely ill. The fatigue, the effects of the radiation, it's all obvious. Despite never knowing them it pains the Father to see them in such a way, perhaps it was cruel to let them out of their frozen prison.

Nonetheless the institute is smart, has people to deal with what radaway can't heal, and so with time Sosu is cured but it's made clear to them; any trips to Commonwealth are risky, simply put their body can't handle the radiation.

Obviously there are companions that want the Institute destroyed, but I wonder how they'd react to this? Going off of the assumption that they're close to Sosu, just how willing would they be to write their death sentence by demanding them to destroy the only thing that can help them stay alive? The thing that'd let the companion keep their close friend, maybe their lover, alive? How willing would they be to sacrifice the person whose been there for them this entire time, despite Sosu having their own struggles to deal with?

And with X6? Oh with X6 just think about it. Time passes and he's, dare he say, attached to the future leader. Slowly, without his notice, he's started to truly care. How would he take it, hearing other companions, or faction leaders, demand that Sosu does the "right thing" and destroy the Institute, destroy the only place where they can roam free without a hazmat suit, without having to worry about radiation?

He'd be kinda angry about it I think

[clove-pinks]

I think one of the most frustrating things about 19th century people is how difficult it would be to frighten them with technology from the future. Just think about it!

Imagine you travel back in time with your traditional "ghost ship" that's a fully rigged sailing vessel with no sails set; or ragged, ghostly sails, and the actual power is a diesel engine or whatever with electric lights on the bare masts to scare people. Forget time-traveling to the later 19th century with this thing, period—they would immediately know what you were doing. And even if you went back to like, 1810: they already have steam vessels!! They know what electricity is!! If anything you would be chased everywhere by wannabe Enlightenment scientist types desperate to learn the secrets of your advanced propulsion and illumination.

Trying to scare Romantic-era people with your cell phone? Good luck with that: you now have a crowd of folks with some huge sleeves eager to see your hand-held phénakisticope with an endless variety of sounds and animations!

[transgenderdragons]

parents are messing around with bark again. lol. lmao. rofl. ngl i might just leave tumblr again :/

[texas-bbq-pringles]

HELP

[sf-bl]

Fans of AI Jack who are capable of feeling existential horror on behalf of an operating system may enjoy this article about an obsolete system called 'Phoenix Hyperspace.' It is ... quite a ride.

[mimirjoo]

I hype myself up for my Asian parent-mandated medical-related course by making art for it apparently Fun fact the test tube they’re holding contains culture medium known as a butt-slant (the butt part being the lower flat portion). You stick the inoculating loop with the sample in the butt and you drag it out in a zig-zag pattern over the slant as you pull it out. The more you know (I know you should wear a mask in a bacteriology lab. Shhhh)

[mwagneto]

main thing that scares me about moving to the west is that i'm so used to the comforts here that i won't be able to adapt. like what if i move to a city that doesn't have door to door public transport that literally costs like 3 pennies and this gum i found

[decamarks]

it's funny, but I just realized I was just discussing yesterday with a friend what specifically always unsettled me about the animated Mario head from Super Mario 64- that whole kind of hard to describe tech demo feeling to it (which I believe it originally was??? don't quote me on this) and being motion captured with very basic/rudimentary methods, and when you really think about it, you can sort of feel it

i feel like CHOW! totally hit the nail on the head for that exact feeling for me- I know you cited PSX & Xbox as your goals (i 100% see it in the aesthetic choices especially!!) but I love just how even without the glitching, it captures perfectly that sort of feeling that I think either leaves people feeling endeared or creeped out- but very very genuinely, like, perfectly gets across that concept of a programmer making a cool bit of advanced animation/interactivity tech at a time where it was still new! i adore that so much

OH MY GOD YES!!!!! i probably don't even need to confirm it, but yeah CHOW! was pretty directly inspired by the mario head. (i also cannot thank you enough for adhering to the manual's stylization of CHOW!).

the mario 64 head is an incredible thing to me, both in terms of it being a silly tech demo, and it being endearingly terrifying. the animations alone are a bit awkward looking and technologically stilted—and like, there's no way to avoid the fact that it is explicitly an entity of endless body horror, because. it IS. it was designed to be stretched and warped and deformed by small hands just learning to use the n64 controller. yet it remains such a fun and fascinating thing... we have the technology to do terrifying things to mario's face, so we will. it's an inevitability that we can, and should, embrace—that is the message mario 64 sends. or it's not and they just wanted to have a goofy interactive title screen with silly expressive animations. who knows!

i think we need a new term for this kind of endearing creepiness. "ugly-cute" is a widely recognized notion, but 'ugly' ≠ 'uncanny'. i propose uhhhhhhh. "uncandearing". actually that sucks nevermind. BUT IT'S AN EMOTION I TREASURE REGARDLESS OF IF I HAVE THE WORDS FOR IT. it's something particularly present in older technology; the rudimentary tools and strict limitations on what can be created that leads to this uncanny, stilted strangeness. it gives the impression of something trying so hard to be appealing and friendly, but it's just breaking at the seams from how much effort it takes to do so. thus becoming 10000x creepier than it was initially. and 10000x more endearing, too...?

another famous example of this is the IBM computer singing daisy bell. it's just so cute to see time and time again that people will endlessly innovate in order to imbue technology with bits of humanity—by expressing artificial emotions, or silly virtual interactions... of course, it's not quite human enough to feel completely real, and not quite not-human enough to feel, y'know. not creepy. but it's TRYING its BEST.

at least for me, i don't think it's a harsh split between perceiving it as endearing or uncanny—it's a bit of both, and each amplifies the other. i intended for CHOW! to be the most viscerally repulsive thing ever brought to 3d space (and i'd say i succeeded to some extent), but as i was animating, it inexplicably grew on me? to the point where i actually felt a little upset, like, peeling its skin off after it 'glitches out'. though it was a bit uncanny before, at that point the veil is entirely removed, and now it's not really even alive enough to be uncanny in the same way.

i hate CHOW!. i would also die and kill for it. these are two emotions that exist at the same time, and i just have to deal with that.