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:

https://www.redcross.org/store/cpr-keychain-with-face-shield-and-gloves/ARC-CPR-03.html?cgid=cpr-masks-and-face-shields

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.

[/pitch]

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

…do we still celebrate the 4th if we’ve regressed back to a monarchy as per SCOTUS’s new dystopian ruling?

I didn’t say it was a bad system or that we need to change it: I said I hate it.

Not really any that I’m aware of, but I’m a tech, so my insight is only surface level. Grain of salt.

Given the new authority granted to POTUS by SCOTUS, Biden could now order that judge to receive involuntary top and bottom surgery + hormone therapy.

Now YOU get to experience gender dysphoria, you greasy shit stain.

Couple common ones… there are hundreds of these.

Acronym - Full Latin - English

PRN - pro re nata - as needed

NPO - nil per os - nothing my mouth

AC - ante cibum - before eating

OD - oculus dexter - right eye

OS - oculus sinister - left eye

Q8H - quaque octava hora - every 8 hours

That’s why he should leave the door open for scotus to repeal their decision; and be VERY vocal about exactly what he’s doing. “I am 100% abusing this new power granted by the scotus in order to shine the spotlight on just how dangerous it is; consider the damage I could be doing right now if my intent was malicious. What I’ll do instead is wait for the scotus to wake up and revise their incredibly bad decision, concluding the power I shouldn’t have in the first place and forcing me to step down as my position requires.”

This is medicine in a nutshell too. And not just abbreviations, but acronyms… for words in a language that no one uses. I hate it.

You’re right, but as the others have mentioned, it’s a spectrum of stupid on one end and evil on the other… the folks who land on the stupid end are being manipulated by the ones on the evil end, so either directly or one step removed, the cruelty is still the point.

Maybe I shouldn’t judge the pawns by the hand that placed them, but I’m so tired of seeing evil get a free pass because it was committed by the village idiot.