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Realistic Human Graphics Look Creepy
WellHungMonkey writes "A really interesting read on Slate about how realistic human faces in games and on robots and so on, are not necessarily the way to go -- the brain isn't fooled, it attaches itself easier to Snoopy-like simplicity... Or Lara Croft attributes, but I'm not sure that's the brain talking."
...as long as the blood spatters are lifelike when I blow their heads off.
Michel Ja...uh...Jefferson.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
I'd like to see some examples of these pictures. Sure they are creepy, sometimes people can be fooled though. I had a picture of Aki in a bikini from the Final Fantasy movie on my computer. My girlfriend found it and wanted to know why I had it. She didn't beleive me that it wasn't a real person.
http://github.com/gbook/nidb
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I love simplicity... the www.roflcopter.com flash game proves that you dont need complexity to have a fun game.
What does this mean for tux-racer? Will hardcore linux advocates be freaked out by his penguin-like qualities?
> I was disappointed with the semi-recent Hulk movie, but does that mean the game
> had to suck too?
Yeah, they unfortunately planned that at a board meeting. A minority of the execs thought about making both good, then they tried to compromise on bad movie good game, then the CEO said "fuck it, they will both suck." And all the yes-men in the room agreed.
If you know ANYONE who even VAGUELY resembles R2-D2, I want to see pictures!! (yes, I know they were using them as examples of androids, but jesus... I think using C3PO alone would have sufficed
Most humans are inherently creepy.
Why would machine replicas be any different?
Just Ask Slashdot. Hundreds of Slashdot readers and their ethernet-connected RealDolls(tm) can't be wrong.
I had the same feeling when playing "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time". I just could never have the heart to empty a jar containing a goldfish onto the ground - it would just flop about helplessly - putting it back in a pond was the only thing I could do.
"The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time".
Was this supposed to be a joke, or just yet another product of the stellar American education system?
Proverbs 21:19
This has got to be the first time in history that a new technology CANT be used for porn!
Mod this up, this is brilliant!
I would rather be ashes than dust!
This is slashdot, I'm sure I am not alone in measuring every space ship up against Enterprise.
liqbase
I'm glad the rest of the world realizes it. I've known I hated looking at people for years now.
Leonardo da Vinci had a pretty bad frame rate though: the Mona Lisa took about three years to complete, which gives .00000001FPS (1 frame / 3 years).
An example would be looking at a girl, being attracted to her and having no idea why i.e what specific features makes her attractive to you?
Her personalities.
Even Trogdor is somewhat believable as a dragon with a big human arm sticking off his back.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
come for the naked robots, stay for the zombies
Now [i]that's[/i] creepy.
with Robin Williams for a long time.
Well: men have two brains to think with, but only enough blood to use one at a time.
Intelligent Design: because MATH is HARD.
This explains it.
mt
It's as if all the characters have been shot up with some ungodly amount of Botox and are no longer able to make Earthlike expressions....
And this is different from real Hollywood actors how?
In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris will still kick your ass.
# Lack of sleep.
There are no save points. If you die you must start over. You can be attacked at any time. If you shut the game off, the next time its started events are generated in an accelerated time frame, and you won't be able to respond.
# Equipment Failure. (M16's really don't like sand.)
ProbabilityOfFailure = 90 - 90.0 / (LevelOfSandInAtmosphere);
if (randion() % ProbabilityOfFailure == 0)
{
PlaySound ("m16_click.wav");
Player.M16.FireRate = 0;
Player.M16.State = JAMMED;
Player.State = WTF;
}
# Boredom. (For most of the battle, you are just sitting there.)
Player.State = BORED;
# Running around in chem suits under a desert sun.
You just need to get that special USB 2.0 enabled Heat Lamp
Take away the psycho's guns and give them a potato.
Never underestimate the hazards of a determined psychotic armed with a potato.
Thanks to the internet, we can now all die alone together! -SomeWoman
I think William Shakespeare said it best:
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Why the FUCK did I think that read 'William Shatner'? I was expecting the 'I am Canadian' speech.
Dib: "I can only hope that the Irkens just happen to use the same operating system that I do!"
I can't sit through a movie with fighter jets without pissing everyone else off.
"No, you fool...you cannot launch a missile while the aircraft is on the ground!" (well...you can, but it's hard and you can't do it solely from the cockpit) (something with Michael Douglas)
"No, the runway is NEVER next to the main gate" (James Bond)
"If you shot off all your missiles, how come you now have 3 more? (All of them)
"um, no. A 'modified' F-117 is NOT big enough to hold a squad of people inside" (Air Force One)
"No, you can't outrun a missile for that long. Either it would have run out of fuel, proximity detonated, or hit you by now." (Behind Enemy Lines)
Hair and uniforms. (All of them)
"If you're going to call them Air Force planes, at least use Air Force planes. F-18's don't count." (The Rock, ID4)
and don't get me started on Iron Eagle:
"No, you fool...you cannot plug your flight helmet into your Walkman!"
> Her personalities.
she's got huge... tracts of land.
I know exactly what you mean.
A few years ago, I was in to Baldur's Gate in a big way. For a week, I played the game from start to finish. When I was called to dinner by my parents right as I was psyching myself up for the final battle, I forgot to leave the game baggage behind. A few minutes in to dinner, I remember twitching my 'space-bar' thumb (pause in Baldur's Gate) to get up and use the bathroom, and being shocked for a few seconds that reality continued. It was a freaky expierience. I've never allowed myself to get that much into a game since.
The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life- the terror of art. -Franz Kafka