Has Mirror technology changed
Oh thats an easy answer! That just means THEY ARE COMING THE FOG IS COMING THE FOG IS COMING THE FOG IS COMING THE FOG IS COMINGTHE FOG IS COMING THE FOG IS
I'm going insane
Submitted 5 weeks ago by renzev@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Were you trying to kiss yourself in the mirror?
orl0pl@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I like to think that he forgets, keeps trying and then makes a new post about it
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Yeah, but not on the lips.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 weeks ago
Oh, hey Niel!
gzerod200@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Lmfao that post was right above this one
taiyang@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I know you’re going for creepy buuuut I read it more like a dude who doesn’t get what a painting is.
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I thought this was talking about DuckDuckGo mirrors, as in a software mirror of the site.
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Now don’t look at the lamp next to your sofa too closely.
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Huh, never saw this one but in high school I had a dream just like this. I met a beautiful woman, perfect in every way, we got married had some kids, I even got some ways into middle age. Then, I was sitting in chair and noticed that my vision seemed… blurry at the edges, in a very “vignette filter” kind of way and I immediately knew I was dreaming. Woke up just as the existential collapse started. For several years after I’d try to remember her face, what our love had felt like, any of the details that had seemed so solid and tantalizing real for those few sleeping hours.
In retrospect, a lot like that Rick and Morty episode with the life simulator game. I wonder if one of the writers ever had that dream too? Brains are weird, and I haven’t any dreams nearly that all encompassing since.
Maalus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I had a dream like that about an ex. Everything perfect, house, kids, the whole thing. It felt like one of those super realistic dreams too. I woke up and got a panic attack that fucked me over for 3 or 4 days when I realized it was just a dream. Human psyche is scary as fuck sometimes.
pkmkdz@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I was going to say it’s pretty depressing, but then I’ve remembered waking up in general in this awful world is
dubious@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Alrght. I’m leaving a comment here as a reminder to come back to this thread and tell my creepy pasta story.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
reddit used to be a bit better
cralder@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is actually really interesting and I think about it every time I look in a large mirror. IIRC it is because the mirror is always “halfway” between you and your mirror image. So as you step back your mirror image gets further away and looks smaller, but so does the mirror.
Katana314@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Right, but this only works if you have DuckDuckGo set as your search engine.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Nah if u step back far enough it should show your whole body. The only exception being if its angled weirdly or if its not flat but curved in a special way.
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Nope, three geometry actually works out such that it doesn’t matter your distance from the mirror, only how tall the mirror is and how high it’s mounted.
A mirror that is as half as tall as your, mounted at head height, will show your white body regardless of how far away you are from it. TECHNICALLY, the bottom edge must be halfway between your eyes and feet, and the top edge must be halfway between your eyes and top of head.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
If you’d be so kind, how far do you have to get away from a flat mirror to show your whole image?
renzev@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
But you can’t kiss a duck on the lips from the word go. Just ask Neil Degrasse Tyson.
bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
S TIER CONTENT RIGHT HERE
Ludrol@szmer.info 5 weeks ago
It’s because you are a vampire and mirrors are no longer made out of silver. Just good old aluminium.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m allergic to aluminium.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
the universe has forsaken me at DuckDuckGo
Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Yeah, that’s not a mirror. Say cheese!
10_0@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
That’s not a mirror that’s a murder pretending to be you on the other side
tektite@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
REDRUM
niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Mirror technology timeline!
Chirality ‘n’ shit.A mirror’s primary surface - a metal like silver that has just one electron sticking out alone in the top atomic orbital, plus other free electrons sliding around the surface, I believe - absorbs photons, then re-emits new photons almost exactly like the ones that came in.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Wait they’re not the same photons just bouncing? So it’s some sort of switcharoo ?
Prime@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Its a basic physics thing. You see not more of your body when you take a step back. That is normal and expected.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
People just don’t understand mirrors.
I did a horrifying experiment in uni with a mirror on the wall, and asked people to point at where they thought they could see their reflection . The obvious answer is of course “when you’re next to it”. A terrifyingly large number of people at a University assumed they could see themselves at a 45 to 60 degree angle, so several step before they actually reached the mirror.
Some of them were even shocked when they walked along it.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
voy perdiendo
umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
perdiendo, perdiendo
lud@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I don’t get it. What is spooky or scary?
I thought it was just a funny joke.
Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Oh, you know it’s October when we’re bringing the spooky shitposts out. Like, I have spectrophobia, and I’ve had actual nightmares about this shit happening lol.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
That’s not just you, my reprojection mirror also has a fixed field view since the latest firmware update and the fuckers locked firmware downgrades so if you didn’t jailbreak yours beforehand, now you can’t and you can’t change the fov to more than 1:1
No doubt because they’re about to release a pro version and that will be the only reason to pay extra for it.
Backlog3231@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
Mirrors are hard. Good luck on your quest.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
this is an odd way to reference that one (theres probably a few) vsauce video on mirrors.
Not that i’m complaining.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 5 weeks ago
Subtle supernatural horror is my fucking favorite.
It doesn’t spoon feed you the scare, it doesn’t jump scare you like you’re a fucking toddler.
It simply brings into your reality a certain primal fear that something isn’t right, and you can’t explain why.
It’s unsettling because you don’t know for sure if you’re going to immediately die, which makes it even more frightening.
It’s called uncanny.
renzev@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Thanks, this was my exact intention! I’m glad you like my shitpost!
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What are some good games like that? I’m not a big fan of the jump scare horror games, so I tend to ignore most horror games on principle, but the genre is still fun when I find a gem.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Not exactly what you’re asking for, but Subnautica slowly builds on a primal fear without resorting to jump scares. It’s increasingly unsettling and you start finding excuses to just stay in your habitat to decorate instead of going outside.
Life is strange has elements of it (think Butterfly Effect: the game) during parts of the game, although it gets pretty explicit rather than subtle.
Oxenfree also has elements of it, with people behaving weirdly etc. But it also mostly gets fairly explicit. Still, no jumpscares.
n0clue@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
FEAR, no I’m not kidding.
Alteon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Aaaaaaaaaaaand that’s exactly why the opening scene of Juon: Black Ghost/White Ghost made me scream like a child. The dread that rises up when something doesn’t feel right. There’s no build up to a scare…it just slams into you full force. Only movie I ever screamed while watching. Only happened once…but good God. We had to pause the movie and laugh for about 10 minutes as both me and my sibling both screamed.