Submitted 1 year ago by renzev@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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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.
voy perdiendo
I don’t get it. What is spooky or scary?
I thought it was just a funny joke.
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.
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.
Wait they’re not the same photons just bouncing? So it’s some sort of switcharoo ?
Mirrors are hard. Good luck on your quest.
Were you trying to kiss yourself in the mirror?
I like to think that he forgets, keeps trying and then makes a new post about it
Lmfao that post was right above this one
Yeah, but not on the lips.
Oh, hey Niel!
I thought this was talking about DuckDuckGo mirrors, as in a software mirror of the site.
But you can’t kiss a duck on the lips from the word go. Just ask Neil Degrasse Tyson.
S TIER CONTENT RIGHT HERE
It’s because you are a vampire and mirrors are no longer made out of silver. Just good old aluminium.
I’m allergic to aluminium.
I know you’re going for creepy buuuut I read it more like a dude who doesn’t get what a painting is.
That’s not a mirror that’s a murder pretending to be you on the other side
REDRUM
Now don’t look at the lamp next to your sofa too closely.
Alrght. I’m leaving a comment here as a reminder to come back to this thread and tell my creepy pasta story.
I was going to say it’s pretty depressing, but then I’ve remembered waking up in general in this awful world is
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.
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.
the universe has forsaken me at DuckDuckGo
Its a basic physics thing. You see not more of your body when you take a step back. That is normal and expected.
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.
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.
Right, but this only works if you have DuckDuckGo set as your search engine.
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.
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.
If you’d be so kind, how far do you have to get away from a flat mirror to show your whole image?
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.
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.
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.
FEAR, no I’m not kidding.
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.
Thanks, this was my exact intention! I’m glad you like my shitpost!
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
Yeah, that’s not a mirror. Say cheese!
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
this is an odd way to reference that one (theres probably a few) vsauce video on mirrors.
Not that i’m complaining.