Anyone interested in (joining me in?) a rant about “the utterly uncanny valley and terrifying physics of paranormal occurrences” or am I the only one that uses that one as an earmark of When Shit Is Actually Going down?
I went digging through my own blog for this, just to say: I just watched a piece of unfired clay jiggle around wildly and then drop through the concrete sidewalk and my dudes… WTF.
What makes this DOUBLE freaky is the thing I read about how the human brain will just strait up composite stuff and whole-cloth make up visuals to explain seeing (or not seeing) something.
Somehow that piece of greenware that should’ve fallen and shattered was not there anymore… so my Game Dev brain went: Someone turned on noclip and since it’s a physics object it went fucky before dropping through the world model.
I will NEVER actually know where that greenware went. It’s nowhere to be found. Not in the shop, not anywhere else, not in the dozens of bits it should’ve shattered into. It’s not in the grass. It’s not in my hands. It’s not where it was. My brain, however, supplies the happy answer: It’s fine. It just glitched out. Don’t worry about it.
Maybe that’s why paranormal occurrence vocabulary changes over time. Once, it was Fairies and Demons… now it’s video game glitches and signal degradation. Not because it ACTUALLY looks like that, but simply because that’s as close as we can get to something we have zero native ability to process or explain.
Full body shudder.
Full-throated roar of YOU GET IT, YES, IT HAS UPDATED WITH THE TIMES.
BUT THEN SO WTF DID I ACTUALLY SEE?
This is the Lovecraftian stuff – what could I have observed that was so incomprehensible that THAT was the thing my brain covers it with? Should I be grateful my bowl Bethesda’d instead of me actually catching a glimpse of what occurred?
Devil’s advocate: Let’s say I had a little absence seizure or something. Let’s say that stress made me WILDLY hallucinate. Okay. Cool. I’d be behind that 100% AND… not but… AND where the shimmering fuck is my bowl?
This day is fired.
I’m not saying that the Goodly Neighbors made off with a pot that is both an incomplete spell and in a state of transition of it’s own between Formless and Immortal….
……but it’ll show up on your doorstep in approximately three days with a new design addition.
i took a pic of me watching the pickle rick episode to piss people off but like somehow i managed to take the pic so that the frame on the tv was…. a different frame to the reflection on the desk?
cursed image
this is the most fucked up scenario that accurately depicts that movement of photons through space and time
Einstein would be so upset that you proved his theory in one moment, cause in his day it took fuckin months to setup an eclipse pic to prove relativity n you did it by accident, in ur living room. congrats.
this is actually called the rolling shutter effect!! the camera captures images in a rolling fashion, from the top to the bottom. so objects that are moving fast like a car, or a airplane propeller, or frames on a tv being reflected will always look distorted. the closer to the top of the image you get, the further back in time it represents, just by a few split seconds. all this means is that the frame reflected on the table was probably the one right after the one on the tv, and it changed before the camera’s rolling shutter had time to get to it.
here’s some more pictures with the rolling shutter; remember that the top of the image just represents a fraction of a second earlier in the action
rolling shutters also move side to side in some cameras, leading to more spooky imagery
I’ve always found the best rolling shutter images to be lightning.
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