when you’re killed, the freezecam of the player who killed you, naturally, does not freeze the entire game for everyone. it instead overlays it as a graphic over your HUD, with its z-position (basically which layer of the HUD it’s on) pretty far forward since it’s supposed to take visual priority for the few seconds you’re seeing it.
in this particular map, the game mode is based around killing other players and collecting irradiated austrlium they drop, which you have to keep on yourself without dying until a set time where somewhere on the map opens up, and you can turn them in to get points for your team. during the time you have the australium, you receive a few benefits like being healed passively and being able to heal nearby teammates passively. however, this comes with the added downside of being outlined on everyones screen through walls, including a number count of how many bars of australium you have on you, making yourself a target.
the number which indicates your australium count has a higher zpos than the frozen death cam, i imagine because they set it super high to be sure players with australium on them were always visible no matter what. what you’re seeing is the scout that killed the person recording, moving in the same path you see them moving in when the screen freezes, picking up the item that was dropped by the medic in front of him after he was killed, and continuing to run through the hall, down some stairs, and through another hallway one floor down for a moment before the cam cuts. the 2 is always over top of his head, but since he’s frozen in the death cam, the 2 just looks like it’s buzzing around.
Published in “Transvestia” magazine #38 (April 1966). I think original art could be by Bob Tupper.
not sure if anyone’s added this info here but because I wanted to know more I checked and….
Every issue of transvestia magazine, which ran from the 60’s through to the 80’s is available through the uVic archives. It was a groundbreaking publication for the crossdressing and later the transgender community. Check it out.
when i got my medical certificate i very confidently answered the question “what do you do if a person becomes unconscious?” with “remove from the room immediately” only to be met with puzzled silence by the instructor and that’s when i learned that the deeply ingrained nautical fear and grim reality of seamen and their rescuers asphyxiating in enclosed spaces due to build up of toxic gas or especially lack of oxygen does not translate to land.
all jokes aside i do think it should translate to land. while no one should walk around with a fear of closed windows or carry around a gas-detector as most places are properly ventilated, and these issues are fairly uncommon, i think the following is still sound advice outside of cargo holds.
if you are in an enclosed space without air circulation (e.g. a basement), especially one that bears a risk of oxygen depletion (storage of fruits and vegetables, wood, or large amounts of rusting steel, all things that turn oxygen into carbon dioxide), and you start feeling light-headed, LEAVE before you sit down. GO OUTSIDE.
at best you can regain your bearing and air out the room before continuing, avoiding unconsciousness, brain damage or worse, and at worst you left a room for no reason. this has been a nautical best practice PSA
This is why you don’t crawl down random caves, abandoned mines, or big drain pipes or whatever in the spirit of adventure. I’ve seen maintenance crews in storm drains (Which should already be somewhat ventilated) use a special air pump that circulates fresh air down to where they are working.
My mom worked with EMT up in the mountains, and one year they did a training exercise. The EMS people pulled up to the “emergency” area and saw an overturned tractor trailer and several “bodies.” The EMTs walked over all confident in their ability to pass the tests and move on when the instructors would come over and tell them “hi! Y'all are now dead. Please join the bodies on the ground.”
She said only the third ambulance or so to arrive stopped and counted bodies and ambulances already on the scene and looked at the truck. It had all “POISON” hazard signs. Every team that walked too close “died” of chemical asphyxiation. I think they all learned something that day.
A dinosaur obsessed 12 year old studied fossils and found a 69 million year old hadrosaur skeleton embedded in rock while hiking. A fisherman in Australia noticed tiny shrimp in his net that looked slightly different from the others and he sent a few specimens to biologists for testing. Turned out to be a never before described species, going unnoticed in a popular lake. I posted a pic ~here on tumblr~ of a weird parasite on a dead fish and a parasitologist found it and asked to report it as the species has never been seen in my area before.
There is so, so much out there we literally don’t even know. And the best way to find that stuff out is to be intensely curious about everything you see. You might not discover a new species but you absolutely will gain a deeper appreciation for the world around you.
Why do American schools feel the need to horrifically evilize the idea of communism simply because of Russia and such
I mean, I would rather be in a full democracy in Iceland but communism would probably be a lot better than what project 2025 is trying to make happen which I believe is a sociatarian. However the hell you spell it-.
I made all the proper calculations… The dual camera, the separated flash, the fingerprint scanner!! Even the holo type backglass! My deduction was perfect-
Wh-what?!?!
The… the color..!! Whats going on here? You mean its not a trick of the light, but a gradient design?! Such an obvious tell, and I missed it?! No, that… thats impossible!!!
This can’t be!!! I’ll be ruined!! MY REPUTATION AS A GIMMICK BLOG!!! NO!!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!
I made all the proper calculations… The dual camera, the separated flash, the fingerprint scanner!! Even the holo type backglass! My deduction was perfect-
Wh-what?!?!
The… the color..!! Whats going on here? You mean its not a trick of the light, but a gradient design?! Such an obvious tell, and I missed it?! No, that… thats impossible!!!
This can’t be!!! I’ll be ruined!! MY REPUTATION AS A GIMMICK BLOG!!! NO!!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!
creature in fiction: *is portrayed as bad and mean*
8 year old me: but what if there was a good and nice one :0
there’s no age limit for this
youre right…………..
me at 8: but what if you gave it a hug?
me at 31: but what if you gave it a hug?
The neurodivergent reaction to bad and mean creatures: but what if someone loved this unlovable thing? Maybe it would be possible for me, also a strange and burdensome and unlovable thing, to be loved as well?
If you have achieved something, please remember to observe a mandatory period of basking in the warm glow of your achievement like a lizard on a stone, lest you teach your brain that effort is futile, actually, because it didn’t get to enjoy its happy chemicals, so, naturally, nothing good ever comes of trying. (And no, avoiding punishment is not a reward!)
I recommend, like, 5% of basking time in relation to whatever time you invested into achieving the thing minimum. And if you can’t make your own bask, friend-brought is fine (= tell your friends!).
Concept: Depressing dystopian factory where everything is gray and samey and the workers are called by their employee numbers by an ominous deep voice.
But it’s a really great place to work with high salaries, excellent benefits, and a flexible working schedule with plenty of paid leave. They just like the dystopian aesthetic.
PA system: Worker 72094. Leave your working station and report to the Supervisor immediately.
Supervisor: Worker 72094. You failed to meet your quota for 3 weeks in a row now.
Worker 72094: I can explain!
Supervisor:You’re clearly burned out. I heard you moved recently. Take a mandatory two weeks paid vacation to readjust and report to me then.
Worker 72094: I… thank you?
Shadowy Board Member: Worker 11335. Do you know why you were summoned?
Worker 11335: Is it because I badmouthed the company during lunch?
Shadowy Board Member: That is correct. We are very displeased, Worker 11335…
Shadowy Board Member: …with ourselves, that is. We hold ourselves to high standards of excellence which we clearly failed to meet. We were hoping you could advise us on necessary improvements. You will receive appropriate compensation, of course.
Job Interviewer: *wearing a featureless mask and speaking through a voice changer* Welcome to Hopeless Inc., Worker 100100.
Worker 100100: What’s with the mask?
Job Interviewer: I’m shy 🤭
Of course. All Hopeless Inc. employees are due-paying members of Mindless Drones United.
It’s a very responsive union that cares about its members on an individual level. They just love the dystopian hivemind aesthetic.
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