Kinda reminds me of dinitrophenol (DNP), another miracle weight loss pill that converted stored calories to heat.

Works great up until it literally cooks you to death.

This new method of converting white fat to brown fat to heat sounds like it’s in that same neighborhood.

If it works, cool! But be cautious if you see a bottle of some shit claiming to do this at your local pharmacy.

Bottom row, second from the left… is she holding a helicopter toy? The propeller-blades-on-a-stick type thing?

Has there been any evidence that they understood things like generating lift? I’d have guessed that came WAY later.

Or is this a drawing of some kind of paddle or something that has nothing to do with flight?

Speaking to Ardin over Zoom in Stockholm…

That place does seem to have a certain effect on people.

That entire game is fucking nuts. Pretty sure all of the dev crew was riding an LSD high through the entirety of its creation.

Video game music, especially for the less popular ones like Jetforce Gemini or weird shit like Okage.

Alumium came before that!

…shoulda just left it at that.

Rice Paddy - little hole-in-the-wall Thai take out restaurant in Marquette (upper peninsula). Best Thai food I’ve had to-date.

Grain of salt: this was over a decade ago, so no idea if they’re run by the same people / to the same quality today. Or if that building is even still standing.

/shrug

Yea once you know why it looks off, it switches from uncanny to plain ol creepy. At least, subjectively for me it does - idk if that uncertainty is definitively a criteria for uncanny valley, but that’s what makes it a distinct experience from creepiness imo.

I’ve always understood it as the perception that something isn’t quite right (usually with a person, but I’ve seen it used in non-human contexts too) without being able to immediately describe why.

A great example is Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One - the actor who played him on the original trilogy died in 1994, so they just deep-faked him into the scenes he was needed. When I saw Rogue One initially, I didn’t know that actor was dead, and didn’t connect the dots that even if he wasn’t dead, he’d look like a zombie this many years after filming the OT… but in Rogue One, he just looked like Tarkin. Mostly. The scenes that featured him gave a kind of uncomfortable “what the hell is wrong with that guy” feeling, but I still didn’t connect the dots and couldn’t put my finger on why it looked so wrong.

Then later I learned is was a deep-fake, and now it just looks like a deep-fake; the uncanny valley sensation went away once I finally understood why he looked the way he did.

The internet is full of creepy looking ‘examples’ of uncanny valley, but they’re all shit imo, cuz they’re all just blatantly creepy shit; well beyond the uncertainty that goes along with uncanny valley.