VladTheImplier (u/VladTheImplier)

VladTheImplier commented on The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that never was polygon.com/2018/8/24/177... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd

glangdale · 7 years ago

That's just stupid. The Nazis, and Dracula, in case you haven't noticed, are the villains of their respective pieces.

Deciding that people who cut up women are in fact pretty fascinating and charismatic dudes "who had their reasons" is not exactly a new, intriguing setting to explore, unless you're a sophomoric ghoul.

In the media we are drowning in handsome genius-level IQ serial killers, as opposed to the sordid idiots that they are in real life. Thanks, no. There are a lot of thought experiments we could do; strangely, we seem to constantly come back to this one.

VladTheImplier · 7 years ago

It's a genre that keeps fascinating people who like that genre - what possibly twisted mind could do such horrible things? It's indeed an often taken and explored trope of fiction, certainly not for everyone. Also all of the Mafia themes: So many of the media on that hides the gruesome reality of recruiting people out of poverty to push them into a never ending circle of violence, with notorious killers that tortured their victims in much fashion like jack the ripper. (Think Richard Kuklinski, whose death count is without a doubt much higher than Jack The Ripper) And yet many of the fictional books, series and games portrait the Mafia as being about honour, family and pride. It's a fictional world that if made well enough is interesting to explore.

Probably that game wouldn't have been for me either as I despise torture porn akin to saw. But that doesn't mean, that this sort of fiction is inherently bad. Tasteless for sure, yet in a genre of a grotesque deep dive into a parallel universe where the gruesome and grotesque is justified by a mysterious, higher cause.

VladTheImplier commented on The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that never was polygon.com/2018/8/24/177... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd

glangdale · 7 years ago

There's something remarkably tone-deaf about ret-conning real murders of actual women (even to the extent of using their actual fucking names) as Pretty Awesome because they are actually vampires. I'm surprised that this concept got as far as it did.

"Many didn’t see an issue with using the real names of the murder victims, however. The agreement within the team was that if they could not develop an experience that was respectful of the history and the victims involved, then they wouldn’t do it."

Yes, I'm sure that turning a sexually-oriented thrill killing spree of powerless women into an interactive entertainment product was right on the verge of being "respectful". Maybe the scenes where you rip out the uteruses (uterii?) of the victims could be done in tasteful period-appropriate sepia?

VladTheImplier · 7 years ago

Many instances of media are giving a spin on horrible historical events for the sake of entertainment. These are never meant to be "tasteful". Does Wolfenstein condone the holocaust? All the Dracula books and movies make Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, a charismatic character, even though he murdered so many innocent people in such a cruel way just to secure his position.

They do put a tasteless twist on a horrible event - that makes this thought experiment so intriguing as a setting to explore. What if the Nazis won? What if Vlad The Impaler was an interesting and charismatic person, what if JackTheRipper was a hero under cover. It's all stupid, but interesting at the same time. That does not mean they disrespect history.

VladTheImplier commented on The Internet Trolls Have Won. Sorry, There’s Not Much You Can Do nytimes.com/2018/08/08/te... · Posted by u/dredmorbius

f_allwein · 7 years ago

> our faith in the internet may erode until we distrust it as much as we do TV news

strange comparison from a European perspective, as TV news are seen as balanced and trustworthy (at least in UK and Germany, where I lived).

VladTheImplier · 7 years ago

How did you come to this conclusion? In Germany survey after survey shows some deep mistrust. Between 40%-60% depending on where and how the survey took place describe mainstream media as "not trustworthy", whilst a certain survey asked for malicious intent specifically and 20% agrees with the notion main stream media is manipulating the public with false information on certain topics.

Source: https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Das-Vertrauen-in-Medien-ist...

VladTheImplier commented on Domain tasting en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom... · Posted by u/imdsm

sofaofthedamned · 7 years ago

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VladTheImplier · 7 years ago

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VladTheImplier commented on Cinematic rendering – an alternative to volume rendering for 3D CT (2016) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/xo5vik

riahi · 8 years ago

Are there any physicians on here that find these renders useful? As a radiology resident, I often prefer reading from the source images, as the whole point is to see inside a patient, rather than provide some partial surface rendering.

Non-radiologists seem to love these sorts of images, but I don't think they are all that helpful.

VladTheImplier · 8 years ago

They are where form and contour matters, which you can't always deduce from a orthographic 3 Panel view. In my current case the form and thickness variation of nerves in Parkinson's patients is looked at and analyzed. Since nerve curve through space like worms, looking at curvature in raw image data is unpractical, especially since it's not always apparent whether you look at the cross section at an angle.

VladTheImplier commented on Cinematic rendering – an alternative to volume rendering for 3D CT (2016) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/xo5vik

VladTheImplier · 8 years ago

This is very interesting, the amount of rendering complexity they pull from volume data is nothing short of impressive. Having never ventured beyond Orthogonal projections for pseudo 3D in my work, this is some fresh air. But it's rather useless as a standalone technology. Much of the appeal comes from pulling color and using it to render from segmented volume data, which is rarely the case in the field. "Scattering effects are modelled using a local gradient shading model" This can mess with perception, if done incorrectly, especially where precision is spares like Volumetric data pulled from Ultrasound, not to mention such a rendering model in non segmented data sets is questionable. But one hell of a tool to convince a board meeting of whatever.

VladTheImplier commented on Facebook data on 3M users Exposed theverge.com/2018/5/14/17... · Posted by u/melzarei

tw04 · 8 years ago

So... Title change request? 3M is a company, and that's the first thing I thought of reading this title. At the very least, the m should be lower case.

VladTheImplier · 8 years ago

Same

VladTheImplier commented on AMD Ryzen 7 2700X User Publishes Benchmarks and Overclocking Results wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-... · Posted by u/O_H_E

VladTheImplier · 8 years ago

Lovely news! This is my next CPU after many years of my trusty FX8350@4.8 GHz. Last time I waited for the second revision of the architecture to avoid the usual launch hurdles. Christmas is apparently coming in April this year.

VladTheImplier commented on You will be surprised to see how much Google tracks about you myactivity.google.com/ite... · Posted by u/ssahoo

on_and_off · 8 years ago

I have just installed OSMAnd to give it a try but well; there is a lot of features to cover :

- navigation

- address search (not the first time I hear it is awful in OSM)

- pictures of places

- live traffic data, both streets and public transportation

- great search (like gyms near me)

- colored points of interest on the map. Kind of an hidden feature but that's immensely useful when you know it is there and you don't know the city you are in.

- reviews

It might take 5 or 6 apps to replace it entirely.

As for inbox, their spam filter is top notch and I like the automatic tagging system.

edit : just started trying OSMAnd, wow it is extremely laggy on my high end phone.

VladTheImplier · 8 years ago

Ye, it is not as smooth in scrolling as GMaps, though more feature rich. If this bothers you, there is an app called Maps.Me. it is minimalistic, has smooth scrolling like Gmaps but not as feature rich as OSMand and has a non-free (as in freedom) map data service behind it.

But if performance of osmand bothers you, this is the place to go.

VladTheImplier commented on You will be surprised to see how much Google tracks about you myactivity.google.com/ite... · Posted by u/ssahoo

Splines · 8 years ago

Maps is the only thing I rely on - I would be welcome for a replacement.

VladTheImplier · 8 years ago

On Android there is OSMand and Openstreetmap in general. The only problem being that address search is not great and there is no context search. You can get an app called AddresstoGPS, which anonymously queries Google's search and let's you output GPS coordinates to OSMand or similar.

As for Google Mail - There are many great E-Mail hosters like ProtonMail, coupled with your favorite E-Mail client it has no downsides, unless you miss tight Google Products integration.