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a technique used in movies and videogames (especially fps, first-person-shooters) to make the game or movie seem much scarier than it is -- this effect is achieved by making the scene way darker than it needs to be, thus cloaking the presence and movement of monsters who are lurking in the background
sometimes bright, randomly flashing or sparking lights are added to sections of the scene to further heighten the tension
the use of nightmarevision in videogames began with Quake and continues on today... the recent movie Cloverfield used lots of nightmarevision which made certain scenes eerier and scarier, but also helped the director/editor hide the cuts and transitions in the supposedly single-shot pseudo-handheld video sequences... further scariness was achieved by switching from total darkness to nightvision in one scene, allowing the actors to see a little bit in the total dark, thus making nightvision a special form of nightmarevision
a similar concept to nightmarevision is spookyvision, first used on the tv show South Park for one of their Halloween specials... spookyvision uses the visage of Barbra Streisand, rather than darkness, to enhance the scariness of scenes
sometimes bright, randomly flashing or sparking lights are added to sections of the scene to further heighten the tension
the use of nightmarevision in videogames began with Quake and continues on today... the recent movie Cloverfield used lots of nightmarevision which made certain scenes eerier and scarier, but also helped the director/editor hide the cuts and transitions in the supposedly single-shot pseudo-handheld video sequences... further scariness was achieved by switching from total darkness to nightvision in one scene, allowing the actors to see a little bit in the total dark, thus making nightvision a special form of nightmarevision
a similar concept to nightmarevision is spookyvision, first used on the tv show South Park for one of their Halloween specials... spookyvision uses the visage of Barbra Streisand, rather than darkness, to enhance the scariness of scenes
"Do you like that new fps you just got?"
"No. I couldn't set the gamma up high enough to see shit. Those asshole game writers kept the whole first level in nightmarevision, even when I got to the Boss. And it wasn't all that scary, the nightmarevision just made it hard to see or do anything. I'm like what the fuck? I think I just kissed off forty fuckin bucks."
"No. I couldn't set the gamma up high enough to see shit. Those asshole game writers kept the whole first level in nightmarevision, even when I got to the Boss. And it wasn't all that scary, the nightmarevision just made it hard to see or do anything. I'm like what the fuck? I think I just kissed off forty fuckin bucks."
by dsimms April 25, 2008
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by dsimms May 26, 2008
Get the WBF mug.The Borg known as Seven of Nine on the Star Trek Voyager TV series. Played by actress Jeri Ryan.
Also called "36 of D" by those who are nearsighted, inexperienced, or don't know a great handful when they see it.
Also called "36 of D" by those who are nearsighted, inexperienced, or don't know a great handful when they see it.
"Hell yeah I'd do 44 of D, I mean Seven of Nine. With or without her Borg gear. Uhhh... do you think it's really true about her metal pussy teeth?"
by dsimms May 10, 2008
Get the 44 of D mug.The term "porn princess" is a polite diminutive retrograde form of the more widespread term "porn queen". It does not imply her behavior is any less lewd or immoral or kinky.
"...Jenna Jameson wants the world to officially remember her for her iconic porn princess name. Earlier this week the knocked-up starlet filed legal papers to become 'Jenna Jameson' and permanently move on from her birth name, Jenna Marie Massoli."
-- from Rumorficial Celebrity Gossip, Nov. 2008
-- from Rumorficial Celebrity Gossip, Nov. 2008
by dsimms January 11, 2009
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when doing a web search on a particular topic nowadays, especially on Google, it becomes increasingly common to have 70% or more of your search results on the first few pages be blog links, most of which are utterly useless
this occurs because gazillions of blog writers babble about a gazillion-squared rambling topics, most of which end up on big blog web pages with hundreds of other non-sequiter references to other blogs in big inane mish-mashes of links and buzz words
other blog writers then link to those blog pages, noting that so-and-so commented on whats-his-name's comment about joe-blow's timely blog on such-and-such a topic
link amplifiers like digg and technorati and gawker just compound the goo and inanity
now, when the major search engine spiders crawl all of these blog pages, and blog pages about blog pages, they see all of these links and crosslinks, thus artificially boosting the blog pages to higher search engine status, thus crowding out legitimate search responses
capiche?
a simple fix would be if Google and the other search engines identified blog pages as different from regular web content pages, and gave the user the option of viewing search results comprised of no blog results, all blog results, or both
when doing a web search on a particular topic nowadays, especially on Google, it becomes increasingly common to have 70% or more of your search results on the first few pages be blog links, most of which are utterly useless
this occurs because gazillions of blog writers babble about a gazillion-squared rambling topics, most of which end up on big blog web pages with hundreds of other non-sequiter references to other blogs in big inane mish-mashes of links and buzz words
other blog writers then link to those blog pages, noting that so-and-so commented on whats-his-name's comment about joe-blow's timely blog on such-and-such a topic
link amplifiers like digg and technorati and gawker just compound the goo and inanity
now, when the major search engine spiders crawl all of these blog pages, and blog pages about blog pages, they see all of these links and crosslinks, thus artificially boosting the blog pages to higher search engine status, thus crowding out legitimate search responses
capiche?
a simple fix would be if Google and the other search engines identified blog pages as different from regular web content pages, and gave the user the option of viewing search results comprised of no blog results, all blog results, or both
by dsimms April 21, 2008
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grey goo search results consisting mostly of blog links that have nothing to do with the topic you're interested in
what's worse is when the link is to some blog that links to some other blog, and only came up in the search results because it has your search topic as a meaningless buzz word or the name of some blogger
example: you want to find information on herpes, and some blog wonk has the name Herpes, so the first 200 search results are links to _other_ peoples' blogs that point to Herpes' blogs, and are of the form: "on April 20, Herpes commented on Britney's breakup with Justin", or "Herpes said in his blog yesterday he's gonna vote for Obama"
grey goo search results consisting mostly of blog links that have nothing to do with the topic you're interested in
what's worse is when the link is to some blog that links to some other blog, and only came up in the search results because it has your search topic as a meaningless buzz word or the name of some blogger
example: you want to find information on herpes, and some blog wonk has the name Herpes, so the first 200 search results are links to _other_ peoples' blogs that point to Herpes' blogs, and are of the form: "on April 20, Herpes commented on Britney's breakup with Justin", or "Herpes said in his blog yesterday he's gonna vote for Obama"
by dsimms April 21, 2008
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