#empty shell

[downfalldestiny]

Empty thoughts 🖤 !.

#Current mood #empty shell #downfalldestiny #downfall #life #Pain #Tired #Struggle

[lone-sk]

Investing the $50 in my steam wallet into some weird and quirky indie titles, very excited

#fear and hunger #pseudoregalia #the coffin of andy and leyley #empty shell #im mostly excited for fear & hunger ngl #ive heard a lot of good stuff about it

[gothylizzie]

empty shell .

#bug #shell #empty shell #what bug is that? #it was still stuck to the tree which was pretty cool #fall #my pics

[neevedicampelli]

Deadwood

I think I must have died And just never realised Leaving a dead body behind I’m truly out of my mind I’m already dead inside I simply watch as time passes by As I hide From the great eye A tooth for a tooth An eye for an eye You can have both for free Should the pain make me feel less hollow inside I’m just an empty shell Stuck in this never-ending hell Dreaming I had wings Dreaming of so many…

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#dead inside #death #emptiness #empty shell #hollowness #mad #poem #Poetry

[backlogburner]

Reflection - EMPTY SHELL

As of writing, I've put an hour into EMPTY SHELL. Over the course of this period, I have cleared the first "level" and have made several attempts at the second. It's unlikely I'll ever make it past the second level, as my patience for the game's unforgiving design is spent. And while such a design paradigm is not unwelcome, it must be complemented by other qualities that compel me to keep fighting for the victory state.

The game is certainly visually atmospheric, but the audio design leaves much to be desired. The CRT monitor effect that permeates the audiovisual experience mutes and flattens all SFX drastically, which created a barrier for immersing myself in the environment. No suspense was ever felt, therefor investment in the player character was never experienced. This combined with the methodical approach demanded by the game lended itself to an overall unengaging experience.

Poor audiovisual design can however often be salvaged by good game feel, something I also felt was lacking. Gunplay was moderately satisfying, along with sprinting and dodging. Melee combat came with some frustrations, but the biggest gripe is the UI and menu navigation design. A brief monitor effect playing whenever opening the inventory or map was a source of major frustration for every play session. This was accompanied with awkward keybindings that were ill-suited the conventional WASD-Mouse hand placements.

Ultimately, these factors has compelled me to shelve the game for now. It would take a recommendation from a respected party for me to re-engage with the game, which doesn't seem all to likely given the relatively lacking media attention regarding the game. While the game delivered on what I anticipated for my first impressions, it failed to deliver an experience I was willing to engage with. But with all that said and done, another game may be struck from the backlog.

#reflection #empty shell

[torn2]

Beneath the skin, Cutting up the Dead, Morality

First don’t bother calling the police.

Second- this isn’t just clickbait.

Third: It’ll be part one

Have you ever stuck a pin in someone, a needle, a knife, not knife crime, I’m not talking criminal scary stuff, I’m talking about the other scary stuff. Sickness.

There are three main sides of the human body; it is amazing, it is gross and it is terrifying.

The first time I stood with a scalpel in my hand over a human being, I didn’t know whether to puke, faint or scream. But one thing I could not do was break the skin. It would take a leap of brain neurons, a deep breath and do it. And slowly we went around our table to each take the emotional, moral plunge. Slowly laying down a hand and peeling back the Cadaver. It was an art that I had never conceived. The outlining, the moving, the gentleness, the detail.

People do it for a job, making Cadavers into finished, clear specimens from which to learn anatomy.

I never learnt anatomy very well, but I realised how awesome, strong and fit for purpose the human body is. It is amazing and awe inspiring when everything has its own place. The immense jigsaw, that once disturbed is ridiculously hard to put back together again. I became good at dissecting and presenting.

This was decades ago. When I drew it all out, piece by piece. By that Halloween of 2001 mostly alone in a room full of 90 ish dead people on metal tables. In a basement with high up windows, bright internal fluorescent lights and heard kids walking past with the early sunset giggling. I wasn’t scared. These Cadavers wouldn’t hurt me. They were (very) dead, but also very human. Kind, thoughtful people who gave their bodies to medical research. People with families, friends, lives, loves. People who were still loved. The dead didn’t scare me. The dead don’t really scare me. I have had many friends die, and the only thing that scares me with its ferocity is my grief.

I can look in the eyes of someone who has died and see an empty pool, a nothingness. It is an intensely rewarding thing to be able to wash the newly dead, leave the body pristine for the family.

This Halloween I helped give ideas for a party for little kids. It’s always been not a time of scary pumpkins (because I’m better at cutting up fine things than large objects… slip, cut, drip, ‘different’ scary pumpkin). But since then it’s been a time of remembering those I love, who have died. And that’s been in the double digits for too long.

Then it reminds me again why we are so interesting. So amazingly made with all our organs like Jenga.

And no, I’m not a surgeon, I stayed with cutting up dead bodies. It is one of the most remarkable pieces of art I’ve ever participated in.

#dissection #art #cadaver #grief #halloween #remember #empty shell

[plaguedgoddess]

#nature provides beauty #nature #shell #empty shell #ground #tree #plants #scraps

[envymourn]

Oxy's are amazing ???? 😍😍😍

#NO PAIN #NO EMOTION #empty shell #why was i so afraid???? theyre fuxking perf #its only a 20 but yeah it hits bitch...fuck #insufflated it obviously #no burn or bad taste im in love

[harshr]

Thanks to White Light / White Heat for including "Seek Comfort" in their weekly picks.

#harsh r #seek comfort #empty shell #runoti #white light white heat #wl//wh #industrial #dark electronics #darkwave #dark synth

[hajdara]

#empty shell #funny #lol #laughter #funny pics #lmao

[aq2003]

ten is aroace for this one sorry society

#human ten is actually so. different. from normal ten. i really appreciate how he's portrayed as like #this empty shell of a person. past the surface level there's just kind of nothing underneath #he isn't selfless. and nowhere near as caring. like he's fine with kids growing up to be soldiers under his watch #he is like a blank wobbly sheet of paper. factoring in reading (normal) ten as aroace and this makes the point crunch in such a funny way #dr who #asexual #aromantic #tenth doctor #aroace #aspec doc tag #10 era

[bogleech]

Alien guy who's always on about his wife being an emotionless life sucking parasite and like "you know how it is with the females" so you think he's just an asshole until you find out more about his species and he meant it as affectionately as he did literally

#one day hes ranting about how women drill holes in your heart and leave you an empty shell #and someone else who knows is just like “jeez man keep it in your pants you're at work”

[backlogburner]

Currently playing - EMPTY SHELL

This post will have very little to do with the game itself and more to do with the depicted puzzle encountered within the game.

Last year I became very intrigued with a puzzle archetype I'd encountered many times over the years. The puzzle boils down to a number of inputs and outputs, of which one input maps to one or more outputs. Upon activating an input, any associated output will change state, be it a cyclical binary state or more complex. The objective of such a puzzle is usually achieving spesific configuration, i.e. lighting all lamps or aligning all platforms.

My facinations for these puzzles was sparked by the realization that linear algebra may be applied to solve such puzzles computationally. Binary puzzles were simple enough, each switch could be viewed as a binary string, which would be XOR'ed with the state upon activation. Any desired configuration could then be viewed as a linear combination of these binary strings, given it was within the "span" of the "basis". This line of logic suggested that more complex puzzles could be modeled with more complex algebraic and, more importantly, matrical operations.

At the time, I spent about a week looking into games with similar puzzles, doing back-of-the-napkin calculations and scripting small simulations to guide my reasoning along. While certain that similar work had already been done by folks more adept than me, the realization of "practical" applications for abstract mathematics is always a satisfying puzzle onto itself. Ultimately, as interest waned and external research turned out to be un-searchable, my facination settled.

Now, whenever I encounter such puzzles in games, I'm struck by a fleeting reminicence of intrigue, and faint bitterness for failing to make any practical headway in my quest. EMPTY SHELL roused these sensations with this take on the archetype, an acycical 8-state 5-input state puzzle. And while I briefly pondered ways to model this puzzle, I ultimately found my energy better spent writing this entry.

#currently #playing #empty shell

[lucidloving]

Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook" // Last Words of a Shooting Star— Mitski // Richard Siken, "Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light" // Julian Randall, "On the Night I Consider Coming Out to My Parents" // Helena Bonham Carter // @heavensghost

#theme: who have i become? #sometimes i feel like an empty shell of my old self #web weaving #webs #aesthetic #poetry #art #prose #prose poetry #collage #song lyrics #literature #books #book quotes #novels #novel quotes #quotes #words #reading #identity

[kiivg]

.“You know me, I can be impulsive.”.

#goro takemura #male v #cyberpunk 2077 #street kid v #takemura #v x Takemura #Takemura x v #gianluca Vargas #mxm #.noooobody told me that Takemura is like 60 years old?? all of you are in trouble for this!!. #.my heart says green but my canvas palette says no. #.I tried to draw takemura’s room but it’s so empty. #.and I feel like if he’s shelling out for half decent bedroom furniture he’s not going to have it cluttered. #.a sad day for me but HEY I heard him shout at me for rushing the room and not talking to him before Hanako :).

[clownery-and-fuckery]

EVERYONE HUSH AND THINK ABOUT TEch rushing off the Marauder after a mission but not because there's anything wrong he just found the prettiest rock and wanted to tell Phee all about it

And she takes it and they talk about the rock for hours and Tech(begrudgingly) let's her keep it because he liked the way she smiled at it more than the research he could do with it

And Phee turns it into a necklace for them. Two of them, matching. Techs never seen without it.

#head empty just Tech finding rocks and shells for Phee #and phee keeping every little one #god theyre so CUTE UGH #sw the bad batch #tbb tech #phee genoa #tech x phee