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RacerX Gullwing
Magic Rabbit
Join date: 18 Jun 2004
Posts: 371
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12-02-2005 01:24
I see text sometimes when I slam my head on the keyboard
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Hiro Pendragon
bye bye f0rums!
Join date: 22 Jan 2004
Posts: 5,905
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12-02-2005 01:35
I see text sometimes when I slam my head on the keyboard Yer supposed to read with your eyes, not your face  _____________________
Hiro Pendragon
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Alan Kiesler
Retired Resident
Join date: 29 Jun 2004
Posts: 354
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12-02-2005 02:28
Actually it's the sound of the space/time continuum unzipping... but this embarrasses space/time and we struggle a bit before I manage to get through. Later, (or possibly earlier, or even not at all) Type40 (highly modified) Heh. Nice to meet ya Compassion.  As to Hiro's mention of a theramin in the theme, I've heard just about all of them (including a couple that did not make the cut as well as several home made ones - ah, the legal uses of Napster ). I believe the original form of the theme was made using a 'glass organ' and later added slight mods when it became digitally sampled. Can't think of anything off the top of my head that used something like a theramin, but I've not been near the series in a bit.Now, to get back on topic (Sorry Jeska et al.  ): Though it is possible with the technology to carefully 'embed' advertizing in SL to the point of it being subliminal, its *much* easier to do the traditional embedding that you'll see today with TV series and such. Good example is to hand off a copy of your item to someone who gets around SL a lot... _____________________
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DoteDote Edison
Thinks Too Much
Join date: 6 Jun 2004
Posts: 790
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12-04-2005 13:10
The subliminal floating text appears when there is floating text directly in your 'reverse' line of sight. You can force the effect by standing with you back to a wall of vendors with floating text. The closer you are, the easier to get the text into view. Also, you can mousescroll your view as far as it goes, position yourself so that floating text is dead center of your screen, then scroll closer to your av, and the text will remain visibale.
So, it's a bug, but to see it, you need to be positioned just right. I haven't tested the maximum distance the effect works, but I've seen it from about 30-40m in front of the vendor with floating text. |
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Belaya Statosky
Information Retrieval
Join date: 3 Jun 2004
Posts: 552
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12-04-2005 14:11
Wow, this rises potential of some serious mind-f***ing. the original Exorcist movie in theaters had subliminal images of death hidden in the movie, and people were leaving the theatter, vomitting, etc, where after the movie had the images removed this did not happen -- proof that subliminal imaging has a real effect on people. That's an incorrect allegation against the film at the time. The scenes in question were no more subliminal that modern jump-cut editing used in films like Fight Club, Seven and other 'edgy' films. The shots in question in the Exorcist were simply a gaunt demon-like figure in a lot of white grease-paint makeup scowling and it was VERY visible and apparent, so that's hardly subliminal, since the point of a subliminal message is that it's not something you can peceive. Really, Wikipedia can better explain how most consider subliminal messages to be a load of bunk than I feel like typing out. |
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Joseph Proudfoot
Proud Tsalagi
Join date: 2 Sep 2004
Posts: 234
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12-04-2005 15:49
Those are things that sell in Second Heaven, go toward the light!!!!
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Ceera Murakami
Texture Artist / Builder
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
Posts: 7,750
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12-08-2005 12:56
The subliminal floating text appears when there is floating text directly in your 'reverse' line of sight. You can force the effect by standing with you back to a wall of vendors with floating text. The closer you are, the easier to get the text into view. Also, you can mousescroll your view as far as it goes, position yourself so that floating text is dead center of your screen, then scroll closer to your av, and the text will remain visibale. So, it's a bug, but to see it, you need to be positioned just right. I haven't tested the maximum distance the effect works, but I've seen it from about 30-40m in front of the vendor with floating text. Ah ha! So that is what it is! Yes, I can see that as possible. On the first instance, my back was to the Forest Store. It was quite far from me, and there were walls or ground between me and the store vendors, but the store was still on a line of sight that might be right. I'll have to try that for a known case, as you suggest. Very interesting bug! |