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Dewgy posted:What flavour is it? Looks like teriyaki.
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Pastry of the Year posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TTEWRKnRC0 They had to hire someone to record those messages, in order to have them ready to go. I wonder what that would have been like for the person they hired. Going through life, knowing that you're the official voice of the end of the world, thanks to an old recording you did for some extra money however many years ago. I wonder what it would have been like for their kids if it happened.
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Dec 11, 2017 15:06
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Goon Danton posted:They had to hire someone to record those messages, in order to have them ready to go. I wonder what that would have been like for the person they hired. Going through life, knowing that you're the official voice of the end of the world, thanks to an old recording you did for some extra money however many years ago. I wonder what it would have been like for their kids if it happened. I had a very similar line of thought on that subject. According to the info uploaded with the video, the voiceover was read by Floyd Brown, who had been working in Chicago radio for decades when this tape was recorded in 1985. I prefer to think about the task of recording that message is that it was done by a consummate professional who must have known, on some level, that hearing this, of all messages, from a familiar voice would have had been... reassuring? Calming?
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Dec 11, 2017 15:24
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Pastry of the Year posted:Edited to add: A short account of the Emergency Broadcast System activating in error in early 1971. The scanned images of the received teletypes are chilling. "Hatefullness" is a bit on the nose.
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Dec 11, 2017 15:28
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tight aspirations posted:"Hatefullness" is a bit on the nose. Isn't it? Here's a recording (well, two, but I've queued it up to the one I think is more interesting) of radio station WCCO out of Minneapolis/St. Paul at the time that message came across the wire, and then the later retraction and explanation. It's a fascinating listen, and a bit of an emotional roller coaster, and the way the announcer says "hatefulness, hatefulness" when reading the retraction from NORAD is... well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B1EAeh6H_I&t=355s e: this video is actually worth listening to from the beginning, though Pastry of the Year has a new favorite as of 15:53 on Dec 11, 2017 |
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Dec 11, 2017 15:38
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Aesop Poprock posted:Wait like... albatrosses like the birds? I guess I wasn't aware they attack humans. Are there any birds that aren't horrible monsters? Albatrosses have hated and feared sailors ever since the time of the Ancient Mariner. They exact their revenge whenever they can.
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Dec 11, 2017 15:43
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Solice Kirsk posted:Looks like teriyaki. It's a bird, innit? It's a bloody sea bird ...it's not any bloody flavour. Albatross!
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Dec 11, 2017 17:23
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Albagross imo!
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Solice Kirsk posted:I think that's the only "ship disaster" that killed more people on land than at sea. Texas City did too.
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Phanatic posted:Texas City did too. See also: Port Chicago Disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster
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Pastry of the Year posted:Isn't it? What's weird about this recording is it means someone was taping the radio, probably to reel to reel tape since compact cassettes weren't good enough quality yet, and then sat on it until recently enough it could be put on YouTube. Even if it was from an official archive at the station, that's pretty impressive.
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Dec 12, 2017 01:23
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Phanatic posted:Texas City did too. MightyJoe36 posted:See also: Port Chicago Disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster You guys just haaaaad to prove me wrong eh? Is there any boat disaster that didn't cause more victims on land than at sea?! 
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Dec 12, 2017 02:10
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You could argue the Lusitania ultimately killed more at land than on sea.
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Goon Danton posted:They had to hire someone to record those messages, in order to have them ready to go. I wonder what that would have been like for the person they hired. Going through life, knowing that you're the official voice of the end of the world, thanks to an old recording you did for some extra money however many years ago. I wonder what it would have been like for their kids if it happened. The UK version of this was Patrick Allen, who voiced the Protect and Survive public information films. When they were recording Two Tribes, Frankie Goes To Hollywood hired him to deliver the lines “Mine is the last voice that you will ever hear. Do not be alarmed.” Rascar Capac has a new favorite as of 02:56 on Dec 12, 2017 |
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Rascar Capac posted:The UK version of this was Patrick Allen, who voiced the Protect and Survive public information films. When they were recording Two Tribes, Frankie Goes To Hollywood hired him to deliver the lines “Mine is the last voice that you will ever hear. Do not be alarmed.” Did they deliberately choose the creepiest possible sounds for the little ending jingle?
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Dec 12, 2017 04:26
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Someone posted this interview with people who make extremely creepy childrens videos on youtube that are basically pedo fetish videos in the internet critics thread. I think it fits this thread waay better. https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/youtubers-made-hundreds-of-thousands-off-of-bizarre-and?utm_term=.jh8m0EzJRj#.ondawLX43J'0
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Although that article makes the whole thing less creepy IMO. Still interesting to know that it was basically just people who saw the algorithms and saw a way to get rich quick
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Dec 12, 2017 06:09
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A Pinball Wizard posted:Did they deliberately choose the creepiest possible sounds for the little ending jingle? Possibly! The famous "attention signal" used by EBS and its replacement, EAS — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HlP2GHn_Ck — is a combination of 853 and 960 Hz tones that was specifically chosen because it has a near-visceral quality that's impossible to ignore. To this day, even if I hit play on a recording of that signal and know it's coming, I feel a flash of that awful shiver in my bones. Why they'd use a technique like that at the end of a such a broadcast, I can't imagine, except maybe to train audiences to pay attention to future broadcasts, and to cement in their minds an unconscious sense that this is to be Taken Seriously.
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Man for some reason those types of doomsday / end of the world messages and broadcasts scare me more than any horror movie, either the people who make those kinds of messages and warning sounds did a fantastic job or my brain just reacts unusually strongly to that type of thing.
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Tarantula posted:Man for some reason those types of doomsday / end of the world messages and broadcasts scare me more than any horror movie, either the people who make those kinds of messages and warning sounds did a fantastic job or my brain just reacts unusually strongly to that type of thing. It's the same reason that as a child I could watch A Nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play etc without a thought but the America's Most Wanted theme terrified me. Because it's real, and could actually happen and your mind knows it. That was entirely their point and so your reaction is not only expected but means you are a normal human being so congrats on not being a sociopath!
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Stairs posted:It's the same reason that as a child I could watch A Nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play etc without a thought but the America's Most Wanted theme terrified me. Because it's real, and could actually happen and your mind knows it. That was entirely their point and so your reaction is not only expected but means you are a normal human being so congrats on not being a sociopath! American's Most Wanted theme lol this is true terror https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnOeIFx3ML8
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Randaconda posted:American's Most Wanted theme lol
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Stairs posted:It's the same reason that as a child I could watch A Nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play etc without a thought but the America's Most Wanted theme terrified me. Because it's real, and could actually happen and your mind knows it. That was entirely their point and so your reaction is not only expected but means you are a normal human being so congrats on not being a sociopath! Unsolved Mysteries did it for me, that host is creeeeepy
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the EAS tones make me nauseous and I grew up hearing the tests once or twice a week since my parents had radios and TVs on everywhere all the time
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gently caress that sound, it still gives me knots in my stomach. I love how when the Emergency Broadcast System would come on and your heart would sink, but then some staticky voice would tell you it was a tornado or some poo poo and you would feel this deep relief that it was just a natural disaster and not the end of the world.
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I never really thought about the EAS announcer until the other day when I was listening to the radio and there was a test. I guess I thought it was a recording this whole time because it always sounded like the same guy to me. But this last test had a totally different voice, and to be honest I didn't like it! It sounded a little overly-dramatic how he was talking, like with weird pauses and too much inflection or something. I prefer the voice that sounds totally dispassionate and like it could be a robot talking.
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I think they have a guy on hand who can do the creepy robot voice live, like how whatsherface does the GladOS voice at cons. The few times I've heard a not-a-test one it was almost perfect robotvoice but with just enough hesitation to be able to tell it was a person reading a script live. Or maybe a guy reading into a vocoder, but definitely a person spoke the words at some point.
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Randaconda posted:American's Most Wanted theme lol Because of this damned show I, to this day, still somewhat believe that Billy the Kid lived through the shoot out and went on to be an old weird guy in Montana or wherever.
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Randaconda posted:American's Most Wanted theme lol These all being on Amazon Prime is the best thing ever.
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Robokomodo posted:These all being on Amazon Prime is the best thing ever.  I was not aware of that! I'm gonna make hot coco and binge watch tonight!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6UTAKMh4Jc The Jeffrey Dahmer Files, which interviews people close to the case like detectives and a neighbor. Apparently Dahmer offered the neighbor a sandwich and to this day she has no way of knowing whether or not she ate some human meat.
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I don't think Dahmer was into feeding other people his victims. Dude had to get severely hosed up to do the things he did and his whole thing was having his victims stay with him forever, not being sadistic to other people. Creepy, but I don't think she has much to worry about.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I don't think Dahmer was into feeding other people his victims. Dude had to get severely hosed up to do the things he did and his whole thing was having his victims stay with him forever, not being sadistic to other people. Creepy, but I don't think she has much to worry about. Also doesn't sound like he was into hetero sandwiches.
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Pick posted:Also doesn't sound like he was into hetero sandwiches. 
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Pastry of the Year posted:Possibly! The famous "attention signal" used by EBS and its replacement, EAS — gently caress that tone so hard. They use it here in the US (or at least in the western US?) for Amber Alerts and it's able to be pushed out to phones, so at any point during the day your phone could just go off with that horrific tone. Incredibly creepy if you're in a place with a bunch of people and you just suddenly hear that tone start blaring at almost max volume, or you're in a house with multiple people and it's late at night, with most of the lights off.
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In the case of an emergency, remember to Remain Indoors
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ishikabibble posted:gently caress that tone so hard. They use it here in the US (or at least in the western US?) for Amber Alerts and it's able to be pushed out to phones, so at any point during the day your phone could just go off with that horrific tone. Incredibly creepy if you're in a place with a bunch of people and you just suddenly hear that tone start blaring at almost max volume, or you're in a house with multiple people and it's late at night, with most of the lights off. Holy poo poo this happened to myself and at least two friends at Blizzcon this year. We were watching a movie, blazed out of our mind, when we got an Amber Alert in the middle of it. Three phones going off all at once, scared the poo poo out of us. It keeps going until you acknowledge the alert too, so you can't really just ignore it. I'm in MI by the way, but we get them out here too.
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Keru posted:In the case of an emergency, remember to Remain Indoors If you're in the US, other courses of action may be available to you.
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bean_shadow posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6UTAKMh4Jc Solice Kirsk posted:I don't think Dahmer was into feeding other people his victims. Dude had to get severely hosed up to do the things he did and his whole thing was having his victims stay with him forever, not being sadistic to other people. Creepy, but I don't think she has much to worry about. Yeah, Dahmer did horrible, horrible things that are unjustifiable, but the stuff that prompted his actions doesn't seem to be sadism*, and certainly not THAT kind of sadism where you get a kick out of making people do things they don't realize they're doing. Super hosed up people aren't always hosed up in the same ways.
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