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Internet Kraken posted:He's literally made a career out of looking creepy because of it. I think most people would disagree here. There are actually a few actors that have made careers out of the fact that they have weird genetic defects that make them look all creepy and weird. There's one guy that basically looks like a goblin.  There is no makeup involved. The guy genuinely looks like that. He isn't an A-list actor but the main thing that gets him work is that his resume includes "looks really loving weird." Apparently in most of his appearances they don't put makeup on him they just put him in front of a camera and that's that. His name is Michael Berryman, by the way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Berryman You've probably seen him in at least one movie.
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Choco1980 posted:Then there's the very recently deceased Robert Z'Dar: He probably got a lot of work because of it, really. It's like acromegaly; it gives a person a specific look that works well for certain roles. Like basically everybody that's ever played Lurch has had acromegaly.
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Zopotantor posted:Giger It's Giger we're talking about. This is a guy that can somehow make a thing that's a machine, a leg, a penis, a vagina, and a set of breasts all at the same time.
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Basking sharks are very similar to whales but are fish instead of mammals. They and whale sharks are shaped like sharks and are, in fact, fish but behave more like whales.
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Beige posted:If the former is true (I'm not convinced) then it must have been one hell of a photo shoot to convince a child to lay down or sleep in the arms of their father's corpse. Have you considered, perhaps, that they are all alive and we are the dead ones?
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Milo and POTUS posted:Context? Suburbia is literally Hell.
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For those that don't know, if you want a creep story to go with a creepy picture, that's literally this: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-093
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RudeCat posted:Oh, is that how it works? I always assumed that they had to be monitored and taken away. That's really cool. Depends on the kind of maggot you use. There are maggots that will eat either fresh or rotten meat. You can use them to debride wounds but those ones you have to monitor and get rid of before they start eating the not dead flesh. Of course there are in fact maggots that only eat not dead flesh so you very much don't want to use those. As an aside because nature is nature there are also maggots that feed exclusively on other maggots. Incidentally this is why forensic entomology exists; you can tell about how long something has been dead down to the hour by looking at what is currently eating it. There are things that start gathering whenever they notice something dying so they can lay their eggs pretty much as soon as it stops moving while there are other things that wait until the corpse is almost gone to dive into the leftovers. ToxicSlurpee has a new favorite as of 12:13 on Apr 26, 2019 |
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Scathach posted:Syphilis. It used to kill tons of people and supposedly evolved so it's not such a fast-killing thing. Hard to infect another host if you keep killing them before they can make another person sick. Usually the nastiest, killiest viruses don't evolve in whatever it is they're killing. This is why things like swine flu are so nasty; human flu doesn't want to kill you for exactly that reason so it usually doesn't unless you're dealing with some other issue. Mostly you'll just have a lovely few days or a week or two and then you'll be fine. Same with swine flu for pigs; it doesn't do much other than make them miserable for a while and then they're fine. But when swine flu mutates just enough to infect a human it isn't where it belongs so it fucks you up really badly. HIV succeeded in spreading because it takes so long to kill its host but really doesn't have much effect early on. The current thought is that it originated in chimps and somebody hunted and ate a chimp that was infected with a version that mutated just enough to jump species. It really doesn't do a lot to chimps but fucks up humans really badly.
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Speaking of more or less harmless horror bugs may I present to you the dobsonfly, otherwise know as the hellgrammite? The adult form of it is rarely seen. They spend most of their lives as big, gross larva that live under rocks in the river and eat other creepy crawlies so most people never encounter them at all. This makes sightings of adults uncommon even where they live in large numbers as they don't stray far from the river. They don't live long as adults; while their larval lifespan is in the years adults don't even eat. They only live a week or two as that's just long enough to gently caress and die. Needless to say when they come out you occasionally get somebody posting a WHAT THE gently caress IS THIS THING? OH MY GOD IT'S AWFUL post on bug and/or image forums. Why? These things are huge. They're often as long as your hand. This one is a male; you can tell because of its huge mandibles. It uses those to latch on to the female when they mate. They're too big to actually be useful in hurting things. Females have more functional mandibles that can potentially deliver a nasty bite but even then adults are generally pretty docile. Once they've done their business they're just waiting to die so they don't tend to cause actual problems other than scaring the crap out of people.
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Zopotantor posted:Japanese bees do. European bees never learned that trick. I think there are some species of bee that overheat at the same temperature that the hornets do. In the case of Japanese bees and hornets the bees overheat and die at only a couple of degrees more than the hornets but because the hornets are so huge bees can swarm them as individuals instead of fighting swarm to swarm. So it's kind of a confluence of things all coming together and then the bees going "yeah gently caress these guys it's overheat o'clock." The bees will tend to take a bunch of casualties along the way but they fight it as a war of attrition. If the hive survives and all the attacking hornets die then it's bees 1, hornets 0.
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