I’ve recently fallen in love with the dark world of Fear and Hunger (available on Steam) I and II. The game is known, among other things, for it’s retro pixel aesthetic and dark tones, so I thought it would be fun to see if I could generated photorealistic portraits of the characters of the game with Midjourney.
Fear and Hunger 2: Termina starts with the player having to choose between 8 playable characters. The character learns they have been forced by the trickster moon Good into the Termina festival along with 13 other contestants, the only way to survive is to be the only contestant left alive after three days.
Over the course of the game, you learn about the characters quirks, history, tribulations and personalities; making it natural to grow attached to them. Thought other fans would like to see a different interpretation of the characters we explored the world of Fear and Hunger 2 and Prehavil with.
Images were generated by feeding Midjourney the portrait prompt (left) along with a text prompt.
Abella, The Engineer
Marina, The Occultist
Karina, The Journalist
Ossa, The Yellow Mage
Daan, The Doctor
Levi, The Child Soldier
Olivia, The Botanist
Marcoh, The Boxer
Fear and Hunger 2: Termina – Movie style poster
I’ll be making more post with images of the other characters (Pav, Tanaka, The Kaiser) so be sure to subscribe to get the notification.
If you’ve read this far, I’m assuming you are a fan of the Fear and Hunger Games, so here’s a video for your entertainment from my gaming Youtube channel
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Animated version (Using Midjourney) of Isaac Asimov’s famous short story. Broken up into 6 chapters, each with a different visual style, the video is the complete short story which covers the entirety of time and space. Short story is known for the vastness covered in such a short narrative. How may entropy be reversed? How long would it take Multivac take to arrive at a answer for this last question?
Short story is broken up into 5 different chapters, each with a distinct visual motif: Chapter 1 – Adell and Lupov (Anime, ukiyo-e style)
Chapter 3 – VJ and Galactic AC (Film noir) (Music: Gerudo Valley – Malcura)
Chapter 4 – Zee Prime (Ancient Mediterranean) (Music: The Best is yet to come – Metal Gear solid)
Chapter 5 – The End of time – (Signalis / Ethereal style) (Music: Die Toteninsel – Signalis)
I had a ton of fun making this video. I did get the interesting mention in the comments on Youtube regarding that i was using AI generating imagery to animate a video about a super computer gaining sentience, adding a meta level to the video. Thought that was really interesting.
If for some reason you’d like to take the story in via vertical format, you can see all of the shorts from the video that have been published so far:
In this video we go over the basics of what are particle accelerators, why they are built for, how physicist use them to probe and push the boundaries of quantum and particle physics, and how particle accelerators are able to generate tiny amounts of antimatter.
Particle accelerators are massive underground facilities that accelerate beams of particles curved by magnetic fields until they collide inside of a detector, which is able to study and collect data from the high energy colliions.
The largest and most powerful current particle accelerator is the Large Hadron Collider operated by CERN, outside of Geneva, Switzerland. Previously it used to be the Tevatron operated by Fermilab in Illinois, USA.
Link: https://youtu.be/B1SMoZy5x74 The Doomsday clock is a representation of how dangerous or unstable global affairs are. It is run by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientist after their first detonation of an atomic weapon in 1945, and is meant to educate the world about the dangers that we face as a society.
Many scientist that were involved with the Manhattan Project (such as Oppenheimer and Einstein) came out after the end of World War 2 to warn the world of the destructive power of these new nuclear weapons, and their threat to civilization.
In current times, the clock is set to 90 seconds to midnight, moved forward by the illegal and cruel Russian invasion and occupation of Ukraine, along with the increasing impact of climate change, and disrupting the era of Pax Americana in the Western led world.
We are currently at about 1.2C above preindustrial levels. The tipping point is thought to be between 1.5C and 2C degree increase. Crossing the tipping point will let loose runaway effects as even more CO2 and greenhouse gasses are released into the atmosphere due to natural processing as a result of heating.
The 2nd half of the 21st century is likely to be defined by climate induced civil and international strife, as the impacts of climate change get stronger and stonger. Thank you for watching. Any shares and likes really help out a small channel. There should be a notice underneath the video for some more sources provided by Youtube. Please check them out to learn more. Otherwise there You can check out my other videos @tacobanana_forever Music from Silent Hill “Theme of Laura”
I ended up browsing the NASA press release section of their website, and found an interesting report that asked NASA’s Space Nuclear Systems division to present a report on the feasibility and future of nuclear power in future space missions. The future of nuclear power in space. In short, NASA will be relying on nuclear power technologies as they venture further and further from the Earth, on longer and longer missions. A first crewed human mission to Mars is expected to take about 700 to 900 days. What viable options do we have to power the ship, when increasing distance from the sun reduced the efficiency of solar panels? On Mars, the solar flux density is 1/3 that of Earth.
The answer is modular nuclear power. We can expect that the first permanent moon base, the first expedition to Mars and the first Mars base to all use nuclear power, due to the it’s energy density and much smaller mass requirements when compared to fossil fuels and solar energy.
Wolfgang Pauli was one of the great minds of the late 1800’s early 1900’s, during the which our theoretical understanding of the physical universe was making leaps and bounds. Pauli was alive at the same times as Eistein, Schrondinger, Heisenberg, Curie, and the many many other attendants of the Salvoy Conference.
Pauli was the first person to use the concepts of conservation of mass and energy to posit that there is a theoretical particle that must be emitted during certain forms of nuclear decay. I covered this in my recent neutrino video, but what I find most curious is that a youtube short I made from this video has become of the favorites that the algorithm seems to push. I’m always so curious about what is chosen/rejected by the different social media algorithms, but of course, the inner workings of them must be kept secret by the corporations. It would likely ruin the viewing experience if creators at large were able see exactly how social media algorithms (Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok) worked.
Continuing with my excuse to read up on the crazy stuff in space, have a new video, on Black Holes, one of the most mysterious and the darkest objects in the universe.
Black holes represents an oddity in space and the universe, they are singularities of mass. Representing points of immensely high density that is able to completely warp and break the law of physics and space time. Their massive gravitational fields make it so that no light, object or anything can escape the gravitational field of a black hole.
In this video, we’ll go over the basics of what black holes are, their physics, what types of black holes exists, the closest super massive black hole (Sagittarius A), Hawking radiation, Neutron Stars and their connection with black holes, Black holes in the media, how telescopes like the James Webb help, neutrinos and black holes, quasars (quasi stellar radio sources), and lastly, what happens if you fall into black holes.
I personally find black holes mesmerizing and fascinating due to how little we know about them, and how our understanding of physics and science breaks down when space time is so warped by intense gravitational field. The mass they represent is mind bogglingly huge, with super massive black hole can have masses beyond 1 billion solar masses!
So join us on a overview of what we know about the Darkest Objects in the universe, these mysterious singularities formed through space.
On the left, an optical image from the Digitized Sky Survey shows Cygnus X-1, outlined in a red box. Cygnus X-1 is located near large active regions of star formation in the Milky Way, as seen in this image that spans some 700 light years across. An artist’s illustration on the right depicts what astronomers think is happening within the Cygnus X-1 system. Cygnus X-1 is a so-called stellar-mass black hole, a class of black holes that comes from the collapse of a massive star. New studies with data from Chandra and several other telescopes have determined the black hole’s spin, mass, and distance with unprecedented accuracy.Image converted using ifftoany
What is dark energy? What is this mysterious and secretive force of nature and science? Why are the stars and the galaxies racing away from us? Will humanity ever be able to leave the solar system? How does the grand finale of Cixin Liu’s Death End hold up to scientific review?
Edwin Hubble, as a young scientist returning from the Great War noticed that in all of his observations of space, stars and galaxies seems to be moving away from us. Every celestial body measured through red shift showed acceleration away from the solar system and the milky way galaxy. The discovery of the expansion of the universe lead to the formulation of the Hubble constant; which states that that further a celestial body is from the observer, the faster it will appear to move away from the observer due to the expansion of space-time, which lead to the one of the biggest discoveries in cosmology, the discovery of dark energy within of our universe.
Dark energy is the unseeable, untouchable and undetectable energy that humanity attributes the increasing acceleration of the universe to. The law gravity tells us that mass attracts, so universe should be deaccelerating and eventually lead to the Big Crunch, and yet everything is accelerating and might one day lead to the Big Rip. How did mass get so concentrated during the Big Bang? What happens when time goes to infinity? What happens if space time and the universe keep expanding until the end of time, until the heat death of the universe, what will happen to entropy in a infinitesimally large universe?
—————– Spoilers for Cixin Liu’s “Death’s End”, the last novel of the Rememberance of Earth’s Past Series, also known as “The Three Body Problem” ———————————————————– Spoilers ——- I have tried
After talking about the science, the video goes into the choices that Cheng Xin and Guang Yi Fang have to make at the end of Death’s End, which would decide the fate of the universe in the far away year of 18,906,416 BC. Would they return the needed matter back to their original universe, from the Trisolaran made pocket dimension. What choices would the last remnants of humanity make? Eventually Cheng Xin and Guang Yi Fan decide they must do the right thing, that in spite of how incomprehensible this universe is, they want to return the mass of their pocket dimension back to the universe. Making the universe whole again, and allowing the universe to collapse in upon itself, leading to another Big Bang, and thus allowing the universe to reset itself. Allowing for the great cycle to continue, for the great wheel to keep turning, for the universe to regenerate and reconstitute itself and allowing life to spring forth again. Hoping that maybe next time things will be better in the Dark Forest. Death’s end is the final of the three books in Cixin Liu’s Three Body Problem (Also known as “The Rememberance of Earth’s Past Saga). The first and second books in the series are “The Three Body Problem” and the magnificent “The Dark Forest”. Winner of the prestigious Hugo Award for Sci fi. A new thrilling and fascinating look at horror and physics. The struggle between the humans and the trisolarans for the control of the solar system. How would Earth and its greatest minds deal with the impeding doom of such an advanced alien race living in the star closest to us.
I highly recommend the Three Body Problem series if you are into SciFi, my personal favorite read of 2022. Netflix is producing a live action adaptation of the first book “The Three Body Problem”, let’s hope they don’t botch it.
Since I had downloaded it for the video, I had a bunch of fan art and media for Three Body Problem, so I figured I’d upload it here since they are pretty.
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