Horrors of the deep

[v.dog]

Splicers, Big Daddies, and Little Sisters aren't the only horrors of the deep. There are creatures, real creatures, far worse than anything than you (http://www.oddweek.com/item_79915.aspx) can (http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living_species/default.asp?hab=9) imagine (http://www.infochembio.ethz.ch/links/en/zool_fische_tiefseefisch.html).

The Stoplight loosejaw (http://www.infochembio.ethz.ch/links/en/zool_fische_tiefseefisch.html) is a personal favourite. :)

[Hatesink]

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/8804/atlanticfootballfishhimas0.jpg

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6121/bigfrogfishnt0.jpg

[Raveness]

Deep-sea creatures with particularily alien shapes and colors visually disturb me. I'm one who can only pleasantly handle humanoid or animal bodies, and get jarred by spiders, octopii, and anything else drastically different from our own physical formation.

It's not something I have a reason for, deep down there's probably some Freudian reasoning for it

These are some unsettling creatures of the briny deep:

GIANT ISOPOD:
http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/3743/gihcpe2.jpg

SPINY KING CRAB:
http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/9691/skhcas6.jpg

SEA SPIDER:
http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/9830/sshckn1.jpg

BENNETT from COMMANDO:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/RavenessM/random/jawsbennett.jpg

[Hatesink]

How does this grab you...

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7038/bluefingurnardbl6.jpg

[Rapture_Tourist]

Imagine those in your pool:

http://www.onlinepressezentrum.de/sealife/data/pic/200611081753520.Jap.%20Riesenkrabbe%202.JPG

Macrocheira kaempferi

Diameter (with legs): 3-4m

During summer, she lives in 300 m depth, during cold times in ~ 50m depth.

Ok, I cheated somehow..."Deep sea" begins in more than 800 m depth.

[splicer]

one of those reminds me of my daughters grandmother!:eek:

[Jeff]

I find myself more attracted to the odd creatures than the mundane ones, especially the various versions of deep sea octopii. That being said those giant isopods creep me the hell out, they're like lice that were mutated by genetic experimentation gone terribly awry.

[Hatesink]

How about this...

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/3008/scarybaw5.jpg

:p

[Jeff]

ever since I found out that 90% of the time a stiff shot to a shark's nose will send it running in the other direction, sharks have lost their shock value to me. This feeling would probably quickly return if I were in the ocean, surrounded by sharks.

[Hatesink]

Before BioShock, there came...

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/4551/sharkattack1kc1.jpg

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8681/sharkattack2gr2.jpg

"Thrust & munch— take a diver to lunch"

Sounds like fun ;)

(would that I could)

[Raveness]

I find myself more attracted to the odd creatures than the mundane ones, especially the various versions of deep sea octopii. That being said those giant isopods creep me the hell out, they're like lice that were mutated by genetic experimentation gone terribly awry.

Reality is stranger than fiction. There's a multitude of antediluvian lifeforms from the great depths, which has more surface area than the land of Earth, and they appear more bizzare than the rehashed alien counterparts in videogames we sometimes get. Irrational knows their aquatic stuff, they gave us the yard-long annelid worms derived from Lamellibrachia ;)

But please don't include anything with a large number of long legs that moves at fast speeds. House centipedes freak me out.

[Rapture_Tourist]

@Raveness then you are happy that monsters like this (early Bioshock Artwork) won't be in the game any more, I think. They are also harder to crush under your shoe.

http://www.userrankings.com/images/screens/diverse/editorials/20/2.jpg

[Newbeing]

http://www.subtraction.com/pics/0406/040603_wolf_fish.jpg

[Adabiviak]

Sketchy stuff. Have you seen the Deep Ocean segment of Discovery's Blue Planet series? Nice footage of these creeps.

[Hatesink]

Another mind-bending terror of the deep...

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/8288/amindbendinghorrorofthell4.jpg

...a frog-spawn of Cthulhu

[borgdrone89]

Another mind-bending terror of the deep...

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/8288/amindbendinghorrorofthell4.jpg

...a frog-spawn of Cthulhu

actually that's an axalottle (spelling?)
just add iodine to its water and watch it transform into a terrifying salamander of the evil iodewaters.

here's something you just don't want leaping at your head.
http://www.half-life2.cz/grafika/enemies/headcrab.jpg

and something I wouldn't like chasing me at night.
http://home.earthlink.net/~brosenberger/zombie.jpg

[Jeff]

I have this wierd feeling that if you cross that tiny pink creature it will grow exponentially in size and end up looking sort-of like this dude

http://www.subtraction.com/pics/0406/040603_wolf_fish.jpg

but with arms and legs and bloodlust in it's eyes that could melt the paint off walls 4 miles away.

[Raveness]

@Raveness then you are happy that monsters like this (early Bioshock Artwork) won't be in the game any more, I think. They are also harder to crush under your shoe.

Actually, I prefer to be petrified by my fears in games I play. I have a small case of arachnophobia, and love games that effectively use spiders to jar the players sense of safety. In SS2, I ran from my room after I walked into those crew quarters with the piano, where the first annelid arachnid charges at you :mad:

The best games utilize horror that plays on the innate fears of players, and fear of inhuman sickening creatures is one of the easiest to employ.

.....though I don't think that particular concept artwork was going to fit within the Rapturian atmosphere.

[v.dog]

You probably won't like these (http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/fguide/arthropoda6.html) creatures (http://tolweb.org/Pycnogonida) then. :D

[borgdrone89]

You probably won't like these (http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/fguide/arthropoda6.html) creatures (http://tolweb.org/Pycnogonida) then. :D

what creatures eh?

[gughunter]

Another mind-bending terror of the deep...

Dang, that slimy little thing must be cuter than 80% of the puppies, kittens, and guinea pigs on the Internet. If one of those were mutated to the size of a mobile home it would make a terrific boss -- especially if it said "I wuv you!" after spitting each fireball.

[Hatesink]

what creatures eh?You probably won't like these (http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/fguide/arthropoda6.html) creatures (http://tolweb.org/Pycnogonida) then. :D

The links don't show up.

[^ilovebioshock!]

do not ask me what this is cause i dont know:confused:


http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7634/wtfabw3.jpg

[borgdrone89]

The links don't show up.
yeah, now i see them

do not ask me what this is cause i dont know:confused:


http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7634/wtfabw3.jpg

EWWWWWWWWWW!!!! gross underdeveloped chicken

[Newbeing]

looks more like a baby parrot.

[Jeff]

It looks like the rare "completely off-topic" bird suffering from a common affliction of there's named "unnecessary illogical dissociative disorder", this condition can be cured by administering the "thanks for coming out, sorry but you're cut" treatment in the preferred hospital for these creatures "No seriously, get out" where expertise in this field is high.

[^ilovebioshock!]

It looks like the rare "completely off-topic" bird suffering from a common affliction of there's named "unnecessary illogical dissociative disorder", this condition can be cured by administering the "thanks for coming out, sorry but you're cut" treatment in the preferred hospital for these creatures "No seriously, get out" where expertise in this field is high.

you do realise that thats a picture of your mom:D

[borgdrone89]

heh... nice one Ilovebiochock..

also, jeff, these posts are completely ON-topic. they pertain to weird animals and the like, and i think an underdeveloped bird falls in this topic of horrors.

[Club Heaven]

Look at these sexy devils:

http://people.whitman.edu/%7Eyancey/evermanella.jpg

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2114&d=1150728788

[^ilovebioshock!]

rarrrr:D :D

[v.dog]

Those links work for me, ^ilovebioshock!.

[borgdrone89]

Look at these sexy devils:

http://people.whitman.edu/%7Eyancey/evermanella.jpg

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2114&d=1150728788


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