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    Horrors of the deep

    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 can imagine.

    The Stoplight loosejaw is a personal favourite.

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    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/v2...awsbennett.jpg

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    Imagine those in your pool:

    http://www.onlinepressezentrum.de/se...krabbe%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.
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    Talking

    one of those reminds me of my daughters grandmother!

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    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.

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    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.

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    Before BioShock, there came...

    http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/4...attack1kc1.jpg

    http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8...attack2gr2.jpg

    "Thrust & munch— take a diver to lunch"

    Sounds like fun

    (would that I could)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff View Post
    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.

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    @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/s...rials/20/2.jpg
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    Sketchy stuff. Have you seen the Deep Ocean segment of Discovery's Blue Planet series? Nice footage of these creeps.

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    Another mind-bending terror of the deep...

    http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/8...orofthell4.jpg

    ...a frog-spawn of Cthulhu

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hatesink View Post
    Another mind-bending terror of the deep...

    http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/8...orofthell4.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

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    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..._wolf_fish.jpg

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rapture_Tourist View Post
    @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

    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.

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    You probably won't like these creatures then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by v.dog View Post
    You probably won't like these creatures then.
    what creatures eh?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hatesink View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by borgdrone89 View Post
    what creatures eh?
    Quote Originally Posted by v.dog View Post
    You probably won't like these creatures then.
    The links don't show up.

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    do not ask me what this is cause i dont know


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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hatesink View Post
    The links don't show up.
    yeah, now i see them

    Quote Originally Posted by ^ilovebioshock! View Post
    do not ask me what this is cause i dont know


    http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7634/wtfabw3.jpg
    EWWWWWWWWWW!!!! gross underdeveloped chicken

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    looks more like a baby parrot.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff View Post
    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

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    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.

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    rarrrr

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    Those links work for me, ^ilovebioshock!.

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    w007 7ha7 is 73 p00nz0r. wh7 an 1337 pic7ur3

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