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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 68 points 1 month ago

Those scientists aren't mad, just dedicated.

Show me a field scientist that is injecting trees with a serum to turn them into sentient carnivores. Or one that is manually digging for uranium in order to fast track the eruption of a volcano. Or the one inventing Godzilla.

Not that pansy shit.

[-] Jimbo@yiffit.net 15 points 1 month ago

Is this one of those one is real but the rest is fake situations?

[-] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago

More like a “will be real as soon as I get that grant” situation

[-] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 month ago

There were some geologists (field work by my reckoning) from Massachusetts who went mad after an expedition to the Antarctic. The survivors came back mumbling something about a horrible thing from beyond the mountains.

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

was that expedition inspired by lovecraft or was lovecraft inspired by that expedition?

[-] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

The expedition was not real. I was alluding to Lovecraft without naming him.

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 46 points 1 month ago

You're walking through the forest, and some guy covered in mud stumbles out onto the cutline, fly bitten, frenzied look in his eye, and a dirty shovel on his shoulder. Oh wait that's just me

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 month ago
[-] weariedfae@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Actual cannibal Shia Lebeouf?

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago

No, I was just digging soil pits in yon shrubby fen. I don't if you guys are looking for peat, but there's a metric assload of it over there.

[-] Comment105@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Hollywood superstar Shia Labeouf?

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

LOL, that was me last week. Got myself trapped in a swamp at the hiking trail, limped back covered in slime from the waist down.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago

Suboptimal. I've spent a shit ton of time in bogs and fens and it's not a place you want to enter unprepared

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I was very prepared. Just too dumb to turn around when I should have, bulled ahead.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

And what did we learn?

[-] Lexam@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

This is me. You can usually find me staring up at a light pole talking, heckling or cursing at it, and before you know it I'm gone.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

Why? Is the light pole not providing the correct type of light or something?

[-] Lexam@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Nothing to do with the light actually. I'm yelling at the small cell radios on the top of the poles.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean that is a type of light.

Cellphone towers are just microwave light poles.

[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Ornithologist then?

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gf and I passed a young guy while kayaking the river one day. Dude's wearing summer street-wear, standing at bank up to his knees with a net. He was researching turtle populations. Funky thing is, we have no idea how he got where he was.

[-] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 month ago

I just love the idea of feral scientists doing feral science.

[-] multifariace@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

That's the kind of scientist I want to be. I wish it paid.

[-] dh34d@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of the biologist from Annihilation. Time to reread the trilogy I guess.

[-] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I do love the feeling of disorientation I got from the first book. The whole thing felt like I was in a fever dream and I was never sure if I was losing my mind or it was the book.

Of course a big chunk of that could be the sleep deprivation that came with having 2 kids under two at the same time as reading the book.

[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Wait...there's 3 books? Where in the books does the movie leave off??

[-] dh34d@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 month ago

The movie is very loosely based on the first book. The screenwriter read it, had a dream about it, then wrote the movie based off the dream they had, intentionally never referencing the book while writing it. Which... Idk. Kinda fits the vibe of the story, but I'd love an authentic adaptation of the book, because it's incredible.

The second book was a hard read for me, but it's worth it to get to third, and honestly the third kind of retroactively makes the second one better. There's supposed to be a 4th in the works I believe, but don't quote me on that.

[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That awesome, gonna add them to my list. I'm doing we are legion, we are Bob right now. 5th book just came out

[-] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

My favorite subplot in disco elysium

[-] Juice@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago

Crucial supporting NPCs in Monster Hunter

[-] Butterbee@beehaw.org 9 points 1 month ago

Wellllll, now I know what my next D&D character will be.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago
[-] Butterbee@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago

I was thinking Artificer maybe maybe

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

Oh my gosh that's so much closer, you're right. Bet you could totally make a nature-oriented specialization too. :D

[-] weariedfae@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pretty sure I have photographic evidence of the leaf monster I spawned to terrorize the overgrown creek bed into revealing its outcroppy secrets.

It was me. I am the leaf monster what walks in the water.

[-] adam_y@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Best moment of Disco Elysium for me.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

The movie Medicine Man does a great job of depicting a mad field scientist.

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Dr. Frankenstein had an assistant for that.

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