Camera footage of two people meeting in a park. The person on the left is wearing a black hoodie, pulled up to obscure their face. The person on the right is wearing a Turing branded T-shirt and cap, they are waving.
(Captions are auto-generated)
"Oh, hi there! Didn't expect to see someone else out here!"
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|intro1]
The person in the hoodie is responding, their stance is guarded.
(could not transcribe the audio)
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|intro2]
The person in the Turing cap scratches their head in confusion.
"Haha, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying!"
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|intro3]
The person in the hoodie quickly pulls a gun from their front pocket and fires.
(Gunshot Sounds)
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|intro4]
The person in the Turing cap falls to the ground. The person in the hoodie makes a hand gesture towards the body and walks away.
(could not transcribe the audio)
[(VIDEO END)|introend]
For immediate release:
Allan Goleman, Founder and CEO of the Turing Corporation, has announced the next phase in their plans to build exocolonies on Mars. Turing's advances in the fields of data analysis and efficient artificial intelligence solutions have been crucial to reacting to a changing world, and this new device represents the next leap forward for humanity.
Introducing: RAVENOUS
A photo of Allan Goleman standing at a podium with the Turing logo on it, holding a small device in his open palm. A picture-in-picture is inset in the bottom righthand corner, showing a zoomed in view of the device in his hand. It appears to be a small black metal snake, roughly 3 inches long, curled into a "C" shape.
The Robotic Autonomous Versatile Efficient carbon-Neutral Over- and Under-ground Snake will be a crucial component in humanity's journey forward.
These devices are designed to gather chemical and biological data about the soil and plantlife upon which our existence relies, and relay that data to Orbitnet so Turing can reconstruct this planet's incredible and biodiverse landscape on our next home: Mars.
The pictured prototype is already gathering info, providing valuable data that we would be incapable of gathering previously. Goleman hopes to launch RAVENOUS 1.0 within the next few months, to make our dreams of life beyond earth a reality.
In accordance with our transparency policy, Turing also proudly present all the [technical specifications of the RAVENOUS|ravenous-data-sheet].
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did you SEE it? what a KING, what a GOD! i've been trying to guess what his next step would be after orbitnet but i never would have guessed ROBOT DATA SNAKES?!
did you SEE it? what a KING, what a GOD! i've been trying to guess what his next step would be after orbitnet but i never would have guessed ROBOT DATA SNAKES?!
I'd love to know what the ludds try to throw at Goleman over this one. Who can possibly find something to oppose about a tiny little snakebot gathering soil data?
did you SEE it? what a KING, what a GOD! i've been trying to guess what his next step would be after orbitnet but i never would have guessed ROBOT DATA SNAKES?!
I'd love to know what the ludds try to throw at Goleman over this one. Who can possibly find something to oppose about a tiny little snakebot gathering soil data?
lol those losers can stay on earth as far as i'm concerned. if you don't respect goleman i hope he closes the rocket doors right in your face LOL
So Allan's announced his latest gadget, a little snake that... provides soil data? To help terraform Mars? The press conference was vague, as always.
Oh but I'm being uncharitable... We also received the complete techspecs! How transparent! How generous! Oh, they're in a format most of us don't have the CPU budget to access... How convenient.
Don't worry, I'll be digging into the techspecs on the university rig to see if I can't get to the bottom of what these little wrigglers are up to.
Until next time,
Sloane Redyard
Camera footage showing a dense forest. A young person dressed in hi-vis gear adjusts the camera before stepping back to speak towards it.
(Captions provided by Krik Sovotka)
"Hi, hello! Is this working? Check check one two, yeah I see the wave forms, ok. Hi! Welcome to my first trail cam! I'm Krik Sovotka and I'm working on my PhD! The focus of my thesis is gonna be the effect of global warming on the ecosystems of the green spaces here in California, I've got some lo-tek cameras like this set up everywhere I can to stream constantly so I can monitor the activities of any squirrels or bugs or... whatever! The idea of the study is to have eyes in as many places as possible, watching as many habitats as possible. I don't know exactly what I'm going to find, maybe I'm gonna be watching grass grow for the next year, hahaha!"
[(VIDEO END)|techspecs]
Sorry it's been a while since my last post, this has been an arduous process. Techspec documents are dry and dull at the best of times, but the sheer volume of miniscule pointless detail presented in the RAVENOUS documents is far beyond what is reasonable for a normal person to go through. Someone with a cynical opinion of the Turing corporation might even say that was a [deliberate tactic|freepedia-information-pollution], but I digress.
The RAVENOUS is an autonomous robot designed with a segmented body and the undulating mobility of a snake or worm. It takes samples of soils and grasses around its "mouth" and analyses them with a series of sensors. It then transmits that data up to Turing Corp's black box in the sky, orbitnet. Orbitnet then sends data back to the RAVENOUS, the RAVENOUS does something and then the cycle begins again.
This is interesting, because it allows the claim of carbon neutrality to remain technically true of the RAVENOUS, but only if Orbitnet's processing doesn't count. I've crunched the numbers, and the RAVENOUS can move, collect its samples, send its pings into the sky and act on the pings it receives from Orbitnet and just barely squeak a carbon-neutral rating. Even if all Orbitnet does is add and subtract 1 from the data before sending it back, it's no longer carbon-neutral, and we can pretty much guarantee it's doing a lot more than that.
Orbitnet has been criticised by many for being a blatant attempt to circumvent [CPU restrictions|freepedia-cpu-restrictions-act], for its light pollution, and for being the reason [you can't watch a video with a fuck word in it|redink-censorship] anymore, but my largest criticism of it has been and remains the complete lack of oversight. In space, nobody can hear you commit [large scale data crimes|news-data-crimes].
I don't know what the RAVENOUS is actually for, I don't know how this can possibly be being sold as a terraforming tool, I don't know what data it could be gathering that "we would be incapable of gathering previously" and I don't know what processes Goleman is laundering through Orbitnet to avoid prying eyes, but I do know I don't trust Turing Corp with even more data.
I'm sorry this post has been a bit of a downer, and I'm sorry I don't have more concrete information for you. If I come to any more realisations about the techspecs, you can be sure I'll post them on here, but honestly I'm sick of looking at them. When I lie down to sleep my brain keeps tumbling through the data, like the [Bejazzled Effect|freepedia-bajazzled-effect]... Even if it still meant no sleep, I assure you I'd much rather my subconscious be playing puzzle games!
Until next time,
Sloane Redyard
This article is from 2 years ago.
The Turing Corporation has come under fire after evidence surfaced of user data being collected without consent. This breach was initially discovered when tech activists used tracking tools and found that the amount of data being uploaded when a chat message was sent on AppDog, the Turing Corporation's popular chat program, was significantly higher than necessary.
What became clear through this investigation was that the words of these messages were being fed into Turing's Artificial Intelligence servers. Tests were conducted by consistently using a deliberate typo in private chats ("friend" was spelled "firend"), and maintaining a search for that typo on the wider web. It wasn't long before people were complaining that their Capsha prompts were asking them to identify the "firends" in pictures, making it clear that the Turing corporation was using data obtained through private messages to improve their AI algorithms.
Neither Allan Goleman nor his representatives responded to our requests for comment prior to publication.
Information Pollution is the practice of inundating someone with a large amount of information, with the goal of confusing and overwhelming them to prevent them from finding what it is you are trying to hide.
The CPU Restrictions Act was an international accord created in response to alarming and exponential temperature rises that came following the advent of cryptocurrency farms. After several attempts to ban cryptocurrency specifically fell apart due to crypto miners redefining terms to avoid being technically restricted by the bans, it was decided that strict limits on CPU cycles would effectively prevent cryptocurrency mining as well as any other CPU-intensive activities that may be conceived of in the future.
The act was, and remains, extremely controversial. Many people were furious that usage of the apps on which they had come to rely would quickly hit the CPU cap, locking them out for the rest of the month. Many apps which relied on using CPU cycles to collect data to sell to advertisers had no choice but to shut down. Despite the decelerating of temperature increases, the fact that temperatures did continue to increase at all was cited by critics as evidence the act should be scrapped.
i;ve been trying to get used to this low cycle life, looking at my pictures and videos through text, having everything on dark mode, it's different but... whatever i can handle it, but why the FUCK can't i watch anything with a swear word in it anymore?? all my fave shows have swears, and i was hoping to at least try and enjoy them in lo-tek but half of the lines are just fuckin missing? it'#s so bad... please help me redink!
Hi! Welcome to the lo-tek community! So this is a common complaint, the reason this happens is that the automatic transcription service runs through Orbitnet, and Orbitnet is hard-coded to reject any data with swear words in it. Your best bet is to try and find your shows streaming somewhere with user-inputted subs. Hope this helps!
The Bejazzled Effect refers to a condition described by players of Bejazzle and other similar arcade puzzlers. After playing Bejazzle for a long time, players would find that their minds would continue to "play" even after they stopped. The conscious processes of rotating coloured pieces and choosing where to place them would, after an extended period, become subconscious, and continue happening while the player tried to do other things, particularly while they tried to sleep.
Camera footage showing a low angle of grassy wetlands. Krik squats down into the camera's view and holds up two blades of grass in one hand, holding their other palm up to focus the camera. One of the blades looks unremarkable, and the other is bent in perfect 90 degree angles, browning in a checkerboard pattern
"I don't know what's going on here... these two blades were connected to the same root structure... I don't know what kinds of factors could even begin to cause something this extreme within the same organism... I'll take it to my professor, see if he can shed any light on it..."
[(VIDEO END)|doxing]
I know usually this subredink is usually just for like, when a capsha has a picture of someone flipping the bird or something, but I just got served this one, which I'm pretty sure is uh, just someone's address?
Screenshot of a capsha prompt, it asks the user to select all pictures containing 2731 Bedford Lane, Rivertown, California. The images are all photos of houses taken from very close, one of them is aimed through a window at a person sleeping.
UGH, i only forgot my password like, four times in a row, and it blocked me from going in the app without solving a freaking picture puzzle?? i don't know who tf "sloane redyard" even is?? how am i supposed to click all the pictures of her?????
HELP ME IM TRYING TO BUY GEMS FOR BAJAZZLED BUT FEE FRIEND IS BLOCKING ME BECAUSE I BOUGHT TO MANY GEMS TODAY BUT I CANT DO THE CAPSHA ITS GOT A BUNCH OF PICTURES OF RANDOS ASKING ME TO CLICK THE REDYARD FAMILY MEMBERS IDK WHOS IN THAT FAMILY I DONT KNOW ANY OF THESE PEOPLE I NEED MY GEMS THOUGH BRO IM GONNA LOSE MY STREAK IF I CANT GET A BOMB ONLINE RIGHT NOW HELP
Ok so for whatever reason the Capshas are all asking to identify pictures of Sloane Redyard and her family. Please do NOT come to this thread to have a conversation about the morality of this, or conjecture about what series of technical errors could lead to such an event, this thread is purely meant as a place for people to be able to find answers to the capsha questions so they can log into their apps.
Here's a ultraupload link with all the photos and prompts matched up that we have so far: [THIS LINK LEAVES THE REDINK NETWORK, PLEASE CLICK WITH CAUTION|captcha-cheatsheet]
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You can stop messaging me, I am well aware of what is happening on capsha. Clearly my last post touched a nerve and Goleman's showing off the power he's got to ruin my life if he wants. I'm taking precautions to protect myself and my family. Please try not to spread my face around more than it already has been.
Sloane Redyard
Camera footage of the inside of an ant colony. Lines of ants scurry back and forth, carrying eggs and morsels of food to their destinations.
(Captions are auto-generated)
(Quiet scuttling sounds)
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|krikblog3-2]
The ants dash away from a cloud of dirt and debris that rolls in from out of frame.
(Sounds of dirt falling, high pitched buzzing)
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|krikblog3-3]
The dust settles and ants begin scurrying once again, carrying their morsels and eggs. One of them carries an egg that is a perfect cube. One of them moves in circles, all six of its legs on the same side of its body.
(Buzzing sounds quieting down, scuttling sounds resuming)
[(VIDEO END)|rav1.0]
For immediate release:
After a successful prototype phase, Turing Corporation is proud to announce the full launch of RAVENOUS 1.0.
The 1.0 units have improved speed and efficiency, and have been launched in all 50 of our great states, with a view to launching at least one in every country in the world by the end of 20X6.
The more complete a picture we can gather of the landscape on Earth, the more completely we can replicate it on Mars. With temperatures rising and resources dwindling, Turing Corporation remains committed to building a new home for humanity, and the launch of RAVENOUS 1.0 is the next step on our roadmap.
I've gained access to the signals the RAVENOUS send up to OrbitNet. I'm setting this post up as a lo-tek friendly liveblog with my analysis. I'd expose the raw data stream, but it's far too much for any normal browser to access. I'll figure out exactly what these snakes are doing and I'll tell everyone.
You thought you could just scare me into hiding and I'd quit being a thorn in your side, Goleman? Fuck you.
[Update Liveblog?|incident-0]
Ok, well I've got 51 signals, they're blasting data out at a huge bandwidth, the only way orbitnet is interpreting this data fast enough to send instructions back is if it's just completely flaunting the CPU limits, but we knew that already... There's so much coming through that I can barely tell what I'm looking at, but... I think I see a repeating signal I can interpret there...
god i wanna see one of those rav's so bad.... something about a robot snake just... seems so cool.... did goleman say where exactly he let em rip?
Camera footage. The camera is in the hands of Krik, who is aiming it towards themself and the meadow behind them.
(Captions are auto-generated)
"I've still not managed to figure out what's causing these abnormalities in the plant life around here. The best I can tell is it must be some sort of invasive species, because it's not spreading in the way I'd expect a disease to spread..."
Ok, well I've got 51 signals, they're blasting data out at a huge bandwidth, the only way orbitnet is interpreting this data fast enough to send instructions back is if it's just completely flaunting the CPU limits, but we knew that already... There's so much coming through that I can barely tell what I'm looking at, but... I think I see a repeating signal I can interpret there...
[Refresh Liveblog?|incident-2]
A Map of the USA, with a dot in each state except for California, which has two. Every few seconds, the map updates and the dots move slightly.
There we go. The repeating signals are GPS co-ordinates. Not much trouble to map them. As they said in the press release, one in each state... Except California? Oh, is that the prototype? I don't know. I'm still not making much headway with the rest of the data...
The handheld camera moves down towards the grass, which looks normal except for a thin, wavering path which is full of misshapen blades, some too wide, some too short, some miscoloured, many simply shrivelled and dead.
"Look at this... It's far too tight and specific to be anything other than the work of some pesky critter. Let's see what we find at the end of it, shall we?"
god i wanna see one of those rav's so bad.... something about a robot snake just... seems so cool.... did goleman say where exactly he let em rip?
Well I don't know where you are, but if you search "Sloane's Groans" she's got a tracker running, you can triangulate one near you and chase it down maybe?
god i wanna see one of those rav's so bad.... something about a robot snake just... seems so cool.... did goleman say where exactly he let em rip?
Well I don't know where you are, but if you search "Sloane's Groans" she's got a tracker running, you can triangulate one near you and chase it down maybe?
HOLY SHIT I'M SO CLOSE TO ONE OF THE CALIFORNIA ONES, I'M JUMPING IN THE CAR RIGHT NOW, THANKS SO MUCH BRO!!
There we go. The repeating signals are GPS co-ordinates. Not much trouble to map them. As they said in the press release, one in each state... Except California? Oh, is that the prototype? I don't know. I'm still not making much headway with the rest of the data...
[Refresh Liveblog?|incident-3]
OK, now we're cooking, I've figured out a little more of the datastream, I'm updating the map...
A Map of the USA with a dot and line in each state except for California, which has two. Most of the lines show a tight spiral moving outwards to fill the entire state, each one with a dot close to the center of the spiral, moving out along the line. The one exception is the second line in California, which is a meandering path running out behind the dot, but nothing ahead of it.
OK, now we're cooking, I've figured out a little more of the datastream, I'm updating the map...
There! They all have specific planned routes except for that one, which MUST be the prototype. I'm not sure WHAT the hell it's trying to do...
The handheld camera follows the trail of misshappen grasses before coming to a tree stump with mushrooms growing from it. Krik brings the camera close to the mushrooms, showing that they are growing in highly regular crystalline patterns.
"Gosh look at this... I don't know if I've ever seen a fungus do this! Certainly not in this part of the world at least... What unseen reactions is the creature eliciting here?... I'm going to have to catch up with it and see what I can figure out."
god i wanna see one of those rav's so bad.... something about a robot snake just... seems so cool.... did goleman say where exactly he let em rip?
Well I don't know where you are, but if you search "Sloane's Groans" she's got a tracker running, you can triangulate one near you and chase it down maybe?
HOLY SHIT I'M SO CLOSE TO ONE OF THE CALIFORNIA ONES, I'M JUMPING IN THE CAR RIGHT NOW, THANKS SO MUCH BRO!!
Glad I could help! I'm not a "bro" though lol... Please just stay safe, try not to trespass or anything.
The handheld camera follows the trail of misshappen grasses which passes through a tree stump with mushrooms growing from it. Krik stops to bring the camera close to the mushrooms, showing that they are growing in highly regular crystalline patterns.
"Gosh look at this... I don't know if I've ever seen a fungus do this! Certainly not in this part of the world at least... What reactions is the mimic eliciting in these organisms?..."
OK, now we're cooking, I've figured out a little more of the datastream, I'm updating the map...
There! They all have specific planned routes except for that one, which MUST be the prototype. I'm not sure WHAT the hell it's trying to do...
[Refresh Liveblog?|incident-4]
The camera follows the trail briefly before coming to another stump, this one completely separate from the path of strange grasses. The mushrooms growing on the side of this stump share the crystalline pattern of those mushrooms.
"Oh... These haven't even been touched by the mimic... Oh this does worry me. Mushrooms on the surface are simply the top of a much larger organism beneath the earth, and if these have been affected by the mimic that must mean that signals are being carried through the entire mycelial network... I've got to catch up to that thing."
god i wanna see one of those rav's so bad.... something about a robot snake just... seems so cool.... did goleman say where exactly he let em rip?
Well I don't know where you are, but if you search "Sloane's Groans" she's got a tracker running, you can triangulate one near you and chase it down maybe?
HOLY SHIT I'M SO CLOSE TO ONE OF THE CALIFORNIA ONES, I'M JUMPING IN THE CAR RIGHT NOW, THANKS SO MUCH BRO!!
Glad I could help! I'm not a "bro" though lol... Please just stay safe, try not to trespass or anything.
oh haha sorry about that friend... don't worry about trespassing though, looks like it's just in a national park, i'm parked up and i'm gonna chase it down.... this is exciting!!
OK, now we're cooking, I've figured out a little more of the datastream, I'm updating the map...
There! They all have specific planned routes except for that one, which MUST be the prototype. I'm not sure WHAT the hell it's trying to do...
[Refresh Liveblog?|incident-4]
I still need a bit more context for the rest of this data... I think these could be chemical structures? Is this the soil data? And this could be structural information based on the way it's laid out... I'm at a loss until it gives me something I can recognise...
A Map of the USA with a dot and line in each state except for California, which has two. The Californian dot which is moving sporadically is drifting directly into the path of the Californian dot which is moving in a spiral.
god i wanna see one of those rav's so bad.... something about a robot snake just... seems so cool.... did goleman say where exactly he let em rip?
Well I don't know where you are, but if you search "Sloane's Groans" she's got a tracker running, you can triangulate one near you and chase it down maybe?
HOLY SHIT I'M SO CLOSE TO ONE OF THE CALIFORNIA ONES, I'M JUMPING IN THE CAR RIGHT NOW, THANKS SO MUCH BRO!!
Glad I could help! I'm not a "bro" though lol... Please just stay safe, try not to trespass or anything.
oh haha sorry about that friend... don't worry about trespassing though, looks like it's just in a national park, i'm parked up and i'm gonna chase it down.... this is exciting!!
i'm nearly there!! it's tough to figure out exactly where to go with the tiny cpu limits i've got on my phone, but i'm pretty sure it's gonna be just ahead of me in this field.....
The camera's view smears as Krik runs with it, swinging it back and forth. They slow to a stop as they come to an open field, where the path of misshappen blades seems to come to an end.
(Heavy breathing)
"Oh, is this it? Have I found you, naughty little creature?"
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|incident-final-sequence]
The camera shifts into a stable position as Krik unfurls a tripod. They come into view as they adjust the angle to make sure it can see the area where the path of misshapen blades seems to end.
"Ok let's see what you're up to, little budd-"
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|incident-final-sequence-2]
A person wearing a Turing branded t-shirt and cap walks into view and starts waving.
"Oh, hi there! Didn't expect to see someone else out here!"
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|incident-final-sequence-3]
Krik looks up, initially surprised, before waving in response.
"Hello! I'm just chasing down some kind of creature that's been making quite a mess of the ecosystem out here."
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|incident-final-sequence-4]
The person in the Turing cap looks at their phone before looking back at Krik and responding. Krik raises an eyebrow before looking down into the grass. They run up and grab the tripod holding the camera.
"Oh, what a coincidence! I'm out here chasing down a ravenous unit! I think there should be one... No wait... Two! Right around here!"
"What's a ravenous unit? Wait... Do you hear that? I've got to get a better angle on this."
(Muffled buzzing sounds)
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|incident-final-sequence-5]
Krik moves the tripod to the center of the field. They aim it down at the ground, and the focus adjusts until a small black metal snake bursts up out of the soil.
"Oh my god.... Here's the little beastie that's been giving me so much trouble... I can't believe how small it is!"
(Muffled buzzing becomes louder and more distinct as the snake bursts up)
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|incident-final-sequence-6]
The snake's face is a whirring circle of tiny blades, sucking in and chewing up the grass that it comes up to. Its tail opens and closes to replace the consumed grasses, but the replacements are twisted and broken, barely able to hold themselves up for a moment before shrivelling up.
"There it is! That's the ravenous! Oh my god it's all I ever wanted... It's so cool..."
(Buzzing sounds, quiet sounds of leaves being stitched together, the tapping of fingers against a phone screen)
omg i FOUND IT!! the rav is so coooool!!!! it's eating up the grass and replacing it as it goes, that's such a smart way of being environmentally positive... so cool...
The snake's face is a whirring circle of tiny blades, sucking in and chewing up the grass that it comes up to. Its tail opens and closes to release replacements for the consumed grasses, but the replacements are twisted and broken, barely able to hold themselves up for a moment before shrivelling up.
"There it is! That's the ravenous! Oh my god it's all I ever wanted... It's so cool..."
(Buzzing sounds, quiet sounds of leaves being stitched together, the tapping of fingers against a phone screen)
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|incident-final-sequence-7]
In a quick deliberate motion, another metal snake bursts into frame and grabs the tail of the first. It tries to continue on the trajectory it was on, but the first snake thrashes and grabs onto its tail, forcing them into a relentless cycle.
(could not transcribe the audio)
Wait... Oh shit... I can tell what that data is... I still see it when I try to sleep! That's a god damn RAVENOUS.
In a quick deliberate motion, another metal snake bursts into frame and grabs the tail of the first. It tries to continue on the trajectory it was on, but the first snake thrashes and grabs onto its tail, forcing them into a relentless cycle.
(could not transcribe the audio)
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|incident-final-sequence-8]
The snakes both work to overcome the other, chewing into eachother while sparks fly, but they are also extruding the very same tails as they eat them. The biting away and renewing of tissue continues, and accelerates. Krik briefly comes into view on camera before she darts away.
"I'm not sticking around to find out how this ends, if I were you I'd leave too! Those things clearly aren't safe!"
(Sounds of metal grinding against metal, buzzing sounds intensify in pitch and volume)
omg i FOUND IT!! the rav is so coooool!!!! it's eating up the grass and replacing it as it goes, that's such a smart way of being environmentally positive... so cool...
Hey are you ok there buddy? The map is showing the RAVENOUS in Cali as... Well, I don't really know what I'm looking at, to be honest. If you don't reply within the next 20 minutes I'm sending out a search party, ok?
A Map of the USA with a dot and line in each state except for California, which has two dots that are almost completely overlapping, oscillating rapidly. The trajectory path for the California dots are no longer an organised spiral, but a chaotic scattered tree that looks like broken glass, radiating from a central point; the oscillating dots.
The snakes both work to overcome the other, chewing into eachother while sparks fly, but they are also extruding the very same tails as they eat them. The biting away and renewing of tissue continues, and accelerates. Krik briefly comes into view on camera before they dart away.
"I'm not sticking around to find out how this ends, if I were you I'd leave too! Those things clearly aren't safe!"
(Sounds of metal grinding against metal)
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|incident-final-sequence-9]
The snakes speed up, the circle narrows, the person in the Turing cap moves closer for a better view.
"Are you kidding, bro? I can't look away from this... It's incredible..."
(Scattered buzzing sounds intensify in pitch and volume)
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|incident-final-sequence-10]
The circle narrows further, the mouths coming closer and closer to one another until finally, one reaches the other.
(Grinding metal sounds become so loud the microphone can't interpret them. All that remains is the crunching, glitched sound of a machine trying to process more than it can handle)
[(CONTINUE VIDEO)|incident-final-sequence-11]
For a moment, the impossibly tight ring is completely still. The moment ends. With the white hot light of barely contained energy being released, the ring explodes. An uncountable number of snakes shoot from the blast in every direction. The person in the Turing cap is completely covered instantly. The grass writhes as it is eaten and remade dozens of times a second, warping each time, becoming less recognisable. The very surface of the ground loses its structure, heaving to and fro, reshaped again and again, churning waves of earth driven further and further from any context or purpose. With a burst of violent speed, one of the snakes darts from the ground directly towards the camera's lens, and the video feed cuts out.
[(VIDEO END)|ending]
omg i FOUND IT!! the rav is so coooool!!!! it's eating up the grass and replacing it as it goes, that's such a smart way of being environmentally positive... so cool...
Hey are you ok there buddy? The map is showing the RAVENOUS in Cali as... Well, I don't really know what I'm looking at, to be honest. If you don't reply within the next 20 minutes I'm sending out a search party, ok?
don't worry about me, firend! i'm just fine :)
Deth Rod
Constance Chatterley
Camera footage of a park bench. A person in a Turing cap stumbles towards it with an uneven gait and takes a seat. They put their right elbow on the armrest and lean their head against their palm. Their fingers are long enough to rub their left temple.
All from Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution 4.0 License
Camera footage of a parking lot. A swarm of tumbling black snakes dives in and out of the ground; unified but chaotic. As they chew through parking spaces, they are repainted in mathematically elegant but functionally useless patterns. As they chew through cars, they are remade with doors that have no handles, or wheels that are perfect spheres. As they chew through passengers, they are reborn as twisted amalgams of metal and flesh, merged with the vehicles they were sitting in, the context that separated them torn apart by thousands of whirring blades.
Camera footage of a city from a distant angle. The sun is setting and the buildings are still. A black mass, with fuzzy and unclear edges crawls up one of the buildings. Within moments, the building is completely covered. In a few more moments, the building is uncovered again. The windows of the building are now laid out unevenly. Pieces of furniture that were against the wall are now exterior features. The overall shape of the building is segmented and odd, the angles of the corners are no longer quite 90 degrees. The black mass moves on to the next building.
I've figured it out. I know how we can fight them. Look at these. I'll describe them myself after to be lo-tek friendly.
An image of a wall with graffiti on it. It is datestamped for August 20X4.
An image of a wall with graffiti on it. It is datestamped for November 20X4.
The first picture says "FUCK 12", it's on an unassuming wall in an alley.
The second picture's been rearranged by the RAVENOUS swarm, the brickwork is all messed up and uneven, the graffiti is glitched out and unreadable... except for the word "FUCK".
The swarm runs through OrbitNet! We already know what Orbitnet can't handle, we've been working around it for years already! We can survive this!
Sloane Redyard
Jupiter Engine was created by Candle
Special thanks to them for making themself available for technical assistance.
Camera footage of two people meeting in a park. The person on the left is wearing a black hoodie, pulled up to obscure their face. The person on the right is wearing a Turing branded T-shirt and cap, they are waving.
(Captions provided by the Redyard Resistance Project)
"Oh, hi there! Didn't expect to see someone else out here!"
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The person in the hoodie is responding, their stance is guarded.
"Fuck you, fuck off, you should tell me to go fuck myself."
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The person in the Turing cap scratches their head in confusion.
"Haha, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying!"
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The person in the hoodie quickly pulls a gun from their front pocket and fires.
(Gunshot Sounds)
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The person in the Turing cap falls to the ground. The person in the hoodie makes a hand gesture towards the body and walks away.
"Yeah that's what I thought. Fuck you."
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