That’s the kind of scientist I want to be. I wish it paid.
I just love the idea of feral scientists doing feral science.
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.
Is this one of those one is real but the rest is fake situations?
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.
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
Shia Lebeouf
Actual cannibal Shia Lebeouf?
Hollywood superstar Shia Labeouf?
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.
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.
Suboptimal. I’ve spent a shit ton of time in bogs and fens and it’s not a place you want to enter unprepared
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.
was that expedition inspired by lovecraft or was lovecraft inspired by that expedition?
The expedition was not real. I was alluding to Lovecraft without naming him.
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.
Why? Is the light pole not providing the correct type of light or something?
Nothing to do with the light actually. I’m yelling at the small cell radios on the top of the poles.
Ornithologist then?
I mean that is a type of light.
Cellphone towers are just microwave light poles.
The movie Medicine Man does a great job of depicting a mad field scientist.
Crucial supporting NPCs in Monster Hunter
Reminds me of the biologist from Annihilation. Time to reread the trilogy I guess.
Wait…there’s 3 books? Where in the books does the movie leave off??
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.
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.
Wellllll, now I know what my next D&D character will be.
An INT-maxxing Druid? :p
Best moment of Disco Elysium for me.
Dr. Frankenstein had an assistant for that.