posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:01 AM by Endie

We Are The Plague That You Engineered...

OK, the Bob video was very good, but was limited its essentially recycled nature: the CGI work was borrowed from CCP and the voiceover was largely stolen from The Empire Strikes Back.

A Goonfleet member has come up with something in response.  Something dark, atmospheric, with the lightness of the simulated female voice contrasted with its artificiality and alien nature: an example of the uncanny valley in voice reproduction giving an intentionally disturbing edge to what is said.

Comments

# re: We Are The Plague That You Engineered...

Thursday, October 25, 2007 7:33 PM by Tom
Sounds very much like System Shock's Shodan.

# re: We Are The Plague That You Engineered...

Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:21 PM by Endie
I like it, so thanks for that. I think I'll look up their stuff on itunes.

# re: We Are The Plague That You Engineered...

Friday, October 26, 2007 6:47 AM by Tom
Woah! Hold on! You're going to have a hard time finding it on iTunes.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHODAN">SHODAN</a> - villainess from the game System Shock.

Sample of her "chaotic" voice <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SHODAN.ogg">here</a>. If you can play OGG files that is. Notice the stuttering...?

# re: We Are The Plague That You Engineered...

Friday, October 26, 2007 8:29 AM by Endie
Doh! Guess who hasn't played System Shock and thought you meant the music in the background?

That's interesting. It does sound *very* much like it must have been a good part of the inspiration for the goon in question.