<ul><li>Exposure to terrifying acts, or even the anticipation of those acts, can stimulate us</li><li>Fright can trigger the release of adrenaline, resulting in heightened sensations and surging energy</li><li>Another reason we seek horror is to gain novel experiences</li><li>Being adventurous in this way makes us feel more worldly or daring</li><li>Horror entrainment may help us (safely) satisfy our curiosity about the dark side of human psyche.</li></ul>

Why do we consume horror in the first place?

<ul><li>It's a catalyst for falling in love: Watching a horror movie together with a date may facilitate feelings of romance</li><li>Conduit for social bonding: Consuming horror in a group is a great way to bond and connect with our friends and family</li><li>Post-horror relaxation: While the experience allows for the post-pubertal release of oxytocin, which is often released when we are in frightening situations, it can also trigger a post-traumatic stress disorder </li></ul>The absence of any of these psychological protective frames in the moment reduces the preference for horror consumption.

Benefits of consuming horror

Some people spend $$$ to experience the thrill of a scare.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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The Psychology Behind Why We Love (or Hate) Horror

"Get stronger. Consume all your happiness and sadness, and use that as your stepping stone.."

In 2017, stakes are high inside the multiplayer online game known as "The World R:2" when the online player killer "Tri-Edge" threatens the real life of Shino, a friend of Haseo, who punishes player killers.

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Haseo's Avatar, Skeith, awakens to combat Endrance's Macha in fierce battle. As more information surfaces concerning the AIDA (Artifically Intelligent Data Anomoly) menace and the power of the Epitaphs, Haseo finds himself in a battle against time to stop the rogue player killer Tri-Edge before any more of the people he knows become Lost Ones. Finally, as the web of treachery and secrets begins to unravel, The World faces crisis in the form of the largest-scale AIDA attack ever!

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Sometimes we need anime quotes to bring back the good memories.And it’s one of the easiest ways to do it besides music.If you’re a fan of One Punch Man or not, you should check out these 15 anime quotes One Punch Man has to offer.And if it leaves you amused, entertained or encouraged, that’s a job well done!

Mightiest Quotes For Becoming Mightiest By Saitama

“You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little longer.”

“I’m not a hero because I want your approval. I do it because I want to!”

“I’ll leave tomorrow’s problems to tomorrow’s me.”

“Overwhelming strength is boring.”

“You gotta train like hell until the point where your hair falls out. That’s the only way to become truly strong.”

“100 Push ups. 100 sit ups. And 100 squats. Then a 10 kilometer run. Do it every single day!”

“Human beings are strong because we can change ourselves.”

“You have to keep doing it. No matter how difficult it gets. It took me a full 3 years to get this strong.”

“When I was a little boy I wanted to be a hero. Not some damn business man. But a superhero who could send rotten villains like you flying with one punch.”

“If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?”

“If you really want to become strong, stop caring about what others think about you. Living your life has nothing to do with what others think.”

“Is that really the limit of your strength? Could the you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.”

“In exchange for power, maybe I’ve lost something that’s essential for a human being?”

"Never ever give up."

Working hard when you care if anyone is watching you or not is never the real hard work. Working hard when no one is watching you is the real game. Thats what I learnt from Saitama aka One Punch Man.

One Punch man has a large list of heroes with their own quotes. Which are both hilarious, funny and motivational. Here are 15 of the best worth sharing!

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15 Of The Mightiest Anime Quotes From One Punch Man

Synthetic media (also known as AI-generated media,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_media#cite_note-2"> </a> generative media ,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_media#cite_note-3"> </a> personalized media , and as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfakes">deepfakes </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_media#cite_note-5"> </a> ) is a term for the artificial production, manipulation, and modification of data and media by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation">automated </a>means, especially the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence">artificial intelligence </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm">algorithms </a>, such as for the purpose of misleading people or changing an original meaning. Synthetic media as a field has grown rapidly since the creation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_networks">generative adversarial networks </a>, primarily through the rise of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake">deepfakes </a>as well as music synthesis, text generation, human image synthesis, speech synthesis, and more.

AI Generated 

Though experts use the term "synthetic media," individual methods such as deepfakes and text synthesis are sometimes not referred to as such by the media but instead by their respective terminology (and often use "deepfakes" as a euphemism, e.g. "deepfakes for text" for natural-language generation; "deepfakes for voices" for neural voice cloning , etc.)Significant attention arose towards the field of synthetic media starting in 2017 when Motherboard reported on the emergence of pornographic videos altered with the use of AI algorithms to insert the faces of famous actresses.

Deepfakes

Fears of synthetic media include the potential to supercharge fake news, the spread of misinformation, distrust of reality, mass automation of creative and journalistic jobs, and potentially a complete retreat into AI-generated fantasy worlds. Synthetic media is an applied form of artificial imagination.

Misinformation 

<ol><li>The robotic creation of music, whether through machines playing instruments or sorting of virtual instrument notes.</li><li>Directly generating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveform">waveforms </a>that perfectly recreate instrumentation and human voice without the need for instruments, MIDI, or organizing premade notes.</li></ol>In 2016, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind">Google DeepMind </a>unveiled WaveNet, a deep generative model of raw audio waveforms that could learn to understand which waveforms best resembled human speech as well as musical instrumentation. Other networks capable of generating music through waveform manipulation include TacoTron (by Google) and DeepVoice (by Baidu).

Deepmind

In 2019, voice cloning technology was used to successfully impersonate a chief executive's voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of €220,000. he case raised concerns about the lack of encryption methods over telephones as well as the unconditional trust often given to voice and to media in general.

Fraudulent Vocals

The capacity to generate music through autonomous, non-programmable means has long been sought after since the days of Antiquity, and with developments in artificial intelligence, two particular domains have arisen:

Music Geberation

Natural-language generation bots mixed with image synthesis networks may theoretically be used to clog search results, filling <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engines">search engines </a>with trillions of otherwise useless but legitimate-seeming blogs, websites, and marketing spam.

Nlp Seo Bots

A combination of speech synthesis and deepfakes has been used to automatically redub an actor's speech into multiple languages without the need for reshoots or language classes.An increase in cyberattacks has also been feared due to methods of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing">phishing </a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfishing">catfishing </a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_hacking">social hacking </a>being automated by new technological methods.

Social Hack

Ai currently has no regulation, so it's media has gone unnoticed for a long time. This is a cultural lag I have witnessed through most of these photos. 

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Synthetic media - Wikipedia

Human image synthesis is technology that can be applied to make believable and even <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorealism">photorealistic </a>renditions of human-likenesses, moving or still. It has effectively existed since the early 2000s. Many films using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_generated_imagery">computer generated imagery </a>have featured synthetic images of human-like characters <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_compositing">digitally composited </a>onto the real or other simulated film material. Towards the end of the 2010s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning">deep learning </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence">artificial intelligence </a>has been applied to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_synthesis">synthesize images and video </a>that look like humans, without need for human assistance, once the training phase has been completed.

Human Image Synthesis

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">In February 2019 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia">Nvidia </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source">open sources </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StyleGAN">StyleGAN </a>, a novel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network">generative adversarial network </a>. Right after this Phillip Wang made the website ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com with StyleGAN to demonstrate that unlimited amounts of often photo-realistic looking facial portraits of no-one can be made automatically using a GAN. Nividia's StyleGAN was presented in a not yet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review">peer reviewed </a>paper in late 2018.</li></ul>

Does Not Exists?

The whole process of making digital look-alikes i.e. characters so lifelike and realistic that they can be passed off as pictures of humans is a very complex task as it requires photorealistically <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_modeling">modeling </a>, animating, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cross-mapping&action=edit&redlink=1">cross-mapping </a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_rendering">rendering </a>the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_body_dynamics">soft body dynamics </a>of the human appearance.

Digital Look Alikes

Synthesis with an actor and suitable <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm">algorithms </a>is applied using powerful computers. The actor's part in the synthesis is to take care of mimicking human <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_expression">expressions </a>in still picture synthesizing and also human movement in motion picture synthesizing. Algorithms are needed to simulate laws of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics">physics </a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiology">physiology </a>and to map the models and their appearance, movements and interaction accordingly.

Synthesized Actors

Often both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics">physics </a>/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiology">physiology </a>based (i.e. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletal_animation">skeletal animation </a>) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image-based_modeling_and_rendering">image-based modeling and rendering </a>are employed in the synthesis part. Hybrid models employing both approaches have shown best results in realism and ease-of-use. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morph_target_animation">Morph target animation </a>reduces the workload by giving higher level control, where different facial expressions are defined as deformations of the model, which facial allows expressions to be tuned intuitively. Morph target animation can then morph the model between different defined facial expressions or body poses without much need for human intervention.

Modeling And Renderibg

In the late 2010s, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning">machine learning </a>, and more precisely <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_networks">generative adversarial networks </a>(GAN), were used by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVIDIA">NVIDIA </a>to produce random yet photorealistic human-like portraits. The system, named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StyleGAN">StyleGAN </a>, was trained on a database of 70,000 images from the images depository website <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr">Flickr </a>. The source code was made public on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub">GitHub </a>in 2019. Outputs of the generator network from random input were made publicly available on a number of websites.

Machine Learning

Similarly, since 2018, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake">deepfake </a>technology has allowed GANs to swap faces between actors; combined with the ability to fake voices, GANs can thus generate fake videos that seem convincing.

Deepfake

This is what early 2010 to 2018 tech was doing under your nose. Now it's much more complicated.  Stay woke. 

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“Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire.”

You saw his work in Neon Genesis Evangelion: Comic Tribute...depicting the truth about Rei with great sensitivity...wait, that's not the right word. What's the opposite of "great sensitivity"? Well, whatever it is, Tony Takezaki's got it, in this collection of all-new stories satirizing both the Evangelion you saw on TV, as well as some scenes that apparently never got aired! SEE! Eva as a 1960s TV show! SEE! Kaworu and Shinji's standup comedy career! SEE! Ritsuko's days as Gendo's student intern! SEE! Eva Units, flinging dookie! You'll see all that and more, because this is Tony Takezaki's Neon Genesis Evangelion!

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Philosophy

You saw his work in Neon Genesis Evangelion: Comic Tribute...depicting the truth about Rei with great sensitivity...wait, that's not the right word. What's the opposite of "great sensitivity"? Well, whatever it is, Tony Takezaki's got it, in this collection of all-new stories satirizing both the Evangelion you saw on TV, as well as some scenes that apparently never got aired! SEE! Eva as a 1960s TV show! SEE! Kaworu and Shinji's standup comedy career! SEE! Ritsuko's days as Gendo's student intern! SEE! Eva Units, flinging dookie! You'll see all that and more, because this is Tony Takezaki's Neon Genesis Evangelion!

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Tony Takezaki's Neon Evangelion

"I can only show you the door, you're the one that has to walk through it"

A pre-production archive of the artwork and conceptual drawings prepared for the production of "The Matrix" offers storyboards, interviews with the artists and other participants, and other commentary, along with the script.

The art was the best thing about the movie. This book provides an opportunity to appreciate it without the blight of Keanu Reeves' acting. Serving as a pre-production archive of the work related to The Matrix, this coffee table edition includes the complete script, along with stills from the movie, four double-sided gatefolds featuring conceptual drawings, and commentary by the artists. Some in color, some in black and white, approximately 700 storyboards (including three cut from the final film) tell the story with a comic book sensibility. Author William Gibson provides an afterword. c. Book News Inc.

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“Machines have less problems. I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you.”

Andy Warhol wasn’t just creating art, he was creating contemporary culture. Warhol's "Factory" was his tool for creating progressive culture. He was able to jump from generation to generation and remain relevant.

Warhol's Impact on the Art World

Andy Warhol predicted that everybody in the future will receive at least <a href="https://www.npr.org/2008/10/08/95516647/warhol-was-right-about-15-minutes-of-fame">15 minutes of fame</a>. This couldn't be more true with the boom of the internet in the technological age.

15 Minutes of Fame

Warhol had a strong relationship with <a href="https://www.basquiat.com">Jean-Michel Basquiat</a>. They were well acquainted and collaborated on a series of pieces. Later in their careers, they fell out and rarely spoke. Eventually, Warhol passed in a hospital and Basquiat passed due to an overdose of various drugs.

Andy's Bond with Basquiat

“Most young kings get their head cut off”

"The Andy Warhol Diaries" on Netflix was highly influential to me. The docu-series highlighted some of my favorite artists including Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The series emphasized the importance of Andy Warhol's contribution to contemporary culture.

After he's shot in 1968, Andy Warhol begins documenting his life and feelings. Those diaries, and this series, reveal the secrets behind his persona. Watch trailers & learn more.

Watch The Andy Warhol Diaries

"Sometimes good people make bad choices, it doesn't mean they are bad people. It means they are human."

The Ghoul–CCG alliance secures its first victory when it rescues Kaneki from the monster he was entombed within. But the creature still poses a dire threat to the city as it continues to birth mutant Ghouls, some of which are infecting humans with a horrific form of Ghoulism! The only cure lies deep in the belly of the beast itself, and Kaneki is determined to find it. But will this act of bravery be the final strike to end the war or Kaneki’s last stand?! -- VIZ Media

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The Regency refers to the years between 1811–1820 in British history, when George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, was incapacitated by illness. His son, also called George, assumed the throne in a regency. George III was still the king in name, his son ruled as Prince Regent, and after George III’s death in 1820, the prince assumed the throne as George IV.More broadly, the Regency period refers to a subsection of the Georgian era (1714–c1830/37) and is often extended to the death of George IV in 1830, when the crown passed to William IV (the third son of George III, and younger brothe<warningtag>r to George IV).</warningtag>

When was the Regency era?

The Ton comes from the French phrase le bon ton, which roughly translates as “good manners” or “good taste”. It was the name given to elite society in the Regency period. During the early 19th-century, these were the values expected to be observed by members of the beau monde, or “beautiful world”, of fashionable society.As shown in Bridgerton, etiquette was rigorously observed in this world, and strict etiquette governed the social season: from which daughters were ‘out’ in society, to how many dances one person could allot to another, to the secret language of the fan.

What is the Ton?

The king and queen at the time Bridgerton is set are King George III and Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. However, George III is not the ruling monarch; his son is ruling Great Britain and Ireland as Prince Regent.Prince Regent is not shown on-screen; Bridgerton instead chooses to place his mother, Queen Charlotte (played by Golda Rosheuvel), at the centre of the drama. At Queen Charlotte’s court, protocol was everything. This sense of protocol is crucial in Bridgerton, as we see the queen dictate many of the rules of this society.

Who are the king and queen in Bridgerton?

In Bridgerton, it is the job of Queen Charlotte to name a debutante as the pick of the social season, a so-called ‘diamond of the first water’. While the phrase ‘diamond of the first water’ was never used to single out any one young woman who would top the season, it is true that certain women were marked by the press of the day as great beauties. Their names would appear in newspapers, they would be written about and publicly celebrated, becoming celebrities of the season; on occasion, they were ranked, with scoresheets.

What is the ‘diamond of the first water’?

Lady Whistledown’s scandal sheet underpins almost all the action in Bridgerton.
A key difference is that in the real scandal sheets and magazines of the day, the subjects of gossip would not have been named. Their identities might have been very loosely disguised; someone might have just printed their initials, like the Duke of H instead of the Duke of Hastings. But it was so obvious who they were talking about. It was a way to get around libel laws. There would have been no point in having these columns if we didn’t know who they were talking about.

Were there gossip sheets like Lady Whistledown’s Society Papers?

Is your knowledge of Regency history up to snuff? As we prepare to return to the opulent world of the Ton, we present a guide to the snippets of Georgian detail that you might spot on screen in Bridgerton…

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History

Bridgerton Real History & Historical Accuracy Explained

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