February 16th, 2009 | EarthBound, Images

For some reason, all I can think of is
“Dave? Dave’s not here, man”
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Homer: Ha ha ha! He’s so high he doesn’t know where he lives!
Marge: Homer…
Homer: Homer’s not here man! HAHAHA!!!
Sorry, random Simpson’s quotes get me through life.
Space Monster: Whoa! I think there was something weird in that hippy. My hands are huuuuuge.
Yes, I quote Futurama too…
Holy crap an undulating jpg (okay png), what is this magic
Also can’t explain why but for a while I always perceived New Age Retro Hippies as lion-men of some sort, which in a game as bizarre as EarthBound was really didn’t seem so comparably strange
Once I learned it was just the hair it took me a while to adjust my vision each time I saw them again.
Whoa, that’s trippy as one of the first things I saw when waking up this morning.
![]() | Aurilliux said on Feb. 16, 2009 |
Woo… pretty awake now, haha.
![]() | mitch said on Feb. 16, 2009 |
Eagleland-Americans, love education so they go to night school and take Spanish and get a ‘B’!
Woah, it’s like I’m actually fighting one of the hippies in-game…I love optical illusions. 😀
![]() | rayefrenzy said on Feb. 16, 2009 |
YER BLOWIN MAH MIND, MAN.
Looks more like a sad face than a moustache on the hippie. Never thought about that until now, but I have always viewed it like that.
WAIT, I HEAR SMOKE!
AHH! MIASMA!
![]() | GoldenEevee said on Feb. 16, 2009 |
I.. I can’t unsee it….
The only thing I can think of while watching this is:
agaezfdfihihddsfdfs
I’d love a bigger version I could use as my wallpaper, even if I know that I won’t last more than a day before the headaches make me change it…
It’s only made worse by the glaring pixels that drag your eyes around, warping the colours as you see the tiny tiny errors. Or maybe not errors, but intentional extra pixels.
OH. MY. GOSH.
I thought that was a .gif at first, but it’s not?
that’s weird. how does it do that?
I love illusions! Very interesting and…entertaining.
I can’t believe I caught myself mesmerized by this picture for like 5 minutes.
“Dave? Dave’s not here, man”
😀 Do you happen to watch Code Monkeys? I love that cartoon. Trippy pic though, kind hurts my eyes. XD
Do you think this would still work if I were to make a poster and then hang it on my wall?
This is just plain sweet.
(I know, what a great contribution to the discussion, eh?).
🙂
![]() | Mato said on Feb. 17, 2009 |
beelzebub06660: Yes, I do like Code Monkeys, but it’s actually from a Cheech and Chong comedy routine.
Is that an optical illusion, or an animation? Wait, it’s neither. I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING WEIRD IN THAT LEFTOVER SPAGHETTI!!!
![]() | Poe said on Feb. 17, 2009 |
This sorta makes my brain hurt o_O
Holy crap! I just realized from a previous post that isn’t a .gif! Damn my pathetic human eyes!
![]() | Jean said on Feb. 18, 2009 |
W…woah. If anything’s like being Mushroomized, that’s definitely it. @_e
Bah, it doesn’t work on me. =/ I’ve *never* been able to do those magic eye puzzles either no matter how hard I try.
Hmm, a comment here helped me see it a *little* bit, by following those noticable pixels around. When I do that, I can kinda get the effect.
![]() | Cafechan said on Feb. 18, 2009 |
This made me really dizzy… eek.
wow that’s freakin awesome. i THINK it’s an optical illusion cause when i stare right at the hippy it slowly stops… either way that pattern brings back some fond memories when it’s moving.
I am a sucker for optical illusions like this. It’s like… whoaaaa…
![]() | Leirin said on Feb. 21, 2009 |
Holy crap. I had to like, check the file format just to make sure it wasn’t a gif animation that was going in and out like waves. CAUSE I SWEAR I SAW IT DO THAT. Sooo awesome.
![]() | MW said on Mar. 17, 2009 |
If you look at it with one eye shut, the trippy illusion slowly dissipates.
OK, I went back to the trippy hippy last night while trippin. It was crazy. I mean, hell, it’s crazy when you’re sober. I remembered it last night while trippin and we found it again. It was sweet, I could almost control the waves with my mind.
Great. Now I’m gonna stumble around the room until it wears off. Cool though.
I can’t decide if I love it or hate it…it’s just awesome that way.
![]() | dark-karito said on May. 4, 2009 |
Oh my gawd it moooooooveeessss …..sweet…
Gasp, too much TaneTane mushrooms…” @__@
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..
…
….Neat, Bob Marley is in my room. Singing 🙂
NessNessNessNessNessNessNessNessNessNessNessNess….
![]() | Shamu said on May. 27, 2009 |
Oh my god
I CAN’T STOP CRYING
-You encounter the Mushroom Hippie!
-BlueLightning attacks!
-Mushroom Hippie suffered 80 damage!
-Mushroom Hippie tried LifeUp Gamma!
-Mushroom Hippie’s HP is maxed out!
-BlueLightning tried PK Nova Alpha!
-Mushroom Hippie suffered 200 damage!
-Mushroom Hippie scattered some spores!
-BlueLightning was hurt and beaten!
YOU WIN!!!(lolwut?)
Mato… I’m not sure if you have a flash program going on in the background making it move but… MY EYES HURT.
I’ve seen this kind of trick before. An optical illusion that uses an inanimate image format (this one uses PNG). My eyes are drawing in, but the hippie totally breaks the illusion whenever I focus in the centre.~
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Dude…
This is SOOO trippy, man… it’s like… the only thing in the world that’s tellin’ it like it is… is this PICTURE.
It feels like… I’m eating a RAINBOW you know? Like, a rainbow with James Knox Polk and Mr.T on it…
The only question I have is… like… where’s bigfoot’s gold at the end of the rainbow? It’s, like, against the LAW for it to not be there…
Woah…
Sorry man, but you mind calling me “The Dude” from now on? That would be jivin’.