Last week’s Rorschach Inkblot Test using Epitaph’s Halo 3 global heatmap was particularly interesting because while there were a few people who agreed about what they saw, the vast majority of the answers were unique. This time around only 15.5% of the answers were video game related compared to 26% the week before. Since there wasn’t a prevalent answer, I will compare and contrast my favorite two answers in images.
Susie said it resembled a “cruciform plan, short nave, wide transept, round ambulatory at the end — it looks really similar to the plan of Chartres Cathedral.” (BlueNinja and Skinnydude said something similar as well.)
Annnnnano thought it simply looked like an “overhead view of a Mauler” (with JawReich agreeing).
I’d also like to give an honorable mention to Locket Raunchers for saying the same thing I was thinking. “Honestly, first thing that came to mind was Epitaph from above, with the lower level filled with a pool of blood. I suck at this.” It’s ok, I suck at it too.
This week has awesome potential though with our Rorschach Inkblot Test image being Last Resort. So tell me, what do you see when looking at this picture? As always, extra nonexistent points awarded for originality.
Posted by TTL Snatch250 on January 18, 2008 at 7:05 am
A nuclear explosion from above, in black and white, with heat sensors on.
Posted by -S- on January 18, 2008 at 7:19 am
It’s a Metroid from the Metroid game series, complete with nuclei and dangling little claws
Posted by Louis Wu on January 18, 2008 at 7:20 am
Some sort of flying contraption, with a gun on top (and maybe a shield above that)
…nah, I got nothing.
Posted by Leihcim on January 18, 2008 at 7:51 am
First thing that came to my mind: I think it looks, like a skull…
Posted by darklotusspartan on January 18, 2008 at 7:52 am
Looks just a bit like the Millenium Falcon
Posted by burninator on January 18, 2008 at 7:56 am
i see what louis is saying…but i think more like a scarab that deployed a giant bubble shield
Posted by cappy on January 18, 2008 at 7:58 am
Millenium Falcon
Posted by Rhayader on January 18, 2008 at 8:10 am
It looks like a diagonally-positioned alien from Space Invaders to me, with its head towards the top left of the circle, and its tentacle-thingies toward the bottom right of the circle.
Posted by Skinnydude on January 18, 2008 at 8:17 am
Some sort of Cthulhu styled alien head. I mean, you can even see the tentacles down at the bottom and eyes up towards the top.
Posted by NovaHunter on January 18, 2008 at 8:18 am
I see an exploding plasma grenade.
Posted by Mithal on January 18, 2008 at 8:32 am
I kinda see a forerunner glyph.
Posted by sander on January 18, 2008 at 8:50 am
a very abstract gordon freeman
Posted by Gatchaman UK on January 18, 2008 at 8:51 am
The bottom part looks a bit like a milipede or something…
The top is definately a dinosaur’s body (Some kind of long-necked one) with a screaming ghost for a head. Oh, and the ghost has a wrecking-ball for an arm. :)
…I did my best!
Posted by Caleb on January 18, 2008 at 9:01 am
Bowling ball. You can kinda see 3 holes in the top left quadrant.
Posted by wolfy on January 18, 2008 at 9:14 am
it looks like a storm on a Doppler radar, that’s probably cuz it don’t look like anything
Posted by DragonFire on January 18, 2008 at 9:16 am
Its like a… its like a thing…
Posted by Grant on January 18, 2008 at 9:21 am
Death Star. also, with all the strange long red lines, I assume those are corridors on the sea wall, it reminds me of the guy’s nose from A Clockwork Orange
Posted by Crazyeye0 on January 18, 2008 at 9:34 am
I agree with -S-
Posted by momohine on January 18, 2008 at 10:06 am
Mister Chief!
Posted by Grady on January 18, 2008 at 10:06 am
Looks like the Arbiter’s Mark of Shame to me.
Posted by Kanian on January 18, 2008 at 10:20 am
It looks like a seahorse swimming near some coral/
Posted by chaelek on January 18, 2008 at 10:32 am
darn, yeah, mister chief, you beat me to it
Posted by phorth on January 18, 2008 at 10:38 am
can’t help but think it’s one of the eggs from aliens or some other game/movie franchise.
Posted by retinence on January 18, 2008 at 10:44 am
If you start at the top it looks like dragon head. Then if you follow it across you see the neck then the body. And the giant red spot can be the wing stretching from the body.
Posted by Craig on January 18, 2008 at 10:51 am
C3PO
Posted by BattleMaster25 on January 18, 2008 at 10:57 am
It’s either a space invader or the thing from Metroid.
Posted by retinence on January 18, 2008 at 10:59 am
on second thought it looks like the che guevara of the cuban revolution. google him to see his image if you dont know who he is.
Posted by Twilight Ronin on January 18, 2008 at 11:00 am
The first thing that came to mind, was the oddball. But then I looked at it for a bit longer, and I see Pac-man eating one of the ghosts.
Posted by Sgt Nomad Zero on January 18, 2008 at 11:05 am
yeah I’d have to say the Deathstar with some TIE fighters.
Posted by solidmercury on January 18, 2008 at 11:21 am
A dragon, protecting something with its wings. hmm, looks like I’m not the first to see it.
Posted by Mike on January 18, 2008 at 11:28 am
I see…a snail, crawling along a straight razor…
Posted by www on January 18, 2008 at 12:05 pm
JELLYFISH…
but initial thought was Millenium Falcon
Posted by Geoff Morton on January 18, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I see a dragon. Giant roundish body, wings curled up, with the neck arcing up from the left to the top, eyes staring east.
Posted by stavie on January 18, 2008 at 12:56 pm
it’s definitely something
Posted by Wolf on January 18, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Bomb armed….Bomb planted…..bomb exploded!
It looks like the heat signature of the bomb on assault after it had gone off.
Posted by Falco LX on January 18, 2008 at 1:49 pm
A mushroom or a tree from above.
And there’s a definite kill spike at the beach spawn point. Not like anyone spawnkills.
Posted by Matt on January 18, 2008 at 2:26 pm
From what I understand, it’s actually supposed to be modeled after the common cathedral design. The cross shape is how almost every cathedral or church is designed.
Posted by bs angel on January 18, 2008 at 2:30 pm
I believe you are right Matt. Louis Wu pointed me in the direction of this article, Halo 3 Turns French Cathedral Into Electronic Battleground. I didn’t know any of that, it’s actually pretty cool.
Posted by yowler18 on January 18, 2008 at 2:40 pm
looks like a skull to me
Posted by Sheepe on January 18, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Its the IRIS symbol! Not exactly straight though…
Posted by Joe on January 18, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I’m seeing the logo from Soldiers of Anarchy. Anyone else play that game?
Posted by Radiago on January 18, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Someone aggroed too much….
(I only lately became the latest WoW addict….)
Posted by Monty Python on January 18, 2008 at 3:54 pm
A messed up Punisher skull.
Posted by Susie on January 18, 2008 at 3:58 pm
yay!! :-D
Posted by Huero on January 18, 2008 at 4:43 pm
A tumor.
I see a tumor.
Posted by Fuseli on January 18, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Looks like an MRI scan of a brain.
Posted by ckamp on January 18, 2008 at 5:17 pm
I agree the the metroid and millennium falcon votes.
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Posted by IcemanX on January 18, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Looks like the Death Star 2 during construction, from Return of the Jedi. Has the shape, and looks under construsction.
Posted by Zoom on January 18, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Looks like a fireman, in complete uniform, shooting a bow and arrow towards the ocean.
Posted by Harbi Darbi on January 18, 2008 at 8:07 pm
industrial saw blade and part of the mouning arm
that or the gauntlet arm weapon from the quake series
Posted by MinkOWar on January 18, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Dragon wrapping the world in its wings…
(head is at the top of the heatmap, in profile.)
Posted by Beefloafian on January 18, 2008 at 9:42 pm
It’s a Dragon laying on it’s back.
Most definitely.
Posted by ThorsHammer on January 18, 2008 at 10:24 pm
The Oddball, of course.
“skull”. pffft.
Posted by lestweforget on January 18, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Pizza Pie from outerspace that’s come to take G.Bush home.
Posted by Heather Smith on January 19, 2008 at 1:11 am
I think it looks like Meatwad…
Posted by corinthus on January 19, 2008 at 5:02 am
Totally the Death Star.
Posted by biobin on January 19, 2008 at 5:17 am
i feel it as a man’s head in this world & he is thinking about his sourroundings & the yellow ,blue & dark spots his thoughts .above it we some objects like trees far apart
Posted by Peniamina on January 19, 2008 at 7:21 am
It looks like a half decayed dragon? i dunno i suck at this.
Posted by discopete on January 19, 2008 at 7:00 pm
uhh ik its already been sed, but def metroid
Posted by Someone on January 20, 2008 at 8:08 am
Japanese dragon curled up in a spiral?
Posted by NsU Soldier on January 20, 2008 at 10:03 am
Sort of looks like a smudged forerunner symbol.
Posted by jugg beaver on January 20, 2008 at 4:08 pm
i see a dragon flying over a combine dropship.
Posted by snorkle256 on January 21, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Looks to me like some people dancing around a fire or something, look closely and you can see they are holding hands as they run around it.
Posted by edcalaban on January 21, 2008 at 1:39 pm
First thing that came to mind was a frag with the pin on top.
Also looks a little like the Army of Two guy’s mask after getting shot or something.
Posted by Josh on January 21, 2008 at 3:12 pm
A dog with a really long tail.
Posted by Parsifal on January 22, 2008 at 5:45 am
Another vote for Mister Chief.
Posted by Ben on January 22, 2008 at 2:01 pm
I was thinking it looked like the Deathstar too.
Posted by Syrok on January 24, 2008 at 4:09 pm
What’s the character from the Mario games with the mushroom head? Toad? that’s what i see.