Our Rorschach Inkblot Test activities formally ended back in February. When the Legendary Map Pack was released (along with three corresponding heatmaps), I began getting requests to start them up again. Apparently people enjoyed analyzing their own and possibly even each other’s entertaining, often hilarious answers. I’m game if you’re game so for a limited time only the inkblot tests are back!
We never examined the answers from our last inkblot activity so that gives us a great place to start. Back on February 15th we used the global heatmap from Foundry which definitely sparked everybody’s imagination. Nick Manning was the first person to notice the resemblance to a face hugger from the Alien film series, and Twilight Ronin, nyota0uhura, wolfy, the other dark, and Nace all saw something disgustingly similar.
Gross. Seriously. Can you imagine? Thankfully Elnea came along shortly after the face hugger reference to distract us with this delightful gem. “Oh, that’s CLEARLY that scene in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Los Ark where Indy and Marion are tied to a post and the angels of Death are whirling around them.“
Is there another answer that can beat that one? I think not (!) so let’s look at this week’s picture. Today’s Rorschach Inkblot Test image is everybody’s favorite old map but not everybody’s favorite new map. You guessed it, it’s Blackout (and yes, I’m bitter). So tell me, what do you see? Remember, extra nonexistent points for originality!
Posted by AusQB on April 25, 2008 at 3:29 am
I see a handheld rotary double-headed hammer.
The vertical line is the handle, and the other two are hammer heads. The one on the left is facing down and the one on the right facing up. Hold a button and the two heads rotate counter-clockwise.
Consider it Homer’s auto-hammer v2.0
Posted by Penguinish on April 25, 2008 at 3:55 am
It looks alot like Scale to me
This kind of scale
http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2663047/2/istockphoto_2663047_scales_of_justice.jpg
Posted by pwkwsfi on April 25, 2008 at 4:00 am
reproductive organs (I’m sorry, but it’s what I saw)
complete with ovaries, a maze of fallopian tubes, uterus, and birth canal plus cervix.
no hyperlink for comparison. ask your parents.
Posted by BattleMaster25 on April 25, 2008 at 4:04 am
Looks like a Jack Hammer to me, with a right handle upside down, heh. That’s the first thing that came to my mind.
Posted by sithhead on April 25, 2008 at 4:18 am
Looks like a water faucet in a kitchen sink.
Posted by jake on April 25, 2008 at 5:01 am
I am going to agree with pwkwsfi
Posted by JeSteR 343 on April 25, 2008 at 5:21 am
Looks like a car axle and differential to me.
http://greengrove.se/singer_files/singer_images/rear_axle_lubrication.jpg
Posted by -S- on April 25, 2008 at 6:15 am
I am NOT a pervert. This is the first thing that came to mind.
http://www.tubal-reversal.net/images/ovulation-ovaries.jpg
Yes…the inside of the female hoo-ha. I’m not getting excited over it or anything, that’s just what it looks like lol
Posted by A Shaky Shotgun on April 25, 2008 at 6:45 am
It is Mjolnir, hammer of Thor. The vertical is Thor’s arm, the hammer head is on the right, and lightning is striking the hammer.
Posted by spiffv2 on April 25, 2008 at 7:42 am
It looks like one of those bobble birds that stick there nose in the water. only the nose is pointed straight up.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/additional/large/drinking_bird_beak.jpg
Posted by Sigafoos on April 25, 2008 at 8:26 am
The part on the right is the meat grinder from the Another Brick in the Wall Part II video. I guess the part on the left leads up to it, so it’s a hopper to allow for more kids at a time. Then the extension at the bottom is just for support and stability.
Stop looking at me like that.
Posted by DragonKnight08 on April 25, 2008 at 9:21 am
Either a crane for building or the letter T
Posted by retinence on April 25, 2008 at 9:33 am
It looks like a Hornet about to perform a barrel roll.
Posted by Dubble.utoo on April 25, 2008 at 9:38 am
I see an Oil pump. Or an arm with dumbbells. :-\
Posted by sttng7 on April 25, 2008 at 10:21 am
I see two monkeys on a see-saw (why is called that anyways?)
Posted by Johnus Maximus on April 25, 2008 at 10:32 am
Looks to me like a flux capacitor.
Although that might just be because I banged my head on the bathroom sink earlier.
Posted by BBJynne on April 25, 2008 at 10:54 am
a water fauset
Posted by Guy on April 25, 2008 at 11:09 am
It looks like a Blackout heat map.
Posted by xxxshabutiexxx on April 25, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Looks like an arm lifting weights.
Posted by Kyle on April 25, 2008 at 1:51 pm
sttng7: i always wondered how a see-saw got its name, i imagine because since when you use a see-saw, you go up, then down, and again and again. since your perspective is changing from high to low, you can see everything from an elevated point, but when you return back to the grown, what you have just seen is in past tense…. for instance… “hey look what i can SEE from up here!… oh… nevermind, i only SAW it for a second.”
in response to the inkblot… looks like the workings of a female baby making apparatus.
Posted by Roflsalad on April 25, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Halo’s Magnum, Duh.
Posted by Dan on April 25, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Sorry, but the first thing that came to my mind too was the female reproductive organs.
Posted by spartin114 on April 25, 2008 at 3:14 pm
i think it looks like an axle on a car
Posted by Parker on April 25, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Turned 90 duhgrees Counter clockwise, it sorta looks like a chicken, or one of them stupid bird things in Adventure adventure
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Atariadventure.gif
Posted by J23 on April 25, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Either an alliterated T (Like in Medieval times or fancy books) or some sort of snazzy warhammer design that never made it past prototype.
Posted by Steev on April 25, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Definitely sure I see a Halo 1 Pistol in there.
Posted by Azrylle on April 25, 2008 at 4:20 pm
No, I DEFINITELY saw the uterus and ovaries first… I hardly had even looked at it before I thought that’s what it looked like, so everybody else who saw that first, don’t feel bad! lol
Posted by pwkwsfi on April 26, 2008 at 10:35 am
have you noticed that the location of the air lift is where the babies come out? Bungie must have meant to present this imagery.
Posted by Dan the Stick on April 26, 2008 at 10:51 am
I definitely see an arm holding up a gravity hammer horizontally