• pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com
    2·
    3 months ago

    Dimensions don’t have to be spatial or temporal. They can just be parameter spaces. So, how much water sprayed on you during the ride is a parameter with a value and hence a dimension.

    But yeah, this marketing phrase is only going to impress someone with the education of a six year old child.

  • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Are you… sure you want to know?

    Like at some point, after your standard 5 (vision, sound, touch, taste, & smell), those dimensions gotta start wrapping back around to where they started. And at that point they must have to go THROUGH your tissues to do it.

    I am saying that one of them surely is an electrified butt-plug. So that’s six, and after that… that’s where shit REALLY starts to get freaky!

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    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      I’m not sure you know what dimensions are… but then neither did whoever made this mall attraction.

      Also, come on, you show Pinhead but it isn’t Doug Bradley?

      • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Let’s not even go into whoever they dropped in after he left the tattered franchise. Oddly enough, the Hulu reboot/continuation(?) wasn’t that bad. Further note, it’s weirdly connected to an upcoming tenforward post I’m slapping together.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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          3 months ago

          If you want another connection between Hellraiser and Star Trek, Doug Bradley’s name was on the tip of my tongue and it just wasn’t coming to me, so I looked up Pinhead on Wikipedia.

          Pinhead was voiced by Fred Tatasciore- Lower Decks’ own Shaxs- in 2011’s Hellraiser: Revelations. He only did the voice, but there’s a link for you.

          • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Yup, saw that one earlier when i discovered there were a couple more entries to the franchise prior to the Hulu one. New line needs to drop their attachment almost as bad as Sony to Spider-Man. Almost.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    I once went to the booth operator of the nearby “4D” theatre, and asked what the fourth dimension was.

    Near as we could figure. It was water. The theatre sprayed you with water (probably a mist or something) as the “4th dimension”.

    I did not buy a ticket to the show.

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
      8·
      3 months ago

      Ive been in a couple of these and usually 4d means 3d movie with a combination of added physical effects in the room, common are

      • spray mist
      • blow wind
      • moving/shaking chairs

      Most fancy ive seen was the roof fake collapsing

      As a novelty attraction in an amusement there quite fun but i cant see it worth much of a premium over already overpriced movie tickets.

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I think m-theory pushes out to 13. String up to like 11. It gets mind melting after 5 because things are more existential based, not just simple physical properties. Like timelines enveloping time and dimensions within but expressing the conditions of existence. So it’s like you can totally travel to the future, but not in your own timeline. You’d need to locate where the future is “waiting” and manipulate things in such a way that it triggers without existing in your timeline. Since in order to return to the present, you’d need the future to still be waiting and every atom in your existence continuing as it did to continue to that future, which isn’t there yet, but exists… So that’s simple. But now where and how are timelines sustained? They can’t operate at the same time because time can be “distorted” in one place but not another resulting in different time values. There must be a dimension that expresses and governs this so universes remain connected but have their different dimensions and rules within.

    And it just keeps getting more and more mind fucky. If you were experiencing 9D—you actually are but don’t realise it—youd lack the mental fortitude to appreciate it, since your mind would be needing to be constantly understanding and perceiving 5 additional dimensions beyond time.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 months ago

    Well you’ve got hight, width, depth of course. As for the other six, you’ve got: time, parallel, perpendicular, alternate, Disney, and fnord.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      You make a good point, all movies are three dimensions (height, width, time), while some have the illusion of a fourth (depth).

      All movies are 3D.

  • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    I don’t know about 9D, but I once saw Avengers: Age of Ultron in 4D in a theater in Seoul, South Korea. It was a 3D film with moving seats, smells, and air that would blast in your face.

    During a car chase, you could smell burning rubber, or close-ups of women would have a whiff of perfume or flowers. During a shootout, you’d get fine blasts of air on either side of your face, like bullets barely missing your head. If someone took a hit, the seats would jolt violently. It also poked you in the back if someone was hit from behind. Not to mention, flying in any aircraft felt like you were on a rollercoaster; the seats would raise and lower and tilt in all directions. It was pretty intense. Like being on one of those Universal Studios rides at their theme park, except for an entire film.

      • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        This is a PSA but there are a handful of theaters that do 4D called 4DX theaters and you might have one near you if you live in the US. Regal theaters specifically usually have them.

        Went and saw Dune Pt2 in theaters and it was actually super fun. Shaking during the fight scenes, wind on your face when out on the dunes, lots of movement riding the sand worm, and water blasts and more.

        They’re super fun, look them up and maybe travel to one sometime.

        • Pra@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          I saw dune 2 in 4dx and I’m going to have to disagree… It was mostly just being mildly shaken, uncomfortably, for 10 seconds as you hope your food and drinks don’t spill in a hard chair. Not to mention expensive, I’m probably never gonna see a 4dx again

          • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 months ago

            It’s not for everyone but mildly shaken is not how I would describe it for me. They would be hard pressed to shake you or move you any faster without a seatbelt. The movie also doesn’t shake you for the entire time, but I’d say it’s on for a good 1/3rd of the movie. I was at my limit with it by the end for sure but that was fine. But maybe it varies from theater to theater.

            You’re correct though, they usually are more expensive. I went on a discounted day, my ticket was $14, but they are usually $20 which is double normal rate.

            So my advice is: If your movie is available in IMAX, go see it in the room adjacent. Or on a regular screen. Have your soda, popcorn, hotdog, whatever. Be comfortable. Then on another day, preferably discount night, come back to 4DX and don’t get a lot of food and drink. It will make you spill it.

            4DX isn’t meant to be comfy and relaxing. It’s an intense experience and isn’t for everyone. It was my second time with the movie though and if you’re going in expecting to be on a rollercoaster the entire time, it’s super fun if you already know the movie. Also, pick your movie carefully. They only do a dozen 4DX movies a year. Horror would be amazing with it but the more action packed, the more shaking. So choose wisely. And if you have kids, this is a must at least one time. They’ll have so much fun.

    • Baŝto@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      you could smell burning rubber, or close-ups of women would have a whiff of perfume

      That sounds horrible