{"id":481,"date":"2006-08-06T21:32:24","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T13:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2006\/08\/2006_08_06_2132.php"},"modified":"2006-08-06T21:32:24","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T13:32:24","slug":"if-i-could-look-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/06\/if-i-could-look-different","title":{"rendered":"If I could look different…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tried using an image transformation tool<\/a> which claims to interpolate what a subject would look like when he\/she has a different set of racial traits. After these results – I guess I wouldn’t want to be any other race after all hahaha.<\/p>\n

I set the “base” settings to the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Male – obviously<\/li>\n
  2. West Asian – Honestly I don’t look like any of the choices. In fact my GF’s sister asked her the same question: “ano ba si Carlo? Hindi mestizo\/puti, pero hindi din mukhang Pinoy.”<\/em> I certainly don’t think I look Chinese, but while I’m far from western-asian looking, I guess it was the closest choice I could make.<\/li>\n
  3. Teenager – because, while I am<\/em> old, people say I still look like a kid. And compared to Americans, all of us Filipinos look like high school students.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n

    This is the source image I used, since it’s the only image I had that was closest to looking straight ahead with a deadpan expression:<\/p>\n\"\"\n

    Here are the results:<\/p>\n

    Apparently my look at my age today is all wrong. I should look like the image below. I call it the sleazy-child-molester-uncle-person-man<\/em><\/p>\n\"\"\n

    Then apparently, I was a girl<\/strong> during my childhood.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

    Which is very confusing… because according to the engine, a girl me should in fact look like this:<\/p>\n\"\"\n

    Quite honestly, I think my current, unaltered,<\/em> look is prettier than what “woman” variant this application can spit out. What’s worse is that as caucasian, I look much more like a woman hahaha.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

    Or maybe like those role-playing game elven characters. Perhaps this is my chance to be a Legolas… a fucking gay Legolas.<\/p>\n

    On the other side of the spectrum, we have me as a black person. God is playing some sick joke on me as I think I look like Sam Cassel… one of the fugliest<\/em> players to grace the NBA.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

    But then I guess it was better than being drunk… which made me look like this abortion of a black man: Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

    The East-Asian<\/em> image is quite convincing though. But I’d sooner call it Chinese<\/em> than East-Asian.<\/em> See for yourselves:<\/p>\n\"\"\n

    As a bonus, the application has stylized renderings, such as what I would look like as an anime character:<\/p>\n\"\"\n

    OOPS, no wait – that’s not the right one. Oh, here it is:<\/p>\n\"\"\n

    Pretty close eh?<\/p>\n

    How about as an old person:<\/p>\n\"\"\n

    I dub myself Chief Time-has-passed.<\/em> Since when did being old translate to being a Native American Indian?<\/p>\n

    Of all the pictures this is arguably the closest to what I looked like:<\/p>\n\"\"\n

    Now that’s<\/em> accuracy for you!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I tried using an image transformation tool which claims to interpolate what a subject would look like when he\/she has a different set of racial traits. After these results – I guess I wouldn’t want to be any other race after all hahaha. I set the “base” settings to the following: Male – obviously West …

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