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In the valley are monsters

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Eric Iverson
05-29-2009
07:37 PM ET (US)
 There is no such thing as an uncanny valley. Everything is creepy until you get used to it.
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Stefan JonesPerson was signed in when posted
10-28-2002
02:53 PM ET (US)
 DO NOT do as Dan suggests. You might pierce the fragile veil of sanity-preserving deception that hangs between our perceptions and mind-blasting terrors of Reality as it truly is.

Or, you might walk into something and bang your knee.
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Dan KaminskyPerson was signed in when posted
10-26-2002
11:36 PM ET (US)
 For an amazingly, astonishingly creepy experience, do this:

Look around. Look at every object you see.

Now decompose the scene in front of you into symmetrical chunks.

If you think about it, I just asked you to do the same thing twice.

"But I see something asymmetrical!" Watch how fast you can chunk it into symmetrical components, up to an including imagining said object without written characters, an obtruding mirror, or rotation.

--Dan
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MeriadocPerson was signed in when posted
10-25-2002
08:24 PM ET (US)
 Thank you for explaining why the infamous "Dancing Baby" was so utterly creepy.
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Stefan JonesPerson was signed in when posted
10-25-2002
07:35 PM ET (US)
 I think that character designers and authors probably have had a subconcious grasp of these rules. It explains why so few aliens are REALLY alien, why the Borg are so alarming (but why the nicely symmetrical Seven of Nine, um, isn't), and the appeal of "furries."
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erniePerson was signed in when posted
10-25-2002
06:26 PM ET (US)
 I LOVE IT!
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Stefan JonesPerson was signed in when posted
10-25-2002
03:38 PM ET (US)
 Fascinating!
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