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Stefan Jones
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10-25-2002 03:38 PM ET (US)
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Fascinating!
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| ernie
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10-25-2002 06:26 PM ET (US)
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I LOVE IT!
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| Stefan Jones
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10-25-2002 07:35 PM ET (US)
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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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| Meriadoc
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10-25-2002 08:24 PM ET (US)
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Thank you for explaining why the infamous "Dancing Baby" was so utterly creepy.
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| Dan Kaminsky
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10-26-2002 11:36 PM ET (US)
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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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| Stefan Jones
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10-28-2002 02:53 PM ET (US)
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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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| Eric Iverson
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05-29-2009 07:37 PM ET (US)
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There is no such thing as an uncanny valley. Everything is creepy until you get used to it.
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