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Uncanny Valley (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 months ago by Track_Shovel to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] Bezzelbob@lemmy.world 60 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Not necessarily fear it's just most of the time today it's used in horror

Back then it was probably used to differentiate Neanderthals

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 52 points 5 months ago (1 children)

or corpses

[–] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Or Lizard people first trying to study us.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Well, I didn't vote for them.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Lizard people are a dumb conspiracy!

licks eyes angrily

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I doubt that premise. Neanderthals looked different, but not uncanny valley. Horror and fear may have been involved sometimes, but so was sex and competition... Neanderthals probably just looked like big chinless people

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

According to commercial genetics testing, I'm more Neanderthal than 90% of other people that used the same major company. My ancestors were into some kinky 👉👌

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

They like that caveussy

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You know they sell your genetic data?

The hunter killer bots are going to find you so dang fast in the robot revolution, rip

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

prolly 🤷‍♂️ i got it done about 10 yrs ago when i wasnt aware of all that.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This made me look up what a Neanderthal would look like in modern clothing and this was one of the results:

Asmongold?...