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Unread 11-23-2011, 05:49 PM   #1
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Default Does the uncanny valley bother you?

The uncanny valley for those of you that dont know, is the point where something appears human, but is just inhuman enough to be very unsettling. Its something I have been putting alot of thought into particularly in how to capture it for the sake of horror.

Though as I looked into example and analysis of it I notice something, for the most part its not unsettling to me. Not to say I dont understand it, or that I am never abit bothered by it. But for the most part it just doesn't bother me.

Not entirely sure why. Maybe its because I'm an aspie and whole crux of aspergers is difficulty in noticing such minor changes, or because as the forum has seen I have a somewhat dark sense of humor. I have certainly laughed at several things people find fundamentally creepy. Then again maybe I am just too analytical. Its the whole that's unsettling about the uncanny valley, how the parts don't quite fit together. So if you mentally dissect and examine each component on its own and understand it, its not really scary anymore.

But maybe all of that is wrong, and what I am really missing is that the uncanny valley is not as big of a deal as its made out to be and most people are like me, only mildly bothered or indifferent about it. That the things just look fake and silly, not unsettling and scary
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Unread 11-23-2011, 06:19 PM   #2
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Aero. There are two NPF rules, unwritten, of course, that you have failed to take into account with this post.

One, you do not link to the time sink wiki.
Two, YOU DO NOT LINK TO THE TIME SINK WIKI.

Now that that's out of the way... life in general, not to mention the imageboard from hell and just general internet browsering has desensitized me to many things your average joe would find genuinely sick and disturbing. I have no gag reflex when it comes to the truly depraved or highly questionable... there are things I find distasteful, but I just won't look at them.

Ergo, things in the "uncanny valley" department do not faze me. Horror flicks are boring to me, because I can take them apart at the trope level of detail and thus they all become predictable.
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Unread 11-23-2011, 06:38 PM   #3
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I looked through some of the examples in the tropes article and I think I classify most of them as looking silly or stupid, not "unsettling." Then again it might be because I'm not an aspie. Wait.
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Unread 11-23-2011, 06:45 PM   #4
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Best thing to bother me in the uncanny valley area is the whole conflicting evidence that there is a normal person nearby, or a monster, or a monster person nearby. It's not about what's at the end of the hallway, but everything you notice trying to get there.
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Unread 11-23-2011, 06:48 PM   #6
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Best thing to bother me in the uncanny valley area is the whole conflicting evidence that there is a normal person nearby, or a monster, or a monster person nearby. It's not about what's at the end of the hallway, but everything you notice trying to get there.
not entirely sure what you mean, are you saying its the context about it? That its only creepy if there is the possibility of it being an actual threat, or more a contrast that its when compared to whats around it but if everything looks like that then its fine?
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Most things in the uncanny valley creep me out. Like those Japanese robots made to look like humans.
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