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Uncanny Valley (slrpnk.net)
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[–] Bezzelbob@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

or corpses

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

Or Lizard people first trying to study us.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lizard people are a dumb conspiracy!

licks eyes angrily

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Well, I didn't vote for them.

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

They like that caveussy

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

Asmongold?...