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| Dream Creatures; Speculation of the subconcious! | |
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| Topic Started: Dec 10 2011, 01:34 PM (9,955 Views) | |
| Mike | Dec 16 2011, 05:24 PM Post #31 |
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due of uncanny valley, sometimes the least f*cked up are the most f*cked up. Hence why people obsess over humanoid aliens so much, they're more disturbing than inconceivable blobs (unless that inconceivable blob is being narrated by HP Lovecraft) |
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| Dragon | Dec 16 2011, 09:45 PM Post #32 |
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/r/GamingCirclejerk is the best subreddit, don't @ me
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It's really odd how those aliens look so much like humans, yet that exact feature makes them creepy and disturbing. Also, what's uncanny valley? |
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"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life," John 3:16 A neat pixel animation of a future cowboy
I think this describes what dinosaurs are like now Click for something good. Click this too. | |
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| Kamidio | Dec 17 2011, 02:52 AM Post #33 |
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The Game Master of the SSU:NC
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This is the uncanny valley. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UncannyValley Various things in it include medical robots, aformentioned aliens, and similar such things. The uncanny valley is also where racism comes from. It's a survival thing. |
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| zaktan | Dec 17 2011, 03:25 AM Post #34 |
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That thing looks cute, however I'm not sure how efficient that method of propulsion is. I can't really remember any of my dreams, and those I could didn't involve much animals, just people. |
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| Jasonguppy | Dec 17 2011, 08:13 PM Post #35 |
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why'd you link to tvtropes? I was on there for hours... |
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I do art sometimes. "if you want green eat a salad" Projects: Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs. Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes. ❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️ | |
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| seascorpion | Dec 18 2011, 01:31 AM Post #36 |
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Why Can't I Hold All These Mongols?
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Just to clear something up, dreams are not 'junk data'. We actually have very little information on dreams. The closest you can get to an explanation of what a dream actually happens to be is that dreams vary greatly in how they are perceived, how they look (some people dream in black & white only, other's dreams may be fuzzy or appear out of focus (so to speak)etc). Dreams vary even more in what the content is, some have dreams that are surreal, others just dream about what happened that day. Glad we sorted that out. Anyway, whenever an animal appears in my dreams, it is normally mythical or supernatural. I have had dreams in which I was in a zoo where all the animals where either made of fire or out of smoke. The zoo was very 'Victorian' in the style of architecture. I've had a dream involving there being a weather prediction for a storm of 'dragons' , it was like a giant tornado of fire that seemed to be sapient.I have no idea what they mean, they seem less 'scientific' than some dreams here Edited by seascorpion, Dec 18 2011, 01:32 AM.
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| TAXESbutNano | Dec 18 2011, 03:20 AM Post #37 |
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I'm going back to basics.
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It was more of a night day-dream, but yesterday, I imagined this really weird creature. It was purple and had a lumpy skin texture, the front pair of legs were like a daggerwrist's except rounded off, and the back pair were sort of mammalian but had the same look as the front pair. To top it off, it had a head that looked like Stygolimoch's. |
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| Jasonguppy | Dec 18 2011, 09:08 AM Post #38 |
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Cardinal
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I do art sometimes. "if you want green eat a salad" Projects: Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs. Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes. ❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️ | |
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| Kamidio | Dec 18 2011, 11:42 AM Post #39 |
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UMAD?
Victorian with smoke animals. STEAMPUNK ZOO. |
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| Jasonguppy | Dec 18 2011, 01:36 PM Post #40 |
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I do art sometimes. "if you want green eat a salad" Projects: Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs. Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes. ❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️ | |
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| Kamidio | Dec 18 2011, 04:17 PM Post #41 |
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I'm serious Seascorp. A steampunk zoo is a wonderful premise for a novel. Do it. |
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| trex841 | Dec 18 2011, 04:40 PM Post #42 |
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it is an interesting idea. |
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F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team. At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting. (And this is just the spec related stuff) | |
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| Jasonguppy | Dec 19 2011, 12:52 PM Post #43 |
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Cardinal
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Yeah that is interesting. I was noing uer umad |
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I do art sometimes. "if you want green eat a salad" Projects: Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs. Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes. ❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️ | |
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| Zorcuspine | Dec 20 2011, 02:17 PM Post #44 |
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Enjoying our azure blue world
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I had a dream of a possum the size of a tiger. It looked and acted like a dog but had the color pattern of a zebra and a pouch |
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| Cephylus | Dec 21 2011, 02:00 AM Post #45 |
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Torando of Terror
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A sized-up Tasmanian Tiger? I dream of pink dolphins. |
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