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There are times I wish I were six again... - Bob Schroeck - 11-28-2008
This is one of them.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Black Aeronaut - 11-29-2008
Oh yeah, this is definitely going to be one of first projects Ben's brothers in Fenspace undertake once they start living on 36 Atalante.
ETA:
Gina: "Well, we won't need tractors for the hangar bays anymore."
Ben: "Why's that?"
*The two are interrupted by a smallish, adorable looking triceratops hauling a Fezig behind it.
Ben: "Ah. I see. My brothers work?"
Gina: "Who else?"
- Unicorna - 11-29-2008
lol, if my mom had gotten me one of those things when I was 6 years old, I woulda had nightmares for a month. As it is, even at 24, I saw one in the store the
other day that was moving and I gave it a wide berth. I've always had a sorta-phobia about robots and animatronics like that. Just give me a 10 dollar
stuffed dinosaur, and I'd be happier with it than I would be with the 300 dollar taking and moving dino.
- Foxboy - 11-29-2008
It's the uncanny valley principle. For example, I've seen both this and a similarly-successful robotic horse and the Horse creeped me out more, since
my mother used to raise Morgans and I know what a horse is supposed to look like.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll