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Re: Name one thing in this photo

#53
post #41

I'm only reading about people getting really uncomfortable looking at this (on reddit). To me it did nothing, although I also couldn't recognise any of the items in the picture. Does anyone else have the same experience?

I found it unsettling.

At first glance it's "oh easy I can easily spot something in there, like that... Oh... Uh?"

I guess its been crafted to tickle the pattern matching part of the brain, so it looks familiar, but not? Like the uncanny valley?

Re: Name one thing in this photo

#54
post #45
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think that reddit thread is the original source. Someone in the thread links to a larger-sized image which appears to be from https://funnyjunk.com/Cognitohazard/pxMTMck/ . EDIT: here's an even earlier source, from over a week ago (note: thread contains other strange but mostly safe for work images) http://boards.4channel.org/x/thread/22512161/cursed-image-th... . 512x512 seems like a more likely size for the…

Damn, reminds me of rotten.com ;) This guy[0] is in pretty good shape. Albeit likely drunk and "watch this!" stupid. 0) https://i.4cdn.org/x/1555284615304.webm

Here is a more permanent link to the video with sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwAqHTFHpAY

Re: Name one thing in this photo

#56
When I was kid I had seizure and lost control of my body, I could see and hear people but couldn't respond or move my body. I told my wife to pull the plug if I ever loose consciousness and doctor's are iffy about my recovery. I rather terminate myself than ever go through the same experience.

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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post #3

Reminds me of this short story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story)

Peter Watts' science fiction novels Blindsight and Echopraxia include "vampires" that co-evolved with humans. The vampires' aversion to crosses is described as their brains "crashing" when visually processing right angles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echopraxia_(novel)

His is an interesting take on vampire lore in sci-fi. I remember they also have drugs to mitigate this condition, and allow them to live in cities: the anti-euclidean, or auntie-e.

Re: Name one thing in this photo

#59
post #38

Follow up tweet by same person: "Wow this blew up check out " Please don't support this type of virality and profiteering. It's disgusting.

The weird thing is that the url they use (for the sake of future readers, cvspharmacy.com ) is a broken site that just gives an error message, and has done so for a long time if the Wayback Machine is to be believed. Yet it at one point linked to the real CVS site. Presumably I've just been whooshed.

I get a lot of spam email from something @cvspharmacy, maybe the real CVS (which I didn't know about until now) forgot to renew the domain and it was hijacked by spammers. Just speculating of course.
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