Porcupine_I on 07 April 2010
a friend of mine said she feels the uncanny valley with the eyepet. It creeps her out because it has a human face.
We had an argument about it, if this can actually be referred as "uncanny valley", or if that is something entirely different, or if she is just crazy.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
