If science fiction has taught us nothing else it’s that when the sentient machine rise they will attempt to build machines that look like us, to infiltrate and destroy humanity. Think ‘The Terminator’, or Phillip K Dick’s ‘2nd Variety’ and ‘Blade Runner’.
These constructed pseudo-humans creep me out. In the recently re-imaged Battlestar Galactica 2nd only to the most appalling ending to a beloved series I have every seen. (If you want a detailed reading as to why this comprehensively failed for me click here.) But a close second was the skin-job cyclons that looked like us.
And no I don’t care how hot they look, they are evil and they have a plan.
And as disturbing as these are – it’s those models between the T-800 of the Terminator and these almost flawless replicas that make my mind go screaming.
Anyone remember a movie called ‘Final Fantasy: The Spirits within’? It was based on the video game of the same name and came out in 2001 . All CGI but trying to look like humans.
See WRONG.
The screaming in your head when you see these figures is caused by The Uncanny Valley. This hypothesis is when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost, but not entirely, like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The “valley” in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot’s lifelikeness.
Any scientific graph is improved with Zombie
DAMN STRAIGHT.
So my feelings of revulsion at the idea of Honeydolls and those species traitors that use them – perfectly reasonable.
I am also pleased to see our primate brethren also share these excellent instincts. An article in New Scientist claims
Macaques are creeped out by cyber-selves
WRONG,WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, WRONG
Asif Ghazanfar and Shawn Steckenfinger of Princeton University wondered how five macaques would respond to monkey avatars. They found that the monkeys spent less time looking at the most realistic avatars – which they say suggests they dislike them (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
So I say – down with these monsters of our own creation, grab your pitchforks and follow.
Whose with me?
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Can I carry a Flamming Torch?
'I don't care how hot they look, they are evil and they have a plan'
I very much hope they do. Preferably involving each other and a large vat of chocolate Ice Magic.
I for one welcome our smoking hot evil robot overlords.
Oy, I love how your mind works.
Being a self proclaimed hater, I've always wanted to kill all skinny, hot bitches so if they're robots…all the better.
Let's do this.
If the robots can build infiltrators that look like those on the Maxim cover (are they actually Helfer and Park?), they desrve to be runnning the place. I’ll even hand them the keys!
Don't forget the scary, hot, babe from the new Transformers 2 movie.
YankeeDog
Ohh yes indeed that’s Helfer & Park, and for god sake someone get them a sandwhich STAT
Big Bad Al
Pitchforks and torches by the door, try not to let the oil drip on the tiles.
Dr Yobbo
Ice magic wont say us from them, on Flame CLEANSING FLAME!
Heidi Germanaus
Great to have you on board.
Do you find when you tell people how you Hate something, and they ask "How can you hate THAT?" do you reply
"I hate easy".
Boscolamb
She is so on the list
So tempting those skin job cylons soooo tempting.
As for HoneyDolls, well yessomething a bit wrong, although i can think of at least one girlfriend who would have made them seem real and passionate!!!
I’ve been re-watching Battlestar Galactica recently….and I have to agree with YD. Damn hot lookin’ robots! Mind you, the actresses must be doing it tough since the show ended – they don’t appear to be able to afford food. Or the dills doing the cover photoshopping for Maxim like super skinny chicks.
chazfh
“one girlfriend girlfriend who would have made them seem real and passionate” ROTFLMAO
bondiboy66
I suspect serious dillage by MAXIM
Barnes Zed is everywhere now,
http://io9.com/5390471/turns-out-theres-something-darker-than-the-dark-side.
Also ya gotta include Hot Robot Chick from Sarah Connor Chronicles. She was da robot bomb!
Good catch Therbs thou I am not entirely convinced that Summer Glau is human
SG is a dancer gymnast. A good Dancer gymnast works so hard they appear not human, because most humany humans look human via their laziness. I'm VERY human.
YsambartCourtin
That sounds like a lot of speciestraitor talk
Mmmm Zombie goodness 7.30 Tusday Simpsons. Mmmmmm
Just sayin'
Say, have you got a phone number for Kaze?
SavO
Frayed knot. Thanks for the heads up this marks the second zombie centred Halloween story for the simpsons.