Comment on Scared the shit out of me ngl
vox@sopuli.xyz 8 months agowell it’s a language learning app so a little bit of motivation can be a great thing for the user
Comment on Scared the shit out of me ngl
vox@sopuli.xyz 8 months agowell it’s a language learning app so a little bit of motivation can be a great thing for the user
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Emotional manipulation wouldn’t be a good way, especially not a face that scares the shit out of people (I can’t even look at it, as I’m sensitive to uncanny valley and distorted faces, especially the kinds of sad or scared faces 1940s cartoons used to freak you out), especially not so that it can get you back to spending money, and doubly-especially not so that it can get you back to spending microtransactions.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I, uhh, I think you need desensitization therapy. But just so you know, most people don’t find that face scary.
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Twisting faces-- especially to look morbidly-depressed or horrified-- is a common tactic in horror. In fact, it works because of the uncanny valley effect-- a psychological phenomenon that exists to protect us from disease and from breeding with deformed people. And you know who’s more sensitive to uncanny valley than average? Autistic people. Like me. There’s no therapy for this because it’s neither weird nor solvable.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s weird to have that strong of a reaction. At the very least it sounds debilitating.
Wrinkly Duo just looks like an old person version of Duo to most. It’s not even uncanny valley because Duo is not even close to human like (unless you know green bird like humans in real life, but then I’m not sure they’re human).
If that scares you, so would a very wrinkly old person.
There is therapy to lower that extreme reaction you have, called desensitization therapy. You should look into it.