MacNCheezus

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Like I said, it was just a speculation I had, because for me, this kitchen definitely falls into uncanny valley territory. A little more ooomph and it might have paid off, or a little less and it might have sold reasonably. But again, there were many commenters here who actually said they DID love it, so perhaps I'm wrong. But that's assuming they actually have enough money to actually buy it, which at least some of them admitted they don't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yo dawg, I heard you like eggplants...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well, yes. The Wikipedia article I linked does indeed say that this is a hypothesis, which means it hasn't been conclusively proven yet. But it does also list a number of reasons that lead to this hypothesis being proposed, and there's a long-ish paragraph on the research that has been done on it. But yes, as long as it's a hypothesis, it's still in the realm of speculation.

It seems however that your experience does somewhat back that up, judging by the "if you can find a buyer". Basically, what I'm saying is, that if depends on or determines whether an artwork falls into the uncanny valley. If you can find one, it was on the other side of it. If you can't, then it was in it.

Basically, picture the graph from that article, but instead of "human likeness", we label the x-axis "artistic appeal", and the y-axis "amount sold for". Get rid of the dotted line, and on the solid line we replace "stuffed animal" with "broad appeal" and "corpse" with "niche appeal that doesn't sell", and the far end of it we label "niche appeal that DOES sell" and place it much higher up, to where "healthy person" is. Hope that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Right click on taskbar -> Taskbar settings. Toggle button to turn off Copilot is right there.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

You can just turn that off. You know that, right?

EDIT: also, the icon doesn't show up in the position the OP's screenshot shows it, at least not in my experience. It showed up right next to the start button for me, but you CAN move it around the taskbar if you want.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

On a tricked out countertop with purple accent stone
That’s not gonna sell your home

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Yes, but that sorta implies that it's a linear relationship, which it likely isn't.

I'm thinking it's probably more like the uncanny valley, with a trough in the middle where your send is neither full enough nor standard enough to find ANY buyers at all. Then again, there were quite a few commenters here who said they love it so perhaps I'm wrong about that.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago

A clowntractor

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, like I said here, the problem isn't that they went too far, it's that they didn't go far enough.

If you're gonna go extravagant, don't stop halfway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
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