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Re:Show HN: Face Generator by blensor on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:40PM (#20861016)
Funny thing, for some inexplicable reason playing around with the sliders made my feel agressive, not against something in particular but an overall feeling ( that's the best I can describe it ). At first I thought it was the unreal faces, but after reading about the randomness I figured out it was the jumping between completely unrelated faces.

After switching off randomness I immediately felt calmer due to the smoothly changing faces.

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Re:Show HN: Face Generator by tacotime on Monday September 02, 2019 @08:13PM (#20862694)
Very interesting! My immediate reaction/name for the feeling I had would be frustration. Your comment made me think about the possible connection between those two feeling and low and behold I quickly found this-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frustration–aggression_hypothe...

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Re:Show HN: Face Generator by carrolldunham on Monday September 02, 2019 @10:33PM (#20863297)
it made me angry too. i got the urge to jump on here and berate the creator for rationalised reasons. it's because the random flipping in response to your reasoned movement feels like an something between an insult and an assault
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Re:Show HN: Face Generator by devin on Monday September 02, 2019 @11:18PM (#20863473)
You should check out a talk about the myth of objective.
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