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D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It

Posted by Unknown on from the my-eyes-are-down-here-buddy dept.

sciencehabit writes with this excerpt from Science: "The dungeon is pitch black — until the dungeon master blazes a torch, confirming your worst fears. A Beholder monster lurches at you, its eyeballs wriggling on tentacular stems. As you prepare to wield your Vorpal sword, where do you focus your gaze: at the monster's head or at its tentacle eyes? Such a quandary from the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons may seem like a meaningless trifle, but it holds within it the answer to a tricky scientific question: Do people focus their gaze on another person's eyes or on the center of the head? In fact, a father-son team has used D&D monsters to show that most people will look to another creature's eyes, even if they're not attached to a head."

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  1. Boobies by PoopManners · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't watch at eyes, I watch at boobs amirite?

    1. Re:Boobies by HornWumpus · · Score: 5, Funny

      Old joke: Why don't men look women in the eyes? Cause their eyes aren't on their tits.

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    2. Re:Boobies by HornWumpus · · Score: 5, Funny

      Better study: Show men pictures of women with nipples for eyes and eyes for nipples and check where they look. Take the pre-photoshop picture in a cold studio.

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    3. Re:Boobies by amicusNYCL · · Score: 4, Funny

      I generally focus my gaze usually directly into their right eye (just pick one, doesn't really matter that much I don't think)

      I had a roommate with eyes that focused in different directions, I would usually look at the eye that wasn't looking at me to make him keep shifting his gaze.

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    4. Re:Boobies by al.caughey · · Score: 5, Funny

      I knew I came to /. for a reason... and I just figured out that it is to get expert advice on social skills and how to meet girls

    5. Re:Boobies by azalin · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh, I just got a hardon imagining a Beholder with boobies on all it's tentacles instead of eyes...

      So beauty would in the boob of the beholder?

    6. Re:Boobies by HornWumpus · · Score: 2, Funny

      I could print a tshirt with eye balls on the nipples and the words 'look me in the eyes'.

      It might sell.

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  2. That explains everything by sl4shd0rk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being in IT support, we see many people come in without eyes, or common sense, attached to their head. Many times, the head is firmly impacted in the nether regions but this malady is most common with upper management.

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  3. Is this a trick question? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I, and I imagine most slashdotters, look at my feet when interacting with other people. Especially women.

    1. Re:Is this a trick question? by vlm · · Score: 5, Funny

      I, and I imagine most slashdotters, look at my feet when interacting with other people. Especially women.

      Why are your keyboard and monitor by your feet? I'm not flexible enough to type that way anymore.

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    2. Re:Is this a trick question? by Darby · · Score: 3, Funny


      I, and I imagine most slashdotters, look at my feet when interacting with other people. Especially women.

      Not me. I'm a bold, dashing ladies' man. I look at their feet.

  4. Neither by Hatta · · Score: 5, Funny

    Most D&D players look at their shoes. The extraverted D&D player looks at the GM's shoes.

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  5. I knew it! by shaitand · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is proof that D&D contains all the secrets to life, the universe, and everything!

  6. read the abstract, disappointed with the methods by HPHatecraft · · Score: 4, Funny

    For starters, did any of the participants in the experiments roll any savings throws? Lame.

    Experimenter: "OK, you encounter a beholder, and... it gets initiative. You: it fires... (dice roll) a beam from eye-stalk number 7."

    Participant: "Uh, OK."

    Experimenter: "Roll the dice. No. No, the other one. Yeah. OK. I see you failed your save vs paralysis".

    Participant: "Huh? (sees the taser in the experimenter's hand) No, wait!!"

    Experimenter: Zzzzzaaap!

    Experimenter: "Hm. He's not moving... oops. Hey. Did anyone roll a cleric? Anyone? What?!? Goddammit!

  7. GOD ADS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Why does slasdot have God ads?