D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It 196
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."
Boobies (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Boobies (Score:5, Funny)
Old joke: Why don't men look women in the eyes? Cause their eyes aren't on their tits.
That explains everything (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.
Is this a trick question? (Score:3, Funny)
Neither (Score:5, Funny)
Most D&D players look at their shoes. The extraverted D&D player looks at the GM's shoes.
I knew it! (Score:4, Funny)
This is proof that D&D contains all the secrets to life, the universe, and everything!
read the abstract, disappointed with the methods (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!
GOD ADS? (Score:0, Funny)
Why does slasdot have God ads?
Re:Boobies (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.
Re:Is this a trick question? (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.
Re:Boobies (Score:5, 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.
Re:Boobies (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
Re:Boobies (Score:5, 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?
Re:Is this a trick question? (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.
Re:Boobies (Score:3, Funny)
I could print a tshirt with eye balls on the nipples and the words 'look me in the eyes'.
It might sell.