I think it's because we all think we're familiar enough with technology and how the computer doesn't really cooperate better when you think happy thoughts at it, but the physiognomy of things that are already living stone that can't move until you look at it is already so far afield that the suspension of disbelief isn't strained too much more by the image thing.
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Date: 2010-04-25 05:19 pm (UTC)*ninjad by