#ONE BRAIN CELL IS ALL I HAVE NOw

[lenalec]

The tears in Alex’s eyes? Someone needs to sedate me, asap.

#I NEED COMPENSATION PRIME #I’M SO NOT OKAY #ONE BRAIN CELL IS ALL I HAVE NOw #AND IT HYPERVENTILATES SINCE YESTERDAY THANKS TO THESE TWO BITCHES #red white and royal blue #rwrb #firstprince #taylor zakhar perez #nicholas galitzine #alexander claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #rwrb bts

[good-beanswrites]

My thoughts on how the Milgram mv machine works based on the evidence we have:

(I know there’s been discussion about where exactly the interrogations take place, but wherever they are,) the prisoners are made to sit in a specific chair near the wall that houses the machine.

It’s ordinarily hidden, but the wall panels shift aside to reveal it when the mechanical sounds play in the dramas. As well as the walls moving, the chair transforms to restrain the prisoner and attach whatever it takes to access their brain. The fact that none of the more frightened prisoners try to run or break it makes it seem like they physically cannot. This is why Fuuta sounds so panicked, and why Amane is suddenly helpless in front of Es in their T1 vds.

(My mind conjures very classic sci-fi mad scientist machines with wires, pipes, lights, nodes, needles, etc, but I’d love to hear how other people visualize it.)

In some vds (maybe all? I’d need to check,) you can hear Es take some steps right before their iconic line -- it would make sense that for safety reasons, the power mechanism is placed across the room. Once again it could be anything, but the sound effect makes me think of one of those giant wall-mounted levers you have to pull down.

The voice dramas don’t really provide the type of crime details that an actual interrogation would reveal, and it’s odd that they’re placed before the extraction rather than after Es gets to see the new details. This leads me to believe the machine functions with priming. All Es needs to do is get them talking about their murder, so it’s on their mind.

The video produced is much like a (non-lucid) dream. Even if the prisoners figure out that this is how it works, they can’t control it just by thinking really hard about something else. The murders produce the strongest emotional affect, and that’s what it picks up on. If someone else used the machine, it would default to whatever gave them the strongest emotional reaction in the ~15 minutes beforehand, hence why Es’ video focuses on their daunting task ahead. (The Undercover theory is still a bit loose, though, given the private shots that Es wouldn't have known about). It’s why the videos are usually closely linked to the vd topics/beats. I also like to think that the reason their prisoner colors appear so much is because they’re looking at those colors on their uniform 24/7.

The bell rings to inform Es that it’s the optimal time to use the machine -- the prisoner has been thinking about things for long enough that the video will be about their crime, and if the conversation lasts much longer they’ll start thinking of other things. It’s at a different time for each prisoner because it’s based on the specific conversation. I guess Jackalope is listening in to the interrogation, timing it perfectly. (The only one that kind of messes with this theory is Yonah, because they just keep talking afterwards lol, but it could just show that the interrogation is still in Es’ control.)

Their “Sing your sins” is the final priming nudge to get them to think of their actions as a sin, revealing their guilt.

Once activated, the prisoner enters a sort of trance/sleeping state. It’s very much like REM sleep, with the machine forcibly activating neurons and recording the output. The prisoners have asked Es what they saw, meaning they don’t remember the mvs. I like to think the prisoners do experience the mv in real time, acting as the major version of themself that appears, but can’t remember it afterwards. It’s when you experience a dream, but as soon as you wake up you’re just left with fleeting emotions and memories right on the tip of your tongue.

The video plays immediately upon extraction -- whether on a huge projection or little screen depends on which room it’s in. It simultaneously saves the memory so that Es can rewatch it later (on those old TVs in the jailbreak mix). The machine downloads the song and video together, but requires special parts to retrieve them. The technology is pretty new and fragile, so if one is broken, there might be a delay between when Es can hear the extracted song and see it with the video. (That’s my justification for Kotoko’s delays -- after 9 prisoners the parts wear out, or maybe Mikoto himself overheats it with his complex situation.)

Based on the lack of conversation we get afterwards, I picture Es leaving before the prisoner wakes from the trance. The machine adjusts their brain back to normal before they awaken, restraints freed and able to return to the rest of the prison.

It’s very much like a dream, so it’s not harmful despite the amnesia/head injuries the prisoners have. It does, however, exhaust them. Brain activity alone takes a lot of energy, so forced brain activity with added emotional strain would cause them to feel pretty drained the rest of the day.

#milgram #👍👍 #if theres anything contradictory please lmk -- this is how ive been taking the evidence we have so i definitely want to rethink things if #theres a mistake #but also i just wanna hear what people have been picturing 🤔 #i mentioned it before but the jailbreak tvs really did shift my brain from sleek tech to clunky old scifi vibes #im also still partial to an idea mentioned a long time ago about the prisoners waking up to catch the last few moments of their mv #and how heartbreaking that can be for some #but i feel like it would make more sense if there was no direct interaction after the extraction since es is overwhelmed with different #reactions (from us) and the prisoners themselves are raw with emotion and fatigue #i like the thought of interrogations occuring in that big courtroom (seen in undercover and now deep cover) #but that room seems way too echo-y for the vds to take place in #and it seems overkill to build every cell with moving panel walls and access to the machine #so the jurys still out on that one #(also hehe im still so excited that my oc fits very nicely into all of this but i kept this post 100% canon compliant) #analysis/thoughts

[systemrestart]

We Know The Devil is on sale for less than $2

Steam page here. Sale ends at 1pm EST March 21st!!

I couldn't find any posts about it so I just had to let people know. WKTD is one of the best queer visual novels I have ever read. Please, give it a read.

(also, for those who don't have steam, or maybe want to give extra to the developers, you can also buy it on itch for $6.66 (of course))

EDIT: Sale has ended, but this game is more than worth full price. Please check it out!!

#wktd #we know the devil #worst girl games #visual novels #lgbt visual novels #(sorry if there WAS already a post about this. couldnt find one in the tags) #i wish i could write a proper Pitch for it but ive been talking about HWBM with people on cohost all day #so i think i've squeezed my brain cells dry for now hgjfdkj #its funny and deeply resonant and anxiety inducing and enlightening and i have rarely ever felt so Understood and embraced by a piece of ar

[tsutomuskneepad]

so.

#okay so #here i am pretending i am a knowledgeable up to date slam dunk fan when in reality #i‘m only like 70-something chapters in #yes i know #it‘s a shame and i‘m missing out but i really don‘t have the time right now #anyway i was at chapter 49 for about a month #moping about how ryota hasn‘t shown up yet #(i wanted to see him so bad bc of that one japanese artist i follow on twt who kept drawing him with ayako and even though i knew nothing+ #+about them i wanted to see them in the manga so yeah) #i was moping #and then i googled #and found out his first appearance is in chapter 50 #!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #„the one who came late“ #what a genius title #i wish my genius brain could‘ve processed that at all so i could‘ve saved myself a month of ryota-less misery #anyway #him #he #GAH #i know i don‘t know a whole lot about him yet but i saw him and he‘s just so silly #he has two and a half brain cells #and knows how to fight #he has style #and he is such a dork #he and hanamichi make me laugh so hard honestly #so yeah i fell for him #i feel once i really get into the story i will fall even harder #he and i should get married #personal

[galedekkarios]

lord i see what you've done for other people (astarion calling m!tavs "my boy" and "bad boy"), and i want that for gale amen 😔🙏

#bloodweave #using my one brain cell left after today to post this bc i can't get it out of my head and so i have to put it in all of your heads now #you're welcome btw 😁👍 #da material....... it's right there..... ripe for the picking... gale could be his boy and he SHOULD be his boy

[partyinthemysterymachine]

💖✨love is love✨💖

silent hill sewers lgbt club is now in session

source pic under the cut

#my art #harry mason #james sunderland #lisa garland #maria silent hill #silent hill 2 #silent hill #i would have used a pic of Rosewater Park but i couldnt' find one that worked #pov you're heather and these four adults have 1 brain cell between them and it's lost like a popped-out contact #they all might be as collectively smart as a 2 legged cockroach but at least they'll do their best!!! #also: maria gets uggs now. she's happy

[scp2337]

best thing about Fallout 4 is that, thanks to that classic bethesda polish, the cows in game are big and beautiful and dumb just like real cows but also sometimes they accidentally teleport onto a roof and immediately accept that they just live there now

now THATS realistic gaming

#i had to remove an entire section of fence in one of my settlements #because the brahmin kept accidentally teleporting on top of it while trying to get to the feed trough #THEN i went to another settlement right after that and the brahmin was clipped into the fucking building #like not even one of the houses it was clipped into a structure on the land that isnt accessible/doesnt have an inside #just chillin w its head sticking out of the wall lookin like a mounted head #all because i place the feeding trough the wrong direction (i didnt realize only one side of is intractable for them) #AND THEN AFTER I MOVED THE FEEDING TROUGH SOMEWHERE ELSE ON THE PROPERTY #went back over to the tower/building thing and homie wasnt there anymore so i was like 'ok cool moving it got him unstuck #and then i looked up. #mans was on the fucking roof. straight up vibing in the idle laying down pose #not a care in the fucking world. no classic confused turning back and forth in place because of broken pathfinding #dude got teleported and immediately accepted his new status of 'That Bitch Up On The Roof' #two heads and not a single brain cell between them #now THATS the kind of realism i want in my games

[lighthouseborn]

#dolhood #dyn — ( henry / carina. ) #one foot in a fairytale & the other in the abyss ( my art. ) #it's rare for me to be happy i procrastinated something except this time it worked out b/c now i get to post this on valentines :3c #do not ask me when i started it though :) #also there's something kind of funny about the way i keep doing these pieces in like. landscape ratios #and then i'm like. ''tumblr posts work best in portrait and/or squares.'' and then i have to crop them #and then i realize all the surrounding space wasn't doing a whole lot for the composition anyway #(and actually this used to be an entire full body piece but at some point i was like ''fuck that'' lmfao) #anyway! #suggestive cw #for safety but i'm actually not sure anyone's asked me to do that #and iiiiiiii did not mean to stay up this late Whoops #and i do not have whatever brain cell is required to caption it either but nevertheless i WILL be posting it yeehaw gOODNIGHT

[fingertipsmp3]

I feel like I’ve lived through at least a month just in the past 3 days. I checked the date just now and damn near had an out of body experience when I realised Monday was only two days ago

#bro the absolute sodding emotional rollercoaster i have been through this past week should be studied by scientists #thursday: unsuccessful job interview. friday: found out that the job interview was unsuccessful. but one of the interviewers (actually a #former colleague of mine lol) gave me a piece of feedback that made me feel like i’d cracked the code for all future interviews #it was this: keep. talking. give as many details as humanly fucking possible. talk about policy. drop in words like safeguarding #list as many examples of stuff as you can. tell stories. bamboozle them #OH i forgot to even fucking mention we had builders at our house until friday. friday was the last day they woke me up with a cacophony #so the weekend was uneventful aside from there was a skip in the driveway and scaffolding all down the side of the house but zero men #monday: successful interview. found out it was successful 5 hours later. got off the phone having accepted the job…… and found a text from #my old boss (the boss i had at the job i really enjoyed. that old boss) inviting me to come back this summer #i had a bit of a mental breakdown but eventually decided to stick with the job i’d just got because it’s a permanent contract and they will #let me sit down #yesterday: found out that the foster doggy i applied for and really wanted is going to her forever home on thursday (which is now tomorrow) #obviously i love this for her but i was like ‘damn. okay’ #today: the foster co-ordinator was like ‘hey do you want to foster this rambunctious 3 year old unneutered terrier?’ #i was like ‘sure yeah what the fuck. that might as well happen’ #(they are neutering him beforehand. and he looks really cute. he’s not aggressive he’s just a young terrier with like 3 brain cells) #unless something finally kills me in the meantime i’m picking him up on monday. i cancelled therapy in order to do this. yes i’m well aware #that there’s a metaphor somewhere in there but it’s fine. i rescheduled therapy #i also have realised i do not know how and when i’m going to get my ssri prescription renewed… i know the pharmacy will call me in a couple #of weeks to make sure i haven’t died. but i think i was supposed to get a prescription renewal at therapy #the therapy i won’t be going to until like 5 days after my prescription runs out. that therapy. foook #honestly withdrawal symptoms would probably just spice up the situation at this point. they’d just make things interesting #i swear to god everything always gets crazy and stupid right before my birthday… remember when i turned 26 and couldn’t drink because i #was on antibiotics for a kidney infection. and when i turned 27 and one of my wisdom teeth tried to emerge #this is like that except with dogs and jobs. at least the skip and the scaffolding are gone now #i AM trying to sell a sofa on facebook marketplace so wish me luck with that ig #personal

[m3m3shadow]

Tippy Tappy.

#yusei fudo #yugioh 5ds #ygo 5ds #this came from a dumb au where Yusei gets the Scapeghost card #learns it's a duel spirit of all things #and now has no less than 5 Scapeghost duel spirits following him at all times #and not a single one of them have a brain cell #esp the red one #it's no thoughts head empty 24/7 #yusei loves them all and thinks they're adorable #everyone else is creeped tf out by them #but does he care? naaaaah #he loves his spooky undead scapegoats #why did i say 5 #because in this silly au there's a 5th one that comically looks like Yusei #and it's never elaborated on why

[coquelicoq]

my two favorite subjects for a painting:

light reflecting off water

a woman sleeping soooo comfy cozy in bed

#pre-rafaelites painting women sleeping on stone walls and so forth need not apply #get outta here with that shit. give my girl some CUSHIONS #art #my posts #f #light #light reflecting off water though. that is the pinnacle. it's the meaning of life #it's the entire point. what are we doing here? i'll tell you. we're here to paint light reflecting off water and look at paintings of light #reflecting off water #no but seriously visual art depicting that specific subject is so meta it makes me feel sososo sooooo good #it's the point! IT'S THE POINT! WHAT IS VISUAL ART BUT A REFLECTION OF LIGHT!!! #WHAT IS PAINT BUT WATER? WHAT ARE WE BUT WATER? ELECTRIC CONSCIOUS BAGS OF WATER #WITH CELLS THAT REACT TO THE PRESENCE OF LIGHT BY CREATING REPRESENTATIVE IMAGES IN OUR BRAINS!!!! #WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS BUT REFLECTION! PERCEPTION AND TRANSMUTATION! CHANGING AND BEING CHANGED!! #light reflecting off water is just like...okay. light is there and we have nothing to do with it. water likewise. but in this one moment #the light and the water that we did not create are interacting with each other with no stimulus or interference from us #and we're observing that happen #we're becoming part of that interaction now by witnessing it #the painter who saw it is a witness and then we the viewers of the painting are witnessing the reflection the painter created #paintings of light reflecting off water say: you are here. you are here. you are here. this representation you're seeing in your brain #only exists because you are here. which is true of every painting but that is the SUBJECT of light reflecting off water paintings #unspoken and perhaps unintended but it is there waiting for you to perceive it #and! it's also saying! guess what! you're not necessary! this light would have still reflected off this water if no one had witnessed it! #someday you will die and the light will go on reflecting off the water all the same! and isn't that beautiful!!! #now women sleeping soooo comfy cozy in bed? that is the other meaning of life. sleeping comfy cozy in bed is the highest form of being #those paintings are also about consciousness. about how special it is to turn it off sometimes and just be warm under the covers <3 #i've never taken an art history class in my life but this is what i imagine they are about. nobody disabuse me of this notion

[landwriter]

as someone who thrives on deadlines there's this special thrill to a scheduled power outage for line work especially when it starts in the morning and your sleep schedule is a bit fucked so you end up having only fifteen minutes to cook breakfast and you're watching the clock and there's five minutes left and you turn up the heat so the potatoes will be done faster and then you bustle upstairs to load up Some Good Reads On The Internet in case you get desperately bored and then back downstairs to refill your water and reply to emails and messages because you won't be able to for another three or four hours and say things like 'this is my last transmission before The Darkness'

this is my last transmission before The Darkness

#only happens like a few times a year so not bothersome at all #and they phone you and let you know #and this one should have started #(checks watch) #ten minutes ago #the reason it's actually significant is because i'm on a well and the well pump is ofc on the power grid #and there's no service here #so no power to ur house means no internet no cell phone no water #now to curl up in front the fire and do embroidery like my ancestors #it's really the perfect kind of petty little stricture that makes my brain go brrrr #i probably wouldn't have made a decent breakfast at all if it wasn't for the fact i knew i wouldn't be able to after 09h30

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Naruto shippuden things that made me lose my mind (ep 321-346):

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 MADARA 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

Taunade: We've been had! Mask man is not the real madara! (Would knowing who he was change literally anything? If u ignored him u wouldn't be prepared when he attacked with his giant gooey army?)

The 5 kage: we've got this naruto! We old ppl wanna change the world too (feels weird when gaara is a victim of all the bullshit ur trying to change and he's also a kage?)

Oh god. Fucking bubble boy is back.

Watching a flashback from the perspective of a sword... okay.

Naruto @ 4th mizukage: u died so young, u never knew the kiss of a woman 😭 Kurama: ...naruto, you've only kissed sasuke

Jugo: why r u following sasuke, Suigetsu? (Carnal desire, dont ask stupid questions)

Hhhh I don't wanna look at sasuke's loser gang, I think they're boring!

Madara fucking shit up: 🙂

🖤🖤🖤🖤 Hashirama face titty 🖤🖤🖤🖤

Itachi @ sasuke, on his way to do other shit: there's no point in talking anymore (itachi, I get it. And i kno u make up for it but I will fucking strangle u)

Madara @ tsunade: u have hashirama's blood in u so ill kill u 1st. Ur nothing compared to him. That man was a freak of nature. I fought him in a death match once 🥰

Other leaf nin: *threaten to withhold funds and steal from and rough up an orphanage* Orochimaru: watch out, someone might steal your precious children 👀

Kabuto: I will take orochimaru and I will put him inside myself. That is my final form (god... kabuto makes me so sad)

Sasuke: itachi u were perfect! (SASUKE NO!!! R U FUCKING INSANE??? ITACHI WAS SO FUCKED UP HE DECIDED HE WAS JUSTIFIED IN KILLING HIS ENTIRE FAMILY AND GIVING HIS BROTHER SUPER TRAUMA. THEN HE DIED AND HIS PLAN EXPLODED IN HIS FACE POST MORTEM)

Sasuke: itachi, the more time I spend with u, the more I understand u and the more I hate konoha (SASUKE YES!!! Your brother is somehow still fucking brainwashed)

Orochimaru upon revival: my one and only interest is sasuke's young body (😰)

Naruto: WTF HAPPENED TO THE 5 KAGE?! Madara: eh idk they're probably not doing too good *cut to a bunch of bodies*

Obito: I hate u!!! Zetsu: 🤨👎

"I'm in hell" is a dark episode but the title makes me laugh everytime I see it

Obito's hashirama arm is real yucky. I love it.

Madara: I will take this tiny piece of hashirama and shove it into my chest. As any normal person would.

While no one was looking... madara implanted his own eyes into nagato's head...

#ill b honest. everytime madara talks abt his plan ive gotta rewind like 4 times to try to understand wtf hes talking abt #i really enjoyed learning abt kabuto tho and more abt itachi #and i like obito more now. i thought he was boring and i still kinda do but i do enjoy the way he got his brain shattered #am ready to hear abt the aliens #and learn wtf zetsus deal is #also madara is my beloved madman. he is so so good and i lov him #i dont wanna look at sasuke's loser gang tho they r so boring #am pro traumatize kakashi tho. i eat that stuff up. poor guy. hes really going thru it #and by it i mean his entire life #also the obito stuff did not work how i thought it did #i assumed that madara joined obito with zetsu not with hashirama cells. and so zetsu could kinda control him #not zetsu encasing his body #who was the one being all silly with the akatsuki then? presumably zetsu bc obito no longer feels like a silly lik guy #i have unlocked the powet to draw obito horror now tho. maybe ill wait until hes dead before i draw him but idk how long thats gonna take #maybe into the 400s i dont feel like checking lol #oh god. i just realized nejis time is running out lol. nooo i feel like im gonna hate his death #am still having much fun tho haha #naruto #naruto ramblings #unrelated

[xicanaroja]

I've gone absolutely goddamn bananas,, I am consumed day and night by thoughts

#this is about the hbo show succession #its all i watch now and i am Obsessed #if this isnt good enough evidence for an autism diagnosis idk what is #i have one brain cell and all it does is slam against the glass to the beat of the succession intro theme #i cannot explain the type of brainrot i have received from consuming this show #i watched 3 seasons in 4 days #thats like 39 hours of tv so #yeah you could say there's something there #my tiktok and tumblr likes are pretty much just succession content #my most recent listen on spotify is also the succession theme #everyone needs to leave me alone for a long time if they DONT want to hear about my show

[polaraffect]

i need professors to start including their late work policies in syllabi again. i'm trying to make strategic decisions here

#damien.txt #i have an essay due in 4 hours that i have not started. and i did not sleep at all last night #so. at what point do i cut my losses and turn this essay in late. like.... god the concept of trying to write it rn makes me wanna die #but also i probably should right. also bc i have literally 0 idea of what this professor's late policy is #so like..... i'm fucked if he's one of those 'no late work whatsoever' people #and ngl. it's not out of the realm of possibility. he's nice but he also gives 'please send the obituary' when a family member dies vibes #what i really should be doing is trying to write it instead of making this post but like truly i have 0 brain cells right now #i haven't even done any prep work for doing this essay 'like deciding what to right about / choosing quotes #you know what the worst part is? the reason i didn't sleep last night. was because i was anxious about this essay. #i kept trying to tell myself to do it. but i just couldn't make myself do it. and now. here we are #......i really need to get tested for adhd lmaooo #edit: just noticed i wrote 'right' instead of 'write'. brain unintentionally deciding to demonstrate how tired i am lol

[monochrome-delirious]

I just want to remind everyone that no matter what side you’re on, the exact same things people are doing to Amber (cancel culture, hating her, verbal abuse)? We did those to Johnny, too. We gave him intense grief when the allegations first came out, and automatically assumed Amber was the victim without any evidence.

So don’t act like people are siding with Johnny because he is male or because he has a lot of fans—because I haven’t forgotten how brutal everyone (his fans included) was to him before, and how everyone wanted his career ruined.

#it’s the same thing you guys #and I know our court system is fucked and unfair #but they went based on the evidence that was given #and hey maybe they were wrong and maybe we were right to hate Johnny from the beginning #but don’t act like we’re not being a bunch of hypocrites with one shared brain cell #a lot of the people siding with Johnny aren’t doing it because they’re fans or men #they’re doing it because evidence points toward Amber lying and possibly even being the abuser #regardless of your opinion #you have to admit that we have a mob mentality and hate people without context #we hated johnny #we hated Amber #and now we’re back to hating johnny #this is not the end of feminism or female empowerment #and maybe not even the beginning of male victims rights #it’s just a Hollywood court case that made a decision based on the evidence they had #that’s all there is to it #amber heard #amber #Johnny depp #Johnny #also I’m not naive #I know there are rabid Johnny fans who support him because they think he’s hot #those are an outlier and I am not counting them #and who knows #maybe they both abused each other and are both terrible lying scum