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there’s something so magical about sitcoms…..they bring me so much comfort….whoever invented sitcoms thank you for your service I literally don’t know what I’d do without them god bless

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Interviewer, to Chris: what kind of girl do you prefer?

Chris: my girlfriend

Interviewer, to Leslie: how about you? what kind of girl do you like?

Leslie: chris’ girlfriend

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let’s be honest they were gay lovers and april was their child

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Chris Traeger moodboard because why not

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so when given the chance Ron IMMEDIATELY jumped to have sex with a lady who was really into sports, obsessed with nutrition, loved to make deep emotional connections and yall still be thinking he wouldn’t swoon like a teenager the moment Chris made a move?

yeah right

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so when given the chance Ron IMMEDIATELY jumped to have sex with a lady who was really into sports, obsessed with nutrition, loved to make deep emotional connections and yall still be thinking he wouldn’t swoon like a teenager the moment Chris made a move?

yeah right

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so when given the chance Ron IMMEDIATELY jumped to have sex with a lady who was really into sports, obsessed with nutrition, loved to make deep emotional connections and yall still be thinking he wouldn’t swoon like a teenager the moment Chris made a move?

yeah right

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anyone done this yet

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she’s unhinged she’s religiously traumatized she’s a child soldier she’s a genius she’s 5’1 and commands every room she walks into she’s middle-aged she’s good with babies she’s bad at baking she’s a horrifying driver and she has never done anything wrong in her life

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devon actually being 100% correct in her decision to call ms. cobel might be the most insane part of this episode

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(through gritted teeth) sometimes what's good for your mental health isn't another do nothing day or a little treat sometimes what's good for you is putting in some of the work. Not all of it at once but sometimes you have to finish that essay or at least take the next step or you have to clean your room or at least dust the shelves or you gotta do the laundry or at least put it all in the hamper and it's not fun and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks but you have to because i read a post on the internet that told me that's what being nice to yourself is sometimes

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Okay idk if this has already been theorized but I think I know what MDR is doing.

MDR spends all day sorting numbers based on, essentially, vibes. Helly is told that she needs to look for “scary numbers.”

Down on the testing floor, Gemma is put through rooms whose names align with MDR’s files.

Lumon is trying to create a version of severance that will allow people (probably the ultra rich) to siphon any unpleasant experience, ranging (from what we’ve seen) from dental procedures to writing thank you notes.

Gemma is asked how she feels afterwards. She tells them that her hand hurts. Not the emotion, just the physical pain that stays with her when she leaves the room.

The severance chip as we know it is locationally activated. We have the exceptions with OTC and the ORTBO (unless that wasn’t actually outside the facility), but the chips are based on location or manual control by a third party.

But we don’t always know where there will be an unpleasant experience. We can predict that the dentist will be uncomfortable or painful, but we don’t know if we’re going to, for instance, fall down and scrape a knee. But once we know something unpleasant or “bad” is about to happen, our brains react with stress, fear, etc.

I think MDR’s job is to isolate the numbers that represent Gemma’s uncomfortable (“negative”) emotions, repeating this process over and over until Lumon can use the data to activate severance chips with emotional responses rather than based on location. Because the goal, based on what we know and can guess, is for severance to be used to keep certain people from suffering, leaving a portion of themselves to experience anything they deem too mundane, painful, or upsetting.

Gemma’s brain has been severed into who knows how many innies. She’s been pushed to the limit, likely in ways worse than what we saw in episode 7.

I think MDR are sorting the numbers that represent pain/discomfort, and each room is designed based on the greatest amount of pain experienced in the other rooms, leaving Cold Harbor as the final boss of “how much can we make an innie suffer before they break?” Or something like that.

For some reason, Mark S is the only person who can finish Cold Harbor. He is unknowingly creating the worst torture specifically for Gemma. By sorting scary numbers into little boxes.

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I am incredibly congused

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lived a hater. died a hater. a true lover. #rip

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you quit your dangerous espionage brain surgery procedure. you go out to eat. you run into your boss. she disrespects your dead-not-dead wife. it pisses you off so much you resume your dangerous espionage brain surgery procedure. the first thing you remember is fucking your boss. the second thing you remember is hallucinating your dead-not-dead wife while fucking your boss. your sister interrupts you to tell you about the woman who only existed to get pregnant she had a crush on. you have a stroke and die. rip mark scout king you were having a hell of a day