#The Extraction Machine

[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.

[webbedmirror]

i’ve been thinking about ways to ethically source ectoplasm and i think Gotham Bay could be the solution?? Like there’s enough death that the ectoplasm is potent and using water gives physical means to extract the ectoplasm

[transbeeduo]

imaginging Ranboo starting to lactate shortly after they rescue Michael with Tubbo. they dont tell anyone, they do get a bit freaked out but then they read up on it and learn that all endermen can lactate. its because Michael was baby and then she was their baby and their body just went "Oh yeah, that's our child :] we need to feed it tho" and then just started producing milk.

the reason their body doesnt start immediately producing again until a bit after Bug was born is because i imagine Bug being a bit of an early baby (about two weeks, maybe more), so their body doesnt start producing til like a week after Bug is born. cause their body finally realized "Oh shoot, we already have a baby. no need to wait!" and then they remember and this time actually tells Tubbo cause they feel more confident in their body then than they did before. and theyre both relieved because they can finally feed the baby where the baby isnt trying to get away the whole time cause it doesn't like the things they tried to feed. cows milk and baby formula were a big no, but they coukdnt find anything else to feed Bug so it just had to deal with it until Ranboo's body decided to cooperate

ANON ANON THIS IS SO FUCKING CUTE HOLY SHIT I ABSOLUTELY ADORE THIS its so fucking real honestly I could TOTALLY see bug being an early baby.. ALSO THE HATING OTHER MILKS THING IS SO REALLLL bug would get SO upset when given milk that wasn’t from Ranboo (maybe they’d like goat’s milk but that’s a bit harder to get compared to cow’s milk so Beeduo didn’t try it before Ranboo started lactating) so it was a FIGHT to get Bug to eat before Ranboo could feed them properly.

[whumpshaped]

Im curious, how would helle feel about your Other all-star whumper , grace?

Helle listens as you fill them in on what Grace is like. Toy company heiress whose little brother had to take the job, human dolls, all pink castle. For a vampire whose hobby is to puppet humans around, they don't look very impressed by it. "I am certain she is a lovely lady," they say diplomatically. "But not my type, personally. Not from the description, at least."

[cosmik-homo]

Just saw a post that made a cool point about like, fantasy where Ancient Technologies are the most high tech of the setting, and things from the 70s have better longevity than new stuff made to be replaced, and it was very smart and coreect but it made me think of like, The Opposite Direction.

By which i mean Oh. The Sartan were the equivalent to that generation of technology where they built everything w Asbestos and went this is great. This is so resilient it will outlive us. Surely this has nothing nothing to do with our rapidly decreasing population-

[oilpressmill]

Grape seeds contain many substances that are good for the human body. So people choose to press grape seeds into oil and make grape seed oil. Used for daily edible or made into skin care products for human body absorption.

[deltaruminations]

you guys ever think about how the DT extraction machine, possibly implied to have been initially designed/prototyped by gaster, is shaped like a deer skull. and how toby fox originally meant to have more things foreshadowing it earlier in UT. but the only one he kept in the final game was a deer monster themed around a december holiday

[psychosomaticdeicide]

Perhaps I should have just downloaded the mod because it’s literally the same game with a few differences. However, I do want to play it as a cis dude at least once.

[it-grrl]

Mumbling "enshittification" every time I attempt to do something normal (pay for a service) and I am beset by Difficulties (having to sign up for yet another account & install another app to get on a customer service chat & avoid a phone call for the chat rep to tell me "have you tried (website)?" ( side enshittification: my password organization app popping up aggressively to let me know I don't have a password for this thing I am currently signing up for yet))

[maluron]

Even for lucky bitches who don't get Cramps Of Doom nor dysphoria over it you have to acknowledge that human periods are messy and worse: inefficient. Spend up to five whole days shedding that pesky decidua??? that's much too long.

Headcanon that Viktor would be the kind of trans guy to just grab a Karman cannula & a vacuum pump and suck everything out in one go. Here, clean & clear to go. Human flesh is so flawed, can't wait to get rid of that part.

[eric-sadahire]

Did you know?

In 1965, a machine was patented to deliver ideas using centrifugal force. 

The machine would spin until the ideas came out, and it would be caught in a net.

[blackhallow]

Got home from work, packed my clothes, drove to the airport, got on a plane. Still thinking about jujutsu kaisen. This is a curse.

[analyticspursuit]

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[mysticarcanum]

auuuugh. top 10 d&d sessions that almost made me shit my pants .

[nexo-nex]

It's lk crazy how most eah games from the website weren't archived properly and now they're not lost but a secret worst third thing: the games are literally unplayable