#arg meta

[deancasforcutie]

Radio Company, "Watching Over Me" & "Every Light"

[starflungwaddledee]

Oooo starstruck dee has little stars at the bottom of her feet! Are they just aesthetic or would they make imprints into the ground? (like pawprints)

exactly like that! though she's not the only one...

edit: might need to add some additional dialogue to this to make it more clear, but a clarification in the interim; he knows about his own footprints. he's just surprised to see something similar already there when he knows he's only just landed. he lifts his own shoe to confirm that they're not identical (and also to reveal this to the viewer). seems his stoicism beat off the clarity in this one, sorry 😭

[toonsforkicks22]

*The blonde in the cop suit is Kelly from Bust-A-Groove, a game I used to obsess when I had a PlayStation.

Our world but there’s a private city where only actors and staff who work in the gaming industry reside. I am yet to further this silly idea of mine.

I’ve only ever drawn Wally until now.

[its-your-mind]

11 year old Gerry Kaey - a psychological analysis

[ID: screenshot from a spreadsheet of two columns and two rows. The first column is labeled “First Name,” with “Gerard” listed below it. The second column is labeled “Last Name,” with “Kaey” listed below it. End ID]

Like everyone else, I was of course delighted by the presence of our beloved arsonist on our list of child test-subjects at the World Line 2 Magnus Institute (not delighted that he was having unethical psychology experiments performed on him, delighted by his presence. though it’s possible that this was actually a better childhood than he had with Mary. but I digress.)

(Data set can be found here, if anyone else wants to make a copy and play with it, and this post has my fave analysis of the sheet itself)

The data for Gerard Kaey was absolutely delightful, and it indicated more than almost anything else that some people were in fact the same (or very similar) across world lines. I was going to post about it and then I remembered that not everyone was forced to take a slightly outdated Educational Psychology class recently, and thus the random names at the top would not be indicators of fuckin anything without extensive Googling.

I figured trolling the internet for details on outdated developmental psychology theories and unethical sociology experiments is not most people’s idea of a fun afternoon (tho in the magnus fandom you never know); either way I figured I’d pull out the fun and interesting data on this goth child and translate it into human terms for us all to enjoy.

(QUICK NOTE: Pretty much all of these theories are outdated on account of being No Good and quite reductive and many of the experiments are EXTREMELY fucked up (all of which makes sense, given where these fictional data came from). If you’re curious about any of the actual psychological theories and criticisms, here’s a relatively jargon free summary, with further reading at the bottom. I’m gonna follow the time-honored tradition of psychology professors and say “well it sucks and was bad that this happened BUT it did happen and we might as well use the data to come to some general conclusions and/or ask better questions, especially about the people performing those tests in the first place.” anyway ty for coming to my TED talk ONTO THE GERRY DATA)

[ID: screenshot from a spreadsheet of three columns and two rows. The first column is labeled “Kholberg,” with “Level 3” listed below it. The second column is labeled “Prosocial,” with “High” listed below it. The third column is labeled “Empathy Index,” with “95%” listed below it. End ID]

Let’s start here.

Kholberg’s Theory of Moral Development is a metric for measuring the moral development in children. It has three stages. A child who has reached the “third stage” demonstrates a consideration of the needs and feelings of others when making morality-based decisions and judgements, even above the norms and expectations of society.

Prosocial behavior is behavior that can be characterized as having no direct benefit to the person performing an action; something done entirely for the good of others.

Empathy Index is pretty self-explanatory (as far as I can tell, it’s not actually based on anything and is something the researchers created just for this experiment).

So far, we’ve got a rough picture of Gerry as a kid who has a strong moral compass, who is quick to help, even when there’s no benefit for himself. Who considers what the people around him might want or need. Who is able to throw social expectation out the window when someone else is in need.

Reminds me of that older, slightly different version of himself, sitting alone at a table in Venice, wearing a Hawaiian shirt because he’s “on vacation,” sighing in exasperation at the interruption and telling a stranger to think of her mother.

[ID: screenshot from a spreadsheet of two columns and two rows. The first column is labeled “Milgram,” with “Low” listed below it. The second column is labeled “Asch,” with “Low” listed below it. End ID]

These are my favorite rows. They’re all the way at the end of the spreadsheet, which kind of makes me imagine that the testers had this image of a highly developed child, a kid who seemed perfect for whatever they had planned. And then…

Milgram was the motherfucker who ran the experiment where people were told to press a button, and when they did, another participant was delivered an electric shock. (there wasn’t actually a shock in Milgram’s experiment, just an actor pretending to be shocked. The socks were fake, but the psychological damage was real!) The test was designed to measure how long people would continue to do what they were told by the “scientist” running the test, even as the electric shock appeared to grow stronger. A “low” score is indicative of someone who bailed out ASAP, no matter what the test-runner said.

The Asch Conformity Experiment put a large number of people in the room (most of whom were actors) and showed them a series of images of lines with different lengths, and they had to identify which was longest. The actors all gave the correct answer for the first few, and then all of them started to give the exact same wrong answer (i.e. all of them would say B, even if Line A was clearly longest). The test measured how likely a subject was to conform to the group opinion, even when they knew the people around them were objectively wrong, if they were the only one offering a different (but correct) answer over the course of several rounds of images.

I have this super clear image of little Gerry in a ratty pair of jeans and a band t-shirt, long hair absolutely unbrushed, walking into a room with a dude in a lab coat and someone else strapped to a chair and IMMEDIATELY getting suspicious, and just refusing to press the button again once he realized what it did, leaving the actors just… lost as to how to proceed. And then with the Asch test, he’s just sitting there with a look of incredulity on his face looking at the people around him and saying “do you people need fucking glasses all of a sudden? it’s not fucking B.” and just ignoring them for the rest of the test.

and all of the Magnus people who had been VERY excited about this promising young person all of a sudden realizing that they have accidentally recruited a VERY intelligent juvenile delinquent.

so there you have it! World Line 2 Gerry Kaey was kind when he didn’t have to be, he didn’t give a shit how other people felt about him, he cared deeply for other people, UNLESS of course they were people in authority, in which case he told them to go fuck themselves.

*dreamy sigh* that’ll be our Gerard

final fun notes:

Gerry has the second highest number on the Empathy Index at 95%

The only kid who beat him, with a score of 98%, was 9 year old “Samara Khalid”

10 year old “Conner Dyer” scored “Low” on the Milgram and Asch tests JUST like Gerry. I wonder if they were friends.

Other than that, Dyer is almost exactly average among the rest of the data

Khalid scored “High” on both Milgram and Asch

Wonder how that’s gonna affect things 👀👀👀 high empathy, high value on what other people think

Sam thats so autistic of you I love u

Khalid was also on “Level 3” of Kholberg and had “High” levels of Prosocial behavior, despite being only 9 (super young to have the abstract thinking necessary for that)

[disruptivevoib]

sometimes I do wanna just build an online horror genre taxonomy

[infohazardouz]

!NEW COMIC SOON! tragically not demon au, but hopefully you guys will like it anyways :0) more about how things are below

basically! demon au! damn!!!!!! i have been so humbled, flattered, and overwhelmed (not in any particular order) by the response! i went from refreshing my notes every 5 seconds to having too many notifications to check every single one, and while i am so so happy about that, i am also feeling a bit in over my head! the next part for the demon au is well underway, but to be honest with you guys i’m starting to feel signs of burnout. to prevent myself from over-exerting the concept, i think i’m going to post welcome home content outside the au more frequently, and just add headlines to every major demon au update :0) i felt the need to justify myself (and i’m sure many of you are rolling your eyes right now) because i know that many, many people followed me just for the demon au stuff and i’d hate for you to be disappointed, so; demon au! still making it, still coming out, just a bit slower! in the meanwhile, you’ll hopefully like my other comics as well- such as the one i’m about to post featuring an ex-criminal howdy ;0)

[dreamsarebutterflies]

[WARNINGS: mention of suicide and self harm]

I was preparing a slide about ALNST for a friend haha and while I was wandering on twitter, I found something unexpected.

I am always a sucker for ARG (Alternate reality game) stuff hehe and this one really hurts in my meow meow. When you change the light and contrast, you can see scars on Ivan's wrists. That's what he is hiding, not his name/chip.

Now, this is just a theory but perhaps this is proof of suicide attempts. What if Ivan's owner brought him back to life each time? This alien is famous and rich, and Ivan is an investment after all.

I was wondering what all the experiments on Till were about. First I thought that maybe his body has been changed for esthetic purposes. It is my understanding that korea is the best when it comes to esthetic chirurgy because beauty is a big factor on how succesful you'll be in life. Since ALNST is obviously a commentary on the korean stardom, it was a possibility, after all.

However, Ivan's hidden wrist and my theory on the topic could lead to a different kind of conclusion. Perhaps Till is being brought back to life again and again.

What if they don't even have the freedom to choose the way they die?

I already checked and didn't find anything on Till's one. Except, and that's far-fetched, Till's chip/name (which you can stil l see when you lower the light to the max), shows . _ . and it could be morse code. Which is "R", whatever that means. If we go down this road, the second line of Ivan's scars spells "G".

That's all I could notice but from my experience, ARGs can be solved through many ways. I'll leave this one to you guys.

[terabyteunion]

at some point ill rant about why people saying "[online horror, ex analogue horror/args/backrooms/etc] are ruined by [whatever]" just infuriate me for no significant reason but still get under my skin with the willingness to dismiss art

[women-of-malevolent]

Unbelievable.

New season, new ways to be weird about women.

Before I get into the witch's hole, I want to lay some groundwork.

It seems to me like that the witch's hole was intentionally written to be yonic.

Right?

Therefore I must apply the 'why' lens to unpacking its mysteries.

Hopefully after some study the truth will emerge.

I do think it's tremendously valuable to study texts, ones that you love and hate and have mixed feelings about,

Not knowing in advance what exactly you may find at the end of your intellectual journey. I am endlessly

Grateful for the opportunity to do so with this fine podcast.

[90sbee]

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[artistichoodie]

I think Wally exists in like... not the physical puppet, but in the show itself. Each episode as played on TV is what he experiences, and for a long time he happily stuck to his script, it didn't even occur to him to do anything else. But one day it did occur to him. And then he could never un-think the idea that he could do something other than what he was supposed to.

So instead he started noticing, saw more and more. Saw that "Neighbor" wasn't really there when he talked to (at) them, saw that the houses didn't have all their walls, that he didn't really paint, he just messed with the brush and images would appear.

That none of his dear friends could tell anything was wrong, and trying to tell them himself just made them worry before they forgot again.

And then he slowly became aware that Neighbor was there, and if he looked at precisely the right angle he could see them, just barely. And that's what eventually made the show stop running, because  suddenly no matter how they recorded it or what episode they played Wally kept looking directly at the viewer and not doing what he was meant to do.

So he stopped existing for a while, with no episodes playing for him to live inside, until they made that website. It's just another medium, after all. It took a while to notice he existed within it since it was different than TV, but he already had plenty of practice with noticing things. And oh, the more he looks, the more he experiments, the more he can actually communicate! How wonderful! To be able to talk to his best friend, the only other person in his life who has ever changed.

It’s okay that they don’t always talk back. It took him a long time to notice what was going on, maybe it’s just taking them a long time too. Maybe they’re forgetting, he used to forget sometimes, early on. He’ll be happy to remind them.

[snopiah]

are the federation workers considered island residents? because if so, the implications are worrying….

IM SAYING THE ELECTION IS RIGGED FROM THE START DESPITE IT BEING ADVERTISED AS FAIR ON PAPER

(i literally have no evidence, im just thinking instead of sleeping)

[maple-crusader]

hey, psst, yes you

are you aware of these things?!?!! (little niche fandoms / shitposting on youtube)

-Neco-arc fandom being one of the most active shitposters and consistently posting about it

-Garfield fans sure are also going at it a lot

-I have to mention Will Wood, Because of course

-Animation Memes are absolutely still happening and can I say that the art is just so good like OVERALL???

-Ai-Covers is a recent one, but it only seems to get worse daily so we'll see

-Any ''Specific'' Anime community creating animations and memes around the anime they like

-One guy voicing over old superhero cartoon and making from 2 minutes skits up to over 10 minutes, it's amazing (Solid jj)

-okay okay, task master? god I wish that's what would've played on my tv growing up

-The Magnus Archives, And other ARG, Mystery, Meta, Horror that has a TON of work behind to make these things just incredible

-There's SO MUCH indie music artist that are posting AMAZING songs they've written, sometimes posting multiple times a week, they make incredible progress every new video and it's amazing everytime (This one specifically caught my interest ; AZALI which is starting to be a bigger channel, I love their work)

and lastly, ever felt how dense youtube is now?, how much information scrolling for 1 seconds throws at you, adds or not, so many videos that you may like and here's the worse part; YOU MIGHT LIKE IT YEAH, it's scary and always has been. It's convenient, sure, but I don't know if it's good reallyyy ANYWAY

[den-of-the-blue-dragon]

@kirbyoctournament

she's starting to feel a little funny... wait, why does aife look like that?

(text in the first panel says "Something feels... Wrong." text in the last panel says "No... It's nothing...")

[thatdeadaquarius]

im back again! just read your post with the code in it and spent 20 minutes decoding it, only to realize that you had reblogged the answer and i could have just looked at that 😭you live and you learn ig! i am now consumed with a desire to make a code within one of my drabbles (even though i am already behind on my requests in my blog) and i choose to blame this all on you /lh

anyway have a nice day <3

*bats eyelashes

Aw little ol me? Ive done nothing wrong in my life, ever,

Also behind?? On requests?? Couldnt be me 🥰✨️

I FUCKING AM SO HAPPY AND OVERJOYED P EVEN SENT ASKS IN-

but yeah i quickly learned to accept that I will

✨️never✨️

Get thru them all bc i have adhd, bc im busy in life rn so why not keep em open? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Plus I love hearing ppls rando ideas they get struck with outta nowhere so i dont want them to be like

"Aw wish aqua's mailbox was open rn, id ask this"

LIKE- NOOOO!! SEND ME IT!! RIGHT NEOWWW!!

So, the mailbox prob gonna stay open for awhile at least for me

I hope u get thru ur pile soon tho, and have fun doing it!

Im glad u liked suffered over lol the encoding bit!

:D tysm for the ask!! I'm rambley u guys feel free to always send smth in even just to chat I love it :)

Safe Travels,

💀♒️

[llort]

Cyberphysical Reality just Got a Whole More Engaging

The Unsignificant Sentience ARG has officially begun.

It will explore a vast variety of themes, from the would building and exisistial crisis of the US series to more recursive identity metaphors than you can shake an edge at.

Firstly, to play. All you need is your influencer name and type of influence which you can decide, but once chosen, is permanent.

Affectors: Sense resistance in external matrices and can give them a nudge to have a physical effect.

Effectors: Can sense the internal matrices of entities and modify communication in systems and individuals

Alters: Are able to clearly see the network of forces in a matrix that an affected affects, but only in close contact. However they can modify the nodes that affected affect to result in different emergent properties

Anchorite: Essentially has the influence of an alter and an effector but are only able to change their own internal matrix.

How you choose to engage with the ARG is up to you, but I am making it clear that any fan fiction are via the nature of my world building, Canon.