#machine shifting

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

Outie Dylan, swallowing his pride and deciding to tell his innie that he’s actually pretty cool despite the wife smooching debacle: I’m proud of you and while I’ll respect your decision if you want to resign I think you should make it work there because I don’t want you to die

Dylan G: *immediately hits his boss with a vending machine*

[first-class-feral]

BDE

that's what it stands for. i dont make the rules

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...oh god i have so many more of these. pt 2 later maybe

[darel3ne]

I think I’m obsessed with this AU……. (Anyways… Gift to TheCryptidArt1st) !

HELLO. @thecryptidart1st @thegraveyardsh1ft

The Graveyard Shift AU BY TheCryptidArt1st

Feel free to use these as PFP’s :)

I feel like I wanna make more icons of ppl in each of the boy’s franchises now…. 😔😔

[coolthingsguyslike]

[freewinnie]

i already know its working bc i dont even feel the need to affirm anymore PERIODTT

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[vulpinesaint]

kind of unfortunate that so many fantasy epics are also war novels because i will be honest i just do not like war novels that much... the grand clashing of forces is compelling obviously but it requires characters to talk about so much practical battle strategy and while i can get my brain to comprehend all these fantasy maps and kingdoms and borders and battalions and front lines and army movements it takes up. so much space in the book. feels like i'm fighting a war of my own trying to get through it sometimes

[forgetfulmachineart]

[ID: A black and white 6 panel digital comic. First panel: Gojo stands with facing away from us saying "... Hey, Yuuta" Second: A close up on Gojo looking annoyed saying "I'm not going to lose so I don't need to do this-" Third: He's looking down while saying "but just in case" Fourth: A close up on his hands as he summons two balls of energy saying "Here's how I create red and blue" Fifth: His hands now relax as he says "And more importantly..." Sixth: A side view of him hugging himself tightly. He's surrounded by speech bubbles of affirmations and apologies to a theoretical future Yuuta. Some of these include "I'm so proud of you" and "You're not a monster" and "Shoko can fix us up... right...?" /End ID]

Do you think Gojo left messages for Yuuta to look back on?

(full page and inspo under the cut)

[ID: A full page of the above described comic. /End ID]

[ID: A manga panel of Gojo's body's hand in a flicking pose. The monologue says "I'm being thorough... ...going through Gojo-sensei's memories one-by-one." /End ID]

Yuuta's going to find a lot of weird stuff in there but I've been thinking about Gojo leaving apologies and maybe a few helpful things in there...........

[thecryptidart1st]

even more out of context sketches

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

The interesting thing about getting into League at this time for me is the ongoing Viktor Incident. Cause for those not in the know, while Arcane Viktor is awesome, he's not really the same as game Viktor. In League, Vik is basically a full blown Dr Doom style supervillain with the intention of saving humanity. He also really earns the title of Machine Herald, since unlike in the show, he straight up cyborgs himself. Basically, his thing is use machines to fix humanity's weakness/destruction. But Vik in the show IS a great adaptation, since they keep his motivations and origin and personality etc. Like every character in the show, the team took what they had and changed/expanded it in order to create a better story.

But now game Viktor is getting reworked in order to properly match show Viktor, what with Arcane being canon and stuff. But unlike with Vi and Ekko, who just got changed origins and mild personality shifts, new Viktor is rather... different. Cause instead of focusing on the core aspects, Riot is trying to mimic what the show changed. But the show was very deliberate in trying to be accurate to the games.

So now we have Guy -> Cool Imitation of Guy -> Cheap Imitation of Cool Imitation of Guy

[astro-nomaly]

TGS Lloyd: all I hear are screeeaaaammssss

The ghost ninja in the other room: FOLLOW ME UNTIL YOU LOVE ME- 💃🕺

Lloyd: 😑

[thegraveyardsh1ft]

ok who forgot to tell me about the Bendy game in development?!?

[weheartstims]

hi!! can i please request a stimboard for dee kennedy from dsaf with arcade themes? please no heavily saturated colors or knives!! darker cool colors preferred but im fine with anything :] cats and/or dogs would be welcome too!!

Dee Kennedy (DSAF) with desaturated arcade games and cats and dogs!

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[coworkerjonathan]

You seem fun, best of luck in your daily endeavors, internet stranger

Terrifying message.

[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.

[thecryptidart1st]

Merry Chrysler from The Graveyard Shift

[feliciadraws]

some dumb poorly edited Photoshop meme edit I made based on an equally dumb au from a friend Discord server where Volo Pokemon Legends is forced to work in McDonalds and deliberately screws around with the customers and their orders because he can't fight any gods here