#that’s not a text-to-speech voice

[cb-writes-stuff]

This is the man whose work we’re all obsessed with.

[bruciemilf]

I like the thought of Battinson speaking like a My Chemical Romance song , but also, I think it’d be so unique and so cool and genius and groundbreaking if he spoke like Duchess from Aristocats.

Just him with little Dick? Asking him to PRETTY PLEASE let him kidnap the creepy but cute little kid next door.

“Oh, no, my darling, that’s just awfully rude. You have to ask the little baby first.”

[trashmammal-7]

It's so funny how Jonny doesn't sound all that computer-ish when speaking as Chester and the OIAR gang just doesn't really question why the computer speaks with a full range of emotions like a regular human person.

[glamiers]

THE GUYS THE GUYS ARE BACK!!

I’m so crazy over jmart it’s insane

[gilly-moon]

I am BEGGING society to start using the oxford comma again. I have misunderstood too many sentences in recent memory all because someone couldn't put ONE extra comma in.

[vamprisms]

they are so lucky they didn't have tiktok in middle earth because i know sauron would be posting thirst traps from the top of mount doom. betterhelp sponsored videos about how he survived his narcissist boss by being a dark empath. grwm to gift custom jewellery to some fellow influencers (magic rings now available on my storefront for a limited time only)

[liatai]

Question!

Neurodivergent peeps of Tumblr, I have a question.

I know that "nonverbal" or "selectively mute" are specific terms that mean "I cannot force words out no matter how hard I try," so... is there a term for "I can speak if I have to, but right now it requires extra energy?"

Like, I'm autistic. I have times where I can speak and even hold conversations, but stringing a verbal sentence together takes effort, the same kind of effort lifting a heavy load with your body would but in your mind. I can be perfectly eloquent and verbose in text when this happens, and sometimes I'll even make some of the limited signs I know in ASL without an issue, but speaking aloud uses up all my mental RAM and I can feel the metaphorical fans of my mind-computer whirring in overdrive. X3;

It's exhausting, too. Usually if I've been verbally social for a while, that's when it kicks in.

I can understand spoken words just as well as other times when this happens, as long as I don't have to speak to reply. If I have to speak, the mental effort and stamina needed to do it tends to push details aside in an endeavor to save processing power. ^^;

I know autism is a spectrum, and I'm hoping someone might have a name for this "not QUITE nonverbal but verbal words are VERY hard right now" feeling ^^; "Partially nonverbal" or "partially selectively mute" doesn't seem quite right.

Help?

[fan-maniaer]

This is what I imagine what fatal errors voice sounds like.

[whosectype]

I love Chester and Norris from the podcast The Magnus Protocol, who is Jon and Martin?

[anthroposeen]

me and my grandma have finished ep159! and she is still unaware that jon and martin are jonmartin. one single celled organism. if she doesnt pick up on it by 160, i might start a countdown until she realizes

[im-not-a-l0ser]

Ruth has thick thighs save lives in every single social media bio she's ever written

[incipientdreamer]

JIMMY MAGMA?! IN THE PUTER??

[nyxiotart]

Jmart's been computerized

[aesterblaster]

When isagi is really sick of Kaiser's shit he just takes his translator earbuds out lol

[buttercup-barf]

This is it. I think the world is ready.

[thevoidcannotbefilled]

What if the voices are essentially spooky AI?

One of the modern concerns with AI is stealing VA's voices. Essentially instead of paying voice actors, you train an AI to copy their inflections.

The "dataset" in this case would be the tapes found possibly in the transfer between worlds. They may not be literally uploaded, hell there could be a step missing we're not entirely aware of atm, but with this line of thinking, Chester and Norris as we know them are not Jon and Martin but rather an interpretation of them created from the statements.

And if that's the case, it would make sense if Chester was a bit more aware. Jon was firstly more connected to the fears, but he obviously read a lot more statements than Martin. The more data, the more accuracy.

But AI of course isnt a the real person and in this hypothetical "Chester" then isn't Jon. Or at the very least we can't 100% trust he would act or have the same intentions as him. There will always be a part of him working with incomplete information (after all, even we didn't see every moment between the tapes).

That being said, even if Chester isn't a 1 to 1 copy to him, if he has enough memory to have be conscious, and his literal memory is of Jon's recording, why wouldn't Chester think he's Jon? Even if the Jon we know is somewhere else (whatever that means), whatever Chester is also could think it's Jon too.

So basically, we could be dealing with a spooky AI of Jon who isn't actually Jon but thinks he is, and is doing what he thinks Jon would do if he was stuck in a computer with limited ways of communicating but in reality is acting based on the limited data provided by the fears and/or tapes.

Chester may have an identity crisis is what I'm saying.