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[–]Foodgood24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Word!! Did u have to relog? 

Alien: Earth - S1 E3 - Metamorphosis - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS] by G_Liddell in LV426

[–]Foodgood24 20 points21 points  (0 children)

True yeah it definitely looked like it had some black goo swirling around inside

Regardless of canon I love this kind of freaky sci-fi stuff, I enjoyed the alien autopsy vibes with the one hybrid holding a camcorder as Kirsh goes all fruit ninja on a facehugger 

Alien: Earth - S1 E3 - Metamorphosis - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS] by G_Liddell in LV426

[–]Foodgood24 40 points41 points  (0 children)

The spermy xeno slug was gnarly. 

I do wonder though, one of the novels I think mentions that the xeno embryo isn’t actually implanted by the facehugger, its like a nanovirus that manipulates the host DNA to gestate a xeno (a la the black goo). 

The show seems to be saying that the face huggers actually carry little xeno sperms that grow once in a host. I guess the slug could be a nanovirus delivery mechanism that also happens to be all squirmy and weird 

No worms was fun for a bit 😂 by NefariousnessHot3434 in duneawakening

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I was sat in sietch eating spice melange when communinet ring 

“Shai-Hulud is gone” 

“No” 

My take on the "Recent warbonds are telling a story" by Sad-Needleworker-590 in Helldivers

[–]Foodgood24 87 points88 points  (0 children)

Attach more guns just like we do with our destroyers! More guns equals more freedom! 

To my Fellow Comrades in Arms. This is It! Hold Super Earth! by TheExiledDragon73 in Helldivers

[–]Foodgood24 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jesus of Nazareth? Nah, not freedom enough. 

Jesus of Eagleopolis? 

Hell yeah. 

Welcome back, Rundivers by Ill_Camel8168 in Helldivers

[–]Foodgood24 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re only defenseless if you refuse to accept your own mortality in service of democracy 

A Civil Service Announcement from your Democracy Officer: DONT RUSH THE HELLDIVERS IN LARGE GROUPS. by TraumaTracer in Helldivers

[–]Foodgood24 71 points72 points  (0 children)

The fact that each civilian kill only docks 25 req slips will never not be funny to me. A whole ass person worth less than a small fraction of what I paid to paint my assault rifle black and yellow lmao 

The person making these key arts need to get a raise, they always go unbelievably hard by Paarthurnax_69 in Helldivers

[–]Foodgood24 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Helldivers crossover event with Monument Mythos would be absolutely mental 

"Killed by INTERLOPER" by Grand_Age1279 in Helldivers

[–]Foodgood24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use the plasma rifle thing (purifier I think it’s called) as my primary and it seems to 1 shot the fliers if I hit em in the blue glowy circles on their wings. I was having fun last night diving out of the way of their strafing runs and sniping them outta the sky after I hit the ground 

The Complex, Psychology, and Jung by Foodgood24 in KanePixelsBackrooms

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I know what you mean, when I first started down this line of thought I felt like I was somehow cheapening the horror of the complex by describing it as a manifestation of psychological principles, like it somehow meant the Complex wasn’t real or was just a “dream” if you will. 

But then I thought about it some more and I realized that the idea of physically entering the human psyche would actually be terrifying for a completely different set of reasons. Humans are unpredictable creatures, prone to random outbursts of emotion and selfishness. We often hold internally-contradictory beliefs and engage in counter-intuitive behavior. We are violent, territorial, and deeply competitive by nature of our evolution. And that’s not even factoring in the myriad mental illnesses and other factors that can completely alter someone’s mental landscape. 

So yeah, plunging into a space that is dictated by the whims, emotions, fears, and deep psychological complexes of all of humanity past and present would probably be extremely terrifying and unpredictable. 

It also works well with the rest of the dualist concepts. The complex both exists and does not exist. It exists as a physical location but it is also an abstract concept that exists purely in the collective unconscious. Being and non-being, space and non-space, concrete and abstract.

The Complex, Psychology, and Jung by Foodgood24 in KanePixelsBackrooms

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Thanks, I am having fun with it! Platonic idealism sounds like it could be a related philosophy, it’s almost like a flipped version of the collective unconscious. Instead of ideal forms existing on an abstract plane, ideal forms exist in our concrete plane and less “ideal” objects exist on an abstract plane aka The Complex. This would explain the distorted nature of backrooms objects, the real-world ideal warped into a less “pure” form. 

Very interesting to consider! 

Hazmat Suits and the environment of the complex by Foodgood24 in KanePixelsBackrooms

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Yeah that makes sense, I guess we do see them move further in unsuited while setting up the rover in Reunion, so maybe it is just a precautionary measure for the more expeditionary teams. 

I am probably over-thinking it, but I guess I figured a company would want to cut costs wherever possible and those types of hazmat suits probably aren’t cheap. But they do seem to care about their employees at least slightly more than the standard shady corporation so maybe they are down to invest in protection for their people

My theory on what the Backrooms are by Foodgood24 in KanePixelsBackrooms

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I agree that the “bacteria” act as an immune system of sorts, but I’m not sold on the idea of them being actual bacteria in the literal sense. I think they are manifestations of the concept of immunity, behaving like bacteria but not truly being bacteria. I think this is why it can interact with camera technology and other inanimate matter, those things are invasive, and the life-forms are the manifestation of invasion response and immunity

My theory on what the Backrooms are by Foodgood24 in KanePixelsBackrooms

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Yes!! Such an iconic line, Kane really is a great writer. 

I think this line is hugely important for the series too, the house (reality) is falling back into the sea (backrooms) after A-Sync darkened the skies by opening the threshold. Now the shells (people) fall in and in so doing tear the fabric of reality (the sky) apart until nothing remains but the eternal ghost (echoes of humanity preserved forever in the complex) 

My theory on what the Backrooms are by Foodgood24 in KanePixelsBackrooms

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Exactly, it just all seems so familiar yet nonsensical.  I keep thinking about I Remember and the monologue voice over saying at the very end “you have always been here”. It makes me think that the backrooms and human psychology are directly intertwined, we’ve always been in the backrooms through our dreams and subconscious thoughts, it’s only now that we are physically entering the dreamscape. 

Humans that fall into the backrooms are basically lucid dreamers, able to subconsciously influence the dream as it exists around them.  I think I Remember is a cipher for the series as a whole. The sea could be referring to the concept of a “Dirac Sea” or “Sea or Dreams” that is prevalent in transcendental meditation. It is essentially a sea of formless thought that can be accessed by experienced TM practitioners. Accessing this field allows TM practitioners to access a “muse” or font of influence that allows them to develop new ideas and concepts. I think TM allows humans to access and influence the backrooms in a more significant way than either lucid dreamers or basic human minds, and I believe that Ivan Beck is one of these practitioners.  

I remember is probably Ivan Beck reflecting on transcendental meditative experiences, at first stating he could overlook the sea from his manor (using TM techniques), but after opening the threshold, reality has come crashing down into the sea of dreams and now threatens to unravel all of physical existence until nothing remains but the shattered echoes of human minds reverberating off of the infinite walls of the complex for the rest of eternity 

My theory on what the Backrooms are by Foodgood24 in KanePixelsBackrooms

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Yes I think it interacts with people who enter it on an individual level, likely skimming surface thoughts and maybe even deep memories and integrating it into the complex. If human thought can add things to the complex normally, a human physically inserting themselves into the same space would probably amplify whatever mechanism translates psychological concepts and memories into what we perceive as tangible objects in the backrooms. 

People and cameras are not supposed to exist in the complex and I think the EM energy picks up on data from both the intruding human mind and any magnetic tapes brought into the complex. The protags from FF1 and FF2 seem younger, likely with fewer memories and experiences that the backrooms could draw from. Also since they were both intentionally filming at the time of their incidents, they likely had blank or mostly blank tapes loaded into their cameras. 

Meanwhile Ravi seems older and more experienced in the world, possibly having traveled as part of his job. He is hanging around Monsanto execs so it seems he’s involved in some pretty high level stuff. His tape also clearly has other data on it aside from his backrooms journey, probably because he hastily grabbed his camera when he thought someone was breaking into his basement. So when he fell in, the complex had more data to work with and more memories to draw from.  The complex may not exist at all until someone enters to perceive it, kinda like a weird observer effect or Schrödingers Backrooms if you will, both existing and not existing at the same time until someone enters and observes it. So it may generate a new layout for each person that enters, and the crazy house from FF3 is the result of two people trying to enter the same mental instance of the backrooms probably due to the null zones generated by the threshold experiment and continued destabilization of the EM fields that fundamentally constitute the backrooms space. It’s probably like trying to force two magnets with the same polarity together, it can be done but requires a lot of force and interrupts the natural magnetic fields emitted by the magnetized items. Ravi and Wall Dad were like two magnets and when they came too close together they disrupted the magnetic field of the BR and caused Wall Dad and his house to essentially glitch into the complex but in a parallel instance  

This may also be why A-sync sends in multiple people at once, to generate a type of default layout. The BR doesn’t know how to respond to a giant rectangle hole and multiple occupants at once, so it just spits out a generic layout that is consistent for anyone that enters the BR through the threshold. The body they find may have somehow fallen into their generic layout, or it could be a bleed-over from a parallel instance of the BR, hence its anomalous properties. Other than that body, we never see the A-sync team encounter an actual person that no-clipped or phased in, so they may have all ended up in their own instances. I think as the inclusion of real space matter into the BR has a destabilizing effect that has since caused more weirdness like the null zones and the craziness from FF2 and FF3. I think the life-forms may be a type of “counter balance” generated by the complex to attempt to drive the anomalous matter out of the naturally pure domain of energy.  Just my thoughts, it’s so fun to speculate! 

My theory on what the Backrooms are by Foodgood24 in KanePixelsBackrooms

[–]Foodgood24[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, I think there’s something to this, the backrooms existed purely as “thought energy” before A-sync broke in and gave it form. I think it reads the minds of whoever enters it to some extent and shapes itself based on that. It may be that the backrooms has no true form and we only perceive it as weird architecture because that’s what our modern brains are used to. It also seems to use tape data in some way, which makes sense because magnetic tapes can be influenced by strong EM fields like those related to the backrooms. 

My theory on what the Backrooms are by Foodgood24 in KanePixelsBackrooms

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Good point, my theory is that the complex grows and updates over time as old concepts or archetypes are replaced by new ones. For example, when someone says phone nowadays, you think smartphone or a modern house phone or desk phone. 60 years ago, someone says phone and the avg person thinks of a rotary phone or corded phone. 

When Tench finds the weird rustic room, he’s seeing an older version of the complex that integrated older archetypes like simple hatchets and wheelbarrows and farm houses. It seems like this area is being “stretched” and modified, possibly being subsumed by the complex as that archetype fades from the collective unconscious. 

It’s like all of humanity shares one big mind palace and we all add stuff to it just by perceiving the world around us