Let Me Wallow Me In My Delusions About What They Meant Here

me when i’m all out of bowls but i have salsa and some tostitos scoops

The fact that TMAGP begins with boot up noises -- and it's implied that Teddy turned off his computer but it turned itself back on -- establishes that we're listening from the same vantage point as whatever's in that machine. Or the system at large.

So the pub conversation is what confuses me. Is whatever's in the OIAR system on Alice's phone? She would DEFINITELY ignore regulations around not connecting personal devices to the network/etc. But is it following her intentionally, or did it just get on there? You hear camera noises while Sam talks to Colin, so it feels intentional. Malicious or beneficent, though...

The transcripts also say that Norris's and Chester's readings occurs in "CYBERSPACE," which is cool to me because TMA didn't get super deep into fears of technology (certainly cameras, keyboard eating, and uncanny automata could all be lumped in, but tech itself wasn't the "fear" - it was the eye, the spiral, and the stranger). So far technology, the complexity of it, the things lurking in spaghetti code, are front and center.

All of the stories so far have also touched on body modification, even transhumanism (esp. 3), and I can't resist thinking I KNOW where this is going. Gimme that sweet sweet .jmj 🙈

I also wonder if the mere act of categorizing these cases is constructing the new fears.

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Sounds so real. Are we sure it's not real?

Literal fever dream left me with only the phrase "Buffy The Vampire Slayer vampire HOA episode" echoing in my head

I remember ASMR before in video ads, You Sick Fucks

Cursed cats!

stupid poll time

ignoring your own opinions on everyone, thinking ONLY of how the characters view each other,

leaving teddy out since he doesn't work there anymore but I think he'd be up there

MAG 68 mentions documents leaked in 1999. Diff universe, but maybe relevant to the Magnus Institute's downfall in TMAGP?