>Literally the easiest job in the world
>Random parties all of the time, Coffie Cozies, Paintball, Caricature portraits for effectivity
>Coworkers spend half the time doing whatever the fuck they want
>Wellness sessions with a hot asian lady
>The nicest middle manager you could wish for
>Kills herself
You forgot the weird kinky mask sex sessions.
Why does it have to be an implant and not just an yearly injection?
why does it have to be a yearly injection, why not an implant?
Yearly injection of what
cum
Covid vaccine
>Injection that causes you to lose half your waking life, a complete blank spot in your memory
That means it's working!
BioNTech, Moderna or Johnson and Johnson vaccine that is FDA approved for the prevention of COVID-19 and future variants.
Why does it have to be a yearly injection and not a monthly pill? hmmm
technology
>Orwellian nightmare in which you are a slave to an unknown system
>no sunlight, no entertainment, no reason to live
>UMM ACTUALLY THAT'S KIND OF BASED
Proof that there is no upper limit to the retarded contrarianism featured on this board.
Mate I've had irl job that was two times as terrifying as this shit and I still don't think it was that bad
>inb4.but you had time to yourself!!1
No I did not, I was extremly desperate for that job and I had to travel by train for miles to my workplace. I would wake up at 5am, prepare to leave, travel to work for 3 hours, work for 8 hours, travel home for 3 hours and immedietly go sleep. Repeat. (and if it's a night shift, good luck catching a train, you'll have to sleep at the train station or a motel) There were no coffie cozies, funny banter or free time and you've had to work, work, work, work, sometimes without a single half a min break, because the work couldn't be stopped midway through
I kinda miss it. Not the sleeping on the train station part, though
Bro a lot of people have to work shitty jobs with little to no time off besides sleeping. This is still not the same as being at work literally 100% of all the time you are conscious forever.
Yeah, it was a paranoid outburst of mine here, but the point was I literally had zero free time of my own while I was at that job (wale up at 5am, be home at 8pm)
Wait what the fuck did I eat
To us normal people, yeah you had no free time, except in this show, the innie people had literally no free time, as in they couldn't even experience putting their head down somewhere because Irving got mindbroke punished in the break room for dozing off in his seat
I mean props to you for going through it, but there's something about corporate bullshit that is soul sucking in a way that actual shit jobs are not, if that makes sense. I think anyone would go insane stuck in that environment 24//.
move closer to the job, retard. also you know you can shitpost from the train, right?
Their jobs weren't difficult or stressful, problem was that the part of you that worked always worked, you didn't get time to relax or do shit outside of the workplace. Essentially being at work 24/7.
Remember kids-
the entire thing is an experiment to begin with, that doesn't follow pre-established "normal working" or "normal human" procedures.
For all intents & purposes, "innards" have the working capacity of an adult with the mental capacity of a 15 year old...so basically...a horse.
The experiment is obviously to monitor them, and to see what behavioural modifications, and basic social engineering can be accomplished upon them with psychological models...
not to make them more effective and not to make them "normal outtards".
The Board (TM) could care less if they launch full scale invasions of other departments, or neck themselves, as long as they can identify and correlate the data of changes made to their mental abilities while innarding.
My guess would be military applications obviously, along with working in high stress job/industry applications that require shutting down all emotions and being extremely efficient (body recoveries, hazardous sites, etc.).
It appears they are in the early stages still, as it is implied they used to have way, way worse problems.
What about the after-party melon bloat? That's rough
Never mind the fact that she lived unlike the other anon implies
it would be funny if he said that because he's allergic to melon but the stomachache didn't settle in until he clocks out
What's wrong with her face?
This lil guy pretty cute. The lady is uggo though.
lmfao
The resemblance is uncanny.
Hnnng
surgery
perfectly weird to match with someone who'd marry adam scott's character
google asians
Those hips mmmmmm
extreme genetic diversity.
she is beyond mixed and her genes are all fighting for dominance.
It's 15% too long. Someone did a photoshop where you shorten it to human proportions, and she's an order of magnitude prettier.
Still would.
Tibetan-Australian
>What's wrong with her face?
She’s half Tibetan.
The “weird” thing though nay be her eye placement.
Most people have eyes that are geometrically half way between the bottom of their chin, and the top of their skull. (It’s something that gets pointed out in better art classes)
Her eye’s are higher than normal, or her chin and mouth are longer than normal, making her eyes closer to 1/3 proportionally down from the top of her head.
>Her eye’s are higher than normal
Does it help people in Tibet spot wolves or something?
probably it is tied to adaptations, many of them have a genetic defect that allows them to hang on to oxygen better in low oxygen altitude they live in, if you look up EPAS1. pretty interesting shit, it's one of the fastest developing adaptations in human genomes
a quick google informed me that tibetian people have a high occurrence of cataracts and blindness
>Does it help people in Tibet spot wolves or something?
I suspect it might have more to do with the naval cavity for some reason.
A larger vertical nasal cavity would lead to a “stretched out” face, with a mouth lower in comparison to eye level, while basically not changing cranial capacity.
The larger nasal cavity could help warm air as a person breathes, which might be necessary in cold climates like the Tibetan plateau.
Just a guess though.
you don’t understand how evolution works
? it's traits that benefit a population that get passed on, what are you contesting here?
Why does she only look Asian in that photo
Those are two different women you faceblind dummy.
I'm always shocked by how faceblind the people on this site are.
gonna have to rewatch altered carbon soon
I love it, it's the right kind of exotic
For you? Unlikely bc 3 eps in it should have gotten you by now. I like it but perhaps you should watch something else
I watched the first three episodes and found it boring AF....when exactly does the show get good?
It doesn't. You can already tell this is a show where they have no fucking idea how to satisfactorily end it, so they'll just drag it out for about 5 seasons continually doubling down on the mystery box bullshit
The first season literally ends with the clones revealing to the world they are tortured
>clones
what show did you watch
Mental clones, they are essentialy a different person.
They retain their 'nondeclarative memory' so no, they're not the same as clones. If you took an innie who knew how to ride a bike but has never encountered one in Lumon, and put him on a bike, he could ride it with ease. It's why Irving knew how to drive a car. They cut off their declarative memory (specific knowledge, emotional knowledge) It's as if the brain is a river, and they dammed it up and filtered what is allowed to flow through.
A clone would not know any of these things
the thumbnail makes it look like the cat is getting fisted
Honestly I also found the first three episodes kind of slow. It gets better exactly at this moment lol and gets really great in the last 7-9 episodes
This show is a 9.9 out of 10 but it would have been a 10/10 if she actually died here
Worth it if it means we get to see more cute Helly kino
You're just homosexuals who can't stand watching TV shows that have a slower pace and demand you to pay attention in order to get the pay off.
The mystery box comment that gets posted in every Severance thread is proof of that, seeing as they are breaking the mysteries halfway through the season already.
Imagine that you were never allowed to take breaks or look at anything different ever again. White walls, green carpet, numbers. Forever. Remember that innies never go to sleep. They close their eyes in the elevator and open them.
It's almost like sensory deprivation, at least they have people to talk to. Honestly, their department is far too well adjusted (before Helly) to make sense to me, but maybe it's the fear factor that keeps them in check. Mark himself said he wanted to kill someone when he first arrived
They have no previous frame of reference to the outside world, their only experience of consciousness is from being at the offices. It's a very interesting concept for a TV show, the people who are running the office can manipulate them in any ways they like and they have no experience to tell them that what is happening is wrong. The don't really question the bizarre and seemingly pointless work they do and they believe everything they're told because they don't know any different.
>They have no previous frame of reference to the outside world, their only experience of consciousness is from being at the offices
Nope, they know what boats and houses and shit are, because they have their explicit memories deleted and not their implicit ones. It's why a fresh innie doesn't need to be taught to walk and talk. It's not like raising a person inside a sterilized box, the innies have a vague idea of what things are and the concept of outside. They just have never made memories with it, as an innie. Essentially worse than if they were 100% mindwiped and re-raised. It's like flexing a phantom limb.
Mark questioned it in the beginning and even wanted to kill them when he arrived, and they scared him straight, same with Helly, though I imagine they were far more lenient on her until they finally broke and sent her to the break room.
Thoughts on Lumos?
My personal take is that they are a technologically advanced cult trying to control people through mind implants
>Macrodata Refinement working on patterns based on emotional responses
>All of the Eagan cult stuff
>Weird combat techniques cards at O&D
>Milchick mentions to Burt "the preparations are almost over"
>random people being enslaved while pressumed dead by everyone
>Most of the town is empty, "half of the population are Lumos employes"
>Jame Eagen mentions that soon enough everyone will have the chips and "they will all be Kier's children"
>The theme of the show being mindless servitude
Also obviously the implants being controlable outside of the workplace, without the owner's knowledge
They're essentially white collar workers, dealing with some sort of unconscious work. The numbers work deals with Kier's 4 tenets, woe, pride, dread, malice. I have a feeling it has something to do with transplanting consciousness and cloning people (goats are famously used in stem cell research) rather than something explicitly military. Severance is something the elites do for fun as well, there was a woman who got pregnant, severed herself so her innie had to deal with giving birth, and carried on.
There was also Helly's father's line about her being present for his 'revolving', and there's a lot of focus on lineage and being Kier's children and all that nonsense, that makes me think they're trying to do reincarnation or something. Gemma must have been one of the tests, assuming she's actually dead and they preserved her brain, instead of something else like they merely kidnapped her.
Why can't you homosexuals post normal sized pictures?
when do we get the second season 2 already... this was one of the few shows i actually enjoed i need it back
It was recently announced that filming for S2 will end in May.
>getting to travel by train
>travelling at all, or even seeing a vehicle
>being able to experience waking up
>being able to eat food you choose
>being able to experience literally anything but the office
>having a home
Innies would think your life is a paradise. Dylan wakes up in a closet and sees his son and he's distraught enough that he can't go back to that life, that he attacks Milchick like a wild animal.
They are literally just in jail, but a very luxurious one
People in jail are allowed to close their eyes and go to sleep, see more than 4 people a day, know what outside looks like. Something even worse is that innies have no childhood memories. Even the most tortured person on earth has memories of some sort. And when an innie is fired, they die.
They don't even own their own bodies, Mark S. has to deal with being hungover all the time out of his control because his outie self keeps binge drinking. His innie can't even go home or take meds and sleep it off, he just has to deal with it.
This was the worst realization I came to. Mark's outie was putting his innie through extra hell cause he was pushing his hangovers off to him.
Pretty good incentive for depressed people. You can do whatever you want to your body, some other guy will be tasked with dealing with the pain for 8 hours a day so you can relax and fuck off at home and do it again.
Except the other dude is also you and you will experience everything he does. You just won't remember it during the "outie awake" phase.
If you meant to reply to this
then remember that the innies have far less freedom to 'do things' to themselves than the outies do. Even if they aren't supervised and Helly was allowed to go an hero herself, they still can't do shit like drink until they black out and their workplace is quite sterile. There's workplace injuries but there's also a hospital inside the facility anyways
I think suicide would be a better alternative than signing up for this job and having to experience the degree of distress you would as a depressed innie.
You'd think that the innies suiciding themselves would happen more often once the insanity of the monotony settles in. Somehow Irving was fine for 7 years. Thinking about that, it makes sense he's so focused on his gay romance, guy hasn't experienced anything but numbers and Kier religious nonsense his entire existence. I still am not entertained by him though, it was quite annoying to see he did basically nothing in the finale.
Hopefully he retains memories of the papers he read once he visited the outside world.
This is similar to the door Gemma walked through when they were getting rid of her right? I assume it's where they go to 'quit', either taking the chip out or doing something to their brains. There's no explanation yet as to how the fuck Irving saw this when you're not supposed to be there anyways.
Yeah it was the same place.
Irving is interesting. He has probably been in and then out and then in again based off his knowledge of Burt's house. That might be wrong entirely but there's still a mystery. Dylan's outie is still a big mystery too aside from having a child.
I suspect Dylan's outie might be a bad guy, given he has no problem with the OCT and Milchick knows his family
>fat tub of shit with a mutt kid
>bad guy
you don't watch a lot of goyslop do ya kid
I'll take your braindead post seriously, anyone who undergoes severance has to have some sort of 'bad' streak inside them. They watch the news, the procedure is hotly debated and they don't care (on the outside). Mark is made fun of and treated weird by Ricken's hippie friends. There's protesters in the streets calling it unnatural and inhumane, and scientists who are researching against it are getting sacked like that random black lady who lives on the campus secretly.
I love Mark's brother-in-law
Bullies are just Bulls and Lies
Was that in his gay book? Cause if not that's very Ricken tbh.
Yeah it was. I remember because I remarked to my friend how it sounded like an Xavier Renegade Angel quote.
At first he seemed like the pretentious asshole type but turned out to be so genuine that now he's my favorite character behind Milchick.
He simply doesn't want to be a wagie anymore. I wish innie Mark could stick around more, that was probably the first time someone's genuinely liked his writing. Now imagine outie Mark waking up to a Ricken who thinks someone likes his book, kek
he just needs money for his coalburning wife's black son
I'm hyped to see it explored in S2 if that's true, I've been thinking the same thing.
I'm glad this show is doing all the personality combinations I thought would be cool for the show. If S2 introduces more offices like I'm hoping I think I might be able to walk away from the show at least fulfilled with how they explore the innie/outie concept.
He doesn't know Burt's house, I don't assume he's visited anyone, he just learns the outie's locations and somehow can communicate with his innie. Possibly via dreams hence the black paint hallucinations. Lumon employees all live in that sort of compound town, it wouldn't take a genius to eventually survey everyone who lives there.
>Dylan
He seems to be a family man, but being okay with having Lumon employees inside his house is odd to me. It felt like Mark is at least wary of them or doesn't give a shit, and Irving is obviously already suspicious since his house is full of tracking shit. Maybe Dylan being supportive of severance/Lumon on the outside manifests with how obsessed he is with being the best employee on the inside. It's like how innie Helly can't stand working because her outer self is a silver spoon princess.
>he just learns the outie's locations and somehow can communicate with his innie. Possibly via dreams hence the black paint hallucinations.
I can see that. I wasn't sure if there was going to be anything more to his dreams other than your work conscious having an issue with sleeping.
When you see outie irving painting he's pounding coffee through the night. Between that and the hallucinations I assumed that irving knows something about the implant and how it functions, and that he's engaging in high levels of sleep depravation to induce either sleep or some sort of hallucinatory state in innie irving. Maybe because the severance process can't divorce memories and information from the sleeping mind or subconscious. It would also explain why Milchick and the rest of the Lumon staff and innie irving all seem so disproportionately concerned about his dozing off from time to time.
Sleep deprivation affects memory heavily, if you want to get technical it makes it harder for neurons to regenerate their protective covering and weakens the strength between them, hence why people who are very deprived of sleep start having random flashes and gaps of memory, their neurons are essentially misfiring. Routines strengthen these ties, inversely. If he's been severed for 7 years he's probably reverse-engineered the gap between innie and outie. He has a pretty strict schedule it seems. Military background would help that.
Ricken's face when innie Mark was praising him for how amazing his retarded book was cracked me up. First literature he's ever read in his life had quotes like
>What does “camaraderie” mean? Most linguists agree it comes from the Latin “camera,” which means “a device used to take a photograph.”
and the innies took it as gospel.
nagger, you literally never go to sleep. That would be enough for me to rope.
It's funny that having a job is such a terrifying concept to zoomers
You're purposely misunderstanding the nature of the objection being raised.
MOMMY
She was so good
I can't tell if she's a good actor or not, at times she sounded bored when it was supposed to be a tense scene, but as the show progressed and showed her to be batshit insane it made a bit of sense. Still wasn't sold that hard on her rage fit in the car.
I think she's really funny but I don't know if that is the intent of the character or not.
I thought this too, like I was supposed to feel put off by her the way they portray Milchick, but she's just insane in a slightly funny way without a shred of scariness.
You don't find her scary? Her slightly incorrect reactions in social situations imply that she is not predictable, which can be scary to people. She is strange.
It's just the fact that she's an old woman with some trauma, I didn't find her scary until she drilled into Petey's dead brain. But then she became funny again especially with her breastfeeding thing
I say she's good, I think the comedy of her losing control and her cool was intended. She's a sweetheart old lady at the beginning, turns to an in-charge boss lady, to a mental breakdown where the viewer was fully comfortable with the implication she stole a baby. Her losing composure and freaking out was great
>I can't tell if she's a good actor or not,
Holy KEK I was just about to post this same exact thing. I guess she really isn't that good of an actress but I also think she's unhinged so it works.
I want to fuck her. Prime mommy body.
Based, and same
I can't say I see eye to eye with you two... but I respect your resolve.
What's in there?
probably where you go to get reprogrammed or reset. Irving had been working for seven years but only remembered like 3 of them iirc.
i want to see more of her outie
she's a virgin
who, the actress? Good, erotism is disgusting. Now check these get
why are they talking about their vaginas all the time
Imagine having a job (tough I know), but when it's time to go home for the day, you instead instantly start a new day, forever.
Random shit you take for granted again, like the ability to choose what you wear when you come into work, are probably fantastical luxuries to them
best show in a good long while...season 2 will be trash
>mark my words
I agree Season 2 won't be as good but I can't agree with the complaints that since the mystery is 'dead' that's the reason it'll suffer. I don't think I could stand another season of them not understanding what's going on
why did you make the second part green?
Her job was really easy and it probably pays well. Finishing a shift, blinking and then having to start another shift is what is guaranteed to drive you insane. But the show makes it clear, severance is tested for other uses, nobody hates their job this much to not want to remember it. They want to forget depression, pregnancy pain and such shit.
Kino show
>they made Patricia Arquette do a boob gag
Bros... is Ben Stiller /ourguy/?
You haven't watched Escape at Dannemora?
>Escape at Dannemora?
forgot about that. She was a complete skank. The show was top quality. Arquette seems to choose her roles wisely.
am i the only one who sees mike myers instead of a women?
this is my gripe about the show too. I really enjoy the premise and that carries me through the series and want to watch s02
Probably not the most original thought but I'm thinking Helly's chip wasn't inserted correctly , hence the lingering distrust of Lumon and her actions to follow
Either she got a special chip because she's an Eagan princess, or it's just her personality leaking out since you can erase memories but you can't erase emotional or personality related things. Irving is a stickler for rules, he came from a military background. Mark just does what people tell him to do, he's passive on the outside too. Helly fights back when she's told she can't do what she wants, and outie Helly is a pampered elite so I'd imagine she's used to being catered to at all times.
Mark himself said that in the beginning he wanted to kill the guy who interviewd him. I'd guess Helly is just more strongminded by nature than the others who eventually submitted.
how come adam scotts outie is a cynical douchebag, and his innie is chill? does your wife dying really turn you into a dick?
His innie seems kind of snarky still, it's just that Innies basically have the emotional intelligence of children
Mark's outie seems like an asshole since he's all alone and the only people he talks to is his sister and his brother-in-law with his weird friends. Drinking and sleeping all day tends to turn one into an asshole
This
basically.
Only thing I'd add is that most cynicism is a learned defence mechanism. Your personality in general is that (with on going debate about how many, if any, personality traits are inherent). The innie is essentially a complete personality reset.
LITERALLY A PERMANENT WAGIE CAGIE
>Forever at work
>No knowledge of outside life
>You clock out at 5pm only to magically appear back at 9am, no memory of in between
>Can't sleep
>Only working forever and ever non-stop.
Yes I'm pretty sure the show literally spells this out for you.
>the severance procedure wouldn't be so bad
Oh yeah? Picture this
>being a janitor, working for that hard earned pay for hours everyday
>finally, you delete that last ''clean it up, janny'' picture along with the obligatory dicky and sneed threads
>''well, at least is over now, I can finally stop crying and take a rest''
>as soon as you close the browser, you blink and you are opening it again
>''clean it up, janny''
Would being a Lumon jannie even be that bad? You'd be allowed to explore and talk to people meanwhile the department labrats are locked in their wagecages.
Post rare Britts:
Honestly, the thing I appreciate the most about this show is how well it's made compared to everything that's made these days. The show looks stunning and the sound design is so great you can simply listen to the epsiodes and still enjoy them as it's music
>white woman gets a perfectly nice and very simple job
>goes to extraordinary lengths to cause trouble for every single colleague she can, going as far as suicide ""attempts"" in the workplace
>doesn't get fired or face any actual consequences at any point
Very realistic show
k
Why are office clothes so hot
>panty lines
HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG
also Helly a cute. can't wait for s2
Hnnng
don't forget the satanic masquerade sex party when you close enough accounts
>become top israelite in the company
>invited to eyes wide shut party
mask off moment for ben stiller
She's also an attractive woman who basically has her pick of guys to have random sex with.
Actually, that's a missed opportunity. If, instead of killing herself to get back at her outie, she had constant unprotected sex to get back at her instead. It'd raise a weird ethics question about whether or not her outie had any right to try and curb her innie's sexual activity.