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Please don't shit on our street, jeet!
>>215820871>jeets live in my head rent free
I must have missed this (was half watching the show whilst doom-scrolling through "Kim Wexler feet" results) but what did all those numbers mean on the screen in ep1? They kept showing them at different bits so I've probably missed so many clues which explain what was happening with the demonic possessions in that town.
>>215820905good morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>215820882Old man is very comfortable doing that
>>215820882He's raping her!
>>215820871>>215820921Is this guy the new barneyfag but he spergs out at AI instead?
>>215820955I don't care about AI, I'm just racist against Indians. Why does that hurt your feelings?
>>215820911i really hope we see carol's feet in this show
>>215820955Basically. He's been here for like 8 months and posts the same 8 images and never actually responds to an argument.
>>215820936V for vagina
>>215820967>I don't care about AI, I'm just racist against Indians.Me too. They smell like shit and even their women are ugly.AI is both good and bad, but it can make some kino.I think leftists fearmongering over AI is mostly retarded nonsense.
>>215820968I really hope I see her feet in my fridge. Well at least one of them.
>>215821000But Indians love AI?
Guys, don't these posts seem off-topic to you?Is there something we can do about these off-topic posts?>>215820871>>215820905>>215820921>>215820955>>215820967
>>215821022SAAAARDO NOT BE POSTING THE MEMES
me entering the thread
>>215821005they also drink water?
>>215821022Why don't you want me posting about how much I hate Indians in the thread for a TV show where the last White person on Earth has to try and save the planet while Indians hamper her at every turn, just as they do in real life?
>>215821037I'm faceblind is that Zosia on the left
>>215821039No they drink poo water enriched with cow dung to protect against the cancers
It's early days but this general could easily get as cosy as the True Detective Season 4 threads.
>>215820936
Fuck Carol
Some days, I wish we were all a hivemind in IRL. I want to know what you all think of me.
>>215821176I WANT TO
>>215821037Pleb: Collective, bring me a harem of slightly above average women wearing normal clothes.Patrician: Collective, bring me a harem of the hottest big titty cosplayers possible dressed in costume as Samus Aran, Rogue, Black Cat, Tifa, Satsuki Kiryuin etc. and have them act in-character at all times.
I watched episode one and thought it was pretty bad. Should i watch episode 2 or do you think im filtered at this point
>>215821210>hive mind includes the original creators/writers of the cosplay characters>thus they'll be perfectly in character, far better than even a super fan could achieveholy based
bring me Ms Huang
>>215821225Probably filtered, but if you have time, watch the second anyway to be sure.Personally, I was hooked from episode 1.
>>215821249based
when are they gonna explain the shrink ray?
Since Vince is obsessed with german stuff or Germany, I really hope we get to see an eastern German thug who never learned english and wants to rebuild the third reich
>>215821303>rebuild the third reichharmful, etc. etc.
>>215821249Just one request anon? We have 27,411 others who share more than a passing resemblance to Ms Huang.
>>215821286what the fuck are these things? why was so much emphasis put on them in the first shot of the pilot?
>>215821286>>215821331oh damn you're going in BLIND blind
>>215821277Thanks anon. With that advice I think ill let more episodes come out then and see if i get hooked
I might have missed this because I was tugging my meat while watching the show, but where is Kim Wexler’s Actor’s character’s husband?Thought I saw him in an earlier scene, but i guess she does live with her roommate
She's a Jew, right?
So…Do we think it’s one mind controlling billions of people; like Unity in Rick and Morty?Or do we think it’s more of a borg collective deal?
>>215821331They're radar dishes.Considering the whole hivemind is caused by electromagnetic magic waves doing gene stuff, a bunch of large dish receivers makes kinda sense.
>>215821406>noooo it's not a shrink ray
>>215821331They're raido telescopes that are used for SETI, which listens for posible signals being broadcast from space.
How bad is the quality drop in ep3 gonna be?
>>215821422Planetary defense system. Kim's gonna need to use it by the end of the series to defeat the ayyyyyys.
>EPISODE 3: GRENADESo what explosive Trolley Problem is Carol going to engineer?
>>215821331SETI. Basically they listen to cosmic signals that are broadcast from aliens. For a long time it was believed that the radio waves we broadcast would go across the galaxy forever, so an older civilization would've done the same. Last I heard the current theory is that those signals just decay into background noise after a few light years, basically making them incomprehensible outside of their solar system which makes the amount of money spent on it really funny.
>>215821451It only gets betterbut I'll be disappointed if Manousos doesn't show up
>>215821406what do you mean waves doing gene stuff?i thought the waves were the recipe and those dumbfucks decided to cook it - then it heem'd the world once that scientist from lady went full prometheus whilst holding a rat
>>215820882JFC, I forgot how insane that was. Is Mike gay or something? I don't know how he go away with it otherwise.
>>215821399There is no singular "controller," it's a virus that parasites the minds of its hosts. It wants to propagate and is autistic about not harming about the immune people because it just wants to spread further
>>215821477I kinda zoned out during the explanation, desu.
>>215821406Holy shit you are retarded lmaoNever watch a show again
>>215821399Currently reads more like a collective. But maybe the twist is that this collective is meant to be subsumed by another entity like Unity but they don't know it yet. As shown in EP 1 the collective don't even know how it works exactly
If you want a movie that features SETI, detecting alien waves, check out Contact (1997).
>>215821494Have you considered sucking the farts directly out my arsehole?
>>215821451Flashback episode that's 80% Carol and Helen's past after Carol fucks Zosia and feels guilty
I might have missed it, but why did Kim's agent die again?
So how is everyones minds linked perfectly across worldwide distance with zero lag? Is it telepathy? When and how did humans develop telepathy?
>>215821519Hit her head on the ground.She's also her lover/girlfriend/wife.
She took the vax, that's why she's immune.Bravo Vince.
>>215821519She was a recovering alcoholic but when Carol looked away she was drinking absinthe and her body literally shut down.
>>215821353>>215821406>>215821429>>215821465>not knowing the shrink ray memeTHIS GENERAL SUCKS
>>215821530A magic rat gave everyone wizard powers. It was in the prologue.
>>215821530See >>215808184Basically: Don't think about it too much.
>>215821530Humans have always been latently psychic.
>>215821530the funny thing is that there is a lag of sortsthey take a little while to pass some info that the collective already has in theory
>the Jeeta's name is Gooner Rat
>880 million die because of the initial seizure wave>only 11 million die from carols spergoutHow do these numbers add up when the hivemind is just as active doing intensive and dangerous activities in cleanup?
>dude, just shut your brain off, just stop being independently critical of everything, just close your eyes and pass on any personal responsibility
there are hivemind preferers ITT right now with us wanting to know all our secrets and hidden desires. remember that
>>215821557THISBunch of fucking zoomer redditors up in here.
>>215821675It'll get better there's only been 2 episodesSeverance and From threads took a while to flourish
>>215820723I want to lick the pirate lady
So are they in contact with some alien intelligence or did the virus transmit knowledge about itself?
in b4 carol explodes
>>215820882based
>>215821736the latter
>>215821736Theres no aliens. Theres no one hidden villain controlling everyone. Its just humanity as a hivemind now.
>>215821736NEITHERaliens sent instructions to make a virus -> humans catch it -> there is now an independent hivemind of humansthey don't know how it works or who the aliens are at least we think it could be a twist
Is it possible they synthesised the data wrong and the virus isnt supposed to be a literal hivemind?
>>215821788>>215821800>"There are no aliens. None on this planet."They clearly have some knowledge beyond humanity here
>>215821835How the fuck are we supposed to know that?>>215821850what otherworldly knowledge have the hiveminded humans shown so far?
>>215821530It was always there, it just was turned off by default. There has been plenty of other fiction that explore these themes.https://youtu.be/KOpxP0Z3Dsg
>>215821850how sothey hardly even seem like they are fully utilizing their humanity knowledge repository let alone alien tech
>>215821850yes because they have the memories of the scientists who found the fucking alien
>>215821788It's literally a alien hivemind
>>215821867Were talking about Pluburis here, anon.
>>215821718Those are “theory” shows though. I’m not sure there’s gonna be some shocking reveal with Pluribus. I actually think it would be pretty brave if they stayed away from making it a theory show.
>>215821877No, its a human hivemind.
>>215821891The fuck? I thought this was the better call saul general.
>>215821895Is Vince even known to do mystery box slop? (Ive only seen Breaking Bad)
>>215821331this is the level of retard in these discussionsthey make the case gor why a hivemind would be a good thing better than any philosopher could
We need to be talking about how this show could realistic end with Carol building a time machine...especially with the timers they keep showing (and the fact that it's going up now)
>>215821876the scientists just assumed an alien intelligence transmitted it, and also, those scientists wouldn't know if earth had aliens on it
>>215821788Why did the Area 51 scientists memories not alert the hivemind of there being aliens in the planet?Carol even mentioned it
>>215821891Pluribus is very Evangelion- and Lain-coded. I guarantee that Vince has seen both.
>>215821603its gooner at ne
Do you guys think that Carol triggered the hivemind to start with the George Clooney shit?
>>215821962I guarantee he fucking hasn't LMAO
>>215821865>How the fuck are we supposed to know that?Im just spitballing a theory here u sperg.
>>215821988he's probably seen eva but unless he's a 35 year old NEET or a 18 year old tranny zoomer he hasn't seen Lain
>>215821953pretty sure the time was counting down to and up from an epoch point.... hivemind critical mass?
Times you acted like Manousos
great to see an actual hivemind and not one master organism controlling a bunch of smaller onesseems most depictions of hiveminds fall into the latter
https://kemono.cr/posts?q=pluribusI'm going in
>>215821953When I first started watching the first episode and wasn't entirely sure what was happening yet, I had the thought that it might be revealed at the end that Carol is actually the one broadcasting the signal backward in time to cause a loop. But I quickly abandoned that idea as the show doesn't seem to be going in that kind of direction.
>>215821955because "area 51 aliens" were a smokescreen hoax for darpa projects that the government has since admitted to perpetuating
>>215821962It's very /x/ coded in general. If everyone was enlightened in the buddhist sense, we'd naturally sync up in a way that would appear like magicWe can look at this show as a metaphor for enlightenment. The virus gave everyone enlightenment, no one has their own desires, especially ones to dominate others and consume them in a hierarchy, instead everyone is selfless and function together, the main protagonist is "unenlightened", and does not want to let go of human nature. But perhaps brute forcing it isnt the way
>>215822022inb4 he doesn't show up for another 3 episodes
>>215821930he got his start on the xfiles
>>215822022Apparently, his big episode is episode 7, although I also heard he should be in the rest of the episodes.
https://x.com/randallmakart/status/1987725117900664890
I don't believe the other "individuals" are actually individuals and not just the hive mind playing the part so Carol thinks she isn't alone to keep her distracted and busy, the entire seizure thing can't be proven as more than an actit can clearly multitask doing shit independently with every body, there's no reason it can't pretend to be individuals, or pretend there's a problem with Carol being upset. It could just fake happy content "survivors" to argue with her that everything is great, and fake that there's a problem with her being upset.there's a lot of directions this can go and I don't trust anything it says or any of it's intentions
>>215822036I'm back
>>215822036wake me up when my serbian qweens watch
>>215822078>he got his start on the xfilesIve never actually watch an xfiles episodes. Arent they all self contained monster of the week stories with no ongoing mysteries?
why do people nowadays have trouble following basic narrativesthe average viewer now watches a show then looks up what happened in it afterwards
>>215822114LM?Only the brunette is a queen (I want to lick her pits)
>>215822148yeah, blonde has improved over time but i cant quit the pits
>>215822132average intelligence is plummeting insanely fast.although to be fair, half the fun of these types of mystery shows is discussing the plot. it's just that people used to talk about it with coworkers, but that has moved to reddit instead.
>>215822114>>215822036Doesn't coomer also have some reactions on it?
>>215822039
So Paraguay dude must have been shitposting on /tv/ because they noticed him late kek
>>215822036I don't get it. Where's the porn?
>>215821176Yeah fuck her. Fucking bitch needs to shut the fuck up. Carol is being too moralistic and the other aware individuals, except Diabeté, are being delusional. Their families are gone, as are Carols morals and worldview that she's clinging to. There's no more crime, no war, nothing. Thing about niggers and everything that comes with them: litter, bluetooth speakers, violent crime and robbery, wildly flapping their arms in public. All of that is gone - no more. Every black person now has the personality of a reasonable, intelligent white person. Planet Earth and mankind are saved.
>>215822132Nobody watches with full attention anymore. They are varying degrees of ipad kid taking in other stimulus on the side.
>>215821636makes me wonder what they would do about humans that are guaranteed to die incidentally. like all the people in bumfuck africa or bumfuck siberia who rely on external supply chains to survive. would they continue the supply chains? or gradually migrate them somewhere more hospitable
>>215822132Yeah dude this is exactly where the interpersonal conflict is gonna arise from. They said "we can't protect you from each other" and "talk it out amongst yourself because we can't influence you," so this is all going to lead in to the main action of the story. Gender and sexuality are only a couple things that divide humanity. Race, nationality, culture, and language will probably come into play later too. The narrative of this show is going to be about division vs. unity. What divides us vs. what unites us.
Bless all the people in this thread, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.
What would have happened if this guy's head popped off when he hit the ground ?
>>215822310Retard, there is no mankind, everyone assimilated isn't a person anymore, they're just a part of an entity with no individualityYou'd be one of those retards asking what the problem is
I want cunny
>>215822542>t.media illiterate
>>215821949Yeah I come back to /tv/ after 2 years and this is the level of discussion? Its never been more over.
Contradictions the show has yet to explain:- virus comes from 600+ lightyears away and has been transmitting for known history. how did prehistoric aliens from another galaxy custom tailor a virus for modern humans?- the mouse tricked a researcher by playing dead before attacking. they also talk about maulings at the zoo. how does the virus turn animals violent, but turns humans friendly?- they channel a dead lesbian to carol. where are dead people's memories stored? does this "psychic glue" create a sort of blockchain of human knowledge using all infected brains as shared storage, or does every brain in the network only host its own memories?- the show is clearly meant to be an emmybait for rhea seehorn and yet they haven't even shown her feet. what's taking so much time?
>>215822391>The narrative of this show is going to be about division vs. unity. What divides us vs. what unites us.That would be boring and it'll probably also end up pozzedFree Will and self individuation would be more interesting as the main theme
>>215821530What do you mean zero lag? When carol asked to meet the other unassimilated people, the bot she was talking to "went offline" for a few seconds
>>215822571the mouse wasn't dead, and lions will maul if not in a cage and stuffed full.
>>215822603*the mouse wasn't playing dead
>premise is one woman is trapped in a deny world filled with zombies and retards and if she gets mad people dieI like it
>>215822571>has been transmitting for known historyWe don't know that.
>>215822571>virus comes from 600+ lightyears away and has been transmitting for known history. how did prehistoric aliens from another galaxy custom tailor a virus for modern humans?No, the radio transition on how to build the virus was being broadcast. Humans were testing it on mice to see what it would do.>the mouse tricked a researcher by playing dead before attacking. they also talk about maulings at the zoo. how does the virus turn animals violent, but turns humans friendly?The virus was injected into the mice, but then got onto humans who then spread it to other humans.>they channel a dead lesbian to carol. where are dead people's memories stored? does this "psychic glue" create a sort of blockchain of human knowledge using all infected brains as shared storage, or does every brain in the network only host its own memories?Where are your memories stored? A better question is how does the hivemind communicate honestly.
>>215822628Unless the signal is traveling faster than light then it predates humans
>>215822599>What do you mean zero lag? When carol asked to meet the other unassimilated people, the bot she was talking to "went offline" for a few secondsThey were waiting for the other singles to answer if they wanted to meet up or not, retard.
>>215822558>t.can't refute so says random shit and hopes it works
The aliens know we're stuck in our current level of development. On our current trajectory, it's more wars and a slow turn towards deindustrialisationTo upgrade us to the next step, the next paradigm shift, the hivemind virus is necessary to get the world together to collaborate and solve our issues
>>215822571>the mouse tricked a researcher by playing dead before attacking. they also talk about maulings at the zoo. how does the virus turn animals violent, but turns humans friendly?Animals are just carriers. None of them are hiveminded. They just thought the rat was dead but they were wrong.
I haven't seen any of the show yet but I was aprehensive about it because I kinda disliked Rhea Seahorn's performance as kim in BCS. People liked her because she was well written, and I think her actual performance was poor and it brought me out of it a few times and it felt like I was seeing someone read the script instead of kim. And now she's the leading character I wondered if any anons had a comment on my retarded opinion? It's nice to see that there seems to be something to actually talk about sci-fi premise wise
>>215822571>>215822660The aliens that transmitted the virus arent important. Their species are probably even long dead.
>>215822102What is it with foot fetishists and smoking?
>>215822704Ive never seen BCS or this actress before. Her acting in this is just okay. It honestly feels like theres 2 seperate stories going on , the scifi one and her personal drama one. And they combined them both into the show.
>jeet thinks that's still her sonHow can you be that fucking stupid
>>215822756How is it not her son?
>>215822660>The aliens know we're stuck in our current level of development.How are you retards failing to grasp this show, the aliens aren't actively aware of anything, they literally just shot shit into space and have no idea if anything landed or resulted from it
>>215822771That's just her sons body, her son the specific individual as she once knew is gone. Permanently? We don't know yet
>>215822731>the scifi one and her personal drama oneI can't think of a sci fi show that doesn't have personal/human drama.
Anyone interested in hearing some minor spoilers about episode 3 ?
>>215822806Go ahead
>>215822497This wasn't an accident, Carol just hates black people.
>>215822129There are self contained episodes but there is a over-arching plot though for the seasons.
>>215822542>Retard, there is no mankind, everyone assimilated isn't a person anymoreAre you sure about that? I'm pretty sure that the hivemind is just "humans tied together with a psychic glue."The "virus that's not really a virus" is a self-replicating strand of RNA that gives a person the psychic glue and then makes them want to replicate it. They're people, but instead of having an individual's consciousness, they all share a collective consciousness. Don't humans already have a collective consciousness? It's not a new thing that was invented with the internet or the printing press. Maybe we've always been this way, sharing our consciousness with each other through language, culture, etc. Maybe the things that divide us are the very same things that bring us together.
>>215822796>>215822796>That's just her sons body, her son the specific individual as she once knew is gone.Thats like saying you meet a kid and he goes through puberty and you meet him as an adult and hes not the same person. Its still the same person.
>>215822817When Carol reboards air force one, there is a person from the "un-infected" missing and suddenly appears again towards the end of the episode.
>>215822543It's l' cunnày
>>215822840He is no longer making his own decisions or having his own thoughts, he's part of "it"
>>215822870Hes as much of it as it is him. Do you not know how a hivemind works?
>>215822840>Thats like saying you meet a kid and he goes through puberty and you meet him as an adult and hes not the same person. Its still the same person.You're opening a can of worms
>>215822497This wasn't a stunt double, right? Some lucky extra actually got to experience Carol falling onto his ass.
>>215822776We're all shooting theories. We're two episodes in. But of course theres always gonna be dumbfuck spergs like you who are sure of everything so carry on. Faggot
>>215822571>Contradictions the show has yet to explain:>The hivemind is aware it was created by a virus broadcast from an unknown source and has a biological imperative to infect people against their will>The hivemind has every scientist, sci fi geek, military strategist, recovered drug addict, psychologist, psychiatrist, and experienced bipolar/schizo patient with complete awareness of protocol to practical application of mindfulness, the nature of delusional thinking, addiction, and the philosophy of free will>"but it just feels so good!" >"I swear we're not a philosophical zombie!"lotta braindead anons making arguments on the crux that anybody "inside" in the hivemind isn't already deadthe imperative to infect Carol overriding self awareness with complex planning that great implies it has no free will or agency whatsoever. Memories without agency are no different than memories of a dead person. The fact the hivemind is 9,000% efficient and practical on infecting Carol but spending zero effort on amusing any single whim, desire, preference of any absorbed individual, means the only outcome to this is a dead world with zero culture, art, or even pointless bullshit, just full of philosophical zombies building massive radio antennas and spaceships with no greater purpose than infecting othersthey are a machine, and the purpose of a machine is what it does, ergo they are already dead, keeping memories of people makes zero difference>>215822706>The aliens that transmitted the virus arent important. Their species are probably even long dead.They either>Ran bare minimum as a machine to run the radio transmitter forever>Collectively laid down to wither after the radio was complete>Shifted to building spaceships to physically spread the infectionIf they are infected, and it wasn't a weapon to target Earth life, they are functionally corpses being piloted by highly evolved mold spores
>>215822887They used a stunned man for that scene.
>>215822878You've seen the whole show?
>>215822850If this turns up to be true I'm not reading any discussion until after the last episode airs on Dec 26thFucking grim that spoilers and leaks are still getting out somehow despite nuclear research level production secrecy, unbravo Vince
>>215822908>Media illiteracy moment
>>215821115Need this with the KOTH theme song
>>215822850how do you know ?
>>215822850What is this supposed to mean exactly anon? Could it not just be a continuity error if they didnt highlight this through camera work?
>>215822706There's a good chance the show will keep the aliens a total mystery, which would be a good way to go about itBut it was mentioned the transmitter was the size of Africa. So there was certainly some intention there
>>215822951No, it's very obvious with the way Carol reacts, it's a plot point for sure.
you're retarded if you think we're seeing aliens at least in the first 2 seasons of this show
>>215821238Unfortunately the Hive also has the director of Other M so Samus acts like a retard
>>215822923If the hivemind could accept Carol wanting to exist individually after it stabilized and reflected, then it would work much better for the themes the show is focusing on with Carol's character, and the other individuals would be less clinically retarded toothe hellbent insistence on infection of the few immune people makes it merely a standard movie monster with clearer cut morality for the protagonist, and less of the philosophical debate the show wants to bait
>>215822850>>215822976Who goes missing ?
Can viruses actually control a person's mind?
>>215823068Parasites can.
I hope the aliens become involved in the show. I don't know if I can handle Carol losing her shit for 4 fucking seasons.From the way Vince talks about the show it seems like the focus was the hivemind and its implications. The signal from space was just the delivery device he ran with, an aftertought.
>>215822850Ok and? So what?
>>215823068they say it's not a virus
>>215823133Not the leaker, but use your imagination, it could mean that they're not actually "un-infected" and are being used by the hive to manipulate Carol.
>>215823144It's RNA, close enough. Pretty much just an uncoated virus.
The signal from space also happened in Contact, which is pure jewish mysticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkabah_mysticism#Science_fictionIf youre not /x/ pilled you'll be filtered by this show
>>215822850I thought everyone already left except the African who stayed behind with Air Force One for himself
>>215823068No we can't
>>215823068Yeah, molds and parasites too. All things that self-perpetuate will self-select for anything that makes them perpetuate better.Rabies makes you more likely to do things that spread rabies, and makes you afraid of water and dehydrated with concentrated spit for biting things.Molds can pilot insects to die and flower spores from a high vantage point for maximum spread.Parasites can flip instincts and behavior towards stimuli, like making rats attracted to cat piss, to then get eaten and finish the life cycle of the parasite.>>215823144They said "it's like a virus, but not exactly". What they made was an RNA segment that infects cells, which is literally what a virus is and does. Most viruses naturally spawned has a toughass protective shell, but they're just self replicating errors."Us/We" is an bio Ice-9 either way
>becoming part of it is Joining >leaving it is called Breaking >they think Joining is good and Breaking BadBRAVOVINCE
>>215822571>how did prehistoric aliens from another galaxy custom tailor a virus for modern humans?They could have detected the chemical composition of our planet and predicted how the DNA of lifeforms on the planet would be structured. It could be that self-replicating molecules are that predictable, we only have one data point but it's possible that an alien species that advanced knows all about life.They could have even gotten samples from our planet using small probes, which are easier to accelerate to relativistic speeds, as early as 1200 years ago.>how does the virus turn animals violent, but turns humans friendly?It doesn't, the mouse was trying to spread the virus and the maulings were made up because the playboy character thought it would be a good story.>does this "psychic glue" create a sort of blockchain of human knowledge using all infected brains as shared storage, or does every brain in the network only host its own memories?There is probably some redundancy. If they plan to rip off Asimov, they can store memories in trees and shit and even use rocks for long term storage (although that last bit is probably too goofy).
>>215823161But where else could that person be that’s so important to break the illusion? Taking a shit? Sleeping?
>>215823259Are you unable to imagine things, it sounds like there is some cloaking or teleportation tech involved.
>>215823267What? If tricking blonde lady is so important, why risk it and ruin the trap?
>>215823063Chinese man
>>215823133Means that person is plotting something. Maybe the person agrees with Carol but is even more paranoid they were listening and pretended do disagree with her to trick the hive.Or just they came around to Carol's idea and took action
>>215822979to whom are you resppnding?
>>215821037>me entering the threadThere is no way you look like either of those women, troon!
>>215823283What has happened in the show that leads you to believe the entities behind this conundrum are incapable of making mistakes ?.(also, it makes for entertaining television.)
>>215823337Bradley Bandelbaum. That dumbass actually thinks we'll see aliens by episode 4! Can you believe that idot?
>E pluribus unum – Latin for 'Out of many, one is a traditional motto of the United States, appearing on the Great Seal along with Annuit cœptis (Latin for "he approves the undertaking") and Novus ordo seclorum (Latin for "New order of the ages")Pure NWO propaganda. This is as "hidden in plain sight" as it gets. Protect your neck anon
>>215822108>just the hive mind playing the part so Carol thinks she isn't aloneGoing to laugh my ass off when it turns out Carol isn't immune, she just really is the most miserable bitter person on Earth and the hive mind neither wants to consume her but can't get rid of her either
>>215823300>>215822850This is way too vague. Give one more unrelated thing in the next episode.If both are right then it'll be something
>>215822108So far it appears to have a high truth preferenceThis theory doesnt make sense because fundamentally, if it was going to go out of its way to be that deceptive, the hivemind would have no issue with just killing Carol
Uhmmm hello but at the beginning when the woman is bit by the mouse, she is the only person infected at that time. She is compelled to pass it on, but why? She is not part of a hivemind at that point, you can't have a hivemind of one person. It would make more sense if multiple people were infected at same time at the start. The whole premise is a farce, goodnght.
>>215821465i learned something new today
In every hive there's a queen bee that runs it. Queen bee here is the aliens and that'll be the focus of the last season
>>215823068What you had for lunch can control your mind.
>>215823368Yeah because the Old Order didn’t run on killing everyone to advance in money and power hierarchies since the dawn of civilization.
>oh no my coworker got bitten by a space virus lab rat and is showing symptoms, let's move her out of the containment lab designed to stop exactly this!bravo vince
>>215823421There are non benevolent reasons to keep the immune alive.The cold scientific emotionless reason is simply it is a virus and somehow something is immune and resists it so naturally it wants to study, observe and learn why. Studying something that resists your core being is nothing out there and has no benevolence or emotions behind it. Like a computer analyzing a glitch.
>>215823368>it's another "conspirators put breadcrumbs in media so tards can find them out and expose them" schizo
>>215823462They did. But they promise it'll be different this time. You should believe them anon.
>>215823421>the hivemind would have no issue with just killing CarolIf it's drive to infect is high and biologically imperative (it's own words), then immune people are going to drive it nuts as a problem to solve, which is that it said that isIt could mix truth and lies, if it's true it has an imperative to not kill so much as a lobster or step on a bug, as it said, then it can't just kill the immune survivors even if it's logical to do sowe need Carol to test more boundaries with it and probe it's orange & blue morality more>>215823470there was literally nobody overseeing anything on a project that should have been the most tightly controlled biolab in existence, the single security guard was distracted by a vending machinenobody would have funded "Lets build mysterious RNA from alien signal" without taking precautions of a hostile intent
>>215822850>>215822976how does she react ?
>teehee you can't get mad at me or else you'll kill millions of peopleabusive manipulation tactic
My theory is aliens will arrive, see the hive mind and say that wasn't what was supposed to happen with the virus
>>215823520that's why I don't believe itthe people are already dead anyway
>>215823480Valid pointBut this would mean at least, theyre not faking the seizuresIt'd be easier to then just lock Carol up, drug her, and study her that way instead of giving her free reinHell, they could have gone full truman show, made all the people around her seem like individuals and keep her in an illusion
>>215823421the easiest way to sell a lie is to surround it with truths
>>215823470Yeah that entire sequence was so stupid it almost took me out of it but I'm willing to ignore it if the rest of the show delivers.
>>215823535That's what im thinking too. The hivemind is too hivemind-y. I think its supposed to make people a little bit more empathetic, a bit of telepathy, but still individuals
>>215823470>pajeet is retardedshocker
>anons itt seething because a jeet is portrayed as a playboy cuckoldry really did originate from the whiteboy mind isnt it
>>215822059yeah, this is a good take, surprised to see so few people thinking along these lines. it seems obvious to me that a lot of the future story conflict will involve the chill enlightened hivemind getting bossed around in conflicting ways by the people who still have egos. it also makes sense that selfish aliens who had a scientific understanding of enlightenment might have sent the signal to other planets in order to pacify them, while holding on to their own egos. Alternately, it might have come from hippie buddhist aliens who wanted to spread the dharma.
>>215823535>>215823558>Aliens arriveit completely pacified the entire planet while preserving information and technology to studythey're already on their way, or waiting for a signal to waltz in, and the pacifism disease means nobody can even give a shit
>>215822953and that's if they were only aiming at earth
>>215823515yeah but the covid lab leak happened, and the same arguments can also be made for artificially engineering viruses to be more deadly than any existing virus
>>215823516She looks bewildered, and then does her signature deep breathing thing where she sucks the skin around her neck (you know what I mean) and asks "and... where the fuck were you ?"
>>215823586Yes, exactly. People are convinced that the hivemind is playing a long con which again, is a very human emotion, that of paranoia.Also there's a similarity with Contact >>215823183
>>215823470>>215823515>>215823541almost made me ALT+F4 on top of how shitty and formulaic the dialog and interactions were. has to be the worst introduction to any show I've seen yet.this is on the same level of retarded as the scientists immediately taking off their helmets in Alien when they learn the atmosphere is breathable. It just doesn't make any sense.
>>215823537>'d be easier to then just lock Carol up, drug her, and study her that way instead of giving her free reinNot at the present stage. They don't know if the immunity resulted from her environment or her natural psychology state. They want to get close and observe immune in their native state first. Later if she keeps making it difficult and polite niceness no longer stays the path of least effort and resistance then things could become very bad
>>215823586>>215822059https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc-kwWTxrB0this tracks with what Vince says here. "Is this actually the apocalypse, or is this a good thing in disguise?"
>>215823586they're just so heckin' CHILL bro. give me a hoppy IPA and a beyond meat burger, hiveys, i'm ready to be enlightened just like the pajeet buddha!
>>215821636I think the initial one is just more dangerous
all of it's fake and a prank because they were bored
>>215823590>it completely pacified the entire planet while preserving information and technology to studyThree Body Problem had retarded aliens by comparison, Pluribus aliens making the Trisolarians look like Trihards>>215823625you can find thousands of covid variants in any cave in that region, and find papers back to the 2000's talking about the inevitability of one jumping to humans, and the pandemic response team was founded by Bush after reading about a number of such risks, like no shit there was a lab there studying itit literally doesn't matter if a Lab was there or if it was even the source instead of the market or randos, anyone exposed to guano and any animal in the meat market was going to cause it, and it will happen again just like MERS and SARS before it.
>>215823665It's just Occam's razor. Now that I think about it you're reaching too far. They display high truth preference because they are just being truthful and forthright. They even admit to the deception when they said they targeted military first.
Really loving the brain trust here who have everything figured out after 2 episodes
What if this all turns out to be a game Michael Douglas style ?
>>215823694>even stronger aliens were ok reducing the entire universe from 3D to 2D slowly
>>215823535the virus was just a prank. didn't have to take it so seriously brah
why doesn't jimmy just kill the aliens with his lightning powers
>>215823707Torturing her is pointless. Being nice gets them what they hate. Carol could push them enough to get them to end the nice plan and change like when they did deception at first
>>215823723well, it's been known since like 3 threads ago that Vince actually posts here.
>>215823723Its a show catered to normies from the guy that made Breaking Bad, its not hard sci fi. I would be very surprised if the hivemind is evil and we get evil aliens as well. The rest of the series is just going to be focused on Carols human drama.
>>215823767So you're just mindlessly engagement farming is what you're saying
Another retarded thing at the beginning of episode 2. A woman who is clearing bodies is replaced by someon eelse on a scooter then she drives off to fly a plane and someone else takes the scooter somewhere.. Why are they swapping around like that? Anyone would be able to anything such as flying the plane, there's no reason to swap people around to different places. There were already people there at trhe plane. Very ineffiecient and nonsensical. Thanks and goodnight
How are we doing this evening /plur/ ?
>>215823743bro the Trisolarians built the most advanced machine AI quantum physics bullshit in the known universe as the last gasp and opus magnum of their civilization, but the Plurbius aliens achieved the same goals merely by suggesting you mix bleach and ammoniapure brevity
>>215823786What?
>>215823799Because she looks like le pirate on carol's book cover, did you even watch the kino ?
>>215823799Get a load of this dumb ass zoomer ahhahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha
>>215823786>me if I were braindead
>>215823799They picked her to meet Carol and moved her to meet Carol, she was a nobody
>>215823799It was supposed to look cool and coordinated. Everyone is moving in unison. Redditors are praising it for being "competence porn". But yeah it was stupid but I suspect we will get a lot of long, slow scenes like that.
>>215823694pluribus is the equivalent of "hey here's a dirty needle try injecting it in your arm and see what happens" which suggests to me whoever sending the message isn't doing it as a weapon but is more proselytizing.
Enlightened alien civilization made the virus to delete all suffering from the universeCarol's entire quest was to stop this, inadvertantly she's been fighting on the evil side all along without even realizing because she's blinded by some insignificant loss. Her mission succeeds, happy virus wiped out forever and cosmic misery unleashed. Vince has once again written an anti-hero.Bravo Vince
>>215823858wasn't there an SCP about this
Anyone want to bet as more episodes air it becomes painfully apparent it is loosely or even heavily inspired by "The book of Revelation" ?
do you guys think the aliens were already aware of earth before they sent the signal? you could argue that they had to know beforehand that RNA was a part of our genetic material. otoh, maybe there are arguments that RNA is the most common path to life developing on common types of exoplanets, so they broadcasted it anyway. and even if the outcome of it getting decoded and implemented once is rare, it only had to happen once for the events of show to happen.
>>215823910How could they possibly know being 600 light years away? I think it was just spray and pray and they didnt really care.
>>215823799that was literally one of the more interesting aspects of the show so far. It was to demonstrate that humans have all basically become worker ants that can be seamlessly re-tasked and re-purposed. I'm hoping we get more scenes to demonstrate how intense it can get, like hundreds of humans sacrificing their lives to complete a project. Like stacking bodies to build a bridge type of thing.I want more of that instead of this gay shit of white woman complaining and ruining everyone's lives>>215823844it needed to be cut down to less than 2 minutes. It was way too contrived
>>215823858>Bravo VinceIt doesn't fucking work because the hive mind hasn't shown it has any free will, and it might as well have just killed everybody after burning all memories to a DVD-R then turning out the lightsChildren of Time's finale did this right, where the virus retains free will>>215823910if they weren't aware beforehand then the signal and RNA is way too short, that's some serious fucking compression algorithm and a shitload of complexity from a package that small
>>215821146gomie pls...
I lurv plurbus
>>215823799try asking grok like you usually do
>>215823958is she about to pee or somethin'?
>>215823767>Its a show catered to normies from the guy that made Breaking BadFrom the guy who wrote a bunch of X-Files episodes*>normies instead of normalfagGo back
>>215823834So they picked a random woman from the middle east to drop what she was doing and fly a plane to america to give her some water>>215823938It might have seemed interestint to a midwit, as someone else said, it gave the impression of being corrdinated and choreographed all working in unison, but it was utterly pointless when someone from literally down the street could have been picked instead
>>215823984They picked her specifically because she was the spitting image of Raban from the Wycaro books Carol wrote.
>>215823984>So they picked a random woman from the middle east to drop what she was doing and fly a plane to america to give her some waterShe was the one that looked most like the character from her book, pay attention
>>215820911the negative numbers were the countdown to The Event (mass infection), and the positive numbers were hours since The Event
is this the thread ?
>>215823984Holy fucking shit zoomers are retarded
>>215823992>>215823995oh right yeah... absolutely uncanny
Anybody here know how to turn this back into a human?
Inb4 black twerking woman with dyed hair
>>215823992Wrong. It was not the main reason why she was picked.
>>215823958>>215823974
>>215823997>>215820911>people confused about the count downI swear to fucking godeven the first fucking youtuber to upload a discussion about the episode didn't understand the countdown clock>>215823799>>215823829>Get a load of this dumb ass zoomer ahhahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaIs this the future of the internet? Everybody who had to write essays without AI, Chegg, Cliffnotes, under threat of actual failure and not no child left behind, without a smartphone in class... is just going to quietly pass from discussions while Gen Alpha onwards drags reading comprehension to the ground?
tfw no hivemind wife or wives?
How is there even a market for Carol's "romantasy" books ?. are some people in this world genuinely stupid ?
I want to assemble a harem
>>215824063>stupid ?lonely and hornywhite women fucking love romantasy, for the same reason men love 2D women: people fucking suck and real relationships fucking suck and real sex isn't worth the effort over masturbation and fantasies
>>215824063Romantasy is probably the top selling genre right now, it's basically all that sells anymore
Do you guys think that the hivemind would give you a loli wife if you asked for one?
>>215824023lol>we need someone she'll like>how about someone who looks like her book character>but female cos thats what it was going to be at first>ok theres this random dirty ass woman in the middle east, she look kinda a bit like it>get her on a plane right now
>>215824063What kind of question is this? How can you be so ignorant of the world?
>>215824063That's the most realistic thing in the show so far, and not some but tons of women are into that crap.
>>215823804If it works it works >>215823947I hate Tchaikovsky man
>>215822191Yeah and it will escalate as browns outbreed whites
>>215824063Seriously?
>>215824111>>215824112I'm still fucking mad there's a few thousand books of "literally me" self insert women being ravaged by werewolves, but only one or two books of "literally me" self insert guys getting picked up by werewolf chicksWhere is the romantasy for men? The womens market is 1000x bigger.
>>215824123Just one?
What conspiracy theories would you ask Pirate Lady to confirm to you?
Lovely thread
Can anyone answer me why this bitch would still have an accent after being absorbed into a hivemind?
>>215824208That genre is occupied by Japanese monster girl games.
>>215824123Can't see why not, it's not like the loli could be corrupted. It has one mind the same as all of the adults.
>get angry at hivemind>it shuts down and spazzes outwtf is this shit lmao whata gay ass show
>>215824224Muscle memory
>>215824194>I hate Tchaikovsky manHe's better than John Scalzi, worse than Alastair Reynolds, and more engaging than Greg Bear. He's popular because he's actually above average, not because he's best in class
>>215824123I don't see why not.
>>215823068Can a negro?
>>215823858Erasing individual autonomy and killing 800 million people to form a hivemind that seems to have a specific goal it is working towards which likely advantages the aliens, is not in fact a moral good.It’s just slavery.
>>215824230Go play fortnite or something, kid
>>215824056take a chill pill
>>215822571the animals are part of the hivemind tooits why the hivemibd dont want to kill animals and freed them and why the ra5 acted to spread the "virus"
>>215824250yeah well we're already enslaved by the jews
>>215824220nice image from 15 years ago
>>215824230She should just keep doing that until they’re all dead.There is no way shes going to be able to reverse what was done, and killing the hivemind befor it achieves whatever nefarious bullshit it is up to is a moral good
>>215821514Yes.
>>215824224I think too many posters ITT are taking the "we are one" at face value as a literal truth, it's a brain infection and the original person's brain is still there physically, materially. It's not soul swapping. It seems more like that it *feels* like they are one because the link is so strong that it's euphoric, but *surely* we're going to learn over time that it can sever. Like, Zosia is going to become an individual eventually right? That feels like a narrative promise
>>215824284*the "we are one" thing
>>215824250Vast majority of those 800 million got their brains uploaded to the hive before they died. So, it's debatable if you could even consider them dead.
>>215824250Correct, the fact that it had to be enacted with deception and force (like infiltrating military and government bases and positions, not giving recipients a choice) already means the hivemind is morally wrong and should be stopped.
>>215824284They described it as a psychic link at one point.It’s hard to say because Vince’s explanation was literally word for word>we don’t know, it just worksBravo!>>215824305Other people having your memories is not you being alive>>215824316It is clearly going to have some kind of objective that it doesn’t want the wakies to know about.Bets are on going to space or making some kind of mega antennaBut either way it “helping” humanity by making the world less shitty is just a byproduct of completely enslaving a planet.
>>215824373>Other people having your memories is not you being aliveIt's not just memories, their souls are in the hive.
>>215822657yeah but why were all 6 of them awake at the same time, and all readily available to be asked and all quickly answered?Seems odd.
Something to consider, maybe things will change and develop as the series continues.
>>215824224>>215824284>>215824373
>>215824397LmaoAsk me how I know you’ve watched Upload
There are faceblind people who don't realise the woman in the episode 2 cold open is the same person as Carol's Pirate Lady.
Which one /plur/ ?
>>215824410I think you’re overthinking it.
kill all Others
>>215824449Depends. Different techniques for cum, snot, and poop.
>>215824410>>215824450nta but not overthinking it, there's no way the other individuals aren't just a show for Carol's sake, their complete consensus was way too fast, and when brought together they're way too docile and immediately extolling the virtues of submitting
>being a hivemind is le good actually>individual thought and opinion? I thought about it and decided I agree with myself haha>using women as literal meat-puppet prostitutes to keep this random black guy happy? It’s for le greater good lol
>>215824519>the brown people and chinks dont understand why its bad
>>215824479I think Vince was genuinely trying to represent that other cultures have different perspectives on collectivism. It came off as massively racist that the only white person in the world has to tell the nonwhites that they’re fucking insane for thinking an alien slavery invasion is acceptable, but such is lifeNone of the other wakies went down when the hard R hivers had their seizure. You have no explanation for this.You have no explanation for why the Indian would freak out and swear when the hivers have always been shown to be placid
>mudslime immediately starts raping>pajeet immediately starts shilling for the colonizer forcebravo vince
if it's a hivemind how do 11 million people die when she caused them to sperg out? couldnt they just, for example, pull over to the side of the road once carol started sperging out again and before making them seizure??
>>215824569Explain how you think they would have time to do that?
>MAAM THAT IS MY SON RAVI MAAM YOU CANNOT SAY THOSE EACH AND EVERYONE OF THOSE THINGS TO MY SON MAAM HE IS NOT AN ALIEN MAAM THAT IS MY SON RAVI
>>215824569Because it causes their brains to fucking explode, you retard.
>>215823214>Parasites can flip instincts and behavior towards stimuli, like making rats attracted to cat piss, to then get eaten and finish the life cycle of the parasite.that (brain) parasite is called toxoplasmosis and it effects all mammals not just rats. the effects in humans are not well studied enough to give conclusive cause and effects but it's pretty easy to presume it's the cause of crazy cat ladies and the cause of cat worship among Egyptians, Muslims and the Internet.>>215822571>>215822673>Animals are just carriers. None of them are hiveminded.it has come to my attention that despite rats being the first infected and the hive actively liberating animals and refusing to kill them.... that for some reason you think only humans are part of the hivemind.... are you aware that humans are animals????
>>215824063romantasy is all my wife reads, she's obsessed with all of it, she devours them
>it takes a hivemind to get jeets to take the poo to the loo
>>215824273Yeah just submit them to an endless torrent of abuse, apparently being mean to them cause seizures lol intergalactic redditors
>>215824569>Why dont people that have seizures just stop what theyre doing and safely sit sown so they dont hurt themselves!!!!
>>215824557>You have no explanation for this.It's playing pretend, like the individuals. Carol can't prove it's not pretending. There's no reason this thing wouldn't risk sacrificing a body in view for faking a seizure to fuck with her.
just get the hivemind some hecking support pupperinos like from tiktok
what's it all mean
>>215824653vince goatse finale
>>215824592hey retard people have seizures irl and they get to a safe space wouldnt the collective knowledge of man kind prepare for that??? especially after the first time
>>215824569there are alot of situations you could accidentally die in while seizing that you can't avoid with just a few seconds of preptime.highspeed vehicles need time to slow down to a stop, aircrashes, drownings.and even if you prep you could just die from the seizure i suppose.... people do die simply from having a seizures in real life.
>>215824642i swear to god if this show turns out to be just a hive mind born yesterday gradually developing character through the power of friendship because it has to put up with the hurricane that is a disgruntled white woman
>>215824659Why? They don't care if the bodies die. 11 million is nothing.
the 880 million number literally only makes sense if there were countries who started firing retaliatory nukes and air raidsyou can talk about car crashes or planes or trains flipping over or fires all day but that's not 1/8 people dying
NEW THREAD >>215824719NEW THREAD >>215824719NEW THREAD >>215824719
>>215824638>yeah bro the hivemind is just pretending to spaz out all the time!!!!One hell of a claim retardanon
>>215824611How is that any different to a porn addiction?
>>215824218Do Aliens exist?
>>215824720Just falling over onto concrete from a seizure has a high mortality rate
>>215824720im sure at some point in time the uninfected world caught on to what was happening and started trying to fight back
>>215824868What are you implying about my wife?
Anyone else waiting for episode 3
>>215822882it's easy if you're not stupid
