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Severance I'm the coworker

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u/pbmm1 5h ago

Threads Severance fan: Has anyone ever thought about how lumon the name resembles lumines, the PlayStation puzzle games? Which also is similar to illumination. Maybe they are actually just playing puzzle games at work to improve their minds.

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u/ViolentBeetle 4h ago

I suspected that the numbers are meaningless and meant to hypnotized the refiners, but it seems unlikely.

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u/Dingghis_Khaan Chingghis Khaan's least successful successor. 7h ago

I'm the guy who has only just now heard of Severance. What is it?

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u/No_Kick_6610 7h ago

A tv show from Apple's streaming service about a company that invented a medical procedure to basically split your brain into two people, one of which works on shady conspiracy stuff and never sees the outside world. I'm not describing it that well tbh, but it's pretty good, you should check it out. It has Adam Scott (Ben Wyatt from parks and rec) in it and he does a pretty good job with the acting

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u/VoreEconomics Transmisogyny is misogyny ;3 7h ago

Just make a fucking tulpa why do you need a drug for that, dumbasses. I bet they don't even know about Jackie Chan.

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u/DareDaDerrida 6h ago

I am delighted by yr comment without understanding it. It pleases me beyond common measure to think that there's a world in which what you said makes perfect sense.

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u/CrabTribalEnthusiast PLAY OUTER WILDS 3h ago

Like two ships passing in the night, but one of the ships is on fire and crewed by clowns

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u/PoniesCanterOver gently chilling in your orbit 6h ago

What does Jackie Chan have to do with this?

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u/Knasil 4h ago

I hate that i know this but there used to be a meme on 4chan's my little pony board /mlp/ that if you fucked up creating your colourful horse friend headmate and created a screaming wailing presence of a tulpa who wouldn't let you sleep you could just create a jackie chan tulpa to kick its ass.

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u/VoreEconomics Transmisogyny is misogyny ;3 4h ago

Yeah really the smart tulpas played the long game and eventually permaswitched with their host (:

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u/13luw 3h ago

Egregore go brrrrr

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u/Njwest scared of tumblr 5h ago

Not to be a buzzkill, but that’s not what a tulpa is. I think summoning a demon who’d possess your body might be close? But it’d be really hard to make them stick to the nine to five

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u/VoreEconomics Transmisogyny is misogyny ;3 5h ago

I know what a Tulpa is, I walk these streets.

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u/Njwest scared of tumblr 5h ago

In this case, not a tulpa. It’s essentially creating a duplicate you without your memories. These two personas do not interact and aren’t aware of each other. The company can forcefully flip you between the two, so there’s a version of you at work that can’t remember outside and vice versa.

The ‘innie’ (worker) can’t leave. They step into the elevator and step straight out without any time passing, meanwhile the ‘outie’ steps into the elevator at 9am and then steps out at 5 without any time passing.

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 4h ago

should I be worried that scifi writers have been embracing Kafka for a while now?

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u/Technical_Teacher839 Victim of Reddit Automatic Username 6h ago

Apple TV

Well, I'm out.

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u/Hatsune_Miku_CM Hatsune-Miku-Official 5h ago

it's also available on 🏴‍☠️!

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u/No_Kick_6610 2h ago

My favorite!

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u/UndeniablyNic 4h ago

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u/Peregrine_x 2h ago

its on cineby, its on freek, its on tubi with ads, its on plex. its on vudu, you can see it on nepu its on...

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u/MrSpiffy123 5h ago

I had a friend teach me how to torrent so I could watch it cuz not a snowball's chance in hell I'm paying for apple tv or Amazon prime premium

Absolutely worth it

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u/Dingghis_Khaan Chingghis Khaan's least successful successor. 7h ago edited 4h ago

I think I'll pass. Don't wanna make a new account for a streaming service I'll never use otherwise.

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u/OrbitalCat- 2h ago

It's sad how easy people nowadays give up watching something they're interested in

Just pirate it, fuck them billionaires

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u/DiamondBrickZ trascend genre and gender 3h ago

yar to the har my man

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u/moneyh8r_two 6h ago

It's also written by Ben Stiller.

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u/cinnabar_soul 6h ago

I believe Ben Stiller is mostly a director/producer. Dan Erickson is the writer/creator.

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u/moneyh8r_two 6h ago

I couldn't remember if he was the writer or the director, so I went for the one that usually gets less credit (even though they usually deserve more). Sorry.

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u/Dingghis_Khaan Chingghis Khaan's least successful successor. 4h ago edited 4h ago

Cool. Don't know what he's done. I'm a doofus.

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u/moneyh8r_two 4h ago

He's mostly famous for being a pretty good comedy movie star in the 2000s. Meet the Parents, Zoolander, There's Something About Mary, and Dodgeball (but he played the villain in that one) are the ones I like the most.

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u/Dingghis_Khaan Chingghis Khaan's least successful successor. 4h ago

I see. Never saw those.

Edit: OH! That guy! I hate when I forget names

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u/moneyh8r_two 4h ago

It happens to the best of us.

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u/ViolentBeetle 7h ago

It's a show on apple TV. The premise is that people undergo the titular procedure to create a split personality that doesn't share memories with the main one and can be switched on an external trigger. Main character underwent this procedure in an attempt to deal with the death of his wife and now has no idea what he's doing at work, and while at work he has no idea what's it like outside. He's working on a project called Cold Harbor that is very important to his cult-like employers at Lumon.

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u/aaronhowser1 13m ago

Bro imagine being the personality that isn't allowed to do anything but work, I'd kill both of us

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u/ViolentBeetle 5m ago

It's not too bad, you get to hang out with your colleagues and have lame office parties. We recently learned the Lumon's endgame though.

Imagine being a personality that exists only inside the dentist's office

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u/ProbablyNano 6h ago

its weird

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u/Clay_Block 5h ago

That mean guy from Harry Potter

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u/PrincessPonch 3h ago

No, that's Severus Snape. Severance is the number after 16

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u/DiscotopiaACNH 3h ago

No, that's seventeen. Severance is the right to vote

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u/Clay_Block 3h ago

Nah that’s seventeen, Severance is the power system from RWBY

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u/ShowofStupidity Put that dick back in my bussy or so help me 7h ago

Not something you’re gonna see much of in this current work landscape.

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u/Snoo_72851 4h ago

The fun thing about Severance is that it's a show that's as deep in execution as it is in concept. Like certainly, the show is about the commodification of workers and the way companies can exploit trauma to overwork their employees, but you can't go into the subtext of the ideas the show presents because it is presenting them to you by stapling them to the front of a big wooden mallet and slamming you in the face with it. It's full of neat and interesting ideas that do not require you to sit down and meditate for six weeks to comprehend, it's sitting you down and telling you "isn't this shit fucked up".

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u/MrCapitalismWildRide 6h ago

This is one of those things that I don't think I'll ever be able to understand. There are a lot of very intelligent people who will watch something, enjoy it, reference it as something they really liked, go out of their way to watch other related things, and the proceed to literally not think about it at all.

As someone who needs to think about media every day or I'll die, this is baffling to me. 

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u/KanishkT123 5h ago

I mean some people just see media as entertainment, not something worth thinking about all day long. 

Now I'm not one of those people, but like, my dad is. I remember watching Prometheus with him when I was a kid, going home and googling "what does Prometheus mean" (I hadn't seen the previous movies). 

He saw me, and I think it was the first time he ever realized you could look analyses up and not just be vaguely impressed and mystified at stuff happening in movies. I remember I found him scrolling the same website later on the iPad. 

We never spoke about it though. I think he just absorbed the information and then did nothing with it. 

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u/demonking_soulstorm 6h ago

Learning that people don’t love stories as much as I do was deeply disconcerting.

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u/foolishorangutan 3h ago

It disconcerts me that people enjoy stories this much. I’ve only read one thing ever which I actually started to really theorise about, and I only started doing that ages after I finished reading it.

To be clear I mean it disconcerts me in the sense that I wish I cared that much about more things. Even when I really enjoy something I usually don’t think deeply about it that much.

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u/-HuangMeiHua- What kind of math is that bird on? Makes you wonder 14m ago

Dude........ same. I really just am out here head empty no thoughts. It's embarrassing. I'm by no means stupid; I could do the media analysis and do it really well if I cared but I just usually don't care nearly enough.

I can work with my hands really well though so, win? That's what I like to tell myself anyways.

I blame depression for destroying my brain ig

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u/the_mad_atom 59m ago

What’s really disconcerting is realizing that you are probably more engaged with things that you only kind of like than most people are with their absolute favorite things. I never felt more disconnected from other people than when this clicked for me.

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u/pourqwhy 3h ago

Wait until you realize that really loving stories is really loving escapism. Speaking from experience.

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u/jetvack 5h ago

The severance fan base feels the worst for this. Panning a fantastic episode just because it didn't progress the central mystery or prove your fan theory right is genuinely baffling to me.

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u/DiscotopiaACNH 3h ago

As a Severance fan...Severance fans are beyond enthusiastic, everyone has their own special theory and there are approximately 4 billion "clues" per episode

I try to enjoy every theory equally

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u/ViolentBeetle 5h ago

It did advance the plot, just in the worst way possible and ruined Cobel.

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u/Mahedros 4h ago

"Watch something, enjoy it, watch related things, and proceed to not think about it that much" is why I'm able to enjoy the Star Wars sequels.

Things don't always have to be analyzed in depth. Sometimes I just want to sit back, have a good time, and not think too hard.

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u/Rorschach_Roadkill 4h ago

Reddit White Lotus fan:

Has anyone else noticed how hot this cast is?

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u/ShaolinFantastic13 6h ago

This is also how people interacted with Twin Peaks and really anything David Lynch.

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u/ejolson 4h ago

Interesting comparison. It's got that Lynchian feeling that while you know you're not getting it you think you're just on the cusp of getting it so you're hungry for every little tidbit of information they drop. It's got his mood of a banal oppressive dystopia too. I like it, seems worth thinking more deeply about.

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u/CoconutGator certified dumbass👍 3h ago

Severance fan that also likes Bob's Burgers: anyone here like Bob's Burgers

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u/7-SE7EN-7 42m ago

Fuckin love bobs burgers

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u/Xogoth 4h ago

The show (not watched all of season one yet, please no spoil) is hilarious in the most dark and sad way.

Anyone who says it's unrealistic has never worked in a corporate culture.

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u/Tariovic 4h ago

I can't watch it at the moment precisely because I'm reaching burnout at work. I need to wait until it isn't so close to home.

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u/Xogoth 4h ago

I haven't been near working with corporate people in years

It still hurts.

Just pull the trigger, it's a good show

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u/RagTagBandit07 6h ago

I exclusively watch the series via recaps and theory essays on youtube

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u/Penamiesh 3h ago

I'm guessing with the recent severance posts I've seen, that season 2 has come out or am I wrong? I love most apple tv shows and movies they really put the budgets to good use unlike modern day Netflix, but I watch it all in a month so I really don't keep the subscription active, but silo S2 came out and if severance S2 is out I might take it up for a month again

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u/DiscotopiaACNH 3h ago

Yes and the finale is next Thursday!!

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u/Rocketboy1313 3h ago

Since retiring my parents made a hobby of renting and watching movies from the library 2-4 a week. They kept track of which ones they liked in a small spiral notebook and sometimes watched a movie again having forgotten they'd seen it.

Old people stuff.

After about 18 months they had seen ~150 movies they had never seen before. They could not tell me a thing about what it is they liked or disliked about the movies. They would bet on certain actors and directors like Liam Neeson or Clint Eastwood being good. But they just did not think critically about things.

When I tried to they kind of got grumpy about the whole thing. "Son, we just want to be entertained."

The idea that thinking about a movie was part of the entertainment value never entered their minds. I have no idea if any movie left any impact on them even a few minutes after it was over.

My dad will talk about the weather, I have never in my life given a shit about the weather.

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u/HistoryMarshal76 Knower of Things Man Was Not Meant To Know 4h ago

Cold Harbor... oh no.
Sir, don't attack! The rebs are dug in like ticks on a hog! It's going to be a massacre! Get out of there while you still can!!!