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File: 0d8f000b7316f87⋯.jpg (874.5 KB, 1920x1440, 4:3, OOI_008144_a1_DC.jpg)

 No.37910

I work for one of the closest real-life equivalents to an "SCP Foundation". Basically, we handle some of the rare objects, people, situations, or media that appear to defy current scientific knowledge, or would be dangerous in some way if widely known. AMA.

(spoiler: it's less exciting than you think)

 No.37912

What objects have you worked with?


 No.37913

>>37912

There are currently only four objects, two individuals, and two pieces of media handled by my entire department (this stuff is really very rare). I work with all of them in some capacity.

Three of the objects are samples of failed cures for different diseases. The fourth is a machine that is being studied to find out if it violates our current understanding of conservation of energy (probably not, we've dealt with several items like this in the past and they always turn out to be fine).

Of the two individuals, one is a mouse that was a test subject for one of the failed medicines I mentioned. The other is a human test subject of another one of those medicines.

The two pieces of media are visual hazards. I'd put them in the same category as the McCollough Effect, but they work significantly faster and are dangerous enough that we have to keep them under wraps. Really, most of our resources go to ensuring these aren't rediscovered or spread. The creator of these was once one of the individuals in our custody, but he's dead now (natural causes).

I've investigated dozens of other objects and individuals that turned out to be no big deal as well. I've also worked with dozens of other less interesting items that are handled by our lower, sister department, before I was promoted to my current department.


 No.37915

File: 283b325e0126ec3⋯.mp4 (110.14 KB, 492x360, 41:30, really, can you show me.mp4)

>real-life equivalent to SCP

that has my interest


 No.37917

File: 0eec035e247ae50⋯.png (195.94 KB, 497x486, 497:486, 0eec035e247ae50a8a9dd1a0e9….png)

>>37915

Equivalent is probably a bad word, as we usually deal with much more mundane stuff (compared to what's in the SCP universe anyway). The world isn't quite as strange as you might think.

Most of what we deal with turns out to be a false alarm. For example, here's an archive of something we investigated a couple months back: https://yuki.la/x/20499672

Our web crawlers flagged that thread for evidence of a possible "viral" visual hazard. We've never encountered a real one, but it's a possibility we take very seriously. Fortunately, it turned out to be nothing.


 No.37920

what do you mean as in viral visual hazard? you mean like the vhs tape from the ring being spread around as an .mp4 file?


 No.37923

>>37920

A visual hazard that people feel compelled to share with others. Basically one of the worst things that could happen, because of how easy the internet makes it to get images in front of billions of people.

In the thread I linked, the poster claimed that viewing a certain image had some pretty bad, long-term effects on him. He also expressed a desire to find the image so he could share it with others.

Obviously, if this had been a universal effect inherent in the image, and not just his own personal reaction to seeing it, then it would be a very bad thing for that image to get out. Imagine if emotional trauma were a contagious disease that could be spread over the internet, and it had a side-effect of compelling its victims to spread it to other people.


 No.37925

>>37923

So what you're doing is identyfying images which could possible be used as weapons, just as the military has been trying to produce a smell that's so bad it will make people incapable of action through the experience alone with no actual harmful effect from the substance.

What's the purpose of your organization? I assume you're coming here looking for something.


 No.37926

>>37923

the government tried to make things like this years before any of us were born and failed miserably.


 No.37927

>>37923

>compelling its victims to spread it to other people

Why don't you have an HIV/AIDS patient zero in containment?


 No.37928

>>37925

>So what you're doing is identyfying images which could possible be used as weapons, just as the military has been trying to produce a smell that's so bad it will make people incapable of action through the experience alone with no actual harmful effect from the substance.

Not quite. We're actually not affiliated with any government or military. We only work with them when absolutely necessary.

We recognize that some of the things we work with have potential for use as weapons, and our job is to prevent that from happening. Even if it's for the "good guys". This is part of the reason we don't work closely with governments most of the time. Most of them really don't like us that much. They don't give us a lot of trouble though, because they know that we do what we do better than they could.

>What's the purpose of your organization?

Essentially, to find and suppress significant, abnormal hazards that cannot be effectively dealt with conventionally.

>I assume you're coming here looking for something.

Not really.

>>37926

Most governments are not very efficient.

To be fair though, media hazards are extremely rare. The two we're handling right now are the only ones I know of in existence, other than little stuff like the McCollough Effect.


 No.37929

>>37927

Haha. HIV isn't quite crazy enough for us to mess with it. Besides, our organization was not (to my knowledge) in existence when the virus made its way to humans.


 No.37930

>>37928

So, would extremely effective memes be considered media hazards?

Like say do you view it only as individual images or phenomena in general? Some people may consider the tea party to be a hazard.


 No.37931

>>37930

Persuasion or intrigue triggered through ordinary, well-understood psychological processes isn't our concern. So, things like political movements, cults, and addictive video games, are outside our field, even though they are potentially harmful and very persuasive/intriguing/captivating.

To qualify, a meme would have to be harmful, difficult to control, and have a very unusual effect that can't be explained by our current understanding of psychology. This is just a generalized rule though. We take everything on a case-by-case basis, so there are exceptions.

For example, we mostly understand how the media hazards in our custody work, so they're not really "paranormal", or outside the understanding of modern science at all. But we keep them suppressed anyway because:

- They usually cause long-term visual impairment

- They do this very quickly; it can happen unintentionally through a few seconds of casual exposure, rather than intentional observation

- They don't trigger a protective reflex, like a bright light or laser would; people usually don't even know the damage is taking place

- The imagery does not need special equipment to become hazardous. It's dangerous if seen on any electronic display (much less so on media like paper and e-ink).

- It can be easily spread to many millions of people by anybody with a computer or cellphone

The combination of all these factors is enough to necessitate our involvement. Two or three of these factors alone would not get our attention, unless something else really freaky was going on.


 No.37932

>>37931

So it's something caused by complex physiological processes in the eye, brain and nervous system you're talking of?

Or as in the example you linked, something possible psychologically harmful?

Though I think that specific case would have to be that anon only.

There was this anon living in south Korea who posted on 4/x/ about how he went ghost town exploring and found corpses in an old hospital. He posted pictures from the other parts of it. The discovery shocked him severly and he couldn't sleep even months after. The worst part was that the smell of the room couldn't be washed away, even after burning all his clothes and moving to a hotel, the smell from the hospital was in the room next morning. The hotel manager even apologized and gave him a new room, but it happened again.

I'm treating this as legit because the things he posted and answers he gave just gave off such desperation and detail, and the pics were OC.


 No.37933

>>37932

That's tragic, but it's not quite the world-class, abnormal level of stuff that we deal with.

If a lot of people were visiting the site and experience the same reaction, or if the effect seemed likely to start spreading somehow, we would be more likely to get involved. We don't typically spend resources avenging one person's psychological trauma.

And who knows, if he was posting about it in that much detail online, then there's a chance somebody in the organization has heard about it and already checked it out. Something like that would probably go to our lower department though, and they'd determine if action needed to be taken.

Chances are, he just got spooked and it's nothing special.

But, if someone ever decides to demo that hospital for seemingly no reason, you'll know why.


 No.37935

>>37913

>The two pieces of media are visual hazards. I'd put them in the same category as the McCollough Effect, but they work significantly faster and are dangerous enough that we have to keep them under wraps.

If only you could get it to us in a .rar file to drop in SJW heavy areas.


 No.37936

File: 920a9d9d939a882⋯.jpg (38.12 KB, 546x574, 39:41, The-Anguished-Man.jpg)

Is this spooky


 No.37937

>>37917

>Never has encountered any

>Creates group with intent of containing said things

So you're telling me that a force has been created to contain and protect others from something that you have NEVER even encountered?!

I believe in images that have potent and I guess "cursed" energies etc. However Your group is garbage


 No.37939

So tell me anon how did you get this job, how does one even get hired by one of these groups?


 No.37940

>>37939

I get the feeling it's unpaid


 No.37941

>>37913

Aren't there thousands of failed cures for different diseases? What's the point in keeping them hidden from the public anyway?

Why not just kill the mouse and burn the body?

Most of your resources go to ensure that a couple of pictures aren't discovered or spread? How does that work exactly?


 No.37945

>>37935

Someone tried something like that once and accidentally hurt himself instead.

>>37936

Yeah.

>>37937

The group was created to deal with known hazards, but we stay on the lookout for as-of-yet unknown hazards as well. That's perfectly sensible.

>>37939

I was in a car accident which killed the rest of my immediately family and left me in the hospital for two months. They made me an offer to do some good for the world. I accepted, they arranged my "death", and now I'm here.

This is how most of us got in.

>>37940

No, it is paid. Although, since we're not doing anything to make a profit, it's not exactly a 6-figure job. I'm not too concerned about it though.

>>37941

>Aren't there thousands of failed cures for different diseases? What's the point in keeping them hidden from the public anyway?

>Why not just kill the mouse and burn the body?

These particular cures not only failed, but created new diseases (bad ones). These diseases are what we're actually suppressing.

The cures and test subjects are kept in custody so we can research them and develop a cure for these new diseases. This is so we can prevent an epidemic if the bad cures are ever recreated somewhere.

(Don't get excited, it's not zombies.)

>Most of your resources go to ensure that a couple of pictures aren't discovered or spread? How does that work exactly?

We use bots to catch any instance posted online so we can get rid of it. The internet is kinda big, and we have to catch it immediately, before it starts spreading and gets out of control, so this is very difficult and expensive.

So far, this has only come up once, and it was posted as part of someone's suicide note. So all we had to do was get rid of the post and confirm that she was actually dead.


 No.37946

>>37945

>they arranged my "death", and now I'm here.

So, you pretty much live isolated because of your new identity, or do you have friends and relationships with other people?

>So far, this has only come up once, and it was posted as part of someone's suicide note. So all we had to do was get rid of the post and confirm that she was actually dead.

How did this 'media hazard' work? What effects did it have on humans?

Pretty interesting thread, OP


 No.37947

File: 182fba03a8635f4⋯.png (91.95 KB, 500x540, 25:27, Postal v2.png)

>These are rare

You did it, you killed the larp before it even started.


 No.37948

>>37946

>So, you pretty much live isolated because of your new identity, or do you have friends and relationships with other people?

Mostly just the people I work with. I don't tend to easily get close with people since the accident. Which is one of the things we screen for when we're selecting candidates to work with us. Some people become emotionally/mentally unstable after trauma like that. Others, like me, react with detachment and are less interested in building new relationships. And that's exactly what is ideal for most of the positions here. Those who do best at this work are focused, emotionally stable/predictable, few/no personal relationships, and detached, but otherwise neurotypical.

>How did this 'media hazard' work? What effects did it have on humans?

It was almost identical to one of the two we have in containment. She probably rediscovered it independently, since there wasn't likely ever contact between her and the man who originally created these things.

To understand how it works, you have to have a basic understanding of how the brain works to correct the imagery it receives from your eyes. As you may know, your eyes send an inverted picture of what you're seeing to your brain, and the brain inverts it again in order to make sense of it.

This starts with a similar mechanism. Basically, the image confuses the brain in a compounding way. The image doesn't make sense to the brain, so it begins working to correct it. The problem is that, for this particular pattern, most people's brains actually just start making it worse by trying to fix it. Once this starts, it cannot be stopped because the brain continues applying these "corrections" to everything it sees, not just the original pattern. It gets worse and worse until the victim's vision is so distorted that they might as well be blind. Vision can be restored, but it usually takes months.

>>37947

Just because you personally can't understand something doesn't make it a uniquely dangerous abnormality. Otherwise we'd have every woman on Earth in custody.


 No.37949

>>37948

Not my point, these things aren't as rare as you think otherwise you only deal with minor problems.


 No.37950

>>37948

Well, it makes sense. This phenomenon happens when, for example, you stare at a distant window, or at a really small image; your brain starts trying to figure out what the hell is there, therefore making you feeling weird, or really confused. Does this have a name, or any scientific study?

Any anecdote from your work? Something strange or spooky?


 No.37954

File: ac5d91e2152d989⋯.jpg (113.53 KB, 490x700, 7:10, basilisk.jpg)

>>37923

Like the Basilisk?


 No.37955

>>37923

>Imagine if emotional trauma were a contagious disease that could be spread over the internet, and it had a side-effect of compelling its victims to spread it to other people.

but it is, and its called intentionally being a shitty person towards someone else to relieve your own built up stress.

tl;dr misery loves company


 No.37957

>>37948

I'd fuck up my brain for fun. Post a pic.


 No.37958

>>37949

We only deal with the things that need to be suppressed, can be suppressed, and that other bodies are not willing or able to suppress effectively. To our knowledge, we've done a pretty good job of pinning down almost all of the ones that fit our criteria.

>>37950

>Does this have a name, or any scientific study?

There's probably not much, if any, public information about this specific phenomenon. Not as far as I'm aware anyway. I believe most of the research on it was done in-house.

>Any anecdote from your work? Something strange or spooky?

Most of the time it's not very exciting. My work is mostly checking out posts flagged by our web crawlers. I help with research on objects in custody from time to time, but it's not my specialty. And as long as I've been here, everything has run pretty smoothly.

But I've heard the people who have been here long enough talk about when the whole SCP thing started getting big. That was apparently a rough time until the web crawlers could be reprogramed to sift through it more accurately. So many pages and posts were getting flagged for investigation that some of the guys were staying at work for over a week straight.

>>37953

I addressed this in >>37945 and >>37948

Candidates are usually selected from people who are hospitalized after having lost a lot of family.

Don't try to put yourself in this position though. Murdering people and intentional self-harm would automatically disqualify you.

>>37954

The idea is fairly similar, yes.

>>37955

But you can't do this instantly to thousands of people at a time by hacking a sign in NYC or slipping it into a viral post on Facebook.

Emotional abuse and trauma is terrible, but it's not abnormal. It's just the human condition.

>>37957

I think if you really wanted to screw up your vision, you would have done it by now. Lots of cheap and easy ways to accomplish that.


 No.37959

>>37958

>I think if you really wanted to screw up your vision, you would have done it by now. Lots of cheap and easy ways to accomplish that.

Sure, but not in such a unique way.


 No.37977

Question then.

Does the government help your organization with setting up your death and new identity and life?

Your organization is known by the government and work together from time to time according to previous answers.

Do you guys get taxed? Do YOU get taxed? How far did they have to move you away from your old life? What is your day to day life like when not at work?

Do you keep any mementos of your old life? Or is that not allowed as fear of being found out by random people.

Do you guys get benefits? Vacation Time? Are you guys afforded the same rights and working hours and stuff?

Is there a daily work time, or is the organization 24/7 and you guys take shifts. (I assume it is considering you guys have to comb the internet and be overall aware at all times for anything that meets the criteria the organization is looking for)

How much do you guys use the Dark Web?

How does the chain of command work there? Or is it pretty much everybody has their own job and nobody really questions each other.

How do you guys make money or is this funded privately?


 No.37979

File: 5ca04a4031d072c⋯.gif (3.59 MB, 375x346, 375:346, hb.gif)

Do your offices have good lunches?


 No.37980

>>37977

>Does the government help your organization with setting up your death and new identity and life?

I actually don't know the extent to which we work with the government on that, since I've never been on that side of the process (I'm not involved with recruitment or making arrangements for newcomers).

When I was being recruited and they were making my arrangements, I only ever worked with people from this organization. But I would imagine they had to do something with the government in order to me to get a new, legally recognized identity.

>Your organization is known by the government and work together from time to time according to previous answers.

>Do you guys get taxed? Do YOU get taxed?

To an extent. We run payroll and some other finances through a non-profit front organization, and I'm pretty sure that we're taxed or exempted accordingly. I know that I'm taxed like normal.

>How far did they have to move you away from your old life? What is your day to day life like when not at work?

I live several hundred miles away from where I used to. I was allowed to choose which office to work at, provided it exceeded a minimum distance from anywhere I've lived in the last 20 years.

When I'm not at work, I usually read, work out, go on walks, play games, or sometimes I'll just go drive around. I also work on some side-projects and hobbies. I've taken some interest in graphic design, voiceover work, and writing, though I'm still just getting started.

>Do you keep any mementos of your old life? Or is that not allowed as fear of being found out by random people.

I have a safe at work that I was allowed to store a few things in. I've never actually opened it since getting here though.

>Do you guys get benefits? Vacation Time? Are you guys afforded the same rights and working hours and stuff?

Yep.

>Is there a daily work time, or is the organization 24/7 and you guys take shifts. (I assume it is considering you guys have to comb the internet and be overall aware at all times for anything that meets the criteria the organization is looking for)

Scheduling works about like any typical 24/7 business would. But we're always on call and we're expected to stay at work as long as needed if there's an emergency. It's uncommon that this becomes necessary though.

>How much do you guys use the Dark Web?

Those of us who are assigned to work with it use it a lot. I've hardly ever used it myself.

>How does the chain of command work there? Or is it pretty much everybody has their own job and nobody really questions each other.

There's a clear chain of command and different levels of security clearance and all that.

We have two departments (that I know of). A lower department that handles lower-priority/less sensitive hazards. And then my department. (And who knows, there may be higher departments that I don't know about.)

Everyone mostly works and receives instructions within their own department, and each department has its own chain of command. And then both departments are, together, under another single command structure (which is for the organization as a whole).

Additionally, in an emergency, anyone in the higher department can delegate tasks to anyone of the same or lower "rank" the lower department (unless there are conflicting instructions from someone even higher up).

>How do you guys make money or is this funded privately?

Sometimes different governments provide funding and equipment for specific operations. Until a couple years ago, we also took funding out of donations to our front organization (those donations now go 100% to that organization's stated mission, to help ensure secrecy and to relieve some ethical concerns).

But by and large, we're funded by certain private parties. I don't actually know who they are. But there are either a lot of them, or they are very wealthy and happen to care an awful lot about the world.

>>37979

We usually bring our own lunches. Sometimes they'll have stuff like pizza or barbecue for us though, and yes, it is good.


 No.37981

>>37980

Were you guys part of the fairly recent ayy lmao pic cover up or was that thing fake all along? You mentioned having bots earlier, and judging by that pic's description provided by the anons (assuming it was real in the first place) it seemed like a cognitohazard.


 No.37982

>>37945

>Someone tried something like that once and accidentally hurt himself instead.

What do you mean by hurt himself, did your organization do anything to influence this or did he view it on accident and fuck himself over?


 No.37983

>>37981

I haven't heard of it, so it was either nothing or it's being handled by our lower department or some other body.

>>37982

We didn't do anything. Curiosity got the best of him.


 No.37985

>>37983

What's your view on immortal vampires?


 No.37992

> The image doesn't make sense to the brain, so it begins working to correct it. The problem is that, for this particular pattern, most people's brains actually just start making it worse by trying to fix it.

Holy crap, that's how postmodern "diversity" works. It makes no fucking sense whatsoever but people feel that they're supposed to agree with their teachers and authority figures so the brain fucks itself up until the nonsense produces good feelings. People literally give themselves brain damage to fit in with the crowd.


 No.37999

>>37992

that's really sad


 No.38002

>>37985

Surprisingly killable.

>>37992

Fascinating.


 No.38003

Serious question, do (((they))) run your organization?


 No.38004

>>38003

No, not as far as I know. Come to think of it, the only person I've met here who I know to be Jewish was the man we had in custody for creating the media hazards I talked about.


 No.38005

>>37945

Well, it's obviously not six-figure. Six-figure jobs are not so common. Or did you mean it's not a five-figure job? Assuming US currency.


 No.38007

>>38005

I could imagine someone making six figures for working to stop serious threats to human civilization. Hell, managers Walmart can make over 100K and, looking at obesity statistics, one could argue that they're really doing more harm than good.

I do make a very comfortable living though, and yes, it's five figures.


 No.38008

>>38004

>the only person I've met here who I know to be Jewish was the man we had in custody for creating the media hazards I talked about.

lol

>>37948

>This starts with a similar mechanism. Basically, the image confuses the brain in a compounding way. The image doesn't make sense to the brain, so it begins working to correct it. The problem is that, for this particular pattern, most people's brains actually just start making it worse by trying to fix it. Once this starts, it cannot be stopped because the brain continues applying these "corrections" to everything it sees, not just the original pattern.

Hmmmm.

This idea feels very… applicable. What if you had a certain ideological goal and managed to create and fine tune an idea, an argument or story, which had the same kind of effect….

After reading it once, the brain can't make sense of it until the person agrees with the message, and if they resist they'll go mad.

With an exact enough understanding of psychology this should be doable.

I wonder what would happen if /pol/ figured this out.


 No.38009

I think Achilles and the tortoise is a light weight version of this kind of thinking. It worked in ancient times because of the lack of a fully built out mathematical system. They're keep dividing and dividing the distance between achilles and the turtle and never reach the end of it. The brain may be tricked into doing the same kind of work if the problem presented is correctly formatted based on the cultural context it's presented in.

One use I see in this would be a way to mass hypnotize people by overloading their brain to place them in a trance and then present the message you wanted them to accept. It could work extremely well in the form of a video ad actually.


 No.38010

>>38007

My sister is a Walmart manager and I think she makes closer to a quarter of that much. Maybe the head manager that runs a store might be around six, but she only makes around twice the amount of minimum wage. She's been there for years now too. It's not bad though, especially with benefits. Her job doesn't look too hard.


 No.38012

>>38008

>This idea feels very… applicable. What if you had a certain ideological goal and managed to create and fine tune an idea, an argument or story, which had the same kind of effect….

>After reading it once, the brain can't make sense of it until the person agrees with the message, and if they resist they'll go mad.

>With an exact enough understanding of psychology this should be doable.

>I wonder what would happen if /pol/ figured this out.

Maybe they already did.

(I'm kidding, I don't actually think this is doable. However, the possibility is worth considering. Ever notice how Donald Trump's opponents have become increasingly unhinged over time?)

>>38010

I meant a manager over an entire store.


 No.38013

>>38008

I think it would be unethical to not give this information to /pol/


 No.38017

Tell us about the diseases. Where/when did they originate? What are their effects? How are they spread? Bacteria, virus, or something else?

Also the machine. What does it purport to do?


 No.38020

>>38012

> notice how Donald Trump's opponents have become increasingly unhinged over time?

You know that quote about not arguing with retards, because they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience?

I think the Trump campaign were mad from the beginning and it's the way they live, so they know how to behave to seem normal. The dems on the other hand have no experience of madness and just lose it in public. Like an alcoholic can drink a lot and seem uneffected while an absolutist would get drunk from nothing.


 No.38021

>>38020

embrace the madness if you want to stay sane ;^)


 No.38026

>>38017

All three diseases originated in laboratories, and they are all caused by genetically engineered fungi used in the attempted cures. In every case, the fungus is fairly effective at stopping the original targeted disease, but then continues to grow out of control. The different fungal infections have different effects, but they all include reduced blood flow (often enough to reduce intelligence and impulse control), severe pain or itching, insomnia, necrosis, and growths both on the inside and outside of the body. They are all extremely infectious, resistant to treatment, highly contagious, can easily become airborne, and can, presumably, travel very great distances through the air (besides being transmitted through body fluids and physical contact). They all are severe and infectious enough to potentially pose an existential threat to human civilization.

The machine is a prototype air conditioner. It works quite a bit differently than any existing air conditioning or cooling technology. The amount of thermal energy extracted by its process has, so far, not been completely accounted for by its byproducts. We're studying it to completely figure out how it works before conducting additional testing or taking any more measurements. We probably won't run it again until we either know it doesn't work, or until we can be 100% certain that there are no consequences of absolutely removing energy from the universe.


 No.38032

File: aa205e522f61fd5⋯.jpg (84.35 KB, 720x684, 20:19, 1514173429564.jpg)

>>37910

so did you guys get rid of the original?


 No.38044

>>38026

So zombies?


 No.38073

>>38026

bullshit


 No.38077

File: b2cdfccf0bf814c⋯.png (4.5 MB, 2048x2048, 1:1, THEFACEOFGOD.png)

File: 674ec9dd41f8cbd⋯.png (4.03 MB, 1800x1260, 10:7, skullboi.png)

File: 0cd81e774862dcc⋯.jpg (66.97 KB, 500x333, 500:333, migraine.jpg)

are these images anomalous


 No.38078

>>37931

If what you are saying is true, anyone with TensorFlow and time on their hands should be able to search for and find this pattern with a pretty crude exposure rig.


 No.38080

File: 65fd5476c9b7a1f⋯.png (93.55 KB, 257x218, 257:218, Screenshot_20180521_165127.png)

>Just because you personally can't understand something doesn't make it a uniquely dangerous abnormality. Otherwise we'd have every woman on Earth in custody.


 No.38126

Did one of these media disturbances occurr on network television in the late morning/afternoon in the early 90's? I have an incredibly strange memory from that time period about aomething like that which I refuse to beleieve was a dream.


 No.38142

Forgive me, OP, for a question that is the one of most basic. What is your motivation for sharing your experience with us? Why come to 8chan /x/ and tell us of this?

And also, what guidelines are you given to safeguard yourself against exposure to such hazards as those that you investigate?


 No.38193

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Op are you still here?

Lets say I have a device that is unusual and harmful. It was built as part of a sonic weapons test. The item is fairly large (approximately 5x6x5 feet), and has an array of external speaker cones. The item itself is made of exotic materials that would be unsafe for me to dispose of on my own, and I do not have access to places where they could be disposed of easily (think: snap engine parts). I still have the documentation books, some operation manuals, and a diagram outlining how it is constructed (this doesn't really have many details actually, mostly just instructions for servicing the device). Taking apart the item could be dangerous (certain parts of it are built fail-deadly) but as long as someone follows the manual it would be fine.

Who would I contact to take care of the device? I get the feeling it shouldn't live in my garage.


 No.38194

>>38193

>tfw none of my neighbors would be anywhere near as interesting as this.


 No.38195

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>>37913

>but he's dead now (natural causes).

My ass.


 No.38295

Did this guy died?


 No.38302

>>37945

>I was in a car accident which killed the rest of my immediately family and left me in the hospital for two months.

Don't know if you're still here, or if this was real in the first place, but I feel you, anon. Exact same happened to me.

I guess I didn't fit the profile to get offered a job as a secret paranormal investigator though…


 No.38352

>>37910

Are you called the Silence Group?


 No.38381

>>37954

Spooky

>>38193

Dude, you are a supervilian, take the world hostage


 No.38383

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>>37923

>A visual hazard that people feel compelled to share with others.

Isn't that fucking every image that you see on the internet? Everything you perceive has some sort of emotional and psychological impact on you, do you mean you try to control media that has an abnormally extreme effect? What about propaganda or moving works - example, Thomas Paine's Common Sense?

If so, what implications does that have about the organization you work for? Do they simply want to maintain the status quo or do they quell "memes" that threaten to propel a certain political movement? Do you work for the jews?

>>37931

>Persuasion or intrigue triggered through ordinary, well-understood psychological processes isn't our concern. So, things like political movements, cults, and addictive video games, are outside our field, even though they are potentially harmful and very persuasive/intriguing/captivating.

>To qualify, a meme would have to be harmful, difficult to control, and have a very unusual effect that can't be explained by our current understanding of psychology.

Well, you're LARPing. The fundamentals besides creative cultural phenomenons is very well understood (well, in ex facto, but still they are understood). People can't usually predict SPECIFIC stuff that will dominate the noosphere, but we can usually, in hindsight, find out why. For example, the newest normalfag craze Fortnite became popular because it fulfilled a niche - a free, well-performing (well, it has better performance than pubg) battle royale style game that isn't pay to win.

>- They don't trigger a protective reflex, like a bright light or laser would; people usually don't even know the damage is taking place

Again, proof that you're a larper. Visual Hazards like the McCullough effect don't fucking DAMAGE your eyes or your brain. It caused (likely) by longlasting erroneous adjustments of the color processors in your eye/brain.

>>37954

Man I hope this kills me immediately That's a joke, forces of fate

And the thing is, if this was actually real, it would be nothing. That's because what's more powerful than death or injury, is IDEAS. The real hazard in this world is IDEAS. People can become consumed by them. Blindness or insanity is only a temporary setback; induction into a cult or political group can scar you for life. Don't worry about some spooky images that you heard about on some backwater mongolian internet forum, worry about what concepts and ideas you are surrounded by and are perceiving. Mental Hygiene, Social Immune System, and Noo-immunity or Noomunity are all skills that have "fallen out" (read: been forced out) of practice, because they are one of an individual's strongest and most potent defense (and offense).

This may sound all sound a little cliche and kinda ingenuine, but trust me. Internalize this advice. Remember this like you remember to say "thank you" or "hello".

Destroy the Paradigm, and become the Zeitgeist.

See you at armageddon, brothers.

and if this is real, please contact me. I'm interested in becoming a MiB

>>38302

>I guess I didn't fit the profile to get offered a job as a secret paranormal investigator though…

>Autistanon reads spoopy thread on /x/ and crashes his car hoping he will become xfiles

>ends up paralyzing him for life

>family finds his hentai folder while he is in a coma for a few weeks

>right before they're about to disable life support he wakes up

Oh, cruelty


 No.38384

>>38383

>Well, you're LARPing. The fundamentals besides creative cultural phenomenons is very well understood (well, in ex facto, but still they are understood). People can't usually predict SPECIFIC stuff that will dominate the noosphere, but we can usually, in hindsight, find out why. For example, the newest normalfag craze Fortnite became popular because it fulfilled a niche - a free, well-performing (well, it has better performance than pubg) battle royale style game that isn't pay to win.

>besides

FUCK I MEANT BEHIND

sorry, i'm up late and delirious

(not schizo or a non-native english speaker)


 No.38385

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>>38026

Holy shit, someone is playing Plague Inc. In real life

How does someone fuck up a cure that badly?


 No.38406

>>38383

Not saying OP isn't LARPing, but you clearly think you're a lot smarter than you actually are.


 No.38408

>>38383

Bruh, he outright stated that they only deal with immediately damaging and easily reproduced media phenomena which physically harm you by looking at them and/or create an irrational compulsion to share them further, which doesn't fall under traditional psychological understanding of the propagation of social memes or other well known phenomena like the McCullough effect. In response you say that our current understanding of those things don't work like that, well, no shit, that's what he just said.

And yes OP is a LARP, but an entertaining one, so clear the sand out of your vagina, that's practically all this board is for now.


 No.38451

>>37954

You made me google it, I tough it was for real.


 No.38452

How much fun is it and how do I apply?


 No.38453

>>37923

>a "living meme"

Pretty mundane, but an interesting idea. Reminds me of Pontypool, don't let that image escape if it's real.


 No.38454


 No.38468

>>38452

Just punch the air until you punch a ghost.


 No.38623

How does one apply for your job


 No.38672

>>38623

>>38452

Read the thread, he already said you can't. They come to you. (If this is real, which it probably isn't)

I do think this thread might be haunted though, it's still (You)ing me for OP's posts.


 No.38709

>>37932

I don't visit 4/x/, do you mind linking me to that thread?


 No.38731

Is there any recruitment? Internships or anything? Sounds like it is mosty boring but the gems are worth wading through the mundane


 No.39095

>>37910

Any chance I could invest in the company you work for?


 No.39112

>>37910

>larper takes a bolt out of a car

>pretends it's a spoopy object

here's your (you)




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