Bioshock infinite sucked so hard it killed the franchise

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What I find retarded about all existing symbology in human media or history, is that it's all placed there by humans

As in, if small dedicated (retarded) groups of people choose to believe in some kind of entity, and then spread the symbologies in all things they control, then isn't it just self-fulfilling loop?

Surely there's an initial shock from an outsider seeing those symbols (and then assuming meaning). But humans are pattern matching machines, it naturally satisfies our brains to spread it

>>42056677
Yes, such a waste of a beautiful art style and world. There was no reason to go as meta as they did "there's always a lighthouse" etc

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>>42056611
The lunar rhythm mirrors the fluctuations in the human body and psyche. The waxing and waning moon symbolize birth and death. The purpose of any dark phase is that of transition. For the waxing moon represents good intent, and the waning moon brings sickness and death.

>>42056735
No reason for anything. Devs whored out to the mainstream trends of muh only two guns at any time and no depth to the customization. Cant even have guns be visbly different when upgrading. Dang it im getting angry just thinking about it and how i waited after all those delays only to end up with that baby doodoo garbage. The delays were because they had to keep stripping the game off its actual bioshock esque features wasnt they?
Whew, at least ill always have the first one. Cant take that from me. Two was good also. Just not as interesting

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>>42056611
You saw the Sonic post from the Jim Carrey thread and decided you wanted more, huh?

>>42058067
I didn't. Is that the one about the Zoroastrian stuff, Ma-Sonic, etc?

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>>42056611
I need a good way to illustrate the relationship between the circle (monad) and the hyperbola. The equation that morphs one into the other, as a hyperbola is a sort of inverted circle. I don't want to make the whole image animated. I do wish there was an image format where you could do that.

>>42056677
Checked btw.

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>>42056611
Hourglass symbolism, overt and functionally implied, is everywhere through Finktown.

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>>42058125
I think this drive must be failing. There are several things I know I screenshotted, but there's nothing. Like the entire intro of Burial at Sea part ii is not there. So I can't remember what color balloon the child has which leads Elizabeth deeper into the darkening dream.

In this case Pino ties the heart balloon around an infant's stroller, right before it's killed. Marking it as a sacrifice or gateway?

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>>42058178
Yep, red balloon.

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>>42058069
>I didn't. Is that the one about the Zoroastrian stuff, Ma-Sonic, etc?
yeah
>>42058067
>thinks he had some kind of upper-hand but really just walked into a paranormal experience himself
anon this happens all the time here
can’t speak for others but on this board you need to get used to the fact that collective consciousness isn’t a concept, it’s a given

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>>42058245
Would'ja just look at that! So many options! What to choose... what sort of cage do I want? Or what sort of cage do I want to put something in, and what would I put there?

Probably this is some sort of metaphor for selling souls, maybe literal children. In the beginning they have the player choose whether Elizabeth will wear a birdcage symbol, or a bird. People complained that it had no effect on anything.

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>>42058258
I chose the bird, obviously. Even if you view the body as a vessel or nesting place for the soul bird (Ba if I recall? There;s the ka, ba, ren, etc) why would you want an image of a cage on you.

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>>42058266
Pain phrase. Pain frays?

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>>42058285
This whole sequence is basically just the opening scene of the wizard of oz.

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>>42058220
>yeah
Should post it here. I probably have it saved also but don't feel like it (lol).

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>>42058275
Well that's interesting. Though it's only a one character difference and septenary is quite "lossy" in this way (4 symbols have the same output, except for G and T which are 7). Ergo Proxy has 23 episodes. 23 chromosome pairs. 9th prime.
https://ergoproxy.fandom.com/wiki/FP_Ray

>>42058331
>Though it's only a one character difference
Two rather. One addition one swap.

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>>42058331
Everytime I saw this meme early in covid where the guy is dodging someone shooting syringes at him. He gets him in the arm and immediately chops the arm off, then the leg, etc. I remembered this scene.

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>>42056735
Yes. A lot is just humans trying to covertly signal, obfuscate, invert, distract, control, or otherwise fuck with each other. It is is why it is important to seek the absolute and at all times stand above the relative field. And to realize and complete whatever this all is to escape samsara. And never return amidst these creatures ever again.

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>>42058450
I always assumed the world only existed because something was broken. And that I am part of the core self, I have entered my mind and was here to figure it out and repair it. After that the material world ceases to be in some way, and floats or fades away, like a dream. It has no purpose left. We did it. Then you get it and the story concludes.

I don't know whether this place existed before or after me. No one does. Or if it's an eternal state that any soul can pass through and we all happen to be occupying it at once. I don't know.

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>>42058469
New! And not necessarily improved. Both released 1999 (303rd prime)if I recall. The Matrix is synthetic, the plug is put into the back of the head (third eye or crown, upper aspect). eXistenZ is all organic. The umbilical cord plug thing is put into the base of the spine, root chakra, lower aspect. Uses sexual inuendo. The Matrix does not. Etc.

In case people are not used to hypersymbolic processing. The last frame on each are the same. They're the same picture. 616 pattern. 6 wings on each side, one body in the middle, celestial bodies aligned as she removes the black moon / dark seed from earth. Lilith is associated with the red sea and blood, red hair, fire. In eXistenZ the creator is in the center, 6 on each side. His assistant remains awake outside the shared dream, she has red hair and is dressed in black and white (sort of). She is an unseen architect or overseer outside the veil. Even the guy who made the game is asleep and unaware of it. It becomes a game within a game.

>>42058067
Yeah, we've finally been having some good threads again sue me.
If you want some solipsistic sauce I watched Truman Show only 2 days before that post on a whim since my Dad never saw it. Than Sirius fell, LOL

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D8MK
Then the corresponding eye gets removed living a void.

>>42060337
>living
leaving*

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>>42058233
Ergo Proxy was a masterpiece.

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I've gone through a lot of its key sections frame by frame. The attention to detail is incredible. All through the episode with Swan they introduce small submissive and defensive body language in Re-L's movements. A lot of Swan's micro expressions are also subtle but add up to something unsettling.

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>>42058318