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Santa/ Aoi Kurashiki ([personal profile] 21stcenturyguy) wrote in [community profile] elnysa2017-08-07 10:00 pm

video | un: Crash Keys

Hey. This isn't one of those 'let's all get to know each other and be best friends' posts. I wanna know what you guys know about telepathy.

[Aoi holds a picture up to the camera. 'Picture' is probably a generous description.]



First, anyone know what this picture is?

Snake, before you even start, I fuckin' KNOW you can't see it, so I'm not asking you.

Don't cheat, just tell me what you think it's supposed to be.

If you're not into pictures, tell me about Archetypes from your world. There was a psychologist on Earth who noticed the same ideas pop up in various cultures that had no contact with one another. I want to see if that collective unconscious spans worlds too. So, I dunno, talk to each other about the legends and fairy tales and holidays and shit from your worlds and lemme know what common threads you find

The Follow-Up Video


[A couple of days later, when it seems like the majority of the people who are gonna weigh in have done so, Aoi makes a follow-up post.]

Alright, I know you all think I was tryin' to psychoanalyze you with the picture I showed you the other day, but trust me, you guys aren't that interesting. There's a right answer to the picture. I'll show you.

[He holds up the original picture and the solution to the screen.]

Some crackpot psychologist did an experiment to test the transference of knowledge through unseen means. He showed a picture like this to a population of people, and the distribution of answers was pretty random, same as you guys'. Then he broadcast the answer to that population. When he went to a to a remote location that had no contact with anyone from Population A. When he showed the same picture, there was a statistically significant increase in the percentage of people who knew the answer.

Even though nobody had consciously shared the information, because more people knew it, the answer was somehow transmitted. So that's the theory of Morphic Resonance.
planetary_bonds: (Deep in thought)

[personal profile] planetary_bonds 2017-08-08 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
A monster used in duels.

[Yusei may or may not be acting intentionally vague. He probably is, though.]

The one I'm thinking of in particular is Assault Gundog. It's pretty much a police dog in riot armor and armed with a machine gun turret.

[See? Perfect match.]

Not a particularly strong monster, mind, but it has a good deck milling effect and can help set up for a stronger summon...and it's definitely thematically appropriate for them, I admit.
planetary_bonds: (a controlled anger)

[personal profile] planetary_bonds 2017-08-08 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Yes, yes, and yes.]

I am.

[He looks dead fucking serious, dude. That expression hasn't changed at all.]
planetary_bonds: (what did i do)

[personal profile] planetary_bonds 2017-08-09 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
L...what?

[He has no idea what LARP is. Or at least doesn't know that specific term. Wow.]

No, I was arrested for real. [He shrugs.]
planetary_bonds: (polished by me) (side eying you so hard rn)

[personal profile] planetary_bonds 2017-08-09 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Yusei shrugs.]

It seems to be both, as strange as that sounds.
planetary_bonds: (polished by me) (gettin' real tired of your bullshit)

[personal profile] planetary_bonds 2017-08-10 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
They are.

[He's not pretending, at least.

But then why did he say "both," before?]
planetary_bonds: (a controlled anger)

[personal profile] planetary_bonds 2017-08-10 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Eh.]

I simply said it reminded me of such a thing.

[Look. He was part of a duel gang that ruled the streets with their goddamn card dragons. It's totally legit street cred.]

Either way, it resembles some sort of dog-like creature to me.