#computer hell

[teddie-bear420]

First Computer hell concepts from 2023

[fork-in-the-crossroads]

Got thinking about the post apocalyptic computer hell story again, mainly the food situation.

I have a feeling AM does not really have food, at all. It's been made clear that they can make holograms that are very convincing, which leads me to believe that the reason why the survivors never feel full or satiated when they eat something is that the food itself is a hologram.

It sticks around long enough to be held, tasted, eaten, but once it gets down into the stomach is where the ruse ends. It cannot be digested, it cannot be metabolized. I think it makes sense, since AM was never designed with any inclination towards preservation of anything in mind- so far as anyone knows, the computer was never meant to be a survival bunker, so why would it have actual food or water?

Otherwise, the only thing I could figure that the survivors are actually eating, could be some sort of nutritional supplement- but only on a vitamin/mineral level. Or alternatively, maybe there's stuff that gets injected into them while they're not awake to keep them going- not something that can be considered food, but maybe whatever is keeping them alive for centuries, some kind of chemical cocktail maybe.

[forthedancingandthethriving]

Had an interesting idea about how Computer Hell functions. Basically, any inmates that got there by dying... technically don't have physical bodies. They're not quite ghosts, but the bodies we see them with are actually physical manifestations of their souls' code that happen to look how they remember looking when they were alive. As a consequence if they die again in that state they'll pass on for good. If someone performs necromancy to summon their soul and put it in a vessel (like Francis as the Stal-Zuccer or Lady Rose's zombie form in that one alternate future timeline) it gets rid of the issue for as long as that vessel stays alive (as evidenced by Francis still existing), but just leaving Computer Hell as they are (like what's going to happen during the Abyss's jailbreak in the Vacation Arc) doesn't. Obviously inmates that are still alive like Andrew and Marianne don't have that problem since they still have real bodies.

Follow-up idea: Rose doesn't know she's dead. That's because she wasn't supposed to be, since she was dragged there through a portal, but Antivirus was pissed off from witnessing the tail end of the fight and was rougher with her than he needed to be (or probably should've been) and she died in transit. Her current form is affected by her belief that she's still alive, so it changes in a way that almost but not quite perfectly emulates the rate she should be ageing, acts as though she needs to sleep, eat, breathe, and go to the bathroom, and simulates a heart beating and the resulting activity in the circulatory system (so she has a pulse). Given how much control she's exerting over her "body," even if it's currently all subconscious, things could get interesting when she inevitably learns the truth.

Antivirus knows she'd dead, and that she thinks she isn't. He just doesn't think it matters enough to correct her.

Ooooh!! I like that a lot.. ooh so neat.

[rosemoofin]

[contemplatingoutlander]

If I’ve been a bit quiet earlier today it is because I have been going through computer hell...🔥 👿 🔥 💻 🔥 😭 😂

Yesterday my laptop refused to connect to the Internet, even though my Wi-Fi was working. I decided I would devote Saturday morning to trying to figure out what the problem was. 

So today I was going to get online using my phone to find a solution to my laptop problem and discovered the phone battery was almost drained and I had left the charger to my phone at work! (It is a new phone and of course they changed the shape of the charge connector; consequently, the numerous chargers I have at home don’t work with it! 😳) 

So I had to hook up an old tablet that has a keyboard so I could get on the Internet and try to find a solution to my problem. And of course since I hadn’t used that tablet in a long time, I had to wait for all the updates to install before I could use it. 

(I hate all those little spinning circles from hell that appear on your screen as you are waiting for the updates to install! 😡)

After I was finally online, I looked up various solutions to my problem, and tried a number of them including restoring my system to an earlier time but nothing worked.

So I finally had to reinstall Windows, which pretty much wiped out all my settings and many of my apps (although the reinstall preserved my personal files). 

I’m still downloading applications but I thought I’d pause the purgatory of download/setup (which is not quite as bad as troubleshooting hell) and bitch about this whole process.

On the positive side, reinstalling Windows probably cleaned up my registry and any malware that my virus protection programs might have missed. So hopefully everything will run smoother now. 

Still, I really hate it when the whole operating system has to be reinstalled! 

photo/ gif sources: 01, 02

[teddie-bear420]

From last years art fight I’m gonna try to remake it :)

Art Fight

An art trading game

[teddie-bear420]

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER BABYYY

Art Fight

An art gifting game

[fork-in-the-crossroads]

I got thoughts about Nimdok and how he might be related to how AM is keeping the survivors alive.

Frankly, I don't think the five survivors were the first people AM kept in captivity. When it had enacted nuclear mutually assured destruction, likely it had already managed to get a group down inside it before. Perhaps these people were part of the military program that AM was designed for; generals, a few politicians, programmers and technicians. Just some happy accidents that managed to get sealed in when AM had first woke up and decided to kill everyone.

Or maybe this occurred before it decided to nuke the planet.

This group was AM's test group- they were the first to know the computer's torments, they likely were the first ones that led AM to figure out it was not satisfied with just killing humans. They also were the ones it probably tested its immortality methods on.

One by one the group succumbed to AM's testing most likely, either dying from incompatibility to whatever concoction the computer came up with to try and make an immortal human or being pushed too far by AM's torture methods and dying from them regardless of whether the serum worked. It's methods to keep this group from rising against it likely were more crude, no brain alterations or twisting of the body.

AM probably kept them in a chamber (or several) from which there was no way to access its computer banks or sabotage it in other ways. It may have even kept them in separate chambers or separate parts of the complex so they were always alone and could not plan, always routing them in a maze to keep them guessing which part of the complex they could be in and away from any vital systems.

This is where Nimdok comes in.

Nimdok, going by this idea, is the very last survivor of the test group. It's the reason why no one (including him) knows his name or where he comes from. It's why he cannot remember anything. As a final act of its experimenting, AM probably wiped Nimdok's memory and renamed him before lumping him in with the other four- all part of building its god complex. A god does not experiment, it does not make mistakes, it is omnipotent and omniscient. Having an individual that would undermine all that by telling the survivors that there had been others before them, and they were used to allow AM to hone its most basic skills, would be an insult to its pride- and possibly instill the idea that the machine is not as perfect as it appears to be.

Also having an individual among this group that essentially is a living cheat sheet to what AM has up its sleeve probably would be less "fun" for it too.