No.1346
I still need the ending to Texhnolyze explained to me.
No.1348
I watched it a long time ago. Incoherent fever dream as far as I could tell. It may be brilliant but even then I thought to myself "should I devote any time whatsoever to do research and find out? What if it turns out there's nothing and I'm just prolonging the time I already wasted watching it? Fuck it maing".
Also I guarantee you 100% of the reason this show has its niche is because of the aesthetic of a cute hacker girl typing on her gigantic computer, and nothing to do with the actual "content" of the show.
No.1349
I saw it as an existential show about the damage that can be caused by online personas and the internet with elements of cultism and philosophy shoved in.
I don't understand why people act like it's some obscure shit though and think people are fucking around when they're only around for the anime hacker girl.
No.1351
>>1349i heard lain is supposed to represent the collective unconscious or something
No.1360
>>1331something something lain is the god of the wired, something something her dad is the dor of real life.
that's literally all i remember about lain
No.1361
>>1348>Also I guarantee you 100% of the reason this show has its niche is because of the aesthetic of a cute hacker girl typing on her gigantic computer, and nothing to do with the actual "content" of the show.The show's aesthetic alone is more than enough reason to love Lain.
No.1399
i used to know what it was really about but i forget after one month
and yeh theres smthing to do with collective unconscious becoming collective conscious and lain representing the humanity itself or smthing
No.2129
can someone post a torrent of it? I couldn't find one
No.2130
>>2129nvm hadn't checked TPB and there's one there lol
No.2139
>>2130You should really use nyaa.si for anime and stuff. It's by far the best source. sukebei.nyaa.si has jav, hentai, and eroge if you need that stuff.
No.2151
>>1331I just started watching it, I'm on episode 3. It started out rather slow with little going on. The setting is weird as fuck, and weird shit is going on. It's hard to stay engaged when you don't understand anything and your getting dribbles of new things going on.
I'll keep watching, just to see what the fuss is about.
No.2371
I watched lain for the first time in 2016, and to me at the time I drew a lot of connections with the politico-cybernetic dimension of social life and I think lain was actually supposed to be more of a speculation about how we would relate to the internet as a collective group in the future. For example, to most people outside of 4chan before 2016 the alt right probably seemed like something mysterious and contingent to them, kind of like lain at her computer, but as time went on physical outbursts occurred in the more obvious public space that were the result of these mysterious contradictions in the internet, laymen started to become aware of what places like 4chan are and how the internet is cultivating Nazi terrorism at a crazy scale. As a student of Hegel I think the parallels between Lain and the alt-right are because they’re both a very dialectical motion from things that once seemed contingent and mysterious becoming necessary and unavoidable in the public consciousness, in particular for the case of the internet and how it relates with the rest of public collective experience. I think even today a lot of the people are unaware of how they’re being ideologically manipulated by algorithms and driven into an ignorance that might result in an eventful outburst in the real world again, changing our Zeitgeist and making us more aware of these same contradictions. Lain to me is more or less an allegory for a Badiouan truth-event that the internet experiences as a subject.
No.2373
>>2371>alt rightEh, look. I can understand how you can connect the two, but I would say that you are describing a different phonomena. Or, maybe an entirely different phonomena, but a different expression of the phonomena. SEL captured the zeitgeist of the Internet as it was unfolding upon society. It was incredibly presient- still is- yet it couldn't have possibly predicted an explosion of human activity. The wired is active, its algorithms subconsciously affect the majority of us in ways we can barely perceive, but in SEL, its effects are subtle. Very withdrawn. The world is sleeping while change is at work. This indicates it is in transition, and I feel like this is what SEL captured. But, perhaps not what happened after. It did however get it right with the Knights of the Eastern Calculus though. I looking back at what Lain got right.
No.2375
>>2371>As a student of Hegelbruh
No.4513
>>1331Nah I don't think literally. Imo she was just as god as the other guy, and even though she tries to one-up him with psychological warfare she never really transcends what he is either. He just liked to mess a bit with the world because he had the power, and when Lain got the power to she just made stuff normal for probably equally as selfish reasons (although I still am trying to find an interpretation that avoids "infallible psychological egoism" or smth) so she more so represents an artificial god of man that they have created. Lots of different interps tho and even the creators weren't sure what the coherent explanation/meaning was
No.4551
>>4536Ok, care to expand?
No.4553
lain is literally me!
No.4583
>>4553So what's your point? Just more sagefaggotry?
No.7994
it's got a cult following online, mostly on imageboards. i've seen lots of lain on /GET/ and even some here
No.7995
Lain has grown a ton in popularity in the last few years, what do you mean?
No.7996
I'm never going to watch this anime, you can't make I HATE LAIN I HATE LAIN
No.7997
>>7994Lainchan and wirechan seem to like it too
I meant in more normie circles
>>7995Only with imageboard dwellers are also with other weebs?
No.7998
>>7997I do see on other places on the Internet, but honestly noone I've met IRL has heard of it.
No.7999
I've tried getting into this before and I always have trouble getting past the first couple episodes.
No.8002
>>7999What's the problem?
No.8003
>>8002Seems aimless and confusing.
No.8005
I watched it for the first time with other people from /GET/ last Friday.
It's kino. Gonna watch it with my dad, he'll probably enjoy it.
>>7999I got that feeling too, but as you keep watching you start to understand most things from previous episodes. Obviously you won't fully get it in your first watch though.
No.8006
>>8003Because it is, people like to pretend to like it because it's artsy and confusing, it might have been "deep" when it came out but from today's perspective it is laughably dumb.
No.8008
>>8006> people like to pretend to like it because it's artsy and confusingbut it is
No.10120
Anyone remember Boogiepop?
https://archive.ph/UF5ws No.11429
>>7993There are daily shitpost threads of it on /a/ so I wouldn't say it is than unpopular.
No.15440
SHE JUST LIKE ME FR FR
No.15504
>>15440Was this supposed to be a soyjak post?
No.19709
>>19706I still want to do it.
No.19710
>>19709Can't say I don't sometimes think of doing it, but now I would still rewrite it but without capitalism, not myself
I would skip and rather be born in a society that doesnt' need anymore productive forces to be formed
What do you think about the OP and ED, what do they mean
Never seen an anime with a full english OP
No.19711
I am fading
I am falling
I am drowning
0.01 seconds after starting a job
I love the OP, the way that silent tune plays as Lain falls out and fades into the OP
No.21025
TBH this and .Hack never spoke to me, I was bored by it.
No.21692
You will ONLY ever understand Lain if you first:
>read works on early cybernetics
>read the entirety of burroughs, gibson, dick, rucker, mckenna, lovelock, stephenson, etc
>read cyberia, wholeness and the implicate order, turbulent mirror, etc
>read the collected works of freud and jung
>understand D&G
>understand Baudrillard
>read fisher and plant (land is for after lain)
>watch and read the all of the Serial Experiments Lain multi-media works
No.21693
You missed Lacan and Kojeve
No.21694
I'm amazed people still have trouble understanding Lain just because the author likes his ambiguous endings. That's it.
No.21703
imagine trying to understand art, kek.
No.21706
I think it's pretty easy to understand, people just don't want to accept that it is about how cool suicide really is.
No.21712
>>21694my favorite part is when he thought both east and west would have different interpretations but was disappointed when they both agreed
No.21713
<fiction
Nope
No.21718
when i saw it as a teen all i thought while watching it was "this is like the solipsism thing i skimmed the wiki page of during chem"
No.21720
Might as well watch Evangelion's Hospital Scene for Japanese Philosophical Discourse
No.21722
>>21720Has Zizek done a commentary on it yet?
No.21736
>>21692You just need to make the basic assumption about the typical 4channer
>Lain is a schizoThat's it…
No.21737
>>21736You need to be 18+ to post here.
No.21746
I finished Cyberia and lmfao what a waste of time.
Anarchists, man. Useless petit-bourgeois retards.
Thinking that discovering how everything interacts with everything else is incompatible with Materialism when they really just haven't read Marx and Engels, so they resort to the stupidest celebrations of incoherence.
I'm somehow reforming society at large by taking drugs in my room but we say we're actually changing the Morphogenetic field so its revolutionary.
Making a big deal out of spray painting "Elect" on a billboard poster into "ERect" and pretending you're toppling capitalism and literally accepting an interview to talk about doing it.
Anarchists are such a joke.
No.21750
>>21746>>21746>Thinking that discovering how everything interacts with everything else is incompatible with Materialism when they really just haven't read Marx and Engels, so they resort to the stupidest celebrations of incoherence.Wait until they find about Deleuze.
No.21752
Honestly Lain and .Hack bored me after a while, not because it's terrible, but because it's pacing is so disjointed it throws me off and I can never make it past the first few episodes.
No.21834
>>21026>I am ballin i am faded name for anyone if the Embed dies.
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