The “This is VR theory” just got a boost in case it needed one. The “Shift’s over .Welcome to the work camp” dialogue/setting/character here is inconsistent with the “boring tourist town/We are in The Village” setting/characters/dialogue of the earlier sequence. This would be amazingly lax plotting were what Ginny experiencing supposed to be real but is about the way dreams transition in real life and so is perfect logic for that sort of a setting. ^_^
I have a sneaking suspicion that if Virginia asked “Why don’t you just leave the forest if you’re fed up with walnuts? I know for a fact that there’s a beach just a short walk away with skee-ball and saltwater taffy.”, she will be met with horrified queries of “You mean the Beach of DOOM!?
I generally jjust don’t/can’t do bitter. Walnuts, coffee, black teas, beers (except fruit beers w/o hops), wines, BBQ sauce, all of it makes me start gagging.
Pork for Muslims, beef for Hindus…a lot of people in the third world have pretty strong food taboos. And of course people who are actually starving will eat all sorts of weird crap: that’s not a first world or a third world problem, it’s a starving problem.
No, not everyone would eat a cockroach if they were hungry enough. Some of us prefer to employ rational thought, even in a crisis. If I’m that close to starving to death, eating even a whole handful of cockroaches isn’t going to save my life, so I’ll never do it. If I have to starve, I’d rather just starve, rather than starve and vomit as I die.
There are people the world over who are picky about food. It’s certainly not something that happens only in first-world countries. I’ve met people in Haiti – a country with one of the highest starvation rates on the planet – who won’t eat mangoes simply because they don’t like them. Meanwhile, there are thousands – maybe even millions – of people in the USA who cannot eat certain foods because of food allergies or insensitivities. To assume that people won’t eat something because they’re “being picky about food” is pretty short-sighted.
I don’t think we have anything to definitely rule out scenarios yet. Let me see if I can list them all:
1) VL is stuck in some kind of simulation of her own mind, and she is meeting allegorical aspects of her own consciousness. Here, for example, she has probably met the personification of her depression.
2) VL is in a computerized VR, similar to the Whimsy VR, but I guess dissimilar enough that she doesn’t seem to be able to manipulate it in the same way the Whimsy VR could be manipulated.
2a) In the VR, the people she has met are NPCs/simulations
2b) In the VR, the people she has met are the avatars of AIs
2c) In the VR, the people she has met are avatars of those who have already been extirpated, and can’t get out.
2d) In the VR, the people she has met are the avatars of intelligent swarms of bees(?), like Gavotte and Pavane (I doubt this one, but a few people seem to like it)
3) She is in the real world, but in a Village scenario where everything about the place is manipulated by shadowy controllers (is this what people think when they talk about the Village, or is it that the Village is part of the VR?)
(a few more that I don’t believe at all)
4) She is in the real world, and has met perfectly ordinary quirky people, in a perfectly ordinary, if quirky, location.
5) She is dead and in the afterlife. Everything is fine
This could have possibilities. Walnuts, once picked, have to stored and shipped. That requires transportation, which means the clever or desperate can find a way out on the trucks. Dr. Lee is the former, and edging towards the latter, so her horizons here might expand quite a bit.
Hmmm…. I had a thought. “Until you heal that which is broken…”
If the unusual-looking palm trees where she first found herself are indeed a teleporter, maybe it only teleports in. Maybe Virginia can figure out how to make it also teleport back to its origin (kind of like Dave did on Dave Island). Maybe it’s not technically “broken” if it works as it was designed, but if Mme Delphi assumes that it should teleport out as well as in, then it’s reasonable for her to believe that it’s broken.
Is that a hood, a towel, or just hair? Either way, another concealed-eyes candidate.
Dr. Lee seems to be transitioning.
Is that Rebecca Wilkin?
Note: “Fix what’s broken.” So, get some superglue and start repairing those walnets.
So hard to choose! But I think I’ll have the walnuts of doom. And a rubber nutcracker.
No flowers this time, unless they’re obscured by the rain.
The “This is VR theory” just got a boost in case it needed one. The “Shift’s over .Welcome to the work camp” dialogue/setting/character here is inconsistent with the “boring tourist town/We are in The Village” setting/characters/dialogue of the earlier sequence. This would be amazingly lax plotting were what Ginny experiencing supposed to be real but is about the way dreams transition in real life and so is perfect logic for that sort of a setting. ^_^
I have a sneaking suspicion that if Virginia asked “Why don’t you just leave the forest if you’re fed up with walnuts? I know for a fact that there’s a beach just a short walk away with skee-ball and saltwater taffy.”, she will be met with horrified queries of “You mean the Beach of DOOM!?
And as soon as you realize “hey, this doesn’t fit with what was just happening,” the dream transitions again to distract you.
Also, it’s a total NPC way of talking.
“It’s walnuts for dinner tonight.”
Ja, I’d just end up starving there. I can’t eat walnuts, they instantly trigger the vomit center of my brain.
I generally jjust don’t/can’t do bitter. Walnuts, coffee, black teas, beers (except fruit beers w/o hops), wines, BBQ sauce, all of it makes me start gagging.
With me it’s unfamiliar foods.
Naw, Everyone would eat a cockroach if the got hungry enough. Being picky about food is a first world problem.
Pork for Muslims, beef for Hindus…a lot of people in the third world have pretty strong food taboos. And of course people who are actually starving will eat all sorts of weird crap: that’s not a first world or a third world problem, it’s a starving problem.
And then there are those of us with allergies. A meal of walnuts would be my last meal.
Is a tannin sensitivity “just being picky”?
No, not everyone would eat a cockroach if they were hungry enough. Some of us prefer to employ rational thought, even in a crisis. If I’m that close to starving to death, eating even a whole handful of cockroaches isn’t going to save my life, so I’ll never do it. If I have to starve, I’d rather just starve, rather than starve and vomit as I die.
There are people the world over who are picky about food. It’s certainly not something that happens only in first-world countries. I’ve met people in Haiti – a country with one of the highest starvation rates on the planet – who won’t eat mangoes simply because they don’t like them. Meanwhile, there are thousands – maybe even millions – of people in the USA who cannot eat certain foods because of food allergies or insensitivities. To assume that people won’t eat something because they’re “being picky about food” is pretty short-sighted.
Can relate. I’ve got that with tomatoes, cucumbers, and lamb
If she doesn’t work in the work camp, what’ll they do to her? Extirpation?
Maybe that’s the trick to getting out. Refuse to work with them here, and they send you back to A-Sig to try again.
*Retirpation
I don’t think we have anything to definitely rule out scenarios yet. Let me see if I can list them all:
1) VL is stuck in some kind of simulation of her own mind, and she is meeting allegorical aspects of her own consciousness. Here, for example, she has probably met the personification of her depression.
2) VL is in a computerized VR, similar to the Whimsy VR, but I guess dissimilar enough that she doesn’t seem to be able to manipulate it in the same way the Whimsy VR could be manipulated.
2a) In the VR, the people she has met are NPCs/simulations
2b) In the VR, the people she has met are the avatars of AIs
2c) In the VR, the people she has met are avatars of those who have already been extirpated, and can’t get out.
2d) In the VR, the people she has met are the avatars of intelligent swarms of bees(?), like Gavotte and Pavane (I doubt this one, but a few people seem to like it)
3) She is in the real world, but in a Village scenario where everything about the place is manipulated by shadowy controllers (is this what people think when they talk about the Village, or is it that the Village is part of the VR?)
(a few more that I don’t believe at all)
4) She is in the real world, and has met perfectly ordinary quirky people, in a perfectly ordinary, if quirky, location.
5) She is dead and in the afterlife.
Everything is fine6) Eyeball Razor Chimps.
Anything else?
So…. the walnut business is not all its cracked up to be?
Business appears to be booming.
(Okay, that one worked better yesterday when there actually was thunder.)
I told her to bring a nutcracker.
Yeah, I’d die.
“Walnuts for dinner, walnuts for lunch, walnuts for breakfast, they really pack a punch.”
I’m still crossing my fingers that she’ll open a closet, and Laura Petrie will slide out on an avalanche of walnuts.
^^Yes!
Same here!
“What is a Danny Thomas?”
This could have possibilities. Walnuts, once picked, have to stored and shipped. That requires transportation, which means the clever or desperate can find a way out on the trucks. Dr. Lee is the former, and edging towards the latter, so her horizons here might expand quite a bit.
That’s assuming the walnut harvesting is actually for commercial use.
Hmmm…. I had a thought. “Until you heal that which is broken…”
If the unusual-looking palm trees where she first found herself are indeed a teleporter, maybe it only teleports in. Maybe Virginia can figure out how to make it also teleport back to its origin (kind of like Dave did on Dave Island). Maybe it’s not technically “broken” if it works as it was designed, but if Mme Delphi assumes that it should teleport out as well as in, then it’s reasonable for her to believe that it’s broken.
So who’s left? Moustachio and Nick? That seems more like Nick. The body language is closer to him too. Also all the people she’s met so far are women.