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My first time operating CCTV cameras I was handed control over what was essentially 50 independently moving eyes that collectively covered an area about the size of a football field and from that experience I now know that
- Suddenly having 50 moving eyes can make you disoriented and barfy and the adjustment period sucks ass
- It takes both more and less time than you’d think to figure out what the structure as a whole looks like and where those eyes ARE
- After you get used to it the entirety of the structure itself and all of the eyes you can see from feels like an extension of your nervous system in a very bizarre way. Like I have dreams now from the perspective of A Building and I’m not sure how to describe that.
- Once you are aware of an unreachable blind spot it nags at you constantly and you can feel it like a hard little lump under your skin you need to poke and scratch at and it’s ardghgguychgghhbhhhbhhh
And on top of that, having operated CCTV at multiple locations now- my favourite and most comfortable one having excess of 60 cameras- it can be REALLY hard to suddenly jump to a different operating interface and display configuration, because all the muscle memory is wrong
On my COMFORTABLE system, the one I spent the longest time on, I never had to think about what code I needed to punch in. If I needed to watch a specific person, I could follow them all over the site without thinking about it.
Now at a different location, all the manual equipment and codes and lag and resolution are different, and it feels like going from playing the piano to driving stick shift on the left side of the road with my feet
The closest I imagine I can equate it to is like. Getting really really good at painting with a pair of prosthetic hands, and then suddenly having them swapped out with someone else’s
Not the best depiction, but. Feels like this
New body horror just dropped
body horror? darling this is a body romance
@atticwindow Horror-Romance. The best genre.
SecUnit coded
YES
seconding secunit coded AND also glados coded
Yes, this is very GLaDOS coded
The City That Fought by Anne McCaffery and SM Stirling
the guy with the apartheid south africa fetish?
I've seen someone say somewhere that the true gift of "being a human" is that our tools become a part of ourselves REALLY quickly, like we just mind-meld to our giant vehicles or crafting tools or video game characters with not much conscious effort on our part, and I gotta say, I agree.
... the appeal of giant robot / mecha anime.....
SecUnit/ART coded and also Lovelace (A closed and common orbit) coded
lovelace mention ‼️
This is the most murderbot coded post I've ever seen
Strap a go pro to a buddy and make them be a drone
magnus moment
I want this so badly. To have an extension feel as if ot is part of your own body, but much more powerful, its excellent.
The Eye
Jonathan Sims posting
Hello Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of The Magnus Institute, London.
Look Outside
like people who are really good at fnaf
Are u glados
no they're still alive (I think)
The Magnus Archives episode 148 moment?
This is the most magnus archives thing I’ve ever seen. This is the beginning of a statement of someone who’s about to be eaten by The Eye. Wtf
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It’s been two years using my rollator now and the degree to which I have accepted it as an extension of my body is really incredible. I go “ouch” when the wheel bumps into something too hard and sometimes I will sort of feel it in my foot. When someone else touches it or moves it without my permission it feels like someone pulling a part of my body away from me. Once when my husband was putting it in the back of the car before a road trip I watched him stack a suitcase behind it and instinctively flinched, as if it had smacked up against my body.
Oh just today I had another thing happen! My rollator is the kind with a seat that can fold up- I keep it parked near me and today we didn't have enough seats so my husband asked if he could sit there and I was fine with it- and when he sat there my mind reacted like he was sitting on my lap. It was very funny and odd I was like you're over there but my brain thinks I'm hugging you right now.
another rollator user here, and yeah! it's pretty wild to have body become the carapace of the aid
TeaBuilding
Ngl, that's hot
congratulations for coming yet another step closer to being an irl secunit
Fellow EZ459 fans say hell yea
neuroplasticity is magic
hey did you know that humans don't come preloaded with a trained visual cortex and every infant has to manually learn how to decipher information from their eyes
that's why it's easy to learn new sensory configurations, we've all done it before
Are you perhaps named Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London?
Literally MAG 148
Hey, have you read Murderbot Diaries?
this would be the premise of an episode of magnus protocol
this IS the premise of a magnus archive episode
you have dreams from the perspective of. A Building? ??
There is quite literally a The Magnus Archive episode about a security guard who gets absorbed into a building’s security system and becomes a part of it in a way eerily like this. "This is so The Magnus Archives-" it literally happened! I will not allow you to ignore my guy Samson like that! Episode 148 - Extended Surveillance
Every comment in this comment section is linking this to a different thing and they're all correct
Oh cool you gave yourself manual cyberpsychosis
Did you ever learn what CC stood for
Closed-Circuit
@lunah-ridah according to my Google Search, cctv stands for "closed circuit television".
you now know what its like to be murderbot
My FBI agent isn't doing so well on the new system it seems.
How is this not a tma post
Not yet, is on my list. Did you like it?
I think anyone who both plays videogames and remembers vivid dreams will have an inkling of what this feels like
Didnt make the main post but also sending a trusted person to Stand In Blind Spot and communicate what they see feels uncannily like having a friend scratch an itch you can’t reach. V satisfying
This is cool. Now I want to learn this skill
find install work for it instead its kinda awesome putting everything together and you usually end up seeing some weird shit i was in an apartment attic once and saw a whole ass desktop pc setup. old ass equipment on some plywood held up by cinder blocks. never got an answer to why
CCTV by underscores
1) mood, 2) I did specialty consumer side logistics [get cheap flooring to customer from Home Depot's overseas suppliers] & I still sometimes have nightmares about The Store, tho I am just a cog, not an Eye in the dream. 3) Work Dreams SUCK
As a robotkin. Need
So you're particularly suited to writing murderbot fic
Tea this doodle is sick
this is Donnie after the Technodrome
also slightly type help coded, just no visuals only audio
