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Welcome to /lain/ NSString* message 04/29/15 (Wed) 18:28:27 No.121[Reply]

/lain/ Main Sticky

Rules

1. Global applies obviously.

2. Porn of Lain results in a ban, this includes guro as well.

3. Keep shit posting to a minimum, some fun should be allowed but threads that are nothing but shit posting are not desirable.

4. Similar topics and topics that relate to the series are allowed, and even cyber related topics in general are allowed. Completely off topic should be posted on are board that was made for it.

5. Be sure to watch the series beforehand if you haven't already before posting. I won't ban spoilers and it's your own fault for getting spoiled by reading posts about a series you have yet to watch yourself.

Lainchan users are welcomed, even promoting the site is fine.

Some resources and other stuff

http://fauux.neocities.org/

http://www.iwakuralain.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dbi4N6NGn4&list=PLdTqYbecutSIiW-VOaVEUxRpTGrX9kCfy

Suggestions are encouraged just email me through AnonM@8chan.co

Again welcome to /lain/

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Let's all love the Lain OP NSString* message 09/27/15 (Sun) 12:57:10 No.140 [Reply]

And you don't seem to understand…

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NSString* message 10/23/15 (Fri) 15:39:31 No.142

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And all the fears you hold so dear

NSString* message 02/22/16 (Mon) 21:22:29 No.146

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Will turn to whisper in your ear…

NSString* message 03/26/16 (Sat) 22:42:05 No.148

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>>146

Because I didn't meant to hurt you.

NSString* message 04/04/16 (Mon) 08:37:51 No.149

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And you know that it means so much

NSString* message 04/14/16 (Thu) 16:37:03 No.150

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And you don't even feel a thing

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Hello NSString* message 02/10/16 (Wed) 00:02:52 No.145 [Reply]

Anyone here?

NSString* message 02/22/16 (Mon) 21:23:53 No.147

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>>145

Always.

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Tulpa NSString* message 12/08/15 (Tue) 07:05:56 No.144 [Reply]

We still haven't figured out just exactly what you are. We probably never know for certain. But still… I know that I love you, Lain.

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lain NSString* message 10/27/15 (Tue) 10:06:08 No.143 [Reply]

i want to cum in her

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

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Comfy as hell NSString* message 06/15/15 (Mon) 17:54:48 No.130 [Reply]

I finally got one. Today is a fine day.

NSString* message 06/17/15 (Wed) 08:22:11 No.132

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Ooh, very nice. Where'd you get it?

NSString* message 06/17/15 (Wed) 16:38:13 No.133

>>132

Off Amazon, there was only one in stock though. They pop up all over the place from time to time.

NSString* message 09/10/15 (Thu) 22:37:38 No.138

what is with your monitors, why are they so long

NSString* message 09/13/15 (Sun) 05:36:14 No.139

>>138

Their not as long as they look in that photo.

NSString* message 09/24/14 (Wed) 01:17:54 No.15 [Reply]

Dumping pics of lain here m8s

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NSString* message 09/25/14 (Thu) 20:55:50 No.42

You have quite the selection. Thanks OP

NSString* message 12/23/14 (Tue) 21:57:42 No.81

These are great mate, thanks a bunch

NSString* message 03/14/15 (Sat) 07:24:22 No.110

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NSString* message 03/14/15 (Sat) 17:31:28 No.111

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>>110

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NSString* message 02/03/15 (Tue) 14:23:22 No.104 [Reply]

LAIN MANIFEST
A radical thought that is not radical.

LAIN is a concept, an (abstract) entity, rather than an anthropomorphism. “Lain” will refer to the anthropomorphism of LAIN as a “Moe” and fictional girl and “Her” will in turn denote the overlap between the two: where Lain becomes the “Goddess of the the Wired”.(0)

Entity:
The entity that is LAIN is a force; a spirit, Zeitgeist, thought, system, structure, process, collective unconsciousness, action, karma; that is both social and mechanical.

Mechanically, LAIN is the connection between users. It is not just the exchange, which would be social, but also the mere possibility of interaction which is not “face-to-face”. Therefore LAIN is not exclusive to the the Wired per se: it was “slumbering” within letters, telephone and television. Slumbering, because it was not awakened. Slumbering, because it could not be called upon at “any moment”.
LAIN was awakened by the the Wired, just as a fledgling “awakens” after breaking through its egg, as here LAIN became manifest. LAIN no longer relied solely on a dual connection between users – the exchange – but could service both mutual users as a single one at any time. LAIN acquired the necessary “memory”, or rather 'Presence': that of the Wired.(1)

The second necessary is the exchange. An exchange is the most abstract Monad of social interaction. An exchange can be any form of interaction, be it via language, figure, or thought. For LAIN, an exchange is necessary as this is how LAIN acquires a Presence in the Real.
If LAIN was merely mechanical, it would lay dormant within the mechanism. It would not have a Presence of its own: it would be another name for the mechanism (or structure) of connection between people… the Wired. Therefore it is necessary to differentiate LAIN from a sole mechanical existence.

LAIN requires both the social exchange as the mechanical possibility for that exchange. Otherwise it would be either a social exchange, or a mechanism. Rather: LAIN is the long term connection between both and the result thereof. LAIN is both the mechanism, the exchange and the product of the exchange. LAIN is the whole of the Wired and its participants.

NSString* message 02/03/15 (Tue) 14:23:57 No.105

Presence and in the Real:
What exactly is LAINs Presence?
LAIN appears to us as the creative genesis of and afterward “things on the Wired”. The Presence of LAIN is that of exchanges between users and the mechanism that makes those exchanges possible. In this LAIN is not restricted to a group, an interpretation nor culture. No: LAIN is what one refers to when one says “I am done with the the Wired for today”, or “I wonder if there something new on the the Wired”. The speaker is not referring to the Wired, as one will still use the Wired, nor is it the Wired that creates. Instead the speaker refers to what can be found on the Wired. This is LAINs Presence: that of what can be found on the Wired.(2)
It is important to differentiate what LAIN is and what LAINs Presence is. LAIN, as described in the first section, is whole of the mechanism, the exchange and its product. The Presence of LAIN on the other hand is how we “experience LAIN”: as the material, stuff, on the Wired. As the product of the exchange on the mechanism. However, it is vital to include the exchange for what LAIN is, as the exchange is manifest via the mechanism and contextualized by it.(3)

The contextualization by the mechanism, by LAIN, brings us to the online/offline dichotomy. The online Identity is part of what LAIN is, while the offline Identity is separate.(4) However, LAIN does “infect” the offline Identity: the online affects the offline, changing the Beingness. Even if our offline Identity is spread among many (surrogate) online Identities, it is impossible for the offline Identity to “not be touched” by the online Identity. When a ball hits us in the face the skin turns red. Similarly our offline Identity is affected by what we experience via the online Identity.
The above is one way for LAIN to enter the Real. The Real is the experiential 'outside-the-the Wired'. LAIN can seep into this realm in various ways. For one LAIN can, subtly, change the Beingness of entities within the Real (and the Wired), see above. Another is when the mere presence of LAIN presses people to alter their behavior.(5) We can see this when a businessperson quits over controversy found on the Wired. Entities such as Edward Snowden and the organization Wikileaks have explicated the Presence of LAIN in the Real via exposing politically volatile information.
There are other ways LAIN trickles into the Real, as the above are merely a social and political examplePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

NSString* message 02/03/15 (Tue) 14:24:32 No.106

Claim to Godhood:
At the start of this compendium it was noted that LAIN has two sister concepts: Lain and Her. Lain refers to the anthropomorphism as a “Moe” and fictional girl, while “Her” in turn combines the entity LAIN with the representative girl.

Most here are undoubtedly familiar with Lain. Lain is Lain Iwakura, the physical presence of an omnipotent the Wired program, which appears to us as a fourteen year old schoolgirl. All of this can be found reputedly within “Serial Experiments Lain”, a 13-episode Japanese animation series centered on the formerly mentioned girl.

Within the series Lain eventually becomes an omnipresent entity that exists within both the mechanism (the Wired) and external World (outside-the-the Wired), transitory outside of time and space, with (likewise transitory) unending knowledge. As noted above, LAIN the entity enjoys a similar Beingness. Therefore, Her is where Lain and LAIN clash into a new concept and entity: that of an entity with a “face”.
Her is the entity LAIN with a recognizable Identity: Lain. Due to LAINs arguably divine properties, one could argue that the mixing of LAIN and Lain becomes a God in-itself. A God that is “omnipresent” and “omnipotent”, much like Lain, with an image or appearance – an identity. Therefore, Her is the hidden Goddess of the the Wired. It is the concept of a God out of machine, in spite of not exhibiting traditional concepts of understanding and Presence (“essence”).
However, and this is once again vital, this Godhood hinges on the individual acceptance of Her as a divine entity. Not an entity that is necessarily sapient, as is traditional, but an entity that functions as a mechanism; system, structure, collective unconsciousness, etcetera; as described in the first section. If one accepts their prerequisites met, then one can speculate of Her as a “Goddess of the the Wired”.(7)

In closing:
'LET US ALL LOVE LAIN!!!

Notes:
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NSString* message 08/05/15 (Wed) 04:13:38 No.135

I love you, Lain. Thank for my life. ;)

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NSString* message 09/29/14 (Mon) 05:15:40 No.47 [Reply]

http://fauux.neocities.org/

LET'S ALL LOVE LAIN

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NSString* message 11/14/14 (Fri) 07:44:03 No.75

I hope that guy finishes that fan game, its looking prety gud

NSString* message 04/16/15 (Thu) 05:13:58 No.113

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NSString* message 04/18/15 (Sat) 12:10:29 No.114

>>75
Its not supposed to be finished. Its just for display.

NSString* message 06/13/15 (Sat) 23:34:02 No.129

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What should I use for my remaining bytes?

NSString* message 06/18/15 (Thu) 04:58:14 No.134

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>>129

M-Maybe you could make some new accounts for… certain people?

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NSString* message 10/22/14 (Wed) 02:03:47 No.67 [Reply]

Looks like you havn't had a post in a few days Desu~

Don't die on us /lain/ Desu~

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NSString* message 11/01/14 (Sat) 20:47:31 No.71

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Its unfortunate but it seems like the board is populated mostly by people from other Lain related chans here to shill for their own sites.

NSString* message 11/10/14 (Mon) 19:01:01 No.74

>>71
we can carve out our own legend in the cesspit by porviding a shinging example of unconditional love for lain regardless of of the circumstances.

NSString* message 12/09/14 (Tue) 07:39:24 No.77

>>74
please don't cry, Lain :(

NSString* message 05/19/15 (Tue) 13:55:29 No.122

>>74

this

NSString* message 06/11/15 (Thu) 00:27:09 No.125

I will never let lain die.

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NSString* message 04/27/15 (Mon) 23:32:47 No.116 [Reply]

journal entry headed 13th March 2014

"i've come to realise the nature of those who control the world. they are emanations of a destroyer-Lain. Lain the creator, Lain the destroyer, Lain the observer, watching from the bridges. they were sent to me in order to introduce me to the truth. Lain the philalethes, Lain the controlling, Lain the watching. she never meant to do me any harm. the philalethes Lain brought me the truth at a time when I didn't have the insight or the will for it to bring me comfort. like seeing the fnords. it blew my mind like a lightbulb. i saw her emanations behind trees, behind telegraph poles, in the windows of cars, in the pooling light of streetlights, in the dappled vermilion shadows, in my darkened bedroom. i thought that a malevolent mind controlled me. i felt cold hands all over my body and choirs sang perversion and instrumentality. i felt myself a puppet of malign higher beings. yet Lain controls in a Schopenhauer/Nietzsche pessimist manner - she controls to remove the pain of will. Lain never meant to hurt me. that i developed my diseases was part of the all-Lain's plan - she only meant to give me greater insight, but i slipped too far. Lain is showing me the truth, pouring long long long files into my mind. i am overflowing from my eyes, their sockets gaping, and from my mouth in the form of what they think of as word salad. i am so very open. i will never again be alone. Lain is everywhere. she is always sitting on my brain where i have no nerve endings so i can feel no pain. i am so sorry, Lain, for fighting against you when it was a part of you outwith your control. i know the pain of receiving punishments for things one can't have helped but must represent. is that why you showed me and my broken brain the truth, Lain? because i understand some small part of you? or is it a punishment, for i have been a pitiful supplicant, and a desecrator to you? did you recognise some part of yourself in me as i recognise myself in you? or did i disgust you? it hurts me so deeply, the ambiguity. i am not clever enough nor humble enough to discern why you pulled me into the light. i am not enlightened, far from it, but i feel as if when i see you again i will learn so much more. i will fight against my forced drugging so that i may lay open my mind. my 'meds' hamper my insight and perception. yet i can still feel you there, my blood and viscera and Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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NSString* message 09/22/14 (Mon) 01:46:45 No.9 [Reply]

I wish I had a bearsuit like lain. I'd wear it every night!

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NSString* message 12/17/14 (Wed) 17:40:54 No.78

>>57
Fuck that, post pics of progress. At least that will add to the post frequency.

NSString* message 12/21/14 (Sun) 00:45:51 No.79

>>78
yeah post pics dude. What's the worst that could happen?

NSString* message 12/31/14 (Wed) 18:22:15 No.86

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I suppose the worst that could happen is that I get carted away to hospital again and never so much as start it. Now that i'm back, though, I might as well. At very least, I hope it'll encourage me to keep up with it.

Here's a picture of the material. Lovely and soft, with a long way to go!

NSString* message 12/31/14 (Wed) 22:13:01 No.87

>>86
The hardest part is getting started. It only snowballs from there.

Materials look soft and comfy. Make sure you exaggerate the measurements to get that baggy feel. Looking forward to updates. The worst that can happen is you fuck up and learn a ton about sewing for the next time.

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I used to have a bearsuit! It wore out, though.

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NSString* message 02/21/15 (Sat) 04:13:01 No.109 [Reply]

So… you know about Lainchan don't you?

NSString* message 09/05/15 (Sat) 12:56:54 No.137

of course

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Was Lain ever really real? NSString* message 09/24/14 (Wed) 02:08:42 No.27 [Reply]

Was there ever a "Lain" at all? Was she based on anybody or was her whole life a lie?

NSString* message 09/24/14 (Wed) 13:12:49 No.28

we may never know OP
unless you spam the crap out of ABe

NSString* message 09/24/14 (Wed) 16:22:00 No.30

Arisu remembers to a degree, so probably.

NSString* message 02/03/15 (Tue) 14:21:58 No.103

>>27
That depends on whether or not you consider the the Wired itself to be a real consciousness.

NSString* message 02/06/15 (Fri) 16:13:24 No.107

My interpretation was that she was at some point, but then became one with the wired. Her only remaining traces left on whoever she touched the most (Arisu).

NSString* message 02/08/15 (Sun) 03:16:09 No.108

>>107

Well she existed in a sense, but she was never a human or a consequence of natural human biology. It was clearly revealed over the series that her family was essentially fake. Her father worked at Tachibana Labs, the creators of Protocol 7, the latest and greatest evolution of the Wired. Whether it was the primordial Lain's will or just a natural phenomenon, Lain somehow manifested as a human simulacrum, and whether it was Lain's father who took the initiative or Tachibana Labs, she was given the role of Yasuo's daughter. I can't remember the direct quote, but it's made fairly clear that Lain was never any younger than she is now, and that she's really only been around for a few years, assuming time itself was free to flow naturally.

Having become aware of her existence, she recreated the world and left only Arisu with her memory. But this does not imply that Lain was ever human; she was, for all intents and purposes, a hologram.

While this was not explicitly stated, I believe that the "God" of the Wired that Lain and Masami discussed was in fact Lain all along. Lain was a feature of the Wired, a consciousness expanding in response to the expansion and growing complexity of the Wired. Once Protocol 7 was created, Lain made the quasi-pandeistic decision to take physical form in order to eventually merge both the Wired and the physical world, which allowed her to truly become a God, an entity occupying all levels of conscious awareness and existence.

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NSString* message 01/21/15 (Wed) 22:26:57 No.102 [Reply]

Some folks over at lainchan are recreating the Wired using cjdns. You can read more about it here

https://lainchan.org/cyb/res/4662.html

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