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Good morning, I mentioned when replying to you in a forum that a friend of mine kinda got me more into trance. Said friend's dad is a DJ who streams onto Twitch, and every once in a while, my friend will open for him. He opened for him yesterday, so I thought I'd share it with you. This link will take you to Archive.org.

This is the Setlist:
1. Carte Blanche - Veracocha (Partial)
2. All I Ask of You - Skrillex ft. Penny
3. Finished Symphony (Deadmau5 Remix) - Hybrid
4. Day Dream (Extended Mix) - Markus Schulz vs. Andy Moor
5. Hit My Heart (SFaction Mix) - Bennasi Bros
6. Pacific Diva - Salt Tank
7. Rain Down On Me (Tiesto Remix) - Kane
8. Lonely Girl (Gareth Emery Remix) - Above and Beyond
9. I'm In Love (Ferry Corstem & Robert Smit Remix) - StarParty
10. Coming On Strong - Signum ft. Scott Mac
11. Bullet In The Gun (2000 Club Mix) - Planet Perefectoo
12. Dreams Last For Long (Vincent De Moor Remix) - Pulp Victim
13. Dream To Me (Airscape Remix) - Dario G.
14. Crossroads (Extended Mix) - Clean Tears ft. Hatsune Miku
15. Intelstat - Deadmau5
16. Carte Blanche - Veracocha
17. How Long (Factor B's In Loving Memory of Ellie Gray Remix) - Aly & Fila with FKN ft. Jahala
18. Stronger (Extended Mix) - Venetica x Steve Hill x Technikal
19. In 2 The Future - Giorgia Martini
20. Us - Simon Patterson
21. Say It Right (Markus Glanz Edit) - Nelly Furtado

Pacific Diva did end up on that list after the conversation we had, and I then mentioned it to them.

Have a good rest of your day!

Greetings, fellow Scot~

The question of whether one is Jedi or Sith has been moved to CD, so you can answer my aforementioned question there.

Cheers!

beyond the veil
beloved by light
lustrous heart
sentient art
timeless days
floating sparks
sanguine fires
viscous trap
passion shrines
affection's nectar
sensual oath
living oblation
entombed
from birth
eternal.
loved by love,
one with God.

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"To me, there is no such thing as "over-thinking" a series. Analysis itself is a creative endeavour."
Sonny Boy might be your cup of tea.

Your 3x3 is always such a vibe. Hope you've been well. =)

How's Betterman? Hitchcock level horror? Psychoanalysis? It seems kinda weird from the trailers.

Hi! Is Alexander Senki's Movie just a summary of the series? Does it add new parts?
I am starting to watch it because of you! I hope to enjoy it. Your list is phenomenal.

Cool looking profile man.

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Streets of Rage 2 was definitely a great game.

Alright, I think that's all. Was nice talking about this stuff.
If you do find that proto-analysis at some point, or end up doing something similar in the future, be sure to let me know.

1. In episode 10 when Lain talks with her father, he tells her he loves her but also calls her by “Miss. Lain,” which is generally too formal for such a statement. This leads me to believe that the dialogue we witnessed in that moment wasn’t exactly how it played out in reality but rather slightly skewed due to Lain’s desire to be loved. I would be inclined to call that Lain imagining something that didn’t happen as it doesn’t seem to relate to virtuality, but perhaps you don’t agree with my premise for that scene.
2. Structurally, I interpreted the events in the early episodes of Lain gradually showcasing how the real word and the virtual were becoming more and more blurred. It just seemed to me that something like Mika being mentally hacked seemed more appropriate an episode later.

3. I guess that is reasonable. The wired does present several concepts and considering Lain interacting with another Lain near the end, I can accept that. Though the main reason I was led to consider the sources of these projections was the mother projection mirroring the ideologies ot Eiri to a degree, which considering Eiri’s attempts to manipulate Lain even in the very begginning of the show, seems reasonable even if none the other projections have sources.

5. Regarding the belief that Eiri or the Knights created Evil Lain, I don’t believe we got any indication of Evil Lain existing before episode 8. It could be possible that’s when Evil Lain was finally created and that the Knights’ interactions with Lain of the wired were necessary to manifest it. But given my interpretation to question 4, regarding the plans of the prophecy to cause Lain to enter a state of turmoil, this seems like an appropriate source for Lain’s manifesting of evil lain as the part of herself she hated. Although Eiri creating Lain does make sense, at least with my interpretations on the implications of those narrative events, I do still think it seems more appropriate for Eiri to have been merely utilizing evil Lain, with Lain herself “creating” her. Under such an interpretation, I would be led to believe that Evil Lain has no agency without being controlled by Eiri, so this could still explain why she never appeared after Lain accepted Eiri’s plan at the end of episode 11 and after she defeated Eiri. Of course, the idea of Eiri creating Lain is much simpler for explaining her not being present near the end, but the events with the knights and the prophecy I think work better with Evil Lain being created by Lain. If Eiri did in fact create Evil Lain, why did she never appear until episode 8, as Eiri was trying to manipulate Lain long before that.

6. so you would say that ultimately, Lain herself used Eiri as an acting god because she herself wanted to merge the ego and the transcended Lain? If so, that’s interesting although do you have more evidence supporting this belief? This would solve question 7 pretty well too, but I’m just wondering if there’s enough evidence to reach this conclusion.

I’d say you gave pretty solid responses. Serial Experiments Lain is certainly an interesting show to talk about considering how many reasonable interpretations there are. Konaka and the reat of the staff did do a pretty good job as that’s what they were aiming for. I’ve had several discussions on Lain and it’s nice to see that even after countless discussions, I still see some new perspectives I haven’t come across.

Took a while for me to sit down and actually collect my thoughts.

Q1: At the very end of episode 3, Do you think the "Welcome home, sis" scene is real or imaginary?

I presume it's something Mika imagined, to potentially suggest that she's weird as well or to foreshadow what Lain would become, as it reminds me a bit of how Lain behaved once she accepted Eiri's assertion that she's software. Though if this were the intent, it does seem a bit weird for Mika who has no idea of what will become of Lain to imagine such a thing.

Q2: In episode 5, are we provided with enough context regarding the Knights hacking into Mika's mind?

I would assume that the merging of the real world and the wired allowed the Knights to hack into people's minds as if they were computers, but the problem I have here is that the merging of the two worlds I don't think was pronounced enough for such a thing to happen. It would seem more appropriate by the time of episode 6 with the image of Lain in the sky.

Q3: What is the source of Projection #1, 2, and 4 that talk to Lain in episode 5?
Let me first paraphrase what the projections said in case you forgot. The first projection, a child's toy, tells Lain that she knows everything so there's nothing it can tell Lain. The second projection, a mask, talks about history not being just a straight line of cause and effect but rather scattered pieces of information connected by people or actions that forms into reality. The third projection, Lain's mom, talks about the possibility of the wired being the true world and the "real world" just a mirror of it. This projection talks about the importance of information travelling as impulses. The fourth projection, Lain's Dad, introduces the "Deus of the Wired" but also questions whether such an entity could be called god. Now, projection #3 with Lain's mom seems similar to something Eiri would say, so it could be reasonably inferred it came from him or the Knights. But the other 3 statements don't exactly align with the Knights' agenda or with Eiri, so I'm not entirely sure what their source is. A possible source for the fourth projection is the "true god" if one were to interpret the figure Lain encountered in episode 13 as god taking the form of her father. If this were true, it could be possible this "god" is providing Lain with a hint regarding Eiri not truly being god, which could be tied to what Lain says to Eiri in episode 12, but I'm not entirely sure if this is the best interpretation for this.

Q4: Why exactly was Mika involved with the Knights' prophecy and what exactly was the prophecy meant to do? Who planted the bomb in Lain's room?
I'm asking more in a narrative sense than a thematic sense, as episode 5 regarding Mika had some pretty interesting ideas thematically. A common theory is that Mika was the one to plant the bomb into Lain's room which led to the men in black helping her. In this way, the "prophecy" could be interpreted as Eiri's attempts to convince Lain to carry out with the merging of the real world and the wired. Though if this is the case, it does seem a bit convoluted of a plan. As both the Knights and the men in black ultimately work for Eiri so why exactly did he need to play the two unknowing sides as puppets against each other? Was there really no better way to convince Lain? I guess possibly the betrayal of the Knights to Lain could have been a factor for Evil Lain gaining prominence, which was one of the biggest factors for her accepting Eiri, so I guess this approach does have some weight, though I'm wondering if you have a better explanation for why Eiri had to do these specific things in his attempt to carry out the prophecy.

Q5: Did Eiri create Evil Lain or did she arise as a result of Lain herself?
I'm more inclined to believe the latter and that Eiri merely utilized evil Lain after Lain was the one to manifest her. Do you agree?
In Episode 8, Lain mentions Evil Lain as the side of her that she hates, but was this contextualized well? We didn't really get an indication of Lain repressing her feelings to the point of it manifesting as Evil Lain. We didn't really get an emphasis on a side of Lain she hates for Evil Lain to work as effectively as it could have, unless I'm missing something. But this still seems a more reasonable source as to how Evil Lain arose, since in all the other instances of people using representations of Lain, they resembled Lain of the Wired more than Evil Lain, so I think we have no reason to believe Evil Lain actually existed before the events of episode 8.

Q6: What did Lain really mean by her statements regarding god to Eiri in episode 12?
Lain brings up that Eiri was merely an acting god and that someone else was waiting for the wired to reach this level. The most reasonable interpretation is that there is indeed a god above Lain in the series, likely the person Lain met with in episode 13, who was represented as Lain's father. However, the question I have with this is why did this god want to do this in the first place? We don't get insight onto any motivation an individual may have for Eiri's plan to be fulfilled.

Q7: How much of what we knew of Lain reinforced the "Love narrative" that consoles her at the end?
Lain being told that she loves everyone is what allows her to retain her sanity after her sacrifice. I'm just not sure if what we got within the show was enough to really justify this conclusion. I guess her concern with the fate of the KIDS experiment was the most promiment clue, and there's also her remorse for the guy who killed a child playing Phantoma. But I felt we needed more to reinforce an idea so important.

And that's about it. This is a bit long, but I wanted to provide my thought process to these questions to. I have come up with my own answers for most of these questions as you can see but I'm not entirely certain on them.