Lain Thread Layer 36: Everyone's Connected

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I decided to try and go through the game for a second time but it just makes me too sad. I'm glad the anime was slightly happier.

I wish I knew why Lain was so malicious in the game.

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>>2884077
What's so sad about it?

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>>2884509
The whole game is about the steady decline of Lain and her Psychologist's mental states and ends with Lain murdering her psychologist and then has a very graphic scene showing Lain committing suicide. The anime at least showed Lain being content once in a while. The game has none of that.

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>>2884615
What the hell

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>>2885711
Ikr

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>>2884615
The game is her real life physical body before she became hte embodiment of the internet.

She transcended into the wired but Eri fixed it so that she didn't remember what happened so that he could use her for his goals knowing how powerful she could be.

The game is a prequel .

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>>2885864
Is this confirmed? I believe it was implied that Lain is already manufactured in the game when touko finds all her life's records on the computer, not to mention how absent her parents are from her life. She was recorded as being younger in the game than in the anime. I just kind of assumed it was a "failed" Lain in a way not that Lain was ever a real biological person.

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A few nice animation cels have come up on ebay recently. The one of Alice already sold but there's one still up for a cyberia DJ.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Serial-Experiments-Lain-Alice-Arisu-Production-Anime-Pan-Cel-/182542540119?hash=item2a80621d57%3Ag%3AWnIAAOSw7U5Y~VZM&nma=true&si=AgH4UxJFmZOKn21W0kfQKDXBLuY%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Serial-Experiments-Lain-Cyberia-DJ-JJ-Anime-Production-Cel-A2-/182544241910?hash=item2a807c14f6:g:icgAAOSwtZJY~qAE

hopefully there's yet more to come

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>>2886540
Shouldn't there be thousands of these bad boys? Where did they all go? Surely they wouldn't just toss something so valuable, right?

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>>2886921
Unfortunately that's generally what happens.

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>>2886966
What the hell

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So apparently 4chan doesn't strip metadata from PNG like it does with EXIF from JPG (yet). Open >>2887138 in TweakPNG to see what I mean.
Use this to hide messages in plain sight or just make your Lain worship-posts extra loving!

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DJ Lain cutting up beats

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Does anybody know what song this is off the Lain OST?
I've looked through both OSTs and 'Cyberia Theme' isn't on there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dbi4N6NGn4

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>>2890118
>I've looked through both OSTs
Did you check the BOOTLEG?

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>>2890124
It's on the BOOTLEG(?)
So the track is called "2nd Layer Cyberia Club".
It's not on the wiki so that confused me.

>>2890869
first time I've ever seen a lain with boobs

>>2891038
it's kinda weird/gross, lain is a child

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>>2891132
13 != child

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>>2891642
Cute!

>>2891132
well a lot of the other students in her class had boobs. alice did. I just assumed due to Lain's nature she didn't ever age from the time of her creation.

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>>2891749
I need more small Lains.

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>>2891824
>>2892036
Small Lains, best Lains. If you have more please post them, and thank you!

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>>2892236

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>>2892296

>>2883801
ty

I hate to make a request but does anyone have the reaction image of Lain in the turtleneck?

>>2892638
This one?

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>>2892748
Forgot image.

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>>2892296
Thank you anon <3

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hai

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tfw people still talk about your favourite anime, feels good mane. let's all love lain

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>>2894834

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The wired is 2spooki4lain

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>>2894856
>>2894992
These are great!

>>2895258

I'm honestly surprised to see so much artwork for the PS1 game. Has anyone here read the transcripts fully?

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>>2895283
I have. If you have any questions about the game I could answer them. Or if you want you can see it all here.

http://laingame.net/index.php?site=0

Be warned that the game is far more dismal and sad than the show. Lain acts very spiteful and even murders someone in this continuity. There is a very disturbing suicide scene near the end.

>>2895439
>http://laingame.net/index.php?site=0

Yikes. Well my first question is... how the hell do I navigate through all of this?

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>>2895445
Scroll down to the bottom. start at any file labelled 01 then either movie on to a file of a different type that's also 01 and only movie onto 02 once you've looked through all the 01s. OR you could follow one "file type" from 01 to their end and then cycle back through each file type like this.

What I did was cycle through all the Lain related files in order, then did all the touko ones, and then did all the disks like "Tak & Ekm" files. I'm sure some people would cringe at this but I think I got the full effect of the story even if it didn't turn out "linear".

I'd say just go with what interests you first and then go through the ones you're not as enticed by later. It's a slow moving story so once you get farther in it and start asking questions it'll shed new light on some of the older files you may of not been as interested in. Once you go through all the desired files on Site A then click on "Change site" and you'll get to the second half of the game.

It's not a conventional method o storytelling or even convenient but nothing about Lain is. I have to say that I really like the idea of sifting through someone's files and slowly putting together a story though so I heavily enjoyed the content and the format.

Hope this helps!

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>>2895445
I started at Site A level 0 and worked my way up through all the files.

Though the way >>2895541
did also makes for a good read.

>>2895541
>>2895550

I think I'm getting the gist of it... I'm just sort of going in order but also following the numbers of the different files. Nothing too complex so far but not really particularly engaging but I keep going on.

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>>2895606
It starts off slow but site 2 is all great. If you lose interest just skip ahead a little and return to the previous parts later. I think if you liked the series you'll enjoy the second half a lot.

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I want an old computer/monitor just to make this my desktop.

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So I went through the game myself again lately.
Do you anons think Lain in the game is Tachibana's first attempt at making Lain, or is Lain in the anime Tachibana trying to resurrect the Lain from the game?

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>>2897835
I assumed since she had a different family and all that this was just a previous attempt at making Lain. Not sure if it was the first. Lain is definitely a lot different in the game than the show.

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>>2898141
This time around got me thinking it might be Tachibana trying to resurrect Lain. In the game Lain says she wants to leave her body and spread herself across the wired, and she's in contact with a Mr.Tachibana over the wired.

Maybe Lain did live on in the wired, and to try to stop Eiri Tachibana Labs tried to resurrect the genius Lain. It would sort of explain why some of Lain's personality traits exist only on the wired.

Though the game also suggests Lain had been closely monitored her whole life, so that points to it being a previous attempt I suppose.

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>>2898212
That's what I figured. It would of been weird to have all of her life recorded if she wasn't another homunculus like she was in the anime.

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>>2898311
Yeah it makes more sense, I sort of prefer that she is a homunculus since it keeps the true nature of Lain pretty mysterious.

Just fun to speculate.

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>>2898326
Well considering she was manufactured in someway to embody some sort of wired being then I think she's a homonculus no matter what. Otherwise she would of had some kind of actual biological parents and wouldn't of been able to do a lot of the inhuman abilities she had.

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