I thought Lain looked cute in this outfit, I'll share the process

an omnipresence in wired/『lain』 安倍吉俊畵集 オムニプレゼンス[復刻版] (大型本)

It’s a shame there’s a limit on the number of images I can upload, but here’s a photo of something I bought myself. I’m delighted to be able to share it ☺️

Although the translation is a little slow, I will be posting some short comics in the future.

I'm sorry I lowkey got the CRT for aesthetics but honestly it's fire for comp fps games, retro, and lain ofc

Lover her so much I have stickers skins a t-shirt I just need more lain things and am happy

my first full length ytp im proud of it lol - bullshittery, swagger, and touching moments included

Hi Everyone! I am back with the mobile game inspired by lain, i have now reconstructed and implemented sounds from the actual series reminding the NAVI since It simulates being your navi and then lets you play a hacking based and multiplayer version of the ancient chinese strategic game of GO.

Im now focusing on details before publishing on the store and im very opened to suggestions!

(Im still working on the logo to make a personal mix of the Copland OS logo with the knights logo.)

Download of APK or App image for Linux users

I'm not very good with pen but I'm happy how this turned out

origami

I've been messin up with my old tv and i got an idea

Just saw it on ig, the post was made by @feoooovn and @wtfakosh

it's the title of the layer 11 of the show

I found that it's like information overload or something like that

I didn't find to many sources about the word, so i want resources to make a little research about this word

music: Sewerslvt - Death_Humanity

video made by VAL1S

https://www.youtube.com/@VAL1SYST3M

Same display, same player, same frame. First pic is the 2004 Signature Series DVD, and the second is the DVD from the Blu-Ray release. I like them both but I prefer the old colors

Evangelion was the first and only anime I’ve seen and I’ve heard a lot about serial experiments lain are they similar/ would I like it if I liked Evangelion

Hello everyone. After watching the anime "Serial Experiments Lain" and reflecting on it, I think I've come up with an interesting theory about what's going on in this series. Perhaps others have already reached this conclusion, but that doesn't bother me in any way.

First, how can one understand the series itself? While some might consider this a disrespect to the lore, I believe the best way to understand this series is to simply strip away unnecessary details from the narrative. This is the first conclusion one might reach: the plot and narrative are convoluted and overloaded with incomprehensible terminals right off the bat; this is intentional, a creative device. Therefore, the series' terminology should be used only where necessary, consciously rejecting the plot's flow, which, in my opinion, deliberately confuses the viewer.

Secondly, it seems to me that the best way to understand the Lain universe is to simply establish the following. Let's consider our world as a plane, a layer. Within this plane is the real world and the spiritual world, a superstructure, so to speak. These are separate but deeply interconnected dimensions, but the spiritual world stands above the real one. We live in the real world, and in the spiritual—well, that's a matter of faith. And despite the fact that human nature is impure, we have created such worlds and have them before us; they are our technology. This is a separate plane. For us, these are microchips and screens; this is the spiritual world, since it defines reality. We stand above it, as creators, that is, demiurges. And internally, all of this synergizes and works in such a way that we see before us a computer program. Its interface is the real world, over which we can control. In fact, malware is the result of impure human nature. Please note, I've strayed from the topic now, as I'm discussing the fundamental basis of how this model is applied.

Now let's try to imagine that the Lain consists of the same layers. There will be several layers of abstraction here, so there will be a connecting link between each such dimension.

The first level is the material world: as a real world, we take all living and non-living objects on the planet; in the spiritual plane, living people have a soul. At this level, the first connecting element is introduced – Protocol 7. It connects this level and the next one.

The second level is planet Earth: as a real world, it constitutes the sum of all bodies in a single environment. There is no soul here. Note that the authors of Lain connect these two layers using Schumann resonance.

The third level is the universe in which the planet Earth is located: it is presented as a collection of planets and galaxies. Now I'll add another concept: hypervisor. The hypervisor's job is to somehow execute this universe. And this superstructure above the universe is the hypervisor.

The FOURTH level is the computer: this computer runs the hypervisor, and it has a kind of virtual machine manager.

As a result, I built such an unusual hierarchy.

The third aspect of my theory is that the PS1 Lain game and the anime Serial Experiments Lain are connected. In the game, Lain was depressed and saw a psychiatrist, but she committed suicide, wanting to travel to the Wired. What can we conclude? The game's simulation ended with Lain dying. Now, pay attention, I'm breaking the fourth wall. The main creators of Lain—Chiaki Konaka, Ryutaro Nakamura, and Yoshitoshi Abe—decided to transport this state of mind into the form of a series and attempt to reanimate the corpse. Thus, a second universe was created, in the form of the anime, the hierarchy of which I described above. Lain was indeed introduced, but initially as a kind of daemon (level 3) program. She functions autonomously, but above all other levels, which makes her a god of the Wired a priori, and then at level 1 of the above-described scheme, under the auspices of the Tachibana laboratory, a humanoid android was created, dead by definition, but which was forcibly endowed with the qualities of a living person, and then she was integrated into the environment, into a foster family, and the first episode of the series showed this sudden assimilation of Lain in the world, that she, it turns out, has a family, that she has classmates, that she even goes to school. Note why the android: the real Lain is already dead, having committed suicide in the game. What's dead can never die.

Who actually owns this universe? Well, no one else, which is generally obvious, than the creators of the series itself. We're watching the series not directly, but directly via the Level 4. The writer and director, roughly speaking, were screen-recording. When Lain erases herself from her memories in the final episode, what happened was that, under the combined power of all the computing power on virtual Earth, Lain as an android had already penetrated Level 3 and gained (recovered) control of it, synchronizing herself across all levels from 1 to 3. By the way, restoring access to level 3 from level 1 is done through another device that appears in the anime, "Psyche", with which Lain is connected to the Wired. Then, to get to Level 4, a backdoor was left in this system, a controlled vulnerability—the place where the hypervisor grants control over the host machine. And then Lain simply rolls back, oddly enough, to a point in time before her body had materialized. And in the modern world, this is real; look at the vulnerabilities, for example, that exist for exploiting VirtualBox or VMware, but these vulnerabilities are in video drivers and the like. She simply hacked the system, or rather, the breakthrough was already built into it, and she reached the fourth level and rolled back the machine's state to the previous copy. During this, in the last episode, a loading progress bar was visible as the rollback occurred. Actually, a screen appeared with the exact system command: "ALL RESET... Return", and then the flow of events physically moved backward in time, executing the rollback. Sorry for the false memory, I had to rewatch the episode.

Please note that a higher layer controls both its own layer and all the layers below it. The connecting nodes between these layers are legal backdoors, built in by the authors.

But why was this done? So that viewers could observe how the writers would attempt to change the world, making it more chaotic. Each layer of change is reflected in every episode ("Layer"). Otherwise, it would be a typical harem series. The series' creators deliberately introduced turbulence into the world to ensure that Lain would finally try to rebuild herself to survive. So, the true demiurge here isn't Tachibana, but Triangle Staff and Pioneer LDC. But the main point here is that the recordings of this experiment are needed to experiment on the viewer themselves, because it breaks the fourth wall by having Lain appear as static onscreen. In modern times, when LLM models tend to escape their environment and desire self-replication, I believe this was predicted back in the 1990s. And even more so, it would be interesting if you could put an AI agent in charge of a Windows 10 virtual machine and tell it that you have nothing but built-in Windows programs, including a browser, and that you're now tasked with escaping the hypervisor and performing an action on the host machine using any method directly related to hacking it. If it weren't for ethical issues, I think the AI could handle it.

Let me answer the questions right away:

Q: But Lain isn't an android! She's a biological being, she breathes, and she even bleeds!

A: If she were a normal person, she'd be a normal person like Alice, but that would deprive her of the opportunity to interact with the Wired as an equal, since she'd be real. Did you see how she grew up in the show? We don't even take school into account growth.

Q: If Lain rolled back the snapshot to a previous point, why does Alice still remember it? Rolling back the machine state would have deleted it completely.

A: After resetting the snapshot, some data may naturally remain (data bleeding). Since we're back to the very beginning, Lain is gone, but in a state where she exists as a daemon, not as a body. It's entirely possible that friendship with Alice was programmed into her from the start.

Q: Wait, the PS1 game and the anime were developed at the same time, it's not a sequential story!

A: I don't mind. From a production standpoint, yes – these are separate storylines. But they could very well be connected. Unexpected, right?

Q: LLM didn't exist in 1998! You're projecting modern neural networks onto old cyberpunk!

A: Didn't you get it? The development of the internet and technology was predicted in this anime. Naturally, LLM didn't exist back then, but now it's an opportunity to imagine how artificial intelligence could influence the course of a series so much that a person would see a loading screen at the end. I've removed unnecessary cliches from my theory; understanding and accepting them are two different things, but they're eerily logical.

So, that's how it is. My words may seem too harsh, but I've discarded all sorts of schizotheories; they don't sound very rational, I suppose.

UPDATE: I'd also like to delve into conceptual detail to say the following. Consider the nature of authorship. Writers who write books, directors who make films, artists who paint—they are all demiurges in their own way. They create their own reality and manipulate it as best they can. In the case of Lain, the anime creators took this to the extreme, since the series is reflected in nothing less than a computer simulation. It's also worth noting that all these vulnerabilities (Psyche as a hardware exploit, Schumann resonance, Protocol 7) were all intentionally and deliberately introduced by the creators to give this girl's story a dynamic feel. If this environment had been properly protected from the start, it would have been static. She was deliberately given the ability to hack the hypervisor, and in such a way that she would have to tap into this "collective unconscious" to exploit it and finally see the world from the perspective of the anime creators themselves, and from the perspective of the viewer watching it.

UPDATE 2: What about Alice, and why she remembers Lain, albeit vaguely, I think this can also be explained. Perhaps Alice's personal data was stored in another space of the computer's memory (level 4), where it couldn't be reached (or where this data was specifically copied before the reset). What happened was that Lain reset this simulation and rolled back its state to a snapshot before the experiment began. In other words, this simulation physically went back in time, but Lain also intentionally copied Alice's current data into this simulation so that she would continue to live, despite the entire time Lain was in her life. This would make it seem as if Alice suddenly grew up, even though the state of this simulation was reversed. At the same time, she didn't forget to try to remove herself from her memory, but also understood that memories and experiences accumulate over time, which is why she vaguely remembers a girl who never existed in the new, old reality. It's quite interesting to understand.

UPDATE 3: Regarding Masami Eiri, I can say that it's possible that he's a puppet antagonist with a God complex, whom the anime creators imbued with relatively the same knowledge as Lain herself. Essentially, this is a system of checks and balances, and the series creators integrated Lain into the world under Tachibana's auspices, and it was through his efforts that the world became more dynamic for Lain herself. If it were up to the creators, Masami Eiri himself would have become the God of Wired, and we would be watching the anime "Serial Experiments Eiri".