No.6991
At first, we didn’t expect the experiments to produce any meaningful results.
Though, realistically, how could we? We were treading untouched ground, we were dealing with concepts that we didn’t really understand ourselves. Concepts without names, without a place in the greater mythology that we have come to call the scientific model. We weren’t the first to perform research on the broad strokes and foundations of what we would come to discover - bot by a long shot - but we were the first to connect the usage of the Artifact to our initial studies and what what we assumed at the time was its intended purpose.
In the 1950s, research began into the effects of isolation chambers on the human mind, the connection between mind and body, and the potential existence of the soul. Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (or REST) for short, is largely what it sounds like - a form of therapeutic isolation with heavily restricted physical or mental stimulation. Being alone with one’s own thoughts, it was reasoned, could lead to a level of introspection not possible in the presence of external stimuli. In conjunction with suggestive messaging before and after the treatment, it was believed that a patient could emerge with an altered perception. The hypothesis was that this could be used to combat addiction and trauma.
In order to accomplish this state of isolated introspection, two primary varieties of undergoing REST were created: Chamber REST, and Floating REST. If you have ever seen the BBC’s Total Isolation, Chamber REST follows a similar throughline. A dark, sound-dampening room with no contents besides a bed. Patients are instructed to lie in the bed for up to 24 hours at a time, and are released at the end of the allotted timespan for a followup session with the operating therapist. Floating REST is similar, except rather than a room and a bed, the chamber is a tank of saline water, concentrated to a point where the average human can comfortably float on the water’s surface. Both methods were found to be equally effective, though Floating REST was found to require significantly less time to achieve the same results, with the drawback of potential discomfort due to the more restricted range of bodily movement and positioning afforded by the water as opposed to a room.
Unlike Total Isolation, patients undergoing REST are free to leave whenever they want, however they rarely do so - as the mutual understanding between therapist and patient is that they are there for treatment and improvement. That is assuming that they want to leave, which they often do not. Less than 10% of participants attempt to leave a REST Chamber, and many report that they feel extremely relaxed in the chamber anyway. This, however, is known to change based on the length of time an individual spends in a chamber. The suggested maximum for Chamber REST is 24 hours, with Floating REST usually only lasting about 1 or 2, though largely for physical reasons in the latter case than mental effects.
In either form of therapy, spending exaggerated lengths of time in the REST Chamber is known to lead to significant negative mental effects including anxiety, violent thought, and vivid audiovisual hallucinations often depicting other living beings, faces, eyes, or a “presence of evil”. Interestingly, many of these hallucinations tend to form narratives given enough time in the chamber - though they were often rather grim in subject matter. These tendencies are largely why extended REST Chamber exposure was utilized against captured members of the Irish Republican Army as a form of interrogation and torture by the United Kingdom’s security forces in the 1970s.
The continued utilization of darkness and isolation techniques over the years by the British specifically is something that I do not understand, but I have heard theories that it may be the result of continued proximal exposure to Artifacts amassed by the British Museum - particularly from █████ - leading to a sort of widespread, low-level societal corrosion. This is largely unsubstantiated, however I would not be surprised.
No.6993
>>6989im sorry wrong take
No.6996
ok but really i want to play this game how the fuck do i start
No.6998
start with touhou 7, its the easiest imo, and then move on to eosd to familiarize yourself with playing without a hitbox marker and getting more confident to move through the entire screen, from then on play any game you want tbh
No.6999
as for the patches, install thcrap, it will help you install english patches
No.7002
OK I got Perfect Cherry Blossom downloaded from a sketchy website called "oldgamesdownload", and it runs fine in Japanese, but running thcrap says that I need to update the game in order to install an English patch. I got the update patch, ran it using LocEm in Japanese (Admin), and yet for whatever reason the title screen still says that it's on ver. 0.11, and thcrap says the same. Running patch A comes up with an obtuse warning with nothing on the progress bar, and running patch B comes up with the same warning but with a full progress bar. Patch A just lists the path to the .exe alongside a big yellow warning sign, while patch B is the same, except it prints the path to th07tr.dat instead. I've tried several different downloads of the game, and the issue persists, so if anybody have any ideas, I would appreciate some help. Also, how do I get the game to not asintropically filter in fullscreen mode?
If you can help me, I would be very grateful!
No.7003
i got it working nvm, playing through mountain of faith, and i am confused
No.7006
>>7005new mod i like you a lot will you marry me pls
No.7007
>>7004>refrain from using utorrent because it is maliciousyo i knew that shit was wack it diddled my pc made it so that my pc was acting up like it had just zooted some of that azerbaijiani dragon droop
