[ SECRET POST #2281 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2281 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[David Suchet]


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03.
[The Lorax (2012)]


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04.
[Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja]


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05.
[My Mad Fat Diary]


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06.
[Sakura Taisen/Wars]


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07.
[Life in the Dreamhouse]


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08.
[Grimm]


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09.
[Chrono Crusade]


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10.
[Gail Carriger]


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11.
[Psycho-Pass]


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12.
[Homeland]


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13.
[Escape My Life!]


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14.
[Harry Potter]


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15.
[Persona 4]


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16.
[Twisted]


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Comments

[fscom]

11. http://i46.tinypic.com/2co05sn.jpg
[Psycho-Pass]

[(Anonymous)]

I feel this way too. I'd love to just be told you should do this for the rest of my life rather than fretting if I'm making the right decision.

[mechanosapience]

I feel very similar, though possibly for different reasons. For me, it's that if there was a system like this in place, I'd be wherever I'm supposed to be, rather than mouldering in a warehouse because the economy sucks.

[charming_stranger]

... Just keep watching, is all I say. ^^

(Unless you've already seen the whole thing, in which case n/m.)

[(Anonymous)]

No, I don't agree. I don't agree at all.

[supermanda]

This!!

[chardmonster]

Hey, if you want to be in a fucked up dom/sub relationship just say so.

Do you like it if the supercomputer calls you bitch?

CHARDMONSTER RESCUES APRIL 1ST

[manifold]

You are really going all out today, aren't you?

I mean, really the only picture you need is a larger version of your default icon. Forever.

[(Anonymous)]

what would you do if it puts you in a really shitty job though?

funnily enough, if you're a talented individual (like akane) you will still be left with choices to make.

[(Anonymous)]

well if it puts you at a really shitty job it means you only had the potential to have a shitty job in the first place i think (not exactly sure on the finer details how the sybil system works but)

[(Anonymous)]

I want to have the *option* of having the giant spider tell me what I'm most suited for.

Like, have career placement evaluations that are actually super effective that people could opt in/out of at will.

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP

That'd be best, but between complete freedom and being assigned something without any other option, I'd prefer the latter.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a good idea. Some people just don't have any clue what they'd be good at and want some direction. Effective aptitude/placement evaluations would be a great way to give people some idea of where they should be looking or what to try.

Sadly, IRL most of these sorts of tests are a joke and give you the same sort of vague results/advice you could get from an internet quiz or a newspaper horoscope.

[(Anonymous)]

I was literally about to make a secret like this!
I haven't finished watching though.......

[(Anonymous)]

see the sybil system is great

until you get stuck institutionalized the rest of your life for thinking the wrong thing

or worse

[(Anonymous)]

I completely agree. I have no clue what to do with my life, I'm about to graduate in a year, and the real world seems terrifying. If Sibyl existed, I'd know what my 'calling' in life was. Even with the constant crime coefficient scans, I'm confident that I'd be able to keep it at a healthy level (I never questioned authority much, even as a kid).

[(Anonymous)]

I got kind of freaked out watching the show. I've suffered from mental illness my entire life; bipolar and depression, and I just watched it and went "would I be declared a latent criminal because of this? would I be institutionalized even though the only crime I've ever seriously considered is... I don't know, speeding?" Because I know that even though I've never really considered hurting anyone, I've been what one would probably call unstable at some points in the past. So yeah, it was scary for me.

The job thing isn't so terrible to me, but the hue check/crime coefficient thing? N.O.P.E.

[(Anonymous)]

Not only do I not agree but I kind of feel like... I don't want to say you're a bad person for thinking this, but I don't think it's really the right approach, I don't think it's healthy, and I do think that the sentiment and the amount of people who share it is kind of frightening.

I mean, it's completely natural to be adrift and lacking direction and all that kind of thing in your life. But I don't think "PLEASE INCREDIBLY STRICT AUTHORITARIAN SYSTEM DIRECT ME AND GIVE MY LIFE MEANING" is the right response and I think it is a response that has, at a certain point, worrying political implications. Again, that's not the moral fault of people who feel that way, but I think if you feel that way you should think really carefully about your stance on life and about the whole thing. I'm not sure if this desire is the right one to have.

[deadtree]

I don't watch this show, but I will totally agree that it would be nice if there were some system in place that could help people find their callings in life and then help them get the training they need to get there.

It reminds me of that line from the Fleet Foxes' song:
I was raised up believing I was somehow unique
Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes, unique in each way you can see
And now after some thinking, I'd say I'd rather be
A functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me

[(Anonymous)]

"My dream - my ultimate dream - is that one day someone will just give me one clear task to complete in my life. And just be like: No, do that one thing. Forget everything else. Like "avenge the death of your father" - the best one for focus. So jealous of people with murdered fathers. [...] So jealous of Harry Potter, and Frodo Baggins, and Luke Skywalker and all those assholes. I feel like they never wake up in the morning and go: ...should I start a blog?

"They don't have time. They have stuff to avenge! And I feel like life is so vague and life is so like: Do whatever you want; it's your life. Live it up! But it better be good, and you better be the best at it, because your brother is a lawyer and we're very proud of him.
~Mae Martin

[visp]

That's assuming that the computer actually is correct and has your best interests as a priority. I'm gonna guess that that's not really the case.

[(Anonymous)]

I would have loved placement testing to hold more weight, or even different tracks for different jobs (untrained labor, technical training, college, etc.) As mentioned in the thread, the career testing in my school was pretty ridiculous, and achievement testing didn't have any meani

[(Anonymous)]

I've definitely felt this way before, but then I remember the character from Episode 12 who was in a band before she took the test, and because she wanted to stay in the band afterwards was labeled "subversive" and ran out of other options. I feel like that's probably what would happen to me. What if I had a passion and then was told by this huge, powerful system that no, that isn't what I can do with my life? What else could I do? Rebelling against Sibyl gets you imprisoned at best and at worst executed on the spot.

[autumnal]

i'm just gonna assume OP is not far enough into the series but um yeah that is the least of what sybil does

trust me, you really, really, really do not want it to be a thing that exists.

[logicbutton]

Not familiar with the show, but it sounds like the committee system in The Giver, although that's done by humans, and they're definitely implied to have everyone's best interests at heart (inasmuch as a dystopian utopian hivemind can). My book club read it and its three sequels a few months back and even though we're all pushing thirty and have a bit more of an idea of where our lives are going, we agreed during our discussion that just being told what your strengths were and what your role in the community would be was kind of comforting to think about. Of course, if you screw up in your job duties more than once they kill you, so there's that.