![]() For what at times it feels like is going on. Perhaps not as trippily as The Wired does in Lain, but like with most good emotional storytelling that uses abstraction to get its ideas across, the trippiness itself can honestly be taken as a metaphor for what's really going on in the actual real world. In the case of Lain, that would be how much the Internet has permeated modern life to the point that reality and "cyber reality" really do mesh. While it's gained enough of a following then and since that its license was rescued by Funimation and given a blu-ray/DVD reprint, also like good sci-fi, how prescient and predictive of the future it really was is something that can really only be appreciated in hindsight. Like the best sci-fi and all the subgenres it entails, like cyberpunk, Serial Experiments Lain coming out at this time was prescient to say the least. It wasn't until about ten years later that CERN made its foundations public domain, so by five years after that, in 1998, that's arguably when its popularity was really peaking past the point of no-return in terms of how it changed the modern world irrevocably. January 1, 1983, is basically considered the official birthday of the Internet or "World Wide Web", and even then, it was bare bones at best then. In this nebulous cyberpunk-ish possible future, at least the future as seen from 1998, what's known as the Internet is here referred to as "The Wired", but the two are essentially analogous. RELATED: Blade Runner: Black Lotus Doesn't Feel Like Part Of The Blade Runner Universe The Internet And The Wired Are One And The Same And although the narrative, such as it is, can wander into the occasional philosophical discourse, the part that discusses the foundations for and historical precedence of the Internet is one that might resonate even on a first watch through, regardless of exhaustion. If watching it in a fugue state of sorts, it might enhance the surreality and occasional creepiness that it offers, not just with its imagery, dialogue, and characters, but also with its minimal score of occasional guitar riffs both acoustic and or trippy, its silences, and those moments that are silent save for the buzz of the telephone wires in otherwise quiet suburbia. Really, it's the sort of show that needs to be watched more than once anyway, in order to better grasp its story and concepts, if only just a little bit better every time. Nevertheless, luckily, Lain has immense rewatch value. All on this site will still be dedicated to web culture, obscure music, japan, post/transhumanism, nihilism and escapism.Watching something as heavy and thematically dense as Serial Experiments Lainwhile late at night and utterly exhausted but too wired to sleep is perhaps not the best mindset, at least on a first-time watch-through. I will most likely still be making pages but with various colours and themes. In best case scenario I'll release what I've made so far, but I'm really lazy and there's a bunch of work that needs to be done on that front. If you're still waiting for those unfinished Lain games, I will most likely not ever finish them. I've started to realise that only using Lain as theme holds me back, I want this site to be dynamic, I don't want this site to be endless repetition of the same methods and colour palette. I'm starting to realise after months of denial that I've lost the spark that Lain gave me. The site has not had many updates, that saddens me. It comforts me that other people out there can relate to my thoughts. All the pages on this site was made through my thoughts and emotions. My only guess is that I can communicate the the people of the web, evokingĮmotions for emotionless people, that the site taps into something in us as a "pioneering" group. The aesthetics, the music, the strangeness, I don't know. I don't understand really what drives people back to this place. I'm happy to see so many people visiting and enjoying this site. It's a steady stream of curious people visiting my site.
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