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/void/ - The Void

That emptiness will always stay in your heart.
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GladDos isn't doing real science (The cake is a lie!) Moony (ID: 3e4edb)Country code: se, country type: geoip, valid: 1  9773

She is doing behavioral science. A science that isn't fully there when it comes to the natural sciences.
Now, within the behavioral science we have a case called loss aversion. This explains how a loss is felt twice as much as a gain. If GladDos were to give us the cake we wouldn't feel it as much as if we don't get the cake. We indeed know that the cake is not a lie as seen in the epilogue.

What are we doing? We are playing Portal. We are playing a video game. What is important for a video game? To convey a lasting emotion? How do we convey that? We we juice it up twice as much with the loss aversion. The princess is not in another castle. She is in no castle at all.
Don't you see? It's brilliant. Why is it brilliant? Because it worked. The lying cake spread like wildfire and became a meme that increased sales. Sales? Another part of behavioral science. Economics. Don't you see?
Where does that put GladDos. Can we truly trust her? Can we trust behaviorism? We don't really know where to put her. We are in the doubt of the unknown that instills dread. We don't hate her. We don't know her. We just fear her.
What other meme comes to mind in the loss aversion? Well the comic Loss (Ctrl+Alt+Del).
Same deal there.
What keeps us on this God forsaken website? It's the sense of loss.
Now could the loss aversion be a fluke? Does one successful loss aversion experiment garner 100 failed ones? Well yes. Of course it does. The loss aversion wills itself into existence by being a byproduct of itself. We feel the loss aversion more than we think it. So who is GladDos? Well she's a cold, calculating computer incapable of feeling loss. She is in control of the loss aversion. She is in control of us and we have no idea. Because to us it was all just a dumb meme.

Urda (ID: 18fcc5)Country code: us, country type: geoip, valid: 1  9774

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>>9773
>>behavioral science

People are dumber then ****

Moony (ID: 3e4edb)Country code: se, country type: geoip, valid: 1  9775

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>>9774
While trying to find something tangible for AV-anon's 'scientific studies' I stumbled upon the loss aversion.
Problem with the loss aversion is that it's 1. an interesting discovery rather than something scientific (oh that's cool but I have no idea what it means or how to describe it) and 2. It has no shock value/ isn't very convincing. Closest you could get to putting it into context is; I really wish my BF would stop fucking me in the ass and have vaginal intercourse instead.

Urda (ID: 18fcc5)Country code: us, country type: geoip, valid: 1  9776

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>>9775
Maybe you should find a Girlfriend instead.

Moony (ID: 3e4edb)Country code: se, country type: geoip, valid: 1  9777

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>>9776
heh
What?
Explain you logic here.

Urda (ID: 18fcc5)Country code: us, country type: geoip, valid: 1  9778

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>>9777
Might be easier on your bum.

Moony (ID: 3e4edb)Country code: se, country type: geoip, valid: 1  9779

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>>9778
What are you talking about?

Urda (ID: 18fcc5)Country code: us, country type: geoip, valid: 1  9780

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>>9779
Oh reread your thesis on behavioral science realize the BF part was just a metaphor for your logic.

Nevermind

Moony (ID: 3e4edb)Country code: se, country type: geoip, valid: 1  9781

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>>9780
Yeah will kind of. If we want to support AV-anon's cause with it it's not helping. It doesn't prevent AV from happening. It rather works as an explenation why females go back to abusive BFs and I'm sure AV-anon isn't interested in something that could be considered scientific proof but isn't black and white.

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