#ncc

(No, these are not romantic (눈‸눈)

✦Family Ties

Bill & Aaron

• Do NOT let these 2 near each other. It's only gonna cause trouble for everyone. Christmas dinners? Tuh, as if! Thanksgiving? Forget about it. Heck, even a family trip to the water park! Just go ahead and check that off the list right now..

• Bill and Aaron are cousins, which was only found out after Bill and Aaron got into some huge fight about comics and how underpaid the artists are. Somehow, Mrs. Dickey got ahold of this information and immediately told Bill they were related.

"William, that is your cousin! You two should not be fighting."

"Mom, WHAT? I-... I-.. YOU- YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS! "

"Enough, William. I don't have time for your bullshit, especially since we'll be having a family get together this Friday. Don't want your aunts thinking I'm a failure of a mother, do ya?"

• Aaron is obviously older. And you'd think any time something goes wrong, the adults would blame it on him since he knows better. Nope! It's always Bill since Aaron could do no wrong 😇!!1! 11

• The only reason they could ever like or admire each other is because they both lead clubs. Aaron is the whole reason Bill even started the Eltingville Club and any time Aaron brings up the fact that he was totally inspired by his older cousin, Bill denies it with his whole heart.

Jerry & James

• They're brothers! How cute! Well.. No! Maybe when they were kids- actually, no. They've been arguing pretty much their whole life. Probably worse than Bill and Aaron. They're cousins, so they don't even see each other that much. Jerry and James is a WHOLE other story.

• Every fight starts because James is "Older and stronger" and there's nothing Jerry can do about it. James being such an asshole is what made Jerry into one too, no matter how much their parents tried to intervene, nothing would work.

• "Extract the problem" is what Jerry's therapist would say, but how can you extract the problem when you're literally forced to live with it till you're 18? Guess you'll just have to tough it out then, huh?

• (Based on what Mr. Dorkin said) Jerry would've probably turned out fine with a brother. He wouldn't have needed to hang out with the club as much (or at all). But that would only be if he had a little brother. See, little siblings would be easier to handle, especially since they're still growing. They're small and easy to train like a puppy, they've got no real interests or personality so it'd be up to the older sibling to influence them in the way they want! Now older siblings? Don't even think about it. "Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?" Well unfortunately, James isn't a dog. And he can't be taught new tricks either.

• If you're wondering why these two have different last names, don't worry, their mom is not a cheater 😸!! Their mom and dad couldn't decide who's last name to give the kids so they decided to give Jerry his mother's maiden name and James their dad's last name

• James obviously makes the million year old "ur adopted lmao" joke on Jerry just because he doesn't have the same last name as everyone else in their family. At some point when they were younger, James SOMEHOW convinced Jerry he was genuinely adopted. I mean.. How the hell do you even pull that off? THEY LOOK IDENTICAL!! DOWN TO THAT FUCK ASS BOB 💔

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This is HEAVILY inspired by what anon said in this post (anon, if you come across this post YOU'RE VERY INSPIRATIONAL)

(Also where I got the Jerry sibling thing from)

Cringetober 2024

Day 14: incorrect quote

BOUNDARY OUTPUT (SUBSTRATE.HOST process note)

I’ve been building a small tool for SUBSTRATE.HOST called Boundary Output.

It’s not a “mind visualiser.” It’s closer to an NCC analogue: a correlate generator.

Neural activity is to mind what a Boundary Output is to a Host.

A correlate, not an exposure. Telemetry, not testimony. What interior looks like from the outside when it couples to a measurable world.

INTERIOR: INACCESSIBLE stays intact for a reason: we can instrument the boundary, not enter the room.

There’s a useful asymmetry here:

Interior (qualia / “what it’s like”) → private, first-person, non-transferable.

Boundary Output (fields / traces / telemetry) → public, third-person, measurable, compressible.

In neuroscience, NCCs are reliable regularities that track experience — but they aren’t the experience. A map isn’t a city. A waveform isn’t a dream. And measurement changes what’s measured.

So Boundary Output becomes a kind of interface ritual: stable patterns that emerge when an inaccessible interior repeatedly “presses” against a system.

A public trace of a private event.

Modalities (current mapping)...

Each host TYPE routes to a different output modality — not because one is “true”, but because different boundaries produce different kinds of legible disturbance:

CEPHALOID → FILAMENT Void/corona/horizon behaviour. Dense core, boundary-shear tendrils, event-horizon vibe.

MICROBIAL → MURMUR Diffuse haze. Particulate swarm logic. Emergent “starlings” field drift.

LIMINAL FAUNA → FERRO Looks alive. Parasitic. Host-like. Magnetic coupling / “Venom channel”.

CELLULAR → TRACE Correlates + measurement aesthetic. Structured morph cadence. Readable instrumentation.

SYMBIONT → GLYPH Recursion as coupling. Self-reference loops, mirroring, Arrival-like rings as interface language.

(Still prototypes. Still moving targets. But the taxonomy feels… defensible.)

The rule...

Correlate, not content. We log the disturbance, not the interior.

I’m sharing a short screen recording (FERRO) and a few stills from other modes as a checkpoint — partly for documentation, partly because the “instrumented boundary” metaphor keeps widening the longer I stare at it.

If anything here feels like it “explains” the interior, it’s doing the opposite. It’s a reminder that explanation isn’t the same thing as access.

The 'effective immediately' in their statement announcing his firing is making me VERYYYYY curious...

I'm starting to wonder if his so called, 'medical issue' was a ruse and he was actually being investigated for something and they didn't want to draw attention to it yet...