The Distortion Phenomenon Explained

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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

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  • @Kofhiliphus
    @Kofhiliphus 2 месяца назад +157

    "Sh*t I'm distorting."
    The nearest french nearby ready to slap my cheeks:

  • @User-mx1kq
    @User-mx1kq 2 месяца назад +118

    I love how at 2:45 you show examples of pm characters turning into creatures beyond human comprehension, and there's just Roland with his usual gear.

  • @eclecticsunflowers
    @eclecticsunflowers 2 месяца назад +104

    a few corrections:
    1. ego is not purely equipment, it is a physical manifestation of a person’s psyche and willpower. willpower is also extremely important to the difference between ego and distortion
    2. the pianist wiped out 80% of a nest’s population. saying that it wiped out 80% of the population makes it sound like the scale was much, much larger than it really was
    3. the danger of distortions is not a result of unchecked emotions, it is a result of carmen’s manipulation. the difference between ego and distortion is whether you have the willpower to deny carmen rather than give in and succumb to her, as evidenced by dongrang.
    4. roland was not assigned a test, he was given an assignment and chose to accept it to further cement the small life he had built with angelica, because the assignment paid well and he wanted the extra money. he was not present or anywhere close enough to the pianist or his wife to have made a difference, and in fact he did not discover that she was dead or that the pianist existed until he returned home.
    5. distortions are driven by desires, but never base impulses. even papa bongy is capable of reason and communication, and i wouldn’t exactly consider being a chef and honoring your mother’s recipe to be a base impulse or any sort of instinct.
    6. distortions are not inherently evil. what they are inherently is in pain. a noteworthy example of this is, again, dongrang. he initially distorts due to his anger and agony directed at yi sang, allowing those emotions to drive him. however, when he flips to his effloresced ego, he has resolved via his willpower that he will have this one thing above all else. captain ahab as well manifests her ego: gasharpoon does not manifest for any noble reason, it manifests as her willpower dominates and removes any sense of guilt or shame or doubt she may feel as she strives towards the whale’s heart.
    7. abnormalities do not always form via active creation.
    8. pecatula are confirmed to be essentially minor abnormalities, fragments of the psyche that created an abnormality that was not strong or individual enough to manifest anything unique. we literally get to see pecatula being created in canto 6
    9. roland’s mask is not a distortion
    10. you used philip to show the exact process that dongrang underwent despite showing dongrang’s distorted form in the pecatula section

    • @pein4332
      @pein4332 2 месяца назад +21

      fr, bro showcasing roland as a distortion is crazy 😭🙏

    • @notdoppler9833
      @notdoppler9833 2 месяца назад +4

      The pianist did not destroy a nest, it was in the backstreets, the crying children was in the nest tho

    • @dicon108
      @dicon108 2 месяца назад +2

      Big Thanks for your correction. After video I still had left some questions, but you just swiped them all! Also Dongrang is indeed a good example that we have right now after the fuss that Library of Ruina made with Philip. But there’s one thing left, that is Effloresced EGO. Do have any idea or theory on what it could be and what differences it has with regular EGO?

    • @strangevol5264
      @strangevol5264 2 месяца назад +2

      @@dicon108It’s a person’s EGO rather than an abnormality’s.

    • @TrulyBS-QJ
      @TrulyBS-QJ 2 месяца назад

      One person engaging with a topic, even if they aren't perfect, still yields knowledge gained

  • @yeetgoblin9785
    @yeetgoblin9785 2 месяца назад +63

    I love that people in The City can either turn into a digimon or unlocked their bankai

  • @heathucliffuu
    @heathucliffuu 2 месяца назад +184

    I distorted while looking for Catherine...(literally)

    • @stone6242
      @stone6242 2 месяца назад +24

      ⚰️⚰️⚡⚡⚔️⚔️

    • @forgetfullsanity
      @forgetfullsanity 2 месяца назад +15

      Mf that sword is a ego you don't even realize it

    • @Laughing_Angel8832
      @Laughing_Angel8832 2 месяца назад +9

      Who?
      That person has never existed

    • @RelentlessStabbingGoBrrr
      @RelentlessStabbingGoBrrr 2 месяца назад +11

      Who's this [CENSORED] girl? Take your pills, Erkling

    • @vergil-fy2hx
      @vergil-fy2hx 2 месяца назад +9

      Heathcliff, who is ■■■■■?

  • @LlNDAMEA
    @LlNDAMEA 2 месяца назад +63

    Me distorting after seeing Cesara (Carmen told me to give in to my desires)

  • @RolandGamin
    @RolandGamin 2 месяца назад +98

    2:00 saddest moment of my life

  • @warmwater9509
    @warmwater9509 2 месяца назад +20

    I feel like it should be noted that Carmen isn't "oh my goal was dumb let's try this" but rather she sees distortion, after all the time spent in lobcorp, as the proper way to manifest her desire: for the people of the city to accept and love themselves. To that degree, I'm pretty sure E.G.O. wasn't the end plan either, but just a side effect of making people accept their own self

    • @donvitopatata
      @donvitopatata 2 месяца назад +6

      Yeah carmen basically goes "look! They are free by letting it burst out despite everything around them!"

  • @haydes286
    @haydes286 2 месяца назад +10

    Thank you Mersault Man, your videos always informative and efficient

  • @rovyy8008
    @rovyy8008 2 месяца назад +22

    Oh shit they threw a monolith at us! Meursault, throw it back!

  • @Onyxx0425
    @Onyxx0425 2 месяца назад +38

    IM GONNA DISTORT AHHH

  • @LimmbuusCompanyyy
    @LimmbuusCompanyyy 2 месяца назад +40

    1:33 bro is in my screen

  • @AmoreyYaoiSecks
    @AmoreyYaoiSecks 2 месяца назад +30

    you should distort its super awesome!!! you can turn into your fursona and everything (not clickbait)

    • @JoelraphaelHalili
      @JoelraphaelHalili 2 месяца назад +7

      Nah, I'd manifest E.G.O🗿

    • @zatexturniy28
      @zatexturniy28 2 месяца назад +6

      What if manifesting ego could turn one into their fursona?

    • @pein4332
      @pein4332 2 месяца назад +2

      tbh, if distorting makes you a furry then manifesting ego makes you a cat/whatever animal boy/girl 💀

    • @AmoreyYaoiSecks
      @AmoreyYaoiSecks 2 месяца назад

      @@pein4332 this is why manifesting yo ego is cringe and boring asf

    • @MrBurntington
      @MrBurntington 2 месяца назад +2

      Look Carmen, I can't let the opps know I have a fursona

  • @0utL0ud
    @0utL0ud 2 месяца назад +16

    I wonder what would happen in universe if someone distorted after having a pataphysical awakening. Probably even blindside Carmen.

    • @crackhead2734
      @crackhead2734 2 месяца назад +2

      Tf is a pataphysical

    • @eatthetree348
      @eatthetree348 2 месяца назад

      yapking

    • @chipsmachine8
      @chipsmachine8 2 месяца назад +1

      basically, what if science and random bullshit had a child together, maybe.

    • @0utL0ud
      @0utL0ud 2 месяца назад +8

      @@crackhead2734 in the context I’m using it, it’s a concept from the SCP universe. Basically, what if someone from the project moon universe found out they were fictional and distorted because of it.

  • @BuckBlaziken
    @BuckBlaziken Месяц назад +2

    Everyone talks about Carmen but never blames Angela for her part in creating distortions. If she didn’t steal the light, the distortion phenomenon would have never been able to take root. The goal was to allow everyone to manifest their ego, to become the masters of their emotions, not for them to transform into unholy abominations. Of course feeling cheated out of a happy ending, Angela sabotaged the plans and interrupted the process causing disastrous consequences

  • @MettyYOOOO
    @MettyYOOOO 2 месяца назад +16

    CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG GET DISTORTED GET DISTORTED GET DISTORTED GET DISTORTED GET DISTORTED GET DISTORTED GET DISTORTED GET DISTORTED GET DISTORTED GET DISTORTED GET DISTORTED GET DISTORTED GET DISTORTED GET DISTORTED

    • @k0shachiya_myata
      @k0shachiya_myata 2 месяца назад +1

      Imagine apocalypse where all BA creeps distort

    • @Alazariq
      @Alazariq 2 месяца назад

      @@k0shachiya_myata 😟

    • @pein4332
      @pein4332 2 месяца назад

      @@k0shachiya_myatablue… archive? oh no.

  • @nemnemmen
    @nemnemmen 2 месяца назад +26

    Yeah this video has to be 9 minutes 11 seconds long

    • @TrulyBS-QJ
      @TrulyBS-QJ 2 месяца назад +9

      Orchestrated 'tragedies' breed distortions.

    • @pein4332
      @pein4332 2 месяца назад +2

      “the white airplane and dark columns of dust”

  • @imthebiggestbirb
    @imthebiggestbirb 2 месяца назад +1

    distortion is just crashing out but sweet home edition

  • @TheBlueReverb
    @TheBlueReverb 2 месяца назад +10

    I've been mentioned? 1:54

  • @Ayin-b3k
    @Ayin-b3k 2 месяца назад +18

    4:43 😭

    • @scruffles3838
      @scruffles3838 2 месяца назад

      Everything could be solved if ayin just fucked carmen while in the light.....

  • @ziaboi7719
    @ziaboi7719 2 месяца назад +4

    Thank you Mr. MilkshakeMann!

  • @Mrighty0404
    @Mrighty0404 2 месяца назад +5

    There one thing I often think about and can't find the answer fot it, is there like unrelized distortion? Ego and Distortion are basically just the two ends of a spectrum non-relized EGO being between EGO and normal state, then what is the part between distortion and normal state called? If EGO accepting the issue, Distortion is embracing it, and non-relized EGO being trying to eccept the issue but having something that stops you from fully doing it, than incomplete distortion should be trying to accept the issue but having something not you do it fully?

    • @LHC47
      @LHC47 2 месяца назад +4

      I think that's what the peccatula are, or at least the closest we've seen to it

    • @makovader2124
      @makovader2124 2 месяца назад +1

      Yeah thats what peccatula’s are im pretty sure from what ive read in Leviathan regarding
      Garnet

  • @ComputerGamingg
    @ComputerGamingg 2 месяца назад +1

    My friend gonna love this video

  • @tenla_
    @tenla_ 2 месяца назад +3

    carmen's legs looks so cursed 5:01

  • @madness1206
    @madness1206 2 месяца назад +3

    my hero on the right

  • @Rotzka
    @Rotzka 2 месяца назад +2

    Nah, I'd make Lord Ayin proud

  • @shisei4045
    @shisei4045 2 месяца назад +1

    Thank you Meursault!

  • @StuHol-jb1hh
    @StuHol-jb1hh 2 месяца назад +14

    Hmmm. This is an incomplete assertion. The way manifesting ego vs distorting works, and what defines it is more complicated than this. There is also the matter of the reverb ensemble, who became a blend between the two outcomes. Evidence beyond the obvious is Oswalds comments on Philips state(commemts like a smell of a flower), noting that both Philip with ego, and the crying children, were both states that were undesirable to their goals, or were different from what Oswald was.
    Pm has used flowery terminology again in limbus when describing ego, "afflorecent" for ahabs ego, as well as other times. So Oswald comments are likely very deliberate hints to the nature of distorting and ego, rather than silly clown man gibberish.

    • @alexanderartaza2173
      @alexanderartaza2173 2 месяца назад +4

      Carmen does mention on dawn sinclair uptie 3 that self liberation is ego
      And self restraint is distortions
      The thing is that distortions and egl are both expressions of your true self like dongrang who denies it all and the farmwatch, both wanted to forget everything, the first one found himself unable to do it meanwhile the other one doubled down on trying to make a clean cut and forget everything.
      The thing is that the ensemble were fully distorted individuals, but conscious enough to see through the path they wanted to take to make a change in the world

    • @StuHol-jb1hh
      @StuHol-jb1hh 2 месяца назад +2

      @@alexanderartaza2173 on the note of dongrang that denies all, i actually believe that was not him distorting, but losing his identity and becoming a Peccatulum. as you fight him the features of his ego are destroyed, revealing the obvious form/aspects of the gluttony Peccatulum.
      notably yi-sangs comments in the observation logs for (Dongrang: who denies all) ends with yi-sang saying that he "became lost searching for that cow. . . ". given my belief that Peccatulum are what happens when someone is forced to go through the ego/distortion manifestation, but do not have a well developed identity or belief, or sense of self. i suspect that dongrang was at risk of failing to manifest his ego, because at the time uncertainty of his own motives or true desire, he had to do alot of thinking at that time, and despite it being in his own mind, he needed an "answer" from the cow before he could go on and finally take a stance or quell his own indecision.
      Peccatulum is what happens when someone hasnt developed enough for the light to take a form, its like trying to create an ego for a background character or nameless mook in a generic army, or just a random dude that works a 9/5 job and is super neutral about life. thats why the obelisk turned a bunch of people into Peccatulum, it forced them to manifest ego/distort(or using that flowery language "before they were ready to sprout") without enough internal context to reference to take a form, and thus they became Peccatulum.
      i know that 4chan filled in dantes redacted text durning the obelisk scene, and what they settled on was fairly straightforward and explained what the Peccatulum were and why people turn into them, but i never saved it, so id have to go and ask around.
      the reverb ensemble are still weird, seeing as they all have 2 levels of their distortion, pre and post resurrection, though that might just be that they had taken some extra light out of the library with them when they revived. but id still say they need their own classification.
      also on what carmen has said, i feel like her views on the system are. . . probably biased, sadly we dont know what A has to say on the matter, as his veiw would be our best contrast, followed by Angela or perhaps binah.
      actually we might get some concrete answers at some point, as even the uncensored pats of dantes dialog was very. . . . unusual, the vocabulary and terminology was very neutral in tone, but also official, like rules or a guide for something written for others to read. it implies that there are flat, unambiguous answers out there. whatever the origin of the obelisk is, i feel like its also going to be the source/explanation of carmine/ her cogito production.

  • @TomimokaDiyuu
    @TomimokaDiyuu 2 месяца назад +8

    Alhamdulillah, everytime i explain lobcorp to people i'm also kinda confused on how distortions work

    • @StuHol-jb1hh
      @StuHol-jb1hh 2 месяца назад +5

      Distorting is like giving into an idea, neglecting yourself in it's pursuit. Letting a goal, concept, or beleife consume you as a person.

    • @TomimokaDiyuu
      @TomimokaDiyuu 2 месяца назад +4

      @@StuHol-jb1hh yea, i was explaining it like "dude go depressed smthn smthn carmen speak and boom you monster now"

    • @chillax319
      @chillax319 2 месяца назад +5

      @@TomimokaDiyuu You end up consumed by certain emotion/idea. Thus you end up as SCP/Distortion. What is more confusing are Abnormalities, most of them were made by artificial means but there were also naturalli occuring Abnos older than L-Corp that are also unkillable as the artificial ones are.
      A bit of a side tangent but I like the idea of E.G.O manifestation. You could explain some of the humanity legends as pretty much that, with Excalibur, Thors hammer and the like.

  • @Headcatcher10
    @Headcatcher10 2 месяца назад +3

    8:19 soldier of christ why art thou hidden

  • @wolflightning2331
    @wolflightning2331 2 месяца назад +2

    Me distorting after getting ncorp faust duplicate five times instead of a new id

    • @fancyb.p.6122
      @fancyb.p.6122 2 месяца назад

      Can’t you turn the dupes into a new Faust id?

  • @YouMustGangnamLikeIHave
    @YouMustGangnamLikeIHave 8 дней назад

    I distorted after I saw the dragon rework and what they did

  • @FreyCheqama
    @FreyCheqama 2 месяца назад +2

    Neaen

  • @Crimson0047
    @Crimson0047 2 месяца назад

    Ironic how they showed the reverse order of what happened to Phillip.

  • @Sleepyhead156
    @Sleepyhead156 2 месяца назад +1

    mfs nowadays need to have a strong moral dilemma to have a girl talk to you smh

  • @3rr0rsstuff
    @3rr0rsstuff 2 месяца назад +1

    Thank you meursault

  • @wackymulter
    @wackymulter 2 месяца назад

    How those guys from the end of LoR got ability to control distortion like E.G.O.?

  • @duyanhbui5386
    @duyanhbui5386 2 месяца назад

    you are lucky to encounter carmen at least you won't turn into peccatulum you can also distort without her like catt ,pongry chicken owner the pianist ect and if you turn into peccatulum you are perma death and can't revert back to human

  • @MikolajW-ct9eq
    @MikolajW-ct9eq 6 дней назад

    Bay Roland not black silence since he did not hade gloves

  • @esteliu074
    @esteliu074 2 месяца назад

    Good video, how's Marie?

  • @majorvonstroheim151
    @majorvonstroheim151 2 месяца назад +2

    Overclock on my E.G.O til I corrode xddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

  • @2265Hello
    @2265Hello 2 месяца назад

    I wouldnt call distortions well most mindless

  • @wackymulter
    @wackymulter 2 месяца назад

    Roland wasn't distorted technically