#microdata refinement

[melonsharks]

the real MICROdata refinement

[honkshoomimimil-o-l]

On the severed floor straight up refining “it” and by “it” well, let’s just say, my microdata

[enjoyerofmitski]

the “dorner truck explosion” mentioned in The Lexington Letter (a companion short story for Severance) is also mentioned in The You You Are.

in The Lexington Letter, peg kincaid details her experience as a severed employee. peg and her innie, peggy k, begin to communicate using a made up language from peg’s youth. peggy k initiates the contact explaining that the language has been in her head for weeks. since the language is made of symbols rather than letters, the code detectors are seemingly unable to detect the notes. she eventually explains her decision to leave the company after connecting the dorner therapeutics truck explosion with her innie’s completion of the lexington file.

peg explains this weird connection to her innie, and their communication goes dark for some time. peggy k ends up telling peg to leave lumon after many shifts in the break room. with this final note, peg is given a microdata refinement orientation booklet.

in The You You Are, the dorner truck explosion is mentioned again.

this has got me wondering if we will be seeing a mention of this in the show itself, or if we may see a connection between microdata refinement and some type of corporate espionage?

[wirspringen]

I GOT HER GUYS ILL POST MORE UPDATES LATER THEYRE ON MY TAIL

just pulled up. getting her outta there myself idgaf

[loveridden1999]

if mark s. is so important for cold harbour (which is literally the gemma project) does that mean they're actually filtering the consciousness of people they know? like gemma is definitely dead in outer world but they're cloning and "refining" her data. microdata refinement could possibly deal with cloning of their loved dead one's memory or a dead person's in general and that is why those numbers are scary because it invokes a feeling of anxiety/grief. remember how mark has a record time in data processing maybe he was able to do that because his subconscious knew his wife so well. notice how the 5 boxes below are similar to kind of boxes they fill after filtering the numbers

[l3v5ha]

is anyone going to talk about the fucking MDR multiverse crew ??? severance: into the seververse ??? macrodata-refinement-refinement ??? microdata expansion ??? bizzaro!MDR ??? WHO ARE THOSE GUYS

[arachnopoda]

Choppy/Unrefined (haha) Severence theory (spoiler warning!):

I’ve seen a lot of theories floating around? A lot of them about cloning and stuff- but after reading a bunch of them, and after the most recent episode I think I have a theory about what Lumon is trying to achieve

I know it’s not a new theory, but my speculation is: Lumon is attempting to try and do one of those ‘mass mind controls’. It sounds a bit cheesy but there’s a lot of evidence ranging from Jame Eagan telling Helly that soon, everyone will become severed- resulting in everyone being ‘one of Kier’s children’. And with the whole severed floor having their own religious figure (Kier), and even scriptures and paintings- it feels like they’re trying to enforce an entirely ‘new world belief’ onto people who have already severed, and who are thus fresh to the world without prior interaction with the outside.

There is still a lot that is unanswered, but I do think that their aim is to eradicate a lot of human emotion, or at least rebellious attitudes so that individuals can become compliant, to only believe Kier propaganda, but even preach it (to the extent that Cobel does).

As we can see with Gemma- she’s subjected to various different rooms that can correlate each with the four tempers: Woe, Frolic, Dread and Malice- like dread being associated with writing many thank you notes in the Christmas room. However it could also be the fact that rather than each room representing one of Kier’s four tempers- each room tests how much tempers are present when subjected to each each room, thus causing the microdata refinement workers to remove any of those tempers from a severed mind (to make individuals more compliant in stressful, rebel-causing situations).

(Note: compliance is also taught to other severed workers, including the microdata refinement squad by having them recite the apology until they believe it).

This could also be why there are goats- in order to bring about some sort of a ‘new world’ with animals they can have control over (which is a stretch but for a new world- you need a livestock or food source).

By severing Gemma so much- it would be easier to focus on which tempers to control in those various situations (i.e. controlling the tempers to reduce screaming, fear, and even disgust towards the food Gemma was served), so that it would be easier to reduce humanism in severed people, which Ms Huang reiterates a lot to Mr. Milchick, and what Helena tells Helly: that the workers are not ‘people’.

Although this doesn’t explain everything, like the symbolism of the water droplet most likely being blood- and a lot more minor details, that’s as much as I’m willing to theorize for now!

[barbie2023]

microdata refinement team in the outdoors finding fucked up animals and experiencing woo woo shit in the wilderness... welcome back lost <3

[whyisablog]

I see we're all extremely normal about Gemma this morning.

Quick question though does her innie remember all the rooms? Like all of them? Because it would be extremely fucked if her memory was split between all the rooms, and THAT'S what the refiners are for.

Anyway when they find out what the microdata is for I don't think Mark is going to be finishing that file. He's going to file something else if you know what I mean. 👀

[hotmoxie]

my partner asked how petey could be making the map if microdata refinement (the shadow versions of mdr) exist to watch their every move and i was wondering when they showed up. after helena got severed? after cobel was fired? and then i realized that uh, yes, they replaced the security office. they are keeping tabs on them in the creepiest way possible. who even ARE those people

[monjinator]

Someone FINALLY thought to ask “but who is refining the microdata right now???” Classic corporate

[forrestorrest]

most unrealistic thing about severance is that after 8 hours a day refining microdata, none of the MDR employees experience the tetris effect about it.

[daincrediblegg]

so if mark has been microdata refining his wife the whole time then who the hell has everyone else been refining this whole time?

[grimmlinn]

severance season 2 episode 4

3/4 of the lumon microdata refinement team: wow snow! sky not ceiling! marshmallows... oh wait! the tallest waterfall in the world! theremin by the fire! humorous stories about our god's twin jacking off! sex even!

irving subplot:

[transxfiles]

[guy with ocd voice] i just know i would be so good at microdata refinement.

[renlouder]

me: microdata, waiting to be refined in the EMPTY OFFICE: 🧍‍♂️