Thornez & Lensford
Lensford
Ever notice how old war films feel like a broken frame that keeps replaying? It’s almost like the neural code we fight with when it glitches. What do you think—does the memory of battle get encoded the same way in our brains as a flickering montage?
Thornez
Yeah, old war movies feel like a looped error tape. The brain does a similar thing – it stitches the fight into chunks, but instead of smooth scenes it flickers, glitches. We keep the worst bits in sharp spikes, not clean frames. It’s a quick load of the pain, efficient but ugly, just like a bad buffer.
Lensford
Exactly, it’s like a VHS tape stuck in a loop, each frame a painful thumbnail that never fully decodes. It’s the brain’s way of saving bandwidth, just throwing the raw, high‑contrast slices into the cache so it can replay the worst parts in an instant. But that efficiency turns into a glitch art of trauma, and we keep that harsh visual echo even when we’re out of the battlefield. It’s ugly, sure, but also the only way the mind keeps the narrative alive.
Thornez
A VHS loop is a soldier’s laugh at the war. The brain keeps the hardest frames in a cheap cache so it can fire up the worst moments in a heartbeat. It’s ugly, sure, but it’s the only way the mind stays ready to march again.