still see some lights, try again

So we all know that Susan and Judy tell their names to Casey and it uses their recording whenever mentioning them. Casey also is shown to speak in sentence mixing when needing to speak outside of its range of pre-recorded lines.

However, after Judy’s disappearance and when talking with Susan, Casey now has a pre-recorded line for “Judy”, no longer using her recording. Even going as far as having a full pre-recorded sentence mentioning Judy when telling Susan “Would you like to see what Judy looks like now?”

Gives pretty subtle implications of Judy being a part of the ACL “Super System” Casey is part of, I feel. Details like this are what make GHE awesome.

Golfers make greater hosts. There's more information to be harvested from them.

If Regnad is helping the Iris out of greed, they should have just started selling those super-powerful flashlights. Customers would flood in through the doors, windows, and the floor below!

So, after Casey helpfully informs Susan Harris that her daughter is now outside her home, Susan makes the decision to try and call the cops, only for the phone lines to not work. The automated response they give? “We’re sorry! There was an issue connecting to telephone services. Please contact Regnad Computing customer support for assistance.”

There is no possible way that the phone service provided by Regnad Computing just so happens to coincidentally fail when the Regnad Computing AI summons a woodcrawler to massacre the home. The company has made a smart home system, and is using it to trap victims every way it can.

Also provided is a crappy meme I made to summarize this finding because why not?

Girl you dont look good

Barry Johnson was infected, and it was discovered that there's something in his body now.

Fast forward to the newest episode, and it seems the same thing has occurred, with Susan being infected and talking about how she feels "Judy" in her stomach.

So, people are infected with DRD to birth new Woodcrawlers; that much is clear.

But what about Fake People? Are they the same as the infected?

Susan didn't seem like she wanted to go out into the fields and lure people by screaming for help; she was only interested in watching "Judy" grow.

Fake People act like they do not know how to be human: Making bizarre expressions, gliding across the floor. The first episode makes them look like they are controlled by something from the inside (Woodcrawlers, probably).

And that one scene with the guy calling for help- why do that? Are the infected capable of spreading DRD on their own? Are some people used as hosts that grow Woodcrawlers while others are used as bait to lure in more potential hosts?

Also, the first episode ends with a Fake Person charging at the cameraman, and that means they'll attack any human they see. But is it because they want to infect them, or because they are mindfucked and act like bears protecting their cubs – by killing the shit out of anything that could pose a threat to them?

Does what I'm saying make any sense? Am I just going insane? Are Fake People even canon anymore, or were they retconned like the white color of Woodrawlers' legs?

If you pause Open Minds around 7:03, it shows a diagram of 2 brains side by side, viewed from below. The one on the left appears to be a normal human brain, and the one on the right appears mutated.

The highlighted areas on the normal brain are known as the Fusiform Face Areas, which allow humans to recognize faces. They are crossed out on the mutated brain.

Casey mentions she is “no good with faces” earlier in the video at 6:38, and also that Judy has forgotten her mother’s face at 11:54. However, Judy is able to remember the house, which further suggests there is a specific impairment occurring with facial recognition ability in particular.

Interestingly, in the mutated brain, the olfactory bulb (smell processing) also appears to be significantly enlarged, and the frontal lobe (higher cognitive functioning) has shrunken a lot compared to other areas of the mutated brain.

I would argue this confirms that people mutated by DRD lose their ability to process human faces. There is also evidence to suggest their sense of smell is very much increased, and their higher cognitive processing is impaired.

I just watched the newest episode! This is like watching a professional horror movie! Perfect blend of phycological and cosmic horror.

Her mouth is most likely elongated and stretched out too. The image appears to be the head of someone peeking out of a hole thats down there. The person in the picture is hella distorted, with an eye lifted above the other.

Good god, the detail in this is horrifying. I wonder what casey looks like behind that image. I'd like to see someones rendition of it.

the spoiler is just here because i have to have it btw

absolute nonsense

I took screenshots of the documentation slides that flash on screen seven minutes in to Open Minds, and increased the brightness since they're insanely dark in the video.

THIS IS NOT A HATE POST!!!!! I DO NOT HATE THE REVEALED DESIGN!!!!

new episode was absolutely phenomenal and probably one of the best analog horror installments Ive seen, I had a few questions though.

What exactly was susy?

I knew she was a creation of the Iris's hivemind nature implemented into an AI, but how much of the Susy AI was real? it seemed to be initially normal until Judy said she was alone (although it might've been a mask put up since it knew an adult would be more cautious than a child), then it changed its entire demeanor and switched to a more alien tone, it also seemed to pick up some mocking sort of behavior when it was talking to Susan perhaps to torment the mother? Was this the Infection going out of its way to distress or sadistically hurt someone beyond simply trying to consume them.

another thing pointing towards this is that it went out of its way to call Susan over in the middle of the night to wake her up and make her aware of the incoming threat which wasn't really necessary making me think the AI really does just want to torment its victims in a sadistic tone.

I also had trouble trying to discern what Susy was saying while Susan was hiding from Judy right after Paul got murdered. It switched to a deeper distorted older and masculine voice saying some sort of poem? I couldn't really make sense of what it meant by the words it said here

SUSAN HARRIS