Lobotomy Fun

* See also Humor
* See also Finks experiments
* See also Tran-Orbital_Lobotomies
* See also Going-To-Paris
* See also Elizabeth
* See also Persephone Asylum
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"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" - Someone HAS to say this in the INFINITE-BS_REDO ( Sounds like a Columbia-type joke line - said above Elizabeth as the Obitoclast Obitoclast : One of the two tools used for doing Trans-Orbital Lobotomies. crunches through skull bone and slides in ... Then it is used to crudely slice brain tissue disassociating numerous neural connections ).
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What Exactly IS "Transorbital Lobotomy" ? :
Sticking a special knife in above the eyeball and breaking the thin bone there, and jamming it deep into the brain. ( Why the fricken-hell would Atlas in BaS be threaten Elizabeth with THIS ??? It is a Bizarro-land regurgitation from the Infinite BS game -- THAT is the ONLY reason for it ... )
Then it is Slicing ( by moving the knife up and down inside ) the nerve fibers in the Pre-frontal Cortex of your brain ( disrupting previous patterns - "reducing the complexity of psychic life" ). Frequently used on violent patients which 'calmed' them somewhat ( partially vegetabilizing/pacify them ). Hmm, I wonder if Sander Cohen employed this - Much more 'artsy' if the plaster can go on a living person ... and they can't be struggling too much for the plaster to set properly.
Maybe Atlas should have threatened Elizabeth with Electroshock -- Just need some handy wires instead of doing this odd surgery thing - Seriously, who carries one of those specialized Lobotomy leukotomy/orbitoclast knifes with them ? ... In a Department Store "Prison" ... ( On arrest his normal one was confiscated, but Fontaine kept a stash ...) 
YES, Right, they had a shop that did Lobotomies while you Waited - Lobotomy-R-Us, and sold Do-It-Yourself kits ? 
Note - Experiments on chimpanzees had been known to produce a "happiness cult" in the lobotomized subjects, which in retrospective might have been an improvement for Elizabeth's Revenge-Hate oriented behavior. ( Consider Sofia Lamb's possible use of this too. )
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The First Trans-Orbital Lobotomy was done on a Live Patient in 1946 :
Sometimes in the procedure a patient would be rendered unconscious by electroshock first.
Other kinds of Lobotomies were done prior to that.
== Does it seem that Levine had an obsession with Lobotomies ?? ==
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ISThisDerpistanKenLivesIn.jpg|Proof of how Deluded Elizabeth was
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WelcomePilgrim.jpg|The Chair Booker REALLY Took To "Columbia"
Transfun.jpg|Ouch !!!
Multi-lobotomy.jpg|Lobotomy-While-You-Wait
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LobotomyTradingCards.jpg|Exhibit at the Columbian Exposition
Lobotomytools.jpg|lobotomy tools
LoboElizabeth.jpg|Jeremiah Fink had plans to use Elizabeth's powers for his own purposes. 
FoundInWreckage.jpg|When Columbia crashed and burned, Elizabeths corpse was found
ElizabethNoseLobotomy.jpg|You will only feel a little pinch
Cliche_lobot.jpg|Home Lobotomy - The Latest Thing In Home Surgery
Useforsompin.jpg|Lobotomy Fink Style
Elizabeth33cuckoo.jpg|One way that Elizabeth could be 'fixed'
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Levine & Co also got a bit creepy with other ideas :
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TRANS ORBITAL LOBOTOMY :
Hey, we should mention THIS frequently in the Moon Rapture game ... 'Orbital', Heh !!!!
Infinite BS could have used those Blue Orb-y things to 'orbitalize' the mental cases -- Along with shoving their heads in and out of 'Tears' to Adjust the problem patients ( and lower class troublemakers ). We could have done so much more horrendous things ( for you to discover rather than have your face pushed into it ) along these lines .... 
*IMAGINATION* . 
Lobotomy - Actually thinking about what this operation does, it ( and similar procedures ) might have been VERY useful in the treatment of the Criminally Insane (in Rapture), as it damages the brain a certain way ( was used to 'calm' problem mental patients ), and certain applied ADAM therapies could REPAIR the damage leaving the individual in perhaps a better state. 
Think of 'conditioning' a Big Daddy ( Diver Dan/Maintenance Cyborg ) for its role, where a more single-mindedness might be quite useful for Maintenance tasks. Then the RETRAINING is applied which would reconstruct in the 'wiped' segments of the brain. Stem-Cell 'Plastic-Brain adjustments are possible with ADAM. It is real hard to rebuild a personality (person) by such 'training', and this conditioning mostly focused on the needed functions/abilities of the worker. 
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You'll Only Feel A Little 'Pinch' ... :
In those scenes of Elizabeth getting her head 'fixed' to make her Comstock's proper 'Heir to Rule Columbia', Shouldn't they be playing that famous classical tune : "Shock The Monkey" by Peter Gabriel -- Maybe played as a Souza March instrumental arrangement ??? ( or "Dueling Banjos" ? )Game using Popular Music - Probably Not Possible, as the likely high Copyright costs would eat ALOT of the games profits - It is why most of those old songs and certain other ones were specifically chosen - little or no Copyright costs. A possible reason that some NS1/BS2 music was REMOVED from the remastering of those games. 
What is it exactly about these psychiatric treatment things which Ken Levine seems to dread/obsess-about so much ??
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Fink was BIG on keeping his employees 'motivated'. Those who lagged in their work got 'motivated' by administering an 'adjustment'.
We find things like this laying about in Columbia.
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A Streetcar Named "Trans-Orbital Lobotomy" :
( One of the Few Non-Sander Cohen Plays ... Maybe Culpepper wrote it ??? )
BTW - They have Streetcars in Paris also ( and maybe some Doctors there can administer a Trans-Orbital Lobotomy to Elizabeth to try to rid her of that those crazy murderously vengeful desires that plague her ? ).
Maybe a new craze of 'Performance Art' to see a real Lobotomy On Stage ? Something Sander Cohen might be interested in to be presented at some of his at 'special shows' ? Maybe combined with ADAM ( to affect repairs ) can offer radical change/correction of personality. ( Look close. Did any of his "Plasterpieces" have bleeding around the eyes ?? Lobotomizing his 'subjects' might calm them enough for them to be entombed in his white stuff alive. )
Sofia Lamb herself then might be interested ( OR WAS VERY INTERESTED TO MAKE USE OF THIS ). THAT would be something interesting to add to her 'treatment' facilities ( or clandestine activities before she ran the place ) in Persephone. Flashbacks of Eleanor being subjected to the procedure ???? That would help explain why so many people fell under the sway of her demented Philosophy. 'Mind Slaves' working in 'The Gardens' to feed 'The Family' really don't require much of their 'mind' or 'personality' to remain to do their work. That would fill-in in a major gap in the narrative ( Collectivist using slave labor ... Who woulda thunk it ?? ).
Come to think of it, Fink probably could make use of such methods to 'calm' and 'pacify' many of Columbia's menials ( and the ones he rents to the Citizens as servants In the ' Novelini ' (30 page E-Book) : "BioShock Infinite: Mind in Revolt", Daisy Fitzroy was to get lobotomized to 'fix' her to be more appropriate to live in Columbia). Possibly much cheaper than making mechanical men to replace them. Squads of empty-faced workers trudging to their labor - could it be done clearly enough to be as horrifying as it could be ??? ( Perhaps Fink could in-game 'explain' it ... with his usual enthusiasm. ) So there is another missed opportunity for that game ( the list is now quite long ... ).
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Easter Egg :
"Trans-Orbital Lobotomy" sounds like something spacey from Moon Rapture. Don't it ? So a continuation with Levine's Phobia/Obsession about "Lobotomy" and mental treatments by having a mention of this. 
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