It’s interesting that the activity patterns, emotional patterns, and interactional patterns here on the forum can often serve as a kind of seismograph of the mental effects of the subliminals.
When the Q and Terminus builds were first introduced there was this euphoria followed a couple weeks later by reconciliation-fueled intense emotions.
Now with these new Ultimas and then Ultima customs I get a kind of ‘busy bee’ energy. Like a kind of focused attention to projects. Like when you walk by a grade school classroom and all students are busily at work, each paying attention to his or her own paper. Quiet yet energized and active. Not that it’s all caused by Ultimas (not everyone is using Ultimas); but they (like every variety of program) do seem to add a particular, specific mental flavor to the atmosphere here.