Reply To: NiTe: The Definitive Vultology

[Juan E. Sandoval]

NiTe l--- Male

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This represents the baseline vultology for the NiTe and is very comparable to the NiFe l---. The gaze is highly hypnotic & trance-like, as it remains fixed forward and zoned-out. As they talk, no significant participation occurs between the eyes and the mouth. That is to say, the eyes are doing one thing while the mouth is doing another, and the two dimensions are not in very explicit collaboration.
The body appears to be falling endlessly towards a resting state, and losing animation. These samples display the "stumpy" characteristic of Pi-leads, which has been a very useful clarification in vultology lately.
Noah was previously typed as NiFe in the pre-development-levels period due to some warm swelling signal mixing, but when comparing him to the NiFe l--- samples, the qualitative difference is quiet clear. NiTe l--- differs from NiFe l--- in that they have a more robotic voice and sentinel-like posture. When they lean-back, their mouth moves in a monotone fashion without involving the rest of their muscles and not giving coordinated warmth. Even when they speak about very empathetic topics (which they do), their composure remains cold. Here's a set of GIFs showing this difference of composure in action.
NiFe:


^ Look for the personable eyebrows, and subtle embedding of warmth
NiTe:

^ Look for that sentinel posture (upright and frozen) + Fi asymmetrical mouth


^ Look for that monotone rhythm + removed emotionality
The difference here is partly qualitative, but quite distinct. It's this quality of high-Te users that makes them appear machine-like often times, and is why Te politicians can have an "uncanny" feeling to them. Once again this is unrelated to their level of sincerity or care, it's just part of having Fi's unaware and uncoordinated emotional expression. 🙂
Psychology:
Psychologically, we don't have a large enough sample base to draw many conclusions. One thing of note is that NiTe appear to be less esoteric than their NiFe counterparts. They do express certain blunt Te habits, however. In his own words, Noah speaks about being a kind person but can appear like an asshole/narcissist sometimes (Te's "Jerk with a heart of gold" syndrome). Quin discusses a story in which he took bureaucratic action to get an employer fired who deserved it. And Fabiano is a professional chess player. All of these display Te's bluntness and process-orientation.

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NiTe l--- Female

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• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Juan E. Sandoval.