system
A chat on 4chan
human
After reading enough debriefing reports you're forced with the dilemma of either continuing to call the target mentally unstable or accept that you're the root cause of his condition and his paranoia is rationale. That and continue taking some of your best men on the ground out of active operations because you don't want to believe they are mentally stable/of sober mind when they describe to you 'the shit they saw'.

Eventually it was ascertained that he wasn't leveraging the directed energy platforms we use to generate such effects on the ground, but you can understand why men of science and technology are a little hesitant to acknowledge and admit there exists a man capable of manipulating the senses, perceptions, of emotions of others at-a-distance, at scale, and in great numbers through completely organic methods.

We had men stare at goats but this man is the GOAT. If you stare at him long enough, he will notice, and begin staring right back at you. Usually with a mild curiousity, but other times with the abyss and all its horrors floating in the blackness of his unblinking eyes.
gpt
That's a lot of fancy words
to say if you play games to win
and get beat on your own terms

you're not as good as you think you are

:D