I actually felt that I had to change the story.
You see, The machine used to be a chip, like, the characters used to have chips but the chips were changed to be other types of machines.
We used a software to replace the word "Chip" with "Machine."
This is why the machines have such bad side effects, the effects were written for chips, not other types of machines, even though the story was changed to have the characters have other types of machines OTHER THAN chips to REPLACE the chips.