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[recollecters]

Greetings, Users. Our system may be experiencing some residual glitches from a recent network malfunction. Our technical team is working on getting these issues under control. Please direct any concerns in the meantime to the HR department at humanresources@retrospec.com. Our staff has furthermore noticed a significant increase in tags and trends for #aprilfools and #pranks. Keep on your toes and be certain to tag your best tricks for Retrospec™! Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Any emails sent to the HR department will be returned with a failure to send notification, and will furthermore automatically be posted to the Retrospec network. Oops? Characters who have been in game for one month will find they can now change their profile pictures. Glitches will be in effect until the 15th and may include: -Usernames changing to a cat, dog, or bird pun. -The Retrospec application being changed into a neon color + animal theme of some variety. -Notifications going off at random and being unable to be turned off. -Various "special effects" crossing the screens when people comment. -Users having to beat a level of pac-man to access the application, and then being made to beat a new level every hour to keep using the application. -Thomas the Tank Engine memes being sent to users every hour for some reason. -Profile pictures being replaced by pictures of rabbits and easter eggs. -New creepy pasta stories appearing upon log-in, to be forwarded to someone before the app can continue to be used -Parental lock and auto-correct on cursing (i.e. fuck -> duck) -A parade of pixel Chocobos or dancing fruit scrolling across the screen after each comment posted

Comments

[godcards]

[ Username: Meowlik Ishtar ]

Of course something else has gone wrong. Why even bother posting that you're trying to fix it when something else is surely going to break once this is resolved? This is a waste of everyone's time.
How is it even possible that no one even noticed the eye-searing colors OR thought it was a good idea? How can one company be so inept at EVERYTHING?

[appraiser]

mm, status update? keeping the user base current may be their way of showing courtesy
you know how bugs are: you fix one, create a dozen more
they're trying

[godcards]

They are not trying hard enough. This is unacceptable. They could do countless other things instead of constantly re-break their app.

[appraiser]

they're doing what they can. and i'm sure they're working on many few features to make up for it!
look, the little dancing fruit are kind of cute
i think the apples have faces

[godcards]

The fruit are irrelevant to the app. Did you not see the response to them... most people were unhappy. Not that I care about that in the long run... the fruit is still edible.

If nothing else, they could very well take the app down and test it before re-releasing it. But no, that is far too logical for these idiots. Hence this non-update and accompanying eye straining color schemes.

[parodeity]

i mean ive noticed a neon pink cat theme
im like immune to neon pink cat shit phasing me tho
i live with roxy

[godcards]

Not all of us are so lucky. Though mine is purple and has birds.

I have no idea who Roxy is or why I should care.

[parodeity]

my sister
she likes neon pink and cats

so like
neon purple with birds
that sounds like preppy goth

[godcards]

Isn't that an oxymoron?
Anyway, at least it sounds like they're putting their information collecting to use. They just happened to confuse the two of you... for whatever reason.

[true_noir]

[Username: Blakkat]

At this point, I am convinced that the app simply does not work properly, or that the people who run this are silly little ninnies who think that this sort of thing is funny.

I am choosing to tolerate this set. We've had worse.

[godcards]

As in our last conversation, I am wondering what the point of this is. Besides the information gathering, they haven't proved to have a single ounce of intelligence... Maybe it really is a front for something else, as we all get distracted by these obnoxious changes.

I can barely tolerate it. The color scheme hurts my eyes.

[ then why are you using the app you dingus ]

[true_noir]

Today, I think they are simply being foolish like most people on the day of fools. But I do think that they are distracting us from paying attention to them, as they change the world in their surreal and silly ways.

Have you suffered any of these strange memories lately?

[godcards]

Yes... If they were able to replace those fruit with the dancing, smiling ones, they won't stop there. Something else is bound to change, too.

I've had one, but it's vague enough that I am not sure I'd consider it a memory or... something else.

[sharplydressed]

jim was probably behind it again
until proven otherwise, i'm just going to assume everything that goes wrong is jim's fault

on the plus side, that's a cute username (*￣▽￣)d

[His own reads Kiyomewtsu Catshuu so maybe he's just a dingus who loves cats (this is 100% correct).]

[godcards]

Perhaps he's mad that he got rejected. Or maybe this is Janet's revenge... who is to say. It's still a horrible and broken app.

Shut up. It won't let me change it.

[sharplydressed]

if she wants revenge, she should take it out on him directly!!
we're innocent bystanders, why do we have to deal with this?

that part could be worse though, right?
at least it's cats

[godcards]

Oh, you know, some people like to make their fallout public... drag everyone else down to be miserable with them. Although I'm not keen to be involved in a lover's spat either.

You say 'at least' as if I care for cats in the first place, and people aren't calling my name cute.

[trueend]

[username: purina friskies]

i dont think they care about being good at stuff
just think they care about making stuff harder for us
jerks :/

[godcards]

You certainly do like that word, don't you.
Anyway, if that is the reason, it doesn't seem to make sense in the long run... although it's easy enough to believe on the surface, considering how upset everyone is.

[ Meowlik is also included in that statement but w/e ]

[trueend]

five letters long
easy to type o:
its a good word
why doesnt it make sense though
???
theyre making stuff harder for us right?

[godcards]

Typically if one wants users to actually use their app, they don't try to turn everyone off from it. It might be amusing to them now, but if things continue to be difficult, they could see a decline in their userbase. Do you follow?

[darkinferno]

Nyante Cattailen let's be real they're only posting this to make sure we notice it in the first place
Nyante Cattailen not that i wouldn't have already from how many ducking notifs i've been getting
Nyante Cattailen *ducking
Nyante Cattailen oh come on REALLY

[godcards]

Meowlik Ishtar Yes, because it's really hard to notice that it's broken AGAIN... or that this new color scheme is giving me a headache.
Meowlik Ishtar The notifs are new, however. Although... not surprised about those being broken again either.

[darkinferno]

Nyante Cattailen what are you dealing with
Nyante Cattailen i've got aqua cats which might not be SO bad if i wasn't sure they're mocking me with the choices

[godcards]

Meowlik Ishtar Cats seem to be a popular theme.
Meowlik Ishtar Mine is birds. And purple. Very bright, saturated purple.