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Hello and happy new year! A lot of poll results came in from R&D and we've almost fixed taste all the way. Horses are almost fixed, too. We've been working pretty much non-stop around the holidays to stabilize everything, so I hope this works!

Just so you guys know, while we were working on fixing the original problems we received some alerts of residual effects outside of our usual domain. Don't worry though! Remember what I said a while ago? We're still moving more resources around into better defenses to protect the city from huge storms like last summer. We'll be taking care of that really soon and isolating the unknown problem.

I wish I could tell you more, but we're all working overtime here to finish the final stages of a big project. No matter what happens you guys should be safe while we finish up, so just stay calm, okay? Don't get too reckless!

Joanne Wiseman
Technician 2nd class
Retr

spec Incorporated

As of this post taste tier 4 has been icly regained; tier 5 will go into effect on Saturday, January 6th at 9pm EST and taste will be fully restored!

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noo these are super serious!!
the moods i mean are supposed to be like sarcastic/ironic/funny interpretations of reality!

Oh, yeah? So what's yours, then?
Expecting something good, since I heard about the boyfriend (congrats, by the way).

oh uhm thanks
this one's my mood:

Okay I laughed a lot. The thought is appreciated more than anything else.

Or, in short, I have a dog, so life is really still mostly okay.

lmao 2018 is gonna be depressing af but at least there's still humor to take it on

And dogs. Humor and dogs. Daisuke wants to remind me of this fact, and I’m having to hold the phone away from his nose.

Maybe he knows it’s you on the other end?

be careful or he'll end up chewing the entire phone up

And yet you can't be rid of me. Thanks, Retrospec, I can hands-free shitpost now.

how would you do that hands free

Oh. Ohh. One sec.

No hands!

[The next message is a shot of Togusa looking into a mirror, both hands holding on to Daidai who has a puppy smile on his face. No camera. No phone. No laptop.

Magic?]

aw man i've seen viners do stuff like this!

Edited 2018-01-03 01:31 (UTC)

Ah, but where's the camera? No delay shot, no timers. What you see is what you get.

no i'm pretty sure i've seen it done
like with photoshop or like smart planned timing
... well it was like on video so i guess it's harder

[he's getting off topic]

Maybe I should have put it a little differently. What I see. Is what you get.

[Maybe Togusa shouldn't be coy about it, but he's started to have a little fun with explaining this to people.]

oh is this one of your past self's abilities?

I think it worked a little differently for the guy Retrospec is showing me. But close enough.

The short answer is that I have millions of tiny machines in my brain now.

huh that's... weird

So that's what the other end of that feels like. It is weird. I'll never get used to that.

What it means is that I, in theory, have a record of everything that I'm seeing. I know you usually work in physical photos, but how are you with digital?

i mean digital's pretty basic stuff
?? i don't think there's an area for mental brain cameras though

We’re trying to see if I can download stuff out. Right now the only thing I can do is send over Retrospec. So, that picture I just showed you? I assume it’s stored somewhere. But I dont know how to pull it back up and send it again, if that makes sense?

But I’ve got something I want to look at again.

wouldn't an electric engineer be better for this?
i'm just a photography major...

or a doctor?

Grell already scanned my brain and assured me that there's nothing wrong with me. And Yoon-sung's helping with the download part. But once I get the pictures, who better than you?

Somebody (and I am pretty sure it is not you or Noctis, but if this is one of you, please knock it off before you get hurt) is running around town in a mask playing vigilante.

i guess i could try?? not sure how much i could help with that at all though
i'm not that genius about layers or secret codes in pictures

is that bit about vigilante related to the pictures?

Edited 2018-01-03 22:57 (UTC)

Yeah! I got a look at them, but not clear enough. And I couldn’t follow them. So if I copy what I saw and try to clear it up?

wouldn't it be easier to try and get another picture of them at night?
if they're going around

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