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[recollecters]

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 Retrspec 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! Per the mod plotting post, you may use this post to obtain this month's freebie! This month's freebie can be earned by turning in a thread on this post that has 10 or more consecutive comments from you. 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. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently.

Comments

☽ shinji

[cardcaptured]

((Continued from here!))

You can't block it completely, no, and I agree that knowledge shouldn't be withheld from people.

But they should at least have some safeguards up. You could wind up on some dangerous websites.

[spirithacker]

i have an adblocker
and i run antivirus programs once a week

[cardcaptured]

... not that kind of dangerous, but that's at least a good start.

You're too young to be looking at those sort of things, anyway.

[spirithacker]

like youre any more mature than me
dont treat me like im too young to know anything

[cardcaptured]

I'm plenty more mature, actually. I'm not about to lower myself to this argument with you.

[... granted, Xiaolang was probably more naive than Shinji, but he was still a pretty responsible kid??

That last part of the message did hit him a little harder than he thought it would, though, considering it was a common gripe he had about how others treated him here. Of course, Xiaolang was nearly in high school, and Shinji wasn't even in his double-digits yet, so there was a distinct difference, but the frustration was still real.]

... you're still in elementary school. It's good to want to learn a lot of things, but you need to be more mindful about it.

[spirithacker]

okay, mom

[Shinji is not doing well about proving that he's more mature.]

its not like i look up ultra gory stuff for fun
i just know that stuff exists
i dont want to be some sheltered kid

[cardcaptured]

[NOPE. Not in the slightest!!

Although funny how Shinji mentions he doesn't want to be a sheltered kid, given that's... exactly what Xiaolang is, so maybe he shouldn't be lecturing him about this??]

That's not something you can just stumble upon, though...

[At least, as far as Xiaolang knows? But this is also the kid who never heard of Snopes, so--]

[spirithacker]

yes it is
trust me

[Shinji is wiser in the ways of the internet.]

[cardcaptured]

[And clearly, that's the most important thing here.]

... what sort of websites are you going on?

[spirithacker]

forums
news sites
rom downloads

[cardcaptured]

None of the forums I've ever been to have stuff like that.

-- wait. Isn't downloading ROMs illegal??

[THAT'S LIKE... PIRACY, RIGHT.....]

[spirithacker]

its not bad if i couldnt get it normally anyway

[It doesn't count as piracy!!]

[cardcaptured]

But that's still technically stealing!! You could get your parents in trouble for that!

[Xiaolang you innocent, naive nugget........]

[spirithacker]

no one cares about roms
ive been doing this for ages

[cardcaptured]

The programmers do. They put a lot of work into things like that. You shouldn't just take them.

[spirithacker]

its not like i could buy them anyway
so they arent losing money??

[cardcaptured]

Ask your parents to buy them, then. They don't seem to be paying attention to whatever else you do.

[Uh, WOW, Xiaolang?? rude to his parents]

[spirithacker]

call my parents bad parents one more time and ill fight you

[That isn't what he said??]