retrospec | LOADING...OVERFLOW

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

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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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we traded in effort points for owning up to stuff
the only thing effort counts for now is extra credit

what
no that's a sucky trade i wanna trade back
none of my teachers even give extra credit

also that kinda sounds like a poem about how much life sucks you should capitalize on that

you think i haven't already

made any record deals yet

yeah
i had one for a while

k,
1. that was a joke
2. what

i had a record deal for a little while
released a few albums
i wasn't touring the country or anything i was just local but it happened

holy crap
are you for serious???

hahaha that's amazing i've gotta listen to these
are you good
is it emo do you do emo is it about how life sucks
do you have groupies
i'll be your groupie i'll be friends with a rock star

[ Have a link to his soundcloud here. There's two albums: The Only Thing Worse Than Dying Is Living (tracklist) and The 7/11 on Myrtle and Fifth, Me, and Other Things Your Mom Told You to Stay Away From (track list) ]

i'm on hiatus rn anyway
so no i don't have groupies

holy craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap

[please excuse gar while he spends a solid five minutes hysterically laughing and falling out of his bed]

oh my god bro
this is amazing
i'm not sure if i unironically or ironically love this i'll let you know when i figure it out
do you still have those clothes

[ he can tell he's being laughed at here in some way but he can't figure out quite how ]

yeah man of course i do
i only took the photo for that second album cover art like four months ago

[please excuse gar while he continues to catch his breath]

ok ok you're not like pulling my leg right
you're really a rock star
well ok no one would make those covers for fun
probably

you're pretty much my hero man

can i join your band
do you have a band
i can't really play any instruments
or sing
or anything
but i can stand in the background and scream real loud

[ James would appreciate the humor of all this if this wasn't still so fresh as to be a sore point for him. ]

no band now
i'm on indefinite hiatus

awwwww no way! why?

dude no one gives you a record deal if you're not good right

you gotta live the dream
seize the moment
carpe the diem

can't really carpe the diem when you've got only one hand and a bunch of two handed instruments

[ and anger issues that flare up when trying to think of alternative ways to make the band work. ]

oh

[gar is suddenly aware that he has slightly Fucked Up
there is silence for a few seconds]

hey you can still sing, right? lots of bands have a frontman who just sing

yeah well
this isn't one of those

[ he composes and plays all the music for his band, so for him to do anything less feels like...giving up or losing, somehow.

(never mind that he literally did give up as it is.) ]

i've been doing some collabs though

oh yeah?
that's legit

[his previous exuberance has been replaced with something a bit more tempered.]

anyone i know? you got a gig going with linkin park yet?

pfft like any touring band would ever get anywhere near this freakshow of a city
no this place is EXCLUSIVE

aka yeah the only people i've collab'd with are other retrospec people

hey what's not to like about recolle
we've got chocobos, dancing fruit, giant domes blotting out the sun... prime song writing material

yeah i've been wanting to get outta here my whole life but i guess that's not happening anymore

tell you what if i escape i'll call up linkin park and send them your way

man if you've only ever lived here i gotta say
there are places out there that can do WAY better than dancing fruit and giant domes
besides what makes you think you'll get to linkin park before i will

yeah i was born in like, south america or something
but i've been here since i was a kid
i always thought it was pretty boring but i guess not!!!

anyway linkin park and i are totally bffs they keep calling me to see if i'll be their opening act but i always gotta refuse
too busy with my career here man

your illustrious career of bsing your way through all your classes?

hey!
it's a legitimate art form
like... acting. some kind of acting. i'll win awards some day

besides it's not all my classes it's just like
80%

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i would change the icon but he's stuck like this now

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