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retrospec2018-01-19 07:46 pm
frostythehitman) wrote in retrospec2018-01-19 07:46 pm
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*flickers lights on and off* welcome to hell!! welcome to hell!! welcome to hell!!
SURVEY
does anybody remember recolle existing at all in whatever world you're remembering stuff from
bc i havent met anyone who does so far
even when people remember plenty of places that do exist like towns in japan or countries and cities in europe
i haven't seen anyone who remembers recolle yet
if anyone does remember it speak up now
if no one does then it must mean....something
idk what
other than that
if anyone wants to go looking for the tunnels that we found in august don't bother
i just tried them and they're basically gone
like they never even existed
can't even find the entrances to them
the same might happen to the new ones too after a while
so if you want to go looking in them do it sooner rather than later
EDIT 1/23/18: if any rich people are willing to donate a gopro to livestream the subway tunnels
hmu
we're trying to find out what happens when they close up next too
does anybody remember recolle existing at all in whatever world you're remembering stuff from
bc i havent met anyone who does so far
even when people remember plenty of places that do exist like towns in japan or countries and cities in europe
i haven't seen anyone who remembers recolle yet
if anyone does remember it speak up now
if no one does then it must mean....something
idk what
other than that
if anyone wants to go looking for the tunnels that we found in august don't bother
i just tried them and they're basically gone
like they never even existed
can't even find the entrances to them
the same might happen to the new ones too after a while
so if you want to go looking in them do it sooner rather than later
EDIT 1/23/18: if any rich people are willing to donate a gopro to livestream the subway tunnels
hmu
we're trying to find out what happens when they close up next too
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Yes. Niihama, Ehime Prefecture. But. Mm, how do I put this?
What I've been seeing is a lot more built up than Niihama is right now. Geographically, it's a little isolated to be such a major metropolitan area that I'm seeing.
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who knows what crazy crap could take a camera out down there
but hey maybe someone SHOULD be running around down there with a gopro strapped on them
in case they find something a stationary camera couldn't catch
so niihama's the same but different
any idea why it's so much bigger how you remember it?
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So.
Funny story.
I can give you full footage of the trips I took down there. Might be shaky, but it's all there.
[Togusa's next message is a picture. It is a shot of Togusa looking directly into a mirror. But he isn't holding a camera, or his phone, or anything else. So how did he take the picture?]
As for Niihama, maybe it's just a question of how far in the future what Retrospec is showing me is. Then Tokyo would have to be massive. But.
It's odd that a National Public Security Bureau would be centered in Niihama, not Tokyo.
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i don't get it
is this supposed to be from a photoshoot or something
...were you doing a photoshoot in the tunnels?
well maybe something happened to tokyo then
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Well. Okay. Here's what's weird about it. Quick geography lesson. Remember that we're really talking about a series of islands.
Tokyo is there in the green section, while Niihama is in Ehime, the purple section. It's a completely separate island, technically. One with a lot of mountainous areas, too. So, that's how isolated I mean.
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do you have it hidden in your clothes somewhere
is this some fancy new police spy tech
okay well
still sounds like something happened to tokyo
maybe an attack
then your remote mountainous city would be a more secure place to build up
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My entire brain got an upgrade. Everything I see and hear can get stored digitally now. Like converting the way your memory normally works into a new format.
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what the FUCK
your BRAIN got an upgrade??
like a DIGITAL BRAIN
as in your brain's basically a usb drive now?
they just DID THAT to you?
holy shit
[ taking his arm is one thing--that's just getting rid of something that was already there. But to completely rewire (replace?) the BRAIN is a whole 'nother level of invasiveness. ]
so you just blink and bam
whatever you just saw gets uploaded as a jpeg?
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like can you just upload them for anyone to see rl footage of this 'other world'?
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It'll take me a bit hooked up to the machine, but, got any special requests?
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okay how's about a view of that niihama you were talking about earlier
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[It is many hours later when Togusa comes back to the messages, he has tried everything he can think of.]
Sorry to say the short answer is no.
Long answer: I tried pulling the memory directly, and it was like it couldn't find the file. So I thought I could trick it by pulling the day I remembered what I remembered? It's like there's a gap in the pulled footage. It literally can't record the memory.
I'm actually more curious than annoyed at this.
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is it just the retrospec stuff or everything
that's weird
okay how's about
[ James has to stop and think about what would be the most boring possible thing he could make Togusa remember and then show him. Something he couldn't be expected to remember without video footage of it. ]
what clothes you put on two weeks ago
on 1/5
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[The answer is another visual image from Togusa, of his own computer screen. A shot of himself, two weeks ago.]
Blue button-down, grey slacks.
I'd used this to look up vital things, but can we talk about how weird it is that I have literal photographic memory now?
I couldn't actively bring that up until I looked it up, though.
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[ the more he tries to wrap his head around it, the stranger and stranger it gets. ]
how much storage does your brain have
do you even know
like
are you gonna have to empty it out now and then bc you remembered too much and now you're out of space
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So, technically, anything you experience gets stored in your brain in some manner or another. Short-term or long-term memory, whatever. You process it, it's in your brain somewhere. You forget things because you just never touch it again. Never recalled, it decays over time.
Essentially, all the cyberbrain is doing is allowing for recall. Whatever you wore two weeks ago is somewhere in your brain, too. But you probably haven't thought about it since, so figuring out how to recall it would take too long.
So it doesn't actually increase my storage. I'm also betting that if something is stored incorrectly, it'll still come out incorrectly. Tatsuo wants to try taking me out and getting me really drunk to see what happens when I pull the memories back up.
It's for science, I swear.
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well
if you do it you have to send some of it to me
i didn't know how badly i needed to know what drunk digital memories look like until just now