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[notyourutopian]

Good morning everyone!

I have a couple questions, if people are willing to answer.

The first one is somewhat personal I suppose, so please don't feel obligatedif you don't want to.

Have you, or do you know anyone, who was on the Retrospec network, forgot about it, and then remembered again?
Would you be willing to talk about what it was like? Do you remember the first time you were connected?
Do you feel any different from the first time?

Okay.

My other question is about technology. Many people have received technology from the retrospec people. A lot of it works in ways we're not really used to, or is much more advanced than anything we have here. Or is magic.

(It's not really magic.)

If you have received something like that, would you be willing to allow some of us to examine them? If we can start to figure out how they work, maybe we can start reverse engineering them, or adding them to other things we already have.

On a related note, if you are an engineer or mechanic or anything along those lines and would like to be involved in examining these things, let me know! Maybe we can organize something big here.

Comments

[lalliho]

magic > science

[notyourutopian]

Magic = science we don't understand yet

[lalliho]

part of my soul is a lynx that's its own spirit that isn't science

[standalonehuman]

[How does Eleanor have such a skill at cutting straight to Togusa's most sensitive issues?]

Yes to your first question. Not me, though.

It's easier to talk about my superior officer, Detective Gabranth. Gone again now, but I get a phone call from him out of the blue when he remembered. It was- frustrating to him. He could feel that there was, not a gap in his memory? But that he felt like he had spent a month sleepwalking and had just woken up again.

As to your second point, yes, but I don't know how much good it will do someone who isn't me?

[notyourutopian]

That's...I imagine it must be very uncomfortable.
He doesn't remember now, does he?

Hey, you never know until you let us brains look at it.
Maybe you'll help change the world!

Plus your tech has to be more advanced than the normal stuff we have.

[standalonehuman]

No. Not now. Neither does Gentiana. She hasn't forgotten me entirely, but she definitely isn't the same as before.

You can have fun with the associated tech, the dummy barrier might be interesting to you. But, while I've been allowing some people to try to figure out how my cyberbrain processing works? We can't exactly remove any of the machines for examination.

[nachetanya]

Still counting on you for that new super arm ♥

I don't know how a sword splitting into a hundred or so swords and then flying up is not magic?

[notyourutopian]

Working on it.

Off the top of my head?
Hard light holograms.
Rapid matter duplication.

...Probably other things I'm not smart enough to have heard about.

[nachetanya]

But I was doing that myself without any aides as far as I could tell?

[commandertoolbelt]

you know? i’m actually kind of mad i haven’t gotten anything interesting yet
other leo met a dragon mecha and had a magic tool belt and what do i get?
nothing
zip
nada
i feel cheated

[ leo you got fire shhhh ]

Well that wasn't the right account

[notyourutopian]

Maybe your dragon mecha is in your magic toolbelt
And the belt is lost in the mail

[commandertoolbelt]

i wish
the thing was huge though
they'd have to use that shrink ray of theirs to make it fit
or maybe it's like
wearing the toolbelt as a necklace and they just haven't caught it yet

[me_matey]

i mean, it happened to yin. but she's off it again and hasn't been back. she may as well not be here at all, because she doesn't know shit about what we went through together while she was on the network. like she remembers it, but it wasn't a Life Changing Event for her like it was before, yanno?

[notyourutopian]

Yeah...
I've talked to her a bit since then

And I had a friend like that too
It's...bizarre.

[me_matey]

just kinda proves it right?

that who we are in the here and now is connected to retrospec more than anything else

[tuffguy]

so the first question?
that's me
if you want to talk about it?

[notyourutopian]

If you're willing, yes!
Can you tell me what it was like?

[tuffguy]

yeah of course!
it felt a little weird?
like i woke up but i wasn't sleeping

[vendettastool]

First question I would point you to my PA who was on here, went offline then came back online again. He had me scared for a while because the guy offline was way too much like a Sleeper Smiler.

As for your second question... No, I haven't received anything like that, but I'm probably one of the few jerk hackers you will find and can help with computer code cracking. If you want specs, then talk to Togusa for references.

[notyourutopian]

Your PA?

We're always looking for more help!
And Togusa is definitely a good reference.

Have you poked at any of his equipment?

[vendettastool]

Personal Assistant and busy body that makes sure I don't do something stupid like forget who I am suppose to be meeting and when. His name is David Song.

His brain? Oh yeah, I've done some checking into the software behind it. I could go into details and stuff like that but that's something he should tell people, not me.

[explodosafe]

I got something like a DVD with a free-floating screen that came along with a book I got. If you promise not to break it or judge the content I can borrow it to you.

If you're still looking for stuff, that is. I know I'm kinda late.

[notyourutopian]

A free floating screen.

Do you mean like a hologram?

[Private]

[lingeringwill]

That girl didn't show up again, did she?

[Private]

[notyourutopian]

Who?