notyourutopian: (Hmm.)
Eleanor Lamb ([personal profile] notyourutopian) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2018-01-24 09:17 am

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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.
lalliho: (we can sort out the rest later)

[personal profile] lalliho 2018-01-24 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
magic > science
standalonehuman: (TogusaRegret)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2018-01-24 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[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?
lalliho: (i know what you did last summer)

[personal profile] lalliho 2018-01-24 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
part of my soul is a lynx that's its own spirit that isn't science
standalonehuman: (TogusaTalk2)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2018-01-24 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
lalliho: (if you were a baby)

[personal profile] lalliho 2018-01-24 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
both
standalonehuman: (TogusaCanWeNot)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2018-01-24 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Either doesn't remember it, or she doesn't process it as being strange. She's just like everybody else.

...

Please don't blow up my head, Eleanor.
lalliho: (anchovy lollipop)

[personal profile] lalliho 2018-01-24 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I only got it a few months ago

other Lalli wasn't born with it either
standalonehuman: (TogusaWaveOff)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2018-01-24 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
This is fair. I can show you the setup I've gotten off of Retrospec so far, there are some cool toys that are not wrapped up inside my head.

Maurice's crap in August was that wiping individual's memories as a 'reset' was for their own safety, something about their souls getting out of alignment. But if we're looking at it from a simulation theory? Corruption in the program?
nachetanya: (and the Captive Fool)

[personal profile] nachetanya 2018-01-24 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
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?
standalonehuman: (TogusaHunh)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2018-01-24 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha, where should I meet you? This thing, you've got to see to believe.

So, even if we aren't programs, what if how Retrospec is changing the world is through a program? Some sort of way that code alters reality, like the coding we found in the tunnels before? People falling out of sync is more of them screwing up, like losing colors or taste.

It's not comforting, but I think it makes sense.
nachetanya: (Awakening)

[personal profile] nachetanya 2018-01-24 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
But I was doing that myself without any aides as far as I could tell?
lalliho: (well this might be a problem)

[personal profile] lalliho 2018-01-24 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
spirits are things

you're really little when you get it and it's different for everyone

everyone who has it anyway I don't think a lot of people do? or it isn't the same
nachetanya: (Legacy of the Void)

[personal profile] nachetanya 2018-01-24 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
If I had that tech why would everyone be using swords and not like ray guns?

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