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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

[notyourutopian]

Hm
And it doesn't seem like sometihng that happens here.
Beyond you, I mean.

So we can't really find anyone to study while it happens.

[lalliho]

you shouldn't study babies for fun anyway

[notyourutopian]

Not for fun.
To understand what is happening to them.
And if it happens when people are babies, when else can you study it?

[lalliho]

it doesn't hurt them so why do you care

[notyourutopian]

It's about understanding it!

Don't you want to understand how it works?

[lalliho]

not because someone else with no experience with it decided to tell me what I should think is happening

[notyourutopian]

I'm not sure what you mean.

[lalliho]

like this fuckwit trying to talk down to me when he doesn't know anything to do with what the magic stuff is or isn't

if he tried to tell me all about my soul or whatever I'd find him and shove a bag of ice down his shirt for being such a rude stupid idiot putting his nose where it doesn't belong I'll learn from someone magical or my memories and that's it

[notyourutopian]

Wow.

I think that's the most passionate I have ever seen you about anything, Lalli.

[lalliho]

well he's stupid and annoying

[notyourutopian]

That's fair.

Leo just gets passionate too.
And he means well, usually.

[lalliho]

meaning well doesn't mean jerk things stop sounding like jerk things

tired of people treating me like I don't know anything and not even trying to listen

[notyourutopian]

I am sorry if I've ever done that.

[lalliho]

okay

I don't really remember because I'm busy being mad at this Leo guy

you're way smarter than him though

[notyourutopian]

Haha. Well thank you.

I can talk to him and get him to settle if you want?

[lalliho]

I can fight my own battles

[He'll just...complain the entire time and then finish it off with breaking his hand, apparently.]

[notyourutopian]

I know.
But this isn't really a battle.
Just an argument.

My phone bings every time you guys snark at each other.
So I would like to help. Haha.

[lalliho]

then you have your own reason to confront him and don't really need my permission

[Yeah, it's still a battle.]

[notyourutopian]

I guess so.

So if Leo wasn't making you grumpy

Would you be curious about how the soul thing works?

[lalliho]

the two aren't related

of course I want to know how it works but there isn't a lot I can do to learn more so why would I bother feeling mad about not knowing

[notyourutopian]

I'm not saying be mad.
You can be curious about things even if they'd be really hard or even impossible to figure out though!

I want to know how black holes work
But I never will.

Still want to though.

[lalliho]

you said it yourself

that was the most passionate you'd seen me

I do care about stuff I just don't show it like other people can I guess it's different