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[furtherforward]

LISTEN UP. Retrospec can read this all they like, I don't care. their cameras were trained on me the entire time I combed through their office anyway. they INVITED me there. so here I am, putting my findings out here so that all users can access it. you can respond helpfully, or cower behind your phones in silence, and to what end? Retrospec already knows about your precious secrets. or have you gnats forgotten that already??

Akira Midousuji shared a photo. 3/8 near Apprassage

respond if you know any of the following names:
Dante Sparda
Irene Greenland
Machi Tobaye
Jyushimatsu Ono
Matt Miller

give me evidence that you know them, and we can talk more. don't waste my time with "OOOH I MET THEM ONCE"s if there's no substance. a single detail about their history will suffice as proof.

and since I expect the lot of you to share any information you find in the future, in this fashion... what the REST of you need to know is that I found files on these people in an unlocked room in the Retrospec building. apparently some of these people were once Retrospec users, but for some reason they're not anymore. (you can extend your gratitude to Dave for sorting through all of your nonsense to locate posts by these people.) these files documented their personal histories. DETAILED, by the way. are they accurate? that's what I'm trying to figure out.

ohhh right: the note pictured was clipped only to that file. make of this what you will.

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[complementing]

this is getting creepier the deeper we dig into this

I don't know any of those names, but do you know if any of them are living in Recollé right now? I can try to track them down if they are

[furtherforward]

Ono is a tenant at my apartment... but talking to him so far hasn't given me anything helpful to work with. I don't see why the rest of them WOULDN'T be in Recollé.

you could try. it would be better than nothing.

[complementing]

off to search volunteer records I go then, wish me happy hunting

[furtherforward]

it miiight help to know that according to their FILES, they should be here... Greenland, Miller and Sparda have ties to RU. Tobaye's a pianist who just moved here. you won't find anything on him, I'll bet.

[hjack69]

didnt know any of em beyond talking to that ono kid once but ho ho hooooooly shit
like
could you seriously get any more matrix than this

[furtherforward]

that explains the weird artifacts at the corner of my vision! or I just need some sleep.

did Ono tell you anything about himself? at all?

[hjack69]

i mean the guy was
well
lets just go with " eccentric "
real space cadet
so i didnt get much out of him besides the fact that hes weird and i think has a freaky thing for clowns

idk i just came in here to say that if they friggin matrix me that i want my records burned

[furtherforward]

fortunately for me there's nothing in his file about a weird interest in clowns. maybe it was a fluke? did YOU bring up clowns, or did he?

if I find your files, I'll take pictures of them and then burn them. just for you. how's that?

[darkinferno]

machi's a pianist

really good one, too

what did his file say? i can compare it with what i know

[furtherforward]

oh? so you know him? this seems promising.
yes, he's a pianist, according to his file. it says he learned piano from a priest, then refined his discipline through text-based instruction.. he lived in Russia as an orphan, and a tourist posted a video of his playing online. is this how you know him? or is there more?

[darkinferno]

[Honestly a lot of that is already more than he knows about Machi, he mostly knows of him. Still...]

that all fits with what i know, but i never met him myself

my old man's a pianist though, so he keeps an eye on all the upcoming young pianists. he said machi had the potential to be one of the greats, a prodigy. i'll ask him if he knows anything else about him

was there anything else in his file i should ask about? or was that it

[furtherforward]

do ask him. it doesn't outline anything more in the ways of his musical inclination, besides the fact that the video mentioned before was responsible for finding an adoptive family.

one thing. is your father a Retrospec user, or not?

[daemonized]

And so the plot continues to thicken.

Irene Greenland. She teaches at the university. I even went grocery shopping with her once.

[furtherforward]

yes, it notes she became a teacher. something something about her father's interest in science inspiring her to become a professor herself. do you know anything about her history, unprompted? my goal is to compare the notes Retrospec has to see if they're valid – and to what extent.

[daemonized]

I unfortunately didn't have the opportunity to learn much more about her, other than the fact that her cooking skills are lacking at best. How much that actually helps you is questionable, however.

That note -- what do you make of it?

[furtherforward]

cooking skills, cooking.. I see nothing in here addressing that, but it DOES say she was raised around her father's work and little else, which affected her life in other ways. it could be a byproduct, but I'm not here to theorize such minute things. it's gross.

the most natural conclusion is to assume Miller's file needs rewriting thanks to the work of an intelligence employee who was fired for incompetence. but knowing what I know about Retrospec... well. if users report physical alterations, who can say?

[catsudon]

"and start from a clean slate." bets on finding Matt and him not knowing what we mean if/when we say "Retrospec." i guess the question there is if his "blank slate" would mean the history on file is or isn't entirely different than what he remembers.

ty Dave.

[furtherforward]

Dave and I theorized similarly. "rewrite and start from a clean slate" could mean a few things, if I take a step back. the tamer option is that their scout is immensely incompetent and can't gather details from the right guy, so Janet noted the file needs overhauling.

that would have to mean it doesn't match the file, in that case.

[catsudon]

seems shoddy that any files would be left in the first place. doesn't this break some kind of law? not on your part, I mean on theirs.

though yeah, I guess.

[playdolls]

What is this, why do I care?

[furtherforward]

why don't you... read? you should have one reason and one reason ONLY to comment: do you know any of the people listed?

[playdolls]

Why the hardon for Retrospec though.

[agathism]

I thought it was given they had all of this information about us.
Why else invite certain people to be users while the rest of the world isn't overly concern over this app acting like an inclusive club?

My question is: why did Restrospec cordially invite you to their headquarters? And, could it be possible you were lead to that door intentionally?
I believe those two questions are more important than validating easily found files about those many of us may not know or have only met once.

[furtherforward]

somehow, Retrospec has aaaall of this data about these people, and likely has the same amount on you and I... it's not that I'm surprised they have the files. I want to know HOW they got the information, if it's 100% ACCURATE, and the PURPOSE they had in collecting it and ensuring its accuracy. (see: the note that requests Miller's file be rewritten from a clean slate)

I don't know why I was invited, but I wondered myself if it's a set-up before I posted this. if I'm being used as a pawn to collect these files and share them. to what end? what would they get out of me reading the files and then sharing my findings??

[agathism]

I think the PURPOSE may be the more dire issue we need to focus on. The HOW and ACCURACY are useless. Nowadays, it's simple to gain that kind of information on anyone with the internet being used the way it is. Our information is easily accessible and sold to all kinds of different cooperations. Using search engines, alone, helps these businesses learn more about our personalities than the actual government does.

Retrospec is no different, imho.

If movies and tv shows have taught us anything, maybe they want to lead us on the wrong track by distracting us from their true goals. I just can't believe they'll freely allow us to trade information like this without censoring or making a huge ordeal over this. Something doesn't feel right to me.