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It's been a while, hasn't it? I'm afraid things are really quite busy here, and unfortunately our liaison has been compromised. Well...so have a lot of people, actually.

Are you still yourself if you're not the self you were? It's the kind of conversation we've had a lot of times, around here. I've always only been myself, but if I woke up tomorrow as someone else, would I still be me even if I wasn't?

I think rather than worrying about that the best thing I can do is focus on trying to sort things out as best I can. I'm a little worried, actually, but I think I can manage to give everyone a shot even if I can't fix things on my own or even with everyone's help.

But you can help! Or at least I think it will help if you think about what it means to be "you". It's okay if that answer changes or doesn't. Just hold onto that concept and don't let it go. And maybe tell other people what you think it means? Not like I'm saying you have to talk about that. I think usually you all just talk about anything, and I think that is also a good way to hold onto who you are and who you want to be. Sometimes I think it'd be fun, all those parties or little plans. I've never spent much time outside of these walls, did you know?

I don't have time to really ramble, though. Those of you who know what I mean, we're doing our best. Those of you who don't, you do your best too. Pay attention to the things you tell yourself, and I'll try to fix what I can fix.

Please take care.

Joanne Wiseman
Technician 2nd class
Retr

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Agreed. A little more hard work on their end wouldn't be such a bad thing... In fact, it's more than likely the first time they've ever had to work hard at all!

That's true... and chances are that this is something that Joanne or one of her coworkers screwed up.

Why else would she give a shit about fixing it otherwise?

As for what exactly it is they screwed up this time, I honestly don't really care at this point... I just want them to stop spamming up my feed with pointless drivel that neither they or we can apparently do anything about.

I was saying the same things last month. It's a cycle... They screw something up and make a useless post about it, and it repeats itself often. They don't seem capable of learning from their past mistakes... It's not like there aren't plenty to choose from.

Good to know that I didn't miss much of anything by not reading the usual scare post, then.

At this point, let whatever is going to come, come, and we'll figure out how to deal with it on our own.

That's more or less what we've all been doing since these posts have been completely unhelpful anyway.

Don't you see Bakhura... They're trying to be less sensationalist this time. Instead they want us to get philosophical and question the concept of self, although many of us have already been doing that since the memories started happening... So not only are they unhelpful, but they're behind the times as well.

All in all: useless.

In a way, that's almost an improvement in and of itself.

It's better than the consistently uninformative warnings of preparing ourselves for "residual effects" as if we don't do that every month already.

But at the same time, it's the kind of question that I see Retrospec users posting all the time... and now they want to repost it and take credit for it for themselves, knowing they'll get more comments than everyone else just because everyone wants to give them a piece of their mind despite knowing that Retrospec will never answer anyway.

[ Retrospec are reposters, pass it on. ]

That almost seems too petty to even notice, but this IS Retrospec we're talking about... Petty is the name of the game. That and incompetence.

So, Bakhura, what do YOU think makes "you"?

Let's not forget the all-important attention factor.

And I don't know, does being a stupid nerd count? Do you think that's a concept of "me" that I should hold onto with all my strength?

No. It's not you unless you're a stupid nerd.

Are you saying that I'm more than a stupid nerd, Malik?

Then what am I to you?

You're primarily a stupid nerd.

The rest is more... complicated.

In other words, my answer was incomplete and therefore untrue.

Would these "complications" make it more complete and worthy of holding onto?

Or am I just a stupid, complicated nerd?

I don't see why those things have to be mutually exclusive. I also don't see why you're turning this on me... I asked the question in the first place. Stupid.

I wasn't turning anything on you.

I was genuinely asking because I genuinely want to know.

So I have to decide your identity now? That's a pretty tall order, don't you think?

Maybe I just want to know what you think of me.

Besides, I'm not exactly sure I would leave my identity up to you... you'd just pick something embarrassing.

I think you're a stupid nerd.

You forgot the most important detail, Malik.

I'm an attractive, stupid nerd... it's what sets me apart from the other stupid nerds.

So that's "you"... The "you" you have to hold on to.

Seems like you finally answered the question after all.

I see... by challenging me the way you did, you set me up for this moment all along.

I should have seen it coming, and yet I still fell for it... you know me too well, Malik.

I like to think so... And I got what I wanted, which was an answer. Really you could have just said something from the get go and avoided all this... but I knew you wouldn't.

I did, though.

I said I was a stupid nerd, but apparently I needed at least two adjectives to completely answer the question.

...thanks, though. I can definitely hold onto this. It's what sets me apart from the King of Thieves and Zorc and the spirit of the Millennium Ring, too.

You seemed more confident about the second answer.

...Are you saying you're more attractive in this life than the last?

On a scale of 1 to 4, with one being the most attractive, I would say I'm at least a two.

The buff, scar-faced thief is a 1, the pasty looking Ring spirit is a 3, and the demon with the dragon dick is definitely a 4.

The wh

No

Nevermind

I'm just going to pretend I didn't read that last part.