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[recollecters]

What's up, users! We've mostly fixed the technical problems we were having earlier (unless Danny missed something again) but you might want to wear green. Also, I'm supposed to make a vague and mysterious informational post here but that sounded boring so I made a video presentation instead! Watch on YouTube Cheers! Jim Halloway Research & Development Retrspec Incorporated As of this post all apples, oranges, lemons, and limes have been replaced in-universe as the silly dancing fruits shown above. This means that as with Chocobos all NPCs will insist this is how things have always been and history/movies/etc will back them up. In honor of St. Patrick's Day characters will find a request from Retrospec to upload a picture of themselves to the network in which they are wearing something green. They will find themselves shocked lightly by their device if they try to use it without complying. Rude? A non-triggered memory regain can be earned through participation in this post in honor of Lucy's birthday the holiday with proof of a single thread with at least five comments from your character. If you plan to redeem this, please submit it to our regains page with the explanation of "March freebie". This must be submitted before April to be valid! Regardless of whether or not a character earns the freebie, all characters will find a gold coin with the Retrospec logo on one side and a Chocobo on the other. On the outside edge of the coin they will find "Jim, put a meaningful quote here. - Janet" engraved in a beautiful font. The Chocobo will morph into a horse should your character obtain the memory regain from the event; it will stay a Chocobo if your character does not obtain the memory regain. Please see our OOC information post HERE for some information and reminders - you can direct any questions about this post there! Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently.

Comments

[truedetective]

"I think, therefore I am" only implies that the speaker exists. It says nothing about the speaker's mental state.

Consider the philosophical riddle: How do you know that the world did not simply come into being last Thursday? You have memories from before then, but there is nothing that proves that these memories were not, like the history of the world, likewise fabricated.

For that matter, Descartes also arrived at another problem: The certainty of one's surroundings. Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. But I do not know that you are. You could be a construct talking to me. I could be a figment of your imagination.

From a philosophical standpoint, 'truth' is difficult to establish.

[true_noir]

Yes, now I remember. You are very well read, Naoto. I don't really know if there is anything we can really be certain of, though I think if we are to get through the day, we need to do something to keep fairly stable. If we don't assume certain things, we could easily be lost in the confusion forever.

There really are no easy answers to this question, are there?

[truedetective]

No. I don't believe there are easy answers to any of this.

[true_noir]

I also suspect that, just as there are not going to be any easy answers, there are also not going to be answers that we entirely like, Naoto. But, I imagine that's almost a given at this point. After the upheaval already experienced, after all.

[truedetective]

What's there to like about "the very concepts that form the foundation of our identities are fundamentally alterable"? I don't like the question.

[true_noir]

Nothing. You don't like the question in the first place, and I'm terrified of the answer. I think both of these things have become unpleasant right now.

It makes me want to do something to take my mind off of it. Otherwise, it seems only to drive me to distraction.

[truedetective]

I suppose that is your prerogative to do.

[true_noir]

You want to puzzle this out somehow, don't you? I envy that resolve, but I don't know if I can be much help for you. At least for now. But if I happen to see something new, do you wish to hear about it? Maybe you can help puzzle it out.

[At the very least, she felt like Naoto was more qualified than she was. She was just a florist, after all.]

[truedetective]

Please. That would be helpful.

I merely want to find the truth. That's all.

[true_noir]

And I wish some form of normalcy. If the truth will get me there, which I believe it may be a step towards, then I will happily help to find it. I apologize that I rarely have much good news for you, though.

But hopefully this will change.

[truedetective]

I wish I could tell you that normalcy would return soon.

I fear that would be a lie.

[true_noir]

Only if you claimed that you knew it for certain. We can hope all we want, but we do not know yet. Still, I would appreciate the sentiment even if false.

[truedetective]

I care about the truth, Miss Bouchard. That's all.

Have a good day.