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Greetings, Users. Our system may be experiencing some residual glitches from a recent network malfunction. Our technical team is working on getting these issues under control. Please direct any concerns in the meantime to the HR department at humanresources@retrospec.com. Our staff has furthermore noticed a significant increase in tags and trends for #aprilfools and #pranks. Keep on your toes and be certain to tag your best tricks for Retrospec™! 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. Any emails sent to the HR department will be returned with a failure to send notification, and will furthermore automatically be posted to the Retrospec network. Oops? Characters who have been in game for one month will find they can now change their profile pictures. Glitches will be in effect until the 15th and may include: -Usernames changing to a cat, dog, or bird pun. -The Retrospec application being changed into a neon color + animal theme of some variety. -Notifications going off at random and being unable to be turned off. -Various "special effects" crossing the screens when people comment. -Users having to beat a level of pac-man to access the application, and then being made to beat a new level every hour to keep using the application. -Thomas the Tank Engine memes being sent to users every hour for some reason. -Profile pictures being replaced by pictures of rabbits and easter eggs. -New creepy pasta stories appearing upon log-in, to be forwarded to someone before the app can continue to be used -Parental lock and auto-correct on cursing (i.e. fuck -> duck) -A parade of pixel Chocobos or dancing fruit scrolling across the screen after each comment posted

Comments

Username: Elliecat

[notyourutopian]

Never thought I'd miss seeing my real name on here.
Elliecat though? Really? Is that an alleycat joke?

Ugh whatever.

So I am apparently bloody awful at pacman.
But I did it.
I died like eight times trying to get this app to load but I did it.

And do you want to know what my reward was?
What the balm at the end of my Pac Man Torture was?



That.

Totally worth it.

So has anyone noticed anything else weird yet?
Besides all the glitches I mean.
Cows aren't dinosaurs or grass isn't razors now or anything right?

[parodeity]

i think the shades really ducking sell it
what
oh come the duck on

[notyourutopian]

I just love his adorable little thug hat.
Except I think it's a newsie hat.

...Ducking?
You alright over there Dave?

[parodeity]

holy heck
what the duck
shit

ok shit seems to be ok
what the heck thats so weak
this is so weak

im ready to start a rebellion now this is worse than horses

[godcards]

Don't give them any more ideas.

[notyourutopian]

I'm pretty comfortable with my insane suggestions.
If they actually turn the grass to razors half the planet will die that seems like a poor business plan.

[godcards]

And you consider what they've done so far 'good' business plans? I hardly think they care.

[chiseler]

Steven Squawking cows being dinosaurs would actually be an improvement if you ask me
Steven Squawking ...ah what the duck
Steven Squawking wanna trade? I'll take cat puns over bird puns

[notyourutopian]

Elliecat I don't know how I'd feel about putting brontosaurus milk on my cereal.
Elliecat I wouldn't mind it so much if it were at least a good pun.
Elliecat But I guess Eleanor is hard to pun.

[chiseler]

Steven Squawking you don't think a t-rex burger would probably be delicious? think about it
Steven Squawking hmm...could go with Eleanyan, Purranor, any other combination of stupidity they could think of
Steven Squawking at least they kind of got your name right

username: morgnyan isaacs

[counteracts]

what, seriously? you got pac-man to log in?
I would've preferred that
mine had some kind of shifty creepypasta that wasn't even that good. I had to re-write a little of it
**shifty
duck

[pause...]

and I guess there's that

[At least Elliecat is kind of clever? He doesn't even understand what's happened to his own username.]

Re: username: morgnyan isaacs

[notyourutopian]

I'm terrible at pacman it is not better.
What like the reddit stories thing?
What was it?

Oh yeah we can't curse.
Unless you want to be british like me.
then you can bloody well curse as much as you bloody well please!

[counteracts]

I'll trade you, then
yeah, something like that
I had to share it before it let me get into the app, so look around, you'll find it

[which means his rper is still writing it and needs a little more time aaaa]

what the heck, seriously?
I don't know, that's just not as satisfying
that and I'm not very confident in my British slang

[appraiser]

lol
pac man was fun, and i laughed at the train
this update wasn't so bad, right?

[notyourutopian]

I am awful at pacman.
But yes.
Thomas the Gangster Engine did sooth my rage.

[appraiser]

it's a learning curve, i'd imagine
(disclaimer: if i ever disappear for hours in the middle of this conversation, i am probably struggling through pac man)
but positive reinforcement in the form of Gangster Engine does its job! keeps everybody coming back

Username: BlakKat

[true_noir]

Other than this video game I had to learn in order to even turn the phone on? And my name? Nothing else strange. I am almost inclined to think for the briefest of moments that we are being spared some of the truly terrible.

I expected them to turn the sun purple today.

[notyourutopian]

Blakkat! I kind of like that one.

Yeah did you avoid getting your interface changed?
Mine looks like an easter egg

[true_noir]

For the moment. It is just this "Pac Man" game and my username. It could be much much worse, though saying that invites disaster. What are you experiencing?

Username Pugiko

[burningblossoms]

WOW that is great!

[notyourutopian]

Right?

Oh my god Pugiko.
Pugiko.

[burningblossoms]

I know, isn't it great?

username: Vikitty niclaws

[tokencanadian]

Apart from being kind of cute
And also really annoying
No, I don't think there's been anything strange so far. At least from my perspective.

[notyourutopian]

Wow yours is a mouthful.
But I kinda like it.
Try saying it outloud.

Yeah.
Guess we're getting a week off from weirdness.

[tokencanadian]

I did. For some reason it just wasn't as fun as I hoped.
and it is! I see other people with just one pun, why does mine have to be two?