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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

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that's
pretty steep

but if you work hard at acting, i'm sure there will be producers clamoring to have you sign up for that much
did you sign up for the Romeo and Juliet play?

Nah.
I just already have big dreams.

You'd have to pay me a ton to give them up.

how many hundred thousand?
i want to hear about your dreams

Just multiply it by however many episodes there.

I'm going to college for mechanical engineering and journalism next year.

oh! so you're continuing your passion with the newspaper club!
how is that going, by the way? it feels like there's a lot of news to report these past few months
for a select part of the campus, i guess
everybody else thinks everything is just how it is

We tried including some articles about it but everyone thought we were just writing fiction.
So we went back to just reporting the normal news.
Kind of sucks but

What can you do.

aww, i hoped an opinion from the other side might shine some light into it
say, for example, you interview another student who believed you were writing fiction
and ask what they think about select other students suddenly talking about horses or faceless fruit
whether it's a prank or an inside joke or what have you

It's hard to frame that in a way that doesn't make it seem...
Obvious maybe?

Like, when you show them retrospec, it's not that they don't get it.
It's that they don't care.
Or that's how it felt to me.

sometimes you have to be obvious and direct
Retrospec as a phone app isn't altogether unusual, i can admit that
it's just the little ties into the strange-- matching symbols on the beads on Founder's Day, and that video that changed people's perceptions of the fruit
Retrospec having a hand in hallucinomemories and unexpected packages? i'm not so sure. sometimes it feels like a scapegoat to blame all our strange experience on

Yeah, I tried some of that. I still have some of the beads.
But it was like...they didn't care.
Like even if it seemed like they should.
They didn't.

It didn't make any sense.

well, it's not like you can force people to care, can you...
even the ones that should?
like IT? information systems technicians around school, who'd probably get a lot of questions about phones and laptops improperly working

That's not what I mean, exactly.

It's like, you know how you have a friend who loves, like...a certain kind of tv show?
And they get all excited when you show them a new one?
I have friends who love weird internet conspiracy junk.
And yet when I show them this
They just don't care.

maybe... they already know about it? maybe they're a part of it? not to cast suspicious, but it may be a reason why some people refuse to acknowledge it

If they've got random high school kids in on it, we're all doomed.

lol it's train memes and cat puns
looks like high school kids to me

Sure but these are just distractions.
Not the real conspiracy!

it's a team based approach
maybe more experienced adults work on conspiracy, teenagers for distraction
many of the users we have are high school and college aged, aren't they?
they'll have to have a similar age group of workers in Retrospec
in order to best understand us
that's how they get into our heads

Bloody hell.
You'll have everyone jumping at shadows more than usual with that idea.

is it that scary a thought? or too real?

That's the thing.
We don't know.
We have so little information, everything can seem possible.

it sure is scary when you put it that way
it's times like these where we really needs journalists like you
to collect stories
and find the truth

Easier said than done.
But I'm trying.
Lots of people are trying, really.

i know
as somebody who doesn't know where to start, all i can do is volunteer my efforts for any plans that come up
so i really appreciate it
it's kind of fun though, seeing how this mystery unfolds

Fun is...one word for it.
I take you haven't received a lot of those
hallucinomemory things?

a couple
some of them were fun, most of them were not
but it's like watching a movie
it feels so real and present
but it's not
it can't be
and so it's fun

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notyourutopian - 2017-04-09 05:19 (UTC) - Expand