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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

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Steven Squawking tell me about it. I'm starting to think I'll have to wear sunglasses full-time until this crap wears off
Steven Squawking if it wears off? that's up for debate, too

Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora I don't think they'll keep this forever.
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora After all, they have to deal with it themselves, day in and day out,
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora I don't think it'll be worth it for them to do that even at our expense.

Steven Squawking if they're the ones programming all of this, you think their apps really look like ours?
Steven Squawking I'll be optimistic for a minute and hope that you're right but I wonder...I don't know much about this kind of technology and how it all works though

Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora This is a lot of work. They're bound to make a mistake and suffer too.
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora If only for a little while. That gives me some cold comfort.
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora And using this type of social media app isn't too hard! Long as you remember the rules of internet etiquette, we should be (mostly) fine.

Steven Squawking using social media I get, I have accounts for a lot of stuff I just don't use. it's the programming I don't get
Steven Squawking it should take them a while to do an overhaul like this. if I were them I wouldn't bother implementing it on my own app since it's apparently meant to drive us crazy
Steven Squawking but I like your way of thinking. here's to hoping they start suffering soon
Steven Squawking ...that sounds bad, but you know what I mean

Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora Don't worry! I definitely get the sentiment.
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora You won't be finding me throwing stones at you.
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora Maybe I'll throw tomatoes but those are reserved for pesky reporters who can't take 'no' for an answer.

[ she is not over that if only because her students and her friends were harassed by them. ack! ]

Steven Squawking the good thing is that THEY seemed to have disappeared? I haven't heard anything from them so far which also makes you wonder why they aren't trying to report on this weird crap
Steven Squawking plus the good thing is that the tomatoes don't have faces yet. easier to use them as projectile weapons

Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora I think I'll cry if tomatoes ended up having faces too.
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora I mean it's fun to try and makes apples and the others dance and all.
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora But I've been unable to eat anything that has them.

[ no pizza? spaghetti? that'll be a real nightmare. ]

Steven Squawking yeah,
try having to juice 'em. that's been its own adventure
Steven Squawking ...you've been trying to make them dance? how's that going?

Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora Oh my gosh that sounds creepy to do.
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora My figurative hat off to you if you have to do that.
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora And to answer your question: Yes! I am.
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora So far I've gotten them to dance kind of differently whenever they hear a song. They seem to respond to the beat and rhythm more than anything else.
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora It's almost kind of cute if not for the all-knowing stare of theirs.
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora Tip: Never make them dance to heavy metal. Ever.

Steven Squawking lucky for me I've got a friend who seems to love knives, but I'll have to keep doing it for my menu
Steven Squawking the last thing I ever needed to imagine was head-banging fruit and now I can't get that image out of my head. they're even more sentient than I thought which is doubly creepy...
Steven Squawking still not talking though, right?

Ainsley Feray Menodora Sadly, no.
Ainsley Feray Menodora They're not responding to any attempts to make them speak or recite.
Ainsley Feray Menodora They do groove out to certain poets or poems though. I think only because of the rhyming scheme more than anything else.

Steven Squawking maybe they just need a professional vocal coach? or exposure to spoken words for longer periods of time, isn't that sort of how people learn to speak?
Steven Squawking then again, that's also accepting responsibility for talking fruit. sure you wanna go down that path?

[ a vocal coach! why hadn't she thought of that? she quickly jots that down as a reminder for later, not wanting to let a chance like that slip her by. ]

Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora I'm ready for anything with how the city's been like lately.
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora If we're going to be stuck with musical fruit forever, we might as well have fun with it.
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora Besides trying to gather the courage to eat a smiling apple. It kind gets old after a while.

Steven Squawking maybe this whole thing's one huge test of courage and at the end they'll just tell us we've been punked
Steven Squawking show's been off the air for a while, but it's possible
Steven Squawking but if that's the way we have to look at it guess I can't say that's wrong

Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora I feel like if that ever happens it'll be the greatest prank known to man.
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora Or we all riot right there and then. Pitchforks and torches and an organised mob song.

Steven Squawking only if you can choreograph something for the fruit to dance along to
Steven Squawking keep us posted on your progress

Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora I will! In fact, I think I'll get started on it now thanks to this talk.
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora It was wonderful speaking with you!
Ainmalsy Furay Meowodora Hope we get to speak to each other soon.

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