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retrospec2017-04-06 12:38 pm
covenantal) wrote in retrospec2017-04-06 12:38 pm
[2] joint post!
Hi, everyone. Shirogane-san and I had an idea we wanted to approach the rest of you with. We were discussing the impact Retrospec seems to have on its users, and what we might be able to find out about that connection.
Thank you, Narukami.
Through all of the memory issues facing us, there seems to be one constant: the presence or absence of the Retrospec app. Those with the app on their phones have a certain memory, those without it have another. Logically, only one group can be right. Either horses and faceless fruit once existed, or they never have. One group has had its memories tampered with. Either Retrospec is the cause of this tampering, or it is inoculating us to it.
With that in mind, we’d like to ask for volunteers to cease all usage of Retrospec for one week. We know it’s a lot to ask, but no other normal activities should be restricted.
Indeed. And as a further control group, we’d like some other volunteers to refrain from using their phone at all during this time period-- this way, we can isolate if it is Retrospec, something else on our technology, or this hypothesis is completely false.
We don’t have any compensation that we can offer you for this experiment other than the possibility of answers. We hope this is compelling enough on its own, though if you insist on some kind of payment, we’ll try to think of something.
Knowledge is, ideally, its own reward. But yes. Something.
Let us know if you have any questions, and, of course, if you’d like to volunteer. Thanks for your time.
( ooc: you can check out ooc information about this post right on over here! in short, nothing will actually happen as a result of staying off the network. anyway, both yu and naoto will be responding to replies here! )
Thank you, Narukami.
Through all of the memory issues facing us, there seems to be one constant: the presence or absence of the Retrospec app. Those with the app on their phones have a certain memory, those without it have another. Logically, only one group can be right. Either horses and faceless fruit once existed, or they never have. One group has had its memories tampered with. Either Retrospec is the cause of this tampering, or it is inoculating us to it.
With that in mind, we’d like to ask for volunteers to cease all usage of Retrospec for one week. We know it’s a lot to ask, but no other normal activities should be restricted.
Indeed. And as a further control group, we’d like some other volunteers to refrain from using their phone at all during this time period-- this way, we can isolate if it is Retrospec, something else on our technology, or this hypothesis is completely false.
We don’t have any compensation that we can offer you for this experiment other than the possibility of answers. We hope this is compelling enough on its own, though if you insist on some kind of payment, we’ll try to think of something.
Knowledge is, ideally, its own reward. But yes. Something.
Let us know if you have any questions, and, of course, if you’d like to volunteer. Thanks for your time.
( ooc: you can check out ooc information about this post right on over here! in short, nothing will actually happen as a result of staying off the network. anyway, both yu and naoto will be responding to replies here! )
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it's kind of tricky... the people i would trust my phone with are the ones who contact me the most. i think that would frustrate them, having the messages ping right in their other hand!
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Well, hopefully they'd be aware that they were holding your phone in one hand while texting you with the other.
Seriously, though, whatever you feel comfortable with is fine.
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i have some people in mind to ask, so i'll go ahead and do that, and i'll report back in a week! or sooner. maybe i'll see you around more, now that i won't be cooped up somewhere on my phone all day?
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Thanks. Why don't we spend some time together this week? Since I'm the one cutting you off from communication, the least I can do is come alleviate some of your boredom.
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i want to go to the woods someday this month and see whether the bears have come out of hibernation
or whether there are bears. maybe that was something i was told when i was younger so i wouldn't go
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... wait, you want to go looking for bears? Σ(゜ロ゜;)
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... give me time to write a will first, though.
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we can go on one too after you write your will