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[recollecters]

Welcome to Retrospec™, the last social media network you will ever need. You are one of the few selected to test this exciting new platform based on our cutting-edge algorithms. Less than two hundred invitations have gone out, and membership is not currently open to the public. However, we hope you will come to see how useful Retrospec™ is, given time. We have for your use a variety of features such as text, voice, video, and image posts. We encourage you to explore our many options. Anyway, now that the copypaste part is out of the way! Jim here, requesting you guys make your secret meetings a little more exciting. It's not like you're not trying with the whole "let's meet off the network!" dealio, but I have some serious concerns. For one thing, no secret handshakes or phrases? Not even dramatic meeting locations? The trying rating is about half a star if that. And I'm almost bored to tears with the whole back and forth about what's going on. Not bored enough to give you a cheat sheet, but still. I can't get myself taken off surveillance duty, so at least try to make it a little more exciting! You guys might like this wikihow. Later! Jim Halloway Research & Development Retrspec Incorporated 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. Characters who have been in game for more than one month will find they can change their profile pictures; newcomers are locked into their first choice. At various points throughout the day users will be sent images of themselves from behind, regardless of where they are. There doesn't seem to be any way to catch whoever might be taking and sending these, however, especially since being alone in a room doesn't seem to be a deterrent.

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[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa To not be so flippant about it, each of the things we've seen pop up have gotten fixed, after a time. The swearing filter and screen names and profile pictures.
Hitori Togusa So there is somebody working on the application. I don't know how much time it would take to implement a change even as simple as an active, updated user list.

[aegist]

Thalia Grace has it been a problem for longer than a month usually, actually?
Thalia Grace that seems to about time it out.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa I'm assuming, and I think Drake backs me up on this, that each time they do a post like the one we see here, it's a new build of the app. Which actually makes a once-a-month build a pretty aggressive schedule for their back end.
Hitori Togusa But it means that the last set of problems got fixed. And I'm not seeing anything new crop up this time, so, with luck? They've finally gotten a stable foundation.

[aegist]

Thalia Grace so they're like making it from scratch or just updating it once per month?
Thalia Grace maybe the "problem" is the photographs they're sending.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Ooh. No wait, keep going with that. I'm assuming they're just pushing a software update once a month.
Hitori Togusa But that's an interesting idea. The photos are a problem, yes, but what if they're a bug?

[aegist]

Thalia Grace which brings my question to "when will you update features we want, like not being here."
Thalia Grace it could be, but it's really connected to what he was saying isn't it? i mean a bit too much to be 100% random.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Did you try that experiment last month, to stay off the app for a week? It didn't do any good. The guy that was running it still had problems.
Hitori Togusa Which bothers me because it suggests there is some other factor that is uniting all of us, and Retrospec is just, like Jim suggests, a way to keep tabs on us.

[aegist]

Thalia Grace no, i didn't. did you?
Thalia Grace i kind of need my phone + stuff so it seemed pointless.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Tried, but didn't last the full week. I ended up getting assigned to something at work.

[A something named Dante.]

Hitori Togusa Although the app is one way they can mess with us, there is probably some other way they're doing it.

[aegist]

Thalia Grace do you know if anyone had memories or whatever while they were on strike?

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Souji's hair turned white.
Hitori Togusa Although it didn't happen during the strike, I've also gotten reports of people getting injuries, in the same manner of randomness as the physical changes. Scars, at least.

[aegist]

Thalia Grace but not non-healed injuries?

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa From my understanding? No. No sudden medical emergencies of that nature.
Hitori Togusa If you experience something like that, or if you want to make sure my answer is right, we've got Dr. Lucian Trevelyan and Dr. Grell Sutcliffe on here, who have been examining people.
Hitori Togusa They've also been pretty good about coming up with medical notes for people for school or work.

[aegist]

Thalia Grace at least there's that.
Thalia Grace though a part of me feels like it might be only a matter of time?

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa Yes and no? I think that might be outside of their reach. Everything they've replaced still has to have all the same functionality as what came before it.
Hitori Togusa Horses are now draft birds, not tiny birds. I think that applies to us, too.

[aegist]

Thalia Grace that's true.
Thalia Grace weird but true.
Thalia Grace sometimes there's extra functionality, though.

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa The fruits can dance and smile, in addition to growing and reproducing out of seeds, being able to be eaten. I get you.
Hitori Togusa So can they add, but not take away?

[aegist]

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