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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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[roseblooms]

I'm assuming that's a sentiment born of more than just this particular incident.

[sharplydressed]

yeah
i mean he's only posted twice?
but he was kind of a bag of dicks both times so

[roseblooms]

What did he say the last time?

[sharplydressed]

he made a giant awful meme video about the dancing fruit and then proposed to some random lady who's probably behind at least some of this
it was weird
and sad
also annoying
like please treat these horrific changes a little more seriously jim??

[roseblooms]

...Go back to the part about proposing.

As in MARRIAGE??

[sharplydressed]

yeah like
full on will you marry me
but tacked onto the end of a meme video about dancing fruit

[roseblooms]

How baffling.

Did he receive any reply?

[sharplydressed]

if he did, we didn't see it
which is tragic tbh
i was hoping for an equally hilarious rejection

[roseblooms]

Perhaps in the form of the dancing fruit being loaded into an equally merry blender.

[sharplydressed]

now THAT would be something worth watching (๑ゝڡ◕๑)
entertainment for us is better than entertainment for jim anyway

[roseblooms]

Someone with more computer skill than me should absolutely put such a video together, as far as I'm concerned.

Unfortunately, I lack the personal aptitude for that.

[sharplydressed]

i have a friend who might be into making something like that
it'd be a nice side project i think
like work on tracking down retrospec for the main course
side dish: meme wars

[roseblooms]

When in doubt, send in the internet, eh?

[sharplydressed]

it's a pretty tried and true method right?
jim would probably be right at home with the people who would rise to that challenge though

[roseblooms]

Quite possibly he was — or IS — one of those people, himself.

Still, I'm not sure what else there is to do. It's as the saying goes, if you're not on offense, then you're forever on defense.

[sharplydressed]

i wouldn't be surprised if that turned out true
he's probably making more memes as we speak

but yeah
that's probably the most frustrating part about this whole thing
the "not being able to do much of anything about anything" part

[roseblooms]

Perhaps he's trying to instill a sense of learned helplessness into us.

Not that I'm any great expert, mind, but I took a psychology class once.

[sharplydressed]

wouldn't the whole encouraging us to fight back harder thing he just pulled be a little counterproductive then?
unless he's just being a dick again
and not even a helpful cryptic one
which could be totally legit

[roseblooms]

Not necessarily. If we fight back harder only to be quashed again, it's that much more potent of a reminder of how powerless we are.

Assuming we are, in fact, powerless.

[sharplydressed]

ugh
looking at it like that makes jim seem less like a sad prankster with no life and more like a disgusting sleazeball with no life

or maybe this is some kind of reverse reverse psychology and he's trying to trick us into thinking we're powerless by pretending we're not, so we don't find out that we're ACTUALLY not

i'm going to give myself a headache at this rate