Surfacing from coding without starbucks

[vendettastool]

Yoon-sung Lee 02/05 near Recolle

There's two things to report this morning, three if anyone wants a list of just how many times my PA beat me during our morning martial arts training. Item One: What kind of crazy details would you love to see in a game dedicated to the antics of lawyers solving impossible puzzles? Item Two: I'm not ruling out military grade coding but from what methods I've got I can't figure out what was used to create this program or how it works. That said, it seems benign. No usual activity I'd expect from a virus or any other harmful program SO FAR. There might be more to it, but I've gone through every test I can think of and nothing is coming up. It's like it doesn't exist at a certain point. If anyone has anything else to report on this program, just let me know. Sometimes more then one head helps working out a puzzle. Oh. And three: Giant chickens? Someone explain this to me, please.

Comments

[starfruitfrog]

Yuki Sato 1. The ability to shout "Objection" into an attached microphone

3. Maybe it's some kind of promotional event, like how you get people dressed up like ghosts to promote a ghost movie or something

Is there a major horse or chicken movie coming out some time soon?

[vendettastool]

Yoon-sung 1. That's something they are all saying needs to be done.

3. But why are they replacing horses?

[starfruitfrog]

Yuki Sato 1. Because it's the most important thing, obviously? Why, were you looking for some other kind of answer?

3. Maybe it's a George Orwell thing. You know, "four legs good, two legs better"?

[vendettastool]

Yoon-sung I was hoping to see what other people would also like besides yelling 'Objection!'

3. Not a good enough reason.

[rebellions]

Ragna Edgson 1. who the hell would wanna play that
Ragna Edgson 2. try using simple words or let's just skip it
Ragna Edgson 3. fuck if i know, that's the problem

[vendettastool]

Yoon-sung 1. A lot of people would enjoy it, but if you want a fighting game, that's coming out in a couple weeks.
Yoon-sung 2. Basically the new app we're using is not acting like any program I've seen and it is not a computer virus.
Yoon-sung 3. They're everywhere. Even in the game we're working on has all the horses turning into them.

[rebellions]

Ragna Edgson that sounds a lot more exciting
Ragna Edgson and i take it that's bad news to anyone trying to figure out what the hell the deal with this crap is
Ragna Edgson wait seriously? they changed into chickens in game, too?
Ragna Edgson that's crazy

[Well. The whole thing is. But that takes it even further.]

[vendettastool]

Yoon-sung We're running the beta testing in a couple days and then it'll be released for the general public.
Yoon-sung Pretty much. If you can't find the source to work from and there's nothing tracking it, then how are we to know what else this thing is for?
Yoon-sung Seriously. It's more then crazy.

[negativism]

David Song You're welcome.
David Song Also good to know that the giant birds weren't just a weird hallucination or something.

[vendettastool]

Yoon-sung I am so bruised I can barely walk.
Yoon-sung They're even in the game and Father says that they are suppose to be there.

[negativism]

David Song That's an outright lie and you know it.
David Song You know I wouldn't go that hard on you, you big baby.
David Song Weird. Never mentioned horses or anything?

[glacian]

Gentiana Illyria I suggest modeling one of the lawyer characters after this one auspicious gentleman I know. Ardyn Izunia. He's quite a ham and happens to have the gift of the silver-tongue.

Gentiana Illyria So this is as I suspected, no one knows anything about this program beyond what was told. I'm grateful this isn't a virus but this barely eases my worries.

Gentiana Illyria As for the "giant chickens", I do believe they're called...chocobos. They're quite an oddity with their brightly colored feathers. Somewhat cute.

[vendettastool]

Yoon-sung Oh? Would he be interested in something like that?

Yoon-sung Yeah, it's worrying how it just appears like it does. I'm going to try to keep an eye on it but not too sure if I will find anything else.

Yoon-sung They are but it's weird that they appeared like they did and no one knows what a horse is.

[glacian]

Gentiana Illyria I would assume so. He's quite the oddity at times but he probably would be interested. If anything, it would keep him busy.

Gentiana Illyria I heard from your employee that you're quite adept in coding. If there's any possibilities to learn more about Restrospec, I would certainly like it if you keep me in contact.

Gentiana Illyria Something peculiar has taken place. The stars are not aligned...

[daemonized]

[rude, who's a ham?]

[glacian]

[Come now. You know the answer to this, Ardyn.]

[vendettastool]

[there's nothing wrong with being a ham.]

[notbunaga]

Akinobu Taira if the puzzles are meant to be impossibly hard then make the gameplay reflect that
Akinobu Taira the people who complain about them being too hard either wont play the game and just watch an lp or theyll look up a guide
Akinobu Taira dont try and appeal to casuals most of them dont actually give you money anyway

[vendettastool]

Yoon-sung We're going to make the puzzles solvable, just not right away kind of solvable because that would just take the fun out of it. Breezing through a game is always boring.
Yoon-sung That's with most games.
Yoon-sung We're looking at trying a few newer designs then our usual so it's not appealing to casuals, it's more like trying to figure out what would work in the genre.

[notbunaga]

Akinobu Taira well, is the game gonna be level based where you just go from puzzle to puzzle between cutscenes
Akinobu Taira or like a vn
Akinobu Taira like 99+99+99

[clear_eyes]

Has anyone suggested investigative work and interrogations yet? For the game I mean.

[Rachel is trying not to talk about the chickens.]

[vendettastool]

I think that's going to be part of the plan. But we're looking for ideas on weird stories that a lawyer may get called in to work on.

[clear_eyes]

Well, I guess you can count out civil cases!

But hm. That requires a bit of thought...

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa I can only speak to your second point, but there has to be some hardware aspect to the program, as well. Not only can it recognize a user without a login, it'll actively switch between active users on the same machine, so long as they both have an account.
Hitori Togusa It's beyond anything I've ever seen. But, of course, I can't kick this thing over to the tech people I'd normally ask to take a look. It would vanish as soon as I handed them my phone.

[vendettastool]

Young-sung Lee That's why I think military grade software. There would need to be a few layers of a couple other programs that can register the differences in users even if they are on the same machine.
Young-sung Lee This is what I do, though more of a general side thing to my day job. I find coding fun.