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[recollecters]

Maurice was going to do this, but Maurice sucks so I sent him home before he could. Anyway, some of you may have noticed our new poll feature! We just don't have the time and resources to cater to all your "where is x item, what the fuck" complaints, so we had to streamline. The polls were the result of that! Coded them myself. I mean, Maurice did some of it, but I did most of it. So basically we're democratically crowd-sourcing what we're going to bother to fix for you! You can send thank you notes to the building, HR doesn't mind. So far it seems like you all care about the color blue most, so we fixed it! A little, anyway. I suggest a bracing walk through the woods if you particularly missed the color and don't feel like gazing deeply into a hobo's eyes. You've all been reading up on QR codes, right? You might also want to learn to start a fire. Just a tip. Jim Halloway Research & Development Retrspec Incorporated As per the World Regains tracker, fruits and flowers that were once blue are once again blue. This includes the echo flowers in the Recollé woods! NPCs seem to be incapable of seeing this color still, however, and will not note any differences. The color does not seem capable of being transferred to anything else, either, and any attempts to do so will simply fade the color of the thing you were trying to use to do that. Furthermore, one thread of at least 10 comments from you from this post may be supplied for one untriggered memory by linking the thread and in explanation putting "June Freebie". This may only be claimed through the rest of June, and may not be claimed after the month ends. 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.

Comments

[erythristic]

i know you'll read this, mr. halloway, even if you don't reply. but things didn't need to be fixed before you decided to break them. it's unethical to cause the problems you then act like you're so benevolent for fixing them. if you'd like to read lovely thank you notes, you could start with a less patronizing tone.

this may be useless venting, but it does make one feel slightly better.

[originallutece]

I believe the problem lies in thinking he gives a damn about being unethical.

[erythristic]

it's hardly going to give satisfactory results for his testing pool if he continually makes more problems in his software and acts as though that's acceptable to proceed with. willful manipulation is one thing, slovenly workmanship is another. this is probably both.

[originallutece]

True. One tends not to tell one's subject you're trying to manipulate them; he's really not doing a very good job. But that's to our benefit, I suppose.

[erythristic]

it may denote confidence we should be wary of. stupidity can mask genius. but i'd like to believe he's just that stupid.

[originallutece]

"Like to believe", but . . . how likely do you think it is that he's truly a genius?

[erythristic]

he's either a genius or a complete fool. equal odds, really.

[caelestialis]

I'm glad you took the time to say it. You were able to word why it felt so frustrating to read this post.

[erythristic]

i've kept quiet for months, but that doesn't mean i'm fine with what he's been saying.

[caelestialis]

I don't think any of us has been fine with what he's been saying or doing for a long, long time.

This has to be one of the most frustrating aspects of this problem. They know how we feel about these actions and yet they keep trucking along, seemingly without a care in the world.

[erythristic]

oh, they have cares. the question is, about what? how do we appeal, when we aren't what they care for?

[caelestialis]

We're not what they want, that's for sure, but maybe we're connected to it somehow?

If we can figure it out and get it before them then we may finally have an edge or leverage against the company?

[erythristic]

something like that, definitely. or we somehow convince them it's better for their interests to listen to us. i've got to come up with some kind of strategy.

[caelestialis]

I'll like to help you out with that if I can be of any use to it.

[erythristic]

of course. it reassures me to know you're on my team when it comes to this.

[caelestialis]

I'll always do my best to have your back! That's what friends are for after all. Helping each other out be it support or alibis.

[true_noir]

It is a little cathartic, is it not?

[erythristic]

a little. i don't want to make a habit of being a woman who screams at a brick wall that neither notes nor cares about her thoughts.

[true_noir]

It does, however, allow us to converse after we are done venting. Seems to be a common use of these.

Since, you know, he never replies.

[erythristic]

at there is the small comfort that we are not alone in our displeasure at being treated thusly.

[true_noir]

And we can make sure that we've caught up, whether there's something more wrong. It can be hard to keep tabs on everything, especially when we're fighting giant centipedes or the like.

[erythristic]

so in essence, a community bulletin board of sorts?

[true_noir]

Admit it. That is what these have become. We vent, and then we catch up to make sure everyone is ok. It seems pretty consistent at this point.

[erythristic]

okay is slowly becoming more and more relative by the week. if we have all our limbs and our sense, that seems to suffice.

[true_noir]

I'm partial to being better than ok, and even more partial to other people I care about being better, but I will take it in the meantime. The alternative is much worse, often enough.