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[recollecters]

Hello Users, For those of you who are new: 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. 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. For all, new and old: Please be advised that should you go above and beyond the call of duty for Mr. Halloway's little game in the coming days, there may be a reward granted or information given. 100% completion would be the goal for that, should you have an interest. If you have no interest in the matter, please feel free to carry on as usual. R&D will not be handling further communiques for this month, or possibly the next few months. This should not, of course, have any impact on your usage of Retrospec™. The first milestone for the second of the colors lost has been met, and accordingly we have diverted resources to fix what could be fixed. R&D has alerted me that a bigger loss may occur in the near future, and I would advise you to be careful, though I am afraid neither they nor I can be much more detailed than that. Finally, I would like to extend congratulations to those of you who have now reached your sixth month. We hope you will continue to accept our assistance in these trying times. Thank you for your patience, Janet Wiseman Human Resources Retrspec Incorporated As of this post green fruits and flowers of this color regain their pigment. (Note: this is not all plants. This is just for flowers and fruits!) 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. Any new characters will find that the first photo they upload is locked as their profile picture for the rest of the month. Characters who have been in game since February will find their profiles now have a 6 months badge. It does absolutely nothing of note.

Comments

[mercurio]

you sure you don't need any photographers once in a while in that club....

[he just wants to capture badass ladies on film]

[appraiser]

we could take it off blogging and meet up in person

[notyourutopian]

Yeah it was.
I was a thirteen year old girl who wanted to talk about robots and discovered real quick being a girl was not the best thing in that space.
I wouldn't do it now but.
Yeah.

Point is!

I was pretty convincing. Nobody figured me out.
Jim could be too.

[impulsives]

yea, tried looking into the source code too. it...

let's just say that with that kind of code, it shouldn't be able to run in the first place, but here we are.

[alitaba]

I would have at least taken a fantasy game over an open world survival one. I want a sword!

[centurian]

[ literally all he wants to do is type "this is crazy" or "how is this scientifically possible" but he resists doing that because. hey. she said not to. ]

Now, I don't want you to think I'm overreacting or anything, but...

...Do you ever have those moments where you start to wonder if your entire life has been a lie?

[storytelleroftime]

I mean, being cryptic is an underrated art if you ask me. It takes a certain level of skill to be cryptic. But honestly this is just HR tactics, not the crypticness.

[lalliho]

I'll make sure to remember that you'll lie to me in six months then

assuming no one's figured out how to delete this still

[thisloveisjustice]

We, the 'users', are the only ones who see it. I tried showing it to the guys in the lab not long after I got it, and nothing. I tried it on a public computer at the library, and the lady next to me didn't see it. I like to call them 'nappers,' non-app-users. Because it's like we're awake and they're asleep.

[he almost wants to say 'like you were until today' but let's not go there]

Try not to think about the overlaps too hard at first. It's kind of headache inducing.

[storytelleroftime]

My my, are you quoting Janet now?

[abovethefold]

Katherine Lutece My father would say that hunches are what poor men use to compensate for a lack of critical reasoning.

[Her father is a ray of sunshine.]

Katherine Lutece With all of the personal data they've been able to pull from our devices, they're sitting on a veritable goldmine of information. How users respond to new stimuli, whether or not we band together to take on challenges or crumble under the pressure, how we think...
Katherine Lutece It's certainly possible that they aren't, but if that's the case, what's their end goal?

[appraiser]

what a cute cat~
would you keep an elephant?

[impulsives]

says the guy that immediately judged me the moment we started talking through this app. ok.

[ ...and oh? ]

oh really?

[redarm]

fuck yes.

[lingeringwill]

maybe they've hit the point of no return

and are scrambling to piece things back together

or maybe they don't really care

there's a lot of questions around it

...also, that simulation stuff would be even worse than the universe cracking
so actually, you're more morbid than i am

[mercurio]

still fighting the good fight for our blue huh

[centurian]

Now that's a comforting thought. I can see the headlines now:

Massive Malware Infection: Local Authorities just don't give a damn.

[appraiser]

oh
haha i didn't even realize that i did
but trying times is what this is!

[potentite]

It does NOT!
Too long here means about a day or two. Thats a frightfully lengthy bout without electronic trappings.

[rygdea]

Fynn Izunia Definitely.
Fynn Izunia It's like having the cat out of the damn bag! We knew this was coming but this soon?
Fynn Izunia Still not getting how any of this mess is possible but then again, I've only read shit like this in SciFi novels.

[abovethefold]

Katherine Lutece Honestly, I'm not even sure they have hiring requirements at all. We don't know much about how the company functions. As far as I've seen, they've never interacted with any of us outside of these administrative posts.

[storytelleroftime]

Yeah. Perhaps we should wage Meme Jihad on Retrospec as a form of retaliation. Counter insanity with meme magic.

[vendettastool]

That she is. She's such a queen too taking over my laptop.

Nothing too major, just the quarterly review of finances and approval for budgeting. The accountants handle most of it, I just go over it to make sure things are spaced right and such.

[openhanded]

it really isn't shocking news, you're right
but it's part of a bigger picture
I believe that looking into our past can help us with what's happening right now.

[feistytrader]

Because magical firework powers, while cool, would probably be pretty useless.
Unless you used them for a distraction, I guess.
Or as a flare.
Nevermind, upgrade them to mildly useless.