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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. 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. As a reminder, everything besides uploading a profile picture and information was locked until this post. 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. Oddly, profile pictures still cannot be swapped out at this time, so hopefully you took a good one.

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[erythristic]

absolutely not. i already moved to back up my contacts when this thing wouldn't remove itself.

but does it do much harm to observe?

[daemonized]

Then you're wiser than most. I can almost guarantee that the majority of those here did nothing of the sort.

Observation is still participation. You're in just as deep as the rest of us, I'm afraid.

[erythristic]

then at least we're going down together! if our phones explode at the same instant, then we know what to blame.

tell me truthfully, if there were a ToS for this app, would you have read it? or skimmed and then chosen to install?

[daemonized]

But then we'll not have phones to complain about it with. You see the issue, surely.

You wound me! Do I seem like the sort of man who doesn't read a lengthy, mind-numbing ToS at every given opportunity? Surely not. I thrive on the tedium.

[erythristic]

in that, ardyn, you have a strength so many of us lack. where i would receive naught but a headache trying to parse all the lines, you have the capacity to turn them into understood phrases! you can't see it, but i'm applauding you.

oh wait

((audio attachment))

[did she record herself clapping? duh.]

[daemonized]

[He huffs out a laugh at that audio attachment.]

You can't see it now, but I'm taking a bow.

Though don't be so quick to applaud me. I should warn you that even after reading the frightening prospects of privacy invasion, I still click on "I agree". I need my free email, you know.

[erythristic]

it's called informed risk. they could say they would send a drone by my living room window every friday to look in through the curtains and we'd just make sure we were dressed nicely on fridays.

[daemonized]

Then there's nothing to fear. I'm always dressed nicely.

[like a hipster hobo.]

[erythristic]

it's not nice to lie.

[daemonized]

I beg your pardon! What are you implying?

[not this again.]

[erythristic]

that if this is your "nicely", i'd hate to see your "casual".

[daemonized]

State your issue, or state nothing at all! Is it the scarf? Or the fedora?

[erythristic]

the scarf could be manageable with the right shirt, but that hat is atrocious, and you will never convince me otherwise. it doesn't suit you, and pains my heart to see.

[daemonized]

[w h a t, you wound him. you absolutely wound him.]

Then we are at an impasse. I will never get rid of the hat. It suits me quite well, and it keeps the sun out of my eyes. What would you have me wear instead? Nothing on my head?

[erythristic]

one of these days i am going to come across a hat that suits you far better, and swap your hats before you can stop me. it will be a service to you, my dear friend, and to the world at large.

[daemonized]

The joke's on you. No such hat exists. What will you do now, hm?

[erythristic]

i'm not going to be so easily dissuaded!

[daemonized]

Then I'm hiding my hat from you. You'll never find it, and thus you'll never steal it. Issue solved.

[erythristic]

doesn't that mean you have to go bareheaded in front of me in order to prevent me from seeing it and thus stealing it?

[daemonized]

Sacrifices must be made to ensure the safety of those which we hold dear.

[erythristic]

and in the end i'm victorious and spared the sight of you being a completely hopeless case about fashion. you're just hopeless.

[daemonized]

Why does everyone treat me like I'm some doll to be dressed to their liking?

[Which is... not the case at all. Everyone just thinks you need different clothes, Ardyn.]

Dare I ask what you would suggest I wear? Since you've become such a critic!

[erythristic]

i wouldn't even change you that much. just put you in something a little more tailored. you can even keep the scarf

[daemonized]

Tailored is just another word for restrictive, you know.

[erythristic]

next you'll be wearing yoga pants to teach