OKCINDR POST #1 ✨ STICKY ✨

[expi]

Ever wanted to have CR with a character and wasn't sure how to get them to cross paths? Wanted a dating app so you can hook up with hot people? Wanted to just find friends because you're a lonely bastard?

With the update of the tablets and the apps, we now have a dating / friendship app called OKCINDR! We're testing it out as a sticky post right after we process apps and newbies get oocly settled into the game. Players can use it as they please for the two months that it's up -- just imagine that they're profiles to swipe right on and everything. The idea is to encourage CR that may be difficult to get with characters who may or may not be interested in events / posts / logs / other network posts.

So, on May 2nd, characters randomly look back at their tablets to see the following:

OKCINDR PROFILE RESET #1
PLEASE RESET PROFILE

Players, of course, are able to ignore this message. However, if a character wouldn't fill it out but a player would like to participate... the profile mysteriously resets itself. There may even be responses sent from Character A to Character B without Character A actually doing anything, if you'd like! This is a completely opt-in scenario! But for players who would like to participate fill out the post:

network profile

Character_Name

@username

ABOUT_ME

CODING

<lj-raw><div style="width:280px;margin:0 auto;background:#fff;box-shadow:1px 1px 4px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.15);border:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.1);border-bottom:4px solid #587AC0;border-radius:4px;overflow:hidden;line-height:1.7;font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;"> <!--HEADER--> <div style="text-align:center;background:#587AC0;padding:5px 0 5px 10px;display:flex;align-items:center;color:#fff;font-size:25px;font-family:georgia,serif;font-style:italic;letter-spacing:-1px;"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/wmn8wYK.png" style="filter:invert(1);margin:0 5px 0 0;">network profile</div> <!--PFP--> <div style="height:220px;overflow:hidden;"> <img src="URL HERE" style="width:100%;height:auto;"> </div> <!--USER INFO--> <div style="border-bottom:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.1);padding:10px 5px;margin:0 10px;font-size:13px;line-height:1.2;"> <b style="color:#587AC0;">Character_Name</b> <div style="color:#999;">@username</div> </div> <!--BLURB--> <div style="padding:15px;max-height:160px;overflow:auto;box-sizing:border-box;color:#222;"> ABOUT_ME </div> </div><div style="margin:3px auto 0 auto;width:280px;font-size:8px;letter-spacing:1px;text-align:right;"><a href="https://tessisamess.insanejournal.com/155095.html" style="color:#999;text-decoration:none;">CODING</a></div></lj-raw>

If you'd like to for shits and giggles, here's some notifications that may be used:

Name (@username) followed you

<lj-raw><div style="display:flex;align-items:center;font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#333;"> <img src="ICON_URL" style="height:33px;width:33px;background:#587AC0;border-radius:100%;padding:2px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0 -8px 0 0;"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/zhQOLFl.png" style="margin:0 5px -15px 0;height:17px;position:relative;"> Name (@username) followed you </div></lj-raw>

Name (@username) unfollowed you

<lj-raw><div style="display:flex;align-items:center;font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#333;"> <img src="ICON_URL" style="height:33px;width:33px;background:#587AC0;border-radius:100%;padding:2px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0 -8px 0 0;"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/4FkVwag.png" style="margin:0 5px -15px 0;height:17px;"> Name (@username) unfollowed you </div></lj-raw>

Name (@username) blocked you

<lj-raw><div style="display:flex;align-items:center;font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#333;"> <img src="ICON_URL" style="height:33px;width:33px;background:#587AC0;border-radius:100%;padding:2px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0 -8px 0 0;"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Qu752sX.png" style="margin:0 5px -15px 0;height:17px;"> Name (@username) blocked you </div></lj-raw>

Have fun! Code credit.

Comments

[rebellions]

no
I guess not?
I just didn't think you'd be into this sorta crap

not judging or anything
it's just... unexpected

[ This feels so awkward... ]

[entreats]

Well, it's not like you're wrong. I'm not really into the idea of talking with other people all that much.

But there are a few people here who have been pretty good about providing me information about this place, so I thought it'd be good to connect with them in all sorts of places.

[ At least she's not calling out the protective behaviour here.. Or maybe it's just that Ange doesn't even realise it's there.. ]

[rebellions]

this ain't a place for gathering information!!

[ ... ]

not... that sort of information anyway
and there are all sorts of weirdos here

nothing useful to find here really

[entreats]

[ ... ]

You know, you seem weirdly insistent on this.

[ Uh-oh, she's catching on-- ]

Have you been having that many weird experiences on here because of that photo?

[ --oooor maybe she's not, actually. ]

[rebellions]

[ Oh fuck oh shit─ he thought things are about to get awkward, but instead, she makes it awkward AND makes him feel stupid while at it. This has to be a talent, really. ]

NO!!!?!!?

I mean
yeah
but it could've been worse

that's not the point anyway

[ What is his point? Even he's having trouble figuring that one out. ]

[entreats]

[ Sorry, Ragna, but you just make it so easy!

Take this message, for example. It's like he's putting the ball right in front of his own goal, making it so easy for Ange to go ahead and score with minimal effort. In this case just through saying-- ]

Then what is the point?

[ Nowhere to run, Ragna.. Nowhere to hide... ]

[rebellions]

[ It's so over. He might as well bite the bullet and hope it causes less damage than digging his grave further. ]

this is a dating app

[ Despite being text, it probably carries across the "Sir, this is a Wendy's" tone pretty well. ]

[entreats]

[ ....

............ ]

It's a network app.

It says 'network profile.' Right above everyone's profile.

[ See, this being text makes it easy to imagine this is Ange dryly pointing that out to Ragna.. But, no, this is a little more desperate than that. It's Ange really hoping that her interpretation is the right one, because Ragna's own sure has some Implications that push her right to the edge of the cliff of getting horribly flustered. ]

[rebellions]

look through the profiles here again and tell me they don't serve one purpose and one purpose only

[ It's not just the one he got stuck with, either. Sure, some poor, unsuspecting souls might think it's just to make friends or whatever, but as far as he can tell, it's pretty obvious what this place is intended for. ]

[entreats]

That's because this place is turning them into something dumb!

I don't know why it's so fixated on sex either. It's dumb. Who even thinks about sex? Ragna, do you ever think about sex?

[ Somehow.. the big brother-younger sibling energy is still there..

Just in the worst way possible. ]

[rebellions]

[ What the actual fuck is he looking at. Ragna double takes at the question, staring at it for longer than probably necessary to respond to a simple inquiry. What is he even supposed to say to that??? It feels like there's no right answer to this one. ]

I uh


dunno?

[ Lord have mercy on him, he has no idea what he's doing and it shows. ]

[entreats]

You don't know? What kind of answer is that?

[ Apparently there's no such easy escape here.. ]

Isn't it a pretty simple yes or no question?

[rebellions]

[ Why does it feel like he's getting judged? He hasn't even done anything wrong! ]

it is when you put me on a spot like this!!!

[entreats]

How am I putting you on the spot???

It's a factual question. Like when your birthday is. It's easy to answer factual questions! I can tell you right now that I never think about sex, you know. Ever!! Let alone as much as some of the people here apparently do!!

[rebellions]

isn't it that thing in psychology or whatever??
if I tell you not to think about pink elephants, you're immediately gonna think pink elephants
you can't say you NEVER think about something while saying you don't think about it, since you're thinking about thinking about it, so that means you're thinking about it right now!!!

and if everyone here is a fucking horndog, how are you supposed NOT to think about it??

[ Thanks for attending Philosophy 101 with Professor Bloodedge. ]

[entreats]

That's easy. You just have to be above them.

Are you saying you're not above them?

[rebellions]

[ Fuck. ]

I uh






... can't really say I am at this point, can I

[ After that (somewhat embarrassing) tirade he's just gone on? It's pretty clear on which side of the fence he is and there's no going back. ]

[entreats]

So you were one of them all along, huh?

I should have known. I have no allies in this place.

[ SO DRAMATIC.. Over practically nothing at all...

Granted, the dramatics are probably on purpose. But still. Poor Ragna was put through the wringer. ]

[rebellions]

[ Why does it feel bad when he hasn't actually done anything? Actually, scratch that, he's long since lost the track of what he's being accused of here, so he doesn't even know if he's guilty or not. ]

gimme a break...
there's nothing to think about anyway

[ Why is everyone so interested in his (lack of) sex life anyway?? It shouldn't be anyone's business but his... ]