OKCINDR POST #5

[expiationmods]

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! 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 January 2nd, characters randomly look back at their tablets to see the following:

OKCINDR PROFILE RESET #4
PLEASE RESET PROFILE

This month, if players reset their profile, they will have a list of questions to answer:

- What is the maximum amount of sheep you have counted when trying to fall asleep?
- Is it harder to forgive yourself, or to forgive others?
- How strongly do you feel that the past defines a person?
- What is your dream?
- Why would an android's dream contain electric sheep? Are they particularly drawn to livestock animals?
- If you could return to one specific moment in your life, would you?
- How do you wake up from a dream?
- Please
- Wake up
- You must wake up

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

[nightwild]

how does that work
background processes
is that like a dream
?

[mysophobic]

It must be a little weird though...seeing yourself and having a conversation with yourself?! [ Can you imagine two Shigeru's?? ]

But I guess as long as they're okay with it. Not that they really have a choice here or anything, but.

Planet...Earth? Huh never heard of it. But a lot of people are from there? Like alternate realities and stuff. It makes me think of the many-worlds theory where the choice someone makes creates a new universe and is exponential. It's pretty fascinating that we get to see it in real-time.

[howyouseit]

I'd say you clearly don't know the difference between ingenuity and destruction.

[rebellions]

ingwhatnow
speak like a normal person

[incorrigibles]

Yeah, Gab's the same. He's from Junpei's world. Don't think he asked for him, though, he just showed up one day.

[ he sounds far less uncomfortable with this — but then, perhaps he is too used to supernatural things happening in his general vicinity to be too worried about this. besides, he loves dogs, this is just an upside in this simulation. ]

A good boy, aren't you, Bear? [ said earnestly with a bright grin, before he lifts his gaze from the dog to shaw and laughs, a little sheepishly. ]

Oh, that? The mirror. It's a ghost thing. Quicker, innit, just step into a mirror at home and emerge here, yeah?

[incorrigibles]

the more you know, i guess

so, what do you actually... do? for this mukuro person

[incorrigibles]

[ not pictured: charles having a whole giggling fit over the description "coding literacy of a banana" ]

right, i'll remember that. not that i have any idea what the hell biochem even is

but is there such a thing as spider genetics? like, you get amazing arms from being part-spider? damn, sounds right unfair

no worries, it happens!

[incorrigibles]

uh, the read from a book and say some spells kind. or draw some symbols in a circle kind. there's variety

[ he's an expert already — ]

there's proper jobs, yeah! you could work at a store or run a bar or... you know, those are pretty much the jobs i know of. the locals don't like us much anymore but you can still work for them, or work for some of us who own businesses, i guess. you still need money to buy food and stuff, so, you know

[incorrigibles]

trust me, i can be cagey too if i want. just, it was you asking, yeah? so i don't mind.

not sure i'd go as far as to call them friends, though.

how about you? you seem to get along pretty well with the cats here. you ever got a pet or something?

[runeing]

[ a huff of breath, at that, ] Yes, I have no doubts. Perhaps in another world, I would have stayed in Zaun and worked for him. Not in this one.

[ and whether zaun is the better or the worse for it... well. he can't say. and in any case, he forgets about that when octavian keeps speaking; once again, the compliment makes him feel wrong-footed, and he blinks, opens his mouth, then closes it with a snap.

finally, with a wry twist of his lips, ]

You may be the only one who thinks so. [ jayce doesn't count; jayce is an outlier with a weird taste in friends.

and maybe, if he was smoother, he might say something like then i am glad you found me — but instead, he aims a small but sincere smile at octavian and says, ] But thank you. I could say the same about you.

[thenicerone]

It's not a problem at all!

Just let me know when you want me to talk about it.

[thenicerone]

...

Even if things might get violent and death might occur here too?

[thenicerone]

I only recently started it!

It's very different from what I'm used to. I'm usually someone who heals people!

[despitethenora]

A healer. That's good.
What made you decide to learn a weapon?

[spideyguy]

[ He's been known to drop a few chuckles. A smattering of guffaws. He's honored, really. ]

the chemistry of biology
how the body responds to things
like researching new medications, that's part of what i'm studying at school

well when the spider bit me
it injected part of its genetic code into mine
so my dna is actually different than it was
what i have is the proportional strength of a spider

[ What the hell does that mean, Peter? ]

spiders can lift up to 170 times their own weight

text; un: adsj

[dorotabeau]

i think it would look more like you if it had a bigger mouth

[He types, with only the best of intentions. Vash is so much more expressive than that!]

[babilun]

I'm a King. Keeping stock of inventory is the basic of basic.

his opinion of Gil is slowly changing into something favorable HELP

[gravity_flares]

"Basic of basic", and yet a lotta people calling themselves that won't even bother with that kind of responsibility. Let alone to see any value in it behind quantity...

[...]

Guess now's as good of time as anyー so, good luck getting your treasure back, Queenie.

[izanagis]

[a beat]

Okay, actually, that was a good one.

[variantcover]

uhhhh possibly? there's more than one of a lot of people.

[ But there being more than one Gwen Poole would mean that there's more than one real world. Which... Really, when Gwen thinks about it, is actually way more likely and plausible than she would have initially thought. After all, isn't every world real to the people who live in it? ]

huh, this conversation is kind of mindfreaking me all of a sudden...

[variantcover]

oh dude, I love penguins! I have a penguin backpack and everything.
being a teleporting penguin would be so cool.
except...
if the conceit of the dream is that every time you teleport, you change into a different animal...
then you'd only be a penguin with the potential to teleport, because as soon as you actually teleported, you'd stop being a penguin.

[variantcover]

well, I'm sort of a reality warper? except the way that I warp reality is really specialized to the specific way that that one reality functions. so now that I'm in a different reality with different rules, I can't do any of the stuff I can normally do.

maybe if I can figure out the way this place works, then I can find a way to manipulate it like I manipulate stuff on Earth-616. but that might take me a while.

[runeing]

Yes, because an all-powerful entity capable of removing people from a specific point in their timelines would surely put these people in a failing simulation, instead of a perfect illusion created around us.

I am making assumptions, yes, but so are you. You have just as little proof as I do, which makes the conversation on that part unnecessary.

But no, I will not say it is not important. On that, I agree. We must investigate it further.

[laserguy]

i asked quentin before and got a sort of vague answer.

pretty much 'that's really cool, but kind of sucks.' and only worry if i start having thoughts about remaking the world or burning it down.

[donger]

Why, all technological innovations are exciting to an inventor who has never seen their like before!

Though, I must ask after your choice in terminology.

What differentiates a 'machine' from an 'android?'