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

[icyvoid]

[ This is sounding a little familiar... ]

That's admirable. Not many people out there think about everyone. [ And she is hoping he does mean that, as someone from a poor district herself. ] How exactly is it going to better people's lives, though? Can it heal people or keep them protected?

un: deadboydetective

[incorrigibles]

hey, i'm a detective too! and i'm trying to learn some more magic as well

can't say the detective thing translates to much here, though, except being nosy about stuff

[variantcover]

yeah I didn't know about it until pretty recently, either
but ever since I found out about it it was like
✨~WOOAAHHH~✨
so many things make so much sense now!!

[abandonware]

ghosts are a sort of tale humans tell to describe the dead. is that right?
androids don't have souls. we're just

[another pause. she works out how to describe it.]

dolls.
but we can die.

Re: un: goo

[variantcover]

let me guess. you're more used to seeing it in red & black with a way less flattering mask?

[chimericalclaw]

It's a good place to be around people without having to interact, so you can start getting used to them.

I could take you there, if you like. We don't have to do much talking, either, if that would help.

un; shades

[laserguy]

says you.

[king of come backs, this one.......]

don't complain to me if the same thing happens to you later.

un; shades

[laserguy]

how long did it take you to come up with that one?

[chimericalclaw]

It's something that takes a lot of time to begin with, and I imagine traveling just to see the sights could take your mind off of things. I've always enjoyed a long hike to clear my head, though it's been a while.

[scientits]

You think this whole forced socialization is just a way for the AI to spy on us while we let our guard down? That...makes a terrifying amount of sense.

Do you know a lot about these sorts of machines? This area of technology is new to me, we don't have anything quite like it back home.

[abandonware]

yeah. machines evolve this way. saw it on the field a lot. more when i started to talk to them.

i do. i'm an android.

un: shades

[laserguy]

[oh hey peter.]

you know.

if a bird basically lives in you. does it also mean it shits in you.

text; un: cyclops

[laserguy]

well i've seen her eat crackers and stuff before. and birds obviously shit and everything still.

but i never see her do that.

and she basically lives inside me.

[scientits]

And I'm not even getting any funding out of it here. Still, I guess at least we don't have to dress up.

[ He doesn't have anything against getting to know new people and making connections and possibly even friends, but he'd rather do it on his own terms? Or at least get paid for it, come on. ]

I'm starting to get a little worried about how invested our host is in our social lives.

[scientits]

...yeah okay, I was right, I do regret asking that.

[ this is all too much for his just recently lost his virgin ears??? ]

It's a long story, but I promise it's not as bad as it sounds?

[laserguy]

she's a cosmic space force. sort of. long story.

so you're saying that when i shit, she does too?? that's weird.

[abandonware]

a machine protecting humans?

[Unseen, her eyes widen.]

...
i've never heard of that before.
what did she do?

[scientits]

Huh...I guess that would come in useful if you're having difficulty conveying tone or expression through text. But I'm not touching any of the...emotes, not after this.

I mean I'm probably the most biased source you can possibly ask about that, all things considered, but fear of change only leads to stagnation. Sometimes boundaries need to be pushed if you want to make any change to the world. [ though granted, he's been second-guessing that conviction thanks to recent events...but he can probably still fix things. he hopes. ]

No, don't apologize please. What kind of scientist would I be if I couldn't expect questions?

[scientits]

I think you and I have very different definitions of the word 'fun'.

Sorry to disappoint, but my scientific endeavors don't end that messily. Usually.

[scientits]

Obviously! I didn't even know this whole...forced socialization protocol was happening! I was busy!

[ Cait you of all people should know that Jayce would never?? He barely even knew what sex was until like a couple months ago!! ]

[icyvoid]

[ That's what she was afraid of hearing. There's no right way to say 'no one should be created to be cannon fodder' to someone who was created for just that reason. It's all just...not right. ]

I'm sorry.
No one should be used like that.
And no one here can make you fight if you don't want to.

[bulleting]

[She knows this but she loves to give him a hard time. It's part of her job, as little sister.]

Hm. That's what they all say.

[SAYS "CUPCAKE" OVER HERE....but that was Vi, not the AI, which maybe makes it that much worse.]

[howyouseit]

I think just one would suffice, Jinx. That gives me an excuse to come back and try the others another time, right?

[endcaller]

Oh, you're a scientist, mm?

My, my, my, why are men of science so appealing to the AI? There are a great many on this star.

Are we so prone to sin that we are more likely to be forced to atone?

[traumaticus]

then what of the other one? have you found battles as inescapable as the seasons?