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Expiation Mods ([personal profile] expiationmods) wrote in [community profile] expiationnet2025-01-02 03:50 pm

OKCINDR POST #5

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




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

Name (@username) followed you




Name (@username) unfollowed you




Name (@username) blocked you




Have fun! Code credit.
manifestering: (009)

[personal profile] manifestering 2025-01-02 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
No
I told you I am not the kind of ghost you think I am
I can interact with the world more or less
However
I need blood and other sundry
Blood is the material people are less willing to donate
eternalcutie: insovereign @ lj (let me think about how stupid you are)

[personal profile] eternalcutie 2025-01-02 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Fair enough, blood can be hard to come by. Is there such a thing as a "blood bank" here?
manifestering: (012)

[personal profile] manifestering 2025-01-02 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
There was an effort made by some charlatan months ago to start one, I have heard nothing of it since
Most likely they have vanished
eternalcutie: monopoly (yo is that a cute girl or)

[personal profile] eternalcutie 2025-01-02 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Shame, that would have been convenient.

Vanished? You mean, they were returned to where they came from?
manifestering: (007)

[personal profile] manifestering 2025-01-02 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed, I could stop begging

And yes or however it works
It is unclear what or how much of us exists outside of this simulation
Obviously some of us do not have bodies to return to any longer
eternalcutie: artbombs (totally innocent guys)

[personal profile] eternalcutie 2025-01-03 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought no one knew how to go back. It just happens by accident?
manifestering: (003)

[personal profile] manifestering 2025-01-03 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Or so I hear
Some young women inquired about shared experiences on this network recently
That may be an informative resource


[He didn't... read the replies, personally, oops. But maybe!]
eternalcutie: monopoly (i'm just saying.)

[personal profile] eternalcutie 2025-01-03 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll have to look it up. It's nice having such a huge database of information, but the organization is not the best.
manifestering: (012)

[personal profile] manifestering 2025-01-03 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It is a free for all for nonsense
Which does have its place but you are right
It is also a mess

Unfortunately the trustworthiness of the local libraries is constantly in doubt
eternalcutie: turtledork @ lj (sighs deeply)

[personal profile] eternalcutie 2025-01-04 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there something wrong with the traditional libraries? I was hoping to garner some information there.
manifestering: (007)

[personal profile] manifestering 2025-01-04 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Personal bias I suppose
When I arrived here the city itself was falling apart akin to a program ceasing its proper function
Altered perceptions, weather patterns that did not make sense, the locals ceasing to behave like conscious individuals
Etc
While it has long ceased I still find it difficult to trust the things that originate in this world

But with applicable skepticism the library ought to be fine
eternalcutie: monopoly (i'm just saying.)

[personal profile] eternalcutie 2025-01-05 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose I'll just have to take everything with a grain of salt, then.

I must admit, all those things to lend credence to the theory that this is just a simulation. But I still don't understand how so many people from so many "worlds" could be here all at one time.
manifestering: (012)

[personal profile] manifestering 2025-01-05 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Smart choice

The simulation theory does seem the most correct
If not then the effort put in to maintain the illusion of a simulation is manifold and expertly done
An illusion of an illusion

What troubles you about many worlds
?
eternalcutie: monopoly (i'm just saying.)

[personal profile] eternalcutie 2025-01-08 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Assuming some kind of being is responsible for the this, the obvious question is why? Why bring in random people from many worlds? You could take the same number of people from one world and still easily guarantee they didn't know each other, or did know each other, or a mix of both. Why go to the trouble of accessing multiple worlds?
manifestering: (007)

[personal profile] manifestering 2025-01-09 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
True randomness perhaps
Not that I am sure it can be achieved even through a many worlds sampling method
This place was after all designed by this being
Presumably
But they may be using many worlds to compensate for inherent bias towards their own
eternalcutie: insovereign @ lj (this is my grown-up face)

[personal profile] eternalcutie 2025-01-11 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I still find it strange. And stranger still that although the selection appears "random", people who are not only from the same world but know each other arrive here.
manifestering: (009)

[personal profile] manifestering 2025-01-11 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
This is the problem with attempting a truly random system indeed
It is some groups more than others
Perhaps it is not random but trying to put certain people together for their rehabilitation

Did you find familiar faces
?
eternalcutie: turtledork @ lj (sighs deeply)

[personal profile] eternalcutie 2025-01-11 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
No. But, to follow your theory, no one I'm familiar with has committed the crime I'm accused of.
manifestering: (003)

[personal profile] manifestering 2025-01-11 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Fair point
Cannot rule out others from your world who you have not met either
It is not a very good theory besides as my crime is not even a crime
So perhaps the seeming failure to achieve randomness is actually our own personal bias and the system is working as intended
And the rest is coincidence