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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.
entreats: (a tourist in the waking world)

[personal profile] entreats 2025-01-07 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ Shigeru..

You're trying, at least. That's something. ]


I think it's either implying that we are the ones sleeping, or the AI that's asking the questions is the one sleeping. And that it's important to wake up instead.

Of course it's very likely to be a metaphor. As far as I know, computer programs can't sleep.
[ Not.. that Ange knows all that much about technology - this is what happens when you're from the 90s and grew up very isolated! - but she's at least fairly sure of this one? ] And it's not like we are all just stuck together in one big dream. Maybe we need to 'wake up' in the sense of not letting the wool be pulled over our eyes by someone or something.

[ Sorry, Shigeru.. Now you're stuck in Nerd Conjecture Hour.. ]
mysophobic: (97 - heedful)

[personal profile] mysophobic 2025-01-11 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
You might be right? Computers can be put into sleep mode, meaning they're in a kind of stasis of sorts until you wake them up? Maybe it's like that for this AI too... [ Hm. Very interesting. ]

That could also be it! Waking up to notice the unnatural things happening here, maybe?
entreats: (you can't decide which path to follow)

[personal profile] entreats 2025-01-17 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder what unnatural things that could be applying to. A whole lot of stuff that happens here is unnatural.

You're new here, right? You must be looking at all this stuff with a different kind of gaze compared to me. Has anything stood out to you?
mysophobic: (34 - quizzical)

[personal profile] mysophobic 2025-01-22 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Stood out? Nothing really at least right now. Besides this thing leaving really cryptic messages and even putting things in for people?

That's a little weird, right?
entreats: (honey help me out of this mess)

[personal profile] entreats 2025-01-29 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hm, so nothing new then.. Though it's not a surprise, really. Ange thinks that if she was new, the weird questions would stand out to her most as well. ]

I think those two things serve different purposes. The cryptic messages are this thing trying to communicate with us.

Whereas the weird profiles.. I don't know. Maybe something here enjoys making fun of it. It would explain the sort of things this place regularly puts us through.