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repeter2017-04-16 09:01 pm
recollecters) wrote in repeter2017-04-16 09:01 pm
APRIL TDM
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APRIL TEST DRIVE The city of Recollé. A beautiful city you've called home for quite some time. While things can be a little weird, isn't that true of all homes? It's fully spring now, and there are flowers to be found everywhere. April's showers are a familiarity as well, the occasional downpour or drizzle keeping you on your toes. What will you do today? I. April showers bring May flowers, right? Well, there are already plenty of flowers to be had, but that part of the old rhyme being true doesn't save you from the first part of it. While the weather forecasters do their best, their success rate for predicting the rain seems to be about fifty-fifty. Unfortunately, sometimes when they do predict the rain happening, they misjudge how bad it's going to be. Was the sky was clear when you last looked outside? It may not be quite so clear now. Hope you remembered to bring an umbrella today. But it's not so bad, really! Maybe if you forgot to prepare, someone will share their umbrella with you. Not in the mood to talk to anyone? You can probably find some thrifty umbrella vendors on the streets of Tisse. When in doubt, there are always some loaner umbrellas scattered around in Apprassage at the Recollé Library as well. The library asks that you return any of the mismatched loaners found at the door, but it's not like the system is that strongly enforced. Well, other than the library stamp on the umbrellas, that is. If you find yourself in Chata today, you could always buy a magazine off the street corners to hold overhead. If you look like you may buy something, vendors don't seem to mind if you idle under their awnings. Check out the latest fashions coming this spring while you wait it out. It looks like buckles are in, but some of the high fashion clothes look a little odder than usual. The hot, new dresses range from large like a billowing tarp to appearing more like an artfully arranged handkerchief than anything else. Fashion sure is weird sometimes. II. Recollé Square in Tribunal Terrace boasts a huge assortment of flower gardens scattered throughout the district, though they all appear to be whatever citizens felt like planting at the time. In fact, only flowers in Apprassage seem to match, especially around the University. Today, while the rain's stopped, a large group of people seem to be taking advantage of Recollé Square's mismatching for flower picking, crown and wreath weaving, and bouquet arranging. The activities seem to be loosely led by the city's PTA and some of the other socialite groups from around town. Then again, for long-standing citizens of the city this isn't unusual either. You seem to remember that this is an annual sort of thing even though there isn't actually a name for the event. Some booths are set up around the park to swap seeds, flowers and food for cash or gossip, the guidelines a little more loose outside of the business districts. It seems as though lot of families are picnicking this weekend. There's even some kind of contest going on for the best flower crown - though usually the city tends to collectively pick a kid for the winner, so your best artistic talents might not get you the admiration you crave. In addition, there's the most accurately judged flower-growing contest if you've been waiting for this day for a year or more, but that event tends to have the same people involved every year and the majority of Recollé isn't too heavily invested in it. They're here for the picnics and flower crowns, and it seems about the same as it always does. This year, though, there do seem to be more flowers than ever...and for that matter, they're a lot bigger than usual, too. III. Despite some of the fashion fiascos the magazines are displaying, maybe you should spend some time shopping this week. It may come as a surprise to you that your clothes haven't been fitting properly as of late. Those skinny jeans are just a hair too loose, and your favorite shirt seems baggier than it used to be. The problem, however, is that every shop you go to seems to stock clothes with the same issues. You're down a size or two or three, or maybe they're just marking everything down wrong. And surely you don't have the time or money to replace your entire wardrobe...will you take your chances? Complain to the store's manager? Or maybe you're an unfortunate soul who has to try and explain the unexplainable. Maybe offering a coupon will appease shoppers today. IV. Apparently walking around your neighborhood isn't quite as safe as it used to be - or it isn't safe if you want to trust your eyes. One second the little old lady who lives at the corner appears to be walking her pitbull just as she has every day for the last several years. The next, the pitbull is gone and she's walking a rather angry-looking caterpillar. Blink and you'll miss it, but as time goes on you'll see more and more of these larger-than-life insects wandering around. No matter how hard you try to explain it, the only other people who seem to see this as the least bit weird are people with the Retrospec app. Oh, do you not have the Retrospec app? Think again. The sound of chirping crickets will follow you until the next time you look at your mobile device or a public computer, prompting you to accept a profile and upload a user picture. Congratulations! It seems as though you've been selected to be a new tester! ...it's going to be one of those days. BONUS. While the Retrospec app only infrequently has posts from the company itself - and those have thus far proven to be universally useless - this month there is an onslaught of updates. At least once per day there's a picture of a new type of flower or insect, along with a "fun fact" about whatever the company has posted. Did you know, for example, that wasps feeding on fermenting juice have been known to get "drunk' and pass out? Ancient civilizations burned aster leaves to ward off evil spirits. Ticks can grow from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a marble. Roses are related to apples, raspberries, cherries, peaches, plums, nectarines, pears and almonds. Houseflies find sugar with their feet, which are 10 million times more sensitive than human tongues. Praying mantises prey on other insects, and perhaps you'd better watch your step. Wait, what? As usual, any attempt to get the company to reply about the increasingly disturbing information they're sending out is useless. The daily facts grow less and less useful and eventually seem to be nothing but fun facts about how flowers and bugs could kill you or one another. Kind of unfortunate for you, if this is your first time getting any messages whatsoever from the app. How do you unsubscribe? Good luck figuring it out. Welcome to the recolle test drive meme! All characters will be begin in-game AU'd as Recollé residents. You may use any of the above prompts for ideas or make up your own depicting your Recollé AU! Prompts do not have to be set in the districts listed above. You can review our list of locations for what's available. Please note that TDM threads can be used as samples, can be kept as game canon, and can also be used for bonus points for future item regains. Share a few minor details of your AU, tag around, and have fun!
The April 2017 TDM directory can be found here. The April 2017 Workshop can be found here. The mod questions comment is here. |
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Which is why he's a little bit miffed about being a tester for an app he has no idea if he's going to continue using or not. Oh well. ]
Got woken up by the damn phone chirping with the notifications even though I set it to silent.
Yeah. That. Whoever is pushing this app to us is doing a terrible job.
Also, strangely, I can't find anything much about them or the app online.
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You too? My phone was on silent but started chirping halfway across campus.
Nobody I've asked about it so far has known anything either. One boy thought he remembered seeing a building with the name over in Tisse, but I haven't been able to drive over and verify that yet.
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Did it also refuse to stop chirping until you completed your profile??
I don't recall it ever being there, but then against Tisse is not an area I frequent.
[ Yeah, Seto doesn't have very much of a social life.
Another break, and then another short text. ]
Can your father sue for invasion of privacy and coercion?????
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[It takes a while for her to respond to his later text, though--Kath has waited until she could talk to her father about it in person so that she could show him the app itself.]
Seto! Before I answer your question, can you check to see if anyone else can access this network from your phone? I mean, hand them your phone and ask them to open the Retrospec app. Let me know what happens.
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Yes, the name field was automatically filled in for me. I saw people complaining that the names were wrong and they couldn't change it, though. Did that happen to you?
I asked one of my employees to open it and the app was gone. The app also crashed my phone earlier when I tried showing him the app.
Is that what is supposed to happen??? This is terrible app design. I could code better than this blindfolded.
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That's what happened to me, too! I told my father that an app had downloaded itself onto my phone and wouldn't allow itself to be deleted, but when I gave him my phone to see, it wasn't there. Then it crashed the app when I tried to access it myself to show him, just the same as with your version... I'm fairly certain he thinks I'm going crazy from stress.
There weren't any spelling mistakes in my name, no. But then again, "Katherine" is a pretty common name, and "Lutece" is an old enough name that I'd be surprised if it had been misspelled.
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Who the hell programmed this, they're morons, apps are not supposed to function this way.
I can't believe there's no option for deletion, that's a fundamental that should have been included.
The Lutece name goes places.
I'm pretty sure that the inability to change your name is a direct breach of privacy since you can't use an alias on this app.
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Have you done any reading of the previous posts on this network? It appears you can access anything that's already been posted, back to the start of February. Reading that, it almost seems like the lack of a deletion option is intentional.
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I've glanced through some of the posts. At least now I know that fruit didn't always have faces on them...
So there's no way to opt out of testing this ridiculous app. I have too many social network sites as it is.
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[It's almost laughable--both the fact that she believes him, but also the fact that she doesn't believe he actually uses any of them.]
What platforms are you using? I haven't seen your name turn up in my snapchat contacts.
While we're at it, what are you thinking might be a good sample size? From my glance over this network it appears they've had close to a couple hundred over the past three months.
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... What even do you use Snapchat for?
[ Listen, Kath, he also has a thousand other accounts where he's signed up for social networking sites and then abandons them because he doesn't like using them. So you're not wrong there... ]
For a terribly designed app, that's ridiculously good use base growth. What about inactive users? I'm more interested in the people who have stopped using the app because it's the only way to not use it, considering its lack of a deletion option.