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networkinthenight2019-10-03 08:46 pm
donttalktome) wrote in networkinthenight2019-10-03 08:46 pm
[text] @dr; OS v.3 [open]
Well, congratulations on managing to destroy the notion that I had seen all the idiocy this place had to offer.
Leave it to you all to find some way to sink to new lows. Literally.
I do hope you plan on not getting yourselves killed, because we may well have just lost our only way to add to the population.
Honestly, the whole thing makes me almost want to withdraw what I'm about to offer, but here I am anyway.
You can save your thanks for later.
A while ago, it came to my attention that not everyone here is used to dealing with a sunless environment.
In fact, it seems that a grand majority of you are terrestrial.
You don't know the protocols for a 24 hour cycle without daylight, and eventually that's going to have, let's say, a negative impact on your mental health.
Without your naturally-evolved signals for sleeping and waking, your circadian rhythm will become an absolute disaster.
Without UV light, your brain will not produce as much serotonin as it should.
You'll be exhausted, depressed, and withdrawn, and you'll start to suffer cognitive issues.
Memory loss, lack of coordination and concentration, etc.
In the worst of cases, you may suffer a psychotic break, which is something none of us, myself especially, want to deal with.
These are not mere hypotheticals.
Excusing what amounts to maybe a few months, I lived my entire life without a sun.
In that time I met a substantial amount of people who hadn't grown up that way, but for some reason or another chose to venture out into the void.
Many of them adapted, eventually.
The rest, to put it lightly, lost it.
Mostly that just entailed their being reduced to useless lumps, but sometimes things got a bit more exciting, and that's something I'd like to avoid.
Luckily for everyone, there's a fairly easy solution.
In addition to exercise and eating more fish and eggs, you need to regulate your sleep/wake cycle.
To assist in that, I have the gift of a simple application.
It operates as both an alarm and a stop watch.
Which may seem incredibly banal, but I assure you it'll come in handy.
Whatever makes the most sense for whatever species you are, make a schedule and keep to it.
That whole essay above wasn't just written to glorify a timer, it was written to tell you why you need one.
As an aside, this little update allows you to convert hand-written characters into text, and it also includes an application exclusively for multiple-image sharing.
The latter of which I'm sure you'll all decide is far more important, but don't forget to use the goddamn alarm.
[The aforementioned apps are attached to the post, though not separately; downloading one downloads them all. The first is, as described, a fairly simple alarm clock/timer/stop watch, and the second allows users to share multiple images at a time in a collection, like an album. The images can be captioned individually (or collectively) by the sender. And finally, the tablets now offer the option to write with your finger instead of tapping letters on a keyboard. The scribbles will be translated into text, so hopefully you have good handwriting!]
Oh, and the next person who tries to hack into my tablet is getting a very unfortunate name change on the network.
Leave it to you all to find some way to sink to new lows. Literally.
I do hope you plan on not getting yourselves killed, because we may well have just lost our only way to add to the population.
Honestly, the whole thing makes me almost want to withdraw what I'm about to offer, but here I am anyway.
You can save your thanks for later.
A while ago, it came to my attention that not everyone here is used to dealing with a sunless environment.
In fact, it seems that a grand majority of you are terrestrial.
You don't know the protocols for a 24 hour cycle without daylight, and eventually that's going to have, let's say, a negative impact on your mental health.
Without your naturally-evolved signals for sleeping and waking, your circadian rhythm will become an absolute disaster.
Without UV light, your brain will not produce as much serotonin as it should.
You'll be exhausted, depressed, and withdrawn, and you'll start to suffer cognitive issues.
Memory loss, lack of coordination and concentration, etc.
In the worst of cases, you may suffer a psychotic break, which is something none of us, myself especially, want to deal with.
These are not mere hypotheticals.
Excusing what amounts to maybe a few months, I lived my entire life without a sun.
In that time I met a substantial amount of people who hadn't grown up that way, but for some reason or another chose to venture out into the void.
Many of them adapted, eventually.
The rest, to put it lightly, lost it.
Mostly that just entailed their being reduced to useless lumps, but sometimes things got a bit more exciting, and that's something I'd like to avoid.
Luckily for everyone, there's a fairly easy solution.
In addition to exercise and eating more fish and eggs, you need to regulate your sleep/wake cycle.
To assist in that, I have the gift of a simple application.
It operates as both an alarm and a stop watch.
Which may seem incredibly banal, but I assure you it'll come in handy.
Whatever makes the most sense for whatever species you are, make a schedule and keep to it.
That whole essay above wasn't just written to glorify a timer, it was written to tell you why you need one.
As an aside, this little update allows you to convert hand-written characters into text, and it also includes an application exclusively for multiple-image sharing.
The latter of which I'm sure you'll all decide is far more important, but don't forget to use the goddamn alarm.
[The aforementioned apps are attached to the post, though not separately; downloading one downloads them all. The first is, as described, a fairly simple alarm clock/timer/stop watch, and the second allows users to share multiple images at a time in a collection, like an album. The images can be captioned individually (or collectively) by the sender. And finally, the tablets now offer the option to write with your finger instead of tapping letters on a keyboard. The scribbles will be translated into text, so hopefully you have good handwriting!]
Oh, and the next person who tries to hack into my tablet is getting a very unfortunate name change on the network.
@freddie1967
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You're the one that put that out there.
So it has to be a self-description of you.
Though I suppose I should congratulate you for dragging me down to the point where I'm even arguing this.
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Very well then.
[It takes a minute, but pretty soon Crowley will find that for the next 48 hours, his network handle displays as "fuckboy69". It will revert to freddie1967 afterwards, but for now, well, there you go.]
Enjoy.
@fuckboy69
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Hell of a lot more creative than "dr". Is that your way of trying to remind us that you're intelligent in case we forget when we read your shite?
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It's just what I'm normally called, since I'm typically the only lettered scientist on a project.
And since half of that probably meant nothing to you: it's what people refer to me as in a professional context.
But thank you for the reassurance that my intelligence speaks for itself.
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[ Honestly what made this funny for Scarlett, was that it was Will who came up with Fuckboy69. ]
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>> Private
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The worst part is that I don't even think he meant to ruin anything.
A reckless idiot is far more dangerous than a focused criminal.
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I'm not about to get reset over some dickhead.
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Especially if no other groups can replace us.
But yes, I'm not exactly keen on the idea of a few rogue elements making the group as a whole seem irredeemable.
A situation we'll have to keep an eye on, I suppose.
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I was sorta hoping you could help with that.
[ Finally. The reason for her going in this direction. ]