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William Ingram ([personal profile] donttalktome) wrote in [community profile] 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You'll be exhausted, depressed, and withdrawn, and you'll start to suffer cognitive issues.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.
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[personal profile] equinoctials 2019-10-05 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not the one who hasn't learned his way around contrasts.

[ Lime and salt and sweet-sour cocktails, remember? ]
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[personal profile] evulsed 2019-10-05 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ shut up i'll kill you ]

Says the guy who willingly put that crap in his mouth!
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[personal profile] equinoctials 2019-10-05 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ You wish. ]

I can't believe you didn't taste the drink first. Was that seriously your first time? Under what rock have you been living?
Edited 2019-10-05 03:16 (UTC)
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[personal profile] evulsed 2019-10-05 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ he's not going to answer that!!!! ]

It was empty, you ingrate!

[ or at least empty enough that he wasn't going to take the scraps like some kind of hungry dog ]
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[personal profile] equinoctials 2019-10-05 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Almost empty. There was some left. Try thinking positive.

[ Vanitas isn't the only one who can play this game, the one where he needles at a supposed vulnerability to keep the conversation on the attack at one side and defense on the other. ]

If you weren't so busy picking fights, you wouldn't be stuck catching up with the rest of us.
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[personal profile] evulsed 2019-10-05 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ "Try thinking positive". Vanitas laughs, brief and high and sharp. ]

If that's your gauge for what getting ahead is than you're in a more sorry state than I realized.
Edited 2019-10-05 14:58 (UTC)
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[personal profile] equinoctials 2019-10-05 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Except it's not just stuff like food and drink you don't know a thing about, is it?

What happened? How does someone like you not know what to do with losing someone? You have a heart, I know you feel.
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[personal profile] evulsed 2019-10-05 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He laughs again, this one a little more manic. ]

What is this? Are you trying to make me feel inferior?

If anyone knows about loss it's me, you stupid boy.
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[personal profile] equinoctials 2019-10-05 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
And you keep losing the point. If you stopped making everything a fight, there's a lot more you'd learn.

There's a lot more to you than the Darkness!
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[personal profile] evulsed 2019-10-05 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ This again? Fury rushes up on him hard and fast. ]

Oh give up, already! I am Darkness! Ventus understood that, why can't you?
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[personal profile] equinoctials 2019-10-05 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Darkness doesn't care about individual people! You think I don't know why you were at the church? You think I didn't notice your stink around every inch of that place?

Dream on!
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[personal profile] evulsed 2019-10-05 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
You think you're some kind of expert because you spent some time in Darkness? You think that can compare to what I am?

You don't know anything.

I'm nothing like you.
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[personal profile] equinoctials 2019-10-06 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Not at all. But I know grief. I understand misery. Despair. Loneliness.

And I know how that Darkness smells.
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[personal profile] evulsed 2019-10-06 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ Riku is right about that at least: all those things, they are what Vanitas is. Not just there in that church— but all the time. Despite the way he wears rage like a weapon, Vanitas is much more than just that. But it's strange, to hear it said outloud by someone else. ]

Pathetic.

I'm done here.

[ He disconnects. ]