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overjoyed_net2017-04-07 10:04 pm
bunnyblock) wrote in overjoyed_net2017-04-07 10:04 pm
Entry tags:
like inception but more fucked up
Who: Noiz / Wilhelm OTA
When: W8D6
Medium: text
Security/Encryption: none, untraceable.
Warnings: Noiz being weird. (He's always weird.)
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[It's hard for him to not be cryptic when hiding behind an anon tag, but. The whole too-real-dreams thing is bothering him, given he's been working on portable virtual reality for a good year or more now, only to be outdone by whatever the hell is happening.]
When: W8D6
Medium: text
Security/Encryption: none, untraceable.
Warnings: Noiz being weird. (He's always weird.)
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RUFFRABBIT writes:
Reality is perverted, even in dreams you're not safe. Isn't that something that's the stuff of bad stories told to kids who won't go to sleep at night?
That the boogeyman lurks behind your eyelids and if you're not careful, things crawl up and out from behind your eyelids to show you things that aren't real.
They say dreams are caused by synapses in your brain firing as your body sleeps but your mind remains active. Showing you things that you know but in ways they're not supposed to be.
So what happens if you see things that you don't know? That's the starting point when good men start to lose their minds. Read too much into them and you'll lose grip on reality.
I've always loved the idea of virtual reality. But to unwillingly face one's own nightmares, only to wake up and not remember anything...
Well. To be candid...
I don't like it. You don't either, do you?[It's hard for him to not be cryptic when hiding behind an anon tag, but. The whole too-real-dreams thing is bothering him, given he's been working on portable virtual reality for a good year or more now, only to be outdone by whatever the hell is happening.]
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Wow, sounds like someone had a bad run-in with that virus a few weeks back. You know if you're still having hallucinations or fever dreams you should probably get that looked at? Could be brain damage.
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RUFFRABBIT:
Concern, nice.
Or sarcasm, it's hard to detect which over text.
It may have happened a while ago, but it's still bothering me. Honestly, it should still be bothering everyone.
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The dreams/hallucinations or the fact that someone unleashed a killer virus and screwed things up for everyone? Because one of those is a little more serious than the other. For the record.
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RUFFRABBIT:
Sarcasm. Noted.
They're both screwed up. I've been researching and developing the capabilities and parameters of mass virtual reality simulations over a set area for a few years now.
And then someone feels the need to set loose a virus that causes a state similar to the results I've been looking for, but on an extreme scale.
On one hand, I'm annoyed. On the other, I'm insulted. Experiencing and re-experiencing things within one's own mind shouldn't be toyed with if it's going to, as you say screw things up for everyone.
So I'm looking for answers. My own research into this has come up irritatingly blank lately.
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Wait wait, hold on. You're telling me you've been researching VR with the same parameters of a brain-killing virus that makes you hallucinate?
Are you kidding me right now??????
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RUFFRABBIT:
What's the point of Virtual Reality if you can tell you're in a simulation?
The difference between what I'm looking for, and this backwater virus are easy to separate. You'll remember everything experienced in them, and you won't feel like you've been thrown through the eye of a hurricane once you exit.
Why do you sound so upset?
[Sorry man, he doesn't see the issue here.]
plurk won't let me add youuuu
Because that's honestly kind of creepy? I mean that thing killed people. Like...a LOT of them. Probably not a great idea to contrast and compare the two. It'd be a much better slogan if you just made something up like "take a break from reality" instead of "try out this VR, it's like dreams from the throes of death!"
it said we were friends but then suddenly we weren't plurk why are you drunk
RUFFRABBIT:
I recall saying somewhere that I was insulted, didn't I.
It was a bastardization of work I've been trying to perfect for years. People shouldn't die in things like dreams.
What I'm saying is this Virus is going to put a damper on my work if I ever release it to the public.
it's been bonkers ever since the code push a few days ago
You could always try Utopia. People there are willing to try anything if you pay them.
shakes head slowly
RUFFRABBIT:
Finally we're on the same page.
Utopia is a great testing stage. You nearly read my mind.
But I would hardly want the game to be locked in such a singular place.
I'm not interested in boring things.
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Well are you in alpha yet? Or still in the planning phase? It would make a good test run.
[ It's not exactly within Company jurisdiction so there's less issue...there... If something goes wrong. ]
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RUFFRABBIT:
Alpha enough to start testing, but I myself make a terrible test subject.
[Ominous.]
But after this scare? The last thing I need is to set this thing up in Utopia, only for people to start thinking I had something to do with that shit virus.
That would put a real damper on all my hard work.
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Wait didn't you hear? They executed the guy responsible for it along with a ton of Company traitors.
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RUFFRABBIT:
Paranoia, 'Atlas'.
A guy pops up with a system that can create a reality that's stunningly realistic, like a certain virus?
How do you think people might react.
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Okay yeah they wouldn't take it well. But keep it all digital and don't mention the virus and it shouldn't be too big of an issue right? It'd only get weird if you started getting into AR tech.
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RUFFRABBIT:
In the interest of staying positive: Yes. But having seen how people react when they don't trust something?
Anyway...
Artificial Reality is too dangerous. If the mind believes it's dead, it stays dead.
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Oh yeah, that's true... That'd suck. That sort of thing only works if you know you're in it. And don't think if you die in AR you die in real life.
This is a pretty ambitious project.
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what's your point?
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RUFFRABBIT:
It's boring to spell it out for you.
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no one likes nightmares. either you have something new to say about them or you don't
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RUFFRABBIT:
Everyone has nightmares. Whether or not if they're flavoured with danger and the threat of death like those we experienced recently isn't the point I'm making here.
It's unlawful human experimentation.
See?
Boring.
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what? where are you getting ANY of that
[ hastily, in a cranky double-post - ]
and don't say it's boring. you sound pretty interested
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RUFFRABBIT:
Try to keep up.
Explaining it to you is boring.
And so is you getting worked up saying things like 'where are you getting any of that'.
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usually if you want real answers you have to spell out a real question. that's how it works
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RUFFRABBIT:
Did you experience any of these hell sequences yourself?
I'd keep using the word 'nightmare' but it's a bastardization of the term.
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wait. was THAT what you were trying to find out?
[ tc;dc -- too cryptic, didn't care. ]
a lot of people did. they already brought in the guy who said he designed it
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RUFFRABBIT:
Wrong.
Nice guess.
Do you think I would make a post about it without knowing about the creator and his execution?
Try again.
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i'm not trying to guess anything. i know you didn't get some new tipoff
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RUFFRABBIT:
I didn't, no.
If I did, why would I share it publicly.
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to see what else we know. to see who'd fall for it
you still haven't answered my first question
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RUFFRABBIT:
Clever girl, but I'm not interested in what you might know about the case.
I'm interested in what you experienced.
And how you felt during. Being ripped out of it, I understand perfectly well, was unpleasant for everyone all around.
[How's that for a point.]
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uh. i'm not a girl
[ because that matters, for whatever reason. but more significantly - ]
you think there's a chance someone unleashed a hallucinogenic virus across the quad as an experiment. but you don't care?
[ HE HAD SUCH HOPES FOR YOU, RUDE ANON. . . ]
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RUFFRABBIT:
Noted.
No.
I know someone unleashed a hallucinogenic virus across the quad as an experiment.
And I care that they created an AR nightmare that puts not only everyone--rich and homeless alike--in danger...
But more importantly, they're making a joke of what it means to experience a different reality within your own head.
[Please don't have any hopes for him, this is incredibly selfish.]
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k1:
how? because they made it look easy?
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Na1ls:
realitys a nightmare if i gotta read your weeb philosophy man
get some hootch and go to bed youre gettin too paranoid even for ME and thats sayin something
just...its what you make of it yknow
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RUFFRABBIT:
If you're suggesting alternate lifestyle choices for me based on your own experiences, I worry for your liver.
I 'make' a few things of it.
Clearly, different ones from what you do.
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Na1ls:dont worry about MY liver worry about your own sanity
im not talkin about rpg porn dude
CLEARLY your different aint helping
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RUFFRABBIT:
...Lewd.
My sanity is fine, and now yours is in question.
If you really think my comment on VR is something like that.
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Na1ls:
yours aint fine if youre rambling on like this in a chatroom yknow
the other conspiracy theorists smell this shit on the water
i think its the desperation of someone who needs to see real people
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i sure don't. especially when, like you said, you can't remember much of anything! it's terrible! it's so familiar and it isn't and you try to get a sense of it and it just won't come.
anyways, let me guess. you've been having some weird awful dreams lately? it seems to be a common thing, among some people.
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RUFFRABBIT:
Not quite 'lately' but recently enough to be irritating. I keep thinking about them and how real they were.
And how easily susceptible nearly everyone was to it.
The culprit was executed, and along with everyone involved. Creating a virus that could let others walk around inside someone elses' dream? It's curious.
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yeah, some of them felt like...well, i mean dreams are WEIRD but these were like so weird that they had to have actually happened. i can't even explain it.
and walking into other people's dreams is not exactly something i think a virus could possibly do. like, scientifically, isn't that impossible? dreams aren't something you can mess around with some kind of disease, i don't think.
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Stop shitting up the meshwork with morbid crap no one cares about
so late to this, sorry! feel free to ignore!
Nah, I wasn't a fan.
But you might be reading too much into this. Dreams are weird, nightmares even moreso. How do you know they weren't just things you know but shown in a such a way that you couldn't recognize them?