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[ HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. okay, okay, okay. he'll press enter. ]

friendly neighborhood anonymous here.

so this was going to be a post about a database i'm working on with some other people and hopefully more people but one of those people seems to be unreachable now so this is also an APB for Gregor.

onto other shit: we've been working on a document that keeps all the facts we know and all the theories we're currently trying to prove/disprove. it's encrypted for obvious reasons but click the link and I'll get you access no problem [ for all those who have come across his videos on how to use encryptions and how to make yourself purely anonymous, fear not! the stupid naming conventions continue: satanwasababyboomer.doc but its safe to assume that anyone who clicks gains both access to view and edit pretty quickly. ]

this tech is pretty old for me. i'm doing what i can to make it both secure AND accessible. if you're talented with early 2000s technology c'mon down. maybe you can make something work that i can't.

i have to admit i'm not the greatest at keeping on top of things like this. could really use the extra hands in general. there are some other people looking to do the same thing as this but hard copy. mingle with them if that's your bag. assuming they reply here (please reply here if/when you see this... if you want to).

also just for my own curiosities: calling all tech people. engineers, programmers, whatever. let's put our heads together. help one another out.

ps: if you want to annoy someone that's pissing you off I recorded fart sounds, you're welcome.

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thanks for understanding. [ he wished he could believe that everyone was on the same side. honestly that was usually the kind of thinking that fucked him over. wrench was over trusting for someone so secretive. ]

i could get into it if you want. the downloading thing.

agreed, its possible. it's further possible that someone here is in bed with them. hate to think it but here we are. that aside, everything here is familiar and could easily be home for me with the exception of the date. we don't know what year it actually is here but I'm from 2029 and everything here looks and operates the way things did back in early to mid 2000's.

[ AGING HIMSELF. weeps. ]

skye wanted it to be a seamless transition between life here and eternal life. she didn't go into details but i wouldn't put it past her or anyone picking up her slack. also, if this is just daybreak's technology used for more ~ nefarious ~ purposes, testing us, etc, removing that memory might serve a purpose. IF we're dead.

Edited (woops a hundred years later i notice code problems) 2023-08-02 17:23 (UTC)

While it seems unlikely, given we know our memories of dying here are being manipulated it can't be ruled out. However, it sounds as though those who have been murdered here only forget the actual moment of death but remember enough of the lead up they can infer it happened. I can't say the same for what memories I know of before the city.

Many things do support the theory that this isn't as real as it looks, whatever it is. What do you know about their process of downloading people?

Good to know but fucking weird. What could possibly by the point OH wait, they're hiding what actually happens to us when we die! [ DOY. ] I mean, if it was normal life the person would just be fucking dead. It's not a penalty at all its just how they get around "resetting" us or... whatever happens.

[ So the canon isn't actually clear about this but Wrench did shut it all down so let's just handwave that he tried to explain this bullshit..... lmfao... ]

[I understand... the technical details won't mean much but, at least, Alhaitham has a frame of reference for the general idea of downloading things from people. He'll keep a copy of this, too, given how relevant the technology is to Anonymous.]

That's one idea. It could also be for the sake of keeping our behavior predictable. If you really believed this to be some sort of afterlife, how would that change the way you handle it?

[ Hm. You assessing him, bro? ] Odd question. Why do you ask?

[Yes... but also he assesses almost everyone and everything all the time, so this isn't anything new.]

We're being watched at least enough to doll out punishment and now pick at people's vulnerabilities, so our behavior is likely a point of interest. If that's the case, how we act would change based on how we perceive this city and ourselves: if it's real or fake, or if we're alive or dead.

[ Yeaaaah. Anon is cagey when it comes to most details about himself unless he gives them for a reason, you'll find. ] That a hypothesis? People are more adaptable than they're given credit for.

Of course they are, that's why their behavior would change with they environment to better survive.

Think of it another way: you probably have unfinished business or goals you were working on before you woke up here, right? Most people do. If you're alive and have something to get back to, then what would you do to get out of here and back there?

But if you were certain you're dead and there's no going back, instead the question becomes what you will do with your new existence in this place?

This is a speculation but the most concrete motivation I can see now is that there's something in our reaction that whoever is behind this is interested in.

[And if they want a specific reaction, they can clearly manipulate a lot of factors to ensure they get it. Like with deemingly cursed replicas of mementos. Or kidnapping.]

Okay, I'm following you now. That would make this more of a lab, a study.

It's an idea, anyway. [It fits a lot of the oddities such as the distance the perpetrators seem to have, invasive questions, and sterile setting... but it's still all conjecture based on what he realizes are his own biases from the Akademiya.]

Things would be easier to understand if we new their purpose but that'll be the hardest answer to get.

Did this "Daybreak" start as a research project or some personal fascination of Skye?

As far as I could tell, both? My first encounter with her technology was before she went public with Daybreak. Human trials. Still had to do with being able to navigate the human mind. The bridge allowed one person to enter the mind of another.

Daybreak was important to her, though. For profit and personal reasons. She was dying. [ A condition that Wrench sped up. RIP. Skye didn't give a shit about actually creating the paradise he spoke about, though. But that would come out later... maybe. ]

And rather than accept whatever end awaited her, she sought to create her own? It's not impossible for someone else to have a similar obsession, though committing murder across different worlds seems extravagant for such personal reasons.

[After all, if you were the end goal it would be better to work off the test subjects most similar to you.]

right. i agree, but hey. some people are fucking nuts. not saying it's a perfect theory, though. not fully convinced of it yet. i'm a lot more convinced that this IS a simulations of some kind at least.

Of some kind, at least.

Given your anonymity do you intend to make postings like this in the future, in case anyone finds something that supports or refutes that idea?

i do, yeah. check ins every once in awhile especially if something big goes down.

Then I'll keep an eye out for that.

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