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[adaptivemanipulation]

Several days ago I discovered this network. I must say, I am somewhat baffled by it. This doesn't seem to be hooked up to any computer network that I can decipher. How is it that I can write these numbers on a piece of paper or a leaf or any number of things and broadcast my writings to a seemingly invisible series of channels?

My, I must sound quite unintelligent right now - I never thought I'd find the day where I was unable to figure out how a network is assembled.

I'm assuming that many of you have used this thing much longer than I have and are more familiar with it.

I want to research this phenomenon, so please, anyone with any information would do best to help me out. I am one who devotes my time to computer research, so I'm certain I'm more than qualified for the job of figuring this thing out... Unless it has already been done and no one cared to let me know.

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[testsonseashells]

FAQ.

[adaptivemanipulation]

And yet none of this answers my question about how exactly this network functions. How it's built.

[testsonseashells]

Better you've read it. As for network, no data. If tried paper trick, will realize it's not conventional. My own theory that network somehow implanted into us directly, subconsciously projected onto medium when triggered by number, but no data either way.

[adaptivemanipulation]

Of course, I've tried the paper trick.

But your theory is helpful, even if there's no credible proof. I theorize something similar.

My apologies for being rude earlier.

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[centurian]

To put it in layman's terms: your guess is as good as mine. I haven't heard of anyone researching this thing, so you might be in luck.

Personally, though, I've pretty much given up hope of this thing ever making sense.

[adaptivemanipulation]

I'm hardly surprised it hasn't been researched.

This network seems to defy all logic at the moment, but if it exists there must be science behind it.

[centurian]

If you find out something about it, I'd love to hear it. And while you're at it, look for something on the kids that can turn into magical girls too.

[ He wishes he was joking but oh god he isn't. ]

[adaptivemanipulation]

[Except for now Alan takes that as Gerald purposely mocking him because he has absolutely no idea about any magical girls. Sorry :c]

Content to lie there in ignorance? So be it.

[vanisland]

Trying to add features to this was among the first thing I tried. Obviously, it didn't work, which is a shame considering what some of the other people on it have done.

I can't say the question hasn't been on my mind, though; there've just been other confusing things, and other, infinitely more straightforward things, that I've been thinking about more.

[adaptivemanipulation]

"Considering what some of the other people on it have done."

Elaborate.

[vanisland]

<font face="courier'>There's some kid on here that thought to make a rage comic infographic. It's even more terrible than it sounds.</font>

[adaptivemanipulation]

Oh?

Well to my understanding, the network number could be punched in atop said "rage comic" to broadcast it.

What kind of features have you attempted to add?

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[destinedforrock]

[She's read through the other responses.

Chimes in:]

Is this the part where I come in? [Bats an ear.] Anybody?

Why, you all know I'm practiced in doing my duty as one of the resident "impossible people". [Underscores that with a small crook of her leg, since she's not talking to anyone in particular - just putting on a show, as she knows she's onscreen already.]

[adaptivemanipulation]

[That's a horse. Talking. Or communicating somehow. Alan, of course, figures this is some stupid thing from [insert substitute for Youtube here]. This is all one big joke, isn't it?

Well he's not gonna play along with it!!!!]

Charming. A talking horse.

[The text does not accurately convey his completely flat tone of voice.]

[destinedforrock]

[She tosses her head upward.]

Charming! Already! Well - I do try, dear.

[She looks neither cheerful nor particularly ruffled. There's however a definite drop of your sarcasm vexes me wryness in her voice.]

[adaptivemanipulation]

[Well it's a pretty horse, Alan will admit. But seriously who the hell is doing this? He's not going to believe that this is an actual horse who is actually talking to him because wow.]

I'm sure you do.

Now stop wasting my time with your ridiculous talking horse videos.

[Handwritten]

[dododo]

You know, I actually haven't put much thought to that. Good question.

[adaptivemanipulation]

Yes, of course it is.

Perhaps now you'll start thinking about it.

[dododo]

Probably. Any theories yet?

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[reapsthewind]

A few of us have researched and tested it. All we've been able to figure out is this:

> It operates on no known signals or wavelengths that we have the equipment to detect, and produces no detectable radiation. I can't intercept it by radio waves. It might as well be sending signals via neutrinos or quantum entanglement; unfortunately, I don't have the gear to test that.
> Somehow, it works on literally any surface you can write on, and in fact anything into which you can input a number. One guy managed to connect by playing a sequence of notes on a piano.
> It can't be seen by anyone who doesn't have a number that connects to this network. If you are, say, hanging out in a library using Microsoft Word to connect, all anyone will see is a blank screen. As a side note, I've developed a few programs to spew dummy text in most of the window, so it looks like you're actually doing something while you communicate on the network.
> It does archive things, somehow, so it's stored somewhere.

Honestly? It's a big mystery as to how it works. It's hardly the weirdest thing about all this, of course; I've been experiencing some pretty brutal physiological changes which don't make any sense and honestly should have killed me. Same with my boyfriend.

[adaptivemanipulation]

Thank you, this proves to be useful information.

I've heard about these physiological changes. So you believe they are connected to this network?

[reapsthewind]

I got my connection number the same day I got my first physical transformation; same moment. It's the same for a lot of others. The only people who get them are the ones who are on this network. I know that correlation =/= causation, but they're pretty closely related.

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[stillshrill]

What kind of computer research are you good at?

[ This will likely go nowhere good. ]

[adaptivemanipulation]

What kind?

Ah, where do I begin...

For starters I am a professor of computer science at LCU. While I have sufficient knowledge in most areas of computing, my primary research focuses have been on military and artificial intelligence.

[stillshrill]

Are we talking fighter pilot drones, or what? A military version of OKCupid, maybe. That could do a world of good when you think about it. Make love, not war, as the old saying goes.