A QUESTION! What's Going On Here? [Text]

[playerspooker]

I'd ask if this was all some kind of weird joke or something, but it looks like people have beat me to that particular punch. Or is this some kind of online roleplaying thing? Maybe some kind of viral marketing thing for a movie? (If it is, whatever they did to get these freakin' numbers stuck in my head HAS to be illegal...)

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[reckless_fire]

Here's the Cliff Notes version, if you haven't found it already. That's pretty much all anybody knows so far.

[playerspooker]

I want to say something smart-assed about this not doing much to disprove the assumptions I made, but the number thing does check out.

I guess I should be lucky that this happened after finals were over.

[reckless_fire]

Go ahead and say it anyway, if it makes you feel better. Won't change anything, but whatever works, right?

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[enrages]

it's worse.
it's obamacare.

[playerspooker]

Well I can't now, you can't just force a comment like that after fact. It's gotta flow with the situation.

[playerspooker]

Okay, nobody brought up politics, no need to go into that.

[enrages]

i'm merely stating facts.
these numbers were literally placed into our heads to make us believe we were mentally unstable so that we'd invest more in public healthcare.
that's how it is.

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[angelskills]

I guess it does kind of look like online roleplaying!

[reckless_fire]

Oh. Okay. Then I guess I could ask something like, what assumptions did you make, or something. Would that help?

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[thorny]

Someone already attempted to use those excuses to explain away our cozy little community. I doubt that you'll do much better in convincing us that you've anything intelligent to say.

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[moarnomsplz]

None of the above but I totally thought it was some weird roleplaying thing when I first saw it.

Its like a secret network for people with weird stuff happening to them.

[hopeungovernable]

Oh those were precisely my thoughts

[playerspooker]

The ones I made about this being some kind of weird roleplaying forum or a marketing stunt, right there in the first post!

[playerspooker]

O-kay, guy, I think you might have the tinfoil hat on a little too tight there...

[playerspooker]

Sure does, save for any sort of rules, or similar organization.

Well these two are off to a great start already

[playerspooker]

Just because the comparison has been made before doesn't make it any less fitting. I'm not looking to prove anything, I'm just looking for answers, smartass.

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[playerspooker]

Weird stuff certainly fits the bill. This stinkin' number is ridiculous in how persistent it's been about being acknowledged.

Kinda feels like I've stumbled into a clubhouse, but I'm not sure if I wanna stay.

[playerspooker]

Well, good to know I'm not the only one with some sense out there!

it's been ordained by fate

[thorny]

The answer is that instead of doing some basic research by combing through a few older posts you jumped straight for the most paranoid explanations you could find, and even those weren't creative in the least. I do hope that you at least attempt to make your tinfoil hat look respectable if you go out.

[reckless_fire]

Yeah, I know. I was just trying to give you springboard for the smartass comment you wanted to make.

[angelskills]

We do kind of have a rule! You shouldn't talk about the network with people who don't know about it.

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[moarnomsplz]

Got stuck in your head and wouldn't go away?

I hate to say it, but if the ways things have happened to everyone else is how it's going to be for you, you'll probably need people to talk to who understand the weirdness before long.

[enrages]

seriously??
you're willing to call me crazy, despite the fact that you've stumbled onto a completely new network using numbers that randomly floated into your mind, with other people who also have random numbers floating in their minds?
seriously??
plot twist, you nefarious sack of dumbshit.
we spend about 440$ bil a year on military alone, despite the fact that our nearest competitor, china, only spends about 40$ bil.
WHERE DO YOU THINK THAT MONEY IS GOING?!?!!?
hint: it's not all air craft carriers and drone strikes.

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[fatherssins]

Role play? That's a new one.

[playerspooker]

Heh. Well, I can certainly appreciate that.

I guess at this point, expressing astonishment over a weird occurrence followed by the freaky number has been done far too much, hasn't it?