OOC Thought Process - A Sci-Fi RP

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IC Thread
Premise:
The year is 3000. You live in a sci-fi technologically advanced earth. You answered a mysterious survey and then got invited to an interesting meeting. It's secretly a recruitment process used by a computer system to fight back against a virus transmitted through information.

This is the OOC Thread for Though Process. Head to the IC Thread for more information, as I will be maintaining that OP better.
 
Name: Winston Arthur Johnson "Little Jim" Farland AKA d4rkProtagonist. He normally goes by just John around his friends though.
Occupation: Computer Programmer and Internet Personality
Pronouns: He/Him
Appearance: Dyed red hair, green eyes, and light skin. He wears an off-white utility shirt, jeans, and a plaid jacket.
Personality: Well, he knows a lot about tech, and although he is naturally a bit socially awkward, he's exaggerated as part of his life on the internet. But when he's left alone, with friends, or in formal situations, he calms down quite a bit and acts professionally.
Abilities:
  • Compulsological Engineer: Pretty much just the same as the example ability, but it isn't exactly his job, and more of a hobby, so he still needs to develop his skills a bit.
  • Fame and Fortune and Everything That Goes With It: John is quite famous online, so he might be recognised by ones of his fans. This can help him with causing distractions or asking for favours. Depending on how much that person is a fan of him, he can get either +1 or +2 d6 to his roll. However, it only works on fans, and there are also a few who would wish to do him harm because they dislike him, and in cases where someone actively dislikes him, he could lose dice.
  • Reprogram: He's no hacker, but if he does have access to a computer without any kind of security system blocking him, he can rewrite existing programs, or even write entirely new ones, if he's given enough time.
Other: Text Colour is #88DA1A
 
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Name: Winston Arthur Johnson "Little Jim" Farland AKA d4rkProtagonist. He normally goes by just John around his friends though.
Occupation: Computer Programmer and Internet Personality
Pronouns: He/Him
Appearance: Dyed red hair, green eyes, and light skin. He wears an off-white utility shirt, jeans, and a plaid jacket.
Personality: Well, he knows a lot about tech, and although he is naturally a bit socially awkward, he's exaggerated as part of his life on the internet. But when he's left alone, with friends, or in formal situations, he calms down quite a bit and acts professionally.
Abilities:
  • Compulsological Engineer: Pretty much just the same as the example ability, but it isn't exactly his job, and more of a hobby, so he still needs to develop his skills a bit.
  • Fame and Fortune and Everything That Goes With It: John is quite famous online, so he might be recognised by ones of his fans. This can help him with causing distractions or asking for favours. Depending on how much that person is a fan of him, he can get either +1 or +2 d6 to his roll. However, it only works on fans, and there are also a few who would wish to do him harm because they dislike him, and in cases where someone actively dislikes him, he could lose dice.
  • Reprogram: He's no hacker, but if he does have access to a computer without any kind of security system blocking him, he can rewrite existing programs, or even write entirely new ones, if he's given enough time.
Other: Text Colour is #88DA1Ae
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Accepted. We can skip over his recruitment since you've already had the tutorial, or we can have one of the player characters recruit him.
 
Well, if you and everyone else is fine with it, perhaps they could have already been recruited and are waiting somewhere nearby?
 
So here's something I'm now wondering.
So, for those effects, if someone were to, say, screenshot or take a picture of a picture with one of those effects, would the screenshot/picture still cause the effect of the original? Would a similar thing be applicable to other mediums of the effects as well? (Like recordings of sounds with such effects)
 
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Well, if you and everyone else is fine with it, perhaps they could have already been recruited and are waiting somewhere nearby?
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Sounds good
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So here's something I'm now wondering.
So, for those effects, if someone were to, say, screenshot or take a picture of a picture with one of those effects, would the screenshot/picture still cause the effect of the original? Would a similar thing be applicable to other mediums of the effects as well? (Like recordings of sounds with such effects)
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Yes, copying effects like that is possible.


Side note: Characters who start with weapons are fine, they just need a fitting backstory. The federal government of the nation is somewhat weaker in military strength than the corporations that are in it. Private security (AKA Private military) work is commonplace. In many places owned by corporations, they operate in a legal grey area. They legally buy and claim the space for themselves, allowing themselves to bend the law where it doesn't harm the citizens of the country. In exchange, the government does not need to protect them from other corporations, thus they need to handle the security themselves. There are plenty of fighters and killers who do their work without government backing, but still mostly legally.
 
honestly don't know how suggestions in google docs work so..

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((Well, maybe we can come up with a plausible reason someone might rent out an industrial supercomputer on a website. Perhaps there's a company that does that? It would probably be expensive though. Probably the kind of thing other companies rent, since, industrial supercomputer. Any ideas? The world is built this way by design so that an average person can't wreak havoc and graffiti the walls with things that can make you go crazy when you look at them. John has to get creative here...))
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Well, I decided to take this to the OOC for now to not clutter the IC thread.


Anyway, how common are compulsological effects in the wild then? And how common is knowledge about them?
 
Dragonwolf73 said:
Well, I decided to take this to the OOC for now to not clutter the IC thread.


Anyway, how common are compulsological effects in the wild then? And how common is knowledge about them?
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Good idea.

The field has been existed in the scientific community for 21 years. (I literally just caught the typo implying it existed for 911 years. My bad.) It's about just coming out of the research phase and into the application phase. Governments are developing them for warfare or propoganda, world power corporations are developing them for their own services, but it's very much a market for the 1%. Generally it hasn't been gotten ahold of by major news networks, just somewhat less reliable minor or local news networks.
Something in the Optional Reading/Lore section of the OP says "Generally most people would regard it as a interesting (and maybe scary) science thing they read on the internet." meaning it's a fun fact on a tabloid that sounds a bit like voodoo or "hypnosis".

Fringe communities of random internet people like the ones John frequents do exist though, but they generally can't muster the processing power to produce interesting effects within any reasonable time frame. They just... find something subtle that was tested in a company advertisement or shady government's PSA and throw those around. Kind of analogous to script kiddies.

Additionally, the growth of the communities are stunted by the whims of the internet algorithms. Definitely no algorithm manipulation from a super-intelligent AI happening there.
 
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Good idea.

The field has been existed in the scientific community for 21 years. (I literally just caught the typo implying it existed for 911 years. My bad.) It's about just coming out of the research phase and into the application phase. Governments are developing them for warfare or propoganda, world power corporations are developing them for their own services, but it's very much a market for the 1%. Generally it hasn't been gotten ahold of by major news networks, just somewhat less reliable minor or local news networks.
Something in the Optional Reading/Lore section of the OP says "Generally most people would regard it as a interesting (and maybe scary) science thing they read on the internet." meaning it's a fun fact on a tabloid that sounds a bit like voodoo or "hypnosis".

Fringe communities of random internet people like the ones John frequents do exist though, but they generally can't muster the processing power to produce interesting effects within any reasonable time frame. They just... find something subtle that was tested in a company advertisement or shady government's PSA and throw those around. Kind of analogous to script kiddies.

Additionally, the growth of the communities are stunted by the whims of the internet algorithms. Definitely no algorithm manipulation from a super-intelligent AI happening there.
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Perhaps there could be someone slightly corrupt in a research institution that offers services for some basic things to slowly be processed in the background? Or maybe some network of smaller computers connected together in some way for it?
 
Dragonwolf73 said:
Perhaps there could be someone slightly corrupt in a research institution that offers services for some basic things to slowly be processed in the background? Or maybe some network of smaller computers connected together in some way for it?
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Let's say your character knows a guy who has access to the means. Is it a close friend you would like to handle personally as a side character (no character sheet needed) or shall I play a "business partner" that John has a deal with.
 
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Let's say your character knows a guy who has access to the means. Is it a close friend you would like to handle personally as a side character (no character sheet needed) or shall I play a "business partner" that John has a deal with.
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Probably something closer to just a business partner.
 
I'm sending we're stalling out a bit. Want to skip ahead? You're basically done with this mission.
 
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