tushanshu_logs | [EVENT | 4TH WALL] FIX IT FORTUITY

Characters: Everyone and anyone, including our visitors
Date: Feb 18, 2018-March 11, 2018
Location: This log can be used for anywhere to do with the fourth-wall event.
Situation: Many and various. There are a few starters in the comments below, or create your own!
Warnings/Rating: Please add warnings in subject headers as needed.

This year there's no sudden explosion to mark the influx of people. The weather is still faintly snowy, crisp and chill, and though there are days when the sun breaks through the clouds it doesn't do much to make things genuinely warmer.

Much like light slipping between the clouds, other Foreigners start slipping into the city, here and there. By this time the kedan and the anchored Foreigners know more than well enough what a Foreigner with no soul gem means, and by the time the third drifter has shown up it's considered sign enough for enthusiastic miniature pop-up markets to spring up where the snow is melting away, much like flowers.

Cheerful, profit-seeking flowers.

All the same, with the recent collaborations between Foreigners and kedan, the kedan are much more willing to look kindly on the newcomers-- at least so long as they don't cause too much trouble.

There's some speculation about what might be causing it -- the phenomenon comes earlier than it has before, not quite into spring yet -- but once objects start appearing and disappearing, it's safe to say the Dreaming can be blamed. As unpredictable as the Dreaming can be, this makes more than a few people relax-- at least it's a known unpredictability. The items that vanish are always of personal value, regardless of monetary worth, and they usually reappear later. And some items simply appear. Whether or not they'll stay forever remains to be seen, but it's always things with some emotional attachment, often which were on the mind or in conversation recently.

And often, the feeling of being watched, or that you've seen this thing before, no matter if it's impossible.

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Welcome to Tu Shanshu's third 4th wall event! Please see the OOC information write up for details about the current state of the city, the visiting 4th wall guests, and other information you'll need to know, as well as the check in comment to add new characters to the event.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the mods on the OOC post, or by PMing this mod account.

Enjoy!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Aya was one of the most advanced beings in all of known Guardian Space, capable of calculating and running equations at hundreds of times the speed of most carbon-based lifeforms. But that explanation? That took her...several seconds longer than usual to adequately process.]

...no.

We do not have humorous images of any species of feline in any of the known languages of this realm.

I think I probably have some saved to my hard drive, hold on- do you have a way to accept compressed images?

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That does significantly curtail the speed at which I can absorb information, but then again I have been a long proponent of collecting data through more conventional senses. It's my belief that absorbing data at a rate more comparable to human learning might have hidden benefits!

Edited 2017-02-20 02:27 (UTC)

I do, yes.

[Although with the third and fourth parties of their respective radios' transference speeds slightly hindering the process, it did take several microseconds longer than usual before she was able to properly download anything sent via radio waves.]

What benefits might those be?

It's just a proposal at the moment! More data would need to be collected before I could formulate a more coherent theory!

But bottlenecking data collection speeds by necessity skews the ratio of data collection to data processing! With limited data, humans would process the same data over and over again, perhaps leading to deeper understandings! When an unlimited data is at your disposal, you are more likely to look at things macroeconomically, focusing on data tabulation rather than taking individual entries and studying their component parts!

The greatest human philosophers all predate the digital age, after all!

I'm afraid I am not well versed in Earth history.

[Some of the basics of culture as recorded by the Guardians' main databse, of course, along with Hal Jordan's anecdotes, but nothing indicating any digital age.]

However, your theory is...plausible. Although I must reaffirm the notion that an increased processing speed would expedite the process significantly. Quantity does not need override quality. It is, perhaps, the nature of the individual to decide whether or not such data is worth multiple assessments or alternate perspective from which to analyze.

That may be true, but there's an old english proverb that states that 'necessity is the mother of invention!'

You are more likely to pursue unlikely courses of thought if your options are limited! Or, in this case, your data flow!

But if your options are limited, would not your external information and experiential memories also limited your awareness of such alternate courses of thought?

Perhaps!

Maybe having limited dataflow doesn't have anything to do with processing power at all, but instead forces you to prioritize WHAT data you gather!

[Hmm]

As the only time I have never operated at 100% efficiency, I was either temporarily off-line or suffering from microfailures due to external influences, I cannot speak to such possibilities with total certainty. As such, I will reiterate my previous statement that it is...possible.

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