FAQ

This is a list of questions we get asked about in the email contact form, or things I think should be made clear regardless.

• What is this

  The Ones Who Remember (TOWR for short) is a transformative work, currently in progress. It will not stop being “in progress” until it’s finally over or we’re both dead. This work as a whole began construction an indeterminate time in the past —at some point during or after 1998— but this written iteration of the work began 2018 September 15^th

• Who are you

  Disclosing too much information about our lives, permanently onto the internet, would be irresponsible. What we can say however, is that there are two of us, and we are in very close communication when it involves this work. This work is the primary reason for our existence. That is the extent to which we are comfortable saying about ourselves at this time.

• How do I read this

  Very very carefully.

  Speaking in terms of site performance: it really shouldn’t take much for modern technology to display most of The Ones Who Remember unless something is very wrong with your device. On rare occasions, some complicated effects are used which some systems might struggle with. Particularly old technology may fail to render some of these complicated effects, but it ought not cause the text to become unreadable. Should that happen, do contact us.

  No ad blockers should negatively affect the site with their default settings, but some other addons/plugins might cause issues (such as noscript) by overreaching and blocking more than just javascript. If you are using noscript or similar, enable custom fonts for internetmoneyscam.com.

• What do all these abbreviations stand for

  There aren’t a lot of abbreviations in this work, but that number also isn’t zero. If you have a device capable of hover actions, you can hover your cursor over most abbreviations to see what it is an abbreviation of. Otherwise, this is your guide:

  FAQ stands for “frequently asked questions”. Wow!!!! 😊
  TOWR stands for “The Ones Who Remember”, the name of the project as a whole. You can pronounce it like “tower” if you want to, but that is neither correct nor incorrect.
  TCOL & FMBL are meant to be figured out through the course of the story, so aside from being an identification code for the different sections of TOWR, I won’t explain them here.
  Abbreviations such as WttO are usually book names, such as this one “Welcome to the Outside”.

• Which do I start reading first, cross or star

  Alternate between the two series, but it doesn’t matter which series is the first or second. Each individual story in a series assumes you’ve read the previous in that series, and both books before it in both series. There are exceptions to this, such as how Eventide part 1 absolutely must come before Eventide part 2 (naturally).

  TCOL’s first draft was originally conceptualized to be read cross first, then star, all in one go. But then we realized that that was stupid, and would spoil a bunch of things that were supposed to be mysteries. That’s currently why they're structured alongside each other, creating the implication they need to be read simultaneously. That, and because Kenji Mashiro metaphysically split reality in half at the end of Welcome to the Outside.

• How do [I|we] contact you

  Because of how often email addresses get scalped for unsavory purposes, our contact information is obfuscated. If you really put your mind to it, you’ll figure it out.

• Why is it formatted like that

  We have a system of formatting that is used across the entirety of TOWR, and we realize that it’s non-standard. Much of it is a combination of other works of fiction, punctuation systems from other languages & cultures, and some formatting from coding languages. It should remain consistent throughout the entirety of the work, and once understood, will not suddenly change (barring in-universe reasons such as a person writing in their own style different than the outer text). If the system bothers you, sorry.

• Dark mode

  Quite a while ago, the site used to have a dark color scheme by default. We generally find “dark mode”s more appealing to the eyes. However, we found that reading large walls of white text on a black background would burn lines into our vision, and confuse the eyes of people who read it for long periods. Because of this, the mode was scrapped, and made to more resemble the color of a book page, with a light background and dark text.

  Purely for those who insist upon it, we do plan to add a dark mode back into the site. It’s less easy (but not impossible) to implement such a thing without javascript; it will be done through a url parameter the user can select within the table of contents.

• Wouldn’t it be easier to do X with javascript or php

  Despite the name internetmoneyscam.com giving off the air of low quality products & services, there is not and never will be any javascript or php used in projects we have full control over. To put it simply, these languages are just too shitty to be used in good conscience, and we will not debase ourselves or this work by their presence. Using javascript/php on purpose when the same effect can be accomplished by another method is —frankly— embarrassing. We have similar criticism of modern HTML & CSS due to the W3C’s general incompetence, but there is no other viable option for use on the internet at this time.

• Well, okay, but if you’re not using javascript and php then what are you doing

  SSI. To be more specific, this is in reference to server side includes, not “supplemental security income” (which google seems to believe is the only thing that SSI could possibly stand for, which made initially researching it needlessly annoying). The combination of HTML, CSS, and SSI can do basically anything I would need php or javascript for.