intersection | IC CONTACT. ➤ (ataraxion)

Hey, fashionably late, but - sweet game.

Yeah? I was going for the whole curing of the dreaded space boredom, but I think I mostly just took care of my own.

Yes, because clearly spending hours typing repetitive code is the height of entertainment.

Are you allowed to divulge who failed the most spectacularly at it?

It's better than reading through some of the boring conversations people have on the network just to make sure we haven't missed anything important. And it's not as repetitive as you think, there's a rhythm to it. A very intricately tedious one, but it's there.

and Han Solo. Disastrously. Along with Faith. And Thranduil, who i'm pretty sure wouldn't know a motherboard from a mouse.

Reading over or spying on? It's a very thin line.

Please tell me you told Han the odds at some point. And I guess Thranduil gets a pass considering he's actually older than dirt. What's Faith's excuse? Do I know a Faith?

[ nope he has not had the pleasure. ]

Well okay sometimes I just skim. Because I only think it counts as spying if you're looking for something in particular.

I think Thranduil gets multiple passes and a free lesson in gaming, and i'm not sure I had Han's attention long enough to tell him the odds. But Faith... Faith's excuse was apparently a need for anger management.

Careful, you're sounding a little George Bush Jr.

Text-based gaming is an exercise in patience, admittedly. It takes a lot of effort to figure out which commands actually accomplish something. On which note, please tell me she typed weird things at it.

Hey hey! Easy there! I'm in it for the coding, the detective work is something I try to keep my nose out of. Far, far out of. Unless i'm being forced into it by the bossman.

All she did was type weird things. Which just means she never had the joy of experiencing a good text-based game during childhood. Or any other time in her life really, because you can never go wrong with an oldy but a really awful goody. The worst ones were always the hardest.

Must have a pretty intimidating bossman.

I get the impression a lot of people here didn't get to experience the joy of a good text-based game, ever. Also, in our defense, I think the renfaire's awful games would be way more awful than anything we could come up with.

Bossman Petrelli. At least i've had worse.

You're going to compare our games to the renfaire's games? I think we'd win that competition every day of the week, even if we've got more words on the screen and less blatant hints. We've got the advantage of slight deductive reasoning on our side.

I was more thinking they win on the awful front because their awful games probably end in mangling or death, but yes, I get what you're saying. Their phrasing might be convoluted, but it's never exactly subtle.

And at least you always know what you're going to get. There's nothing worth than inconsistency rearing its head by way of awfulness.

That's incredibly true. Pretty sure space abduction is a prime example, definitely see that one coming. Hell, it's happened to me 3 times and I still find it jarringly inconsistent.

Were you abducted right back here each time? Or were those other two... a different space. Universe. Whatever. Because this is only my second time back, and I don't know if i'd say it was inconsistent. Just that it didn't really suck any less.

Not exactly, but I guess you're right about it sucking consistently. The last time I was home for over a year, was kind of adjustment being back here again. I would say we should start a club for suckers who get dragged back here more than once, but I'm guessing it would be a very depressing club.

But that's what they invented the idea of free coffee for.

Have you actually had the coffee here.

I work in retail. Sort of. The idea of coffee that actually tastes like something that hasn't been ringed out of a mop is a tiny bit foreign to me.

But no. I have somehow managed to avoid the space coffee.

Oh. Then yeah, it's probably close to what you're used to.

But why "sort of"?

Sort of because I have the occasional side job. That makes working retail just that much more painful.

Fair enough. I guess most people only "sort of" work retail these days. So what, freelancing?

If working for the government counts as freelancing?

I guess that depends. Is it on a contract? And should I assume you mean a desk job, or is it safe to say the ship's penchant for abducting people with notably alternative lifestyles holds in your case.

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