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[fatalissimo]

So do you guys ever still think about how bizarre this place is, or do you pretty much just get used to it after a while? It's weird as hell, the stuff you just start accepting after a while – you don't even think about how most of us came from a place where cats don't hatch out of eggs.

(...I say "most" because some jerk out there's going to pop up and prove me wrong, you just watch. Even if you also hatch your damn cats, I'm pretty sure there's something here that's out of the ordinary.)

I don't know if there's much point to this, but there's not much point to anything that goes on around here, anyway. I don't know, even if this place is better than whatever's going on back home, sometimes you miss being useful, too. Another thing to get used to, I guess.

...No, really, I am getting sick of the kittens-from-eggs thing. I'm going to have more cats than I do Swablus at this rate.

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[fatalissimo]

Eh, maybe. Some video games are boring as hell, too - you can't really say there's all that much challenge in Pokemon, even, because anyone can win if they grind enough.

Stuff like DDR is challenging, though. So's stuff like...I don't know, Fire Emblem? The tactical RPGs. The ones where you don't just sit and grind all day, you actually have to have half an idea of what you're doing.

[unkinder]

I disagree. And I'm sure you would, too, if you ever played competitively.

Not that I don't mind Fire Emblem. Or something like the Legend of Zelda series.

...DDR isn't to my taste.

[More like you couldn't get him on one even if you knocked him out and dragged him there. But...hey, you got him talking, so good job.]

[fatalissimo]

Not into rhythm games, or just not into rhythm games that make you bounce around like an idiot in public?

[unkinder]

I don't mind rhythm games, but I'll leave that one to people who will actually get some enjoyment out of that sort of thing.

[So, in other words, he's absolutely not into rhythm games like that.]

[chickshades]

yeah they really need to keep that shit to themselves.

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[failnought]

It's definitely weird, but would you believe me if I said I've seen weirder?

... Okay, maybe I'm a little weirded out by the fact that everything here hatches from eggs.

[fatalissimo]

Actually, yeah. We've all got our share of weird stuff, I think - it's just that this place is a really, really specific sort of weird.

But go ahead, I'm curious now.

[failnought]

Hopping through timelines, a pillar that's holding up another world by two women, beings that are summoned initially by hardships, gods branding normal human beings to do their bidding... Things like that.

Back home, though, if I jumped down a ledge at least I could get back up the same way.

[fatalissimo]

Huh. It's more interesting than a lot of other places I've heard about, anyway. A lot of places are surprisingly mundane, given that we've all been dragged here for some reason no one really gets. You'd think we'd have a lot more stuff like that, instead.

But yeah, that's the sort of stuff I'm talking about - the stupid ledges that you can't jump back up unless you're riding a goat, birds that don't fly you anywhere until you smack them with something that magically reminds them that they can, everything that the sentient trashbags have decided to be...I'm telling you, this place is the cosmic joke of the universe.

[failnought]

Now that I think about it, my home's pretty unique, huh? I don't know much about other worlds or universes, but I'd like to know more. It seems like the perfect place, you know? There's so many different people here, all with different stories.

So you can get back up them--with a goat? You can't even have your bird pokémon fly you up and over them?

I'm beginning to see what you mean. And I'm beginning to think that anything here can be sentient. I don't think I'd be surprised if I ran into something like... an ice cream pokémon.

[fatalissimo]

...We've got pollution that gained sentience after it was hit by moonbeams. I really, really wouldn't be surprised at the ice cream.

[...Girls, you've got a big storm coming.]

[failnought]

.... Maybe I might've been wrong about seeing weirder. I seriously can't say pollution, back home, is sentient, moonbeams or not.

[ What's next, a magic rock fairy that can harness the power of rocks and psychic waves? That sure would be weird! ]

[fatalissimo]

The pollution and the trash bags. This place is gross as hell when it wants to be, I'm telling you.

[failnought]

... Ugh, I think I get what you mean. Now I'm going to be suspicious of every trash bag I see.