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[hierophany]

I'd heard about it, but it sounds a little too good to be true. Especially here.

I'm giving it two months maximum until someone gets dragged into a computer to fight slimes with a wooden sword.

[oraorarush]

A lot of things here seem too good to be true.

I'm surprised that hasn't happened yet. Supposedly it's legitimate, but it still sounds made up.

[hierophany]

The bulk of them have been, so far.

It’s a nice idea in theory. I think it’d piss me off in practice. I like having something that I do that’s just mine, you know? If someone tried to pay me to play games, it’d be. I don’t know. I’d tell them to fuck right off, I’m not doing this for them.

[oraorarush]

So far.

Yeah, I get it. It sounds like something that would be fun in the beginning, but get annoying real fast. Not worth the trouble. Though it is funny to think about people paying you to tell them to fuck off.

[hierophany]

I should start charging for that. If you're good at something, never do it for free. And I am terribly good at telling people to fuck off.

Is this a very subtle way of suggesting to me that I should be paying rent?

[oraorarush]

You should. Can't believe I've been doing it for free all this time.

But knowing this place, there's probably someone who's into that.

Subtle like a brick. No, I'm not asking for rent. I figured if anyone knew about it, you would.

[hierophany]

Almost certainly. I have, unfortunately, yet to find anything at all entirely devoid of someone who's into it.

I think 'earn money by playing videogames' was just a way to lure impressionable people into strange cars, back home. At least up until the point I recall. People here seem to do it by broadcasting themselves. I don't know if that's possible by 1999, but it would have been a struggle with the technology I know of. I suppose that perhaps you could call people and tell them what's happening in the game, like a wildly specific sex line.

'Oh my, my little plumber is diving into this pipe'. That sort of thing.

[oraorarush]

Unfortunately. There's probably some incredibly obscure thing that's safe. Maybe.

I don't think it's possible. Even if the technology could handle it, it takes forever just to download a picture, and that's in places with decent internet. It's faster to drive to the beach and take a picture myself than to try and find one, sometimes. But I don't really keep up with that sort of thing either, so I could be wrong.

That's incredibly specific and really stupid-sounding, so it must exist somewhere. Isn't that the game with the mushrooms?

[hierophany]

Not as clueless about this as I thought you were. I mean, it's hardly an obscure one. But I did think you were particularly clueless.

You know, if anyone else said that I'd assume that they were looking for pictures of people in swimsuits, not of whatever shellfish you're looking for.

[oraorarush]

I feel like I should be insulted. I know the names a few games, I'm not completely clueless.

Ha ha. I know you're making fun of me, but shellfish are much more interesting.

[hierophany]

Consider me corrected, then. Only mostly clueless.

I don't disagree. But oh, I am very much making fun of you. Are you close to the beach, back home?

[oraorarush]

I'll accept mostly clueless.

If you tried to disagree I was going to point out that your username is snailfacts. Yeah, I live in Florida, not too far from the beach. I was close when I was staying in Morioh, too.

[hierophany]

A valid claim. Thank you for recognising snails as the molluscs they are and not as insects. It's very troubling when people call them bugs.

Oh, Morioh? We- well, it isn't as if we only just missed each other. We missed each other by a decade. But you wouldn't have been far from my home.

[oraorarush]

Do you get a lot of people that think they're bugs? That sounds annoying.

I know. I've been there.

[does that sound weird? That sounds weird]

My uncle lives in Morioh. Who's younger than you, mind you. That's part of why I was there.

[hierophany]

[...it sounds weird. ]

I didn’t know that your father’s family lived so close. He must have really dodged a bullet there, gossip about a local musician making it big usually spreads like wildfire in a small town like that.

[ GOOD GUESS, BUT NO. ]

[oraorarush]

[A LOGICAL GUESS]

Hah. My father's from Tokyo, no siblings. But that's the assumption I would make, too.

He's gramps' kid.

[hierophany]

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I see.

[oraorarush]

[this is the reaction he expected]

Yeah.

Anyway. Morioh's beaches were nice.

[hierophany]

A lot of people do seem to think that snails are bugs. I met someone once who didn't like the idea of escargot, because they said they didn't want to put insects in their mouth. And yet they were wearing lipstick! They thought that snails are bugs and that beetles aren't!

[ Is this dodging the subject no not at all they're talking about snails and beaches. ]

[oraorarush]

[this isn't dodging at all this is what they were talking about and not anything else]

I guess they don't know what carmine is. Or what half the shit they put in beauty products are. But most people don't know the difference between insects and bugs so I'm not really surprised.

[hierophany]

I concede. Point well made - they’re not bugs either. But beetles are at least in the same class as bugs.

I never really spent much time on the beaches, back home. If you’ve been near them any amount of time, it’s probably been longer than me.

[oraorarush]

They are. But I wasn't trying to make a point. If still you want to concede, though, I'll take it.

Ah. My thesis is on a species of starfish found in Morioh, so a lot of my free time went to that. I probably ended up there more often than I realized. But I went there a few times just because, too.