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[ichoosefight]

Not necessarily. You seem to really want people to know that you're right. I'd guess you've been called crazy too many times. You'd think that would make you more considerate, but that's just not how people work I guess.

I mean, do you really think it's productive to just say "you're wrong" over and over all the time? It makes you sound like a little kid.

[cactusy]

You know, maybe you should work on your social skills. Might help you read people better.

I want us all on the same page. I don't really give a crap what you think of me personally, but we need to be able to work together effectively.

[ichoosefight]

I don't really see that working if you have to stop the conversation every other sentence to say "you're wrong". It's a two-way street, you know? Working together doesn't mean listening to you call me crazy and ignore everything I say because you can't handle anything outside your own experience.

[cactusy]

I called you, didn't I.

[ichoosefight]

And I'm still listening, even though you've already made me feel like hanging up. You'll probably never find anyone else that's so tolerant of your bullshit.

[cactusy]

This is why I hate teenagers; they have no life experience, but they still think they know everything.

Are you going to tell me about the multiverse theory or not.

[ichoosefight]

If you actually ask me a question, then yeah, I probably will. I'd get on with it, though, because you're stomping on my last nerve.

[cactusy]

"Tell me more about it" is the question. Everything I already know has been filtered through technonerd-speak.

[ichoosefight]

That's a pretty vague question.

There are multiple universes. Maybe a limited number, maybe an infinite number, each a little different from the others. You're not supposed to be able to travel between them, but every now and then some mad scientist or intergallactic psycho will punch a hole through space-time and then all bets are off.

[cactusy]

And you're saying you know this for a fact. You've experienced it?

[ichoosefight]

I know it from someone I trust and respect to the extent that he could tell me the sky is falling and I'd ask where he wants me to stand.

[cactusy]

What's he like.

[ichoosefight]

He's an ass. Way worse than you.

But he's also a genius, and a hero, and as bad as he is at being a human being he's brilliant at just about everything else.

[cactusy]

He alive?

[ichoosefight]

He was the last time I saw him.

[cactusy]

[There's a gap of a few minutes between this response and the next, as Shaw takes a breather to wonder why she'd expected the answer to be no.]

And is he one of those superheroes you were talking about?

[ichoosefight]

[ How... should she answer that? She said way too much. It definitely sounds like she knows him personally. Can she even try to maintain a secret identity here?

Probably no. ]

...Yeah, he is. But no powers.

[cactusy]

So-- wait, you're saying there are people with powers?

[ichoosefight]

Oh. Was that not assumed? 'Cause of the name. I mean, that's a thing people argue about.

[cactusy]

Where I'm from it's all fiction, remember?

[ichoosefight]

Where I'm from it's all widely accepted fact. It's hard for me to figure out what's strange for you.

[ ... ]

It's also weird that you don't seem to think hyper-realistic simulation technology is strange. Like, I know how that works, and I still think it's strange.

[cactusy]

I thought it was impossible too until I experienced it. No, wait, I guess--

[She pauses again, for a much shorter period this time, and when she speaks again the frown is audible in her voice.]

I knew about computers running situational simulations in theory. I didn't know people could have their consciousnesses put into them.

[ichoosefight]

See? That's weird. By normal-rando-living-in-Oklahoma standards, that's weirder than cryostasis. Cryostasis is much closer to being available to the general public.

[cactusy]

"Cryostasis" as a concept exists to part gullible rich idiots from their money.

[ichoosefight]

You don't need government clearance to freeze your wife. If you have just the basic equipment you'd need to even think about a full immersion simulation, I guarantee you you're on a dozen watch-lists.