[network] @magenta2; voice - morning 286 [open]

[himalayanyeti]

Mm, so, is anyone else here from a very long time ago?

[Magenta apparently decides to leave it at that for a couple minutes, before returning to elaborate on the question with a carefully maintained tone of carelessness to his voice. It's a far cry from what he actually sounds like when he's excited or happy, but to the casual listener, it's probably close enough.]

I mean--you know. I think we're s'posed to be in...twenty-one-and-something, I can't remember the exacts, but is anyone here from long before now? A few folks I've talked to have mentioned they're from twenty-something, early twenty-something, but I don't know about all of y'all.

[A pause.]

I'm from 1891, and I reckon it's all a little new to everyone, but it sure seems like y'all have an easier time of gettin' used to things! Computers, and the nan...nan--nanomachines, and whatever else. I don't really know much about any of it, and I'm not that smart to begin with! It's all past me, and I'm sorry for not bein' much help. I guess what I'm meanin' to ask is how everyone deals with figurin' stuff out from the future.

He~ey, though, while we're on it: tell me about the future! I've heard the airplanes are marvelous. I'm very interested in all of it, even if I can't quite get it.

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@featherydouche; text

[mrcreamsicles]

cars all fly now and we elect the president by directing our brain waves at the white house until the winning candidate spontaneously teleports into the oval office

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[himalayanyeti]

oh shit thats pretty interesting

whos the president then? whenever youre from i mean. weve got valentine now and hes a bit divided in the publics opinion. i dont know if he would get elected again

[mrcreamsicles]

who the hell is valentine
weve got barack obama
hes a ghost now but i reckon if the collective psychic energy of the american people can keep him manifested in the white house then a thing like mortality isnt that much of a barrier to sound governing policy

[himalayanyeti]

funny valentine i used to work for him but im retired now

who the hell is obama

i mean it sounds like hes a ghost which is something ive never heard of. do ghosts exist in the future then or have they always existed and im only just now hearing about them

[mrcreamsicles]

[Funny Valentine. Seriously? He's rolling with it.]

hard to know because i was from the future even before i existed on earth
i was born in 2009 then time got sent back to 1995
but theres like billions of ghosts in the future
more than anyone could ever count
its a fact of unlife
and anyway obama is the savior of the economy and the one true rap king of the universe
his campaign hinged on delivering incisive political commentary through sick rhymes
and when youve got beats that catchy paired with innovative proposals for new governmental policies youre basically a shoe in

[himalayanyeti]

howd you do that. the whole time deal i mean because i sure as hell havent heard of that shit happening ever. more than a few seconds i mean but thats

[minute-long pause for Math.]

15 years! fucking crazy

anyways your president sounds cool. mine is also pretty alright on polisies and forein affairs (a joke because he was having many actual affairs) but hes also insane so it depends on how you look at things. he paid alright so i couldnt complain too much but holy christ was he weird

[mrcreamsicles]

nah it was a little over 13
meteors and space portals were involved
also im a time traveler so jot that down
but do you seriously mean to tell me president funny valentine wasnt a straightlaced no nonsense type
im in shock dude
you have to drop these bombshells a little slower

[himalayanyeti]

ah fuck im no good with numbers but that all sounds pretty fucked up i mean it sounds like a lot but i believe you stranger things have happened et setera et setera. jotting it down

and he sure looks that way but hes positively crazy

he was obsesed with this corpse. this really old gross corpse that he thought would help him be powerful or some shit like that i wasnt really paying attention to the why of it all. very carismatic though for sure he had a lot of power to him . very sexy. but absolutely insane

@user; voice

[cosmicwords]

Don't worry about feeling overwhelmed. I think everyone here feels that way sometimes.

@clowncutie92; text

[clowngirl]

[Hey, so you know what silly thing people often do in the future, Mags? Text you when you're in the same room. Which Harley is doing now, hi.]

i like the future but only when it's really my present and not the future cuz this part of the future is pretty much the pits.

airplanes are pretty fun but last i knew they were still workin on gettin jetpacks right. that's what I'M waitin for.

[mrcreamsicles]

dude i have got to ask right now
exactly how much bullshit are you peddling me right now
ive been half trolling
are you trolling
or are you seriously telling me corpselover mcgee doesnt hit your nope button

@Iwillnot; video

[absentconstellation]

Internal plumbing is not yet common in my world.

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[himalayanyeti]

I know, I just--I feel a tiny bit behind, y'know? Everyone's overwhelmed, but I'm even worse off 'cause I have even less ideas about what's goin' on all the time. It's tricky.

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[himalayanyeti]

[...He'll give her a bit of A Look when he finds the message, but ultimately not say anything. She's weird.]

yeah no kidding this fucking sucks. where are you from??? in time and in place. you sound american and maybe southern even but its a bit all over the place

and tell me of jetpacks right the hell now

[himalayanyeti]

i am peddling you zero bullshit this is all true

and he DOES but not strictly because of the corpse thing but anyways its objective. hes hot in the objective way and you havent met him i take it so who are you to say

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[himalayanyeti]

Really! You're prob'ly older'n I am, then!

...But does that really matter to you? Can't you just go wherever?

[mrcreamsicles]

dude
no
no on several levels
i took all these nos and built myself a skyscraper out of them with a foundation so solid the san andreas fault couldnt crack it

[clowngirl]

[She's just gonna wave at him cheerfully and continue replying via text.]

2011. gotham city, new jersey. but i was born and raised in brooklyn. where you from?

and do you know what a rocket is? cuz that might make this easier.

[himalayanyeti]

do you even know what he looks like

portraits and photos cant do him justice

[himalayanyeti]

[weirdo. He definitely does wave back, though.]

jesus christ everyone here is from jersey huh? tragic. im from georgia but before i was here i was in philly for work busines travel all over the place really

yeah sorta. fireworks and shit i get that

[mrcreamsicles]

no i dont but it doesnt matter
im not into dudes and even if i was the corpse obsession is instant poison to any attractive qualities he could have
they are incompatible from the ground up

[himalayanyeti]

i mean IM not into men either hes just that good looking objectively

[The second half is technically not a lie, but the first is pathetically obvious.]

and its gross so ill give you that. its just the one corpse though he doesnt really make a habit out of that shit its just a very special one

[mrcreamsicles]

whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night bro
the point stands
your taste is shit
and your edition of america is hella fucked up for electing him

[himalayanyeti]

ill agree with that

the fact that he needed someone like me on the regular is pretty fucked up in the first place and while hot and ocasionaly nice hes also terifying and awful and it doesnt really balance out

[mrcreamsicles]

the fact that he needed someone like you on the regular
you want to elaborate on that one