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[franciscoramon]

informal poll for you guys. if you had to choose, is this place more like:

a) fantasia, from the neverending story
b) oz, from the wizard of oz
c) wherever the hell it was with the muppets and stuff, from labyrinth
d) wonderland, from alice in wonderland

[ The question might seem like a frivolous one, but the answers should actually be pretty informative, and it's way more fun than just asking people to describe what this place is really like. ]

Comments

[ text | un: jkent ]

[supersweet]

So like. Only old people movies?

[ His dad would fit right in. ]

[franciscoramon]

[ Wow. ]

i was aiming for movies a large range of people might have heard of

[ Is he for real getting sassed by some twelve-year-old, this is exactly like the internet back home. Some things really don't change. ]

[supersweet]

Old movies for old people then. Gotcha.

[franciscoramon]

alright, how old are you, kid?

[ Cisco's guessing under 13 - young enough not to think the cool thing to do is pretend to be older and more sophisticated than he actually is. ]

[supersweet]

I'm ten. Why?

[franciscoramon]

no reason.

shouldn't you be in school or something, kid?

[supersweet]

School isn't 24 hours long.

And my phone has internet. Which can be used in school.

[franciscoramon]

i'm sure your teachers love that.

does this network not have some kind of... parental filter or anything like that?

[ Or, he wonders, is he going to have to code one in himself? ]

[supersweet]

I dunno. Does it?

[ Who puts parental filters on things anymore? ]

[franciscoramon]

[ ....Sigh. Gonna have to code one himself, looks like. If there were one, it would have probably inconvenienced this kid enough at some point that he would be aware of it. ]

it's gonna, soon.

[supersweet]

Why? Kids ought to know the same stuff too.

[franciscoramon]

[ That's a whole moral debate that's above Cisco's head, and he's not about to get into it with this boy; he'll settle for humor: ]

if kids wanna know stuff [ Sure did type 'shit' and go back to replace it ] kids can learn how to hack like the rest of us did.

[supersweet]

That's not fair. It's not like they teach that in school!

[franciscoramon]

learning to do stuff on your own is more fun than school, anyway.

[supersweet]

You still need someone to teach you. Not everything can be done on your own.

[franciscoramon]

that's true. but it's also good to learn how to teach yourself, too.

you're not the only kid here, right? i mean if they've got a school they must have at least enough for a class or two.

[supersweet]

How many kids have you seen?

[ There are some around, but not like Jon. There are no superhero kids or special kids. Everyone's a lot older too. ]

[franciscoramon]

idk, i got here yesterday i haven't been counting.

[supersweet]

Big surprise.

Your alternate reality poll left out all the aliens, reality-warpers and evil clones too. Movies don't narrow that down.

[franciscoramon]

...are you saying there evil clones here?

[supersweet]

There might be. We are at an alternate reality.

[franciscoramon]

great, well, something to look forward to...

(that was sarcasm)

[supersweet]

I know what sarcasm is.

That's why I said your poll should be better.

[franciscoramon]

well i'll just have to put up a second poll in a few days asking if anyone's seen any aliens or evil twins

[supersweet]

I already asked a few days back.