He makes a little humming sound at that, though, and briefly glances back up toward the stars.]
Yeah. I'm gonna take advantage of the time I have here. [NO MORE NOT TALKING TO CERTAIN PEOPLE, NOW HE WILL PLAGUE EVERYONE WITH HIS PRESENCE!!] I don't like regretting stuff.
That's not a bad way to go about it. Talk to who you want to talk to, everyone here comes from so many different places I can tell you that it doesn't get boring.
Yeah, that's really true! Everyone I've talked to so far has had a lot of interesting stuff to say. There are worlds out there that are really nothing like the one I know...
Uh... [Him braincell. Give him a second to think.] The technology's not super far from what we have here, for starters. All of the stuff you'd find in the rec room and common room are totally normal. We have real big cities with huuuge buildings that go up hundreds of feet into the air, but we also have, like... giant forests and natural hot springs and mountains and stuff.
Oh, they do that, too. There are even some buildings that are so huge, they're basically just cities. But! You have more real estate if you build up, you know? There's only so much ground you can cover, but if you're building up, you can go way high into the sky.
[ HIS FLEADORA. THE FLEADORA FOR MAHITO, MAHITO'S FLEADORA. ]
... Is that so? It feels like we have too much empty space where I'm from. You'd build, say, a castle higher up for fortification purposes and often to be the centre point of the city it's in, but... houses don't tend to be multiple floors high.
Or, rather, the basic ones in villages aren't. Fancier houses owned by the rich would be more likely to be multiple rooms and floors.
[STOP I HATE READING FLEADORA I'M RUNNING FROM HERE]
Oh! That sounds a little bit like how things used to be, for us. [THE YE OLDE DAYS... ie anything before computers happened.]
We used to have castles but no one really uses them anymore, I think? They're like, heritage sites and stuff. [A little, sloping shrug.] That's a European thing though, mostly. Not really where I'm from.
Yeah. Does that mean you guys don't have toasters or anything, either? [Why is toasters the first thing he mentions when talking about grand tech from the future...]
But that might be the case, yeah! From what I've seen here, any place with humans generally progresses in a similar way. [For better or worse!]
Mm - depends on where you are, I guess. Some places have apartments, which are tall buildings where everyone just kinda rents their own room inside! But if you go further out in the country, you'll usually find more houses. Most of the ones where I come from are one floor, too.
... The... little rectangle that makes bread crunchy? That's definitely new to me. You'd just heat it over the fire if you want the texture change where I'm from.
That makes us all sound like a rabble, rather than multiple, individual people.
... so even in modern spaces you don't always get a lot of room to live. But that sounds like more of a population thing than a cost and available building materials thing?
Yeah, those! Wow... Getting used to everything here must be a lot, huh? How do you like it?
[It's all convenient to him, but he also knows how electricity works... Ah, ye oldes. Regarding the rabble, he just hums a little, moving on instead.]
Kinda? There are tons of people, but it's also way more expensive to have a house than just rent an apartment. Houses in the city are like, a million dollars. [HE IS PERHAPS EXAGGERATING but he's also a spirit he doesn't know shit about the economy.]
... Well. Some of it seems important, and relevant and useful? Like the hot water available whenever you want. And the freezer. Some of it is just strange. Like the game machines.
[ he has played the game machines. ]
Good to see money's the route of most problems, even countless years into the future. [ does yuri even know what a million is ]
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Yeah. He was pretty passionate about it. [ ... ] Wishing now doesn't really do a lot of good, does it?
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He makes a little humming sound at that, though, and briefly glances back up toward the stars.]
Yeah. I'm gonna take advantage of the time I have here. [NO MORE NOT TALKING TO CERTAIN PEOPLE, NOW HE WILL PLAGUE EVERYONE WITH HIS PRESENCE!!] I don't like regretting stuff.
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Yeah, that's really true! Everyone I've talked to so far has had a lot of interesting stuff to say. There are worlds out there that are really nothing like the one I know...
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What's your world like then? For comparison's sake.
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[A BEAT.]
I'm not very good at this.
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[ well. he thinks he got it? ]
Do you mean just... really big buildings, or are they built on high ground, or... are they floating...?
[ clarify pls. ]
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They're big buildings! We're not advanced enough to have floating buildings, hah. We can't even fully live in space yet.
[THEIR WILDASS TECH.]
But yeah, some buildings are tall enough to have, like, over two hundred floors or something.
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... [ space. ] So you just... build up really high? Why not build outwards?
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Oh, they do that, too. There are even some buildings that are so huge, they're basically just cities. But! You have more real estate if you build up, you know? There's only so much ground you can cover, but if you're building up, you can go way high into the sky.
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... Is that so? It feels like we have too much empty space where I'm from. You'd build, say, a castle higher up for fortification purposes and often to be the centre point of the city it's in, but... houses don't tend to be multiple floors high.
Or, rather, the basic ones in villages aren't. Fancier houses owned by the rich would be more likely to be multiple rooms and floors.
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Oh! That sounds a little bit like how things used to be, for us. [THE YE OLDE DAYS... ie anything before computers happened.]
We used to have castles but no one really uses them anymore, I think? They're like, heritage sites and stuff. [A little, sloping shrug.] That's a European thing though, mostly. Not really where I'm from.
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Makes sense. You mentioned the technology you know is closer to this sort of technology, so you are probably from a more modern era than I am.
[ ... ] I wonder if in the future buildings will be tall and reaching into the sky where I'm from too.
[ oh. then. ]
What type of buildings do you have then?
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Yeah. Does that mean you guys don't have toasters or anything, either? [Why is toasters the first thing he mentions when talking about grand tech from the future...]
But that might be the case, yeah! From what I've seen here, any place with humans generally progresses in a similar way. [For better or worse!]
Mm - depends on where you are, I guess. Some places have apartments, which are tall buildings where everyone just kinda rents their own room inside! But if you go further out in the country, you'll usually find more houses. Most of the ones where I come from are one floor, too.
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... The... little rectangle that makes bread crunchy? That's definitely new to me. You'd just heat it over the fire if you want the texture change where I'm from.
That makes us all sound like a rabble, rather than multiple, individual people.
... so even in modern spaces you don't always get a lot of room to live. But that sounds like more of a population thing than a cost and available building materials thing?
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Yeah, those! Wow... Getting used to everything here must be a lot, huh? How do you like it?
[It's all convenient to him, but he also knows how electricity works... Ah, ye oldes. Regarding the rabble, he just hums a little, moving on instead.]
Kinda? There are tons of people, but it's also way more expensive to have a house than just rent an apartment. Houses in the city are like, a million dollars. [HE IS PERHAPS EXAGGERATING but he's also a spirit he doesn't know shit about the economy.]
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... Well. Some of it seems important, and relevant and useful? Like the hot water available whenever you want. And the freezer. Some of it is just strange. Like the game machines.
[ he has played the game machines. ]
Good to see money's the route of most problems, even countless years into the future. [ does yuri even know what a million is ]
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Those are super important, too! Without them, we'd all die of boredom.
[He says it with a light and teasing tone, though. He does love games, but he can entertain himself with just a fuckin bubble wand. He's set for life.
But yeah literally just THUMBS UP. HE JUST GIVES YURI A THUMBS UP.]
Yep! It's always gonna be one of the big ones, hah.
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... You could just read a book. Or play cards.
[ or something like that. ]
Hopefully someone can at least get it to even out, just a little. It's bad enough as it is back home.
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[He's never seen it but he's assuming like 50% of the population would just give up and die on the spot. As for their economically cursed future:]
Maybe... [Said with the air of "haha, it will not".] What's it like for you, then?
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[ maybe you will find cards fun, mahito? you don't know. ]
... [ hm. ] Rich people are right, poor people are poor. Sounds like it's a tale as old as time.
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[They're all gonna die. BUT AH, THAT SURE IS JUST. That sure is just the... the tie that binds... (Sheila voice) why couldn't it be puppies.]
Seems like a lot of places share commonalities when it comes to their core problems, huh? Even if they're entire worlds away.
[It's almost like the real core problem is, like, humans or something, damn.]
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[ ... but there are puppies now at least! ]
Seems so. Maybe we're all just prone to the same mistakes. Or caught up in the tide of people making them.
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[Said with a little bit of a laugh... Fuckin RIP ye oldes. But at least they do indeed have puppies.]
Seems like that's pretty true, though. Both things are true, probably.
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