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[doitrockapella]

Carmen Sandiego

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." —Winston Churchill

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[parodeity]

i assume the chinese is from tonight since leaving leftovers out would be bad for them staying safe but anyway
i divine that
you have good taste in arizona iced tea flavors and dont need to be disowned

also what kind of magnets actually
do you have alphabet magnets to spell out ridiculous messages
or are they like kitschy location ones
or the kinds that fast food places give out like candy
or just functional clip ones

[doitrockapella]

They're round and clear plastic, except colored. So colored transparent plastic with a magnet mounted on the back. They're aesthetic, I think. Or something.

Oh, and I have one of those magnetic poetry sets.

[parodeity]

thats absolutely apalling
ok clearly this needs to be fixed
give me two seconds

[ to. use time travel to send to carmen's doorstep a package of dumb magnets with several sheets of alphabet letters?

this was absolutely a terrible use of time travel. why does dave strider feel a fridge needs to be full on Tacky with magnets.

this is not aesthetic. ]

[doitrockapella]

...

that was LITERALLY two seconds how did you

[parodeity]

i am a very chronologically exact person
but anyway clearly it had to be done
this is basically like saving the universe
only more important

about five minutes later 1/2

[doitrockapella]

[doitrockapella]

Speaking of that, and things like that, I have a question to ask you about the things you can do.

[parodeity]

sure shoot

[doitrockapella]

I'm not looking for names, I'm just asking in theory.

So you remember being able to do — and can do — time- and time-travel-related things. Do you remember anyone else like that? People who could do...unusual things?

[parodeity]

yes
every player in our game could do shit and some ppl could do extra shit
i DO know of one other time player
but like
theres a ton of aspects and things you can do with them depending on your class blah blah blah
but yeah
basic bottom line is i knew people who could do unusual things

[doitrockapella]

Did you ever know anyone who could...hm.

I'm trying to think of how to phrase this. Move things around in three-dimensional space? Implausible things, I mean.

[parodeity]

hm
kinda actually yes
one person i knew was capable of moving planets around and changing their sizes
i think
from what i understand
she was in charge of space as an aspect
and then my mom was void
and she was able to steal the nothing out of shit
to make them into something
and also
i guess sometimes this created cubes and pumpkins?
im not 100% clear on that tbh
neither of those aspects being mine i didnt have to know the details beyond
well sure that sounds like it works
but nothing and planet sizes both qualify as implausible probably

[doitrockapella]

...

Explain the part about "steal the nothing out of something" to me one more time.

[parodeity]

like
my understanding is she can have an idea of something
but the idea doesnt exist
because it just doesnt
but if you steal the not existing of a thing out of a thing
it then exists?
dont quote me on this
bc i may be misunderstanding something here and she doesnt remember anything and cant correct me on it now
but thats what ive come to understand via conversations with someone who kinda knew it better
and her whole thing with pumpkins and cubes earlier in the year

its just a really creative use of one particular talent basically
gotta admire a loophole abuser

[doitrockapella]

...Where do you think the not-existing goes, after it's stolen, though?

...

Also it seems like it would be perilously easy to substitute "unreality" and "reality" for "not-existing" and "existing" in this hypothetical.

[parodeity]

ok i
THINK we arent responsible for the unreality bullshit
im pretty sure

also i think it like
i have no idea where it goes
possibly she exchanges it with the idea where it existed
somewhere
so its just moving things
via bullshit

[doitrockapella]

And what about the other one? With space as an aspect. That one was different?

[parodeity]

p sure she just made shit smaller or bigger

[doitrockapella]

That's interesting. So it's not strange to you, the thought of people being able to do things like that.

[parodeity]

nope
but also
i understand how a really fucking weird game called sburb works
so
very little actually sounds strange
sometimes its like why is that even a thing
but its never like that totally cant be a thing
its just like
i mean i GUESS

[doitrockapella]

To paraphrase a philosopher, it's given you an unusually high tolerance for preposterous bullshit?

[parodeity]

yes
im pretty sure aristotle said that
but yeah thats accurate as fuck

[doitrockapella]

Well-spotted. Likely he learned it from Plato, who as a student himself of Socrates, would have been a firsthand authority on all manner of preposterous bullshit.

[parodeity]

being a student of socrates probably earns you like a lifetime achievement badge

[doitrockapella]

Did you know that Socrates used to walk up to accomplished, educated people, ask them if they thought they were smart, and then verbally eviscerate them just to prove the "point" that they allegedly really weren't?

Even centuries before the internet existed, human nature never really changes.