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imeeji_frontstage2022-10-22 09:22 pm
wotanon) wrote in imeeji_frontstage2022-10-22 09:22 pm
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Who: EVERYONE
Where: EVERYWHERE
When: Day 507 AFTERNOON
The afternoon is dark and weird. Things are spooky. Monster mingle or regular mingle!
Where: EVERYWHERE
When: Day 507 AFTERNOON
The afternoon is dark and weird. Things are spooky. Monster mingle or regular mingle!
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[She pulls the phone out from between a fold of fabric at her hip. There is no pocket there??? It was just kinda stuck to her like a refrigerator magnet apparently]
Might you demonstrate how one might activate such a function?
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Robin takes the phone and shows Cloud Retainer what buttons he's pressing. When it's recording:] Cloud Retainer is the best.
[He hits stop, and then plays back the message. "Cloud Retainer is the best."]
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[WAHAHA!]
And don't you forget it, young man!
[she takes back the phone, grinning]
Wonderful. One appreciates the instruction. Now, one shall record the rest of this conversation so one might have a more thorough sample of your voice.
[she hits the record button and then just. sticks the phone directly onto her chest/collarbone/cleavage zone. Again, it just stays there like it's magnetized. Or maybe Polarized.]
Now. In addition to your voice, one should like to see if we might be able to obtain a sample of the sound of your laughter.
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[Wouldn't that be really awkward and forced.]
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Never fear. One shall tell you a joke!
When birds fly in formation, for what reason is one side of the V longer than the other?
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Because there are more birds on that side.
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you tried]
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...
[hands on hips]
For what reason are you not laughing? That was a good one!
Could it be you did not get the joke? Shall one explain it to you?
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[Maybe it's really funny when you're a bird?]
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When the question of why one side is longer than the other is asked, the listener's natural inclination is to consider not the reason, but the purpose of this phenomenon. The question implies the birds have taken such a formation deliberately, or perhaps subconsciously, giving agency to the birds who must have some secret reason for assuming this flight pattern -- some knowledge unknown to the listener. The listener may then, in that instance, come up with many wild ideas, grasping at the idea that there is something funny going on that only the birds are aware of, swirling it in a fog of mystery.
Then, when the answer is revealed, the reason is simply that there are more birds on that side. Each bird takes up a certain amount of space, and because more birds take up more space, one side of the formation simply becomes longer naturally. So in the end, the answer to the question was not mysterious at all, but common sense, so obvious that it needs no explanation at all. This reveals in retrospect that the question was not asking about a purpose at all, and it was the listener thinking about it too hard that made it more complicated than it was. It is as though the asker has played a joke on the listener, and the surprise at the reveal of this joke is what makes it funny for both parties.
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...Um... Maybe I just have a bad sense of humor?
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[that's the only possible explanation!]
Ah, well. Like you said, we shall not force it.
Perhaps it shall occur naturally in due time. For now, let us consider what else you might like to preserve. A song, perhaps? A message? A series of phonemes that a future device could replay to synthesize custom sentences on demand?
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