Ange wonders if this is how it feels to other people when she asks them if they have games on their tablet and only get real confused at her.. Because this is just the world's most befuddling text to her. She has no idea of at least half of the stuff described in it. ]
Wait, what's a vlog?
[ Let's start there. Then maybe the rest will make sense. Is it some sort of.. play, maybe..? It's hard to determine what it is going by context alone! Especially for a girl from 1998! ]
[...ah, but there's parts of the universe which are barely connected to civilization - not even the IPC has their tentacles everywhere. She's probably from one of those backwater places.]
It's like when you do a recording of something and put it online for people to watch?
[ Despite using a tablet here, it doesn't seem like Ange necessarily has the best grasp on all of it.. It doesn't help that the connection between all these tablets seems more like magic than technology to her, as unused as she is to the latter. ]
Do people really watch that stuff? Just people doing things?
[What's an appropriate short lived race, peepaw/meemaw/gender neutral old person activity...hm...]
Haven't you ever wondered how people weaved or wanted to learn how to knit or cook a thing, or maybe see someone give you a tour of someplace far away?
[ Ange doesn't even realise that she's coming across like some old person, even though it's more just that she's an entirely unimaginative emo teenager.. ]
If I really wanted to see that stuff, I'd just do it myself. Why go through the trouble of letting someone else experience it, unless you really detest the activity itself?
I guess it depends. There's lots of reasons. Sometimes it's because they can't do whatever-it-is for whatever reason. You can't build a snowman without snow, and you can't swim if you don't have water. The universe is a pretty big place. Maybe you never had snow or an ocean? And it's not always easy to change that, so seeing someone do something you can't do scratches that itch.
Oooooooooor sometimes it's because you know it's a very bad idea, but it's funny seeing someone try the triple chili pepper special at some place.
But it sounds like you're pretty lucky, so maybe you not getting it is a good thing? Bad for my bottom line if there were more people like you, but it's not like having everything you'd want right there in front of you is a bad thing.
I wouldn't say that I'm lucky. Maybe it's instead more that I'm less easily entertained than most people, if I'm following your explanation right.
[ She can understand what the other is saying now, at least. It still doesn't sound very appealing to Ange, but at least she is self-aware enough to realize the reason lies within her, rather than with the other's career choice..
After all.. hey, as long as it makes her money and there's some idiots willing to pay her for it, why shouldn't Guinaifen do this stuff. ]
I don't think you're going to have a huge hit with it here though, if you wanted to continue that.
Especially when there's plenty of idiots who carry out bad ideas on this network for free for everyone to watch. Constantly.
Yeah......but that's okay. I have other talents to fall back on.
The streaming thing was a big hit back home in part because the Xianzhou Alliance consists of six ships, and it's not always easy to just go from one ship to another. Maybe you're busy, or maybe it's just a little too far, or maybe there's something in the way? Watching someone enjoy something you can't is all the more appealing when you know you could just do it last month pretty easily, but you don't know when your next chance will be.
There's probably some pithy saying about what you want being just out of reach but I'm not the girl to come up with it.
[ It's at least a little less incomprehensible than the whole vlogging thing she just got described to her, but it still stands out enough anyway that Ange can't help but address it.. ]
Isn't that a terribly inconvenient way to live? [ Then again, some worlds just are weird, huh. If there's anything Ange has learned in this place, it's that fact. ]
Spaceships? When the Xianzhou started to travel the stars, they turned all of their cities into spaceships. There used to be nine ships in the Xianzhou Alliance, three were destroyed, but there's still six left and they're all pretty massive.
Each one's the size of a very large city.
[Guinaifen's about to write something like 'well probably larger than any city you know' and then is backspacing, backspacing, and...gone. Nothing to see here.]
Oh. Now I get it. You're one of those space people.
[ Sorry, Guinaifen, this is apparently how you're being categorized now.. But considering that space travel really isn't a common thing where Ange comes from, it's been the easiest way to lump the worlds together that do seem to deal with that like it's a normal thing. ]
I thought we were talking about boats.
[ Even though large spaceships like that are also hard to imagine for Ange, but it makes a little bit more sense than them drifting on water. ]
Isn't it kind of weird, being stuck in a city like that without anywhere else to go? Even though we're trapped here, we can technically still go outside this city and see the rest of this world. I imagine it's more difficult to explore outside the city when you're in space. [ Ange doesn't have much technical knowledge of space.
[..................space peopl- you know, there's nothing wrong with growing up on a rural planet.]
Oh, that's why we've got starskiffs.
[As if that explains anything.]
They're smaller ships. They're pretty interesting looking. You're probably imagining some big hunk of metal, right? They're grown so they look a lot more organic than a lot of spaceships I've seen around.
[ Ange thought she did at least have a vague idea of what life in outer space would be like, thanks to some of the stuff people here told her and some movies she's seen.
.. this, however, throws her off entirely all over again. Ange suddenly feels like maybe she knows nothing about space after all.. ]
You can grow space ships?
From where?
[ This is one of the most confusing things she's ever heard. Which is saying a lot, considering Ange's life back in her world practically involved thinking real hard about complicated philosophical topics about magic on the daily..
I didn't really pay too much attention in class so I probably have some of the details wrong. But they make seeds, the seeds have blueprints in them, the engineers put them in tanks, and if everything goes right it becomes a starskiff.
Outworlders are usually surprised when they learn they're grown. I know I was!
[ That latter part kind of cancels out the 'no offense', Ange.. Though it is saying a lot that Ange of all people is writing this. Her world is definitely weird as hell. It raises the bar for weird quite high up. ]
That place runs on way different rules than my own world if you can do all of that stuff with seeds. I have never seen anyone grow anything but plants.
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Ange wonders if this is how it feels to other people when she asks them if they have games on their tablet and only get real confused at her.. Because this is just the world's most befuddling text to her. She has no idea of at least half of the stuff described in it. ]
Wait, what's a vlog?
[ Let's start there. Then maybe the rest will make sense. Is it some sort of.. play, maybe..? It's hard to determine what it is going by context alone! Especially for a girl from 1998! ]
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[...ah, but there's parts of the universe which are barely connected to civilization - not even the IPC has their tentacles everywhere. She's probably from one of those backwater places.]
It's like when you do a recording of something and put it online for people to watch?
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[ Despite using a tablet here, it doesn't seem like Ange necessarily has the best grasp on all of it.. It doesn't help that the connection between all these tablets seems more like magic than technology to her, as unused as she is to the latter. ]
Do people really watch that stuff? Just people doing things?
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[What's an appropriate short lived race, peepaw/meemaw/gender neutral old person activity...hm...]
Haven't you ever wondered how people weaved or wanted to learn how to knit or cook a thing, or maybe see someone give you a tour of someplace far away?
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No, I have literally never wondered that.
Not once in my life.
[ Ange doesn't even realise that she's coming across like some old person, even though it's more just that she's an entirely unimaginative emo teenager.. ]
If I really wanted to see that stuff, I'd just do it myself. Why go through the trouble of letting someone else experience it, unless you really detest the activity itself?
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I guess it depends. There's lots of reasons. Sometimes it's because they can't do whatever-it-is for whatever reason. You can't build a snowman without snow, and you can't swim if you don't have water. The universe is a pretty big place. Maybe you never had snow or an ocean? And it's not always easy to change that, so seeing someone do something you can't do scratches that itch.
Oooooooooor sometimes it's because you know it's a very bad idea, but it's funny seeing someone try the triple chili pepper special at some place.
But it sounds like you're pretty lucky, so maybe you not getting it is a good thing? Bad for my bottom line if there were more people like you, but it's not like having everything you'd want right there in front of you is a bad thing.
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[ She can understand what the other is saying now, at least. It still doesn't sound very appealing to Ange, but at least she is self-aware enough to realize the reason lies within her, rather than with the other's career choice..
After all.. hey, as long as it makes her money and there's some idiots willing to pay her for it, why shouldn't Guinaifen do this stuff. ]
I don't think you're going to have a huge hit with it here though, if you wanted to continue that.
Especially when there's plenty of idiots who carry out bad ideas on this network for free for everyone to watch. Constantly.
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The streaming thing was a big hit back home in part because the Xianzhou Alliance consists of six ships, and it's not always easy to just go from one ship to another. Maybe you're busy, or maybe it's just a little too far, or maybe there's something in the way? Watching someone enjoy something you can't is all the more appealing when you know you could just do it last month pretty easily, but you don't know when your next chance will be.
There's probably some pithy saying about what you want being just out of reach but I'm not the girl to come up with it.
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Everyone in that Alliance lives on ships?
[ It's at least a little less incomprehensible than the whole vlogging thing she just got described to her, but it still stands out enough anyway that Ange can't help but address it.. ]
Isn't that a terribly inconvenient way to live? [ Then again, some worlds just are weird, huh. If there's anything Ange has learned in this place, it's that fact. ]
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Because I'm pretty sure ships just won't float on the water anymore at a certain point, I'm sure. Are we talking about cruise ships?
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Each one's the size of a very large city.
[Guinaifen's about to write something like 'well probably larger than any city you know' and then is backspacing, backspacing, and...gone. Nothing to see here.]
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[ Sorry, Guinaifen, this is apparently how you're being categorized now.. But considering that space travel really isn't a common thing where Ange comes from, it's been the easiest way to lump the worlds together that do seem to deal with that like it's a normal thing. ]
I thought we were talking about boats.
[ Even though large spaceships like that are also hard to imagine for Ange, but it makes a little bit more sense than them drifting on water. ]
Isn't it kind of weird, being stuck in a city like that without anywhere else to go? Even though we're trapped here, we can technically still go outside this city and see the rest of this world. I imagine it's more difficult to explore outside the city when you're in space. [ Ange doesn't have much technical knowledge of space.
But she does know it's supposedly very empty. ]
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Oh, that's why we've got starskiffs.
[As if that explains anything.]
They're smaller ships. They're pretty interesting looking. You're probably imagining some big hunk of metal, right? They're grown so they look a lot more organic than a lot of spaceships I've seen around.
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.. this, however, throws her off entirely all over again. Ange suddenly feels like maybe she knows nothing about space after all.. ]
You can grow space ships?
From where?
[ This is one of the most confusing things she's ever heard. Which is saying a lot, considering Ange's life back in her world practically involved thinking real hard about complicated philosophical topics about magic on the daily..
And yet that made more sense to her, somehow. ]
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[Does she look like an engineer?]
I didn't really pay too much attention in class so I probably have some of the details wrong. But they make seeds, the seeds have blueprints in them, the engineers put them in tanks, and if everything goes right it becomes a starskiff.
Outworlders are usually surprised when they learn they're grown. I know I was!
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No offense, but that place sounds crazy.
[ That latter part kind of cancels out the 'no offense', Ange.. Though it is saying a lot that Ange of all people is writing this. Her world is definitely weird as hell. It raises the bar for weird quite high up. ]
That place runs on way different rules than my own world if you can do all of that stuff with seeds. I have never seen anyone grow anything but plants.
Regular plants. That don't really do anything.