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[parodeity]

I think most of the mechanics that are dumb as fuck are restricted to us. And sylladexes are pretty ok if your modus isn't dumb as shit?

[alienates]

Mine just throws out safes and I have to hack them to open them.

[ it's said in the most pained tone as possible. he has, without a doubt, had a safe fall on him before. ]

[parodeity]

- isn't it just easier not to use it in that case???

[ he's not sure karkat is good at hacking.

also, he takes down another two imps. ]

[alienates]

[ ......... dave raises a very good point. ]

I'm sure if I use it enough times then it'll just get easier eventually.

[ it definitely won't ]

[parodeity]

How do you even haul the safes around? Doesn't that just make a mobius loop of bigger and bigger safes?

[ suddenly, his rap modus seems even less dumb in comparison, finicky though it can be... ]

[alienates]

Are any of them even remotely useful? In theory it's like, holy fuck! This is like those cool video game inventories! Guess who is never going to need to use a fucking pocket ever again? This bitch! And instead you have to solve the Rosetta Stone to put away a pack of gum.

[ he takes down one of the smuppets and makes a face at it. ]

[parodeity]

Mine is as long as I do auto-collision detection? Hash map has quirks, but it ain't a huge deal once you get used to it mostly.

[ SOMETIMES YOU ACCIDENTALLY DUMP STUFF OUT but mostly it's not as bad as. troll moduses. another slice. ]

[alienates]

I would ask why is something that, on paper, should make our lives easier, designed so complicatedly shittily, but considering everything... that is a stupid ass question.

[ the safe thing isn't too bad as long as karkat isn't in a gigantic hurry to get whatever he stashed away out. during his little ocean adventure in august, however, he realized just how terrible it can be. ]

I guess it could be worse. I haven't thought of something yet, but I'm sure it could be.

[parodeity]

Please try not to think of anything worse, what the fuck, you might warp the dream -

[ AND THAT'S THE LAST THING THEY NEED ]

[alienates]

[ that gives him a pause, since honestly all he'd do is probably make horrorterrors pop out of the sky or something, and

yeah. neither of them deserve to deal with tentacles on this fine day. ]

Hey do you think we could probably try to warp it but in a beneficial way? Maybe if we think reeeeeally hard about like, I don't know, gerbils or something that'll be the worst we have to deal with.

[parodeity]

Do you want to fight gerbils - but, sure, why the fuck not. It's like a d - [ dream bubble ] - ream, we just have to think...less stupid thoughts.

Shouldn't be that hard?

[alienates]

[ narrator voice: it was that hard.

but okay, he'll give this a try, and attempt to imagine the imps as... fucking gerbils. they can probably think of something better than gerbils but for now. it's gerbils. ]

You know if this turns out to be a "the power of children's imaginations is stronger than any evil" cliche I will laugh.

[parodeity]

Let's be real, if it's anything it's "the power of teenaged asshole imaginations is fuckin' destructive, especially to said assholes".

[alienates]

That sounds like the plotline to a bad CW TV show and I'm not sure if that's funny or not.

[ it's funny, but also not because it's their lives. ]

[parodeity]

It's the plotline of our lives, basically, and always has been? So I think maybe less. The one thing we have over CW assholes is our lives are better lit.

[alienates]

[ okay that actually makes him snort in amusement. ]

You're missing the point, Strider. If they invested in buying better lighting then they'll have to also actually learn how to become good at CGI.

[parodeity]

Someone has to hold 'em to some kind of standards or they'll never learn.

[ but is karkat thinking of gerbils still or cw mood lighting ]

[alienates]

Wow, Strider, are you telling me that you aren't into ten seasons of vampire love triangles?

[ it is 100% the cw mood lighting now

so, you know, they're probably gonna have to deal with that now. ]

[parodeity]

Please tell me you're not.

[ cool so lohac is way too well lit for this so TIME TO GO TO A DARK-ASS LOCATION. a hallway somewhere, and at least the puppets are gone? ]

- The fuck.

[alienates]

[ there is no way in hell that karkat is not into the recolle equivalent of the vampire diaries. but before he can comment on that, the scenery changes. ]

Oh come on! I swear I wasn't thinking of fucking creepy ass hallways.

[parodeity]

Were you thinkin' of dark lighting though???

[ he's trying to remember if this hallway is familiar or not, god. ]

[alienates]

... fuck. I got too into the CW jokes.

[ he starts walking down it, slowly, just in case they do suddenly get mugged by more smuppets or like. gerbils. ]

Hilariously this place is too fucking dark to see if it's familiar or not.

[parodeity]

I can't tell. I spent a lot of time in -

[ what if there is the distant honk of a clown horn?? ]

[alienates]

[ KILL BILL SIRENS

karkat immediately freezes, before quickly turning around and walking back to where dave is. ]

Hey. Strider. I have a quick question for you, and it's what else do you know about the troll we were just previously making fun of for being a clown?

[ karkat may sound more than a little nervous. ]

[parodeity]

Uh. His romantic history and the fact he has a stupid as fuck religion?

[ and that he like. was mia on the fucking meteor apparently the whole time? that he had a fake godtier thing? that they locked him in a fridge? ]