parodeity | subnautica ic inbox 2.0;

[It was gentle bait to offer Dave the chance to expand on 'meaningless shit in his life.' As usual, Dirk is an idiot for thinking 'gentle bait' is the appropriate way for getting Dave to say things. He thinks about it for a moment, and then, lightly, he shoves against Dave's shoulder on that other beanbag. It is obviously not going to unbalance Dave in the slightest.]

Pretty sure it ain't, bro.

[Exactly what Dave meant.

But that's okay. Dirk isn't going to insist on anything.]

Half the fun of reading is producing a proliferation of esoteric interpretations. Your comics are a veritable font of possibilities.

I'm not sure you'd agree.

[ it what he says by way of explanation, as he kicks dirk in the shin. or, well. taps dirk's shin with his foot, not remotely a kick, but it's the same fucking difference.

he tosses his latest finished book dirk's way, still content in the knowledge dirk can handle having stuff thrown at him. ]

We should get into some kinda series.

Sometimes I don't. I can still listen.

[Caught easily and traded over without hesitation.]

Like a tv show?

Or a comic. Somethin' convoluted and long-runnin' that neither of us ever seriously watched or read.

[ to trade dumb theories over. dave kind of feels like it could be entertaining. ]

I'd understand you worse, and maybe be a worse person, if none of it had ever happened.

[Of course it comes second, so it hits Dirk when he isn't even sure it'll happen. He is quiet a minute.]

Doctor Who.

[It is not in his usual ball-park but it has been running since 1963 and quite possibly it runs to the present day in URSULA's time. He doesn't know.]

Okay. I don't know how much I agree to that, especially the second one, but yeah. I get what you're thinking.

I warned you. But sometimes it's... [ not nice, or maybe it is nice? just. ] ...so much bad shit comes out of that noise that I like to pretend there's good stuff, too, a little bit.

[ it's not like he isn't aware it was pointless, but that's kind of why he likes to pretend it was necessary for him, sometimes. it's easier to deal with some days than the simple fact that there wasn't any reason or meaning at all. ]

Never saw Doctor Who much. I think one or two eps, but - that should work? URSULA probs has the footage, right?

Yeah. 'Pretending' might be an unfair word for it. 'Finding,' maybe?

[Because he doesn't agree that Dave could ever be a bad person, that he'd be a worse person without what his Bro did. But he understands the need to put a meaning behind it. A purpose]

It was out of my field. I expect URSULA would have a ton. In my universe it kept running well into the demise of humanity, so it wouldn't surprise me if it's still ongoing in this universe.

Maybe. [ hard to say. he isn't sure if he's right or wrong about thinking that maybe it helped in terms of letting him understand people. he's pretty sure without everything he's gone through he'd be more thoughtless than he is already, though. so at least there's that, right? ]

We can start watchin' an episode every other day or...whatever timeframe you think works. Dunno. Ain't like we don't got the time.

It's your experience.

[So it's Dave's choice in words, it's Dave's choice in how to define it. Dirk might suggest or talk it through with Dave, but he is learning better than to try to impose or insist.]

I like that idea. Do we start with the start?

[which is. a laborously boring episode, somehow, but if anyone can find it hilarious the Striders can. also who doesn't want to see an old dude almost smash a guy's head open with a rock?]

You're the one who likes to do things chronologically, so we probs should.

[ not that dave minds chronological order? he just...tends to not mind it as much since he's spent so much time dropping in and out of it. ]

Hey, I used to make a game of coming up with different orders for the SBAHJ movies.

[Because it literally did not matter what order you watched any of them in, ever.]

Ok, but that would be because I never make my works have a chronology of any kind, or they have multiple chronologies.

[ because he is a confusing jackass? ]

I'm just pointing out that I'm not incapable of handling a lack of chronology.

[Thanks to.... a Dave who decided to be an ass about this sort of thing without even having time travel as an excuse.]

You just said you tried to apply a chronology to a thing which didn't have one.

[ honestly it might just be a mindset that applies to All Daves. ]

I said different orders, not chronology. And I also said it was a game.

[Therefore no?

why is this the silly argument they're having now]

Are you sayin' that your inability to sense the internal chronology that may or may not have existed didn't ever bother you even the slightest bit?

[ his eyebrows are raising, dirk. ]

The lack of any chronology was the joke. Its pursuit was the irony.

[he has opinions about this]

Is it irony that inspires you to pursue chronology with me?

[ it's teasing. ]

[Get yourself another nudge for that, Dave!]

It's concern for your well-being, and some goddamned masochism with the way it turns out.

[ he will NUDGE YOU BACK, dirk ]

Masochism because you're tryin' to apply usual time rules to a time player?

[Rude!!]

Masochism because the time player I'm trying to get to follow chronology is, to use the vernacular, a goddamned brat.

At least call me an asshole, bro.

[ he's mostly. laughing though. ]

Chronology is kind of an artificial construct, anyway.

subnautica ic inbox 2.0;

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject