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[irenicly]

[When the feed turns on, Banjou has a guitar in his lap, the camera at an awkward angle that focuses more on the guitar than it does Banjou. He doesn't seem to mind this, idly strumming at it without trying to play a particular song. It's not like he can actually read sheet music, so everything he does is played on the fly anyway.]

I have a question.

[He finally settles on something melodic, if repetitive, before he continues.]

Does anyone here have hobbies they find difficult to continue here? Or something they've found they have more time for here as opposed to where they come from? Take what I'm doing-- I never had as much time as I wanted back home.

It's complicated, but I think I'm beginning to enjoy the freedom this place gives me.

I was wondering if anyone else felt the same way.

((bonus alternative listening.))

Comments

[video]

[captainash]

Over twenty years. I got started with cheap, tiny models in high school, the sort with exposed cockpits that can't do much more than walk and punch. We were lucky enough to have a halfway decent club.

[video]

[irenicly]

That's pretty cool.

It sounds like something out of science fiction movie. Your world's pretty impressive.

[video]

[captainash]

It has its charm and its technological advances. But we still haven't figured out how to store living creatures in computers, so we still have a long way to go.

[video]

[irenicly]

...you know, I'm not sure I want to know how that's possible.

At least the Pokemon don't seem to mind.

[video]

[captainash]

Barring a few exceptions, and those are usually the ones we want to stash away the most. Maybe there are different levels of tolerance for getting converted into data?

[video]

[irenicly]

[....he can imagine some Pokemon being pissed off about being crammed inside a computer, but fortunately none of Banjou's have a bad attitude about things like that.]

You know, there probably is. It's not like all of my Pokemon have the exact same personality. If you have one that's quicker to anger, it's less likely to enjoy being in a computer for a while, even if it doesn't actually get sick or hungry while stored.

[video]

[captainash]

Probably because there's nothing to do in there, as far as I know. Even if they're not hungry, knowing that their teammates might be outside at that exact moment, enjoying fresh air and fun games, has to be frustrating.

[video]

[irenicly]

...Yeah, I can understand that. I guess it's incentive to keep everyone on your team in a rotation.

[video]

[captainash]

Or to buy a house and dump your whole team there. Maybe the conditions inside the PC were all arranged by a secret group of real estate vendors with contacts in the field of Pokémon-related technologies.

[...That is probably not a serious theory.]

[video]

[irenicly]

[By Banjou's laugh, he's taking it as a joke.]

Maybe Team Rocket aren't the real bad guys here.

[video]

[captainash]

Hey, there can easily be more than one group of bad guys at once. I mean, from a certain point of view we also have to add whatever brought us here, don't we?

[video]

[irenicly]

[Well, there was Team Aqua and Magma back in October...]

Are you suggesting that a bunch of real-estate agents are responsible for this?

[Because that's a funny idea.]

[video]

[captainash]

[Please, those were just tourists.]

We could have been brought here by the wishes of a thousand dreaming Cleffas, for all we know. But they're not trying to sell us high-priced houses or Pokémon-related goods, so they're not anywhere near the top of my suspect list.