text | with regards to the lie of yuri's angels (dated morning march 10th)

[catsudon]

Two questions for Beta Squad.

1. Have you had Retrospec deliver anything to you that didn't feel like it was yours?
   
   
2. Has anyone tried returning things to Retrospec?

For the record, if you received anything that had a tag of Yuri's Angels attached, no, I didn't send it, no, I don't want it, no, I'm not a spy, no, I don't have a fanclub, no, it isn't a freaking religious affiliation and no, I don't have a secret admirer at Retrospec anymore than I have an explanation for why this happened.

Anyone who feels like trying a return lmk.

Edit: Anyone else named Yuri please contact me ASAP, tyvm.

Comments

[catsudon]

Others had that potential, his life mostly was a series of shitty events that didn't leave him better off than he started, really.

[frostythehitman]

[ Spoiler: James has not actually seen The Matrix. Not in full, anyway. ]

Seriously? How do you even remember all that? Did you just rewatch that movie?

[catsudon]

( spoilers: Yuri mostly saw the first and third movie years ago, and remembers finding it stupid because Neo did all this shit and got shafted HE HAS

LONGSTANDING ISSUES WITH ABANDONMENT AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, SELF SACRIFICE IS BULLSHIT in his eyes )

Nope, but I definitely remember that being part of why I didn't like it.

[frostythehitman]

Yeah, well, that sounds like the best way it could've ended. "Life sucks and then you die." It's like, poetic.

[catsudon]

No, just tragic.

Which is all off topic for "maybe we're all living in a coded world anyway" which is really the point of the stupid Matrix w/e's people have made, just like "maybe we're all dreaming anyway." Doesn't matter what the cause is, but something's screwing with our heads and bodies or w/e I don't know what to say.

[frostythehitman]

"Maybe we're all living in a coded world anyway" can be tragic AND poetic.

Also really, really stupid if it's actually TRUE. There's no way it's real if they're exposing themselves as the matrix or whatever like this so quickly. They'd want to keep it a secret for longer.

[catsudon]

Explain why it would matter how they keep a secret that the majority of people around us in this city are entirely unaware of being real in any capacity?

[frostythehitman]

Duh, because once we find out we're in their matrix people are gonna try to break it?

[catsudon]

Correct me for thinking we're already trying to "break" whatever Retrospec is doing to us by talking about it at all.

Which yes, hello Retrospec, I'm saying that on your app and you are 100% unsurprised by anything we say or do on here.

[frostythehitman]

Just because we're talking about it doesn't mean it's breaking. I don't see the world turning to 1's and 0's, do you?

If we wanna break it, we gotta take a metal bat to it or something.

[catsudon]

It's one example, and who says we'd ever see it as code, anyway?

Okay, how do you propose we do that, right now.

[frostythehitman]

Okay so maybe it doesn't show up as code, but it'd show up as something weird. Probably one of those "you'll know it when you see it" type cases.

As for how we do it, I don't know. Just start breaking stuff until you see the matrix fall apart?





...smaller stuff, though, maybe. Just to test it out and make sure first.

[ He's not normally one to be cautious, but he's not about to get put in jail for his dad to bail him out later. ]

[catsudon]

So this plan is to start breaking stuff. Smaller stuff. With metal bats?

[frostythehitman]

It doesn't have to be bats, anything goes so long as it breaks it. My plan so far is to get the crowbar out of our basement and take it to a few trash cans, see what that gets me.

[catsudon]

As long as it doesn't also get you caught for destruction of property.

[frostythehitman]

That's the idea.

So, you in or what?

[catsudon]

Call me.

( LMASD BECAUSE HE'S NOT SAYING YES??? IN APP PUBLIC???

though he app messages his number to Bucky as it is just, #yolo )

[frostythehitman]

Whoa, whipping out the phone number already? That's gotta be at least digital first base.

I'll text you.

[ And sure enough, a few minutes later, Yuri will receive a text from a new number: ]

I'll ask again then: you in or what?

[catsudon]

( Eye. Roll.

But as for the text, ah, when you're a teenager and in a foul mood anyway and Bad Idea Theatre sounds like a great idea. Yuri should think about this longer than he does before he's sending back a simple: )

Sure, w/e

( But of course he isn't. TIME FOR REGRETS LATER )

[frostythehitman]

Okay, good.

[ ...He didn't think this all the way out to actually making a plan for it. ]

So I guess we just break whatever crap around town we can for a week and let each other know if we see the matrix breaking, then.

[catsudon]

Okay then, so send another text on what, the 17th with our findings? Or lack thereof.

( He's not even hooligan enough for this TIME TO GO FIND THINGS HE CAN BEAT UP THAT AREN'T... GOING TO MAKE GRANDPA SAD )

[frostythehitman]

[ Meanwhile, James was BORN READY FOR THIS. ]

Sounds like a plan!

Talk to you in a week, mysterious matrix co-conspirator!