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[thesettingsun]

Just a couple of things.

-I'm turning 25 on Monday and it seems like the kind of thing you should do something for. I was going to invite people to the pool until some things happened, but now I don't want to, so. I'm going to be at the Inkwell and will accept all birthday congratulations, gifts, and complaints about how grey water is super weird.

Anyone can come, it's not like I run the bar. Unless you're that guy that threatened me, you have to stay at least ten feet away from me at all times.

[Water being grey now is not actually why the pool party is being called off, but it makes an excellent excuse.]

-Does anyone have any advice about explaining your sudden changes in behavior to people who know you really well but don't know what's going on with Retrospec? I can't not talk to my parents.

Comments

[thesettingsun]

Pay your own way, I'm not paying for you!

[Why does she always want him to pay for things...]

[buncho]

i know! ill bring my own money too! but we can do 'loser pays next round' for higher stakes!

[thesettingsun]

This always ends up with someone turning out to be a video game champion secretly. I know.

[buncho]

nah the champion is the AMAZING GUDA MASK
but im good enough to show you im an amazing sniper! well stop when you believe in me!

[thesettingsun]

[This sounds like a lose-lose scenario. Lose his money and don't believe in her, keep his money and be forced to admit to Friendship.]

Guda Mask? Is that an actual person?

[buncho]

[ maybe the solution is to just admit it ]

yeah GUDA MASK is the champion at the arcade- if you win against them, you get a prize! but no ones ever won before!

[thesettingsun]

[nope]

They sound like a geek with too much time on their hands.

[buncho]

its SKILL and DEDICATION and PRACTICE!!! you could be champion too if you put all that time into playing!

[thesettingsun]

Probably. But I have college classes. And a job.

[buncho]

you dont need college. whyre you doing more school after high school?

[thesettingsun]

So I can get a job that's not the soul-crushing minimum wage job that I have now?

[buncho]

just work hard and get promotions. don't you get a couple more cents every year you work? you can do it! i believe in you!

[thesettingsun]

Have you heard of something called 'inflation'?

[buncho]

inflate like with balloons? is your job balloon animals?

[thesettingsun]

It means the same thing costs more as years go by. Which means the same salary can buy less.

[buncho]

sooooo buy everything you can right now! spend all your money and then you dont have to worry in the future

[thesettingsun]

[Bless you, Mafuyu, you're trying. You're just also an idiot.]

Did you know that food doesn't last for years?

[buncho]

it can though! dried and canned stuff- and twinkies!

[thesettingsun]

I can't live on dried food and twinkies!

[buncho]

and water! water lasts forever and its free, it falls from the sky!

[thesettingsun]

I'm not going to live off rain water either!!

[buncho]

you cant be so picky when your broke, shuji!!
ok
ok there are other options too- like slurpee samples at the store

[thesettingsun]

That's not even actual food.

[buncho]

it fills you up. its food

[thesettingsun]

It's ice, sugar, and food coloring. It's not real food. You don't get any vitamins.