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friendly neighborhood anonymous here.

so this was going to be a post about a database i'm working on with some other people and hopefully more people but one of those people seems to be unreachable now so this is also an APB for Gregor.

onto other shit: we've been working on a document that keeps all the facts we know and all the theories we're currently trying to prove/disprove. it's encrypted for obvious reasons but click the link and I'll get you access no problem [ for all those who have come across his videos on how to use encryptions and how to make yourself purely anonymous, fear not! the stupid naming conventions continue: satanwasababyboomer.doc but its safe to assume that anyone who clicks gains both access to view and edit pretty quickly. ]

this tech is pretty old for me. i'm doing what i can to make it both secure AND accessible. if you're talented with early 2000s technology c'mon down. maybe you can make something work that i can't.

i have to admit i'm not the greatest at keeping on top of things like this. could really use the extra hands in general. there are some other people looking to do the same thing as this but hard copy. mingle with them if that's your bag. assuming they reply here (please reply here if/when you see this... if you want to).

also just for my own curiosities: calling all tech people. engineers, programmers, whatever. let's put our heads together. help one another out.

ps: if you want to annoy someone that's pissing you off I recorded fart sounds, you're welcome.

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I'm not familiar with the term 'baby boomer'. [ but whatever.

must be nice to come from a world where you can say this tech is 'old'! anyway, dimitri does his due diligence and reads the document. ]

What about the kiosk? It is the only thing in this world capable of providing some kind of response.

[ omg cutie. please allow wrench to ruin everything. ] so after the second world war people went to bone town and babies popped out by the dozens. they were practically flying out, man. you might have gotten knocked clean out by one if you were walking down the street.

[ THAT ASIDE. ] what about the kiosk? we've exhausted it pretty thoroughly although there's always more work to be done as far as I'm concerned. someone else started tracking things that have been asked and its responses if you want the link to that. why, you have an idea regarding them?

I see. [ dimitri Ponders This. ] This seems probable. I'm assuming your side won the war.

[ and, the kiosk ... ] I find it strange, that's all. It is the only thing in this world that can respond, if questioned. Of course whether or not its replies are useful is another matter. I find that it wasn't at all useful. But in our stay here, there are only two instances in which we are asked to respond by the city: in the beginning, when asked to fill out a survey, and secondly, in encountering the kiosk after having lived here in a while.

I was wondering if someone was looking into it.

You really think there are winners when it comes to war? [ A little philosophical quandary for you, Dimitri. ]

Good point. There's someone who asked a question and apparently got the answer they gave on the survey which is an interesting link. I'd wager that the Kiosk is an extension of the city itself and its possible that it might not be giving answers not because it doesn't have them but because it doesn't want to give them out yet. Maybe there are checkpoints we need to get to first, or maybe there are checkpoints IT needs to get to first.

Thing is, I can throw up theory after theory on this but PROOVING any of them is difficult. We don't even fully know the rules of this reality in general yet. The things that happened at that Welcoming Party? If you can even call it that. I mean, seemed normal but only normal enough for the weird shit to be ignorable if you wanted it to be.

Yanno?

[ this is easy. his entire life is shaped for this. ]

Yes. One can speak of damages and disasters and how it is mitigated from one battlefield to another. But there are winners and losers in war. At the end of the day the tally must be drawn, because the person who wins has to make amends.

That seems like a dead end for now, then. I suppose we'll have to wait until something triggers the city to respond again.

Make amends how, exactly? [ he bites his tongue for now cause he could go on forever about how bullshit America was and he doesn't know what this guy means, precisely. COOL IT, WRENCH. ]

Yeah, lot of dead ends. Not a thing I'm super excited about.

[ what this guy means is that THE PEOPLE WISH TO BE RULED BY THE NOBILITY aka him, the future king - ]

After the war, the people will expect results. It is the duty of every ruler to make good on their word: to provide peace and stability. To rebuild. To make connections with other leaders, so that the possibility of war becomes far more remote than when it was started. Winning the war allows the victor to set the terms, but it also allows the victor to create opportunities for negotiations. It is important that such things occur if one is to ever speak of a future.

[ ....... sure they do. ]

idyllic world you got there. in my reality the "winners" were only that because the other side chose to fold, or yanno, their leader killed themselves. and then there were some atomic bombs just for funsies, i guess.

the economy in many countries including the ones allied with the "winning side" was so fucked they had no choice but to bend over for the countries that sat pretty on the profits of their violence. Maybe that's winning, but for who? The few elite? The rich? Nah. That's not who I side with. It was only a matter of time before the American Dream fell apart but greed has no foresight when all it knew before was despair, does it?

So what point is even going to war? Who says its your right to tell other people how to best live when they're already living? why not just fucking negotiate without the god damn war? Or better yet, help one another when its needed but otherwise fuck off and let people live how they live.

Anyway, we don't have war like that anymore but we still have war. we just don't call it that.

Because war is the last resort.

I hear what you're saying, but quite often the decision isn't taken lightly. And I agree that it could be made due to greed, or incompetence and corruption, or malice. I can't speak for your world, and I'm sorry that it has suffered, and still suffers to this day. But where I come from, war is an inevitability and not the natural state of things.

Peace is the responsibility and service rendered by leaders to their people. That's why it's important to divide it between winners and losers, between before the war and after the war. It's the only way one can draw a line and say, "this, and no further." From there, the one who wins can choose to move forward and lead with integrity, because they are now the steward of peace. I truly believe that.

i wish i could believe that our wars weren't the result of anything but greed, corruption, and hate. maybe your world is different. i hope it is but i still can't get behind the 'victor' being the steward of peace.

who is to say the side that wins was the 'good' side or what 'good' even is, you feel me? but given that i feel like this is a personal topic to you, before i argue anything more i'd have to know more about your world and where you come from and what your role is in it.

if we wanna wanna talk about this i'm gonna need some whiskey, and dinner.

I don't mind continuing the discussion over food. You can drink on your own, however. I'm 17.

[ hope that explains a lot!! ]

[ jesus christ. ]

what kind of 17 year old doesn't want to drink illegally??

[ a catholic one? anyway it's more that dimitri doesn't care for drinking, and finds that his age deters people from offering it as well, which is just fine to him. ]

A responsible one, I hope.

I will drink juice. [ does that Suffice. ]

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