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[hairsprayed]

Has anyone seen Eddie Munson around? He hasn't come back to his apartment for a few days, which isn't totally weird, but long enough his friends are starting to worry about him. Long curly brown hair, dresses like a rockstar, smokes like a chimney. Might have told you his name is something else like Ozzy Osborn.

Also I saw some fliers for the mall opening. Seems like it could have some useful stuff in it, so if anyone wants to go in a group, let me know. Safety in numbers and shit like that.

This is Steve, by the way. Steve Harrington.

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dw ate my notifs =_=

[hairsprayed]

Both? Chill is like... calm? Too calm in this case.

Do you know anything about the 1980s?

a likely story 🤨

[kampfgeist]

the 1980s were a really long time ago for me
i know they happened?

[hairsprayed]

How long ago are we talking?

[kampfgeist]

like more than 1000 years

[hairsprayed]

Are you shitting me?? You're from like 3000 something????

[kampfgeist]

not shitting you in the least
i'm also from europe if that means anything to you
in case you're asking about some other world's 1980s

[hairsprayed]

We've got a Europe but I'm from the USA. Do you have flying cars and robots and all that shit like from the Jetsons?

[kampfgeist]

i don't know what a jetson is but we don't have flying cars or robots

from talking to other people from around your timeline my impression is:
we didn't get any of the cool future stuff people wanted
but we made almost all of the bad stuff worse

[hairsprayed]

Guess I'm not surprised about the cars, but no robots? At all?

What kind of bad stuff...

[kampfgeist]

none that i've seen
but there might be some where the rich people live, i guess.
robots seem expensive

stuff that got worse: the economy, the environment
science. ethics kind of generally

[hairsprayed]

That sucks! Robots are supposed to make everything easier in the future so people don't have to work so much.

How does the environment get worse? It's just... the environment. Like it's just there.

[kampfgeist]

i'll drink to that
if i get back i'll tell everybody to fix the robot situation

[ not that it conveys well in text but i promise he's joking... ]

i mean. yeah
but nature can be poisoned. put some sludge in the river, spray some chemicals on the plants

voila: bad environment

[hairsprayed]

[ Steve is not knowledgeable about... well, anything that's relevant to this. For all he knows, chemicals get sprayed on plants to keep them healthy and help them grow without bugs eating them. ]

Is there anything good about the future? Or does it all suck?

[kampfgeist]

some stuff is good. i talk a lot of shit but science is mostly good
we've cured almost all the diseases that people used to die from
buildings and infrastructure are mostly better than they used to be as long as they're maintained

that kind of stuff isn't all bad

[hairsprayed]

Damn all diseases? How long do most people live then?

Is there... fun shit to do in the future? Like sports in space or anything new like that?

[kampfgeist]

depends on where you live
up above i guess they live a long time. more than 100 years probably

i don't know what life expectancy is like when you're from

what sports do you have? i don't know what counts as "different"
they probably do sports in space.
i've never been though so who knows