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💀 skull ([personal profile] ryuji) wrote2018-02-01 01:24 pm

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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-18 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[you're welcome!]

hahaha
guess a bread and circus deal doesnt work if people cant afford the circus
being in charge is overrated anyway


[it's at least partly why he's been watching, but not participating, in whatever's going on with these job assignments.]

[in any case, pretty much ten minutes on the dot later, there's a knock at room 28. because it would be weird if a god of time were anything other than exactly on time.]
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-18 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dave is no leader — and he's no hero either; that's something he's insisted on before. those are John's titles. the giant doof with a good heart who would pull the sword out of the stone with ease, while someone like Dave could only break it. the giant doof who, he understands now, will be the one to fix everything. that's what a leader does. that's what a hero does. and that isn't Dave.]

[Ryuji seems pretty pleased, though. he's not sure if it's because the dude's just completely stoked on video game discussion, or if it's something else. Dave's not really prone to giving out smiles as easily, but he does seem awfully amused.]


I'd say it's about as accurate as skull — as in, I'm pretty much a god at the turntables, and you've got a skull in your head.
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-19 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
[he's not much at all into black licorice, anyway, but at least Twizzlers have a bit of a sweeter tinge to them. and more importantly, it's not anything like the toast and whatever protein he could stomach that he's been living off of the past few weeks. it has potential.]

What the fuck, so you can get actual food here?

[where the hell are his bottles of apple juice and doritos then? but he turns the candy over in his hands, inspecting it. yup ... it looks legit.]

You sure you don't mind sharing? This thing's probably got more flavor than anything else on offer combined.
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-19 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
... Thanks.

[he'll just have a seat on the edge of the bunk and dig in, then — it's still not exactly his favorite candy in the world, but it is something to remind him that he does actually still have taste buds. and even though Twizzlers have pretty much no nutritional value, he somehow feels better. like the fact that he's not eating something cardboard-flavored may have given him more energy.]

What other stuff did that guy have? Makes me think I should have tried snooping in more rooms.
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-20 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm wearing them as a joke.

[the joke being that he loves them sincerely, for the fact that they are a joke in and of themselves. he loves them so much he has worn them for three years straight.]

My best bro from back home gave them to me — they're the shades from Starsky and Hutch, which means at one point Ben Stiller also had them on his weird face.
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-20 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
He's goofier, maybe. A lot cooler, too.

[Dave cares a lot about John, okay. also, not only has he slept wearing the shades, he has in fact worn other eyewear over them. if he is anything, he is dedicated.]

[but right, video games. the original topic at hand.]


Well, the ultimate goal of Sburb, through a series of extremely stupid and roundabout quests and battles, and if you happen to be lucky enough, is to create a new universe.
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-20 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[you are getting it! i'm so sorry.]

Yeah, it is. But even though you start off by building up your house, what you're really doing is helping build the final battlefield.

We never got this far, but based on what I've been told, if you manage to win, you get to go through a door to the new universe and claim the ultimate reward.

[whatever that is. nobody Dave knows has ever explained further than the fact that it is "the ultimate reward." he can only assume, given the fact that the god-tier status exists, that it has something to do with being gods of the new universe.]
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-21 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Ryuji is a lot more on the nose than he probably realizes.]

Don't know about resources. It's pretty easy to cheat some moronic crocodiles out of their money in the stock market and buy everything early.

Godhood though? Maybe. It's already a thing built into the game.
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-21 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
[what the fuck, Ryuji.]

What the fuck, Ryuji.
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-21 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ANYWAY.]

It lets you level up even higher, but honestly, the leveling system was stupid and arbitrary anyway. But you also get conditional immortality. The ability to fly. A comfy set of magical pajamas. Divine stuff like that.
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-21 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[something like a genuine smirk threatens the corners of his mouth. there's nothing that he's said here that would blatantly indicate Sburb isn't just a computer game, that it's the actual, completely fucked up reality he's been living for three years. he hadn't even touched on the worse corners of paradox space and how easy it is for everything to go completely wrong.]

[and yet, he finds those two sentences oddly comforting. like maybe the guy understands more than he's letting on.]

[Dave chews on a Twizzler thoughtfully for a minute.]


Don't think you could sum up Sburb any better than that. Definitely not nearly as fun as Solitaire.
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-21 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[......]

You probably just weren't playing the right Solitaire.

[it's a weirdly apt metaphor, if you think about it. you start with a deck of cards, shuffled any which way, and with a bit of strategy and a lot of luck, you end the game with all four suits arranged in order. as it should be.]

[it's the same deal with Sburb. it's trying to work with or around the cards your session has dealt you. it's attempting to rearrange the rules as you understand them, even if your little video game rebellion turned out to be something you were meant to do all along. it's sequencing frog DNA like suits of cards. it's attempting to make something as it should be.]

[in any case, Ryuji seems to have a knack for finding the actual meaning behind the jokes and sometimes plain absurd shit Dave says — so maybe he'll take that Solitaire comment for what it actually is. it's an acknowledgment that Ryuji was right — and it's a thanks. for understanding.]


I don't mind telling you more if you're curious. Rose has a lot more working knowledge than I do, though; she even wrote a nigh unreadable GameFaq about it.
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-23 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't think I've got any of those — no interesting ones, anyway — but Twizzlers taken.

[Dave is infuriatingly bad at even admitting he has basic teenage problems, sadly. they're always hidden somewhere in whatever other points he feels like making — and even then, they're the sort of hints that only look really obvious in retrospect.]

[but honestly, this is a start? it's not like he's going to waltz up to a rando and get into the finer points of alchemizing, so some measure of trust is there.]


At least from my perspective, though, a lot of the game was just fucking around until something big happened. But I also had a lot more time on my hands compared to the others.

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