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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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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-23 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dave pauses to think about that for a minute — rather, to think of how to explain this in a way that would make sense to someone who isn't a time player. he probably would have brushed it off and agreed, if he didn't already know about the weird time stuff already happening on this space station. and there's still something about Ryuji's situation with his friends that he finds a bit risky.]

That's not a bad way of thinking.

Because you are you — and if you were to go back and make a major change like that, you'd basically be saying that the way you are now isn't the way you're supposed to be. You'd have to accept that the past Ryuji you went back and changed things for is the "right" one now, and is the one who will go on to live in a future you're not invited to. You would just be a future Ryuji from a splintered timeline who came back and changed things, and in the process, erased your own future.

That's something that has to be done sometimes. [Davesprite had done it. if he hadn't prototyped himself, he would have died along with all the rest of the Daves out there whose futures no longer existed. it's sort of the same deal for the Dave sitting on a bunk bed eating Twizzlers in space.]

For the most part, though? It's not worth the sacrifice.
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-24 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't know. Maybe.

Personally, I think having a mastery over time travel means not actually using it. Like those old karate masters who sit around all peaceful-like in their dojos and snark at their students, at least until someone provokes them.

I have no idea if that's actually a thing or if that's just an idea I've got in my head, by the way. I might be thinkin' of Yoda, and maybe the karate masters are actually ringing up completely sweet ass whoopings 24/7. Like, just roundhouse kicking all the way to dinner, and through a sea of freshly pulverized skulls dumb enough to stand in the way.

[if there's anything readable at all in his expression, even with the shades hiding his eyes, it's weariness. it's a point he's tried arguing before, complete with another weird karate metaphor, and it's part of an argument attached to a memory that still stings.]

Look, I guess the point I'm trying to make is that I get what you mean. But even though I don't really have much insight into your timeline, based on what you've told me, it's pretty safe for me to assume that it's the "right" one. If you had the chance to change something, whether it's through time travel or some other roundabout bullshit shenanigans, doing so at your own expense is bound to end in a way you're not expecting.

[time traveling always invites the risk of death, one way or the other. most of the time, it's his. oftentimes, it's others'.]

[but anyway, this is a very tl;dr way of saying, don't do something reckless and get yourself killed, Ryuji. because despite this whole spiel, and despite the fact that he would rather be the Yoda of time travel, Dave is also a complete hypocrite and will absolutely use time travel to save you.]
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[personal profile] oculusriffs 2018-05-26 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Jesus Christ, dude, you just set a new bar on lame.

[it's said with the same sort of fond cadence he has whenever he tosses a light jab at a friend. as he does. Dave's not always the type to be outwardly affectionate, not exactly, and not even toward people he loves dearly. but maybe one day he'll figure out how to be.]

[in any case, as serious a tone as most of their conversation has had, it feels just as natural to shift into something much more light-hearted and stupid. for a little while, at least, they can be just kids in tacky as fuck jumpsuits eating junk food and trading a bit of friendly snark. in this moment, at least, there's no ghosts, or the inevitabilities waiting for the both of them back home.]


If you really want the answer to that question, though? Probably someone a lot better at thumb wrestling.

[there's just two really big idiots.]