hey uh hi i know a lot of shits goin down rn and u just go tback n all thx for the paintball thing btw that was A++ anyway i need a thing a few things, kind of what's the going rate for a tv, a dvd player, and a copy of a certain movie? can u guys make a copy of a movie if you havent seen it? what if i've seen it? like a million times? this movies gonna delight like a lot of ppl tho trust me it'll be gr8
[After taking a minute to compose himself and rub his temples, Tucker reminds himself that he needs to be nice, because Delight potentially has something that he wants. Or the ability to make it, anyway.]
a movie is a video like the ones on the network? but in these videos theres people who pretend to be characters in a story and act it out its like a stage play but you record it and the recordings get imprinted on discs and you put the discs in a machine hooked up to a screen and it plays back the video for you make sense?
[He's losing hope but he's not giving up just yet. If he's anything, he's persistent. Actually, that's a complete lie, but if he's actually anything, he's a liar, so it evens out.]
uh not exactly what I want is a disc of a video from my home world one of the acted-out ones? it's called Highlander it's about immortal people killing each other with swords it's great
[It's super not great, actually, but that's the point.]
[At first he's disappointed, but then... actually...]
u know what? that'd be great, actually i'd love to see what u come up with i would also love a way to share this over the network with everyone else to bring joy and stuff so uh name ur price for that
[Attached to Delight's message is a video file. Once downloaded, Tucker is free to watch it as many times as he likes. Unfortunately, Delight doesn't really understand movies or acting.
What this video is is a few clips of seemingly unrelated scenes and movement, not dissimilar to the strangely eerie netflix test video. The first scene opens with a man, who does not look familiar, nor does he look unfamiliar. He has short brown hair and is clean shaven and looks instantly so forgettable that the genericness of him is almost odd. He's sitting at a plain table and he's smiling- not really at anyone or anything, just smiling.
There's a cup of water next to him. He lifts it and drinks from it and puts it back down. He keeps smiling and drinking his cup of water. After roughly two and a half minutes, the cup is empty and the scene changes.
There are two women walking, side by side down one of Hadriel's streets. Like the man before them, they both look generic and their normalcy makes them not-entirely-human. They aren't speaking, but one of them bursts into laughter as if she's just heard a joke. The other follows suit. They laugh together for a moment before the first one stops laughing and the second one stops a few moments after, both of the laughs being the exact same length of time. They're silent as they turn a corner and walk out of sight.
The third scene emulates a recording to the network, wherein a child is pointing at the camera. "My name is Aaaaaa, and I want to tell everyone that I'm new-" There's a pause, and he blinks and flickers back to his original position, resetting, "-that I'm looking for a sparring partner-" Another pause, "-that my friend is gone-" It happens over and over again, the resets, the subject matter changing each time. "-that the gods are mean- that I adopted a pet- that the Guard is seeking new members- that this event is nice- that the bar is open- that the Null are invading- that I found some new food and I want to share it-"
It flickers again, returning back to the original setting at the table with the man and his empty glass. One of the women who was in the second scene is in the background, walking past him and into a room. She bursts into random laughter again and the man laughs too.
The fifth scene is seven hours and fourteen minutes long. It's a video of the man sleeping.
The video continues like that, mostly unconnected scenes, extremely alien with no plot or rhythm to it, just blank people who aren't really people acting in a way that an alien might see a person act and try to imitate, but without the element of humanity to it to make it believable. Many of the scenes repeat. The video lasts for forty-seven hours.
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hi
i know a lot of shits goin down rn and u just go tback n all
thx for the paintball thing btw that was A++
anyway
i need a thing
a few things, kind of
what's the going rate for a tv, a dvd player, and a copy of a certain movie?
can u guys make a copy of a movie if you havent seen it?
what if i've seen it? like a million times?
this movies gonna delight like a lot of ppl tho trust me it'll be gr8
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[Yeah, good luck with that bud.]
no subject
a movie is a video
like the ones on the network?
but in these videos theres people who pretend to be characters in a story
and act it out
its like a stage play but you record it
and the recordings get imprinted on discs
and you put the discs in a machine hooked up to a screen
and it plays back the video for you
make sense?
[He's losing hope but he's not giving up just yet. If he's anything, he's persistent. Actually, that's a complete lie, but if he's actually anything, he's a liar, so it evens out.]
no subject
You want me to give you discs of your video posts?
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uh
not exactly
what I want is a disc of a video from my home world
one of the acted-out ones?
it's called Highlander
it's about immortal people killing each other with swords
it's great
[It's super not great, actually, but that's the point.]
no subject
I can't replicate anything from your home. I can try to make something new though!
no subject
u know what?
that'd be great, actually
i'd love to see what u come up with
i would also love a way to share this over the network with everyone else
to bring joy and stuff
so uh
name ur price for that
no subject
It shouldn't be too hard! Maybe just throw a slumber party where you can all watch it together and I'll make it for you!
no subject
hell yes
i'll invite everybody
lemme know when its ready
also thanks
xoxoxo
no subject
[Attached to Delight's message is a video file. Once downloaded, Tucker is free to watch it as many times as he likes. Unfortunately, Delight doesn't really understand movies or acting.
What this video is is a few clips of seemingly unrelated scenes and movement, not dissimilar to the strangely eerie netflix test video. The first scene opens with a man, who does not look familiar, nor does he look unfamiliar. He has short brown hair and is clean shaven and looks instantly so forgettable that the genericness of him is almost odd. He's sitting at a plain table and he's smiling- not really at anyone or anything, just smiling.
There's a cup of water next to him. He lifts it and drinks from it and puts it back down. He keeps smiling and drinking his cup of water. After roughly two and a half minutes, the cup is empty and the scene changes.
There are two women walking, side by side down one of Hadriel's streets. Like the man before them, they both look generic and their normalcy makes them not-entirely-human. They aren't speaking, but one of them bursts into laughter as if she's just heard a joke. The other follows suit. They laugh together for a moment before the first one stops laughing and the second one stops a few moments after, both of the laughs being the exact same length of time. They're silent as they turn a corner and walk out of sight.
The third scene emulates a recording to the network, wherein a child is pointing at the camera. "My name is Aaaaaa, and I want to tell everyone that I'm new-" There's a pause, and he blinks and flickers back to his original position, resetting, "-that I'm looking for a sparring partner-" Another pause, "-that my friend is gone-" It happens over and over again, the resets, the subject matter changing each time. "-that the gods are mean- that I adopted a pet- that the Guard is seeking new members- that this event is nice- that the bar is open- that the Null are invading- that I found some new food and I want to share it-"
It flickers again, returning back to the original setting at the table with the man and his empty glass. One of the women who was in the second scene is in the background, walking past him and into a room. She bursts into random laughter again and the man laughs too.
The fifth scene is seven hours and fourteen minutes long. It's a video of the man sleeping.
The video continues like that, mostly unconnected scenes, extremely alien with no plot or rhythm to it, just blank people who aren't really people acting in a way that an alien might see a person act and try to imitate, but without the element of humanity to it to make it believable. Many of the scenes repeat. The video lasts for forty-seven hours.
Have fun.]