[AUDIO]

[kingtyrantranger]

Guys, just ignore them. The more you respond to the anons and get angry at them, the more they're getting what they want. Just don't give them any attention and go about your usual stuff.

You matter to them more than their opinions should matter to you.

Comments

[the_civilian]

I am trying SO HARD not to look right now, someone please either save me from my own morbid curiosity or bring me the girliest alcoholic drink the future has.

[the_civilian]

...I suppose I should specify that when I say "girliest drink", I mean I once asked a friend to make me a girly drink and she poured straight whiskey and stared me down until I drank it.

[unrecovered]

I like your friend already.

[the_civilian]

She IS pretty awesome.

Sadly, I never got the recipe for the Nerdy Girl Froufrou Drink, which was what I was actually trying to order. That thing was delicious.

[unrecovered]

Any idea what was in it? Someone here might be able to figure it out.

[Though he's starting to think that if they took a random drink, dyed it pink, and put a tiny paper umbrella in it, Tadashi would never know the difference.]

[the_civilian]

She used cherry syrup to draw flowers and little chemical beakers on the sides of the glass. It was opaque, pink -- more pastel than hot -- and tasted almost exactly like strawberry hard candy. I missed the actual mixology because I was on Fred-wrangling duty in the interests of keeping him from making the freshmen chemists cry.

To be honest, I don't drink frequently enough to be any good at analyzing alcohol by taste. Pretty much just "finals week", and then it's a fifty-fifty chance that I'm either heavily sleep-deprived or loopy on chemical fumes due to improper ventilation.

[...Yeah, that would probably work.]

[unrecovered]

There's got to be someone here who can make that from the description.

[Or he'll just get a Shirley Temple with vanilla vodka and lie like a rug.]

[the_civilian]

Probably. Or at least I'll have fun getting drunk while they try.

[...Let's be real, that would probably work. Maybe add whatever people use instead of cream in this era for opacity reasons.]

[kingtyrantranger]

I bet Tenzil has a whole book for you to try.

[the_civilian]

He probably does. But if I get drunk, I'm probably going to do an AMA, and that seems like it would end poorly.

[kingtyrantranger]

Bill Nye them.

[the_civilian]

...I have no idea what that means.

[kingtyrantranger]

Fill the AMA with fun science.

[the_civilian]

I thought you were supposed to be a GOOD influence.

[He's laughing though]

I'm pretty sure that science here doesn't even work the same way it does back home, so it'd be stuff like "fun fact: where I'm from, chugging random chemistry experiments gets you your stomach pumped, not super powers".

[kingtyrantranger]

What's not fun about model volcanoes? You're giving them a valuable education that their fancy future schools probably skipped over.

I bet Brainy never dropped Mentos into Diet Pepsi jars.

[the_civilian]

Do Mentos and Diet Pepsi even exist anymore?

You are still a terrible, terrible influence.

[kingtyrantranger]

Probably not, but I bet that Tenzil could tell us something with an even more spectacular result.

Don't say that. Ask anyone around. I'm the boring one.

[the_civilian]

Hey, one of my best friends back home is a chemist. I've seen her turn a giant ball of metal into pink dust. Sadly, my preferred scientific field isn't nearly as interesting to watch on camera, except under certain special circumstances.

Nothing but a cunning ruse. I'm onto you.

[kingtyrantranger]

Oh yeah? What do you do? [Because he's curious now.]

Lies and stuff designed to make me look bad!

[the_civilian]

I'm a robotics engineer. That only gets funny when the code is good enough to make the robot do something, but bad enough that whatever it does isn't what you were going for. For example, I once got punched in the head by my healthcare companion robot. Noooot supposed to do that.

Onto you.

[kingtyrantranger]

[Sorry, all he knows about robotics is that they can be giant and transform or tiny and go "Ai-yi-yi" a lot.]

I don't know. Sounds like it could've been a contender. Go to the ring, win a championship, get enough money to put his girlfriend through school...

Shush.

[unrecovered]

You know, that's not a bad idea. York and I have just been telling them stories about prank wars and gossip, and they love it. Turns out if you give them enough small stuff, they don't ask the big questions.

[the_civilian]

That makes sense. They're not exactly hard-hitting journalists or anything, more like cats who want to stick their noses in your food.

[unrecovered]

I can't remember the last time a cat asked me about my sex life, but sure, that works.

[the_civilian]

I meant more that they're monofocused on what they want at that particular moment, but my aunt's cat can look pretty judgmental when he puts his mind to it.