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[deafleppard]

[Gwen is frankly not okay knowing that her past is on the verge of being broadcast to way too many people. So, she's dealing with it in the most responsible way she knows how.

By distracting herself on something else entirely.]

So I get that meat and showers (the kinds with water) aren't all that common here in the future. But, uh.

Why?

Never really stopped to think about it until now.

Comments

[kingtyrantranger]

I heard someone say something about cruelty to animals? I guess I can get that.

Maybe they're big on water waste, too.

[fourstars]

As someone who's had to hunt animals for food before, I can see that being the reason.

[kingtyrantranger]

Honestly, if any of us were vegetarians, I keep thinking that it'd make sense for you and Videl to be it. Given the whole animal people thing on your world.

[He and Videl had discussed it a while back. The logic still escapes him, though.]

[fourstars]

Yeah, it's a little weird. But there's still a clear distinction between the humanoid animals and wild animals, so that helps.

Also, I mostly ate dinosaur tail, so.

[kingtyrantranger]

That's pretty metal

[fourstars]

Well, I mean, I let the T-Rex live?

[deafleppard]

You did what.

[kingtyrantranger]

Man, the fact that you let it live is kinda scary.

[fourstars]

... Is it?

[fourstars]

Is it really that surprising?

[kingtyrantranger]

Those things were huge, man! If there were any still around, people might not've evolved!

[deafleppard]

Yes.

Yes it is.

[fourstars]

What do you mean by still around? There's a pterodactyl family that flies over my house probably every week.

[kingtyrantranger]

Dude, dinosaurs stopped being a thing on my world like fifty million years ago.

You're basically telling me you ate parts of something that's like. The biggest, nastiest predator in the history of ever. That's intense, bro.

[fourstars]

How come?

[fourstars]

THEY WHAT???

What happened to them???

[kingtyrantranger]

Asteroid hit the planet and caused an ice age.

So that wasn't a thing on your Earth?

[fourstars]

NO???

I mean, we've had asteroids and the like, sure, but... nothing so big that it caused something like THAT.

[kingtyrantranger]

Huh. Weird. Hope your Earth isn't a prehistoric version of any of ours.

But, yeah, like. An asteroid about five or six miles across hit Earth millions of years ago, kicked up so much dust that no light could get through, and when everything settled there weren't any dinosaurs. After that, humans pretty much took over everything.

Man, it's so weird to think that there's a place where they're still around. I've only ever seen them fossils, movies, and the Red Ranger's Zord.

[fourstars]

I mean, I'm not really sure what would constitute prehistoric, in this case. Apparently having dinosaurs, but we also have plenty of technological advancements, I think? We have flying cars, capsules, space travel...

Admittedly, space travel's not exactly the norm, but my dad's friend can still build a spaceship, and I've been to another planet.

[kingtyrantranger]

Yeah, we've only landed on the moon a few times. And, far as I know, my friend's got the only flying car on the planet.

I'm not even sure aliens use spaceships. I think they just teleport here and there. It's like, why bother building a spaceship when you can just do that, you know?

[fourstars]

Yeah, that's pretty much how my dad gets around.

[deafleppard]

First of all, I don't think I ever found out that dinosaurs still existed in your part of the universe.

And second, I don't know, you just didn't seem like the type. Then again, I guess that's not something you can tell just by looking at someone.

[fourstars]

Yeah, I'm getting the impression dinosaurs are rare in other worlds.

Also, if it helps any, the situation I was put in that resulted in me eating dinosaur tail wasn't exactly normal.

[deafleppard]

So here's my question.

What's it taste like?