just a simple question | voice

[ordinarily]

Where are the burgers?

[ This is the voice of a very distressed teenager. Very distressed. ]

I get that it's the space future, but the nurse was lying when she said they don't serve meat. Right?

[ Silence. ]

... Right?

Comments

[ordinarily]

I'm glad we're on the same page.

[resist_the_future]

The lack of meat content in their hamburgers is especially concerning to me.

[ordinarily]

Yeah, as it turns out? The trade off for ending up in the space future is that real meat doesn't exist here.

I feel like I'm playing that one game where you get asked if you'll press the button.

[resist_the_future]

That is concerning, and explains why I have not found a hamburger since arriving here.

[priorities]

I haven't heard of that game before. Can you explain it to me?

[ordinarily]

Oh. Okay so, back home, there was this website that just generated a bunch of random scenarios, and asked you if you'd press the button. It was all just to see how much of a percentage of people would press the button and such, not... really a video game or anything like that, but. I guess it was just a kind of "what-if" thing.

Like, say... if you press the button, your death would be painless, and won't affect anyone you love. But, you'd die tomorrow. Would you press it?

Stuff like that.

[resist_the_future]

[COMPUTING.

COMPUTING........]

What was the purpose of gathering such data?

[ordinarily]

I don't really think there was any? I think it was just for fun. You know, conversation starters, I guess?

[resist_the_future]

That's very strange.

[ordinarily]

A little. But anyway, this place kind of feels like that.

You get to go to the space future where humans travel to other planets and meet aliens, but there's no real meat.

[resist_the_future]

I don't enjoy it, or their lack of hamburgers.

[ordinarily]

So basically, you wouldn't press the button.

[resist_the_future]

In this situation, I would not.