Team Bonding, AMA

[the_civilian]

[ Tadashi is reclining in a bed in medical, wearing the beatific smile of the enlightened and the well and truly stoned. ]

I love biology. Well, no, I'm enthusiastic about biology, I don't love it. I love programming and engineering and my family and helping people. Not in that order. Maybe in that order in regards to science. Except programming and engineering are the tools I use to help people, but I do love them too.

[ He stares off into space for a moment, then shakes himself and focuses back on the camera again. ]

But, you know, the thing about biology that's so cool is that we don't understand it all the way. Sometimes biological interactions happen unexpectedly. Like, these painkillers. I don't have an example of them to show you; they're already in my system and the medical staff won't give me more of them because they make me really loopy. Which is cool, because it's not an allergic reaction or a result of a miscalculated dose, it's just a reaction that happens sometimes to some people. Which is cool! Even almost a thousand years in the future of an alternate universe -- which has seriously weird rules, oh my god you guys I wish I loved biology and philosophy and physics more so I could study how weird this place is, I could write so many papers -- people still don't really know how our bodies work and why they react to certain things the way they do. Reality is amazing and I am so happy it exists!

[ He beams at the camera, but his smile eventually fades into confusion. Then he gasps in apparent surprise. ]

Oh yeah! Anyway, I'm super bored right now and I can't concentrate enough to read anything longer than a few sentences. And I've kind of been focused on dealing with my own stuff and not lighting things on fire when I shouldn't to get to know people, so I was thinking I should get off my ass and do that. Metaphorically, not literally, because the medical staff has confined to this bed until I metabolize the painkillers.

I was thinking we could do a...thingy. That thing people sometimes-- AMA! Ask Me Anything, that thing! We could do that, but just for Legionnaires. Not that I don't love the staffers here, I do, but I was thinking it could be a team bonding thing and some people here are more private than others. But I'd need one of the scary computer ladies to lock it down for me, because I can't figure out how to do that right now.

[ His eyes widen suddenly. ]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean that like "scary computers who are women", that would be rude, I meant it like "scary women who are good with computers". Computer programming has a long history of ignoring the contributions of the women who are it's backbone, and we have a lot of women here who area really good at what they do and they deserve to be afforded all the respect due to them as people and as badasses. The patriarchy sucks like the vacuum abhorred by nature.

...I think this got away from me. What was I talking about?

Comments

[ordinarily]

Oh man, Rogue Squadron is awesome!

Hey, did you ever play Rogue Leader? The second one?

[headinjuries]

YES it rocked

[ordinarily]

I got to Bespin before the game started kicking my butt.

Like, I don't even remember anything about the Bespin level. I just remember not beating it.

[headinjuries]

Dude, no shame, I think it took me like half a year to get past Bespin. Bespin kicks everybody's ass.

[ordinarily]

Okay so, here's a question.

Have you ever played Doom?

[headinjuries]

Some. I never owned it, but Blake did, and his mom never paid much attention to what we were playing.

[ordinarily]

That's fine, we probably shouldn't have been playing it, really.

But okay, like. I love Star Wars, don't get me wrong. But Doom's the game I play with my friends all the time.

[headinjuries]

It's pretty good. But I think we sank the most time into Brawl.

[ordinarily]

Into what now?

[ This is the part where coming from 2004 kicks him right in the ass. ]

[headinjuries]

You kn-

...okay, I guess "you know" is always a stupid question in the cross-dimensional heroing circuit. But I mean Smash Bros.

[ordinarily]

OH!

Yeah, I played Melee. What, did they make another one?

[headinjuries]

Another two but who the hell's got money for a WiiU.

[ordinarily]

[ He pauses at that. And squints. ]

Did... Did Nintendo make a console named after an ambulance? What?

[headinjuries]

It went Wii, and then WiiU, and yeah, nobody's sure what they were thinking with that.

[ordinarily]

How do you go from Gamecube to that?

[headinjuries]

Beats me. But I think there might just be a gas leak in Nintendo HQ anyway? Or they just get really high on purpose.

I mean, look at Kirby's entire existence.

[ordinarily]

... Yeah, alright, can't argue that.