024. Video Comm (link is not IC, just for reference)

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

[Obi-Wan looks... well, not quite as ruffled as his icon, but certainly rather perplexed.]

Is it at all common in this world to encounter beings who look and sound exactly like you do yourself?

More specifically, is it at all common to encounter such beings inexplicably singing?

Comments

[answer2darkness.livejournal.com]

[[Fret not, Obi-Wan, he's momentarily distracted!]] It's entirely possible, though from what I've heard of that practice it's all uniformly embarrassing. I'm certain it's an excellent way to take the tension out of a social situation, forcing everyone to sing for an audience of their friends.

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

...I'm going to go clean up the popcorn, [[he mutters, taking the opportunity to get the hell out of dodge]]

[shiromadoushi]

[[as the nerding is about to flood the room, that may be a good idea, Ben]]

Un, but not everyone feels embarrassed about it! Jounouchi-kun and Anzu-chan were always really passionate about it, and liked showing off. And then you have the people who get drunk for it that really have no shame!

[answer2darkness.livejournal.com]

As is often the case. I do believe that it serves the latent function of equalizing social situations, though. Everyone looks foolish, therefor imagined hierarchies temporarily break down. [[turning over his shoulder]] Don't hesitate to ask if you'd like some help.

[shiromadoushi]

But that only works if everyone is on equal footage. For example, like when people play DDR, some people are really good at it, so those people retain a spot on the hierarchy. Karaoke has the same thing, where people who have nice voices or are practiced at it still retain their positions. It's just a different social ranking based on the skill of the activity at hand, and the more often the person is in that new social position, the more it becomes a permanent shift, like how people who are good at Duel Monsters back home use it to gain a better social ranking outside of playing as well. So it's not really that the situation is equalized, just that different skills are used to determine who's on top because not everyone is looking foolish.