[text] BACKDATED TO SUNDAY EVENING

[fingerbang]

For a group of people experiencing something both upsetting and highly personal, you certainly have a way of showing it. All of it. And to a general audience, no less.

Happy Father's Day.

Comments

Video!! Not-in-a-cage video!!

[monopolyonsnark]

The network has been rather informative today.

STILL... SUSPICIOUSLY TEXT

[fingerbang]

Isn't it? We've all learned so much about each other.

You're looking well.

he's only doing video because he can :')

[monopolyonsnark]

Quite well, yes. And now I'm free to observe troubles that are not my own.

AND SHE SWITCHES TO VOICE which is probably a mistake

[fingerbang]

That must be refreshing.

permavid

[monopolyonsnark]

You have no idea. [ Waving a hand with glowy fingertips. ] Now I am attempting to fix the damage done, but there are worse things.

Voice;

[loyal_to_death]

It's a little depressing, really.

text;

[fingerbang]

Is that so? I think it's been more educational than anything else.

[loyal_to_death]

... I guess we have been educated in the father issues of the network.

[fingerbang]

And the apparent ease with which these things switch on. But that's old news.

[loyal_to_death]

People ought to keep them in a drawer or something when not using them.

text;

[trollverine]

I thought the sharing of personal tragedies was the network's intended purpose.

text;

[fingerbang]

If enough of them use it as such, you might as well be right.

text;

[trollverine]

What else is it ever used for? Open-ended questions, "help I've been cross-dimensionally kidnapped," and "my best friend went home so don't look for him." Personal tragedies sums up most of that, if you consider open-ended questions a strong indication that whoever's asking is both terminally desperate for social interaction and incapable of getting it through other means. I know I do.

text;

[fingerbang]

Now, that's just not true. You forgot "where can I find a good restaurant" and "who wants pancakes?"

text;

[trollverine]

Can I ask where 'Lust' came from? I'm assuming it's not your given name.

text;

[uzi]

Makeshift group therapy.

Not quite the stupidest use for a public network there's ever been.

text;

[fingerbang]

If that's what you want to call it. Still, I'm sure it could have been aired a little more remotely, if that suited them.

text;

[uzi]

But that would have been less handsomely entertaining for the rest of us.

text;

[fingerbang]

And less direct insight, I suppose.

You're new.

text;

[uzi]

To this place? Maybe.

But not to watching people make fools of themselves in public.

[enigmaestro]

Shut up.

[fingerbang]

Did I say anything?

[enigmaestro]

Why the text? You're so keen on voice, usually.

Unless.

[fingerbang]

Unless.

After such an embarrassing display, it only seems fair to return the favor.

[enigmaestro]

You're hardly returning it, though.

That ain't new for you, boy.