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[ex_spins462]

A little fun for the unplugged among us. Name one thing from your Matrix and other people can say if they heard of it in theirs. Maybe find a little common ground.

I'll start: New York City.

Comments

[halatinous]

should they manage to avoid temptation, they may become useful members of society.

but most do not.

[hacker]

But some do.
And if some do then any could

[halatinous]

in my lifetime i have known exactly one

[hacker]

Ok well unless that one was a literal unicorn that doesn't make me wrong.

[halatinous]

[Hawke might as well be a unicorn, as far as Fenris is concerned.]

you are overly concerned with something you know nothing about.

[hacker]

I don't have to know specifics ok I've seen this song and dance before and it's always the same
It's horrifying

[halatinous]

what song and dance are you referring to, exactly

[hacker]

You're talking about interning people based on what they can do
Let's see how many words I can come up with for that
oppression
systemic injustice

[halatinous]

[As if Anders wasn't bad enough.]

it is not nearly so simple as that.

[hacker]

Yes. It is. That is straight up WW2 nazi rulebook, Guantanamo Bay nightmare policy.

[halatinous]

[He has no idea what any of those words even mean!]

gibberish

[hacker]

[ time for a page from the tony stark guidebook on social interaction ]

EVIL PEOPLE
DOING EVIL THINGS
LIKE IMPRISONING SOMEONE WHO HASN'T COMMITTED A CRIME BECAUSE THEY ~MIGHT~

[halatinous]

don't speak to me of evil. i know it firsthand. i know it inscribed on my own body.

[hacker]

what does that even mean

[halatinous]

as i said. mages rule an empire where i am from, and in this empire they practice every excess imaginable. their powers are fueled by the blood of slaves, by the blood of my people. i was a magister's pet for years.

[hacker]

which is horrible also. if anyone should sympathize with people being trapped in a position like that, locked up without any kind of trial, isn't it the guy who was enslaved?

[halatinous]

we are not the same.

[hacker]

Maybe not. But from where I'm standing, it doesn't look like you're all that different either.

[halatinous]

because you stand on ignorance.