I Like Long Walks On The Beach

[iamnotpolaris]

The beach is a nice, convenient, out-of-earshot place to calibrate the coordinates for this universe.

Comments

[not_only]

"That does sound cute."

[iamnotpolaris]

"It was so cute."

[not_only]

Small smile.

[iamnotpolaris]

Smile!

"I wonder whether finding out the multiverse was mostly Ceirene was anything like finding out the multiverse was mostly not mutants."

[not_only]

"I think it was probably similar."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yeah. It might have been kind of awkward if Edie or I had had wings and enough miscommunication had happened."

[not_only]

"Hmm?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Oh, I mean, if you has said something like, 'these aren't my real wings' and the relevant one of us had said 'mine are' or similar, and then enough explaining didn't happen, you might have walked around for a while thinking we were your kind of winged person."

[not_only]

"Oh. Yes. That would've ended up being really confusing."

[iamnotpolaris]

"No kidding. But we don't, so. Of course, even if we did it might have been a stretch for that much lack of communication to happen."

[not_only]

"Yes."

[iamnotpolaris]

"It's just amusing to think about, given that both our worlds have people who have wings under such different circumstances. I don't think I've ever heard of a mutant who had a pocket universe, though."

[not_only]

"Which is one of the reasons it probably wouldn't have held up for long. I would ask you why you didn't just walk home through your Sphere, and you would be confused."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yes. So it probably wouldn't actually have led to a comedy of errors. Ah well."

[not_only]

[iamnotpolaris]

"So how does architecture work in Terraria? The houses I've seen were mostly just made of one thing, but would it be possible to make mosaic walls with different materials?"

[not_only]

"Yes. I don't usually, though, because using mostly the same materials sort of... hides how extremely square everything is, a bit."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Makes sense. Everything is extremely square. Oh, hey, you know what I haven't explained to you about electronics yet? Video games."

[not_only]

"Hmm?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Okay, so, basically when you have enough of the right technology you can make moving pictures. And then you can make pictures that move around the way you tell them to, instead of in a pre-set way. And video games are moving picture games, some of which strongly resemble the way Terraria works."

[not_only]

"...I think I might need more of an explanation than that."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yeah, okay. Um." She considers this. "Okay, I think this is going to end up waiting until we get to a universe where this can be demonstrated, because I don't have any on me, and the closest thing my brain has for a helpful suggestion for how to better explain it is 'start at Pong,' that being one of the earliest examples, and I don't actually know enough about the history of video games for that to be useful."

[not_only]

"Okay."

[iamnotpolaris]

"...I should be actually writing this list down before I forget something. Let's see, architecture books, cathedral viewing, harp lessons, video games...am I missing anything?"

[not_only]

"If you are, I'm forgetting it too."