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Tony Stark ([personal profile] manofiron) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu2013-07-29 10:01 am

Video;

[ The video begins with a dark-haired man centered in the middle of the frame. He’s got dark eyes, a precisely cut goatee, and hair that’s a little too styled to be naturally that neat. There isn’t a lot to see beyond his chin, he’s sitting too close to the camera, but what can be seen looks vaguely like a shirt of shiny red metal.

His brow knits almost immediately after the feed starts recording, his expression edging toward disbelief as his lips twist into a mild frown. ]


Look. I get it. In a time of crisis, rationing’s necessary to keep resources moving in the right direction. Perfectly understandable. You guys needed to save your turtle. What responsible citizen wouldn’t do their part for that noble cause?

[ There’s a slight hint f sarcasm creeping into his voice, as though he’s heard the whole turtle spiel already and not only hasn’t been impressed, but also doesn’t really buy it either. Not even after having spent half a day scouring the network for information about what’s really going on here before making this video. ]

But really? Twenty bucks?

[ The low, indistinct murmur of another voice can be heard, though what it’s saying and who it belongs to is anyone’s guess. Whatever it says, it’s enough to make the man roll his eyes. ]

Juulan. Whatever. Doesn’t matter. The point[ Whether he’s talking to the camera or the unidentified voice is unclear. ] — is that it isn’t enough for a day, let alone the entire bogus adventure.

[ It isn’t so much the way he looks at the camera – his eyes have never left it – but the change of his tone, less querulous and more curious, that indicates that he’s talking to whoever’s on the other end of the console. ]

So really. Turtle propaganda aside. What’s a guy gotta do to get some decent money around here? Sell his organs? Hit the street corners? Scrub barnacles off the bottom of the turtle? What?
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-08-02 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
Then they need to get newfangled. I wonder how many soldiers want to be in a war. Like if you took a poll of all of veterans everywhere. How many would say it was a really stupid idea in the first place? Because I think a lot of them would say they were only there because the country made them fight. Imagine how much easier it'd be for a country to recover from a war if it didn't wipe out a generation. There'd be a lot less hatred for whoever you were fighting against, too, if you didn't lose brothers and friends.

Kinda hard to swap from that to fun. But - yeah. I know a few of those.
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-08-02 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh look, the emotional pitfall that Bart also set himself up to go back to.]

N-not really. Maybe a little. Less borders to fight over, more. Stereotypical utilitarian dystopia. Or. It was when I left. Haven't been back to really check up on it.
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-08-03 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Something like that. How'd you like to live where the Science Police will confiscate any unauthorized experiments and inventions? Lock you up just cause the president says so? Kinda puts a damper on progress. They run some experiments of their own that are totally questionable, too.

Could do that. But I'm not sure your time matters if your world is different.
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-08-03 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Bart looks grim. They do that, Tony. They arrange for people to die. People like Bart's dad.]

That's not funny.

And. Probably? I don't recognize that gear you've got on there. I kinda get the feeling I should. If it's same world/same time.
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-08-04 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. You'd think everyone'd want one.
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-08-04 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Seems a little selfish.

[Heroes need other heroes. For like. Checks and balances. And backup.]
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-08-07 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I can see how many the missile part might not be something you want to give out like candy on Halloween.
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-08-11 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh man, you make cell phones? Faster keypads, OK? Touch screens are cool and all that, but do you know how annoying it is when you confuse the phone with texting?

Hey - is it true that cell phone batteries have exploded and killed people?
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-08-16 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Uh.

I don't know Thor, but. I'm pretty certain my odds are higher on lightning than you'd think.
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-08-17 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
I'm from Venus. Constant electrical storms.