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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 2013-07-30 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Style's subjective. I bet the kedan think the Emperor's flashy. You should see what people wear in the 30th century. Plus. They seem big on their poor, huddled masses - it's just us they don't like. And one man's throne is another man's leather armchair.

Barnacles are technically crustaceans. Y'know. Like crabs and lobsters. "Crustacean people" doesn't have that ring to it.

Last weekend, huh? OK. I'll bite. So which is it? String theory or quantum loop gravity?
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-07-30 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Lotta unitards. Everything's synthetic. Way more bright colors than you're used to seeing. Less patterns. No jeans which is the biggest backslide in history.

Yeah. It clunks out of your mouth.

[Bart looks completely blank at the reference. He's great with literary references, and fair enough at action and sci-fi movies. The Little Mermaid is, to him, Hans Christian Anderson's classic. He's never seen a single Disney classic. He's a big fan of the Incredibles, though, and has gotten Jay Garrick to start saying that rogues are monologuing.]

Uh. Sure? I guess they have music. Sound travels better underwater.

Dang. I was hoping for loop gravity. So what is it?
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-07-30 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
Don't look at me. I didn't lead the fashion evolution to unitards. I woulda called it fully evolved at jeans and a t-shirt. And not that I remember, no. Sorry, Wyld Stallyns fan.

[Bart blinks and then nods.] Yeah. There's still a lot of movies that I haven't seen yet. I probably should watch more for the references. Saw Bill & Ted's because. Hi. It's a time travel movie. Besides, I like George Carlin. I haven't heard about one with a singing crab though.

[Aww. He'd get that one. Bart said that tribbles follop around like mattresses to someone the other day. He raises an eyebrow at the end.]

Which. Means that you don't know.
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-07-30 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. I'm not a huge fan of Terminator though. [For reasons.]

You have robots? And they... like to watch bad movies about singing crabs? Is that the best you could do? Not like a pancake-making robot or something a little more practical? How do you know it's watching? I could put a fern in front of the tv. It's not going to watch the nightly news.

But. I LIVE for spoilers. Heck. I am a spoiler. You gotta spill it.
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-07-30 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Who's Jarvis?

You have autonomous robots? That's so freaking cool. But speaking of the Terminator, I think that's how Skynet started.

It's called Earthgov, but yeah. Not that it matters here. I was time-displaced before I turned up here.
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-07-31 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
[He catches his tongue between his teeth and thinks for a moment, trying to remember the movie's plot.] Have you tried unplugging him yet? I think that's the real Skynet test.

Better. I think. That was intentional, and I was still on the right planet. I'm not even sure what year it is here. So. Your call. 1000-ish years: better or worse? [Bart shrugs.]
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-07-31 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Is he still operating? [Bart looks interested and very mildly alarmed.] Cause I'm thinking if he's unplugged and still on, you just created Skynet.

I was born in 2993. I'm from about your time.
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-07-31 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
You got to bring your pet robot with you? That is so unfair. I didn't even get shoes.

Yep. I'll try to explain that after you tell me the nature of the universe.
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-07-31 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Then what is he? Cause I can admit when I'm confused.

I didn't have shoes because I wasn't wearing them when I showed up. I promise the future has shoes. That's seriously your concern about the future? 'Will there be shoes?'

Thanks? But I still don't hear you explaining.
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-08-01 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
He's an AI only? [Cough cough] SKYNET. [Cough] Ahem.

Unitards are a problem? You're kinda wearing a metal one there, buddy.

[Bart snickers. He has read that book, Tony Stark.] So you're telling me it's a 'how many roads must a man walk down?' solution? Cause the real Ultimate Question was 'what do you get if you multiply six by nine.'
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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-08-01 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
That was kind of a stupid way to go about it. "Oh, we only need to kill one person for this to work." Most of history requires more than one person, and it's not all that easy to change things. The movie got that right, sorta, with whole 'going back is what causes him to be born in the first place' thing, but if things were really altered, shouldn't she suddenly not have a kid and be back at her apartment like nothing ever happened? These are the things that should keep me up at night.

The unitards don't need missiles. Plasma guns exist.

That's a crappy solution. But. I guess it doesn't matter. Life's what you make it.

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[personal profile] backinakidflash 2013-08-02 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Like myxomatosis. Smart. But. Uh. Kinda scary. Thanks for the warning.

[Bart nods.] Yeah, really. Why is that surprising? Energy's easier to come by than the right bullets in the field.

Doing my best! It's not always a blast, but it's never dull.
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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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