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From:

cactusy

You're from a world without any magic or crazy sci-fi tech, right? And you're from the 1950s. It's a big adjustment, right? How do you make sense of it?

From:

heyboss

The mind is adaptable. More than we give it credit for.

Also, I have exceptional coping skills.

From:

cactusy

[So does she, in theory. And yet, and yet, and yet.]

Huh.

Okay.

From:

heyboss

Why do you ask?

From:

cactusy

I'm, uh-- soliciting opinions, I guess. Yours seemed like a unique perspective. Norton's from around your time, too, but his world has extraterrestrial contact.

From:

heyboss

What are you going to do when you have enough opinions?

From:

cactusy

I don't know. I'm just looking for one that makes sense to me.

From:

heyboss

What would your answer be?

From:

cactusy

You mean where would I be on a scale of one to ten?

From:

heyboss

Yes.

From:

cactusy

Eight, eight-point-five.

From:

heyboss

Why?

From:

cactusy

That's kind of a vague question. Is that a "Why is it so high, you should just leave" or a "Why is it so low when you act like you're at a 10"?

From:

heyboss

Do you act like you're at a ten?

From:

cactusy

Enough that I've gotten the "if you hate it here so much you're always free to leave" conversation a couple times.

From:

heyboss

Then that's my question. Why is it so low even though you act like a ten?

From:

cactusy

Because if it's real, it's worth it. Ten is "I would leave right now", right?

From:

heyboss

[Uh oh.]

You don't think this is real?

From:

cactusy

[Oopsie!]

Uh-- I don't know, probably not. I kinda go back and forth; right now I'm leaning towards no.

From:

heyboss

What makes you think it's not.

From:

cactusy

Look, am I freaking you out? If I'm freaking you out, don't worry about it.

From:

heyboss

You're not freaking me out.

Does it worry you to talk about it?

Edited Date: 2023-06-09 02:49 pm (UTC)

From:

cactusy

Just makes me kind of tired.

I have experience with people trying to mess with my sense of reality. It's, uh-- look, you know the Enclosure? I spent about a year in something like that, being run through a bunch of scenarios. All of them were designed to make me think they were real, and all of them were designed to get intel out of me.