[homophonic] catchall for alex

[dendroculi]

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week 3, monday

[dendroculi]

[a movie theater........... their time has come]

This is what you were talking about before, right? A place for viewing movies?

[camena]

Yeah! And they even have the movie I was telling you about.

None of the sequels though. But that's fine.

[dendroculi]

[oh! nahida smiles a little at that.]

Then, let's watch it.

[camena]

But I wonder if there are movies that you would actually like more than this one...

I guess the theater's not going anywhere, but...

[dendroculi]

I'm very interested in the one you told me about before, though. I've been curious about it ever since I heard about it.

[camena]

... Alright. Then we can watch it after all. God, I wonder if the CG holds up.

[ it doesn't but it's fine. ]

[dendroculi]

"CG"?

[imagine if we had to have them pay real money every time we made them watch a movie in pcs lol]

[camena]

[ i'm busy imagining what a world it would be like if nahida was like yea i'm familiar with CG ]

Computer graphics. It's like... when they edit fake stuff into the movie after filming it. Like uh... illusions? Do they have illusions where you're from? [ there's magic so surely??? ]

[dendroculi]

[she nods]

But these are embedded into the film the movie is recorded on, rather than appearing in the minds of the people subjected to them... how interesting.

[camena]

That kind of tech was still pretty new when this movie came out. It's gotten way better, since.

Buuut that means we were all really easy to impress back then.

[dendroculi]

Hehe. Maybe we can watch a few of them and see how it's improved.

[they are all from 1999 so it will not be any sort of significant improvement.]

[camena]

Like a movie marathon? I'm down, but that means you have to pick the next one.

[ but then how would she know if it has a lot of cg in it or not... ]

[dendroculi]

That's okay with me!

[she will learn so much about movies today]

[camena]

[ alex will shuffle them both along to get popcorn and drinks. i assume we can get popcorn and drinks. otherwise Evil. Evil. ]

We used to invite Ren to movie nights but he always wanted to watch the worst movies.

[dendroculi]

Ren...? A friend of yours?

[imagine if we can get popcorn and drinks, but only like. stale popcorn and flat soda]

[camena]

My best friend, back home.

[ who would do that. who would make a game like that. who would rule over a game like that. anyway alex will hand nahida a soda and popcorn of her own! ]

... He's got bad taste, but he's funny.

[dendroculi]

[tilts her head to one side as she tries a piece of popcorn. ooh, yummy.]

"Bad taste"? How so?

[camena]

[ wandering to a nice middle seat and plopping down. ]

He just always likes bad movies. They're either boring or incoherent or, like, really stupid.

[dendroculi]

[she follows her and takes a seat next to her!]

Are any of the ones he would watch playing here?

[camena]

Austin Powers.

[ ... ]

Don't watch Austin Powers.

[dendroculi]

...is it that bad?

[camena]

It's not that bad, it's just dumb. Like... boy dumb.

[dendroculi]

[nahida nods slowly. huh. today she has learned there is a difference between "dumb" and "boy dumb"]

[camena]

[ i'm proud of her. also it's insecurity week so ]

... I wonder if we're even still best friends.

[dendroculi]

...of course you are. People don't stop being your friends just because you spend some time apart.

[oh. it sure is insecurity week. something seems to occur to her, and her ears droop.]

Do they...?