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[wittingly]

Hey so

I've been screwing around with the network connecting the communications devices a little. I know there's no Spotify here, no internet, not a lot of music, which sucks. My MP3 player came here with me, so I figured maybe some people might like to have at least a few options. It might not necessarily be to everyone's taste, but it's better than nothing (probably).

I've uploaded the contents to the database, you should be able to access it or send/receive songs at any time.

Turns out they already had some music on there too, so you can poke around theirs and see if you find something you like more. I haven't gotten to go through it all, but at least some of it looks like 21st century Earth stuff.

Sidenote: you're welcome to criticize the contents of my MP3 player, just know that I've never felt shame in my life & I can and will sing all of these karaoke style to your face. IDK if you really want to live through that experience.

( feel free to threadjack as you like )

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un. vidar

[spalten]

I haven't gone thru all of them, but can I work out to any of these songs? None of them are familiar to me.

If you've any recommendations from the list I'll take that too.

[wittingly]

Totally, man. Most of these aren't the high BPM pop/hiphop jams that they'd play in a gym or something, so I went with 'upbeat or loud'. Hope some of these work:


barracuda
hold tight
icky thump
shoop
poison
i think we're alone now
mr. brightside
steal my sunshine
i feel love
great balls of fire
come out and play


let me know if you like any of 'em

[spalten]

Oh, that works. Thank you. I'll take the time to go thru them later on.

.... can you explain to me what 'shoop' means?

[wittingly]

That, my friend, is one of the greatest mysteries of our time. Nobody knows.

[spalten]

Is that so?

Well, it's a catchy song regardless. I'll listen to it whenever I want to unwind.

It seems a lot of this is from your era. Were you feeling homesick? Or just in a sharing mood?

[wittingly]

Not exactly, I just have this MP3 player that I've kept for like 10 years. It followed me here, I figured there was a music deficit, so I uploaded what I had.

[spalten]

That's lucky. I didn't really come with anything else useful or fun. Having to come up with new hobbies has been ... interesting.

[wittingly]

I'm immediately curious as fuck
What have you tried so far?

[spalten]

For context, back in my world, I'm very busy and rarely take leave. I also work in a space ship, and I'm familiar with zero gravity.

Here, I suddenly realize I need more practice for anything fancy involving rock climbing. I'm also a bit artistically challenged. That one, however, I don't plan on doing anything about.

[wittingly]

What kind of work did you do on your ship? Maybe something that can translate over to the engineering avenue?

[spalten]

I'm a pilot, and not of a civilian vessel like the Adamant. More like ... fighter planes, I suppose, would be the equivalent for your era. I'm absolutely useless with anything related to engineering.

[wittingly]

That makes it a little harder.

Competitive paper airplane flying maybe?

[spalten]

That'd be funny, and a hit amongst the kids.

Though if I'm making paper planes well into my late 30s here ... that'd be grim.

Anything else come with you that's fun?

[wittingly]

Not really. A couple things I invented, one of which is completely fucking useless now.

[spalten]

What do you mean 'invented'?

[wittingly]

As in like, conceptualized and then built. I've got a pair of retinal tracking hands-free flashlight pods that work still, but the other thing is this whole face mask tech that only works when it's

well, a lot of stupid complicated stuff that only exists where I lived before, so. Kind of lemon juice in the paper cut that it showed up.

[spalten]

No, it's all very interesting. And it's unfortunate that you're not without your equipment.

Are you familiar with robots?

[wittingly]

To give you a very longwinded answer:

I'm familiar with robotic automation like what's used in industrial manufacturing, and I'm familiar with artificial intelligence as a sentient entity in the early 2500s, but as far as I know I haven't actually experienced the two things combined to make what we call robots in the science fiction of my original early 2000s time.

So like, yes and no but maybe mostly yes?

wow ignore my typo in that tag

[spalten]

Really now. What was your job, before you got here? You're not just some hobbyist off the block, it seems.

i have done that so many times my dude

[wittingly]

I was an engineer. Transitioning into teaching it, actually, but the world kind of ended before I could get my doctorate and go full time. Got an apprenticeship at a firm when I got jumped to 2512, so I picked up a little from there, too. Definitely not a hobbyist.

Well, maybe a little a hobbyist too.

[spalten]

Would you consider yourself a good engineer?

I'm mostly asking because I do have a robot here. If the time comes that it needs repairs or modifications ... it's a finicky machine, and I want care in handling it, but I'm not proficient enough to do that. In rather crude terms, I'm just the guinea pig for it.

[wittingly]

That's a complicated question. I'd consider myself good for 21st century standards, but when we start venturing to future tech I only got to spend a little time in 2512. Even then, that was still a pretty standard Earth setting. When we start incorporating completely foreign, alien technology into the mix...

What I'd like to do, if you don't mind, is get a look at it now while it's functional. If I can understand it while it's working, I have a better chance of fixing it if it breaks. If it's a particularly intricate or complex build, it'll probably take several days for me to map out. Maybe even a couple weeks.

[spalten]

Oh, it's functional. It's finicky and has trust issues, probably inherited from its charming pilot. But it's not alien technology.

You're free to come meet with me anytime. It's not like I'm busy, anyhow.

[wittingly]

When you say trust issues, does it have built-in AI? It's sentient?

I spend most of my time in the engineering corps if you'd like to swing by there, otherwise if you've got a better place I can meet you.

[spalten]

No. I mean that it's a delicate machine.

I'll come and find you.