rocketralph | Level 18 [Video / Action for Goldenrod.] AROMATHERAPY FRIDAY

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_{[Ralph is furiously tapping away at his 'gear and has accidentally turned the camera on. Enjoy a worm's eye view of the guy's chin and thumbs and little else. He's outside, seated on a bench somewhere in Goldenrod's shopping district and ranting to someone.]}

And you know what really crosses my wires? They had the nerve to keep on pretending! I don't know about you, Wrath, but I'm sick and tired of this whole Johto-wide charade of everyone pretending like they aren't from a video game! I can't be the only one that remembers! I can't be the only one who didn't get his code scrambled!

I think they're all kiddin' themselves! So what if there's no quarter alert? So what if we can't see the screen and nobody knows where the tram is! That doesn't mean we should all pretend to be real!

[ACTION FOR SOME BAR IN GOLDENROD]

_{[After a long, exhausting day of arguing, it's easy to find the big guy with some empty glasses at his elbow tucked away in whatever dimly lit corner he could find. He has a Lot to think about.]}

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look generally people look at me funny when i break the fourth wall like that so maybe its a dont ask dont tell situation
not everyones cursed with as much self awareness as you apparently have dude

Edited (Playing two Homestucks at once will be the death of me) 2016-01-31 02:02 (UTC)

_{[Ralph cuts off mid-rant to check the beep on his 'gear. And then he sees the little red REC light and swallows. Aw, jeez, not again!]}

HEY PAL JUST IGNORE THAT WILL YA?

_{[Welcome to the land of ALL CAPS it's just easier to see for such a big guy.]}

ok
you could really see the screen though? thats kind of cool

YOU BELIEVE ME?

well sure
you could say im from a computer game and be more or less factually accurate so its not like im new to the concept

IVE HEARD ABOUT THOSE HOME SYSTEM THINGS
DOESNT IT GET LONELY WITHOUT A NETWORK? WHATS IT LIKE NOT BEING ON A SCHEDULE?

i mean we have the internet
i guess you could classify sburb as like an mmorpg?
its a little more complicated than that because you have to take the client to server relationships into account but thats the nearest thing i can think of
so its not like we were at any point playing by ourselves
what do you mean by schedule though

_{[Ralph has no idea what an MMORPG is...but he's been asked a question so out comes the answer!]}

MY GAME IS IN AN ARCADE. SAME HOURS EVERY DAY. YOU CAN NEVER TELL WHEN THE QUARTER ALERT WILL GO UP BUT IT'S SLOWED DOWN THESE LAST FEW YEARS. NOBODY REALLY CARES ABOUT OLD GAMES ANYMORE.

ohhh ok
i get you
thats kind of sad though
arcades are like a treasured american institution theyre integral to so many coming of age movies
id be bummed to see them go

YOURE NOT THE ONLY ONE

how do you not get lonely though
i mean if youre stuck inside just the one game all the time
dont arcade games not have that many characters in them usually

OH ITS NOT LONELY AT ALL!!
ONCE OUR SHIFT IS OVER WE CAN TAKE THE TUNNEL AND ONCE YOU HIT GAME CENTRAL STATION YOU CAN GO TO ANY GAME YOU LIKE
I USUALLY HANG OUT IN TAPPER'S

oh
shit that sounds hilarious
i totally wouldve ditched my game if i could get out of it
which i mean i guess i did since here i am in the pokemon world but you know what i mean

IS THAT WHAT THIS IS? ONE OF THOSE HOME UNITS? IT WOULD EXPLAIN A FEW THINGS BUT NOT THE MISSING SCREEN.

yeah this wouldve been on theeeee
game boy color i think
im not sure i didnt have one of those but its an old handheld console
so maybe the screen is too small for you to see

[You know, Mettaton doesn't usually do bars - for a lot of reasons, really, not least of which being that he generally tries to avoid human alcohol - but today, it seems, he's feeling curious, and his curiosity has brought him here, and there's an absolute mountain of a man over there looking more than a little pensive.

...Actually, he's pretty sure he may have seen this particular person earlier that day. Network, wasn't it? Yelling about something or other.]

Having a hard day, darling?

I DOUBT THAT. WHEN IM AT HOME IM ONLY A FEW PIXELS HIGH. IT WOULD BE LIKE NOT NOTICING THE SUN.

huh
i dont know then
i guess its just one more thing to chalk up to universes working differently
i couldnt see a screen even after i entered the game back where im from

[Those... sure are a lot of words. They might even mean something. But stringing them all together in that order just turns it into a giant pile of... that.]

Dude...

[He's taking some care to make sure this video is framed to avoid looking like any particular part of the base. He'd like his head to remain safely UN-noogied this week, thank you.]

What the hell are you talking about? ...You eat some of those berries, or something? Cause they tell you from like day one not to touch that stuff.

_{[That is...a little alarming. Ralph's been here a while now and still hasn't accepted the 'other worlds' thing. Stubborn.]}

MAYBE IT WAS LIKE ONE OF THOSE NEWFANGLED FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS. ONE GAME I WOUND UP IN BY ACCIDENT HAD THAT INSTEAD. IT WAS LIKE A LITTLE ROBOT KINDA GUY AND THE SCREEN WAS SMALL.

_{[Ralph heaves a sigh and glares into the bottom of his glass as if he could make it shatter if he furrowed his brows hard enough.]}

You got no idea, pal.

_{[Ralph's already resigned himself to dealing with this after his text from Mr. Red Font. When he sees who it is, he lets out a groan. It's the Goomba. That's his name now. Enjoy your new life, Goomba.]}

What I'm talkin' about is how you guys need to let go of this daydream of yours and just accept the fact that this is a game!

_{[Watch your blood pressure, Ralph.]}

And no, I haven't been eating the berries. Maybe it's all of you!

yeah maybe
so what year are you from that first person shooters are new for you

I DONT GET OUT MUCH. TAPPER AND PACMAN ARE THE ONLY GAMES LEFT FROM WHEN WE WERE FIRST PLUGGED IN.

EVER HEAR OF A GAME CALLED FIX-IT FELIX JR.?

not as such no
but pacman is basically ancient from my frame of reference

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