un: kantera, text

[happydreamed]

If this adventure with chain mail has taught me anything, 'tis that many of us here are having our first exposure to the internet, with all its amusements and pitfalls included. Thus, I thought it might be nice to introduce another 'getting to know each other' game that some of us might not know yet. This one won't involve pictures or ratings of attractiveness, not to worry.

This game is called 'two truths and a lie'. The premise is simple. You list three statements about yourself, two true and one false. Ideally they should all be similar levels of unbelievable. Then, other people respond to you to guess which one is the lie. We all learn a little about each other and have a bit of fun.

Comments

un: spinjockey; lemme just slide this in over here

[nugrass]

well, let's see here
im gonna guess it's numero uno for you
since it's pretty normal aint it?
tons of folks end up named stuff like "carpenter" and "tailor"
but meeting the president? using an artificial voice box?
not unheard of
yet definitely a lot weirder
so they're more likely to be real.

yessssssss

[privateeyed]

thats some nice deductive reasoning there sherlock
but unfortunately that ones true
dad loved to fix up old cars so im named after one

[nugrass]

well hot damn
thought i was really onto something there!
aight
i'll try another angle.
have you met the president only once? is that it?

[privateeyed]

thats the one
never met them period
had the chance to once, turned it down

[nugrass]

dang! chance of a lifetime and you dunked it
but man
imagine if it was on tv
the kind of pranks you couldve pulled
can you imagine it?
pranking the goddamn president?
on live television??

[privateeyed]

i like the way you think
it was actually supposed to be on tv
but there was no fuckin way i was flying down to texas after recovering from almost half a dozen major surgeries
no medal is worth suffering that AND texas

[nugrass]

aw cmon now
texas ain't half bad! long as you avoid most of the folks there
and don't go out during the day when it's hot
and don't stick around the dusty areas too long.

hmmm.

okay well
the nature there's gorgeous
that i can say for sure!

where you from anyway?
obviously a state
but which?

[privateeyed]

nature is not enough to get me down there
besides ive been a few times
technically by choice i guess

i live in detroit
but im from ohio
same question, if not states then country obviously

[nugrass]

detroit!
city boy, huh?
me, i'm from louisiana
and that's where my heart stays.
(literally.)

anything special about the detroit youre from?
dragons? flying cars? special powers?
should be a different world than the one i'm used to
right?

[privateeyed]

hell no
i miss ohio and the middle of nowhere
that might sound sarcastic but i mean it
your heart is literally in lousiana??

no flying cars, but they self-drive
its the cybernetics capital?
lot of big industries moved there tho they are moving out again
idk its 2123

[nugrass]

well yeah
generally folks don't keep those things once they stop working
so i left it back there.

damn tho
104 years in the future
and STILL no flying cars??
and also
wdym by "cybernetics" exactly?
interesting word choice from mr. future over here
could mean damn well anything from someone like yourself!

[privateeyed]

right, of course
makes perfect sense

everyone is disappointed by no flying cars
they would be an actual nightmare
cybernetics are mainly computerized prosthetics and modifications
but it includes anything with a computer chip that you put in the body

[nugrass]

with all due respect to your intelligence sir
i'm implying i'm dead.
my heart's back there cause that's where i was buried
i was trying to crack a good joke about it
but it obviously didn't fly all that good.

ahhhh that makes sense
i see where your worlds priorities were then
no flying cars cause they were too busy making new parts for folks
i can get behind that
i already make that kinda junk myself.

[privateeyed]

see i wondered but i dont have the proper sarcastic responses prepared yet
still getting used to shit like that actually being real

pretty much
that and ai technology
get your skynet jokes in now
but shit making parts is something
you program them too?