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Jul 14, 2009 16:46

The rec center may have looked like someone's colorblind grandma decorated it in the seventies, but as far as Karen was concerned, the space was all that counted. That, and nobody actually lived there, which meant they wouldn't be disturbing anybody if they stayed up well into the early morning hours. Well, at least Karen knew she and Chuck and ( Read more... )

joey potter, jenny humphrey, chase stein, karen filippelli, taylor townsend, abby sciuto, matt farrell, dr. rob chase, shawn spencer, gathering, chuck bartowski, zell dincht, cyd sherman, arnold rimmer

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f4rr3ll July 15 2009, 04:06:06 UTC

Sure, the equipment here paled in comparison to Matt's gear at home -- well, at least, his gear before it got blown up, thanks a lot, freaking terrorists -- but some gaming was better than nothing at all. Of course, a video game party was worlds different from a LAN party, mostly because he knew someone was going to show up and be all lol omg like how does this work and then he would want to die.

So it was with a fair bit of wariness that Matt went to the rec center, checking out the equipment setup and trying not to jump in and start rearranging cables or anything. He had to play nice with others if he wanted to use the equipment in the future, after all.

the_intersect July 15 2009, 05:45:34 UTC

"I've seen that look," Chuck said, catching Matt not actually playing anything, but looking at how they had everything they'd set up, "I know that look. That's the 'gee, I want to touch these cables' look. I know it well."

He'd had that look on his own face more times than he could count.

f4rr3ll July 16 2009, 03:55:41 UTC

Matt chuckled, then shook his head. "I should have known someone here would've guessed that," he said. "But, I mean--" He gestured at the mess of cables. "Look at that. It's a wreck. One thing goes wrong, and some poor guy's going to have to spend twenty minutes tied up like a pretzel back there trying to figure out what that mess is."

codexthepriest July 15 2009, 19:20:24 UTC

Socializing was a little easier when I saw people I knew. Matt is one of them, and I ease myself through the small crowd until I'm standing behind him.

"Is there something wrong?" I ask, after watching him a few moments. I know my way around computer equipment just because I needed to know things to keep myself running, but just about anything else is pretty foreign to me.

f4rr3ll July 18 2009, 02:01:21 UTC

Matt glanced over at Cyd, then back at the tangle of cords. "Not technically," he said, trying to keep the twitch off of his face when he saw just how tangled things were back behind the TV. He didn't want to mention it, his fascination and, really, his horror at the current State of the Cord Union. It was just a little weird. But he couldn't help it. "All of those wires!" he exclaimed finally, gesturing at the mess. "They're a wreck."

codexthepriest July 18 2009, 15:55:53 UTC

Peering over his shoulder, I actually see what he's talking about. I don't need to know about the wires to know it isn't exactly the neatest set-up.

"I guess people just sort of shoved it all back there," I observe. It was hard to tell what went to what. "At least they're all out of the way?"

abbysciuto July 18 2009, 03:45:21 UTC

So, do you think the cables behind the TV form a true Gordian knot or could we maybe get them untangled if we had about fifteen more hands?" Abby asked Matt rhetorically, since it was clear that he did not approve of the cable setup.

She could see his point, but given the age of the TV, the fact that they got the cords hooked up at all was actually kind of a miracle.

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