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[in_horribleness]

[The video opens on a young blond man in a distinctive red lab-coat, black gloves, and goggles on his forehead. He's peering into the camera.]

Is this thing... Yes. Right.

[There's a blur as he moves the recording phone, and when it stills, he's holding it at arm’s length and slightly down, so that the camera catches him from below, as if he’s

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video;

[seeingtwofold]

[Have some teenaged grey alien peering at your skeptically.]

Right, so...

I can't really tell what kind of earth human stereotype you're trying to embody here. But.

Hey. Sup.

[video]

[in_horribleness]

Look, it's not about embodying stereotypes, it's about breaking them. About... not having to conform. I've got my style, and I make it my own. It's very empowering.

video forever;

[seeingtwofold]

Yeah okay, cool, that's fine, but earth "evil" doesn't really seem like what you're hitting here.

[VIDEO FOREVERER]

[in_horribleness]

Well, that's what it gets you labeled back home. Especially if you cheer when the brainy badass beats up the oaf with super-strength.

[seeingtwofold]

In my experience the "brainy badass" is a fuckton more competent.

[He is staring at the screen with his chin resting on a hand. HE IS JUDGING YOU but in a kind of friendly way.]

So what do you do, really? Besides...rule the planet, I guess.

[in_horribleness]

Well, I was working on diversifying my portfolio, trying to get some more... liquid assets. Preferably taken from large corporations and corrupt government officials. I publish scientific papers under a false name, and I'm slowly amassing the world's largest arsenal of space-time warping wave projectors.

I also play a mean game of Team Fortress 2.

[seeingtwofold]

Space-time wave projectors? So you build shit, right?

[A beat.]

...that game any good? I've only managed to get through so many human games since I got here.