Topher 2

[geniustopher]

Uggh... so many names, so many choices, so little time, so little chance of being right, so frakking annoying. What I would give to at least be back home on my futon, surrounded by the hum of machinery - it's too quiet here for a technological genius such as myself to be myself. Am I doomed to go insane from electronics withdrawal?

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Double nerdgasm

[geniustopher]

Programming is as a puzzle to me - I have a specific size, and thousands upon thousands of possibilities to fit into that area. It's a thrill every time I make a new program - no two are ever alike, yet they're almost alive when run... nobody outside of work really even knows what they are and the careful attention to detail I put into each and every one of my creations - my works of art.

It's similar enough to fontech - we have massive buildings that turn heat energy into a controlled form of lightning that has come to power society as I know it completely... of course, some experiments in alternative ways of creating the heat energy have been accidental or intentional disasters, as there are weapons that can turn whole cities into ruins in moments... like the Akzeriuth tragedy, only larger-scale and without the risk of the land crumbling, though, as my world was never raised up on Sephiroth Trees... I've heard a lot about your world through a not-quite-fontech game in mine - you're Guy Cecil, no, Gailardia Galos Galan, right? Fontech buff and speed demon in battle?

OH JEEZUS HAHA 1/...3

[gynophobe]

Heat energy... and lightning... hmm, so you're saying that you all turn to other natural elements of the world besides fonons in order to power your machines? That's pretty useful information, considering the situation back home...

[gynophobe]

[And he listens more. And...]

Wh...

... 3/4

[gynophobe]

[There's so much to respond to here, and even though Topher's explained it somewhat, all Guy can think to ask is "how do you know?" He even knows about Akzeriuth, but he's talking as though he's not even from Auldrant, if the type of machinery is any indication.]

[gynophobe]

... I'm not sure what you mean when you say a "game," but you're... heh, well, you're certainly well-informed. I'm not even sure I want to know how at this point.

I'd rather you just call me Guy, though. It's much simpler - for a few reasons I know you can probably guess.

[geniustopher]

Yeah... it seems I must finally admit that everyone here is from a different world. Man, I hate eating my own words, but such is life, Guy. You're right, too, that my world uses natural resources to create most of our power - sure, it's causing its own forms of chaos on the planet, such as raising the ocean levels, warming the atmosphere, and dangerously depleting said resources, but we're perenially forty years away from a true nearly-inexhaustible source that doesn't take up huge areas of land to provide relatively little power, as solar and wind power do - by taking two particles the size of a fonon and forcing them to combine into one particle, more energy is theoretically released than it took to force the combining, so we'll finally have a nearly-limitless source of energy that doesn't damage the environment to use. Of course, it works in theory, but it'll take more geniuses like myself to put it into practice effectively.

[gynophobe]

[And he's already moved on. Well, fontech was something nice to distract himself with, at any rate...]

It seems like no matter what you do, machines are somehow going to tax the world around us. I do wonder, though, if Auldrant might have some other power source yet to be uncovered, that we might have in overabundance. Or even a resource that constantly replenishes its very own supply somehow... hmmm...

[geniustopher]

That's wishful thinking to the extreme... but I have to agree with you, conserving power sources is a righteous thing to do. My workplace was built with energy conservation in mind to the highest possible degree - most of our power, water, and other utilities are recycled in-house.

[gynophobe]

Imagining a different energy source for fontechnology at all is pretty wishful thinking... but something of great concern and research back home.

[geniustopher]

I hear you - technology is even more fun when its power doesn't come from destruction, but from being environmentally conscious.