Amos Burton (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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reverienet2018-05-22 03:18 pm
tumang) wrote in reverienet2018-05-22 03:18 pm
o1. a m a (un: rocipilot)
[ The video opens to Amos munching on what looks like one of the protein bars the fabricator seem to produce by the dozen. He's looking straight at the camera - this is no mistake broadcast, he learned from the best how to do this - and half of him is in the frame. ]
People keep on asking me about this stuff once they realize I've lived in space a while, so I'm just going to share my wisdom with you all so I don't have to say it a million times again.
[ He stands, the angle of the video changing as he grabs the communicator he borrowed from Alex to broadcast this. As it moves, it pans over what looks like a very large shortgun type of weapon. It ends up points towards Amos's lower body, more specifically, his boots. ]
Okay, first off, keep your mag boots on. Sleep with them if you can. To engage them, lean back on your heels, and walk like you're wearing pumps. Heel first, then toe.
[ He demonstrates on camera. How does he know how to walk in pumps? Who knows?
He turns the communicator back up towards his face, after a few steps. ]
Second, if you feel nauseous when you're walking around the station, try to see if you're walking spinward or counter-spinward. As in, if you walking with the spin of the gravitation rings or not. Walking against it is going to make you feel worse.
Third, don't eat too much, but don't forget to eat, either. Sounds basic, but you'd be surprised.
[ He almost adds that coffee is not a form of food. ]
Fourth, make use of the fitness area on deck 4. We're not at full gravity here, and in space, you lose muscle mass very fast. If you don't want to turn into a noodle, weightlifting and cardio.
Fifth, stow your gear. There are all of these compartments in the crew quarters, don't leave shit hanging around. Anything can turn into a weapon if we suddenly lose gravity, or if it turns out that this barge can do maneuvers. You don't want a mug coming at your face at 4-g.
[ Seriously, stow your gear, people. It's not that hard. ]
Sixth, don't use the sealant guns without gloves. This shit will glue your hands together. Be smarter than that.
[ He resumes eating his protein bar. ]
That's the most important points I wanted to make. Now, if you've got specific questions, shoot.
People keep on asking me about this stuff once they realize I've lived in space a while, so I'm just going to share my wisdom with you all so I don't have to say it a million times again.
[ He stands, the angle of the video changing as he grabs the communicator he borrowed from Alex to broadcast this. As it moves, it pans over what looks like a very large shortgun type of weapon. It ends up points towards Amos's lower body, more specifically, his boots. ]
Okay, first off, keep your mag boots on. Sleep with them if you can. To engage them, lean back on your heels, and walk like you're wearing pumps. Heel first, then toe.
[ He demonstrates on camera. How does he know how to walk in pumps? Who knows?
He turns the communicator back up towards his face, after a few steps. ]
Second, if you feel nauseous when you're walking around the station, try to see if you're walking spinward or counter-spinward. As in, if you walking with the spin of the gravitation rings or not. Walking against it is going to make you feel worse.
Third, don't eat too much, but don't forget to eat, either. Sounds basic, but you'd be surprised.
[ He almost adds that coffee is not a form of food. ]
Fourth, make use of the fitness area on deck 4. We're not at full gravity here, and in space, you lose muscle mass very fast. If you don't want to turn into a noodle, weightlifting and cardio.
Fifth, stow your gear. There are all of these compartments in the crew quarters, don't leave shit hanging around. Anything can turn into a weapon if we suddenly lose gravity, or if it turns out that this barge can do maneuvers. You don't want a mug coming at your face at 4-g.
[ Seriously, stow your gear, people. It's not that hard. ]
Sixth, don't use the sealant guns without gloves. This shit will glue your hands together. Be smarter than that.
[ He resumes eating his protein bar. ]
That's the most important points I wanted to make. Now, if you've got specific questions, shoot.
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hmmmmm.
maybe it's not about being human at all?
i mean, dogs and cats can feel love. right?
i don't know that much about the science of it, but it's just chemicals and stuff in our brain.
so maybe being human is something else?
"having a soul." something like that.
but i don't really know how that works either, haha
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i almost got rid of the part of it that makes you feel for others
it seemed easier than dealing with feelings
[ His soul is probably irredeemably stained, at this point. Dripping black and blood. ]
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i don't know if i could do that.
basically all i'm good at it is feeling stupid things. haha
how would you have gotten rid of it?
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you just need a magnet on the side of your head where the part of your brain that controls empathy is
with electric activity in the brain, it fries it out
i'd rather not feel at all
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sorry
i guess i just don't really know what to say?
that sounds. like.
i don't know. i don't really get it.
i'm already really bad at... basically everything when i talk to people? so it seems like that'd just make me hurt a lot more people.
i'm sorry you feel that way :(
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i don't really get people anyway
and people tend to be scared of me, maybe it's best if i give them a reason to be
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about the not getting people part, at least.
i guess people are probably more scared of me now too?
i've definitely seen more frightened looks in the past month than like... ever, before.
which sort of hurts, but also is sort of nice?
haha. that probably sounds weird, huh.
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maybe?
i don't really know. i don't like the idea of people being afraid of me, or feeling like they can't say things around me.
i spent a really long time trying to avoid that. you know?
but... sometimes, it's like
a reminder? i guess?
when people smile, and tiptoe around me, and pretend i haven't done anything wrong...
that's not really any better? actually, it's worse. it's pity instead of fear.
like i'm something broken, and if they push me too hard i'll shatter into a million little pieces.
even if they hate it, the people who are scared see me for who i am.
they don't act like i'm something i'm not.
sorry. i guess that doesn't make much sense, huh?
or maybe it does. i mean, you said you're less human than the others.
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i didn't use to believe this bullshit. i used to think it was all about putting me first and surviving. that's how i made it as far as i did. but then i found a few people that don't care what i've done before. they don't care who i used to be. maybe i scare them a little, sometimes. but they don't pity me, and a couple of them might actually, genuinely love me.
i don't like thinking that it's true. but maybe it is. and maybe there are people that love you, too, for who you are.
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neptune and jupiter... they're like me. you know?
and i'm lucky for that. like, really lucky.
but most people aren't like that. i guess that's all i'm saying.
i'm glad you have people like that too, amos. :)
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fuck the others
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fuck them. haha
i don't even know if we're talking about the people that don't like you or the people that don't like me anymore.
maybe both??
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i don't like either category
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it's like. who gave them the mic?
why should we have to listen?
honestly.