Nebula 5

[firewalled]

Heard we're supposed to be having another mission soon... seems a bit like every time we get beat down, we have a nice break, then have to get beat down even harder, huh?

[Rich is starting to get tired of this, honestly. He's trying not to let it show on his face, but the bags under his eyes probably still make it obvious. At least he seems to be back to his talkative self, though he has to admit... it's just because he can't take the silence anymore.]

Anyways, I've been thinkin' a lot about the stuff I miss back home. Video games and cheesy movies, and fast food courts in malls that seem like a great vibe until two hours later when you've barricaded yourself in a bathroom stall. All the stuff we don't have a lot of here. And I think there's one thing we're sorely missing, which is memes.

[He smirks a little.] I mean, I could do an acoustic riff on Astley if anyone wanted it, but I wonder if we have better than that.

Maybe we could use that laptop to make new ones? Yknow, all that bottom text goodness? Though I guess we couldn't really use them as reaction images on these terminals...

Anyways, I guess, what's the one thing you wish you had here, that the train just can't replace for you? So whatever you can't buy from the store. I'm in a nostalgic kinda mood.

Comments

[firewalled]

[Weird... why doesn't this guy just use voice? Rich shrugs his shoulders before responding.]

Not quite sure what that is... but if it's what it sounds like, and you don't have to pay for like a dozen streaming services, I'm fucking jealous.

[securityconsultant]

Some are paid. But most aren't.

[firewalled]

Most being free is still way better. I have to mooch off of my friends if I want to watch anything.

[securityconsultant]

...it's not free where you're from?

[firewalled]

Nah. Capitalism is a bitch, so the minute they saw that streaming media was a good market, everyone started making their own service and only allowing their stuff on each thing, so you have to pay like... way too much to subscribe to them all.

[securityconsultant]

[Sounds too much like the Corporate Rim. But even then-]

And there's no bulk subscription?

[firewalled]

Nah, of course not. That was cable's thing, and cable's dead now. Because streaming was 'cheaper' and everyone went for that instead. And companies smelled blood in the water, I guess.

[securityconsultant]

...I'm not sure why I didn't assume that in the first place.

[firewalled]

Heh, yeah. It's kind of obvious it'd get to that point, huh?