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[jingyeets]

Hey, Idia! Anyone who knows how to technology in a smart way.

( Here's Jingyi, holding up an e-reader turned toward the ICP camera. One can read that it says, "CONNECT TO PRINT." He has no idea what to do with that, can understand what it functionally does, but: )

How do you get this to do the thing where it can make physical copies of the stuff we were sent over by Ten-Nank?

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[jingyeets]

"Yes. We call those places libraries," he says, though his smile isn't mean spirited after, just closer to a smirk than anything else. "I'm not calling what you like dumb or anything, but I think we're both right, and there should be more than one form of any important document."

Though he thinks most of this is in... "Do you just not like having to deal with people, or is the concept of things taking time and effort just weird? Feels like people from all these worlds with technology of certain kinds expect things to happen quickly, always."

[flameinthedarkness]

There's a part of Idia that wants to shoot back that Jingyi was dumb... but the other part is more than used to having his interests dismissed by 'normies', and really... it's not what Jingyi is doing here, he guesses... but he can't help but snark back a little on that library comment. "And with technology I can search every book in a digital library to find the one thing I want out of all of them rather than having to go book by book." Which as a student was always a pain. This book, this section. That book, that section. Ugh. Just let him cross reference them all at once via a search system.

Though... Idia voicing his earlier thoughts. "I guess I can see the appeal of having books on display... and enjoying something more retro." Like playing retro games despite their systems being old and a lack of more modern implementations that were now common game mechanics.

...don't ask him if he doesn't like dealing with people... by being a person he has to deal with! Seriously. Some people were just so blunt. "There's no point wasting time on connections." Ok, so Idia can be very blunt too. "But in this case I like being able to find what I want when I want it, not wasting time searching for it. I could be using that same time to do other things. If I want to take the time to enjoy things, then I can do that then, but not when I have a goal I need to get done." Efficiency was important.

[jingyeets]

For him, who has a different library system with it's own catalogue concept, the searchability ease does sound nice. Just matters what's said, he guesses, and with his clan he's not sure how the forbidden library might be done, but it would, where the majority of the sect wouldn't reach. Or maybe it wouldn't, so people would either have to spend or waste time looking for answers?

He shakes his head, brief, to shake away the thoughts.

The comment on connections earns it's own raised brows.

"It's a waste of time connecting with anyone? Are you saying you don't have generation mates, friends, rivals, enemies, family, mentors, elders? And you can't be bothered to connect yourself with even one other person?"

[flameinthedarkness]

Could he call anyone at his school friends...? Maybe Azul? Then again, Azul would sell him out in a second if something he deemed valuable was offered. But that wasn't the issue with this all, it wasn't the chance of being stabbed in the back or anything like that, since Idia was the same. You did what you had to get ahead.

It was a rather different matter... and not one he's going to talk about. However Idia does actually have an answer to that question. "One person, yes, but he's not here..." Ortho was different. He was always supposed to be by Idia's side, no matter what... but he wasn't. Not on the train.

[jingyeets]

"Sure, but that means you agree. Bonds are worthwhile. It's not a quantity thing, it's a quality one."

In what point did they come to talking about friendship? More or less down whatever broken meandering came from how does printing work, but to Jingyi, whose best friend is here as a younger man and who feels very strongly for the people he bonds closely with, it's reality.

Bonds are important. Often enough, the ones you make, aside from the social ones that are part of everyone's reality in his world, the ones you make are all that will carry you forward in life. Family, for better or worse, isn't always immediate, or present, or alive.

[flameinthedarkness]

...he doesn't care enough to argue against that. Sure, whatever, if Jingyi wants to use that to win this, then sure, Idia responding rather flatly. "Fine. One connection is fine." A little pedantic, but whatever.

Actually, you know what, fine, then tell him this, "If you knew everyone you made connections with would suddenly forget about you one day, would you even bother?" There's some attitude behind that, telling that while Idia gave Jingyi that first point, he doesn't like how it was done. "What's the point?"

[jingyeets]

"So what, your situation back home is like the one we're in here?"

Where at some point, they'd all be forgotten, or forget everyone else. He can't pretend to be unaware of how that goes, not when he's seen Inigo process it, not when he's watched people he knows, has come to know, go, and finds more who come and have no idea who he is within the context of being dragon souled.