PC: ACE 💀

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Okay. [ and the puck is down! and zipping across the table! nico doesn't even have to hit it back before it pingpongs its way across the table and straight into ace's goal.

so he just. looks at him. ]

Normally when you're playing a game you don't help your opponent score.

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[ he's just staring at the table with a disgusted face ]

How.

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Do you want to try again?

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Yes.

[ taking the puck out ]

I've got the idea this time! [ shoots it!!!! it bounces against the walls......slightly less!!!! ]

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[ he watches it go...and reaches ahead with his paddle to slam it back over to ace's side. the joke is that nico is equally aggressive so it absolutely ricochets around the table before the puck is stuck in a corner. hm. ]

...well, you were right. You had the idea.

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... Maybe the puck's too light?

[ THAT'S NOT THE PROBLEM. ace reaches over to unstick it and ... very gently... pushes it over to nico's side... ]

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[ :o

pushing it back so that it slides and gets close enough to ace's paddle. ]

Since the puck's light, we have to be careful I guess.

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That's not as fun...

[ exercise control, ace. but he pushes it back slightly stronger so it slides and bounces over to nico's side without going apeshit ]

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[ he bounces it a little harder back toward ace's hand. ]

Yeah, I've never really understood this game.

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It'd be better if the puck was less light, but then I guess the air thing wouldn't work...

[ no just hit less hard you absolute weirdoes. hits it again a little harder. bounce bounce bounce ]

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And then I think that's just regular hockey. Not that I've played that either. [ they are going to amp up the intensity of each hit like a couple of idiots, watching the puck bounce and miss both goals. ] I haven't had time for stuff like that in a while.

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I haven't played it either, but I didn't play a lot of real sports growing up. [ "does hockey exist in one piece" whatever. whatever. they are both just failing to make any goal and getting more aggressive for it ] Busy with training?

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Among other things, yeah. [ this is going to continue. ] I've been busy with a lot of things over the last five years. We just got another break a day or so ago before I got here.

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Talk about bad luck. You start a break and wind up here of all places.

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This still isn't as bad as it could be. [ rocket is not dead yet, for instance. ] But yeah, usually we have at least a few months between major world crises.

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Several world crises every year is normal for you guys?

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I wouldn't say several per year, but there's been at least three in the last two years or so. One of them was a threat that was ongoing for several years until we managed to bring down an army and defeat the guy trying to destroy the world.

Then about six months later, there were stirrings of another uprising. That was another threat in the making. Defeated the enemy responsible about eight months later. And then several months after that...well, you get the idea.

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That's kind of a lot for two years.

When you say destroy the world, you don't mean literally, do you?

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[ bounces the puck back to ace's side. ]

No, I mean literally. The destruction of the world and everyone in it.

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... Why would someone actually be trying to do that?

[ THEY LIVE IN THIS WORLD??? ]

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That is a very long and complicated story. But the summary of it really is people wanting to overthrow those currently in power and create a new world for them to rule themselves. Sometimes it's about revenge. Sometimes it's about thinking they could do better. Sometimes it's both.

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It sounds more like a revolution, when you put it like that.

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In a sense, yes. But the option wasn't better. And the ones trying to revolutionize the world and overthrow its current rulers had no plans for the rest of humanity.

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What's the point of change if the world isn't going to be any better?

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Like I said, long story. And definitely not one I think I can tell right now. But the point was only that they thought their change was better. People set in their ways can rarely change themselves.