Halloween Reaction Videos - [Open] [Network - Video]

[spaghettimonster]

Date: [October 31st]
Characters: A string of numbers yet to be determined (Russell)]

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[Mid-afternoon, Halloween, a video post becomes available on the network. It's coming from a slightly odd angle, pointed as though someone had tapped their number on a mirror and propped it against the head of a bed. Front and center in the view is Russell, sitting a few feet away, with a pile of things in front of him. Two different cell phones, a few colorful sketches, and... several bones. There's no dirt on them, but they sure don't look like plastic.]

I am having. A day.

Multiple times, today, I've had that... that dizziness, and emptiness, and found myself remembering things or finding things. I can't go to my door without tripping over something that sets it off. Is that just me?

And, can anyone tell me about this?

[He gestures at one of the cellphones, and holds it up close to the mirror so the charger port is visible from the mirror's feed. It's not any of the standard ports, or even an obscure one. And something about the style of the phone, there's no match on Earth for it.]

Did one of you drop this off with the bucket, or do the rest of all that... decorating?


((ooc: Tag in action/prose as you prefer, and I'll match! And if anyone has the technical skills to examine a strange electronic device, and especially to devise a charger for it, I'd love to pursue that option.))

Comments

[spaghettimonster]

...Alright, yeah, but... I think everyone saw that. It was in the news and everything.

[If the duck was a shared hallucination, it was a beautiful one.]

[channingchanningchanning]

Exactly.

[He sounds SO PROUD now.]

Everyone remembers strange things.

[spaghettimonster]

Th-that isn't the kind of strange things I mean!

[Honestly, mystery yelling guy.]

You know I mean things like this conversation. In some magical mind place most people don't see.

[channingchanningchanning]

Well, then there is your answer.

That's a strange thing I remember.

[spaghettimonster]

You... are the least helpful person I've heard on this thing.

And I'm counting the ones who don't say anything!

[channingchanningchanning]

You can't count someone who isn't there.

[spaghettimonster]

Sure I can, just try to stop me!

[channingchanningchanning]

That makes no sense!

[spaghettimonster]

It makes lots of sense! I know they're there, and they're just zero helpfulness. Being too unhelpful is so unhelpful that it's negatively helpful.

[It's been a while since his last maths class, but he's pretty sure that's how negative numbers work.]

I can't actually remember how limits work but shhhhhhhhh we went over this in school 10+ years ago

[channingchanningchanning]

[...And something happens, and then he suddenly has a pretty good grasp on what Russell was trying to refer to.

This. Is sure weird. What. It's overload. But he can play this game now.]

If they're there, they aren't zero helpfulness, because they still provide resources just not here. So they still are a value above zero. My presence here also constitutes a value, wherever you place it. So what you should rather look for is to array everyone's helpfulness on a function with a limit greater 1.

[...Maybe he's slightly going over board and not quite on top of the text-to-maths game yet.]

it has been similarly long for me so sHRUGS?

[spaghettimonster]

Err...

[There is a drawn out hesitant sound as he tries to catch up with this.]

That's still... that's still giving them too much credit. Maybe, greater than zero.

[He says, like it's a big concession. Russell's really attached to this notion of people being so unhelpful that it's harmful and measured in negatives, rushing to give the overall flow rather than measuring their output and input separately. It's not a great outlook.]

[channingchanningchanning]

At the very least greater than zero.

[They can settle on that.]