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[hashtagafreakingghost]

do you know her?

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i think that depends
is her first name carmen

[hashtagafreakingghost]

yes
is she a big deal here?

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[He can't believe.

He can't believe.]

girl what year were you born

[hashtagafreakingghost]

1996
oh NO is this another case where someone is SOOO much older than me and I've been talking with you for
idk
I've lost track tbh
anyway are you secretly 24 or 28 or ~1000+

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what no youre my age
or you would be if wed come here from the same year i guess
id be a little older technically but only by a number of months
ive experienced seventeen birthdays but i was born at the end of 1995
youre a nineties kid and you havent heard of carmen sandiego??

[hashtagafreakingghost]

huh so I'm older than you
eighteen going on nineteen
it was february 2015 i've got a mid-year birthday
but anyway
yes I've REALLY never heard of her before now
is that weird?? is she a celebrity???
seriously explain I'm curious

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um
so you know broderbund software?

[hashtagafreakingghost]

of course I do
they put out Myst
and that cute zoom logic game my friend played a lot

100 comments. We did it again.

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ok so back in the eighties they made this other game
it was supposed to teach kids about history and geography and probably i wouldnt know a quarter as much as i do about my own fucking planet without it
(my bro liked retro shit like that and that was one of the ones he actually let me play)
(i mean probably i had to duel him for it but you know how it is)
anyway that game launched a franchise that included other games about like math and then there were cartoons and shit
anyway
they were called

where in the world is carmen sandiego

the 100th comment is explaining who carmen sandiego is. god bless us.

[hashtagafreakingghost]

oh
oh my god???
are you telling me she's
a fictional character?????

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i hesitate to use that terminology because of complex reasons leading us both straight down the road to massive existential crises
but from my perspective
yes
thats what im telling you

[hashtagafreakingghost]

well holy crap Dave

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whats fiction anyway
just because a world only exists on the printed page or as a stupidly complex system of ones and zeros for US doesnt mean the world isnt "real" for the people in it
i think given the proven existence of multiple worlds
and the real possibility of INFINITE worlds if you subscribe to the idea that any Choice splits a timeline into this and that
were almost obligated to believe that within the unimaginable multitude of worlds that exist are worlds that we find completely imaginable
ie the ones we make up in books and movies
ergo fictional worlds are real worlds just in parallel dimensions and maybe if you wait here long enough one day youll get to shake harry potters hand

[hashtagafreakingghost]

I'm less about multi-world theory than a friend of mine
but if this means at some point I could actually meet Legalos I say hooray

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orlando bloom
really?

[hashtagafreakingghost]

or Aragorn! or Gimli
or any of the Fellowship + incorporated really
I don't JUST like Legalos because he has a nice face

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ok well you do you and all
but id wanna hang out with eowyn

i mean
(shit whats her actresses name)
(how do i pretend i didnt know she wasnt in the fellowship)
shes hot
(nailed it)

[hashtagafreakingghost]

well OF COURSE I'd want to hang with Eowyn!
and Arwen. :)
that's what I meant by incorporated because there's no way I would pass up the chance to talk with some of my favorite ladies
(don't worry I'm not one of those JUDGMENTAL fans :p)

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haha ok ok i get you
kinda sucks arwen didnt get to do much of anything in the books though
she kicked ASS in the movies

1/2

[hashtagafreakingghost]

omg I know right?? that's what I hated the most! she's such a cool character but she doesn't get to BE the badass she was always born to be!
but the movies gave her the opportunity to kick ass and take names!!
Peter Jackson, the Savior

2/2

[hashtagafreakingghost]

pretty cool that you've actually read the books
most people our age have only seen the movies

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oh
i

[Shit, he gave that one away, didn't he.]

i had a lot of free time at one point in my life

[hashtagafreakingghost]

nothing wrong with that
I mean
there was a period of my life when I kind of didn't have a lot of friends so
free time's something I understand

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[Hahaha. A period where she didn't have a lot of friends. Yup.]

mostly i watched movies
or made music and stuff
but with the lotr trilogy in particular i was like ok im clearly missing a lot of material here and also im not actually even getting everyones names?
so i obtained myself the dead tree format and somehow got through