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[agleam]

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w0 monday

[agleam]

[hi hello he's in the coffee shop, watching the robot arm work.]

So cool...

[bxkautx]

[ she's also so intrigued by this. ]

Yeah, stuff like this isn't really common where I'm from yet.

[agleam]

But you had some stuff like it?

[curious]

[bxkautx]

I think the technology like... exists but wasn't all there.

[agleam]

Maybe you can steal it and take it back with you.

[joking]

[bxkautx]

Eh. Don't need it.

You could?

[agleam]

We don't have sockets or anything, so I'm not sure how much good it would do.

[bxkautx]

Invent them.

[ joking... ]

[agleam]

[snorts]

Thanks for the tip. I'll get right on that.

[bxkautx]

Is your world pretty low-tech? Maybe that's hard to quantify when it's the world you're used to. But... maybe not, if you've been to two other places.

[agleam]

Yeah. We don't have electricity or anything like that, as an example... That's the one a lot of people seemed surprised by.

[bxkautx]

Once it exists it's really pervasive so it's hard to imagine things without it.

[agleam]

Loooots of candles.

[bxkautx]

Fire hazard...

[agleam]

And electricity isn't?

[he does not actually know that how much about how it works]

[bxkautx]

It is too, but it's a little less direct. Candles are open flames, but electricity can be safeguarded.

[agleam]

Huh. Well, there are safeguards for candles, too, at least.

[bxkautx]

We only pull out the candles for like... when the power goes out.

[agleam]

It can go out?

[bxkautx]

There are centralized power grids across cities. So different neighborhoods are getting their electricity in - like, batches, basically. The sources of those can get damaged sometimes. Like during storms and stuff, mostly.

[ she seems to think this is interesting. dweeb. ]

[agleam]

[unfortunately he also thinks this is cool]

How hard is it to fix when that happens?

[bxkautx]

Not too hard. I don't really know how it works, but it's usually fixed within a couple hours unless the storm lasts. Then it might take a day or two.

[agleam]

So you do know the value of many, many candles.

[joking]

[bxkautx]

Sure. Lets you still have game night without losing all the pieces.

[agleam]

Game night?

[what's a board game]