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[deference]

From: William T. Spears
Posted: June 19th

Why is the Internet like this?
I am highly disappointed in it.
Surely there is more to it than this.

Everyone can be much better than this.
Much, much better.
Honestly.

And whoever told my god about these cellphones, I would like a word.
Many of them.

Grell Sutcliffe.
I am publicly shaming you for your behavior so that you will cease.
Please stop sending me SO MANY messages.
And no, I do not like any of the emoji.
None of them.
Not one of them.

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[deference]

I am a shinki.

But which name do you prefer?
I am not going to choose a name just because it is easier for others.

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[hackberrydragon]

That makes the two of us. I'm a shinki, too.
And Eno's fine. I got used to it and it's kind of homey.
idk how to explain it but yeah

So is it going to be William, Will or Mister Spears?

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[deference]

A pleasure to meet you.
Eno, then.

William is preferred. I do not like "Will."

And Mister Spears was my father. Presumably. [ Look your time and patience gives you a joke. ]

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[hackberrydragon]

Got it.
Pleasure's all mine, William.

How's the shinki business treating you, apart from all the emoji related business?

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[deference]

As you say.

Tiring.
I would have liked it if all my colleagues were focused on work rather than making everyone happy. Sometimes people cannot all be happy in order to do what is right.

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[hackberrydragon]

I see what you mean
You're really not one for distractions, huh?
But it's kind of needed at some point, I think. Given the situation.

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[deference]

And what situation is that?

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[hackberrydragon]

well
you know
the whole "being dead and/or being whisked away to another world and suddenly being expected to do the work of the divine" situation.

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[deference]

Running away from the reality of our situation won't make it easier. It'll make it harder.

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[hackberrydragon]

I wouldn't call it running away, really
A little distraction every now and then never hurt anybody

[deference]

Where have you been?

[hackberrydragon]

Here?
Nowhere, really.
Around town every now and then. Tokyo's pretty nice.
But I'm not really an outdoor kind of guy.

[deference]

Neither am I.

Still, we should never ignore what we are and what we have become.
Through distraction or otherwise.
The more we ignore it, the more we could grow to resent our state and become jealous of humanity.

[hackberrydragon]

Well, there's ignoring and there's just getting your mind off it for a while.
A little bit of that can't be that bad.
I mean I know I'm dead but it's kind of a downer to keep thinking about

[deference]

Why?

[hackberrydragon]

Well
I guess it's got something to do with whatever family I might have left behind
Or people I don't remember
But all things considered, there really isn't anything we can't do that living humans can't

[deference]

Everyone will survive without us.
That is the way of humans.
Then they will die.
That, too, is the way of humans.

There isn't anything we can't do.
Except apparently be professional and do our jobs 24/7.

[hackberrydragon]

I guess that's pretty comforting
I know I'm not supposed to think about my past but it seems like you're doing okay on that front.

So I take it that doesn't really leave much room to have fun?
Anything you do when you're not on the job or are you just working 24/7?

[deference]

It seems to be the kind of person I was.

Aren't we all supposed to be working 24/7?
It is not as though the wishes of humans suddenly stop.

[hackberrydragon]

I think I can appreciate that. Someone needs to be the straight man.

But anyway, isn't that a little stressful? If we do nothing but work 24/7, that's going to lead to eventual burnout. Even a guy like yourself might have that kind of problem down the line.

[deference]

The straight man. Hm.

Possibly.
But that is down the line.