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[hybridification]

Hey guys!

[Comes Rhys' familiar voice, annoying as ever as the camera flips on. He's sitting in his disheveled bedroom, clearly a little sleep deprived, but accomplished and seemingly triumphant all the same.]

I wanted to wait until I was sure that there's nothing bad going on before releasing my next game. Are you guys ready for it? It's Mrs. Pac-Man, and it took me forever because- well, funny story actually, it's really easy to code the ghosts to take the shortest route to get to you and kill you, but it's kind of harder to program in other difficulty levels where it's not super tough, and so I was looking into it and developed this nifty algorithm for the easy and medium difficulties, and-

[...and he's getting ahead of himself and saying shit that nobody cares about. At least everyone totally has time to listen because nothing bad is going on!]

-well, anyway, it's a really cool game about a badass lady sphere. You can all download and play it, but uh, I'm gonna need at least five of you to give it a shot.

Have at it!

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Comments

[hybridification]

Well... I mean.

[He flushes a little, self conscious, and pulls his phone back with a slight shrug.]

It's not like I have much else to do here.

[murderpotato]

Fuckin' fair enough.

[After all, what does Gren do around here? Mostly he just drinks and keeps their swag pad stocked with food and supplies and acts like Rhys' security blanket against the people who want to kill him. He doesn't have a whole lot of room to judge.]

I guess people like this shit, anyway, when they ain't gettin' eaten by something.

[Gren hadn't ever gotten the first one; he'd never seen the point of playing fake table tennis with himself.]

[hybridification]

That's what I thought!

[Honestly. Rhys sighs, frowning a little, before pocketing the phone.]

But then everyone started yelling at me. Can't win 'em all.

[murderpotato]

That's probably because people are gettin' fuckin' eaten by shit.

[Didn't they have this discussion once before? This conversation is giving Gren some deja-vu.]

Zombies put people in a pretty shit mood in general.

[hybridification]

I guess that's true.

[He sighs.]

It's not like I can build a giant robot that can kill all the zombies. At least, not with the equipment here.

[murderpotato]

...So, what, if you weren't here you could build a fuckin' zombie-killing robot?

[Because that's both a.) useful and b.) kind of awesome? And awesome is not a word that he usually associates with Rhys, normally it's things like 'dorky'.]

[hybridification]

Probably.

[He shrugs, like it's not a big deal at all.]

We had tons of killer robots at my old job.

[murderpotato]

Wait, I thought you were some kinda hotshot businessman, not a... I dunno, fuckin' robot engineer or whatever.

[The fuck did you even do at Hyperion, Rhys, other than walk around with nicely coiffed hair and asymmetrical clothes? And do something super shady to make a lot of money?]

[hybridification]

I'm a hotshot businessman for a galactic weapons company.

[He shrugs, because he's super awesome and we'd all like to know what the fuck he did at Hyperion.]

They just also specialized in military robots.

[murderpotato]

You worked for a fuckin' warmonger.

[Wow, not really what he expected out of you, Rhys.]

Guess government contract's are where the fuckin' money's at. [Because who else would have a standing military to outfit with military robots, right?] So you sold murder machines or some shit, then?

[hybridification]

I mean, I feel like that's kind of an exaggeration, but yeah.

[He shrugs.]

I made really good money.