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Chet Sandberg's avatar

This is hilarious, man.

David T Etheredge's avatar

Thank you! I figured you'd be one of the people that would most appreciate it. LANscaped!

Chet Sandberg's avatar

I knew exactly what it referred to. You have another one. “Best kind of correct,” from Futurama.

David T Etheredge's avatar

Yeah - Ch 2 of Inference. Real people (or characters attempting to depict them) use real pop-culture references.

Martin Maenza's avatar

David, this is a fun, side piece to your Inference story. I like that. You're worldbuilding. Now, as someone who worked for IBM in Kingston NY back in the mid-80's for six months, I spent quite a few nights in Poughkeepsie NY going to bars and dance clubs (okay, like at least once a weekend - sometimes twice).

Logan Raith's avatar

This was the craziest thing I’ve read on here. It’s one of those things I read and wish I could write it myself, but I’d need a lot of cocaine (or whatever drug produces pure, cyber-pun-loaded comedy).

I didn’t follow all the tech jargon but being able to follow it seems unnecessary. I think the point is, it’s another language grafted onto the one I speak. It’s like your Mexican buddy who talks in Spanglish. You get the gist, but with added mystery—no extra charge.

David, I’m excited to go check out EP2. This is a bizarre experiment, and I think it’s paying off.

David T Etheredge's avatar

Heh - I’m so glad you like it! It was super fun to write.

Ep 2 is much more…interesting?

And what’s fun (to me at least) is that the show appears in Chapter 10 of Inference and recurs throughout the trilogy.