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[ossifragant]

So here's a question for all of you. What's the furthest you've been from home? Before coming here, I mean. This place doesn't count. I want to know how far people have traveled before coming here.

The name of the place you're from, the name of the place you like going. What your favorite city is called. Things like that.

I've always liked traveling. But I used to spend years in one place, even so. Always found myself drawn back to where I was born. It's one of those interesting things about people. I don't exactly miss the place, but I do find myself thinking about it sometimes. What it would be like if we could go back with memories of this place instead of forgetting everything.

So there's a second part of my question, I guess.

Say you go home, but you remember everything from here. What would you do with that information?

What if you arrived home at a time before the last thing you remember?

Comments

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[captainash]

Good thing, too, considering that Pokémon battles are omnipresent around here.

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[ossifragant]

It must keep them young.

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[captainash]

If it turns out that the secret to live a long, healthy and happy life is to ask your dog to set other dogs on fire once in a while, they can sign me up any time.

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[ossifragant]

Hell, yeah. That's something we can both agree on.

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[captainash]

Who wouldn't? It's cheap, it's fun and it's easy.

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[ossifragant]

That it is.

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[captainash]

And it's a good excuse to have hundreds of weird pets, too.

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[ossifragant]

And weird pets that understand language to boot.

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[captainash]

Those beat plain old horses that don't understand the words 'don't eat my hair', believe me.

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[ossifragant]

That is a very good point.

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[captainash]

Though I have absolutely no doubt there are Pokémon out there that would eat the hair of their elderly trainers for fun.

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[ossifragant]

Might be kind of funny to see.

Better them than me.

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[captainash]

That's a terrible thing to say.

A completely right thing to say, but still terrible.

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[ossifragant]

[Hey at least it's just hair!]

I'm sure they could do with the haircut.

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[captainash]

A man's chosen haircut says a lot about his personality. Forcing a new one upon him is cruelty itself.

[One the one hand, he's doesn't actually seriously believe that. But on the other hand, the haircut is one of the main differences between Ash and Asemu, so...]

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[ossifragant]

You have a point there. It'd be a tragedy if something were to happen to my hair.

[Nothing says well adjusted like a 300-something with hair like a punk rocker.]

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[captainash]

Exactly! Maybe all those elders with overly long hair keep it that way as a reminder of their wild young, long abandoned but not forgotten.