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[When the video clicks on today, Asami is sitting at a desk at what appears to be her work. It's clear that she doesn't usually use a desk, however, as it's clearly not set up to be an office job. But she's grabbing a few things, and she thought it would be best to do this while she has a moment of downtime.]

Hello again, everyone. [She considers saying something about how busy everything was last month, but others have shared that sentiment. Besides, running around with Team Avatar means she's used to it.] I've already ... mentioned something like this before, but I wanted to say that there was a group like the Hornets back in my world. They felt that changes needed to occur, and they went about it in the most violent manner possible. Seeing it again, hearing their rationales, was ... hard for me. [Though the reason why isn't entirely clear, she's not going to go into it. Not here, not publicly like this.]

But what I've learned from extremist groups like that is that we have to look at their pain and their fears and see what we can do. It doesn't mean that what they think is correct. They went about it in the worst way possible. But I do think that we have a responsibility to help make this world better and safer. I'm no hero, and I'm not really interested in that, but I've decided to dedicate myself to bettering this world either through infrastructure or supplying some of the best hovercars available. Admittedly ... I haven't decided yet. [She gives a sheepish smile here.]

Until I do, I'm going to help out with Heropa. The city doesn't look so good right now, and I'm going to be helping out on weekends to try to help set things right. That's something I can start with, anyway. I'd love some help with it, too. Just contact the native citizens who're involved with clean up, and they're willing to put you to work. [Of course, she knows some people will do things independently, which is fine, too. But this is how she's chosen to go about it.]

Other than that, here's to hoping things are better in the future. [It's an empty hope, most likely. The world moves and changes all the time, after all.]

[ooc: I have put up a log for some of the clean up activities!]

Comments

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Yeah, of course. Please let me know!

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Sure. Anything else I should look up, while I'm at it?

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Hmm ... why don't you just start with that for now? It seems like a good place. It might lead to more.

I've been finding it easy to be caught in traps of new information myself.

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You mean, like, when you're on the internet and you click on something interesting and then you end up way off topic?

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Yeah, but with books. It's why I seem to never run out.

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Heh. I like books, too. Feels good in my hand, better than the phone does when I'm trying to learn something.

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Yes, and it's a lot easier to figure out where some of the information came from.

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Yeah. Cuz stuff online is sometimes... not helpful that way.

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Yeah. I'm not saying that there wasn't misinformation back home, but it seemed easier somehow.

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Did you have internet?

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Not at all. We had information networks, and ways to send things by wire, but it was ... backwards compared to this world.

For that stuff, the internet really is better.

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I see. You're right, though. It's really useful. We had TV back home, but it wasn't as prolific as this world's.

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We just started having movers a few years ago. ... Movies, and even then, they're not quite on the scale of anything here.

I'm still impressed that everything can look so realistic.

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Right? Like, the special effects and stuff. Most stuff you kind of have to suspend your disbelief a little.

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I wish I could bring some of this knowledge back home. Nothing as big as some of the transportation technology, but I'd really love to give the people of my world the opportunity to see some of these things on the screens we have back home.

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I can understand that. I'd like to bring the transportation home, though, myself. It's way easier than the Gummi ships.

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... Gummi ships, huh? Those sound like they're a pain to deal with.

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Yes and no. I mean, I'm not really an expert on the subject. But because the materials are wobbly, they're... kinda hard to put together. They stick easy, though.

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I'd never want to work with wobbly materials.

Honestly ... it sounds like a nightmare.

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I never had to deal with them much, but I've seen loads of them. Never actually built a ship of my own or anything, though.

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How good are you with building?

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In general? Not bad, I guess. I was part of a three-person raft building project a few years back.

video | "a three-person raft building project" oh riku

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I ... wouldn't say a raft is anything like the ships I've built. [To put it ... gently?]

video | LMFAO he wanted to give them credit

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Oh, you mean like a ... bigger project. I helped build some structures back home on our play island. Tree forts and a bridge and a big deck. The raft came later.

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Yeah, the forts are a little closer to what I was thinking. Though I'm sure it was a very impressive raft.