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Here's a question for my fellow long-timers, and medium-timers too: has living in this universe changed you? Whether it's through experiences, culture, the people you've met -- do you think you're fundamentally different, on a scale small or large, from the person you would've been if you'd never been grabbed by the Porter? And if the answer's yes, how does that change make you feel?

I just realized today at lunch that I like meat in jello now and I am horrified and ashamed of myself.

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[picksthenames]

the person i am here is basically the person i am back home, only more.
im working with more heroes, building more tech, meeting more people.

ive always been an extrovert, but here even that stretches a bit.

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[h2no]

i came in during a very strange time in my life

[cue the pixies]

... i like the pasta here more.

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[secondscythe]

what kind of meat?

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I think it was chicken, but that could just be my taste buds staging a protest.

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Yeah, the pasta's not bad, actually.

What makes it better than your universe's? [ what a question ]

[secondscythe]

how did you even get meat in it
in the first place?
was this an accident or somethin?

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*Therapist voice:* And how does that make you feel?

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No, it's like a whole culinary tradition here, and you lead a blessed existence if you've managed to miss it up until now.

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[divaricate]

Yes, I think I am. I like the change, even if there have been some pretty upsetting things happen to me here. Then again, upsetting things happened to me back in my world, too, so no place is perfect. A lot of good things have happened, too, though -- things I literally could not have experienced back home, no matter how much time passed for me back there.

[She won't get into the details, because some of them she doesn't want to share with the network at large or anything.]

I've never heard of meat in jello??

[secondscythe]

i ain't really been here that long.
didn't know this was a thing.

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[h2no]

dunno. maybe hoenn just isn't good for pasta. it's a lot less rubbery here.

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[picksthenames]

accomplished? tired? all of the above?

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It is very much a thing and I wish to the bottom of my twisted, en-jelloed soul that it weren't.

[ He attaches a helpful link, except obviously the title is "The 17 Best Jello Recipes You Won't Believe You Haven't Tried Already." ]

[secondscythe]

why are you ashamed
if you like it though?

[ Is it really though? Suspicious recipes are suspicious. ]

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[shutterbugged]

Sounds about right. I seriously don't know how you find the time, man, and people usually say that about me.

[ Especially back when he was on like three superhero teams at once. ]

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[picksthenames]

i subsist largely on coffee. may as well start an iv.

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[hellrisen02]

Anyone that says it hasn't is lying.

Although I don't know that many of us have reached your level of jello-y depravity. Congratulations!

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[garotted]

I honestly just came in here to also be horrified that you like meat in jello.

[governorkang]

Considering the level of technology on my world is crossbows and horse-drawn carts, I'd be a fool to say no.

Why would anyone ever put meat in jello?

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Well if you want a tip from a caffeine connoisseur, the Vietnamese place on 6th and Morris has amazing iced coffee that's like an energy bomb to the face, for, like, two bucks.

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[cigarbribery]

I haven't been here long enough for anything to change, I'm just here to be horrified by your tastes. Who willingly eats meat in jello?

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[snarkbot]

I believe so. The changes I am thinking about are not as trivial as a type of jello, but significant. Actually, given that I have acquired a taste for chocolate, perhaps some of the changes are as trivial.

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Never heard of Hoenn. You must be from one of the really different universes

"Really different" being the ultra-precise scientific term

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Because it's disgusting and my liking is the first step down a dark path I don't want to take. Next is the avocado toaster, and then who knows what lies in my future.

[secondscythe]

but aren't those
healthy for you?