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[spah]

[What's up, Lunatia. It's your Texan scientist boy back at it again. He's in his engineering workshop, drinking a Lunatian beer. He's also got a new prosthetic hand. In fact - there's several robotic hands of all kinds of shapes and sizes hanging off the wall behind him. Neat.]

Y'think... hypothetically, birthdays still count 'round here? In a time-space alternate dimension sorta way.

Like if I had a birthday here - again, hypothetically - would that still count as gettin' a year older back home, too?

[He takes another pull from his beer... then shrugs.]

Reckon I'd have to run the numbers.

[ftr this is post is mostly an excuse to not-so-subtly hint that my made-up birthday for Engie is this month]

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text | j.valentine

[torsion]

Hypothetically is someone's birthday coming up?
But I don't know. My birthday's passed so I count it for age but...
I guess we'd have to be here a while to see if we actually age, right?

[permavoice]

[spah]

Hypothetically.

Likely wouldn't be too difficult to measure out, physics-wise, but... well. I'd have to gwt back home to measure it accurately. S'like you said, next best bet would be seein' what happens in a few years.

Not that I wanna be around that long.

Happy belated birthday, by the way.

Text // un: turntechGodhead

[itsknighttime]

do you want it to?
if no then just say fuck it and dont celebrate a birthday
stay twenty eight forever my dude

[permavoice]

[spah]

Ain't so much about celebratin'. Sometimes I just remember that I'm more middle-aged than most folks here.

[shut up engie you're in your forties]

Long time no talk, Dave.

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[cadeuces]

( And to little surprise, of course Angela comes around, intent on being as helpful as always with that mischievous little sparkle in her eye. A birthday, hmmm...? )

It looks like you've been busy; did something happen to your last cybernetic? But to answer your question, I think birthdays will count, yes. And assuming Firialia which was just celebrated is about their Winter Solstice or Christmas, given a few days' wiggle room, that may be a good place to gauge from.

And seeing as I celebrated my birthday a few weeks back on this same basis, perhaps you could figure the same?

permavid

[spah]

[OF COURSE SHE IS oh boy]

Back near the end of October, yeah. Damn thing came to pieces.

[He doesn't go much further than that. If she asks, he'd probably tell her, but - it's embarrassing. Almost-drowning-in-a-ghost-river-because-you-saw-your-dead-grandpa kind of embarrassing.]

Oh, sure. I get the idea of celebratin' anyway, or usin' it to keep track 'a things. But it's got me curious... whether or not it'll "count" when we get back home, if time really doesn't pass the same way there as it does here.

Happy belated one, by the way.

[text] un: south.wind

[yakiniku]

I refuse to age here.

[permavid]

[spah]

Huh.

Sorta dramatic, but I can respect it.

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[hotshock]

Well, that does it, guess I'll have to hunt you down and start keeping track of your wrinkles and grey hair.

[Reno is trash, he's terrible, awful trash. Ignore him.]

Unless you've got the elixir of life.

text | un: MysteryEnthusiast

[telltaleschemer]

[Poe was avoiding the social network for a reason. But this post is about hypotheticals and that's all the bait that was needed.]

I don't know for sure yet but time does appear to pass normally in this place.
Have you been kept here for a year or longer?

permavid

[spah]

Nah, not yet. Almost, though. Eight months. Ain't exactly the best length of time to test my theory on, but it still gets me thinkin'.

You're right that time don't pass normally here, though. It's partly why I'm curious.

[video]

[baitless]

I genuinely do not understand how that works, but at this point, I feel as though I am somewhat afraid to ask...

[...it doesn't really matter much to him, since it's a date to celebrate rather than much of a marker of how long he's lived, but...]

I would imagine it matters as much as you want it to in this situation.

[spah]

That's about what I figure. No harm in celebratin' it if you want to, naturally, or usin' it to keep track of time. Just gets me curious whether it'll effect the return trip.

Assumin' that happens.

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[loungelizard]

Either way, it sounds like an excuse to go out and get drinks to me...

[I mean, Larry considers "I'm still breathing and living" an excuse to get drinks, so this might be what passes as a formal invitation...]

[spah]

Wouldn't argue that.

Too bad that Ware Wolf fella closed up for a while. I like gettin' my favorite beer where I can.

[via magic items that let you, figuratively, reach into an interdimensional hole and pull out anything you want

like beer]

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[holycurse]

Birthdays definitely still count, as long as you want them to. The calendars here work differently from what I'm used to, personally, but I assume you'd be getting older regardless of whether or not you bothered to calculate it.

[spah]

Likely. I don't see why we wouldn't age here anyhow. I'm just curious about the part where we go home - seein' how time don't always pass for the folks who go home 'n come back.

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[hotshock]

How would anyone keep track of that, you'd have to assume that all worlds keep time and dates time the same way.

[spah]

Reckon you never heard of a timezone.

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[affabel]

[Definitely neat, and the sort of mechanic in him is leaving Abel a little distracted, looking over the background more than the man speaking.

No one back home had used prosthetics quite like that.]

I wonder... if we were just somewhere beyond known space I'd say yes, but it seems a lot more complicated than that.

[spah]

[You are definitely looking at a mechanical engineer, buddy.]

That's a sound theory. I reckon it's a sorta... meetin' of dimensions, in a way. Prismatica might not've had a choice in that - 'less somebody caused a cataclysmic quantum event.

[see: Half Life]

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[biotictouch]

Dell.

Is your birthday this month?

[ SHE'S ALL ABOUT BIRTHDAYS. Other holidays? Eh. Birthdays? Hello. ]

permavoice

[spah]

[Pfft.]

Likely.

[YOU GOT HIM.]

text | un: simonprime

[theseuschip]

Happy birthday.
What's with all the hands?

[ at least he said happy birthday first ok. ]

permavid

[spah]

Appreciate it.

[He looks behind him. Oh, right. Hands.]

Had to replace my old prosthetic after it fell to pieces. Figured I should make one for just about every occasion, eh?