prismatica | [voice]

Has...anyone actually thought about this?

[It feels a little weird to just put his voice out on the network, but Steinbeck feels this is necessary. His voice is slow, pausing every once in a while to make sure he's got his thoughts straight.]

Look, I get it. Getting to pilot a big robot, traveling into the unknown, like yeah, that's pretty cool. But it bothers me how many people are excited for this without thinking of what might happen. You're traveling through a dangerous wasteland that will most likely have creatures that can and will kill you. You're riding in these robot things that haven't been used that way before, so there's no guarantee they'll work properly out there. And you're doing this for what? To get some information? See a cool oasis? Become big damn heroes, or something, all at the possible expense of your own life?

[He heaves a sigh.]

What bothers me most of all is how you're all willing to just do whatever those people tell you. They could say "jump" and you would reply "how high?". They practically using us for their own needs. You know, this isn't our home. For those people who want to stay here and don't want to go back, that's fine, but for the rest of us...there's no real point in doing this for a place that we don't belong to. Even if we're all special and awesome and Moonblessed doesn't mean we need to follow what these people want us to do. We're not their servants, for crying out loud.

Just...think about it. [A beat.] And for anyone who still wants to go...stay safe. It'll be your own funeral out there.

[SEVERAL HOURS LATER AFTER HE POSTS THIS POST AND GETS REACTIONS, Steinbeck updates his post with a text addendum. I'm sorry. He's this petty.]

You know what, I did what I could. If you're all this eager to just go and die, please at least film it to send to me because I really need something to laugh at

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You can't get a reward without taking some risks. If you just go and 'stay safe' all the goddamn time then you'll just become static. Maybe things won't work out, but at least we'll have learned something out of it.

I guess you could say that personally, it's a "give and take" situation; I sure as hell am not helping out of any sort of sympathy because I know those foxes have pulled some shit before and I don't trust that they won't somehow do it again a second or a third time.

That's the reason why I'm going but I'm planning on taking precautions. And also not fucking being the first person to "get in the fucking robot" when I don't know what effects it might have. At the very least the reprieve is that there's a lot of people who are strong that are more than likely planning on going out there, so there has to be someone who isn't entirely stupid heading out there. Observing before taking action is probably the best choice, anyway.

I get what you're saying. I completely agree that sitting and staying safe when there's things to learn is a terrible way of going about things. But really, what is there to learn? The information that they want us to find is for them, not us. Sure, it's nice of you to find it out for them and help them understand their history, but what good does it do you?

I mean, give and take...that's a valid reason, but how do you know they won't take more than they give? There's no real guarantee here.

That's the question, isn't it? The information we want - general 'we', by the way - for the most part is to figure out to get home. At least for those who want to go home. But yeah, they're expecting us to find out things for them, but that doesn't mean that while searching for information for them we can't find information for us.

But there's never been any guarantee in anything. In life, or anything else.

If they take too much, then.

🖕

I'll get my revenge somehow.

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