DAY 88 -- PUBLIC CHANNEL

[dorkypantsuit]

[It's a not terribly cheerful Psi greeting you on the radio today. In fact, his annoyance is palpable though he tries his best to restrain it.]

Are there any individuals here from species with... Alternative romantic relationships, by which I mean romantic relationships not motivated purely by... Love.

Barring that, I'm wondering if anyone here with experience fighting psionics is interested in... Sparring.

Comments

[atouts]

[ Okay, Psi, he's heard enough and he is not a sympathetic man today. ]

This is the public channel, Psiioniic. If you had wanted to avoid moronic norms and humans asking questions, you should have approached people privately.

[dorkypantsuit]

[... >:T ]

So's your lusus.

[atouts]

[ HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, BUT HE ASSUMES THIS IS AN INSULT. ]

Going with a mature argument, I see.

[ So he just replies sarcastically instead of bothering to ask what the hell a lusus is. ]

[dorkypantsuit]

How can I ask someone privately when I don't know who, if anybody, has a similar concept among their species? Why do you humans always think of your own convenience first, like it's not possible that that your culture might be fucking mystifying to the rest of us? Nobody ever bothers to worry about if their behavior is culturally offensive to the non-humans in the hiveblock but as soon as you do something out of the norm by a human's standards every bulge-polisher in a hoofbeast's radius has to put their rotted pan's corroded beetles into the mix?

[atouts]

[ Wow, that's a lot of slang he still just does not get, but between what he does understand and the tone? Childermass can figure it out. ]

And naturally, the way to fix any of this is to hop onto an open channel that's absolutely full of humans and imply that they're stupid when they misunderstand. Good show, sir. You've certainly solved the problem.

[ And he doesn't even sound mad, but then, it's Childermass. He hides everything behind a thin veneer of sarcasm at times like this. ]

[dorkypantsuit]

I'm not trying to fix anything and I didn't call anyone stupid.

[Don't #notallhumans him Childermass.]

If you're not going to be helpful then shove off and if you want to start something come and find me yourself.

[atouts]

I beg to differ.

[ Doesn't apply when you're being a jerk about everything, Psi. ]

But seeing how I'm lacking in the psychic power department—

[ That really only leaves 'shove off' as his choice, so he will. Time to turn the radio off and just leave it off. ]