[Posted Anonymously] sorry, boys be boys

[thepurpleone]

[The footage is grainy, purposely put through a filter to (badly) mimic the quality of a VHS playback. There's random snippets. B-footage if you will, featuring Stu and Billy just going about random places, pieced together as bad cuts.

"People would kill to have access to some actual entertainment," Billy's voice plays over the visuals, Stu's giggles layered in the background.

"Yeah, that's why I'd do it -- Quick, get a knife!"  comes Stu's eager exclamation.

There's a canned scream as the footage flickers out from an unnecessary zoom-in of Stu's face and goes to an abrupt black screen.

"Careful --you might get hurt in here," Billy's voice echoes warningly.

There's a shot of the smoldering remains of the building in the Green quadrant. For added insult it is inexplicably filmed narrow with two black bars framing the space that isn't a playback.

"Do you like -- Stupid -- movies?"

Stu's words round things off, a very obvious cut and paste edit job on the dialogue for how different 'stupid' sounds from the rest.

The video ends with a staticky screen.]

Comments

[thepurpleone]

Annoying does seem to go hand-in-hand with that guy.

[work_wife]

Really? Damn, this is all so much more than I expected.

[thepurpleone]

Yeah. I don't think anyone ever expects to have a couple of would-be murderers dropped into the commune.

[work_wife]

Yeah. That's... messed up. Really messed up. I mean, I lived in a town with government experiments and evil, but I still find that messed up.

[thepurpleone]

I mean, to be fair this entire situation has been messed up from the start. The curve balls pitched our way just make it more so.

[work_wife]

I'd call these screwballs actually.

[thepurpleone]

Fair.

Okay but I need you to stop antagonizing my brother.

[work_wife]

Wait. That's... WHY IS LEO CREEPING ON ME!?

[thepurpleone]

He's not creeping on you, he's defending me.

[work_wife]

He's acting like a creeper too.

[thepurpleone]

He's only been pointing out what I've been pointing out, nothing creepy about it.

[work_wife]

He's watching videos of people!

[thepurpleone]

You're the one who was accusing him of that!

If you want to blame someone for going through security videos, blame me, I'm the one who was looking up footage of those sites related to the fire because no one else was so SORRY if I take it personally that someone wanted to BURN ME ALIVE.

[work_wife]

He made it sound like he was.

[thepurpleone]

Sarcasm doesn't translate through text, clearly.

[work_wife]

No, not really. Wait, the future hasn't fixed that?

[thepurpleone]

You are currently using the basic equivalent of modern communication technology so you tell me how well that's worked out.

[work_wife]

So really, really poorly.

[thepurpleone]

That's only fifty percent of the problem. The other half is the person on the other end not being open to interpretation.

[work_wife]

Interpretation is a difficult thing. There's a whole college level discipline based on it, Donnie.

[thepurpleone]

Which I'm sure I'd love to study if I even had the chance to go to school!

[Or not. Could be boring. He supposes that's not entirely the point but he's been getting increasingly annoyed.]

[work_wife]

It can be annoying. Like 'what does this symbolize' and 'what is being said here'. I prefer languages.

[thepurpleone]

...on second thought maybe I'd probably do terrible at that class.

[He can't even tell when people are stringing him along even in person so maybe it really is a him problem.]

[work_wife]

Yeah, me too. It's not fun.