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[anexcitableboy]

Everybody's talking about Valentine's Day coming up...

[And Jimmy's confused as hell, which is clear from his expression.]

How is that even here? This is like some whole other planet, how come an Earth holiday is celebrated?

And there's other stuff, too. It took me a little bit to realize it, but there's lots of stuff that's pretty familiar. Not the same, but close, you know? You'd think there'd be all kinds of differences. Not that this place ain't weird, it's weird as hell, but... come on, you get what I mean.

[Or at least he hopes other people from Earth get it. He's still trying to come to terms with the fact that all of this is real, but he's reached a point where he can start paying close attention to this wacky world he's ended up in.]

Is that 'cause of us, all the people who get dumped here? Or was it always like this?

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[rocketralph]

_{[He sighs. Here we go.]}

This is a video game. You're a video game character. I'ma video game character. We all are. This place was made by somebody and that somebody has Earth holidays.

[anexcitableboy]

What's a video game?

[rocketralph]

<sub>[Ralph opens his mouth...then shuts it.]

[Just what WAS a video game? Oh, Dreamcast, he didn't mean to go this deep!]</sub>

[anexcitableboy]

Sorry, I've never heard of that before...

[Did he break the guy?]

[rocketralph]

_{[Brb Ralph is having a crisis of sorts. He pats himself down. He's HERE. He's made of code and little ones and zeroes and pixels and stuff like that. But what is he? Does the code make the man?]}

Ah...go into the MENU on your Poke'Gear and look for the Games tab and pick any one of them. THat's a video game.

[anexcitableboy]

I...but...

What?

[Jimmy did as suggested but now he's just more confused.]

[rocketralph]

Y'see that little snakey fella in there? That's us. Only...really really small.

_{[TO BE HONEST RALPH NEVER PLAYED THE GAMES ON HIS GEAR BECAUSE THEY FREAK HIM OUT.]}

[anexcitableboy]

So...you mean...God's the guy with the game?

[That...kind of makes sense, with Jimmy's understanding of the world. Which comes from homeschooling while traveling America in a sideshow. In the middle of the 1900s.]

[rocketralph]

_{[Ralph only knows what God is due to a few 'educational' games being plugged in during the old days of the arcade and various swears.]}

I guess you could look at him as the programmer...but the players are the ones pushing the buttons and putting in the quarters.

[anexcitableboy]

But if anybody's controlling things, it's God. That's...what God does.

I mean, I'm pretty sure, I don't go to church or anything.

[rocketralph]

_{[The wrecker offers up a big shrug. Neither does he.]}

That's all I got, pal.