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[wildlinks]

[Working at the library has its good sides and downsides. The good sides: lots of books, meeting people and discussing said books.

The downside is... well... sometimes it's slow. And Souji ends up flipping through books, typing down random questions that pop into his head.

Only now- instead of *saving* it, as Futaba taught him, he accidentally posted the entire list of questions he gathered.]

➡️ What happens when you're scared "half to death" twice?
➡️ If you write a book about failure and it doesn't sell- is that a success?
➡️ Why aren't blueberries blue?
➡️ Why aren't there ads for advertising companies?
➡️ If I -save time- where do I get it back?
➡️ If space is a vacuum, who changes bags?
➡️ Why do "wise guy" and "wise man" mean two entirely different things?
➡️ Can you cry underwater?

[...he seriously needs to learn how to use new technology. Fast.]

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[topgun_textiles]

It's

[See, maybe he hit 'post' too early. Or maybe he got that far before his brain needed to stop and have itself a startup noise. Whatever the case, don't mind him waiting to see if anyone else has actual real answers.

...WAIT.]

Cut my foot real bad while swimming once, way back when I was little.

[Not during the camping trip or anything, from the pain of his chest wound. Nope. He just got sweat in his eyes that time.]

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[wildlinks]

[That's okay Kanji, your senpai won't tell on you about your sweaty tears. He's a good guy.]

Really? Did you hide underwater to hide tears?

[He can see a lot of children trying to do this actually, not just Kanji.]

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[topgun_textiles]

It was a manly cry!

I mean, if you don't feel anything after getting hurt real bad then you've got nothing inside, right!?

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[twomeals]

wouldnt you be scared all the way to death then
i thought blueberries were blue
maybe if we asked a zora ew could find out about crying

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[wildlinks]

Depends how you view it. Half + half = whole. But then again, when you get scared the first time, one half disappears. And then when you get scared half to death a second time, it becomes 1/4. Which one is true?

Blueberries leave purple stains.

Zora?

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[twomeals]

does it disappear...if you get scared half to death twice really fast maybe you wont lose any halfs
or if you have two half halfs doesnt that make you half scared again

blueberries are weird

isnt that what the fish people are called
i dont really swim but they probably doa lot

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[whirluendo_of_puns]

1. You lose one half and then the remaining half also gets halved, so you're three quarters dead. Simple math.
2. It is. Don't listen to your publisher. They know nothing.
3. Because whenever one's feeling blue, its friends are there to cheer it up.
4. There are. It's just that they advertise by showing off their advertising prowess, so their ads are indistinguishable from other ads. Advertising companies are, in a tragic twist of fate, doomed to die in obscurity.
5. Yeaaah no, they won't wanna give it back to you. They're busy loaning it to people who live on borrowed time.
6. Gravity. Black holes are the trash bags of the universe.
7. The same reason why a "Nice Guy" is usually not a nice man.
8. I know I did when the bathtub drain got clogged.

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[wildlinks]

[Wow, someone actually tried to answer these! Souji's impressed!]

1. Does that mean you're never actually scared TO DEATH?
2. I suppose they don't.
3. That's so sweet :D!
4. Huh. Ads advertising ads. Inception.
5. They should've asked first. Now that's just stealing time :/
6. Then I sincerely hope we don't get vacuumed
7. :( Language is deceiving
8. uuuuh...

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[whirluendo_of_puns]

[Uendo is nothing if not helpful!]

1. Technically no, but it's probably not great for your health if your remaining life keeps getting cut by half. Sooner or later you'll be down to thousandths, and once your life is reduced to a math class you may as well just give up.

8. Please don't ask me about the Bathtub Incident. (；△；)

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[charming_jerk]

this is some real "why do we park in the drive and drive on the parkway" level stuff

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[wildlinks]

oh definitively. it just makes you wonder, doesn't it?

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[charming_jerk]

it's like that Ironic song about things that aren't actually ironic

tho i realize there's like a 99.9% chance you have no idea what i'm talking about

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[pishirogane]

Senpai, are you having an existential crisis?

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[wildlinks]

No no nothing like that :D

I just thought these were some interesting questions that I would like to find an answer to.

Sorry if I gave you a fright ^^

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[pishirogane]

I see. And you probably don't want the practical answers.

It's fine. Though, in the future, maybe consider how it looks when you post questions randomly like this.

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[conanima]

[Um...]

That's a weird bunch of questions.

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[wildlinks]

Yes. And as they are, they will probably have some weird answers.

Eventually~

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[princeandscholar]

The mages at the Time Mage Guild were making similar comments - some as jokes and some as philosophical wanderings. I still don't fully understand it.

If time were a commodity, perhaps the return comes through our magic, when we leap back to our previous condition or use prescience.

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[wildlinks]

Is time something that should be really messed with freely? Kinda sounds dangerous.

I am just curious how some of these things came to be because they don't really make sense ^^;

[princeandscholar]

Should beings from another realm be summoned? Or the dead raised as puppets in battle?

Languages change over time, and each region has its’ own meaning and culture behind the words. It makes communication difficult, doesn't it?

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[promiselisting]

[ Hello Souji you rang? She's here to shame ]

Two buttons over for save.

Unless you meant to do that which I guess I can see?

[ Naoto did say you could be. Unpredictable. At times. ... also if you're trying to pun egregiously she's cancelling tech lessons. If you're basically nightblogging in the middle of the day though that she approves of. Relatively speaking. ]

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[wildlinks]

[Yes, welcome to Souji's headspace, filled with random thoughts.]

Thanks! Yes, I was trying to do that but got confused for a moment.

It feels so odd poking on the screen yet not feeling anything underneath your fingers, yet still doing things.

[He could be on the 'sometimes too easy to impress' side.]

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[promiselisting]

Heh. Figured.

Touchscreens aren't that new of an invention though, are they?

[ Touchscreen phones sure, but like. They've had touchscreen computers in things like offices and vending machines and cash registers and stuff like that for a lot longer, right? ]

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[studdedcouncilprez]

[There's a few seconds of thinking when...]

1) You will only have a quarter of life left.
2) No.
3) Blueberries lack blue pigment. They are actually purple. The "blue" you are seeing is the light reflecting off of the structures of the cell walls of the skin of the fruit, which absorbs all light except blue.
4) There are. They usually try to sell you the chance to sell your product on various media programs.
5) You get it back when it is payback time. Give it time.
6) Space maids.
7) A wise man knows what and a wise guy knows not. The way of the wise is to know what man to go and which guy to not.
8) Yes.

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[wildlinks]

...

I am not sure if I'm happy to have it all answered

Or disappointed that there are answers at all.

Also- I know it is possible to cry underwater, but does one feel the tears? Or do they blend in too fast?