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From: Zersterer <nochsfentor@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: How long must I wait for you?
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:53:21 -0500
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Zersterer wrote:
> Zersterer wrote:
>> Chapter 1
>>
>> Flip out king and queen.  Much of your discourse is fatal shock and 
>> retribution for conversation you didn't understand.  You go to hell 
>> and back in a matter of plenty blood vessels.  One half we are 
>> chatting, the next you are in a bull rush to meet me and subdue.
>>
>> Flip out king and queen.  If it weren't for my ability to defuse a 
>> situation I'd be minus a few more teeth than the crooked one the 
>> dentist pulled.  It leaves me feeling flat.  Some of you I can take, 
>> others are fat sumo wrestlers coming at me.
>>
>> After the fact, I hate you even though I pretend to be fine.  You 
>> simpleton!  You never knew me.
>>
>> What I'm getting at is this has left me vulnerable and cagy.  I don't 
>> particularly like your presence but often am forced to grin and bear 
>> it.   I don't see this in other people.  When I am on the phone with 
>> you I have no fear.  I can chop you down like a cherry tree.  It's 
>> your physical presence and its proximity that get me seemingly no 
>> matter how dull in the teeth you are.  You are Mega Man.
>>
>> And now you meme your addiction.
>>
>> Burned.  Got burned. Got sizzled. Didn't get tied.
>>
>> Enough about you.  Let's focus on me for awhile.  I'm a 25 year old 
>> German language scholar.  I started learning German as a wee lad at 
>> age 9.  Now I'm, how do you call it?  Fluent.
>>
>> Chapter 2
>>
>> I was on the other side of the bars.  The window.  Chowing down on my 
>> commissary bought California cheeseburger and drinking a fine $2 
>> bottle of Pepsi.  You were there to interview me.  To take notes and 
>> see if I was worth going out on a limb for.  But I lost my cool when 
>> you asked me what I thought was my best feature.  I've been asked this 
>> a thousand times and I always tell them, my intelligence.  Here you 
>> were and I was at the end of my rope.  I told you my best feature was 
>> "Immersion." When you stared like a dull-eyed doe, I explained, "I can 
>> lose myself in a video game."  And you were like, "Yeah, whatever."  I 
>> was walking on eggshells the rest of the interview.  I can't talk 
>> rationally to a person who treats me like that.  Maybe I should have 
>> thrown my chair against the wall.  But that Pepsi was so goddamn good.
>>
>> Chapter 3
>>
>> I made two discoveries before writing this to you.  1) I can kill 
>> enough monsters to get aggressively powerful if I wander the city like 
>> I wandered the castle.  I have this idea that after unlocking all the 
>> doors and barging in that the population goes down.  I leave the 
>> Rodentia and Arachnids and the humanoids to their homes in order to 
>> provide a feeling of safety to the recently battered peeps.  2) I can 
>> create collisions in chess by holding off on skirmishes, saving them 
>> like the board was a refrigerator full of Mickey Mouse contraptions. 
>> This is a skill necessary to learn to advance above what I have.
>>
>> Chapter 4
>>
>> I've been looking for the solution to my chess ills and I think this 
>> is it.  My game was linear up to this point, chasing guys around the 
>> board, never knowing how to set up the bomb.  I just figured it out, 
>> and as I write this missive to you, to open your eyes that I have been 
>> wasting your time with my previous messages.  Maybe this will work out 
>> and do what I want it to.
>>
>> Chapter 5
>>
>> I've been looking for this solution to my video game ills and I think 
>> this is it.  My guys would basically get in exile as they wandered 
>> further and further from home base always searching for orcs to 
>> obliterate and wizards to wreck.  Now, I have an almost unlimited 
>> supply of evil to vanquish.
>>
>> Chapter 6
>>
>> When I told you "Immersive" it was a leap of faith.  I could have said 
>> my intelligence is my best feature, but how can I expect you to 
>> experience the intelligence inside my mind?  I feel it is an invasion 
>> of my person when you nag me with "You must be really smart." from 
>> your quarters.  It was a leap of faith that did not pay off, because 
>> you obviously didn't understand why that was a positive feature.  It's 
>> because here I am inside your head in this missive because I immersed 
>> myself in your ichor, that trail of slime you left the last day I saw 
>> you when you decided to throw me under the bus.
>>
>> Chapter 7
>>
>> Full OCP cyber technology state of the art destructive capabilities 
>> commanded by a unique combination of software and organic systems
>>
>> Chapter 8
>>
>> A negative of chess is that many opponents are rude assholes.  I 
>> learned to castle in the first year I learned chess.  I castle often 
>> and I usually castle.  I go up against this mad master and he has to 
>> complement me every time I castle.  Too many times.  Castling is like 
>> magic in the game.  Far be it from me to be less than a wizard in a 
>> game with magic.  My favorite role is the battlemage, a mastery of 
>> magic paired with a deadly wood and metal quarterstaff.  I know how to 
>> castle and I don't need you to tell me it's a good move.  Save that 
>> for the mundane plays that are better than usual, please.
>>
>> Chapter 9
>>
>>     |     |
>>      |   |
>>
>> horsheshoe, magnet
>>
>> solve difficult problems to get great items,
>>
>> the wizard's uncle
>>
>> Chapter 10
>>
>> This is because of your Confusestry.
>>
>> My what?
>>
>> You play obscure variations in Chess, so they got their computer chess 
>> players to take you on.  They can't waste their minds on unforeseen 
>> blabber.
>>
>> I am a tactical genius!
>>
>> solve difficult problems to get great items,
>>
>> the wizard's uncle
>>
>> Chapter 11
>>
>> Do you have a Bible?  I have one on the computer," and tapping the top 
>> of the laptop, "but it's nice to have one in paper.
>>
>> "C'you help me out?"
>>
>> "I suppose," and hand him a cigarette in an otherwise empty box.
>>
>> "Close that door!  Stay out of here!"
>>
>> Flip.
>>
>>     * * *
>>
>> People resist being upbraided.  I'm sure he'll do or say something 
>> unclean if I confront him.  Still, it is imperative that I confront 
>> him because it was so wrong.  He's been going on and on about Steve 
>> and I'm incredibly tired of hearing the same blather way too many 
>> times.  This incident was couched in his right to a certain peace of 
>> mind while here.   But he's bringing in the riff raff himself.  I 
>> don't interfere with his visitation, where does he get the notion that 
>> he can shout at the people who visit me?
>>
>> "How am I supposed to get my Bible if Steve can't come in?"
>>
>> "If you could just refrain from shouting at my guests..."
>>
>> He doesn't respond either time.
>>
>> After a few he gets up, indignant, and walks out the door.  Here it 
>> comes...
>>
>> He goes off and fingerbangs my gutterslut and does what he pleases 
>> while I sit and chew on my fingernails..  Obviously she likes being 
>> shouted at.
>>
>> I _don't_ want to talk to him.
>>
>> "bullshitbullshitbullshit"
>>
>> "Oh really?"
>>
>> "repeats bullshit," and I know it's a lie that he needs to get through 
>> for his manhood.  No one gets that excited about repeating something 
>> unless they are lying through their teeth.
>>
>> I lie, "I'll go find out."
>>
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