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[After purchasing a communicator, Dirk has found his way to the computer room, a perfect place for him to start his life here in DW considering he was found guilty of cyber crimes. But he is hunched over the keyboard in a corner, trying to find out some sweet information and get a lay of the land (aka seeing if he can hack THIS system without getting caught). Kind of sucks that there's a time limit. 10 minutes isn't even enough to watch porn.]

I was going to organize a revolt had it not been for the provided manual's subtle cues of disapproval against it.
Darn.
That leaves only plan B, and you know plan B never lives up to the hype of plan A, the main honcho.
The thing is, plan B requires community participation.
Even more so than your standard, run-of-the-mill usurpation.
Maybe.
What I'm asking is, please sign my change.org petition to increase the maximum usage time in the computer room.

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What should I call you, then?

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Something else. Not that.

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Is "brah" acceptable?

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I... suppose you could?

I do have an actual name, though. It's John.

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John, it's been a pleasure.
I'm Dirk.

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Dirk! That's a fantastic name. Love it.

So what is it you usually do besides the, uh, computer thing?

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I do the roboty thing sometimes.
Occasionally the drawing thing.
But mostly the computer thing.
And yourself?

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What's quite the array of hobbies!

Me? Well, travelling is my favorite but that's been put on a five year hold. Aside from that I like making gadgets. I was working on a multi-functional handheld before I ended up here but it was confiscated as you can imagine.

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Huh.
How multi-functional are we talking here?

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It was all still rather preliminary so nothing was entirely concrete. I had hoped to give it various practical uses, but I hadn't decided what all of those would be yet. It was intended to be sort of like a technologically advanced utility knife -- though, you know, less of the knife part.

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Too bad they wouldn't let you keep it.
No appreciation for talent and innovation around here.

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I can see why not, but it's still frustrating. I'm still turning ideas of course, but with no way to test them it's not exactly easy to make progress.

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Run 'em by me some time?

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I don't see why not. Two heads are better than one as they say.