A friendly inquiry

Lain Everliving asked me some random questions over a year ago.

1. When you, uh, tongue-raped me at Otakon, you whispered in my ear that I “wasn’t your first.” Who was, and perhaps more importantly, why? (If I’ve asked you this before, please forgive my bad memory)

I attempted to execute the same maneuver (an unexpected stage kiss on a male) in the past, on a person named Bryan. This was partially caused by similar events, including simple dramatic flair for the enjoyment of fangirls. The prior incident also had an element of daring challange posed to me. In general, I have more qualms about kissing random people that I don’t have a romantic relationship with, rather than qualms about kissing people of a particular gender. This is a natural extension to my beliefs regarding mating¹: engage in such activities with the person or persons you love, regardless of their gender, or indeed, species. Of course, in the interests of dramatic portrayal like that in a play, anything goes. See #5.

2. If you suddenly found yourself living in an alternate reality which mirrored that of a favorite piece of literary / cinematic / game fiction, what kind of world would it be, and would you want to leave, or stay?

The world would be simpler, slower paced, balanced. Maybe something like Edo, but with Magic. Guile would be required for survival. I would stay, conditional on several close friends being along for the ride.

3. Do you have difficulty reconciling your digital and real world egos? Why or why not?

Some time ago I decided to switch to using my real world full name on all future publications made in the wired, and leave the name codepoetica behind. That name really only persists in the context of the Megatokyo forums, which I infrequently frequent now. I don’t really think of myself as having two seperate egos any more, and have been steadily trying to ensure that anything published on the web or elsewhere, under either name, is something I would be proud of.

4. Are you anticipating the day when political and personal barriers give way to the digital unity we all know is coming?

Yes. I anticipate the grey goo with a religious fever, and expect it to destroy our infrastucture wholy and completely. I am not certain that I/we will survive this event, or what life beyond it might look like.

5. How far would you go to entertain the fangirls?

If the entertaining is amusing to me, then I’m not sure that there’s any sort of limit, bar any romantic overtones with a girl I don’t love.

1. Or romance, sexual intercourse, reproduction, etc. ↩