Gaming of the Future, indeed [closed]

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

In an unoccupied corner of the media library, Satori quickly made sure that nobody - especially not Marco - was around. There's something to be said for the merits of curiosity, but there's even more to be said for not looking completely ridiculous.

After a long, hesitant pause, Satori started up Escape from Bug Island.

A bit of fumbling around with the wiimote later, she figured out how to navigate the menus. New Game. Normal. Nunchuck configuration? Who knows, pick one at random. The next hour or so consisted of roughly equal parts squinting at bad storytelling, wrestling with a combination of terrible controls and never having played a videogame in her life, and getting eaten by giant bugs.

"As I thought, total nonsense," Satori muttered to herself, unaware that she had long since stopped paying attention to who might be passing by or coming in.

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[livestoannoy]

Unfortunately for Satori, after Marco's discovery of the media room he had taken to practically living in it. So if she had been paying attention, she would be able to sense Marco as he came in, noticed her and what she was playing, and developed a very evil looking grin.

"So. Tell me. Is the fact that you suck at this game it's fault, or yours?" he said, coming up behind her.

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

Satori did not like being surprised. It didn't happen very often normally, so she never really had much of a chance to get used to it.

When she heard the voice behind her, Satori reflexively shot up and spun around, dropping the wiimote and winding up about a foot off the ground, before figuring out who her assailant was. Then, a combination of being put on the spot and being mortified led her to the worst possible reaction: Trying, and failing, to explain away the situation.

"I didn't-- It's just-- I was only--"

[livestoannoy]

Marco's grin widened. "Huh. And to think, I thought you'd know I was here with all your 'psychic powers'." Idly, Marco wondered if he'd been overestimating her abilities. Guess she wasn't the hot shot she'd been letting everyone else believe, huh?

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

Satori sat back down, a distinct air of irritation in the look she gave Marco. "Psychic powers or no, anyone's attention can stray from their surroundings."

[livestoannoy]

Aha-ha! Marco saw that look of irritation. And yes, he definitely took great amusement in seeing it. "Ah, I see. You were paying too much attention to the fact that you suck at this game to look around you."

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

Satori felt more irritation at the amount of pleasure Marco was taking in this than anything else, really. "One cannot properly criticize something without experience it first-hand."

[livestoannoy]

"You were doing a pretty good job of criticising before, when you had...oh, no clue what you were taking about," Marco said, smirking. Yeah, you're not wriggling out of this one Satori.

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

"And now I can do a much better one."

[livestoannoy]

"Uh-huh. So you came all this way. Just so you could do a better critique. Riiight, I buy that."

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

Satori sighed. A little honesty never hurt anyone, right?

"Will you leave me alone if I say that I was curious?"

[livestoannoy]

"Not really, no," Marco admitted. Marco teased everybody, and he wasn't going to stop teasing Satori just because she did something like give a reasonable explanation for her behaviour.

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

"Of course not." Figuring that any further conversation would only make this even MORE annoying, Satori floated up to go and leave Marco alone with Bug Island.