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[livestoannoy]

When Marco stumbled across the media library, he concluded that this had to be the best day so far on this freaky meatship.

Music. Massive screens. A giant, alien entertainment centre. And, most importantly - video games.

Marco was immediately drawn to the tall white box with the strange looking controllers. He snorted when he saw the name "Wii" (who though that was a good idea? The puns where almost too easy) but hey, this was clearly gaming of the future. Or gaming of a strange and bizarre alien race - it was hard to tell. Either way, it was cool, and Marco was so going to try it out.

He fished around for a vaguely interesting looking game, bypassing all the ones that looked boring (Wii Fit? Cricket? Imagine: Fashion Idol?! pfft), eventually settling on Escape from Bug Island.

Marco had been a bug before. Waaaaay too many times. Now he could squish them in safe video game fun.

But as Marco began to play, his good mood rapidly diminished. Who thought up this whole "swinging around the controller" thing? What the hell was going on with that animation?

"What the hell is with this?!" He yelled, as he tried to get the control to do what he wanted dammit. "This is nuts! GAMING OF THE FUTURE IS CRAP!"

[[ooc: For reference, this is the extraodinarily bad game Marco is playing.]]

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[onceadragon]

Yeah so Claudia's been amusing herself watching the dude trying to figure out the Wii and the controllers. It was amusing and she couldn't help but laugh. Seiously the dude looked like he was about to beat the thing AND then stomp on it a few times.

She looked at the screen, watching the game he was playing and shook her head. A Wii? Seriously? "Dude, you just happened to pick the crappiest gaming system there is!" she called from her spot. "Why?! Why would you torture yourself like that?"

[livestoannoy]

"I'm kinda discovering that," Marco said glumly, giving the Wii one last deathstare before turning his attention to Claudia.

Who was definitely much better to look at. "Hey, maybe you could show me which ones are the good systems," he said, sending her a grin.

[onceadragon]

"Duh, of course I can," Claudia scoffed and moved further in and began to poke around the different gaming consoles. "Wii's like... cool if you're into sports and stuff... But the PS3 is where it's at!" she informed him as she shifted through things.

"Sweeeeeeet! Found it!" She called and pushed the PS3 behind her before turning to look for one of her favorite games. "Dude they have to have that Batman game! It's the shizniz..." she muttered.

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

If there are any magic words to make Bart show up, they are "gaming of the future." Considering he was born in the future and spent the first 14 years of his life, well, the first two, but during them he aged 14 years, in a video game, if he's running by at the time, he's going to show up. He appears in a you-know-what. "Gaming of the future's awesome. Is there VR?"

[livestoannoy]

Marco blinked. "Okay, where the hell did you come from?"

With one angry flick of the controller - die you stupid bug - Marco replied to Bart. "Yeah, well the awesome is seriously lacking in this stupid thing. Come on I was totally throwing the rock there! What idiot programmed this thing?"

Marco took a moment to pause from his ranting and actually process what Bart said. "Wait, VR? This place has VR? Actual VR?"

[speedforbrains.livejournal.com]

"I mean, there's the sensoriums, so yeah. This isn't it, though. I mean, that's almost as slow as normal video games." Which Bart happens to be very good at. "We can go if you want to play something cooler. I've been missing my games at home!"

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"As a gamer of the future, I must object."

Allen is sprawled across a fleshcouch in front of a screen next to Marco, playing Endless Ocean and looking very zen about it.

"I mean, not that there isn't crap among the Games of the Future, but there's also Bioshock. And Guitar Hero. And Fat Princess."

[livestoannoy]

Marco had been too engrossed at hating at the machine to notice Allen's presence before, but now...

"This thing actually has good games? For real?"

Marco paused. "Dude...Fat Princess?!"

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"Fat Princess." There's no way to describe anybody doing anything with a Wii without it sounding dirty, so I'm just gonna say Allen pets a blowfish. "It's like capture the flag. But with princesses. Which you feed cake so that the other team has more trouble carrying her back to her castle. And you kill each other graphically. Which is pretty awesome."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara had swore that she would go to the media library to look up more information on how things worked in other people's worlds, but she HAD been busy. Between trying to decorate her and Toph's room, the Kobiyashi Maru simulation and the Outsiders melee, she had been pretty busy. Still, now that she actually had the time, she wanted to kick back and get some information all on her own.

But when she arrived, she saw a boy (good looking, actually) ranting and raving at a...glowing box thing. Some new kind of Starfleet console? She wasn't sure.

"Waht are you doing?" she asked. "And what does 'crap' mean?"

[livestoannoy]

With an angry kick at said "glowing box thing", Marco turned to look at Katara. Had he known that she thought him good looking he would have preened, and said something along the lines of 'Of course! And you know, I'm smart and funny too.' But since he didn't know, and she was way too young for Marco to be at all interested, Marco didn't bother with anything like his usual routine of flirting with any and all women he comes across.

"I am playing an incredibly stupid, moronic, and dumb game," Marco explained slowly, as if it should be completely obvious. "And how can you not know what "crap" means? It means it sucks. It sucks so hard that it would be better off becoming a vacuum cleaner."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara was only more puzzled. It sucked? It looked like the last thing it was going to do was suck anything, but she figured in this case that "suck" was some kind of a slang term that she didn't know about. She was really going to have to start learning all of these words before she got confused and said something that meant an offensive thing to someone else. As it was, she was really curious about this glowing box console thingy.

"How does it even work?" Katara said, bending over it, still looking a little in awe. "And if its bad, can you put in something different?"

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

There were a number of things that attracted Satori to the situation:

• Large quantities of flashy and violent sounds and sights.
• Larque quantities of flash and violent thoughts.
• Marco making a total ass of himself.

To name a few.

Suffice to say, the youkai came drifting into the media library, guided by Marco's cries of rage and bullshit. She hung towards the back of the room with a bemused look, watching him flail ineptly for a while.

[livestoannoy]

In between bouts of yelling at the machine and hoping that it would spontaneously combust, Marco noticed Satori standing around watching her.

"What?!" he said, glowering at her.

[thirdeyesighted.livejournal.com]

"Either that's much more difficult than it looks," Satori smiled a smile with an edge of taunt to it. "Or you don't have much skill for it at all."

[smegging-hell.livejournal.com]

There are certain places on the good ship Stacey that Lister practically haunts. One used to be the sleeping pods, but that has shifted to the rooms. Another is the cafeteria, food being one of his top three favourite things. The third place is the media room.

"You're playing the wrong sort of games then," Lister remarks as he enters. "I mean, try Gumshoe, or Guns of Laredo. Smegging brilliant."

Then he actually notices the console that Marco is using. "Brutal, didn't think I'd see one of those outside of a history class!"

[livestoannoy]

"History class?" Marco repeated. This guy thought that a machine was was definitely not from anything but Marco's future belonged in history class?

"Dude, I don't know when you're from - man that is weird to say - but this thing? Is definitely after my time."

[bornintherain.livejournal.com]

Raiden had been investigating the ship. And by investigating, he meant slinking through the shadows like a stalker and watching the occupants. He'd eavesdropped on enough conversations to glean a working knowledge of how things worked. He'd even been able to identify key players. That Picard person for instance, or the Kennedy man. Either way, he stayed out of the way, kept to the dark and the shadows and kept his eyes open. He never left his room without his weapons. Not that he thought he would need them, but during the course of his life, he'd often found that it was wiser to be with a weapon even when you thought you didn't need one. He'd been caught unawares before.

That being said, when his audio sensors picked up the shouting coming from the Media Library, he felt that it would be the wisest course to investigate. Staying high up, out of reach of the floor, he moved along out of sight until he saw the boy ranting at the gaming console. He didn't know what that thing was, but it seemed to be aggravating. The boy's voice also sounded familiar. Pulling back his helmet's visual sensor array, he tilted his head, listening and trying to place the voice. But he couldn't. So instead, he opted for the road less traveled (by himself at least). Dropping from the ceiling, he landed behind the kid with a muted 'thump.'

"Having a little trouble?"

[livestoannoy]

Marco spun at the sudden sound, already getting ready to go into battle morph at the slightest hint of trouble - those basic instincts he'd developed during the war had never fully gone away - only to scowl when he saw who is was.

Great. Stick-up-the-arse guy was here.

"I'm fine," he said, eying that assortment of weaponry. He decided that continuing to be prepared to morph at any moment was a good idea.

[staturity]

Cassie looked over at the platform and game Marco was playing. "The Wii's nice but if you want the real gaming of the future you want an Xbox." Cassie started setting up one of the Xboxes to play. "Let's see how you like Oblivion. I'm not usually into fantasy games but it's got awesome gameplay."

[livestoannoy]

Marco looked over at her and sent her a mischievous grin. "Hey there! I'm Marco. And yes, I would totally love to play this "Oblivion" game with you."

[redeyes_andblue]

Marco wasn't alone, actually - there was at least one other gamer in there, a tanned blond with pointy ears cross-legged in front of a purple box. Up until Marco's tantrum commentary, he had been staring at the screen; now, he paused and glanced up at him.

"Perhaps you're just not very good at it," he suggested, "One cannot blame the horse if one cannot stay upright on it."

[Sheik, that's rude!]

[Yes, I know.]

Shrugging a little, he turned back to his own game and promptly raced off an edge, being retrieved by little... things and set back on the rainbow-coloured track. This game was taking some getting used to.


((OOC: I'm still technically on hiatus, so replies will be slow, but I couldn't resist a Nintendo character playing Nintendo ^_^;; ...Also, think they'll have Zelda games in there? XD))

[livestoannoy]

Marco scowled at the pointy-eared guy. "This has nothing to do with horses. And I'd like to see you do better...wait. What are you playing?"

Marco jumped over to take a look at what he was playing. "Is that the Game Cube? Oh man, I was so looking forward to that..."

[[ooc: No prob! And yes, who doesn't love the Nintendo character(s) playing Nintendo? XD]]

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

Ax had been watching his soaps doing some private research when he heard a familiar voice shouting deprecations at an inanimate object (why humans did that was completely beyond him). He peered around the corner and watched Marco perform some bizarre dance before the screen he was using, waving around a small plastic stick.

< I have seen you 'game' before, > he said. < But I don't believe I've seen you perform interpretive dance while gaming. Does it help? >

Perhaps he was teasing Marco. Perhaps.

[livestoannoy]

Hey, soaps are important "research sources", Ax. Especially since they have so many attractive women. Just don't go around doing the whole "dramatic pause" thing in real life again.

"Ax-man, you just have to see the deeper meaning of this interpretive dance. It means, 'this game is crap, I hate it, and why do I have to do so much stick-waving?'"

Marco was so proud, Ax.