01 / mahogany town / voice

[hackintheaster]

[The audio clicks on, though for the first few moments no one speaks. There's just rustling, the sounds of buttons being pressed, and a soft sigh.]

If I can just figure out the calibration of this....

[The voice sounds young, a little annoyed, and a few more buttons are pressed. But then there's a brief 'oh wait' and the sound of the piece of

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[thickfat]

[and now for something completely different:]

... "Whelmed" ?

[hackintheaster]

You know, underwhelmed. Overwhelmed. I'm just...whelmed.

[thickfat]

[okay... so that kind of maybe makes sense...]

Yeah, but people don't really use that, you know?

[hackintheaster]

Why not? All it takes is for someone to start using it for it to catch on, and then suddenly it'll be a part of our normal, every-day conversation.

[thickfat]

[unsure forever] That's probably not gonna happen.

[hackintheaster]

Hey, they said that about funner. And then it did happen.

[thickfat]

Funner? Seriously?

[hackintheaster]

Check the dictionary, bro. Webster's accepted it a couple years back.

[thickfat]

[there's so much he wants to say right now, but he plays it safe:]

It must be weird where you come from.

[hackintheaster]

What, you don't have a dictionary?

[thickfat]

I totally do! Except... not right now. [You don't need a dictionary to become Pokemon master.]

[hackintheaster]

Oh, well, yeah. I wouldn't think you'd just carry one around with you everywhere. They're kind of annoying and large.

[thickfat]

And totally unnecessary in Pokemon battles. Especially if it's a Japanese to English dictionary.

[hackintheaster]

This is true, though I wouldn't need a Japanese to English dictionary. I'm fluent in both, so I could always translate.

[thickfat]

Oooh, really? I don't meet a lot of people who're fluent in Japanese that's not from Japan, so this is kind of cool.

[hackintheaster]

Yup. Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.