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*** Connection established to Mod Bridge // XNET Node 0.1 ***
*** Date: 1997-05-15 ***
*** Status: XNET Client 1.4 Deployment Successful ***
Oz: I’m telling you, this is a goddamn nightmare waiting to happen.
KountX: Oh, shut your trap, Oz. For thirty-seven months—thirty-seven long, miserable months—we’ve been shackled to IBM’s OS/2 code pages like some kind of digital peasantry. Do you have any idea how liberating it is to finally have a real character set? Unicode is a godsend.
Oz: Yeah, well, a godsend for the idiots. What happens when some prick uses a fancy Unicode character to mimic our usernames? They’re gonna impersonate the staff, trick some poor bastard into giving up his password, and then we’re the ones who have to deal with the support tickets. It’s deceptive, it’s messy, and it’s probably going to crash the bridge.
KountX: You are worrying about the wrong things. Look at the demographics of this place. All we get are outsiders, freaks, and trolls. Why the hell would a troll want to impersonate us for anything other than a joke? If some dipshit tries to play "Moderator" and fails, we just grab them by the throat and drop them down the Ban Hole. Eternal falling is a great cure for identity crises.
Oz: …I guess that’s a fair point.
KatrinaStormia: Hey! You dipshits! Every time I use XNUC, it costs XNET forty-two fucking bucks!
KountX: What the hell are you talking about?
KatrinaStormia: I don't know! It probably does! I can feel the server sweating! Watch this, you losers.
KatrinaStormia: /xnuc ()-w5t638aba77234ada
KatrinaStormia: giggles Hehehe! Look at it! It’s a little creepy little bastard! It looks like a demon’s face!
Admin: 🖐️ (Signs: "Stop wasting resources.")
Admin: [ACTION]: ADD_FUNDS -> XNET_SERVER_BUDGET (+ $210.00)
KatrinaStormia: Aww, look at Admin being a little sugar daddy! See? I’m a goddamn treasure to this team.
KountX: You’re a liability with a rotating haircut, Katrina.
KatrinaStormia: Suck my vortex, Kount. But seriously, look at that output. It's gorgeous. I'm sure absolutely no one is going to abuse this functionality for any malicious or stupid purposes. Not a single person.
KountX: Heh. We'll see about that…
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Human-Typed Review
A much shorter one today, generated using the dialogue generator.
It's just Admin and the OG Trio discussing XNUC (XNET Unicode). XNUC evolves over time, but this is its earliest chronological appearance.
I decided to base XNUC on punycode, except it is used for chat rather than domain names.
There's not much more to say. Tomorrow's episode will focus more on Oz, just to complete the original Trio (I already made episodes for KatrinaStormia and KountX).
Source: r/xnc2c · by /u/imacg5