update from sparkleup

writing/post-self/toledot/launch/sys/Ioan/007.md

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-# Ioan Balan --- 2325
+# Ioan Bălan --- 2325
 
-**Ioan Balan:** What excited you about the prospect of uploading?
+**Ioan Bălan:** What excited you about the prospect of uploading?
 
 **Fu Jinzai:** I actually wasn't that excited about the prospect. It was something that I just kind of did because it felt like it'd be easier than sticking around. The kids weren't seeing me anyway, and I could at least get them some cash when they were older. It sounded nice enough up here, but there were still nice things back there, you know? I didn't think about it too much.
 
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 **Ioan:** It sounds a little like the mountains you've found here are too perfect, perhaps. Is that sort of what you're saying?
 
-**Jinzai:** Yeah, I think so. It's too perfect. I don't mind perfection, of course, it's a damn sight better than living a terrible life, but --- oh man, I'm gonna sound like my grandpa when I say this --- it lacks that kind of toughness that makes you build character. Not, like, the character that he meant, in the garbo sense of, like, being a bit tough guy, but like, I think if you could grow up here around all this perfection, you wouldn't have much character. You'd be pretty boring. [laughter] I guess I'm glad that you can't upload until you're 18, so you at least have a chance to have some comparison to perfect mountains with the shitty ones phys-side.
+**Jinzai:** Yeah, I think so. It's too perfect. I don't mind perfection, of course, it's a damn sight better than living a terrible life, but --- oh man, I'm gonna sound like my grandpa when I say this --- it lacks that kind of toughness that makes you build character. Not, like, the character that he meant, in the trash sense of, like, being a big tough guy, but like, I think if you could grow up here around all this perfection, you wouldn't have much character. You'd be pretty boring. [laughter] I guess I'm glad that you can't upload until you're 18, so you at least have a chance to have some comparison to perfect mountains with the shitty ones phys-side.
 
 **Ioan:** What's the first thing that you did after uploading?
 
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-Ioan didn't know quite what it was about the latest messages from the launches that was was nagging at em so much. It wasn't that either of the Codrins were sending back anything that was particularly surprising. Sure, the Odists had been a big part of Secession, but ey knew that, hadn't ey? They dealt with propaganda and speeches and politics, but the must have, right? That's what went into something like seceding from the rest of the governments on earth, right?
+Ioan didn't know quite what it was about the latest messages from the launches that was was nagging at em so much. It wasn't that either of the Codrins were sending back anything that was particularly surprising. Sure, the Odists had been a big part of Secession, but ey knew that, hadn't ey? They dealt with propaganda and speeches and politics, but the must have, right? That's what aimed for something like seceding from the rest of the governments on earth, right?
 
-It wasn't even particularly the more personal notes that ey'd gotten, expressing how life was going out on the LVs, all of the ways in which it was exactly the same, except for some key difference in sentiment. Those on the LVs felt like they were going on a journey, and those who remained at the L<sub>5</sub> System felt like they weren't, so there was just this entirely different vibe between two societies that were otherwise identical.
+It wasn't even particularly the more personal notes that ey'd gotten, expressing how life was going out on the LVs, all of the ways in which it was exactly the same, except for some key difference in sentiment. Those on the LVs felt like they were going on a journey, and those who remained at the L<sub>5</sub> System felt like they weren't, so there was an entirely different feeling between two societies that were otherwise identical.
 
 *Three* societies, for it was obvious that Castor and Pollux were diverging rapidly without strict contact with each other or the System.
 
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-**Ioan Balan:** What was the first thing that you did after uploading?
+**Ioan Bălan:** What was the first thing that you did after uploading?
 
 **Magnús Einarsson:** Sleep. I don't know why, but for some reason, right after uploading, I felt like all I could do was sleep.
 
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 **Ioan:** I'm specifically looking for people who uploaded in the last 150 years, after they started-- I mean, after they stopped charging to let people upload.
 
-**Magnús:** They used to charge.
+**Magnús:** They used to charge?
 
 **Ioan:** Yes. Was your family compensated for you to uplooad?
 
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 **Ioan:** I'm sorry to hear that. It must've been hard to hear that from her.
 
-**Magnús:** Oh, I didn't hear it from her. I heard it from her, I heard it from one of my kids. Anita. They wrote to me and said that mama had moved in with another man and that school was alright and that was that.
+**Magnús:** Oh, I didn't hear it from her. I heard it from one of my kids. Anita. They wrote to me and said that mama had moved in with another man and that school was alright and that was that.
 
 **Ioan:** I'm sorry. Do you still talk with your children, at least?
 
-**Magnús:** I talk with Anita sometimes. She says she might upload in a few years. They say married life isn't what they expected, and now they're in much the same position I was. They have kids. They're less strapped for cash with their husband's job, but they're still not going to get anywhere. It sounds like they have a much better relationship with their husband, though, so maybe it won't just be the same old cycle again.
+**Magnús:** I talk with Anita sometimes. She says she might upload in a few years. She says married life isn't what they expected, and now they're in much the same position I was. They have kids. They're less strapped for cash with their husband's job, but they're still not going to get anywhere. It sounds like she has a much better relationship with their husband, though, so maybe it won't just be the same old cycle again.
 
 **Ioan:** How do you feel about that as an option for them?
 
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 **Ioan:** What sorts of things will you show them when they upload? What are some things that you like best up here?
 
-**Magnús:** There's the things that I like best, and then the things that I think we'll like best together. The things that I like best are the really relaxing things. I like swimming and then going and laying on the grass. I like reading. I like just sim-hopping and people watching. The things that I think we'll like best together are probably some of the game sims that people have set up. They really liked a lot of the spy sims back on the 'net, like the ones where you hide behind walls and sneak through a base and play capture the flag or whatever. I always found them stressful when I did them on my own, but doing one with them, one where we had to escape from a search party, is one of my best memories of them. They have some good ones here that I think they'd like.
+**Magnús:** There's the things that I like best, and then the things that I think we'll like best together. The things that I like best are the really relaxing things. I like swimming and then going and laying on the grass. I like reading. I like just sim-hopping and people watching. The things that I think we'll like best together are probably some of the game sims that people have set up. She really liked a lot of the spy sims back on the 'net, like the ones where you hide behind walls and sneak through a base and play capture the flag or whatever. I always found them stressful when I did them on my own, but doing one with them, one where we had to escape from a search party, is one of my best memories of them. They have some good ones here that I think she'd like.
 
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-**Ioan Balan:** What was the most disappointing thing that happened or that you saw after uploading?
+**Ioan Bălan:** What was the most disappointing thing that happened or that you saw after uploading?
 
 **Rosemary Seeley:** I think just how lonely it was at first.