"The disaster preparedness angle looked constructive."

"Yeah.  Until something else scares us and that feels much more urgent and we can't concentrate on it anymore."

Nod.

"Maybe it'll be helpful for dungeoneering."

"Disaster prep? I guess it could be helpful for dungeon prep, not sure about if you wind up with a power that's best deployed actually in a dungeon. But there's people who come up with approaches for dungeons that they just made up and post them on, like, Reddit, and then sometimes if an oddball dungeon comes up which is like one of those scenarios their recommendations get adopted, maybe you could get into that."

"I more meant the doing better when there's actually something to be afraid of."

"Oh, yeah, possibly. I can't imagine you forgetting to check your six."

"Yeah.  Your thing also seems potentially good though."

"The reddit I know about for it is r/slayscores, I assume it's a pun."

"Slayscores," he repeats to himself.  "Slay scores.  Or slays cores?"

"Precisely."

"But it's not that the slash is part of it?"

"Yeah, no, that's just a standard reddit URL convention."

"I knoooow but slaying can sometimes involve slashing.  And I didn't really get the other one.  Unless they keep score for, what, for the ones that end up actually getting used?  Or do they just mean karma.  If it's just karma that's a lame joke and I don't think it's funny."

"I think they rate each other's dungeon assay plans out of ten or something."

"Acceptable, then."

"What?"

"Just mildly amusing that you're passing judgment on the name of a subreddit."

"I wouldn't care if you hadn't said it was a pun.  But then I didn't get it, and I thought you maybe just had bad taste in whether puns are funny."

"I didn't say it was an amazing pun."

"It's acceptable!"

"I accept it."

"It's kind of funny - "  Huh wow that's another secret that Bug shouldn't say, actually. He shouldn't mention how hypocritical Julien is, how he found himself unacceptably people-pleasing and then went so far in the other direction that he ended up in exactly the same spot.  He just thought that the thing that would please the people was keeping a perfect neutral-to-negative demeanor.  So they'd know he's taking hating himself seriously.  Whereas Bug is a normal person capable of both enjoying and hating things for reasons that respond to reality literally at all.  And has sufficient footing on the high ground to not even say this out loud.  "Do you think they added scores just to make the joke work, or did they come up with the name to suit reality."

"I don't know, seems like a historical question. Maybe they started on another part of the site scoring system and all and then named their own carveout accordingly, maybe the hobby was invented for the subreddit."