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welcome to the jungle

April moved to scenic Selvadorada because exploring ancient ruins sounds interesting, and temptingly devoid of living human beings to interact with.

But, due to who she is as a person, the first thing she does after moving in is sit down at her computer and start playing video games.

It's... weirdly... less, somehow? Blicblock feels too easy, or something. Turning up the difficulty doesn't help. After a few minutes she gives up and tries learning a new programming language, which instead of feeling much easier and less satisfying than she instinctively expected, feels harder and more effortful.

It takes her a few more minutes after that to notice that... 'learning a new programming language' isn't quite the right way to think about it. She feels like programming is the sort of thing she does, she feels like it's fun and easy, but in the entire process of slogging through this tutorial she has never once consciously compared a thing she is learning to a thing she already knew. The concepts are familiar, but the details aren't. And if the concepts are familiar where did she learn them? She doesn't know. She can't remember.

What's the last thing she remembers before she moved here?

She lived in, uh, a town? And had, uh, probably family members of some sort? And moved to Selvadorada to investigate the possibly-magical ancient ruins, but, like, there wasn't a moment when she decided to do that, she just... arrived here... with that knowledge already in her head.

 

She wishes she had a whiteboard. Wait, has she ever even used a whiteboard? She can't remember. The concrete part of this problem, at least, is solvable: she gets online and orders a whiteboard, wincing slightly at the prospect of parting with money when she has yet to establish an income. She doesn't want to say 'whatever, I'll write a couple of mobile apps', which was her first instinct, because her instincts were wrong about how hard programming is and they might also be wrong about the difficulty of writing mobile apps.

In the whiteboardless meantime, she paces her living room and recounts to herself everything that's happened that she has a specific concrete memory of. No matter how she tries to turn her brain sideways and shake it to get the knowledge out, it remains the case that all of those memories took place in this house.

 

The world outside this house... exists, right?

She peeks nervously out the window, then moves even more nervously to the door.

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welcome to the jungle
April as a Sim

April moved to scenic Selvadorada because exploring ancient ruins sounds interesting, and temptingly devoid of living human beings to interact with.

But, due to who she is as a person, the first thing she does after moving in is sit down at her computer and start playing video games.

It's... weirdly... less, somehow? Blicblock feels too easy, or something. Turning up the difficulty doesn't help. After a few minutes she gives up and tries learning a new programming language, which instead of feeling much easier and less satisfying than she instinctively expected, feels harder and more effortful.

It takes her a few more minutes after that to notice that... 'learning a new programming language' isn't quite the right way to think about it. She feels like programming is the sort of thing she does, she feels like it's fun and easy, but in the entire process of slogging through this tutorial she has never once consciously compared a thing she is learning to a thing she already knew. The concepts are familiar, but the details aren't. And if the concepts are familiar where did she learn them? She doesn't know. She can't remember.

What's the last thing she remembers before she moved here?

She lived in, uh, a town? And had, uh, probably family members of some sort? And moved to Selvadorada to investigate the possibly-magical ancient ruins, but, like, there wasn't a moment when she decided to do that, she just... arrived here... with that knowledge already in her head.

 

She wishes she had a whiteboard. Wait, has she ever even used a whiteboard? She can't remember. The concrete part of this problem, at least, is solvable: she gets online and orders a whiteboard, wincing slightly at the prospect of parting with money when she has yet to establish an income. She doesn't want to say 'whatever, I'll write a couple of mobile apps', which was her first instinct, because her instincts were wrong about how hard programming is and they might also be wrong about the difficulty of writing mobile apps.

In the whiteboardless meantime, she paces her living room and recounts to herself everything that's happened that she has a specific concrete memory of. No matter how she tries to turn her brain sideways and shake it to get the knowledge out, it remains the case that all of those memories took place in this house.

 

The world outside this house... exists, right?

She peeks nervously out the window, then moves even more nervously to the door.