Encrypted Messaging Log 7/13/2022

A: hey i dead dropped you the draft for my new piece. need your editorial notes by morning. it's the drop at the lamp post not the mailbox.

R: It is definitely 4 in the morning but whatever. I am actually awake. Which piece is this?

A: the one we argued about, the milf inflation one.

R: No. You can't call it that. Milf inflation is something else.

A: listen i know this is a comedy/satire site but you need to drop that particular bit it's not funny.

R: It's not a bit! Look, I'm telling you: [link redacted]

A: well obviously there are weirdoes who are into that! there's always some fringe. that doesn't mean it's broadly accepted. look even this site has low 3-digit uploads tagged "milf inflation"

R: And five-digit for "inflation" and... okay exactly 65535 uploads for both that and "milf", that does seem wrong

A: well no that's because porn site people don't know how to program, it means there are way more but the display caps out at that number.

R: Well alright then! Milf inflation is just the overlap!

A: oh my god dude. fucking. get an education. people don't have overlapping fetishes.

R: Hold on, what

A: the small subset of people who have multiple fetishes just sorta swap between them? nobody looks at porn that covers multiple fetishes at once. that's insane.

R: None of that is true!

A: it's scientific fact! undisputed consensus! there have been so, so many studies.

R: Link a single study that concludes that

A: i don't have the links on hand! just do a search on the NIH site for "sexual fetishes" and they'll come up.

R: I'm definitely not going to do that but I don't believe you either.

A: alright well truth does not require belief to remain true. now go get the flash drive out of the dead drop compartment so you can do the goddamned editing.

R: If the article text is full of that sort of bizarre assertion then it's possible this idea you had to pivot into serious informative essay work is a huge mistake.

A: you never let me do what I want to do! you wouldn't pay for the pirate TV broadcasting equipment that was the entire point of my video series idea, you vetoed the Dear Esther esque walking simulator format for my classic album reviews series, and now this!

R: The reason that broadcasting equipment lot on ebay was as cheap as it was was it would not have worked anymore because of the switchover to digital, and I still don't understand why you need the reader to be traversing a photorealistic volcanic island and hitting a button on objects to read each paragraph of why you love "the downward spiral" so much.

A: i'm just going to unilaterally post this conversation on the site so everyone knows you're such a suffocating fun-hater.

R: Can you redact the link? I think my username there is in the url and yours is a couple clicks away because we're friended.

A: oh yeah obviously. no one can ever know what my seventeen distinct non-overlapping fetishes are.