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Computergirl with a 34inch 4k UHD 240hz ultrawide curved monitor for a head, but she only ever emotes with ASCII characters and jpegs she downloaded in 2012 so you never get to see her specs at even a fraction of her potential
At first you think “oh maybe she just doesn’t have a very good graphics card or she doesn’t have enough ram or her OS is out of date” but then you’re talking to her about the one time you went on a date to the beach (but not like on the beach cause you didn’t wanna get sand in her circuits and in retrospect the salty air probably wasn’t very good for her but you both agreed you had fun) and how you saw the most beautiful sunset and how you wished you could see one like that again
And she just. Brings up the most crystal clear lifelike footage of that exact sunset. The waves lapping at the sand. The audio coming out of her speakers more vibrant than in your memory of the evening. The camera, her face, turns to look at you wistfully staring out at the horizon and you get to see your own pure unbridled joy and love for life in that very moment. Past You turns to look at her and you give her the biggest smile.
Then the video stops and you’re just staring at your reflection in her pitch-black curved screen. You’re crying. Her face lights up again.
Why are you crying.
You wipe the tears, smile, and give her the biggest, most gentle hug you can muster so as to not jostle her components. Out of the corner of your eye you see her response, in all its unicode, Arial font glory;
