Behind Coffeeshops
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What I can give you is a story I’ve pieced together from memories from an up-tree. Specifically, from Scout Behind Coffeeshops, one of the first Scouts to go out and come back.
By dog standards, which were what he was trying his best to adopt, his access to food was fantastic. He could always have something to eat by pulling it into existence, and, as he was getting used to the role of a dog-shaped dog, that was what he did.
However, that grew boring. It does for so many on the System. I know it did for me, so I looked for ways to slow down the experience of food — cooking (or at least trying to), going out to eat with friends, that sort of thing.
Scout found his own way to slow down. He picked a place to settle down: the alley connecting the infinite cafes, where he had a plan for making life less boring.
He decided he’d get his meals by wandering around and looking cute, subsisting off of what people wanted to give him. Sure, he had hunger turned down some, and he could always create something if people were sticking to their principles about not giving random animals food or littering but … he liked the challenge. It feels like the sort of thing I would do, if I were a dog … perhaps since it was the sort of thing a fork of me did when he was a dog.
I can remember his long days wandering around waiting for someone to give the cute dog a treat, but also having way too much cake, and all the states in between. Small taste of something that leaves you wanting more, that unplanned blend of flavors that is licking a plate clean … I can tell that the uncertainty and variety made his meals taste better, going off all the tail wagging.
I know it influenced the newer Scout instances too — we’re up to a Scout Behind Coffeeshops VI now, and there’ve been times where two of them have been in that sim at once.
I make sure to give them something when I see them. It’s hard to resist that face, especially when I know I’ll get to experience the other side of that interaction in a few years.
Getting a Coffeeshops Scout merge always surprises me with how much fun those dogs who used to me are having. While their approach to meals for everyone — I know it isn’t for me — it still provides (pardon the pun) food for thought.
What I can give you is a story I’ve pieced together from memories from an up-tree. Specifically, from Scout Behind Coffeeshops, one of the first Scouts to go out and come back.
By dog standards, which were what he was trying his best to adopt, his access to food was fantastic. He could always have something to eat by pulling it into existence, and, as he was getting used to the role of a dog-shaped dog, that was what he did.
However, that grew boring. It does for so many on the System. I know it did for me, so I looked for ways to slow down the experience of food — cooking (or at least trying to), going out to eat with friends, that sort of thing.
Scout found his own way to slow down. He picked a place to settle down: the alley connecting the infinite cafes, where he had a plan for making life less boring.
He decided he’d get his meals by wandering around and looking cute, subsisting off of what people wanted to give him. Sure, he had hunger turned down some, and he could always create something if people were sticking to their principles about not giving random animals food or littering but … he liked the challenge. It feels like the sort of thing I would do, if I were a dog … perhaps since it was the sort of thing a fork of me did when he was a dog.
I can remember his long days wandering around waiting for someone to give the cute dog a treat, but also having way too much cake, and all the states in between. Small taste of something that leaves you wanting more, that unplanned blend of flavors that is licking a plate clean … I can tell that the uncertainty and variety made his meals taste better, going off all the tail wagging.
I know it influenced the newer Scout instances too — we’re up to a Scout Behind Coffeeshops VI now, and there’ve been times where two of them have been in that sim at once.
I make sure to give them something when I see them. It’s hard to resist that face, especially when I know I’ll get to experience the other side of that interaction in a few years.
Getting a Coffeeshops Scout merge always surprises me with how much fun those dogs who used to me are having. While their approach to meals for everyone — I know it isn’t for me — it still provides (pardon the pun) food for thought.
