WeTried Translations

Translator: Coughing Baby

Editor: Coughing Baby

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Chapter 212: Unread Messages & Defense Policy Committee

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#Unread Messages (9)

「DewCrocodile: It just keeps getting worse. Hey, can't you gift bullets too?」

「yourmom: Yeah. Use the viewer-only supply drop DLC. You can place purchased objects yourself, ammo or whatever else. You can design an acquisition quest too, obviously. But the product description says there are restrictions based on Situational Computation.」

「DewCrocodile: What kind of restrictions?」

「yourmom: Dunno. All it says is, "Will not be placed in locations where errors may occur."」

「Meussiel: You guys are too broke to have actually tried it, huh? Think it through.」

「Meussiel: If an item you missed suddenly shows up somewhere you already searched, that'd be weird as hell. lol Then Situational Computation breaks, and it rolls back to before that point.」

「DewCrocodile: Ah, so that's how it works. Thanks, broke bastard. No beef.」

「Meussiel: Men are so petty.」

「OldSpice: But Han Gyeoul is the kind of kid who rejects anything, viewer quests or gifts, so would he really accept it just because it's bullets? He refused even when he was buried in the ground and about to die, remember? And now?」

「DewCrocodile: You think I don't know that? I'm just frustrated. Frustrated. More than anything, now that things have gotten this messed up, don't you think Han Gyeoul might change his mind?」

「BlackCat: This cat thinks that will never happen, meow. Better give up on that false hope, meow.」

「PooDongDong: Sometimes the host seems like a psycho. At first I just went with it, but the longer this goes on, the more off-putting he gets. Feels like he thinks he's better than everyone. When he's just a brain floating in a coffin anyway. Isn't it hilarious that a guy broadcasting for money is trying to keep his pride? What pride does a star-beggar have...」

「ProudPrincess♡: Hey. If you don't like it, leave. Why the hell are you talking shit about our pretty Gyeoul?-_-」

「PooDongDong: Woof woof! Grrr! Bark!」

「Saebom: I don't like interfering like that. The reason I keep coming to this channel is because it feels realistic. If things suddenly got easy now, I think it'd stop being fun.」

「Nuclear Power: It can break immersion because he's too serious, but it's pretty good in its own way.」

「まつみん: I agree! I respect the tastes of people who dislike it, but please don't say harsh things.」

「MrLinFor50Years: It is,,,,,frustrating,,,,that's true,,,,when I could die any moment,,,why bother saving reporters who won't even help,,,he went to save them alone anyway,,,he could just leave them all to die,,,and tell the soldiers he couldn't save them,,,the kid died before getting any social experience,,,so he doesn't know how the world works,,,tsk tsk,,,」

「conservative_extremist: Uncle is right. I watch because he fights so damn well, but I hate him acting all nice and meddling to save things that aren't even human anyway. Terrible concept. What is he, some pushover? Han Gyeoul is probably a Jeolla leftist.」

「Wilma: I half agreed up to the middle. But where did Jeolla and leftist come from? You Ilbe bug, seriously.」

「conservative_extremist: So you're a Jeolladian too? Smells like fermented skate lol」

「Wilma: What are you talking about, idiot?」

「activeXfuckoff: Ugh, you people really fight nonstop. Just watch the broadcast. You activeX bastards.」

「Владимир: Ai-ai-ai. Such harsh words. Then they should all be killed.」

「BigBuffetBoy86: Oh, Russki. Still brutal today.」

「BigBuffetBoy86: Be careful, friend. I heard some Korean Afterlife Insurance security technicians died recently. Keep making jokes like that, and the police, or some scarier men, might come visit you, right?」

「Владимир: You don't need to worry about me.」

「BigBuffetBoy86: Haha. Aren't you being too careless? Even in my country, if you send an email to the White House account, the FBI comes knocking. Write just one sentence, "I will kill you," and it's a one-way trip. lmao.」

「groseillier noir: The Yankee is right. I saw it on the news. Turns out Korea is the world's number one censorship state. They say the Control AI censors all Afterlife Insurance information in real time.」

「Владимир: I don't care. If anything, I'd like them to take an interest in me.」

「BigBuffetBoy86: I don't understand you. ;->」

「PizzaIsObviouslyLarge: Korea, a censorship state... No, that can't be true. There is no way my country would do that.」

「conservative_extremist: Foreigners have always nitpicked Afterlife Insurance. They're all jealous and trying to keep us in check.」

「NitrogenPack: Hey, fuck. Radio just came in. Looks like another platoon is picking up more survivors again.」

「FullTimeJessica: I didn't hear it, is that for real? lololol This is hopeless, seriously lolololololol」

「DewCrocodile: At this rate, won't the Company become a battalion, and the battalion become a regiment?」

「FemalesArePigs: A defeated regiment without ammo wwwwwwwwww Bad ending confirmed wwwwwwwwww」

「conservative_extremist: Tsk tsk. In the end, he's about to fail because he kept meddling. He should only be taking people who can pull their weight, and even that wouldn't be enough... If they can't contribute, abandon them. Why take care of people who are nothing but a burden to others? Everyone has to be responsible for themselves. Same with old people in our country.」

「RetiredYouth: Hey, people up to their seventies still have some reasons to be pitied. The generation above them ruined the country so badly.」

「HellFlavor: Ruined the country?」

「RetiredYouth: Yeah. Did you not read your textbooks in school? Even if modern history was an elective, economics should have been required. Back then, citizens wasted money like crazy and caused the IMF crisis. They went overseas, bought luxury goods, speculated on land, and spent everything they had until the foreign exchange reserves ran out. In my view, they were the generation with the lowest civic standards.」

「HellFlavor: I think I remember learning that lol But what are civic standards and what is IMF?」

「Doochi: Civic standards means the level of the citizens, moron. IMF means bailout, moron. The country went bankrupt, moron. You don't even know that, moron?」

「HellFlavor: Look at this idiot acting up just because he knows one thing for once lolololol」

「RetiredYouth: Because of that, they say life was really damn hard for people now in their seventies. Still, being lazy and freeloading off their children's generation without even thinking of working hard isn't excusable, but there is room for extenuating circumstances, you know.」

「MoronlympicGold: lololol Anyway, the conclusion is that people over ninety are the men and women who really screwed up, so we can dispose of them all except the star-beggar, right?」

「MrLinFor50Years: Ptooey,,,be quiet,,,you insolent brats,,,the world is not simple enough,,,to generalize so easily, children,,,no matter what generation it is,,,do you think every person is the same,,,even just looking at you lot,,,you are all so diversely,,,stupid,,,」

「NitrogenPack: Yeah, okay boomer, good work.」

「NitrogenPack: There are things worth defending, and you're defending shameless old geezers?」

「likeableYOU: Ah, can you people shut up;;; I don't want to care about that stuff;;; It's tiring;;; You politically obsessed idiots repeat the same routine every day like parrots;;; Aren't you bored?;;;」

「IsMugujeonggwangGreat: Right. It isn't even election season, so why waste emotions on that? Do you think anything will change because you talk about it here? Your lives must be very comfortable.」

「storm224: Are you guys even watching the broadcast right now?」

「BigBuffetBoy86: Giddy up! Giddy up! Fu-! Horse riding is fun too!」

「AngryNeeson55: So he's going out to support them without fail. I hope there are a lot of variants this time too. Mounted close combat in a modern setting is quite a fresh experience.」

「まつみん: Everyone, stop fighting and synchronize with a variant this time! It feels as if I'm running toward Gyeoul, and it's amazing! Especially when Gyeoul looks down at me with those cold eyes, something inside me boils up and my stomach gets hot... Haa haa haa haa haa haa haa haa haa haa haa#aaaaaaaa##### #ErrorCode_0xc00000fe9_High_pitched_emotional_excess#Region_Japan#(Control AI) An error occurred in the teletype due to emotional excess...」

「ProBacksoo: She really isn't normal.; How does she break down every single time? So much emotion.」

「life sentence: That's because she's from the climax country. Whether it's emotion or sensation, they reach the peak easily.」

「lemonade: The level of this insane bastard's jokes lololol Can you function in daily life?」

「life sentence: As always, East Joseon is West Japan's future, nida. Just watch. We'll become like Matsuming too.」

「100MillionDEBT: I wonder. Can we catch up to that level of mental discipline?」

「UnderBlanketParkDanger: East Joseon and West Japan... That joke is old too.」

「FrankSausage: This damn sense of humor never changes. I'm sick of it.」

「Don't_NickPun: Can't be helped. The whole country lives chewing over the past. Most of the mainstream viewers in the broadcast channel are old people who lived through a past era too.」

「Don't_NickPun: Starting with our generation, cultural change in the broader sense might disappear. We'll keep living trapped inside reconstructed pasts, in the era with the richest accumulation of meaningful data for creating Virtual Reality world settings.」

「LMAO: His scholar act really is consistent.」

「HalfHome: He's got terminal seriousness bad. If he's that serious, should we call him Serious Sam?」

「LendMeYourStrength: I told you to stop making jokes like that, man...」

「richdog: The reason this broadcast channel never has a peaceful day is because the host does not have sex. The world is sex and peace. That is the truth.」

「TeamLeaderKimMi-young: Come to think of it, I don't think I've seen that one sex-parrot lately.」

「TeamLeaderKimMi-young: The one who said he'd rape Namsan Tower.」

「FullTimeJessica: Ah, KILL?」

「FullTimeJessica: He was depressed before because he was trying to go to the ossuary to visit Han Gyeoul, but his approval kept getting delayed. Maybe he's working hard to raise his credit rating?」

#Defense Policy Committee, 2053

「Committee Member A: Thank you all for responding to this sudden summons despite your busy schedules.」

「Committee Member E: Sigh. Emergency meetings have been especially frequent lately. I suppose this level of sacrifice can't be helped when we're leading the country... Not that the people recognize any of our hardship...」

「Committee Member E: So what is it today? Don't tell me the security technicians died again.」

「Committee Member A: Oh, if that were the case, we would have convened the Security Council. This is something else. The American government made unofficial contact. They asked whether we might cooperate on research related to body modification.」

「Committee Member B: Pardon? Body modification? Where is this coming from?」

「Committee Member A: Once you hear the circumstances, you'll understand well enough. Apparently, DARPA has been managing an enhanced combat soldier development project, and its results have been sluggish compared to the budget it's been eating. So they want to use Afterlife Insurance clone body culture facilities to reduce costs. As you know, we have economies of scale. Clone body creation is included as a basic service for S Grade subscribers, and A Grade subscribers use it quite actively too. We live in an age where money is immortality.」

「Committee Member C: Hmm. That isn't particularly surprising. Our cumulative clone count is already in the hundreds of thousands, while that side is still tied down by outdated bioethics... Even America has no way to catch up. In the end, this field is all about practical experience.」

「Committee Member D: Isn't this exactly the power of deregulation? The fewer regulations there are on industry, the better, but certain uncomfortable people always hold us back. We are in a sad position too, having to flatter people like that every election season with words we don't even mean.」

「Committee Member F: But what does DARPA do?」

「Committee Member A: It can be translated as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency... something like that. It's an agency under the U.S. Department of Defense, but look up the details yourself. Its existence isn't classified, and there should be plenty of fascinating information available to the public. They research every technology humans can imagine. This project is probably public too, isn't it?」

「Committee Member F: Hmm. It comes up right away when I search. Let's see, functional enhancement of the human body...」

「Committee Member E: Somehow, I get the feeling that what they truly want is something else.」

「Committee Member D: Obviously, it's the Control AI's computational ability. Isn't it the greatest artificial intelligence, considered the closest thing to a singularity in the history of technology? It would certainly help their research.」

「Committee Member E: Even so, we still can't expect human-level creativity from it.」

「Committee Member C: Creativity...? I keep telling you, that's impossible unless a fully autonomous artificial intelligence appears. It should be enough as a research assistant, though.」

「Committee Member A: Do you think America doesn't know that? This is how I see it. Their true objective may be to create some kind of technological point of contact with Afterlife Insurance.」

「Committee Member F: Then I'll cast one vote for refusal. You said before that the Trinity Engine is incomprehensible lost technology, but I don't think that will last forever.」

「Committee Member A: Refusing already? How hasty. I wonder if there's any need to worry that much. Not that it hurts to have at least one cautious person... I would like us to accept this offer.」

「Committee Member E: Hmm. It does smell like money. Surely this isn't something we have to decide right now?」

「Committee Member A: Of course not. National affairs are not children's games. Still, I arranged this meeting because I thought we needed to hold a basic discussion. Aren't you the wisest people in this country?」

============================ Author's Note ============================

#Platforms

At present, I don't think there will be any further expansion to other platforms.

Still, I will check Bookcube.

#Holiday

Naver is taking the whole holiday period off, so I'm wondering what to do about serialization. In the past, I didn't worry too much about it, and on weekends I would upload to Joara first and so on... hmm...

It's late, so I'll skip the Q&A. For comments I decide need answers, I'll answer them all at once in the next chapter. :)

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