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| Network Configuration |
 Title text: If you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called 'netcat', though it does a different thing in each one. |
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- [Ponytail is at her computer with a headset on. A zigzag line indicates what is shown on the computer screen]
- Ponytail (typing): Ugh, your connection is so laggy.
- Computer: Yeah, sorry.
- [Cueball is at his laptop]
- Cueball (typing): It's because I messed up my network configuration and now I have to rebuild a separate civilization from scratch for each packet.
- Ponytail (typing): Huh?
- Ponytail (typing): What are you talking about?
- Ponytail (typing): ...Hello?
- [Beat panel]
- [Cueball, with dirt on his head and around him, is at an old computer setup with an agricultural tool resting on his now non-office chair]
- Cueball (typing): Sorry, got stuck in the Neolithic that time.
- Cueball (typing): Inventing farming takes forever.
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