The Let's Play Archive

Steins;Gate

by ProfessorProf

Part 18: John Titor provides more details about the future



"Even if I did, there's no way in hell I'd tell a hitman hired to kill me."

"I'm not going to kill you."

"To tell others of my abilities is to commit suicide. My powers are concealed. Using them without the opponent knowing is the way to obtain their maximum effectiveness."

"Stingy."

"Say what you want."

Burning tension runs between Suzuha and me. Our glances cross scattering invisible sparks.





Shining Finger posted:


Subject: ?Por favor!

O-ka-be! I want you to reply to me already. I've been waiting, you know. Also, tell me the supah hakah's address! If you keep lazing around like this, someone else might take away the IBN 5100, you know? Moeka

Lately, I've started to get fed up with the mail ringtone. It's probably from that mail demon Masseuse. I can tell even without checking.

Tch, it's starting to get irritating. She's got some stalker qualities. Maybe I shouldn't have given my address to this bipolar lady.



How can she be this lazy on her second day? Her liking Braun tubes was a lie after all.

"You look kind of sullen. Did you get a death notification?"

"Huh?"

"Just an example."

Normally, you don't use death notifications as examples, do you? How can she use that example with a straight face? Also, what's a death notification? Does that even exist?

"I was asking if you got some unpleasant news."

"...Something like that."

This woman's speech mannerisms are unstable. I really shouldn't let my guard down.

"There's a woman with a reckless obsession for the retro PC called the IBN 5100."



"IBN 5100...?"

"Do you know about it?"

"Ahh, yeah."

"I see. So the IBN 5100's urban legend is famous, huh."

Maybe there's an unexpectedly large amount of female otaku with interest in that retro PC.

"Yeah, that's it. How much do you know about it?"

"I actually tried hunting around for the IBN 5100, but in the end, I came to the conclusion that it's not in Akiba."

"I see. Well, that's true."

"You sound like you know something."

"Eh? Well, I kinda know it, but kinda don't, I guess."
"I don't know, but a distant acquaintance of mine does, and I asked them about it a little or something. Ahah, ahahah."

Another insincere smile. I'm starting to think that this woman is actually pretty clumsy. It seems like she's lying whenever she puts on that insincere smile.



"Just what are you..."

With a silent sigh, Suzuha falls back onto the counter. She looks up at me in that posture.

"I was thinking of giving you a bunch of interesting information on the IBN 5100, but when you look at me with those eyes, I don't feel like it anymore."

"I don't have any interest in the IBN 5100 in the first place."

Settling Akiba's urban legend won't do anything about the world's ruling structures.

"You don't have a shred of credibility. I wouldn't know if that interesting information is true or not."

"Uwah, you'd go as far as to say that? Well, I certainly am acting suspicious."
"Then I won't tell you, but I'll give you a hint. And then you'll get irritated when you think you know it but don't, and writhe in agony."



Hidden function... That reminds me, then John Titor I remember from 2000 said something like that.

"I'm pretty sure the IBN 5100 can do something or another with a proprietary programming language."

"No way! How do you know?! How, how?!"

It was just a faint memory, but it looks like I hit the mark. I grin.



"What, that's not fair!"

Suzuha covers her face with her hands for some reason. She looks this way through the gaps between her fingers. Even if you do that, you can't escape my ability. The opponent dies.

"I see through everything, Amane Suzuha. Prepare yourself!"

"Bluuh. Anyway, the IBN 5100 has a hidden function! It can decipher IBN's proprietary programming language, written before APL and BASIC became widespread."

I'm fairly certain that Titor said something like that. And then right after Titor's prediction, an IBN engineer officially admitted to that function's existence.

"Now it's a dead programming language only decipherable with IBN 5100s."

Titor's goal in traveling to 1975 was to obtain an IBN 5100 for that function. I wonder if Moeka's desperate to use it, too. I don't think so. Shining Finger doesn't look like the type who would know about that sort of thing.

"That's why the IBN 5100 is a super rare PC."

Suzuha says that while dropping her glance to the pin badge in her hand.



Searching for it might be an option to increase our research funds... but SERN is a higher priority right now...



@channel posted:


644 JOHN TITOR♦f8VuYnoyWU : 07/31/2010 07:14:31
Urban life doesn't exist in 2036 as it does today.
People raise their own food to east. Commerce is quarantined worldwide, so people spend most hours of the day on the farm.
There are still scientific and technological advances, but those are rarely offered to the general public, because they're nearly all under the thumb of SERN and SERN's behind-the-scenes committee.
It's ostensibly peaceful. It's not as brutal as 2010.

645 Anonymous : 07/31/2010 07:16:16
It's not like there isn't any war, you know.
How do things turn out in the Middle East quagmire?

646 Anonymous : 07/31/2010 07:17:51
You're dissatisfied even though there's peace. I think SERN's pretty cool, collides particles and doesn't afraid of anything.

647 Anonymous : 07/31/2010 07:19:43
But this Titor guy ripped off time machine technology from SERN, didn't he? Then he's a criminal.
No matter how you look at it, Titor's at fault. gb2/future/, terrorist scum!

648 JOHN TITOR♦f8VuYnoyWU : 07/31/2010 07:22:37
The world's governing body in 2036 is SERN. SERN established various regulations on humanity.
All armies have been dissolved.
Would you understand if I said communism was revived, bringing the standard of living back to the 18th century? Except now, that social structure works flawlessly.
Don't you all have doubts about how the system which collapsed in the 20th century could possibly work on a global scale?
That is my reason for time traveling here.
Yes, it might be true that I cannot deny being called a terrorist. I think of ourselves as the Resistance, but what we are doing is undeniably terrorism. There are people and organizations that take actions like mine.

649 Anonymous : 07/31/2010 07:25:46
More importantly, I want to hear more about the many-worlds interpretation. In 2036, it's been proven, right? How did they prove it?

650 Anonnymous : 07/31/2010 07:29:38
Knew he was a terrorist. How many have you murdered? What if some of those victims are my kids?
I could srsly find the bastards who made the time machine and kill them, right?

651 Anonymous : 07/31/2010 07:29:49
So? Don't just give small bits of info.

652 Anonymous : 07/31/2010 07:33:40
So, after all, you start talking about ideologies like that. By any hance, are you a geeezr who did a student rally? And then you lost your ability to discern reality from delusions, and started spewing nonsense. I get it.

653 Anonymous : 07/31/2010 07:37:22
Delicious conservative tears lolololololol
> > 649
If SERN's been going crazy with their time machine use, wouldn't it be through time machine experiments?

654 Hououin Kyouma : 07/31/2010 07:37:53
> > 650
Doing that would make you no better than Titor. If you're prepared to do that, then go ahead.
Titor, I want to ask you, but did World War III take place? What was your reason for coming to this time in the first place? Did you get an IBN 5100?

655 Anonymous : 07/31/2010 07:39:57
Eh, was John Titor a communist spy? That's so out of fashion, so just quit it.

656 Anonymous : 07/31/2010 07:44:05
Titor's spewing nonsense, but more than that, even Hououin's getting so weird I LOL'd

657 Anonymous : 07/31/2010 07:45:30
World War III (lmao)

658 Anonymous : 07/31/2010 07:48:44
Speaking of the IBN 5100, isn't that an Akiba urban myth now?

659 JOHN TITOR♦f8VuYnoyWU : 07/31/2010 07:50:00
My objective for coming to this time is, as I've already explained, to change the future. I'm posting on this bulletin board like this to sound the alarm.
Perhaps it won't have any meaning due to the convergence of world lines, but it's okay if it works without anyone noticing.
> > 654
What's this about World War III? Could that also be something you've seen me saying in a different world line?
I would like to talk to you once at your own pace. I'll write a reply if you give me your mail address.
Of course, if anyone else besides Hououin wants to mail me up front, I'll be waiting. Because, as of now, I've only been getting hate mail.
Here's my contact address once more:
john&titor@egweb.ne.jp