# good old uncle rico in which to consider 'uncle rico' an in-scene term for any researcher wishing they were back in nfr 82 also known as 'making state' you know throwing pigskins over those virtual mountains forever in the gritty pink vaseline-tinted memory distance also refers to amusingly painful failed local attempts at time travel involving electricity which themselves feel ironic considering unc already seems severely retro enough to be from another dimensionally parallel time slice // republic of bob