[this is where a nice person would say, no, you're not useless trash! but what we have here is Pearl, and she believes the statement to be true for the time being.

not that she'll say that out loud, but] I see. We'll just have to find someone familiar with this game. [where, Pearl? there is, like, no one else around.

stuck with a useless human] I mean, there's got to be more people playing in here, right? They wouldn't all have been taken by those drones...