[Yes, it really is the living-presence aspect that's making it weird. It'd just be a bit solemn and isolated otherwise. But yes, do let's move on from morbid thoughts; we do not even have the Morbid Thoughts Guy here to justify them.]

Two servings so far, though I think I could manage two more if I tried; the food is excellent. [He glances over at it, and then at the laptop, which has gone into screensaver mode.] And I can't have figured it out entirely, look--it's gone black.

...Did you really beat yours?