foreverphantom

[ Presumably sometime after the great Tiger vs Tiger showdown, Danny can run into Ponta at Game Plan. He's just browsing, currently examining the first person shooters for sale. ]

With so many expensive things available, it's getting weirder and weirder that our money's infinite, huh?

[ well now that he's eaten shit walking into the Game Plan door, and come to terms with the power swaperoo, he'll be in here trying to be very cool and normal about everything ]

Is it?

They wanna make money for their town, right? Paying us to just buy whatever luxury stuff we can get our hands on feels... wrong, for that goal.

[ And he firmly does believe that every place is thinking about it's economic profits to some degree!! Even weird towns with villains!! ]

Isn't that what taxes are for? More tax money on luxury stuff just means more income for them anyway. [ he sounds a little skeptical that any of this really matters ]

But isn't the tax income where our pocket money is deducted from?

[ It's all very circular. He catches Danny's tone though. ]

Guess my point is that this city doesn't feel real.

It's the money that made you feel that way, and not the pegleg penguins everywhere?

Hey, those little dudes are just living their lives! They're more normal than half the population, I'm sure.

[ RIGHTS FOR PRINNIES... actually they should probably have more rights. They should have a union. ]

What are we even counting as "normal" here, exactly?

Seeming like they live real full lives.

[ Maybe it's because he hasn't made a lot of effort to get to know them, so this is all confirmation bias, but he feels like this city is like the Trueman Show town - filled with extras. ]