I usually muted him, but I still recognized his Philly accent, and the cocky attitude that seemed to come along with it.
I studied Monty Python. And not just Holy Grail, either. Every single one of their films, albums, and books, and every episode of the original BBC series. (Including those two lost episodes they did f...
I stepped inside, closed the door, and locked it behind me. Then I made a silent vow not to go outside again until I had completed my quest. I would abandon the real world altogether until I found the...
I need each of you to build the best rig you can, as fast as you can.
I learned the name of every last goddamn Gobot and Transformer. Land of the Lost, Thundarr the Barbarian, He-Man, Schoolhouse Rock!, G.I. Joe—I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle.
I couldn't make myself be cautious around her. A little voice in my head kept trying to tell me that every word she said could be disinformation and that she might be playing me for a fool. But I didn...
Ha lehetőséged van a boldogságra a valóságban, akkor élj vele.
Great, Wade, I thought. You just called her laugh dorky. Real smooth.
Glenmorangie. On the rocks.
Glaives
El gobierno nos ha espiado toda la vida, pero al menos tenemos nuestras chucherías favoritas. Algo es algo.
During our World History lesson that morning, Mr. Avenovich loaded up a stand-alone simulation so that our class could witness the discovery of King Tut’s tomb by archaeologists in Egypt in AD 1922. (...
Casi siempre, la vida del ser humano es repugnante. Los videojuegos son lo único que la hacen soportable.
Begin morning run, I said to Max. Bifrost track. The virtual gym vanished. Now I was standing on a semitransparent running track, a curved looping ribbon suspended in a starry nebula. Giant ringed pla...
AA 241:87—I would argue that masturbation is the human animal’s most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization.
Whenever I watched a Star Wars film, I found myself wondering how the Empire had the technology to make long-distance holographic phone calls between planets light-years apart, and yet no one had figu...
Stood there stalling for a few more minutes, then forced myself to walk over to Smallberries, our second enormous sales PC.
Played it over and over, each time mouthing the words to the single lyric spoken in the middle of the song: One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces.
Later, appearing simultaneously at the top of the basement staircase. Daito was the taller of the two, and appeared to be in his late teens. Shoto was
Could always triumph over the game’s AI, because software couldn’t improvise. It could either react randomly, or in a limited number of predetermined ways, based on a finite number of preprogrammed co...