Integrated Reality offers the ultimate sabbatical The Hub This Earth’s virtual world is the grandest of all its modern wonders. Created from the unearthed internet of a past age which faced ruination, it is a connection from the present to both the past as well as the future. It started with text-based communication, then moved…
Post Game + 6-2: Excitable Berserker
The Hub, while populated with millions of NPCs, allowed every one of them have a life that started with a script and usually stuck to it. There were times, due to the dynamic nature of the digital realm, when a certain interaction with a user-based circumstance changes one of their kind in a way that…
The Ballad of Miracle Omega
Part I - Prototype My first memories are of an absolute state of confusion. The hundreds in attendance applauded wildly as my awareness blossomed into full-blown sentience before their eyes. Their efforts ensured that my mind was preloaded with all I needed to know about my situation. My state as a collection of harmonized senses…
On Gaming Addiction
If you didn’t hear it by now, the WHO recently classified ‘Gaming Addiction’ as a mental health disorder in the early days of this year or the late days of 2017. From there, texts started rolling in forwarding articles, and I brushed them off as absolute nonsense. If you don’t know by now, I have…
Feeding the Singularity
I get it. Everyone’s doing this, but isn’t the most common thing among us humans the fact that we’re unique? It’s something I’ve come to terms with... had to in recent years. At first, as the narcissist I’ve been claimed to be time and time again, I hated the fact that I wasn’t better than…
This Earth: A Fantasy World 