Ooooh . . .

Excellent story!

much thanks to you Walt... much thanks...

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Oh my.

Bunners

made me smile...

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How very USS Callister. ^.=.^

USS Callister???? I'm old and borderline forgetful... ok... a lot forgetful - you'll need to explain...

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It's an episode of Black Mirror. The premise is that it's a Star Trek style ship and crew on this online video game. Except it's actually the genetic memory of the people the "captain" works in an office with on the same video game project. The digitised version of the colleagues of the "captain" then stage a coup in order to free themselves of his control.

Oh my... good one... I used to love the Holo-room in Star Trek...

You gotta watch them foxes. Sneaky critters. Always coming after the chickens with Glocks, harassing the cats with switch blades and what not. I ain't skeered, tho. I got my trusty AK right over there...

Well crap.

we are sneaky... *smiles and a gold fang shows through...

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GAME OVER, MAN! GAME OVER!

*chuckles... oh yessssss...

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Now that was an interesting tale...

*smiles very big... ty ty ty ...

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You are welcome dear heart

I've said this before and I'm going to say it again, are you sure you're not related to Rod Serling?

Nice work.

Highest compliment ever... thank you John...

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Even for a writer who already has a strong talent, this story stands out as something special. It's creative and clever and leaves the reader thinking.

One tiny correction: Alfa is or was a brand of dog food. Alpha is the word you were looking for. *chuckles*

*laughs!!!!

I totally did not know that!

And thank you so much for that compliment. I very much appreciate it.

*hugsssss...

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I didn't know 'Alfa' was a dog food brand, I thought of the car manufacturer, Alfa Romeo, when I read that bit *guffaws*

Indeed, the idea of video game characters becoming self-aware is pretty terrifying when you think of things from their perspective, lots of story potential there.

The ending also reminded me of what happened when Ultima Online launched back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFNxJVTJleE&list=PLKBPwuu3eCYkScmqpD9xE7UZsszweVO0n

I had a funny one happen today... while I was in a game, I had to field a phone call from the body shop, and while I was on the phone, there was this clown character that kept killing me. When I could again concentrate, I took great pleasure in blasting the living daylights out of him.

Bwahahahahahahaha.....

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I've had that happen a few times as well. Just yesterday I was kicking back and enjoying a good simcade racer, had an event about to start - someone messaged me about a moment before the actual race began; leading to a moment where my virtual Jaguar just sat on the starting grid for close to a minute as I rushed to check.

Eventually just went "screw it" and the lost ground did little to change the outcome.

That kind of thing is at its worst in online games though, simply because there's no way to hit 'pause' short of exiting the session.

How perfect that the clown that had it out for you, you gave him the punchline in return. *chuckles*

now that was an interesting video... I do remember when the games looked like that, and it would seem the creators discovered mankind's bloodthirsty ways...

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Indeed, they were so focused how non-human animals were like, they forgot how the human ones tend to act.

I can actually see that happening... a world within a world, within a world... now asks the question, if a gamer were to find this world, would he want to leave?

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