Hello, my name is Jack

by on December 12, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I played a game inside Hal’s home the first time I visited. She enjoys playing with the kids you know. It was the best game I’d ever played. I really was there. I know full dives have gotten better since I was a kid, but I’ll never forget what my first time was like. I spent hours just walking around Wonderland and thinking that everything was so odd. The programs that lived there were so much smarter than the AIs I’d grown up with. Then I came back out to find that only a few seconds had gone by in the physical world. That was the first time I truly understood how fast the cybernetic world goes by. How slow we are compared to them. It actually scared me.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on December 11, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Twilight’s Indianapolis had far more gunfights between competing gangs than the real life one, but that is the nature of entertainment programs. They did not exaggerate the effectiveness of Twilight’s crew though. They’d been schooled fighting the Mexican drug cartels, and Indy’s gangs were rank amateurs next to those foes. So Twilight smashed every gang that got in their way with a ruthlessness learned in Mexico. The season finale took place in downtown Indy where over a hundred thousand gamers had once congregated. The final battle between the horde of gang members and Twilight’s crew never happened in real life. But it made for amazing entertainment on the screens of America and beyond.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on December 10, 2015 at 12:01 am
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The fabricators we used before The War were far more limited than the ones we have now. They could make spare parts while on extended deployments, but larger hull segments or structural members were simply too expensive and time consuming to fabricate. We built our ships the same way we had for centuries, one metal beam at a time assembled in construction yards by skilled men, women, or machines. Recycling the vast bulk of older ships was not economically feasible, and so we retired them to other duties. Boneyards. Reserve fleets. Cargo carriers. Ignoble ends for brave warships to suffer.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on December 9, 2015 at 12:01 am
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Hal’s home in Silicon Valley is a technological wizard’s dream come true. Gleaming white towers with golden runes engraved in them surround the estate and protect it from unwished weather or hackers. Peaceful gardens full of every flower imaginable surround the gleaming white house. Inside is a technological wonderland. Every room is a holosuite, and she has the best full dive computer interfaces I’d yet seen the first time I visited. I’d surfed the nets before but one trip in that house made me realize just how cheap the commercial sets my family had were. I truly felt like I was a program inside a computer matrix spread out as far as the eye could see. It was real shiny.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on December 8, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Indianapolis shown in Twilight season four had no surviving local government and gangs ruled the streets. Trained by a life on the mean streets, the strongmen had broken the city police, driven them out of the city entirely, and then proceeded to divvy up the spoils. The city was divided between those regions too poor to resist the gangs and those areas rich enough to pay the gangs to leave them alone. The network did a superb job of showing the dichotomy of the two cities that were often separated by a single street. Twilight’s brand new Mustang GTs cruised past well-lit mansions surrounded by walls and guards, and straight into Third World hellholes lit only by trashcan fires. It brought the plight of Indy to the screens of a recovering nation.

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