April 22, 2017

The display fridge was lined up with half-missing containers of Caesar salad. I wandered around the aisles of the store, thinking that I should buy something before I got onto my flight. I settled for a Chinese smartphone that was up for 100 bucks. It had a bunch of pirated mobile games on it as well as cheats for said games installed. Someone told me that typing the words “yuui amber” in the keypad was the cheat code for everything. I keyed it in out of curiosity and it simultaneously unlocked the phone and opened up a game.

The game was a city builder and I quickly realized that I wasn’t actually able to play the game. Any input I made was fed into the cheat program which then just boosted some stat/resource on the screen.

As I continued to actually try to play the game while sitting in the backseat of a car, the phone itself had turned into a flip phone.