September 22, 2020

I received a message on Discord from a friend updating me on her trip home. She said she felt a lot less lonely than she had expected, and that it was actually a little overwhelming. She sent me a short clip of a car driving out of a parking lot but everything beyond the parking lot itself looked like it was procedurally generated.

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I was playing as Kirby on the last stage of Risk of Rain 2. We had just beat the boss and needed to make our way back to the ship. Being Kirby, I simply floated back in a straight line instead of taking the long way around across the platforms. “Wow you can fly so far”, one of my friends commented.

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I was half-awake in the office and all of the dividers between our desks were gone. I overheard some of my coworkers discussing how they were planning to resign. Knowing that I was dreaming, I slammed a shelf with my hand as hard as I could. It still stung. I felt myself being wheeled around in my chair.