Who You Trying To Get Crazy With, Ese?

Remember the video game, The Sims?

Turns out, we're living in it.

That's what science wants you to believe.

At least, it's the most likely of scenarios, they say.

The most likely scenario is we are a simulation inside a simulation inside a simulation.

Like how you can play a video game in a video game.

Sims all the way down.

This might make you upset.

But me?

I'm dancin'.

Why?

Because I'm the baddest gamer out here.

At least I was.

When I was a kid in NYC, other kids and adults would watch me play.

Back in the day of standup systems.

At the corner bodegas.

Diners.

Liquor stores.

A lot of them would feed me quarters so I could keep playing.

And a few would stack quarters on the console (normally done to signify you had next), for these fine folks they wanted me to play for hours so they bankrolled me.

Venture backed before I hit double digits.

Where was I?

Sim City.

Oh right.

So life's a vidja game.

And I'm cool with that.

Also, our reality is not locally real.

So there's that, too.

Which is loco.

And, distance is fake.

Or at least, an illusion.

You and something on the edge of the universe can be, most likely are, part of the same dang system.

Which makes no sense.

So let's just take a minute to pause here.

Let go of the controller.

Drop it, I said.

Now, step back.

Take a deep breath.

If this is all a game, how you doing?

Is your PC doing well?

How is Player One?

And if you looked at the world around you as video game characters, maybe the world makes a little more sense.

There's a bit of GTA, Red Dead, Madden, Harvest Moon, and No Man's Sky all out there.

To name a few.

So what's your game?

And how you doing in it?

And, if this is all one, who's the dev?

What studio is behind all this?

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Wow.