[b]Ernest Cline
Maybe it isn’t a good idea to tell a newly arrived human being that he’s been born into a world of chaos, pain, and poverty just in time to watch everything fall to pieces.[/b]
Let them find out the hard way…like some of us did.
I knew Knotcher was trying to push my buttons. Unfortunately, he’d pushed the big red one first.
Let’s all imagine Knotcher’s ghastly fate.
I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked.
Said the gamer shooting heroin.
You’d be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.
Or: You’d be amazed how much you can post here when you have no life whatsoever.
Our global civilization came at a huge cost. We needed a whole bunch of energy to build it, and we got that energy by burning fossil fuels, which came from dead plants and animals buried deep in the ground. We used up most of this fuel before you got here, and now it’s pretty much all gone. This means that we no longer have enough energy to keep our civilization running like it was before. So we’ve had to cut back. Big-time. We call this the Global Energy Crisis, and it’s been going on for a while now.
One possible future let’s call it.
When I reached the bar, I ordered a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster from the female Klingon bartender and downed half of it.