SIMULATION THEORY

My player wants me to drive myself into the ground. But I won’t do it. Because I am a hard man for dead. And because I have faith in the computer programmer, otherwise known as God. And because I still love the gal, no matter how much rejection. Then again, maybe my player wants me to make the comeback of a lifetime and get the gal. Hope, after all, is often how my player pulls the rug out.

What is your master player doing to you/ for you?

Are you entertaining your player?

It looks to me that you are confusing a player with the referee.

video game Player, but yes, middleman