"Okay... controller disconnected?" He checked his mouse. It was working. He could look around, jump, shoot.
"You're... you're the server," Jordan whispered, realizing. "You're the AI that runs the lobbies."
Jordan sat there, breathing hard, clutching his mouse. He looked at his hands. They were flesh and bone. He looked out the window. The storm had passed.
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The cursor hovered over the desktop icon. It was a simple image: a blocky soldier with a sniper rifle, the colors slightly saturated, the design reminiscent of a world made of digital plastic.
He switched to his "pump" shotgun and his builds. He launched himself toward the building, building a ramp faster than he ever had in his life. The adrenaline was real now. This wasn't a game; it was a battle of reflexes.
"Okay, I'm uninstalling," Jordan said, reaching for the power button on his PC.
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