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- Underground eXperts United
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- [ AI ] [ By The GNN ]
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- "AI"
- by THE GNN/DC/uXu
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- "Visions, of the future..."
- (trust)
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- As he entered the arcade, he knew that this was something special. During
- the last years, arcade games had only been dumb machines who did what
- you told them to do when you pulled and pushed a joystick.
- But this was different. This was new. Everybody knew that the Virtual
- Reality thing that came twenty years ago was amazing but that was only
- child's play. The new AI games was the future. As always, there had been
- some hard criticism against the AI arcades and some people claimed that
- they had been brain-washed while playing. "Bullshit", he thought.
- Some people just can't stand new technology.
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- Everything was silent in the big room. Arcades used to be noisy places
- with sounds screaming from every direction. But now it was only
- chairs, with people sitting in them with a large helmet over their
- heads. Their eyes were dead, you could look straight into them but
- they wouldn't see you. They were at another place in their minds.
- What happened in their brains was a secret. He found it rather nice
- that no one could watch what he did when he played. It made him
- feel free, and that was the purpose. He loved it. Everybody did.
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- He looked around in the silent black room. Only one chair with the sign
- "World War I" was free. He walked to it and sat down in the comfortable
- chair. A voice started immediately to talk to him from above his head,
- where the helmet was placed. "Welcome to World War I. Please place the
- helmet over your head and wait". He already knew what would happen.
- He had played before. A few seconds passed and then "Welcome. The scanning
- of your files shows that you are healthy enough to play". That was
- something he didn't like. It used to say "completely healthy" but now
- it said "healthy enough". Could be anything which made it say that,
- from a small cold to cancer. Frustrating. "Your credit shows 10 ecu which
- is enough for you to play for 20 minutes. Do you want to continue?"
- It's strange how nice the voice gets when it talks about money he thought.
- "Yes", he said with a low voice. He didn't have to say it, the machine knew
- it already from the positive waves in his brain.
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- He ran. The gun in his hand felt uncomfortable heavy. The ground was muddy
- and it rained. Explosions and machine-gun fire was everywhere. Screams,
- blood and death. The rain felt like stones from the black sky. His brown
- uniform was wet. He had already killed many people when they attacked
- the small camp. But the backup from the german army was tougher than they
- ever could imagine. They must retreat.
- He ran. Only one mile left, then he would be back in safety.
- He made it. He survived. Life went on. He fought a couple of years more
- on the front and he survived every attack. More years passed.
- After six years, the war was over. He could go home.
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- <CLICK> "YOUR TIME IS UP!" <CLICK>
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- Light and a dizzy vision of himself sitting in the chair with
- a hi-score table floating over his face. He looked around and watched
- the big digital clock on the black wall beside him. Twenty minutes
- had passed. But he had been gone for longer than that. "Damn!", he thought.
- If he had got more credits on his account he could have fucked his AI
- wife in the game and later been elected to a AI president. He knew
- that because a friend of his had also played the game, but with more
- credits. It wasn't so bad anyway. He had been in the war, and six years
- was quite alright. "Ready?" a girl asked him who probably had waited
- for a while. She looked quite irritated. It was normal that people
- who just had left the AI game just sat and stared into the wall. They
- had a whole life to remember and that was rather overwhelming. He
- cleared his mind, looked at her, nodded and walked away. She sat down
- and placed the helmet over her head. "Welcome...".
-
- He felt quite relieved to hear some noise again. The street was as usual
- packed with cars who made a terrible sound compared to the silence in
- the arcade. His head was still a bit heavy from the WW1 experience
- but it would go away after a few hours. This time he didn't take any
- pills to forget all about it. He used to do that all the time when he first
- started to play. The memories was too much for him to handle. But now
- he just wanted to remember the shooting and explosions for a while.
- They would go away and disappear after a few days anyway. He liked
- the war games most of all. Many he knew only played "Life of..." games,
- which were games where you could be just another human, living a
- normal life. He didn't understand how people could play that kind of
- games. No action, just being someone else. "I spent 300 ecu once and
- lived a whole life in another town! It was great!", his girlfriend
- once said. That hurt! He said that if she didn't like the life she had
- with him, then she could go back and live her life in the arcade forever!
- She tried to explain, but he didn't care to listen.
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- A memory came back when he sat on the bus home. He had met a soldier in
- the game who turned out to be a german spy. He had been in charge of
- the execution. He chuckled and felt once again the good feeling of the
- kill. It was a strange feeling to have absolutely no idea who you
- really was in the game. But that was a part of it all.
- How could it be fun to live another life if you knew that you weren't
- that person? It would loose the charm if you ran around with an axe in
- ancient times, hunting trolls, knowing all the time that you are an
- 18-year old, living in the 20th century with no action at all.
- How could you feel any pain if you knew it was faked?
- He got some sand in his eyes when the bus rumbled away and continued.
- The sun shined on him. A short walk and then he was in front of his house.
- A small string of smoke came from the chimney and floated away with the
- light breeze. In the garden
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- hi-score table
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- <CLICK> "YOUR TIME IS UP!" <CLICK>
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- silence
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