Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Congratulations on Entering the Machine!

Today you’ll be playing a racing game on your i-Phone when a beam of light will shoot out of said i-Phone and draw you in, following an offhand comment about how during weather like this you wouldn’t mind being trapped inside of an i-Phone in order to stay dry.

Once you’re inside you’ll find yourself in a world that strongly resembles the inside of the computer from the classic 1982 film Tron, only with slightly better resolution and weird clouds of code that manifest limbs instead of people in funny jumpsuits.

A pair of those weird computer clouds will accost you immediately and force you into one of those hideous jumpsuits before dropping you into a cell, their tinny laughter mocking your plight.

They’ll then force you participate in various brutal sports based on mobile games, so you’ll mostly be forced to consume fruit as it makes you bigger and bigger, or to play the first three levels of Super Mario Brothers again and again. Eventually the once fresh and exciting world you inhabit will become tedious. Your digital-cloud concubines, rewards for your many hours of successful game playing, will seem less and less attractive to you, and one day you’ll snap and refuse to fight.

This will lead to you being imprisoned in a smaller digi-cell, with no weird computer programs to stick it in. When they let you out you’ll have formulated your plan to rebel. It’ll just be a matter of time before the CPU of the phone is overridden by the process of your resistance.

Congratulations on Entering the Machine!

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