“I agree,” said grandma, “the more families and friends who reconnect, the more it validates your truth. More people will talk about it, more people will understand.” “But it still wouldn’t be enough,” countered granddad. “Even if there were millions who believed, they’d be overrun by the tens of m
Past that, the naked human eye wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. But it was still necessary to go a bit higher, so that any downsampled visuals would still look crisp and clean. So everyone pretty much settled on 16k. This meant that raw 16k video files were positively enormous, and Mack ha
The bluish light of a white dwarf star broke the dawn on the purple planet far below. Meanwhile, stars glittered in the vast darkness of space above. A fighter screamed by, its guns blazing. It was very quickly followed by nearly a dozen more, all of which were similarly designed and bore the same
The six mecha made short work of the entire base and quickly located the goods they were hired to retrieve. One of the storage rooms was filled with blue metal crates emblazoned with a logo of winged laced sandals. Once they uploaded the location of the cache to their employer, the contract was dee
Both of them smiled, and looked straight into the camera and waved. “Hello, I’m Freya,” said the larger one. “And I am Raijin,” said the other. “We used to be from Earth,” said Freya. “Not the one behind us, but the one you’re on.” “The two of us used to play Bellum Aeterna and disappeared,” sai
Hundreds of thousands of people in both universes watched the Ravens’ trailer video. Some enjoyed it, some didn’t. A number of people certainly engaged with it, and left all sorts of interesting, funny, and entertaining comments. In Eva’s universe, the comments were mostly positive. She and Miko go
Over time the subscribers grew to multiple millions, and became the number one best-selling game of all time. They couldn’t help but fall in love with it. After all, the players could get everything they wanted from it. Their characters had wealth, status, power, and influence. It was as though the
“Alright, talk to all of you later!” said Eva. She waved at the EyeCast and ended her stream. She was previously discussing a few things with Miko, the family, and Mack. Their numbers had done a little better and reached some people on both sides, but the results weren’t mind-blowing. Not that an