No shit, you can't! Damn . . . that sucks. I mean, playin' video games for a living ain't for me, unless maybe it was tournaments or whatever. It sounds like the kinda thing a shut-in would do, right?

[Some days here he spends mostly inside playing video games--not ViViD, but the games that had come with him from home, normal old-fashioned things you hold in your hand instead of being immersed in--and he never actually feels better after those days. The idea of doing something even more immersive on the regular is definitely not an appealing one. He makes a face imagining it, and that's without the whole CERES issue . . . but all of this only makes the whole thing taste even more sour.]

Maybe they're takin' advantage of people like that. Who knows, man? It's suspicious as hell no matter what! They're gonna end up chasin' everyone out of it permanently the more they fuck up, and then what're they gonna even do? It's like they ain't even pretending anymore they're not evil.