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The Walkthrough by ARichy.

What was the hardest thing you have ever done in your life?

I can honestly say that for me, sitting down for long enough to type out an entire book was pretty hard. Sure you get up and you walk around and you give up and you come back to it months down the line and repeat the process until the whole idea of the book sounds stupid in your head and you give up for good. Yes. That does happen. I have been told that I am a stream of consciousness type of writer, which made all of my teachers hate me and all of my writing look a lot more confusing than it should. I mean shit, can you understand what I'm saying so far? No? Look we've only gotten through the first paragraph… Give me a few to really see if you like my style.

Wait, you bought that? SWEET! Then let's get to the story; What was the hardest thing you have ever done in your life? I bet it wasn't writing a book. I doubt it had anything to do with literature at all. Unless, of course, you really sucked at 6th grade. Don't worry, I was the worst student. Not because I didn't try, but because when a teacher gave me a problem I would look at it and then go off on a tangent. I would always get the right answers on my math tests, but my methods drove my teachers mad. They just couldn't wrap their heads around how burritos fit into the algebraic formula for a trapezoid. I mean I really can't blame them.. I just liked to throw some of that in there because I could. I was great at keeping a thought process stable, while throwing in variables that were completely unnecessary. For example I would be talking about a story that I was supposed to be introducing to you and then go off on a tangent about my elementary school struggles, use the word burrito, then come all the way back to not actually talking about a story. Confused? Good.

I loved it. I really loved it. It was my first one, my only one in some sense. I had one for years before and had taken wonderful care of it, but it was just a little one. I didn't make it. But this one. The new one. It was flawless. It was mine, my baby, my little darling girl. I named her Shelby. She had a few flaws actually.. I mean for one thing I made her from spare parts… So she was really more like frankenstein's monster than any centerfold, but she was perfect to me. Nothing made me happier than coming home to my baby, and spending the rest of the night just staring at all of her parts. Eventually I was able to swap some of the spare parts for pieces that actually had some power behind them. She became a beast of sorts, powerful and precise. A machine, by all accounts. I loved her so much that I would daydream of playing with her at work. She would get so excited when I fingered the little button on her front, letting me penetrate her just far enough to get all of those little parts moving. LED lights would nearly blind me as she opened for me in the dead of night. Once I had spent enough time making her better and faster and stronger, she would give me just what I wanted within seconds of booting. That login screen would pop up with the default windows 10 pro background image. Another second and 10+ characters later and I was staring at my desktop, booting up a game and dissolving into a virtual world beyond our own where nothing was impossible. If you wanted to scale the side of a building, do it. If you wanted to fight dragons, do it. If you wanted to build your own scale model of our earth, build every corporation and every building exactly how they are to today's specifications, give them a stock number to import some actual data and then tell that world to keep going at 3000x normal speeds, You will see the rise and fall of future empires from your very own monitor. I am not kidding, anything that you can think of has been made into a video game. There is even a game for android that lets you help a mermaid give birth… Not everything you can do is necessarily good… like selling that same app to children… that was their target audience.. In case you think this is a joke, I am not kidding, it's called mommy mermaid newborn baby, and it is fucking scary ass shit.

(And you thought Shelby was a girl.)

(Ha.)

I have done some hard things in life; letting go, moving on, giving up, pushing forward, but it all took me down the same path. And my path was an odd one. I work in the IT department of some random medical clearinghouse in the backwoods of one of the most self centered countries in the world, the U.S. of A! If you live here as well, then you know one thing as well as I do! The world revolves around us. It's how the world works. The United States are a powerhouse of insanity. And technology is our new religion.

So I worshipped.

I logged into my steam account, made sure that my username was so long that anyone who tried to recite it during a game would stumble on the words and if they attempted to shorten it, I would ask them politely to try again at my full name. "It isn't hard guys, Its AceTopFragMasterNumberOneEliteAF. All you have to do is when the enemy is rushing you, say 'Hey AceTopFragMasterNumberOneEliteAF, HELP!' and I will help!" That day my teammates were not so incredibly fond of my demands, and I ended up kicked from the lobby for "Trolling." It wasn't trolling, I was simply asking for the respect of -fuck it, I was trolling. So I decided that I was done playing the games I was good at, I needed something new. Something difficult. Something that would push me to the edge and prove that I can't break, that I won't break! Well at least I won't break the monitor with my fist when I fuck up and have to start the game over. So I started looking. I couldn't find quite the right game to play on steam so I started searching the rest of the internet. I wanted something incredible. Something that would blow my socks off. Something with new mechanics that I hadn't seen ever before! Not even playing mommy mermaid newborn baby! I will hand it to the creator of that game, I have never seen anything so explicit, rendered almost childish before. However the key word is still "almost" as that game is completely inappropriate in all senses. Although, it was a very interesting set of mechanics. So obviously, when I couldn't find the game I was looking for, I went to bed.