“Ticket
please.”
St. Peter*
#quote
Today I went to
a card game tournament and then another normal card game
afterward(Tournaments are more structured, the normal thing is more
casual play without pre-set matches). It was a lot of fun, but I'm a
little tired so I got a smidgen of writer's block and couldn't crank
out something new, so instead I dove deep into the archives of the
blog to give you a story from quite awhile ago that you probably
won't remember so you can enjoy it all over again. Or enjoy for the
first time if you're newer haha.
Anyway onto the
flash fiction!
The
Psychic-Social Network
“Hello!” A
man wearing trendy clothes said from the start of a tv commercial.
Millions of people had already seen this man's face as this
commercial had been aired during hundreds of different tv shows and
on tons of additional websites. He had even been shown during the one
hundredth super bowl. “In this age of psychic technology, where
everyone has cybernetic communication implants in their head, you
can't ignore the potential of this technology.” The man then turned
to a woman next to him in the commercial, “Now tell me, how do you
usually share psychically share a thought with a friend?”
The woman then
responded, “Well I think of that person, then the thought, then it
transfers.”
“And isn't
that such a bother?” he said to her. “Well me and my friends at
The Psychic-Social Network have come up with the perfect psychic
social networking tool. What you do is sign up for our service. And
once you have an account you can choose to connect to other people to
send or receive thoughts from them automatically without thinking
about it. All you have to do is use our site to register them. You
can do hundreds or even thousands of people. Celebrities are on our
service so you can know what they're thinking. Of course there are
filters so you can choose what kind of thoughts you send and receive
in regards to which kinds of people. In fact I just got a thought
right now from famous actor,” the host of the commercial paused to
put as much emphasis as possible on the licensed cameo name, “JACOB
SMITHSON WOODS” he then took another pause to let the popular name
sink into the audience's brain, “About how excited he was about his
next upcoming movie 'Attack of the Killer Tanks From Space'. And if
you sign up for our service today you'll probably be able to
psychically link up to him and receive some of his thoughts.”
That
was true that on the service you could sign up and receive his
thoughts. Though he largely filtered most of them so that his 'fans'
would mostly just get absurdly vague things or happy, mundane things
about how happy he was about the weather. If all of his thought
filters were down then the fans signed up for the service would get
his depressed thoughts about his drug problem that was currently
hidden from the media.
“Is there
more?” the woman asked the host.
The host
smiled, “Yes! On our website each user gets their own customizable
Memory Page! Here they can upload their picture and their memories
straight from their brain to keep and share with everyone they want
to! They can choose specific people, certain categories of people or
just keep it to themselves. Oh and of course,” the host paused,
“JACOB SMITHSON WOODS, has his own memory page where he put tons of
memories for everyone who signs up for the service to see. All
someone has to do to experience a memory from that persons
perspective is to go sign into our service then click on it and it
will download straight into their brain. It's so simple.”
“So sign up
today!” the woman in the ad said as the website url appeared at the
bottom of the television screen.
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