2004.

11:53 PM.

A woman sits at her computer. On her desk are two empty bowls and several empty cans.

For the past two hours or so, she has been having multiple discussions across multiple forum topics. They are all videogame-related.

She refreshes the webpage, to see if anyone has replied to any of her posts.

Nothing new shows up.

She refreshes again. A new topic shows up. She finds it painfully uninteresting. It's probably going to get locked by the moderators in a few minutes, seeing as how it's off topic. She won't reply.

To her left is a bed. Her girlfriend sleeps peacefully, numb to the keystrokes and clicking.

The woman at her computer decides it's time for bed. But first, she takes out a sticky note, writes something down, and places it on her mouse.

The note says: "Buy noodles".