I like how he truly seems to be into the internet and chose books as a vehicle.
At any d&d table there’s usually 1-2 people who can bridge fantasy and reality and make them both better. Then there’s people who live in fantasy. And of course there’s mundies/normies/whatever who are in reality and would never spend hundreds of hours in make believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JoTw_JuE78
really, both are highly ambitious nerds who apply systems thinking to the real world.
Early this winter I had a huge Deus Ex Déjà vu when I was walking in the along the river and someone with a mask was hunched over a barrel coughing (not on fire though, but my imagination filled in that gap). Also during a day when Bitcoin was in the news.
Pandemic circumstances predicted.
It all starts with a pandemic.