GAMING part 2 : When they tried to recruit me ... (Christmas edition)

Disclaimed (not a typo) : Intentionally WEIRD

Dominic Sedrani

17 Dec 2025 — 5 min read

Christmas presents!

Part 1 of this series can be found here.

And here comes part 2... As my present to you for Christmas.
(Not badly times is it?)

So... here is a little semi-autobiographical story of a character in a computer game...

And at some point in time... The creator of the game decided they wanted to "Recruit me" .

I was literally born and raised in the place where the purest whitest sand on planet earth is being hoovered up to create the most advanced computer chips possible.

My youth was literally filled with memories of swimming in the lakes that were formed by their hovering up of that sand... a unique kind of sand enabling them to do things no one else on planet earth could do.

As a child I lived in the physical domain of this company.

My entire professional career has been about computers and data.

And at some point in time...

...after having performed feats that amazed them beyond belief... (the results of which they stole obviously)

They made their biggest mistake ever.
And today... they have finally realized when they made their mistake.

A subsidiary of them , then housed in Silicon Valley near San Francisco (You just can't make this up can you?) ... tried to drag me into their dungeons of despair to control me, in an attempt to steal more.

And what they never realized... was that before that... I already knew... and I played along in a few directions since I needed to get to a very special place , in a very specific way.

I needed to get close.... but like... REALLY CLOSE to something specific.

That specific place, and that specific data , and that specific way was extremely well protected though.

So I had to recruit them into behaving the way I needed them to.

And since I gave them all the ways of how to do this... (Which they thought they could steal with impunity) ... I let them steal something else from me.

Something they thought would help them even more... But they forgot that they are not the ones that made the poisoned pills.
I did.
So I made another poisoned pill for them.... and let them steal it.

After that... All I needed to do was wait... and wait... and wait... sometimes perform a little show... and wait... another little show... and wait... and wait...

Untill...

They realized they were in my game.

Not theirs.

(Since it was never theirs to begin with. And of the two of us... I was the only one who still remembered that)

During this entire process... Which in your calendar years took about 13 years...

I was playing my game and having a enormously FUN time doing it actually.

During all those years I kept training and growing harder, better , faster, stronger... (We even made a song about that ;) )

and during all those years I saw them degrading into dementia...
(The hidden recipe in their new pill I made them steal from me)

Slowly... but surely.

It is inevitable. :)

Of course... having already won while training... All this fun started to get boring. (So I had them make a boring company, to increase some speed here and there)

And while spinning their wheels a little bit faster because I got bored...

I also went a little deeper... I mean... Since they were already taking me to that place where I wanted to go... I might as well make it more fun for me right? I mean... What would you do?

So we also went here...