I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.

Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn’t have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical.

Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.

I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Saturday morning cartoons like 'Star Blazers' and 'Robotech.' Live action Japanese shows like 'Ultraman' and 'The Space Giants.'

You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.

As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.