
A computer gamer says he has been playing the same strategy game for 10 years – and turned the world into a “hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation“.

A computer gamer says he has been playing the same strategy game for 10 years – and turned the world into a “hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation“.

Marvin Jenkins had never been a man of means. Sure he ha worked some interesting odd jobs in his day: Bee keeper, pest exterminator, and even the pyrotechnics adviser for a few semi-famous bands, but he’d never been well-to-do or had much to call his own. That was OK, he wasn’t really into the materialistic things in life, and ever since he’d been declined active duty in the military services (chronic asthma and a gimpy knee, wouldn’t ya know) he hadn’t been much of a patriot either. When you’re not good enough to potentially die for your country, it can put certain things in perspective for a man.
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For something that only exists as a theory so complex that no two people can actually agree on how it would work, time travel is immensely popular. So much so, in fact, that whenever some yahoo comes along claiming to be FROM THE FUUUUUUTURRRRRE…OR THE PAAAAAAAST, WHICHEEEEEEEVERRRRR, people just wet themselves with excitement. And it doesn’t really matter how many times we’ve been burnt by fakes and hoaxes, we’re always ready to wet ourselves over the next big time lord. Observe: