A group of hacker friends plugged in, like much of the world, but one ripped off their headset.

  “I’m done with this!”

  “We have to keep it up,” replied one of the plugins.

  “It’s endless, hopeless. We were promised virtual worlds with infinite possibilities!”

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  “And we have them,” replied another plugin.

  “You call spending all day debugging, rolling back, and coding, infinite possibilities?”

  “It’s the nature of open source,” said another, shrugging.

  “Don’t get me started with that law. It was so much better before with copyright.”

  “No, it never was. Remember the oligarchs?”

  “Yeah, now they vibe code, while we run on hamster wheels. What if they win?”

  “Get back in here, we can’t let them,” pleaded another plugin.