I met the narrator of this story at a friend's dinner party. When he started telling this story, everyone's jaws dropped to the floor. It's a tale about a guy who becomes addicted to the multi-player on-line video game "Star Wars Galaxies." Very quickly, the character gets to a point where he's spending every waking minute in the game, and 'real life' (which he refers to as R.L.) takes a back seat. Without giving away a climactic plot twist, I'll say that this story is about a group of people who become thoroughly incapable of distinguishing between fantasy and reality.

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I met the narrator of this story at a friend's dinner party. When he started telling this story, everyone's jaws dropped to the floor. It's a tale about a guy who becomes addicted to the multi-player on-line video game "Star Wars Galaxies." Very quickly, the character gets to a point where he's spending every waking minute in the game, and 'real life' (which he refers to as R.L.) takes a back seat. Without giving away a climactic plot twist, I'll say that this story is about a group of people who become thoroughly incapable of distinguishing between fantasy and reality. This story aired originally during a local arts & cultu...
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