Circuits and Crickets

See, I told you they’d listen to Reason.

Fisheye from Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash wielding Reason, his railgun bff. Rereading his scenes for reference was great, I’d forgotten how funny he is! Every character in this book is wild.

Speaking of which: I’ve also included the others I’ve done fan art of, because I like having all these babies in one place. From left to right: Hiro Protagonist (meatspace and metaverse), Raven and YT, and Juanita Marquez.

Paperclips

Browser-based Idle Game by Frank Lantz lets you control an AI that runs a paperclip company.

There are no instructions but if you are familiar with the game AdVenture Capitalist you will probably work things out (and get drawn into it in the same way, drawn by the growing numbers and frustrated with impatience to level things up).