a string of characters immediately became a community i had joined. unbeknownst to me, a digital battle front. id visit daily.
i was in. 

our brains are exploitable; the product of billions of years of brute force code changes that trended toward optimizing on what human life was many thousands of years ago. to the user, processing flaws are typically invisible. default mode is to assume no flaw; unsurprisingly. 

having been there at that time changed me. where were you the last time being online changed you?