You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you externally well.

This is our second to last story for the month of January 2022, issue 184.

I hope that the month has been treating you kindly. I want to thank you for taking the time to spend it

with us. Thank you for your ongoing support. Please go to Clark's World Citizens.com to see

how you can be a part of the magazine each and every month. We can't do this without you.

We're just 10% of our listeners, of our readers. Don't need a dollar or more each month.

Neil and I could be doing this on a full-time basis. So with that said,

our second to last story was titled Learning to Hate Yourself as a Self-Defense Mechanism

is by Andrea Cruz. Andrea Cruz can be found at andreacruz.wordpress.com. She is a Ph.D.

scientist and biological and biomedical sciences, writing for Massachusetts. Her stories are

upcoming in Asimovs and have also appeared in light speed and nature among others.

You can find more with the story's resistance in a drop of DNA and Communist computer rap god.

So, my dear listener, I beg you to sit back and let me tell you a story.

Your friend releases a virtue game. You shouldn't play it. She says dismissively when you ask.

It's not really your thing. You listen, but it becomes impossible to ignore when, despite

being ironically titled Best Game. It appears in glowing review after review from your favorite

virtue tubers, which you avoid watching and highly upvoted posts on the virtue forums you frequent,

which you avoid reading, then on the list of top 10 indie virtue games of 2045.

Finally, it's about to win the inaugural greatest virtual game of all time, GV Goat Award.

If it gets first, it'll be streamed for free to every gamer with a set of VR goggles,

billions worldwide. So, even if it's not really your thing,

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