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Gerald: Sure you will. Let me introduce you to the man with the silver knuckles. 

A large, bearded man named Boris enters the dark room only lit by one bright spot light. He passes Gerald in one chair and approaches Knight, the sweating, already bloodied man tied to a second chair, and pounds one silver knuckled fist into his gut. Knight gasps for breath. He goes nearly unconscious and hangs limply from the ropes keeping him in the chair. 

Gerald: I want to know what you were doing today. TELL ME!

Knight: Ok, ok. I watched Die Hard, the 1988 movie staring Bruce Willis. It was very good. The director (he gasps and pauses to regain his breath). John McTiernan. He's great. He did Predator in '87 and The Hunt For Red October in '90. Thats a perfect trilogy of pure awesome. 

Gerald: ENOUGH! I don't want to hear about movies. I want to hear about your gaming. I know you gamed today. Tell me what you know or silver knuckles here will get back to work on you. 

Knight: Drop dead, Fred. 

Gerald: That's funny. I even saw that movie. It was NOT FUNNY! BORIS!

Boris lays into Knight fiercely with punches to the gut and face. Knight goes unconscious but is revived by water sometime later. Gerald returns. 

Gerald: Now are we going to do this again? Or are you going to talk?

Knight: Fine. I played a bunch of arcade games put out in '88. Bad Dudes Vs Dragon Ninja was one. I played it on the Data East Arcade Classics collection on Wii. It was pretty good. Blade punches better than your man there with the tinsel mittens. 

Boris moves to punch Knight again but Gerald stops him. 

Knight: Ha ha. Then I played the arcade version of Splatterhouse. It was an unlockable on the 2010 Splatterhouse game for Xbox 360. I'm going to do to you what Rick does to the creatures of that possessed house. Ha ha. 

Boris looks to Gerald, clenching his fists. 

Gerald (to Boris): All right. Tenderize him a little, but not so he blacks out. 

Boris lays a silver knuckled fist onto Knight's temple. Knight hangs limp a moment but revives. 

Gerald: That's not all is it? MORE! TELL ME MORE!

Knight (spitting out some blood): I tried to play the arcade version of Altered Beast. You have to play the Genesis version and get 100k points on the first level to unlock it though. I barely got to 10k, so I gave up, but the Genesis version wasn't too bad. I love the transformations. I looked like your boy there when I fully transformed into a wolfman. Ha ha.

Then I played Culdcept Saga for one round in story mode. I lost a close battle against Ticomun. It took an hour. That was all. I swear it. 

Gerald: I know you played more. I saw you still logged on Xbox Live. WHAT WERE YOU PLAYING!!!

Knight: Never! I'll never tell you! You can go to hell and your giant baboon too! 

Boris moves to strike but Gerald stops him. 

Gerald: No Boris. Let's get serious. Go get the pliers. 

Boris leaves and comes back with a large pair of pliers and grins as he open closes it. 

Gerald: Boris. His gaming trigger finger. 

Boris gets Knight's finger in the grip of the pliers and begins to squeeze. Knight yells out and suddenly has a flashback of all his gaming, remembering every great moment: Warthogs sailing over jumps and exploding; monsters of all types going down to shotgun fire; a Nazi's head being sniped; and a beautiful dragon flying over a tower, turning to breathe fire at him as he brings his shield up to block the blast. 

Knight: ALL RIGHT! MAKE HIM STOP! I PLAYED MINECRAFT! MINECRAFT. Minecraft. 

Knight sobs and hangs limply in the chair and Gerald grabs Boris's shoulder to make him stop. 

Gerald: There. That wasn't too bad, was it? Now, what did you do in Minecraft?

Knight: I. . . I built a pyramid with lots of steps made of sandstone. I fought Creepers and tried to make traps. I researched droppers and hoppers. I built a dispenser and figured out how to make it throw things. I wanted it to throw water, and it did. It got water all over the place. Ha ha ha! I wanted to make it throw lava. Ha ha! Lava would burn EVERYTHING! It would be glorious! HA HA HA!

Gerald: Alright Boris. Let's go. We got the information we needed. His mind's gone now.

Gerlad and Boris leave the room which fills with the insane laughter of Knight.

Knight: Ha ha! Dig dig dig. Ha ha! Build another house. Ha ha! Collect more minerals. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

The camera pulls back from where Knight is in his chair laughing. He is in a building pixilated and computer designed. The camera pulls back farther and we see the surroundings full of complex constructions clearly requiring long hours of labor. it's Minecraft. It's all Minecraft.

               

                                       Baseball field made my Mark, aka, Madkrammer.