AU where the Grid has its own version of “Hot Ones”, where the host invites various celebrities across the Grid to answer questions and eat various hot wings.
In the most watched episode, the host manages to get the Renegade on the show.
Now I’m wondering what hot wings would be made of on the Grid.
We know energy on the Grid can take the form of matter in solid forms as well as liquid (like Flynn’s pig roast) …but what would make it spicy??
Extra-strong condensed power?
Baked-in sensory programming?
Mild malware?
Those are all great ideas! I REALLY like the mild malware one. They’re taking that risk just to get a bit of spice in their lives
haha yeah!
Kinda like how the chemicals that make things spicy in the User world evolved as poisons to defend the plant from being eaten, but humans evolved enough resistance to the poisons that many of us can tolerate and even enjoy them
I imagine programs have just barely out-evolved the virus in their spicy food