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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing. When they first heard about the contest, I was sitting in my hideout watching cartoons with the news bulletin broken on my video feed, announcing that James Halladay had died during the night. I heard of Halladay, of course, everyone had. He was the video game designer responsible for creating the Oasis, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality. Most of humanity now used on a daily basis, the unprecedented success of the Oasis and made Halladay one of the wealthiest people in the world. At first I couldn't understand why the media was making such a big deal of the billionaires death. After all, the people Planet Earth had other concerns. The ongoing energy crisis, catastrophic climate change, widespread famine, poverty and disease. Half a dozen wars, you know, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, yet died a 67 year old bachelor with no living relatives and by most accounts, without a single friend, Halladay had prepared a short video message along with instructions that have been released to the world media at the time of his death. He also arranged to have a copy of the video email to every single Oasis user that same morning. I still remember hearing the familiar electronic chime when it arrived in my inbox just a few seconds after I saw that first news bulletin. His video message was actually a meticulously constructed short film titled An Iraq's Invitation. The entire video was just over five minutes in length in the days and weeks that followed would become the most scrutinized piece of film in history, surpassing even the Zapruder film in the amount of pain staking frame by frame analysis devoted to it. My entire generation would come to know every second of holidays, message by heart.
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Action Star, Buddy, Dude, Everyman, Geek, Amusing, Animated, Authentic, Believable, Calm, Casual, Classy, Cocky, Approachable, Charismatic, North American (General)