...a small package which originated from an unassuming warehouse named for a dark and foreboding South American river (or a large woman). This modest parcel began its westward journey in a place that once struck fear into the heart of many a cow, and made it to the parched desert of Arizona, only to find itself inexplicably transported into...the twilight zone (aka Pennsylvania)
What if this is all just a game? What if the player got so caught up in the game that it no longer felt like a game. Odd things started happening because the game was not able to cope with the players psychosis and the code just didn't know what to do. NPCs started acting weird and the player not knowing what else to do just kept doing the same things and going deeper into the void. At some point the errors will catch up to the player and the game will crash or it will correct itself and kick the player.
What if all that and ITS A SINGLE PLAYER GAME!!!!!! What if the player realized this and kept playing because he didn't want to see the world end and was afraid of what was waiting on the "outside" what if its all just a game, what if its all just a game, what if.. 555 555 555 555 555 555 555 555 555 555 555 555 555 555 555
There appears to be a wormhole between Goodyear AZ and Harrisburg PA. I base this hypothesis on the lack of a departure record from Goodyear, and corresponding lack of evidence of it's arrival in Harrisburg.
The only logical explanation is a quantum tunneling effect. The disturbed quantum states of your package would account for its illogical routing to Hodgkins IL. Arrival and departure scans appearing at distinct, sequential times imply this transfer occurred in normal space. There may (or may not, or both, simultaneously) still be some quantum level instability with the package. This begs the question:
I can give you a real life example on how this stuff happens. Back in 1996 I flew on-demand air cargo out of Louisville. This is the location of the UPS air cargo sort facility. When a big UPS aircraft breaks they call outside operators for a bunch of smaller ones, break up the cargo into small bits and off we go to small cities to make up time. We could offload directly to a UPS truck to be delivered.
With these small aircraft the aircrew handles the loading. One day after delivering our cargo in some small mid-western town I noticed a very small package wedged behind a protective barrier. It sounded like pills in a pill bottle rattling around. I took the package and dropped it in the UPS box outside the airport office. I wonder if the package ever arrived and what the owner was thinking happened.
What if this is all just a game? What if the player got so caught up in the game that it no longer felt like a game. Odd things started happening because the game was not able to cope with the players psychosis and the code just didn't know what to do. NPCs started acting weird and the player not knowing what else to do just kept doing the same things and going deeper into the void. At some point the errors will catch up to the player and the game will crash or it will correct itself and kick the player.
I can give you a real life example on how this stuff happens. Back in 1996 I flew on-demand air cargo out of Louisville. This is the location of the UPS air cargo sort facility. When a big UPS aircraft breaks they call outside operators for a bunch of smaller ones, break up the cargo into small bits and off we go to small cities to make up time. We could offload directly to a UPS truck to be delivered.
With these small aircraft the aircrew handles the loading. One day after delivering our cargo in some small mid-western town I noticed a very small package wedged behind a protective barrier. It sounded like pills in a pill bottle rattling around. I took the package and dropped it in the UPS box outside the airport office. I wonder if the package ever arrived and what the owner was thinking happened.
Thanks for the info. I actually figured maybe it might have been damaged or lost at the Goodyear facility and UPS initiated a claim.
More Amazon shipping weirdness: the package left Wilmer, TX (Dallas/Ft Worth area) on Monday and overshot my house by about 300 miles. I wonder if it waved and thumbed its nose at me as it passed through Phoenix. It seems to have spent the night in Berdoo. I hope it had fun.
That happens. I had bike parts ship from Canada a few months back. The came through customs in NY and made it's way to MN (I think) before heading back across the country to me in NC.
