"Until I realized -- there's like this one moment where he blinks, that's when you can -- YES, YES -- " "It took you two hours to actually beat this part, but once you figured it out -- " "I wouldn't go to bed until I made it -- " "Your heart was pounding, you were shaking"
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"Because I felt like a genius, I felt like I was on top of the world -- " "You smiled for the rest of the week, you couldn't wait to get home from school" "I couldn't talk to anyone about it, everyone would've mocked the hell out of me, but it was... the happiest I'd ever been"
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"Remember? It was echoing in your head even two years later, when you were failing out of Algebra 1 Your teachers told your parents to take you to a doctor, get you put on Ritalin" "And I was terrified of it, and I told myself I didn't need any fucking pills"
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"And the music was still playing in your head" *tinny 8-bit music slowly turns into an orchestral score, pixelated image turns into a real fight scene with real actors* "I didn't even think -- you're right, it was... that was what was in my head when I said it..."
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"You've been saying it every time, any time someone tells you you can't do something" "I would... I would feel like throwing up and I would dig my nails into my palm, and I would say You can beat this There's always a way You're smarter than this fucking game"
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"That's what you told them when you were featured in Forbes 30 Under 30, wasn't it? You said it was your father who taught you that lesson, but -- " "Dad never taught me shit, he didn't care It was... it was here, in this musty basement It was all here"
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"Every day, you would come home from a school where your peers tormented you and your teachers held you in contempt, to an empty house with parents who didn't care about you" "And I'd... I'd walk into a world that hated me and wanted me to fail And I would beat it, and survive"
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"I would go looking for enemies and challenges, daring the game to get harder and harder Because I knew I was smarter than the game and there was nothing they threw at me I couldn't figure out Every day I would come home, and I would win the war, and I would save the world"
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*jump to 35-year-old Scrooge* "Because that's the world we live in, Bella Maybe your parents raised you differently, maybe they sheltered you from it But it's a fucking war out there Every day's a new crisis they throw at me and there's a million people hoping for me to fail"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I'm being picky, but wouldn't a 35 year old be Gen Y?
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We're still in the past, this scene (Scrooge getting dumped) takes place around Y2K
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Replying to @arthur_affect
She's suddenly older than me rather than younger
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