1 I'm pretty good at programming

Hi my name is Philip Lee, my friends call me cheese steak, (you know like the popular sandwich mainly known in Philadelphia aka the Philly cheese steak), I hate it, this is a story about my past life and my current life. In my past life I was pretty damn good at programming!

At a young age around 9, I taught myself all the programming essentials such as D-sharp, Espresso, Cobra, pretty much everything you need to make or break programs and video games.

Now, that definitely helped me in my adult years before my accident.

I was a 33 year old man of about average height and average build, I'm not too bad looking I guess, I have short dark hair unkempt mostly, and dark eyes. Yeah pretty average right? But I still managed to find myself a wife, and keep myself employed. I work for a company called MassiveHard.

In my day to day I would develop programs and write code for existing program aka updates.

I lead a pretty regular life, I got paid pretty well which supported my passion and hobbies easily.

In my free time as a side project I made cheat engines for video games.

Now A little info on cheat engines.

A cheat engine is a program used to attach itself to other programs being used on your PC namely video games.

While you can attach them to other programs to see stats of said programs they really only shine when used in conjunction with videogames.

For instance, you can attach the cheat engine to say a First person shooter. There you can search values you see on screen like how much ammo you have and you can set it to a really high number making you never run out of ammo.

The possibilities are only limited to your imagination while they are mostly illegal to use online for multiplayer type videogames, One could use them in a more personal setting whilst playing solo.

let it be known I am a huge nerd, I play video games I read manga and web novels, watch anime and generally just indulge in all that it is.

But my most favorite thing I love to do is to spend time with my wife and our young daughter Sarah.

Sarah was a ballet star! (not really as she was only 7) and three times a week I'd take her to practice and usually a recital somewhere sporadically throughout the month.

But weekends were our time! We'd stay up all hours of the night playing video games and binge watching anime.

Oh boy let me tell you my wife would get so mad at me staying up late with my young daughter who is quickly gaining interest in video games and anime.

but still I snuck our little girl to watch anime and play video games whenever work allowed me, this is saying a bit much but we'd play anything and everything.

From RPGs to FPS, hack and Slash, multiplayer games, platformers to metroidvanias.

as for anime and manga, she was such an action fan she loved her action anime and I was right along with her I enjoyed every moment I could with the loves of my life until that fateful day.

The neighborhood we live in believe it or not still delivers milk to our doors a little company called milk mustache not sure why it's called that but their trucks are even decked out with a little mustache and the head lights look like a set of eyes.

I laugh every time I see that that rusted off white truck drive down our way too suburban street and the woman hurries out, also with a mustache ( yes it's fake) to brings us our milk, oddly enough her off white uniform matches the truck.

It's small monthly charge but it's kind of cool and pretty convenient.

so what you really need to know right now is I'm dead and yes there's an afterlife no there isn't one God but multiple gods there is no heaven or hell just computers... and people sitting at computer desk in front of these computers.

as I am regaining consciousness I noticed all this and I thought I must be in hell I don't want to be at work forever but that wasn't it.

I'm helped to my feet by some blank face stranger who then just waves me off and keeps going his direction.

I notice lines the longest lines you've ever seen multiples hundreds and hundreds of lines full of thousands and thousands of people.

Obviously without seeing the room I'm in is huge not trying to sound like a cliche but it's just a room of white light, cloud floors, and barely visible computer desk.

So I start to head towards one of the entities, people in the lines are looking at me oddly.

I ignore their leers and keep walking then I hear someone shout!

Now I'm not the type of person who likes fights and I'm definitely not the type of person to initiate one so I take off running I'm running and soon the shouting fades as I come to a door?

I'm not sure what it was, it had a doorknob made of gold and what looks like.. and this might sound weird.

Big fluffy white cloud trim and a white door as I scan this door I noticed some red the lettering that says employees only!

yeah go figure I walk in and right before my eyes is the largest desktop PC I've ever seen well in my 33 years of life.

It's at least three stories tall and just as big as any building I've ever seen outlined in the most brilliant gold edging and a sparkling mostly translucent white face and side.

My first thought is, how the hell did they fit this PC through that tiny door!

My second thought was what kind of calculations do you do with a PC this big.

Jackpot I think to myself a USB slot thinking to myself maybe I'll satiate my curiosity and climb through this bad boy and see what kind of processor it has if anything familiar.

Doubtful though as I'm climbing through I hear an announcement I think a females voice it sounds off though like two voices at once.

GOD engine commencing download, downloading to USB 3000 slot I chuckled to myself and I keep climbing all of a sudden I feel this terrible jolt throughout my whole body as if I was getting struck by lightning for an extended amount of time.

I'm ejected forcefully from the USB slot through the door feeling it easily splintering and then also disintegrating on my back causing a pain I've never felt before, before crashing into a few people that were standing in line. While this softened my landing, it definitely pissed them off.

So I run like hell (heaven?) to the front where there is a man in business casual sitting at a PC desk.

Out of breath and halfway screaming "help me, there's people chasing me and I was just electrocuted I don't know what's going on here but I need to see your manager!"

The guy laughs and says with that type of humor you'll only see in anime "you'lldo great in this world." he literally stands up and punches me in the face never been punched before so I'm obviously knocked completely out.