[ WP ] The amount of people you have killed in video games counts towards how many people you 've killed in real life . Today , you are being tried for the deaths of 10,928,034 people .

The numbers choked him like a noose and his mind whirled in gibbet pirouettes. 
 
 It had been such a simple game; click, and people died. Click again, and more died. He remembered the way the screen seemed to burn his eyes when he leaned in too close and the gory spray that awarded every *tap* of the mouse. And who could have blamed him for playing? Video - as hushed tones deemed it - was hard enough to find. The dead man got a perverse sort of joy out of playing it: he knew that violence was bad, that had been drilled into him as a youth, but when he first clicked to open the computer game that all seemed to drip out of him like lost lies. The memories shuddered and clung to his grimy keyboard and died. He did not feel them. 
 
 He knew he would get caught - somehow, they always knew. You forget to use a false flag IP or a suspicious family member sniffs around. Somehow, you always got caught. And the penalty for it made the dying man shudder - he had seen the hollow eyes of those who came out of government testing, their dead fish eyes and the curdled-milk pallor of their skin. 
 
 And so he sat quietly in his cell, legs shaking in front of his wire folding chair, and did not eat - he could n't stomach it. It was red vege-sup. It reminded him of blood. 
 

