You 're an Olympian god trying to stay relevant in this modern age . [ EU ]

I turned on the machine and patiently waited for the loading screen to take me into the game. Selecting Capture the Flag, I saw that ~TheOwl~ was already playing and had been placed in the opposing team. She was of a higher rank than me, but that meant nothing. 
 
 Turning on my mic I spoke to the people on my team. 
 
 `` Alright everyone, we're gon na make these suckers go BOOM!'' 
 
 What better way to teach the children of this modern world a love for warfare? I lived for the carnage of the game, the bloodshed, the slaughter, the screams of the enemy as we wiped them off the face of the map. I detested above all the snipers, the tacticians. They did not respect the spirit of the game. 
 
 Time after time I manipulated the machine and sent in the bombs, the real heavy-duty stuff. I listened to the children squeal with anger and frustration, scream that I was a hacker, a cheat, that they did unspeakable things with my mother last night. Fools; I was teaching them the nature of life, of war, of the fight. 
 
 My side were unbeatable. We stole the flag time after time and planted it within our base, yet the game went on. A glitch, we presumed. With less than one minute remaining it looked as though victory was in our hands. We mocked the other team, spat insults at them, made them feel the humiliation of loss. I stood proudly in our camp, counting down the seconds until the end of the game. 
 
 From nowhere a hail of bullets rained down upon me, butchering myself and the others. I respawned quickly only to find that our all the defences around the base had been utterly destroyed, and soon I was sniped from an impossibly great distance. 
 
 I did n't lose hope, though my hands tingled with anxiety as the scores appeared on the screen. Rage seeped through me as all our scores appeared as `` 0''. I threw the remote and it disappeared into the white mists of mount Olympus. 
 
 A message from ~TheOwl~ appeared on my screen. 
 
 ****** 
 
 Dear AngryRam, 
 
; ) 
 
 xx 
 ****** 

