[WP] The world realizes it's a video-game/simulation when a programming error causes a glitch.

It was bound to happen. If you think about it, humanity will definitely have the technology to create vast universal simulations eventually. You also have to figure humanity will probably simulate things on the universal scale more than once. By that logic alone, the probability that we existed in the origin reality are 1 in however many simulations are made before humanity ceases to exist. But then you realize that the civilizations within the simulations will also have the ability to create their own simulations - it's a recursive philosophical and mathematical nightmare. The probability that we existed in the origin reality was literally 1 over infinity. I didn't like those odds.

Of course, there was no way to prove whether or not we existed. I was content in knowing that however unlikely, there was a chance that everything I knew was real. And so I lived my life in relative peace just like everyone else. That is, until the glitches began. It all began with the rather close star, Epsilon Eridani. It disappeared. Astronomers were baffled for weeks as the frantically searched for the star that didn't die, but instead vanished. They continued their frantic search until the second start went. The north star. Sirius.

It was a cascading effect from that point on. Soon nearly every star in the night sky was black. The very last star to go was our own. However, our star was different. Although it was completely black, it continued to provide heat and its gravity remained constant. No one knew what to make of it, until we began to point our most powerful telescopic arrays towards the sun.

 

In rather small letters, directly where the center of the sun should have been, the words "missing texture" could be seen. It was bound to happen.

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