"It's trying to show me something that no longer exists, a part of the town I grew up in: the arcade, the ramen shop. But it is not the place that I long for - it is the people. And this could not replicate them." Which is good, he's not sure how he'd handle fake, virtual people acting like those he used to know. That would be more than a little unsettling.

"When that did not work it was cycling between the beach and the mountains."