It had no face. Just a smooth, featureless head that shimmered with chromatic aberration—red and cyan fringes dancing along its edges. Its clothes were a collage of missing textures: magenta and black checkerboards, placeholder wireframes, the words "FILE NOT FOUND" printed across its chest in Arial Black.
And in the background, hovering just over the horizon, was a low-poly figure holding a camera.
Rico refreshed the download page. Network error. He refreshed again. Connection timed out.