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Rain lashed against my office window when I first unleashed the Frost Giants. I'd spent weeks nurturing these lumbering beasts through skirmishes, watching their icy armor evolve from chipped blue plates to glowing crystalline fortresses. That Tuesday night, I was pinned against a player called "DeathBringer_77" whose dragon riders kept incinerating my front lines. My thumb trembled as I slid the giants behind his fire-breathing cavalry - a desperate flanking maneuver. The game's physics engine

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That godforsaken Wednesday started with rancid chicken juice leaking through my grocery bag onto the subway seats. The stench clung like guilt as commuters glared - my third failed supermarket run that week. By 8 PM, my planned dinner party was collapsing into charcuterie board despair when Emma texted: "Try that red meat app!" With trembling fingers, I stabbed at the screen of Licious, half-expecting another disappointment.

That moonless Thursday clawed at me long after midnight. Hospital beeps still echoed in my skull - Mom's pneumonia diagnosis hanging thick as the IV drip. Sleep? A taunting myth. My thumb moved on autopilot, scrolling through a graveyard of useless apps until Faladdin's cobalt-blue icon glowed in the darkness like a lighthouse. Not seeking answers, just... distraction. The tarot deck animation shuffled with a velvet whisper, cards flipping with physics so precise I felt phantom paper between my