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Another Tuesday night, fluorescent lights humming like angry bees as columns G through L blurred into a grayish smear. My knuckles ached from gripping the mouse, that familiar spreadsheet vertigo making the walls pulse. Then it happened - my phone buzzed with a notification I'd programmed weeks ago: "Ocean o'clock." Salvation disguised as a pixelated tide washed over my screen.

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Rain lashed against my office window as the third error notification popped up - another corrupted dataset. My knuckles whitened around the coffee mug. That's when I swiped left into my secret shame: the apocalypse playground. Not for catharsis, but for cold, calculated vengeance against physics itself.