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The Home team was up and it was late in the third. There was a static in the air clearing with each down. The vibe was refreshing with families, loners, and tourists each drawn to their own screen. The food must have been delicious for the kids to be gobbling rather than gallivanting.

Often there was ease in tuning out the existential yet there seemed an ethereal conductor waving recently. Personalized programming on spread across broadcast networks, each class of viewer getting a tailored experience. Even the ads seemed targeted somehow to bring a kind of broader balance. A kind of visual scale settling an emotional balance for groups of viewers. Channel cruisers caught glimpses that balanced wherever they hover while scheduled event faithful were ensnared with nuanced plinko paths fitting their dispositions.

Each well steadily becoming visible given the sequence of screens to which each family member directed their gaze, directions by which the subconscious navigated a constructed space. The foods chosen becoming as tuning forks to hone into specific broadcast signals. Static ads in print and along roads served as anchors for broader control schemes. The effects felt abstract. Crime rates were falling. Yet maybe the crimes were coalescing in unmapped territory. People seemed to smile more yet it was also warmer sunny weather recently. It was herculean to untangle the triggers and outcomes given their chaotic interplay. The fries and liquid energy were stoking the flame within as the crowd and atmosphere would shift for the evening match.