Then the server admin messaged him: “Hey, Eli. Your mouse is doing 200 clicks per second. Macro software isn’t allowed. Banned for 24 hours.”
Then the screen flickered. A dialog popped up:
For twenty-seven glorious minutes, Rustangelo moved his mouse in hypnotic arcs, dipping brushes, mixing colors (well, the nine colors Rust allows), and painting a violent, beautiful scene. The dragon’s eye was especially good—a flickering orange gem.
“Good enough,” Eli muttered.
He sighed, deleted the program, and spent the next hour manually painting a stick figure holding a sign that read: “BANNED FOR BEING POOR.”
It got seventeen upvotes on the server’s Reddit page.
