There are a lot of cheat codes used in stuff these days.

You think?

Yeah, it’s started to be really popular.

If you say so.

No, really, like, start at the Matrix. The first, good, one.

Man those others were crappy.

They were but that has nothing to do with my point.

Sorry, go on.

Cheat codes! Like Matrix or whatever, any film with backdoors into reality, or the min, they’re all proposing cheat codes.

Yeah, I suppose they are. Well, but why wouldn’t people be fascinated by it?

Totally! It just makes me wonder.

Wonder what?

Well there are all these things about cheat codes…

Because people who grew up playing video games are writing this stuff now.

Sure, maybe, I mean that makes a lot of sense.

But you have some pet theory otherwise, don’t you?

Of course!

All right, let’s hear it.

So many references to cheat codes, right?

We agreed on that already.

Right. So what if it meant something?

Something like?

What if it were true? What if there was a cheat code for reality?

And what would it be?

The greatest of them all.

The Konami Code?

The Konami Code!

But how?

What if you were to follow the code, at some predetermined … location or in some way, and that would be the secret to everything?

I’m not seeing it…

What if you had to go to Macy’s, say, and go up an escalator then down another escalator and then left down one hall and right down another, and so on.

Where are the A B and start buttons?

Not in Macy’s, I was just making a point. See somewhere all of this exists, and when we find it we can step behind reality itself!

This sounds like a movie Fred Savage would have starred in, in the 80s.

An awesome movie Fred Savage could have starred in, in the 80s.