The Digital Reliance Display

In order to truly appreciate the bitterness which spawned the Digital Reliance Display, one needs to understand the history behind its creator, the genius inventor Rudolf Yamazaki.

The alliance between the Germans and the Japanese had produced exactly two results.

One failed war effort, and one human being.

Born to an overly promiscuous Japanese fighter pilot, and a German nurse in the middle of World War 2, Rudolf Yamazaki was promptly abandoned by both parents.

One parent died in a heroic plane crash in a warzone, facing down overwhelming odds and going down in a flaming spiral of glory and flashiness, in a manner so manly that she almost believed her own lies about being male.

Rudolf's mother, a feminist so hardcore she enrolled in the army before women even had the right to vote, let alone enroll in the army. Far as Rudolf was concerned, Mulan was a ripoff of his mom.

His father stubbed his toe, walked into a potted cactus and fell down a flight of stairs before cracking his head open on a wall. An eight-year-old Rudolf found the body of his father, still clutching his toe, with his head split open.

He was scarred for the rest of life.

A life which only went downhill from there, as the Axis Powers quickly lost the war. Rudolf escaped the depression which Germany entered, after the war, by escaping the country altogether.

He didn't go to his other homeland, Japan, instead, he made his way to the one, the only, United States of America, in a journey so treacherous and scarring that Rudolf found himself face to face with a whale's anus.

Twice.

Nothing else that can be said about that journey can portray its scarring nature like that single fact.

One way or another, Rudolf had made his way to the city of dreams. New York. His German and Japanese genes led to a lot of discrimination in post-war America, but he also found that between the two sets of genes, he was perhaps the best engineer and inventor that had ever lived.

You might think that he would use his brilliance and his genius to do some real good in the world.

Rudolf could have invented the iPhone, or designed a Pringles can so revolutionary that you could actually fit your hand inside it.

You know, things of true genius.

Unfortunately for the world, that was not to be.

Steve Jobs, and Apple, went ahead and made the iPhone, but to this day, Pringles cans continue to be absolute shite.

But what's even more of a tragedy than Pringles cans, is what Rudolf did with all of that talent instead.

The Digital Reliance Display.

Rudolf's magnum opus, released at the ripe young age of 84.

The name sounds innocuous. Normal. Just another techno gizmo you might say, in today's day and age of 2019.

If you thought that, you would be wrong.

So wrong.

You don't even know how wrong you are.

The Digital Reliance Display, or DRD if you will, does something truly vile. Preposterous.

A device truly capable of ending the Earth.

'What does it do?' you might ask.

It tells you, truly and completely honestly, how completely and utterly addicted (or reliant if you will) you are to digital devices, on a scale of 1 to 100.