Andy had a clash with reality. He found out, sooner than he expected, that real life wasn’t going in 1s and 0s, or, if they did, he didn’t hack their code just yet…so his girlfriend wanted to have their baby. He was going to become a father. Hmm, let us see. A hacker, spending 20 hours a day on his screen, being responsible for a living thing. A real baby. Andy was a still a baby himself, at least his sister would argue. And he thought being a father would not fit his plans: Loney Gloom wanted to become a famous hacker, not just a kidy coder. Loney Gloom’s future became very short all of a sudden. The kid had to face reality.
The same day, sister recalls, Kara left fairly quickly. After this one shout there were no shouts. It took her maybe 15 minutes before she was out the door, silent as always. Andy’s sister went to his room and knocked on the door. He told her to come in, she found him in front of his machine, hands on keyboard, but he was ‘as frozen’. Sister says Andy was weak, didn’t say a word, until he snapped at her: ‘get the fuck out of here, I have no time for this now’.
Later it bacame clear, that Andy’s brain was working as fast as the machines he loved so much: he already had a plan.