just remembered an \u201880s-90s sci-fi story I read (maybe in Sterling\u2019s Mirrorshades anthology, tbh)
where some kid was just discovering the VR frontier and one day he went out to some simulated pleasure pier on the nice not-destroyed-by-industrialization shore
and met some nice fresh young girl in a sundress or something, I\u2019m really trying not to picture Asuka here and it\u2019s hilarious how much I\u2019m failing
and there\u2019s textual scenery and disquisition about what computer-mediated living is like when you can just order up perfection but also it\u2019s a boy-meets-girl thing and he holds her hand and it\u2019s written well and you feel it
and there\u2019s some sort of emotional/revelatory climax as they\u2019re holding hands at the end of the pier watching the sun set over the simulated perfect California horizon and he\u2019s squeezing her hand
and the detournment is somehow he realizes she\u2019s an old perv who had that hand mapped to the dick in his haptic suit or something and just tricked this noob into jerking him off and everyone\u2019s laughing at him for being so naive as to fall for that old trick