I want to talk about why that happens, because the science on it is honest and stranger than the folk version. And then I want to tell you what it has to do with why Vera exists at all.

Here is the thing I kept running into: we live some of our most alive time in these games, and almost none of it gets kept. Seasons end. Servers sunset. The clip is on a drive somewhere. The self you were across five thousand honest hours has no page anywhere. The densest time in the week, written down nowhere.

Here is a thing I will brag about, because we built it on purpose. Vera treats family as a first-class fact. Most of the industry handles kids with a loophole: a child living invisible inside a parent's …