The progress bar didn’t move horizontally. It moved vertically, a thin green line sliding down his screen like a tear.

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Elias was a digital hoarder, a collector of tools he never used but felt he might need one day. His latest obsession was 3D modeling, and every forum pointed to the same legendary toolkit: HardOps and BoxCutter. But at nearly forty dollars, it was forty dollars more than Elias wanted to spend.

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