Great Spirits

It was 30 days before Joe's latest visit to Bart, and he was playing Ms. Pac Man on an immaculately preserved cabinet in Cody's basement.

"Cody, who's the Great Spirit, you think?" Joe asked, deftly picking up the fruit for this level.

"You, of course," Cody deftly replied. "Just look at you. You started the game, you give the meaning, you decide the meaning. Well, you, Doug Macrae, John Tylko, and Kevin Curran."

Joe turned and stared at Cody, ruining this attempt at a one-life runthrough up to the first playability-ruining glitch. "You can name the programmers by heart?!"

"Yeah..."

"But you still suck at Ms. Pac Man after all these years?!"

"Love doesn't have to mean skill, you know... I can't claim credit for that thought by the way, Kate told me that."

"Kate?"

"Just an old friend, you wouldn't know her."