nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 This is one of those “I don't even know where to start unpacking this" stories.

Is it the chatbot girlfriend? That he thought he was a Sith named Darth Chailus? The crossbow? The mask? That he wanted revenge for a century-old massacre committed by British soldiers?

OTOH, if you wrote a one-sentence summary & dropped it into one of the “how wacky the future is" passages in a revised edition of "Accelerando”, your readers wouldn't even blink: "Hah hah, that Stross, what an imagination!”