Be More Chill

When Jeremy wakes up, he searches the internet for mentions of the SQUIP and finds a Yahoo News article about it. The SQUIP is an advanced piece of wearable technology that allows the user to ingest a quantum computer with a much higher processing power than normal CPUs. The technology is still in development at Sony, but Jeremy thinks bootleg versions could have made their way to New Jersey easily. After reading about the SQUIP, Jeremy masturbates to pornography while calling Michael. He asks him to take him to the bowling alley where Rich mentioned the person selling the SQUIP would be. Michael primarily dates Asian girls, but Jeremy thinks that if Michael had a SQUIP to prevent him from listening to alt-rock music, he could have more romantic success with women.

Jeremy and Michael go to the bowling alley, and Jeremy looks for the leather trader from Ghana who has a SQUIP. After asking at the bar, he meets an Asian man who admonishes Rich for referring him, claiming that the last shipment of SQUIPs was already dispersed, and there might not be any more until the official release. Jeremy is desperate to get one before them because his high school years might be over by that point.