Black Mirror's Striking Vipers is startlingly grown-up about its adult video game fantasy

The fifth season of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, a Twilight Zone-esque anthology TV series about technological anxieties and possible futures, was released on Netflix on June 5th, 2019. We're looking at each of the season's three episodes to see what they have to say about current culture and projected fears. Spoiler warning: This essay does not give away the ending of "Striking Vipers," but it does reveal the episode's first major plot twist since it's difficult to address any of the episode...