Imagine if there was an MMORPOG that was a completely 3d world, that was basicly real life, and if you logged in, it was basicly like turning into your character and living a very real, but still fantasy, world. You could still access Message Board Forums and IRC.
Now, imagine, if you could go into a coma, but be able to exist in that MMORPG and etc.
Would you?
I find myself saying yes, but that feels really wrong to me. Like I shouldn't be saying yes, and I shouldn't want to feel that way.
No.
I've been waiting for a neural link for quite a while... fuck the MMOG shit... DNI to the system... bounce from place to place and the speed of thought... oh yeah.
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Humble Parcelan had this to say about (_|_):
What's to be gained from living a fantasy besides empty dreams?No.
Not having to have real dreams shattered, and they wouldn't have to feel so empty.
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Lashanna had this to say about Duck Tales:
Not having to have real dreams shattered, and they wouldn't have to feel so empty.
Life. Deal.
I wouldn't really care if I was in or out. But there is also the line of matrix thinking...
Think about that.
And no, I would not. That's living in an empty dream.
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¤Delidgamond¤ said this about your mom:
Life. Deal.
Hypothetical. Question.
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Rosaline had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Hypothetical. Question.
For how long? 
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Just Nwist probably says this to all the girls:
I would do it if there were some kind of timer or whathaveyou to wake you up when you needed to be up.
That was the point, you wouldn't wake up.
Presumably, your parents, or someone, would have you relocated to a hospital, placed on life support, fed via IVs.
For all intents and purposes, you'd be a vegitable to the real world. In the game however, you'd be the same as normal players, or maybe a bit better, you wouldn't have to take breaks to eat or sleep, etc.
You see where I'm going with this?
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Lashanna was naked while typing this:
That was the point, you wouldn't wake up.Presumably, your parents, or someone, would have you relocated to a hospital, placed on life support, fed via IVs.
For all intents and purposes, you'd be a vegitable to the real world. In the game however, you'd be the same as normal players, or maybe a bit better, you wouldn't have to take breaks to eat or sleep, etc.
You see where I'm going with this?
If I, or anyone I loved, didn't have to deal with some enormous, unpayable bill, then yes, I would.
No real life hassles = gud.
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Lashanna thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
That was the point, you wouldn't wake up.Presumably, your parents, or someone, would have you relocated to a hospital, placed on life support, fed via IVs.
For all intents and purposes, you'd be a vegitable to the real world. In the game however, you'd be the same as normal players, or maybe a bit better, you wouldn't have to take breaks to eat or sleep, etc.
You see where I'm going with this?
That's effectively death.
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Everyone wondered WTF when Dr. Pvednes, PhD wrote:
That's effectively death.
If you say so.
I wouldn't think of it as death, as you'd still be conscious, and able to think, and probably even enjoy yourself.
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Dr. Pvednes, PhD stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
I meant to the real world. If you went in, and do not/cannot not come out, you are dead to it, from the moment you go in.
He's right, really. Unless you can make a contribution to real-life society from inside the game, you're participating in a form of slow-release suicide.
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Lashanna had this to say about pies:
Not having to have real dreams shattered, and they wouldn't have to feel so empty.
How would they feel any less empty in an MMOG?
There's no satisfaction of doing a job well-done because whatever you can do, odds are someone else can do, too.
There's no thrill of life or death because you can always come get your corpse.
There's no sense of accomplishment because whatever lasting impression you make upon the world will be gone with the next respawn.
In short: Live a virtual world, live a virtual life with virtual accomplishments. Nothing real. Nothing lasting. Nothing substantial.
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Drakkenmaw probably says this to all the girls:
He's right, really. Unless you can make a contribution to real-life society from inside the game, you're participating in a form of slow-release suicide.
Yup. I'd say that's why it feels wrong, too, Rosa.
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nem-x's account was hax0red to write:
There was this one episode of Batman: Beyond... yeah.
I remember that one!
Then when I'm all old and senile like Parcelan, I would plug-in.
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nem-x had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
To answer the question...
I would live my life out first to see how it turns out.Then when I'm all old and senile like Parcelan, I would plug-in.
Sanitized euthanasia. That doesn't sound nearly as bad.
In other words, the reason you may feel it is wrong is because it is a rather selfish thing to do. Some people would probably make it akin to suicide. I believe what stops a lot of people suiciding is a fear of not being sure of what's on the other side. Well, just think of how many people would do this because now they know what's on the other side.
On a side note, it'd have to be the best game EVER created since your committing yourself to this one game for the rest of eternity...
With your entire brain attached to a computer, you could probably multitask rather well.
I want neural interfaces!
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Kennatsu had this to say about Optimus Prime:
How do we know that we're not Virtual people who are living outside our bodies in this thing we call "Real Life"?
Welcome... to the Twilight Zone!
RL beats fantasy hands-down. It's the possibility of failure, and the permanence of decisions, that make the good times good and meaningful and worthwhile.
Life is not entertainment, nor should it be.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
As RIG said, moving from point to point at the speed of thought > beeing bound to a maintnance-intensive lump of flesh.
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Bloodsage painfully thought these words up:
RL beats fantasy hands-down. It's the possibility of failure, and the permanence of decisions, that make the good times good and meaningful and worthwhile.
So if you add the possibility of failure and permanence of decisions to the "fantasy" habitation, there should be no problem.
Real life beats fantasy, it's true, but I'm of the mind that "real life" can be fabricated.
What's the difference between living as a lump of cerebral tissue encased in a vehicle of bone and muscle, and living as the same, only with an electronic vehicle in a different form of reality?
The value of such an existence is limited only by the accuracy of the reality inhabited. [ 11-11-2002: Message edited by: Maradon XP ]
It's pretty much if you want to take the dissapointments and stones that life throws versus extremely fulfilling idea of success,
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Living sheltered and not failing, but, not succeeding.
I guess it's just where you stand on the failure and success line, and, what hope you have for yourself.
I mean, i've been dissapointed a lot and I would prefer that life sometimes, but I have hope for the future and hope for the present, so, in actuality, I don't want to. [ 11-11-2002: Message edited by: Lenny ]
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
But that would mean in FPS matches of the future anytime anyone is showing the slightest lick of talent you'll hear "OMG he's a corpse."
I would never commit myself to an eternity of internet life because there are things IRL that I want to see and do, people I love who I care about and want to see.
The internet is nice, but its not something I would want to spend the entirety of my life in unless my physical body was so damaged that I was unable to interact with the rest of the world anyway.
If I was dying or effectively dead already, yeah I would go for it, other than that, no.
