Why wouldn't you start as a peasant? It would be a more interesting progression that way. To start as a powerful character kind of defeats the purpose of progression and growth.
Because it's not a game.
This tells a truth if ever there was one. We are quite happy to go into a game and level up to lordly status, but make it our reality and we want max level now.
Why wouldn't you start as a peasant? It would be a more interesting progression that way. To start as a powerful character kind of defeats the purpose of progression and growth.
Because it's not a game.
This tells a truth if ever there was one. We are quite happy to go into a game and level up to lordly status, but make it our reality and we want max level now.
If you gave people a choice most would want to be born into a rich family in which they would never have to work hard to survive. Not to many people would want to be born in a broken one parent household in which they had to work hard for everything they got in life. Few would probably enjoy the challenge.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Why wouldn't you start as a peasant? It would be a more interesting progression that way. To start as a powerful character kind of defeats the purpose of progression and growth.
Because it's not a game.
This tells a truth if ever there was one. We are quite happy to go into a game and level up to lordly status, but make it our reality and we want max level now.
But what is max level in this reailty? Love? Money? Fame? The answer is so subjective it wouldn't matter
Why wouldn't you start as a peasant? It would be a more interesting progression that way. To start as a powerful character kind of defeats the purpose of progression and growth.
Because it's not a game.
This tells a truth if ever there was one. We are quite happy to go into a game and level up to lordly status, but make it our reality and we want max level now.
But what is max level in this reailty? Love? Money? Fame? The answer is so subjective it wouldn't matter
don't you spend hours and hours playing video games a day though. I mean, you kind of have to, because you seem like you've played every game out there, even the ones in closed beta and you are pro level in a bunch of other games.
All the game worlds put together aren't even a millionth of percent of awesomeness of real life.
Just go outside and look at any tree - it's one of a kind, pick a leaf and hold it up to the sun - look at the veins - you can enjoy the beauty and uniqueness of it - what game has this level of depth?
And this is just one tiny example of the awesomeness of reality.
Plus, you can actually climb the tree. Or attempt to.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what
it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience
because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in
the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you
playing an MMORPG?"
don't you spend hours and hours playing video games a day though. I mean, you kind of have to, because you seem like you've played every game out there, even the ones in closed beta and you are pro level in a bunch of other games.
All the game worlds put together aren't even a millionth of percent of awesomeness of real life.
Just go outside and look at any tree - it's one of a kind, pick a leaf and hold it up to the sun - look at the veins - you can enjoy the beauty and uniqueness of it - what game has this level of depth?
And this is just one tiny example of the awesomeness of reality.
I read the question as if reality was the video game universe. Not that you've been transported and living in a game.
You still have all 5 senses - touch, taste etc and are mortal.
In real life, we have a lot more than five senses. Someone made a list of five of your senses many years ago, and somehow this turned into a bizarre urban myth that those are the only senses you have. Your sense of balance isn't on the standard list of five, for example, nor are the alarms that go off over increasing carbon dioxide in your blood when you hold your breath for too long, nor that tingly feeling when you restore blood circulation after it gets cut off to a hand or foot or whatever.
Why wouldn't you start as a peasant? It would be a more interesting progression that way. To start as a powerful character kind of defeats the purpose of progression and growth.
Because it's not a game.
This tells a truth if ever there was one. We are quite happy to go into a game and level up to lordly status, but make it our reality and we want max level now.
But what is max level in this reailty? Love? Money? Fame? The answer is so subjective it wouldn't matter
Real life is a sandbox with many different skills to level, not one central character level that governs how good you are at just about everything.
Anything goes, can go anywhere in the multiverse but, holy shit I'd better be one POWERFUL mofo to live in it.
Our RPG group is going hard currently in Savage Rifts. The fear is real. Shit be deadly.
Star Wars is always a solid choice but this is based upon movies, books, expanded universe and RPG game play more so than video games. Video games alone do not spark my realism switch as they are based too heavily on other people's vision and is lazy imagination to me. (Most) Video games are the fast food industry of imagination and if I had to give one hobby up it would be this.
A more realistic universe choice would be The Expanse (books and series).
It'd love to see any of you guys facing the thing I posted the picture of in the previous post
I would face that thing if I had the powers of my Path of Exile character. It would be a tough one to choose my favorite char, but it would be the one that I hit lvl 93 in hardcore, my max shield block cyclone char .
Cryomatrix
Catch me streaming at twitch.tv/cryomatrix You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
Yeah I took this question to mean living in a reality based upon the gameworld and not actually living in the game prohibited by game mechanics.
On that right a lot of these games appeal to me a lot more than real life. There are three reasons I wouldn't waaaaaaay rather live in the middle ages.
Modern medicine. Freedom. Running Water / Toilet paper.
A lot of games have political systems where you would be at least as free as you are now. You don't need modern medicine in a universe where healing magic exists, and if I have to wipe my butt with leaves and bury it to live in a universe like that then I'll manage.
Anarchy Online I think it would be cool to see how the human race could survive to live that far into the future. With all hate these days i feel bad for us.
I would live in Star Trek universe on earth, yes I know it from a tv serie but there has been plenty of games also.
So why would I live there?
There is no need for money in the federation and earth also called paradise so I don't have to work, everything is free, housing, food, clothing, I can kick back and play all the fantasies and games I want on the holodeck.
Exactly why would I want to live in any world where I needed to fight for my life a hundred times a day? Plus, what benefit would I get living in the same world where there are dragons, balrogs, demon lords or any number of creatures that viewed humans as some kind of snack? Even races of orcs and other semi-humans that just want to subjugate me. No thanks.
I'd just be happiest as a human in the world of Watership Down. Somebody make a Watership Down game so that can be my answer.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
Exactly why would I want to live in any world where I needed to fight for my life a hundred times a day? Plus, what benefit would I get living in the same world where there are dragons, balrogs, demon lords or any number of creatures that viewed humans as some kind of snack? Even races of orcs and other semi-humans that just want to subjugate me. No thanks.
I'd just be happiest as a human in the world of Watership Down. Somebody make a Watership Down game so that can be my answer.
You guys got it all wrong. You could live in a nice and safe city and such, but when the time came, you'd be heroes and would be able to kick ass. Think of having the ability to help the current world we live in. Basically, as a hero in an MMO, it's like you are your own superpower, the ability to do good in the world.
I can't believe you guys just want to be safe, none of you guys are alive, unless you're kicking butt.
Catch me streaming at twitch.tv/cryomatrix You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
A lot depends on what the original question means.
If we live in a game, does that mean that the only things we get to experience are the ones actually implemented in the game, or also the ones that one might want to exist for lore reasons but are abstracted away because they'd be too expensive to implement?
If we live in a game, do we have the basic powers that we have in real life, or do we instead have the powers of a video game character? If the latter, do we get to pick which one? Because being an NPC who stands in one spot around the clock and buys vendor trash off of random players would get boring.
Do we respawn if we die? And does it hurt to take damage or die? I could get more into combat if I'm only mentally aware of changes to my HP bar in an abstract sense than if even the battles that I win handily are tremendously painful.
Exactly why would I want to live in any world where I needed to fight for my life a hundred times a day? Plus, what benefit would I get living in the same world where there are dragons, balrogs, demon lords or any number of creatures that viewed humans as some kind of snack? Even races of orcs and other semi-humans that just want to subjugate me. No thanks.
I'd just be happiest as a human in the world of Watership Down. Somebody make a Watership Down game so that can be my answer.
You guys got it all wrong. You could live in a nice and safe city and such, but when the time came, you'd be heroes and would be able to kick ass. Think of having the ability to help the current world we live in. Basically, as a hero in an MMO, it's like you are your own superpower, the ability to do good in the world.
I can't believe you guys just want to be safe, none of you guys are alive, unless you're kicking butt.
How many RL bears did you kill yesterday?
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
You guys got it all wrong. You could live in a nice and safe city and such, but when the time came, you'd be heroes and would be able to kick ass. Think of having the ability to help the current world we live in. Basically, as a hero in an MMO, it's like you are your own superpower, the ability to do good in the world.
I can't believe you guys just want to be safe, none of you guys are alive, unless you're kicking butt.
Man but do other players still exist? Because that still sounds like hell if there are other players. Most the people I meet in games are the last people on earth who would deserve superpowers.
Exactly why would I want to live in any world where I needed to fight for my life a hundred times a day? Plus, what benefit would I get living in the same world where there are dragons, balrogs, demon lords or any number of creatures that viewed humans as some kind of snack? Even races of orcs and other semi-humans that just want to subjugate me. No thanks.
I'd just be happiest as a human in the world of Watership Down. Somebody make a Watership Down game so that can be my answer.
You guys got it all wrong. You could live in a nice and safe city and such, but when the time came, you'd be heroes and would be able to kick ass. Think of having the ability to help the current world we live in. Basically, as a hero in an MMO, it's like you are your own superpower, the ability to do good in the world.
I can't believe you guys just want to be safe, none of you guys are alive, unless you're kicking butt.
How many RL bears did you kill yesterday?
I don't hunt and if I had any willpower I'd be a vegetarian. I am mass murderer of bacteria though. I kill those fuckers with impunity. I'll take on a parasite once in awhile but mainly I'm a genocider of bacteria.
It's about living in a fantasy world, this contemporary world is so boring and to put yourself into conflict and mortal danger for what? It's a bunch of BS, but if I was in a world of majestic castles and magic and dragons and there was clearly a good and a bad side, that would be awesome. Well, other people would exist but it is just like real life, you surround yourself with those who you want to surround yourself with. Any way, i wish I could vividly remember my dreams, I was in some disturbing like all-disaster dream, it is hard to articulate.
Cryomatrix
Catch me streaming at twitch.tv/cryomatrix You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
I don't hunt and if I had any willpower I'd be a vegetarian.
Unrelated but I would heavily advise against that. My fiancé wanted to improve her physical performance when she was in the military so she tried several different diet overhauls in an attempt to see what worked. She researched them all heavily and really committed to doing them right while she was on them.
Conventional wisdom was that veganism was best. She gained weight and saw decreased physical performance and brain function on that diet doing absolutely everything she was being told to do and being highly physically active. Then she tried vegetarianism and felt a bit better. Then she tried pescetarianism (Vegetarianism but with fish added in) and felt better. Then she tried part time vegetarianism (Only eat meat sometimes) and felt even better on the days she ate meat. Then she tried the paleo (A very high meat diet) and absolutely thrived on it. Weight loss, muscle gain, increased brain and immune function etc.
You can go vegetarian if you really want to for moral reasons, but understand it's the exact opposite of what your body needs.
don't you spend hours and hours playing video games a day though. I mean, you kind of have to, because you seem like you've played every game out there, even the ones in closed beta and you are pro level in a bunch of other games.
All the game worlds put together aren't even a millionth of percent of awesomeness of real life.
Just go outside and look at any tree - it's one of a kind, pick a leaf and hold it up to the sun - look at the veins - you can enjoy the beauty and uniqueness of it - what game has this level of depth?
And this is just one tiny example of the awesomeness of reality.
I read the question as if reality was the video game universe. Not that you've been transported and living in a game.
You still have all 5 senses - touch, taste etc and are mortal.
Yeah, and the first giant spider or whatever else you meet will kill you... either by eating you, or by making you have a heart attack and still eat you afterwards
PAC-MAN. You just eat and eat and eat. You eventually get Mrs. PAC-MAN and then a son later on. I don't really worry about the ghosts, caus ghosts aren't real.
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This tells a truth if ever there was one. We are quite happy to go into a game and level up to lordly status, but make it our reality and we want max level now.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
I will take all three thanks!
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
It could be like in Agents of Shield when the Framework shutdown.
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
Anything goes, can go anywhere in the multiverse but, holy shit I'd better be one POWERFUL mofo to live in it.
Our RPG group is going hard currently in Savage Rifts. The fear is real. Shit be deadly.
Star Wars is always a solid choice but this is based upon movies, books, expanded universe and RPG game play more so than video games. Video games alone do not spark my realism switch as they are based too heavily on other people's vision and is lazy imagination to me. (Most) Video games are the fast food industry of imagination and if I had to give one hobby up it would be this.
A more realistic universe choice would be The Expanse (books and series).
You stay sassy!
Cryomatrix
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
On that right a lot of these games appeal to me a lot more than real life. There are three reasons I wouldn't waaaaaaay rather live in the middle ages.
Modern medicine.
Freedom.
Running Water / Toilet paper.
A lot of games have political systems where you would be at least as free as you are now. You don't need modern medicine in a universe where healing magic exists, and if I have to wipe my butt with leaves and bury it to live in a universe like that then I'll manage.
Istaria (horizons) as a dragon is also interesting for the flight and the form.
So why would I live there?
There is no need for money in the federation and earth also called paradise so I don't have to work, everything is free, housing, food, clothing, I can kick back and play all the fantasies and games I want on the holodeck.
Can't get any better than that.
I'd just be happiest as a human in the world of Watership Down. Somebody make a Watership Down game so that can be my answer.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
You guys got it all wrong. You could live in a nice and safe city and such, but when the time came, you'd be heroes and would be able to kick ass. Think of having the ability to help the current world we live in. Basically, as a hero in an MMO, it's like you are your own superpower, the ability to do good in the world.
I can't believe you guys just want to be safe, none of you guys are alive, unless you're kicking butt.
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
If we live in a game, does that mean that the only things we get to experience are the ones actually implemented in the game, or also the ones that one might want to exist for lore reasons but are abstracted away because they'd be too expensive to implement?
If we live in a game, do we have the basic powers that we have in real life, or do we instead have the powers of a video game character? If the latter, do we get to pick which one? Because being an NPC who stands in one spot around the clock and buys vendor trash off of random players would get boring.
Do we respawn if we die? And does it hurt to take damage or die? I could get more into combat if I'm only mentally aware of changes to my HP bar in an abstract sense than if even the battles that I win handily are tremendously painful.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
I don't hunt and if I had any willpower I'd be a vegetarian. I am mass murderer of bacteria though. I kill those fuckers with impunity. I'll take on a parasite once in awhile but mainly I'm a genocider of bacteria.
It's about living in a fantasy world, this contemporary world is so boring and to put yourself into conflict and mortal danger for what? It's a bunch of BS, but if I was in a world of majestic castles and magic and dragons and there was clearly a good and a bad side, that would be awesome. Well, other people would exist but it is just like real life, you surround yourself with those who you want to surround yourself with. Any way, i wish I could vividly remember my dreams, I was in some disturbing like all-disaster dream, it is hard to articulate.
Cryomatrix
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
Conventional wisdom was that veganism was best. She gained weight and saw decreased physical performance and brain function on that diet doing absolutely everything she was being told to do and being highly physically active. Then she tried vegetarianism and felt a bit better. Then she tried pescetarianism (Vegetarianism but with fish added in) and felt better. Then she tried part time vegetarianism (Only eat meat sometimes) and felt even better on the days she ate meat. Then she tried the paleo (A very high meat diet) and absolutely thrived on it. Weight loss, muscle gain, increased brain and immune function etc.
You can go vegetarian if you really want to for moral reasons, but understand it's the exact opposite of what your body needs.
The world is going to the dogs, which is just how I planned it!
I self identify as a monkey.