The characters in the movie have played so many ultra-real games they can no longer tell when they are in “reality”.
Red pill or blue pill?
Posted on 11/14/2008 6:55:33 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Well, these are people who got married after meeting in a chat room. What did you expect?
You’re thinking of the Japanes woman who was arrested for killing her ex’s character. To be fair, the suit and arrest were because she broke in, got on his computer and then deleted the account. The break-in and illegally accessing someone’s internet information are illegal.
There have been suits, and at least one murder, involving gamers over weapons in WoW. The suits make weird sense though because, at least at the time, there was a strong market for rare weapons. There were people who made a very good living earning weapons and then selling them. So if you stole someone’s weapon outside the normal game parameter, you were inflicting serious financial damage.
Now the murder... totally screwy.
Scratch “could just as easily” and replace it with “was probably”.
From what I understand, and I can honestly say I have no first hand info, most of the time these “ladies” are perverted guys or guys who want an easy way to make cash in the game.
Interesting that the wife actually hired a Second Life Private Investigator to check up on the cheating husband. What a strange world.
You know, I believe there are Freepers who met here on the boards. Not really any different.
Yes, while there are plenty of people who have no real life doing dumb things in a virtual world it is not any different than what the same people do in real life.
Second Life is not a game and the social networking aspect is just one overemphasized and oversensationalized part of it. It has a lot of the same uses and aspects of discussion sites like this one.
There are a lot of real business people making real money on SL as well as universities and government entities doing research and simulations that cannot be easily done in the real world. One simulation involves terrorist attacks and the dynamics of the aftermath. Classes in business, finance, science and other disciplines are also conducted using SL. And the answer is no, I am not a SL user. I’ve been on SL a couple of times through others and our institution is considering using it for marketing, advertising and some types of research.
Well, at least it didn’t end like an online chat did a few months or years ago.
A couple met in an online chatroom. They had long chats, and wanted to get away from their respective partners anyway.
After several months, they decided to meet at a bar, have a few drinks and go to a motel later.
Imagine their shock when they walked into the bar and saw their “significant” [not any more] other. They got a divorce accusing each other of cheating.
IIRC, there as a thread on FR about that incident.
No kidding. I looked around a couple of times but decided not to become involved. In my field, there is actually a lot of activity in and research on activity in Second Life. It's supposed to be cool research to do, but I'm gonna stay uncool for this one.
Jeez, why am I not surprised?
ROFL!
I don’t know. I associate “chat room” with not being associated with a particular topic or interest, where people go just for the purpose of meeting others. Meeting someone in a place like that seems a little creepy in comparison to finding someone in a venue oriented around a specific interest or set of values. Course, that’s just my mental picture, and not actually knowing anything about chat rooms, I could be far wide of the mark.
I also work in IT in and out of the military. I now teach IT subjects at a small conservative university. I think that SL has possibilities in moving a conservative agenda and ideas forward to a much wider audience. The problem is the higher end hardware and need for high bandwidth connections. Contrary to belief, many people across the country do not yet have the right assets to fully use SL.
Only if they were pretending to be something they're not. Two people who were being themselves on here (or any online venue) who ultimately meet and hit it off are no different than two people who meet and hit it off in a club, a classroom, a bar, or at church.
Clearly, these freakshows were confused about reality and fantasy, putting the latter above the former.
The characters in the movie have played so many ultra-real games they can no longer tell when they are in “reality”.
Red pill or blue pill?
then you go offline and deal with meatworld, where you're likely to say Weren't you listening? Scroll up!
Existenz is, in my humble opinion, better than The Matrix in terms of alternate realities. Matrix started out OK, especially if you've read “I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream” but then turned into Crouching Tiger-Hidden Dragon only with guns.
I had to watch Existenz twice to figure it out. The little three-headed mutant amphibian (at the gas station where they are being fitted with spinal data implants)is a clue. Gibson meets Phillip Dick in a dreamworld sort of thing.
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