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"Playing God"

What happens when the product you are trying to sell is a holy grail of its own time?

A key to a secret that has haunted the imagination of people since the dawn of history?

A power that most of us attribute only to one being?

What happens when your product has the capacity to meddle with people?s deepest desires, to merge undreamed fantasy with reality in all colours and shapes?

Then what do you have?

The human being is a creature of fantasy, of make-believe. A brief analysis of mankind?s greatest wonders will reveal this simple truth: our ultimate goal is to live in a perfect world, and if we can?t change this reality, we will create another one. That was the purpose of the ancient bards, storytellers and actors that travelled these lands before the first computer was conceived. Nowadays, when the technology that enables people thousands of miles away to coexist becomes available, this concept is taken to another level. It?s taken to the level of Persistent State Worlds.

My point is that everyone has an idea of a utopian world.. but only a few have the tools to develop it. If the ability to build a perfect world is the ultimate achievement of any person ? and different persons have different views of perfection ? then the actual power of development such achievement is nothing less than a divine blessing.

3D world - that was their personal utopia, just like yours or mine.

Ultimately, developers are imitating God by creating worlds...much like cloning animals, but much more glorious and transcendent, because here they assemble entire universes. A world doesn?t have to exist physically to be real: a world is everything that is thought, or imagined. Perception dictates reality; therefore worlds are entirely within our minds. Developers are deities of their own realms, and that?s best shown when we see real individuals who comfortably agree to skip classes, quit jobs and relationships for a place in these realms. Not to mention the intriguing cases of desperate minds spending hard-earned money ? that could be spent on more tangible rewards ? on coloured pixels that, put together, form another amenity of our virtual life.

How do you call it when a make-believe world begins surpassing reality itself in importance and pleasure? Isn?t this a universal escape? Aren?t these the works of a god?

The truth is, our existences are quickly drifting towards passionless, empty chains of automated tasks that we embrace for the sole purpose of survival. When this universe can no longer supply us with the dose of happiness and joy our weak minds need, we will recklessly move on completely to the closest alternative reality we can find. And when we make that choice, they will be there, with their Virtual Reality and 3D sound.

Truthfully, the path of online RPGs is one full of thorns? for both sides of the coin. After all, these dark wonders offer us glimpses of our own paradises, where the temptations are plentiful, and the punishments, irreversible. Feeding people?s need for desire is dangerous, but when you are trapped...

the only real danger is no escape.

Thanks For Reading
AbsoluT Neo

AbsoluT Neo wrote:
> mandatare wrote:
> Yes, well done
hopefully most people excepted my apology
> last week so therefore
> i except your apology. i know what its like being
> in the deep end.

yeh I know, so I would appreciate it if you didnt throw it
> back in my face from now on as you did b4 in the longest thread yeh?

that was only a joke, not intended to do any harm.

RM18 wrote:
> I'm glad Neo isn't getting banned - if he did it would be an absolute travesty
> as he is one of the better posters (and person) on these forums, and I can think
> of a few other people who really deserve to get banned


Hence why I brought the matter to attention the way I did.

Had it been done by certain other people then I'm a sure a topic titled ***** is a cheating b**** would have happened !

The good thing is that he apologised and did it "with dignity" instead of ranting and shouting like some nameless ones would have done.

I'm glad Neo isn't getting banned - if he did it would be an absolute travesty as he is one of the better posters (and person) on these forums, and I can think of a few other people who really deserve to get banned

mandatare wrote:
> Yes, well done
hopefully most people excepted my apology last week so therefore
> i except your apology. i know what its like being in the deep end.

yeh I know, so I would appreciate it if you didnt throw it back in my face from now on as you did b4 in the longest thread yeh?

Yes, well done
hopefully most people excepted my apology last week so therefore i except your apology. i know what its like being in the deep end.

AbsoluT Neo wrote:
> Can I just apologise for this topic?

it was out of character and I wouldn't
> normally do
something this silly.

I apologise to everyone on the forum and
> SR for being silly.

I bow my head in shame.

Regards
AN.

Apology accepted !! good on you ...

AbsoluT Neo wrote:
>I bow my head in shame.

Your shame is felt by us all and I accept your apology as well, you have made quite an impact here and have done well as a good poster.

I didn't report your post at all and would be surprised whether anyone else did as someone (i think Pro Evo) said other people have done it before and not been banned.

At least we can all learn from this little incident and you didn't come back fighting or swearing so good on you, keep up the good posts (obviously not copied) and you'll go far.

Don't ban Neo!

That's all I have to say.

:)

I agree,

I dont think he should be banned, i dont know how much of a good poster he is, as even i have copied something before but posted the link too.

Ah well

:)

Hey, we all make mistakes, this was one and one that you will learn from.

Also, before anyone starts, i dont think he should be banned, people have stayed here before having copied a topic and then gone on to be good posters. Neo made a mistake that he wont make again. He should not be banned as he is one the best posters in here and always comes up with some good topics that he wrote on his own.

I think the backlash from this topic is enough of a punishment, banning aint the answer if we are going to loose a poster of this good standered.