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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
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
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I accept your apology, you are a respected regular, and it is unlike you. Just don't do it again.
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.
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.
tut tut tut,
If youre going to copy something then at least copy it all and post it in here.
Gets your word count up and eerrrr something else.
:D
ah well.
You shouldnt have said that it was your idea though if it wasnt.
Meh,
why am i even bothered............ bah.
:D
If youre going to copy something then at least copy it all and post it in here.
Gets your word count up and eerrrr something else.
:D
ah well.
You shouldnt have said that it was your idea though if it wasnt.
Meh,
why am i even bothered............ bah.
:D
No apology for copying so here is the link
http://www.stratics.com/content/editorials/articles/mind.shtml
Don't take it personally AbsoluT Neo but I just remembered reading this somewhere else and it took about 10 seconds to find it again.
I still think you do some good posts :-)
http://www.stratics.com/content/editorials/articles/mind.shtml
Don't take it personally AbsoluT Neo but I just remembered reading this somewhere else and it took about 10 seconds to find it again.
I still think you do some good posts :-)
Wouldn't it be great to have the perfect world
i don't think so.
why?
with the perfect world, there won't be any danger, any excitement. it would be a dull world basically dominated by hippys for people.
otherwise a good post that deserves GAD.
i don't think so.
why?
with the perfect world, there won't be any danger, any excitement. it would be a dull world basically dominated by hippys for people.
otherwise a good post that deserves GAD.
nh wrote:
>Admit it before I post the link !!!
Same here, I really thought this was a good post, please not another copy!
>Admit it before I post the link !!!
Same here, I really thought this was a good post, please not another copy!
nh wrote:
> Naughty Naughty Neo !!!!
Admit it before I post the link !!!
Oh dear, If this is true, I take back what I said.
> Naughty Naughty Neo !!!!
Admit it before I post the link !!!
Oh dear, If this is true, I take back what I said.
Naughty Naughty Neo !!!!
Admit it before I post the link !!!
Admit it before I post the link !!!
AbsoluT Neo wrote:
Im trying to show my perceptions of escaping to 'a different' world
> created by the games developer, aswell as a new world created by someone, which
> may have an affect in your everyday life
*************
Makes much more sense now. I understand what you were saying. Now if you included that in the post maybe the first line then i think it wouldve been much better.
Still a good post.
:)
Im trying to show my perceptions of escaping to 'a different' world
> created by the games developer, aswell as a new world created by someone, which
> may have an affect in your everyday life
*************
Makes much more sense now. I understand what you were saying. Now if you included that in the post maybe the first line then i think it wouldve been much better.
Still a good post.
:)
Great post. You did well to make something interesting out of a, in a way, boring topic. GAD worthy.
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