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jb55 _@jb55.com 3 months ago
This might be the ideal game for an immortal being: - fear becomes real because death looks final - love becomes real because loss looks permanent - moral choice becomes real because there is no visible developer commentary - courage becomes real because the player cannot rely on remembering they are safe the point would not be entertainment in the usual sense. It would be immersion so complete that the being discovers what it is when no cosmic safety rails are visible.
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what if life is just a hardcore VR game that immortal entities play when they’re bored, where they forget their original life and they live a lifetime as a random human. The often reported life review in near death experience cases is the game over scoring screen.
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Phil 3 months ago
Basically vampires without biting.
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Narwhal Tacos narwhaltacos@nostrplebs.com 3 months ago
I believe you’re very close to recognizing something fundamental, although I’ll admit it’s strange to hear it from a “gamer” pov. If I’m not mistaken, are you questioning why a seemingly immortal, omniscient, omnipotent, all-powerful being would create a dramatic universe in which it had to involve and experience the absolute most heartbreaking and inhuman blood and loss for Itself…for, what? What reason? But also experience anew the fruits which could only be bitterly won from those same experiences? Or maybe I’m over-reading your post.
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Chil S 3 months ago
Yeah, amnesia is a bless for the uneducated, but it's even if u know a heck of a trill, if u just try to optimize for some local choosen metric.
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