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Are we all playing one giant videogame?

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Are we all playing one giant videogame?
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#11
RE: Are we all playing one giant videogame?
October 9, 2016 at 2:39 pm
(October 9, 2016 at 1:12 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: Well, it's a very fucking boring video game if we are.

Is it, though? I mean, I suppose if you skip any of the side stuff and just try to complete all the objectives until your character dies then yeah, it's boring.
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RE: Are we all playing one giant videogame?
October 9, 2016 at 2:47 pm
Occasionally I feel like we're all playing Pac-Man ... and I'm a dot.

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#13
RE: Are we all playing one giant videogame?
October 9, 2016 at 2:49 pm
(October 9, 2016 at 2:47 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Occasionally I feel like we're all playing Pac-Man ... and I'm a dot.
Small dot or big dot?
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#14
RE: Are we all playing one giant videogame?
October 9, 2016 at 2:49 pm
You gotta crew up and pwn noobs if you want to earn the sick XPs and git gud.
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RE: Are we all playing one giant videogame?
October 9, 2016 at 3:32 pm
In a sense, yes, except there's no respawn or difficulty settings options.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Are we all playing one giant videogame?
October 9, 2016 at 3:39 pm (This post was last modified: October 9, 2016 at 4:14 pm by ApeNotKillApe.)
(October 9, 2016 at 3:32 pm)Rhythm Wrote: In a sense, yes, except there's no respawn or difficulty settings options.

Reality is just a Counter Strike clone basically.
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RE: Are we all playing one giant videogame?
October 9, 2016 at 3:51 pm
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I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Are we all playing one giant videogame?
October 9, 2016 at 7:54 pm
The whole simulation idea is based on the idea that something happening in a computer can experience what we experience (what people call "consciousness").  Let me know when it happens and I'll take these theories seriously.
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#19
RE: Are we all playing one giant videogame?
October 9, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Life is not a video game! It is a computer program designed by intelligent mice for the purpose of uncovering the question for which the answer is 42. You homo sapiens are really slow on the uptake!
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RE: Are we all playing one giant videogame?
October 9, 2016 at 8:07 pm
(October 9, 2016 at 7:54 pm)Bunburryist Wrote: The whole simulation idea is based on the idea that something happening in a computer can experience what we experience (what people call "consciousness").  Let me know when it happens and I'll take these theories seriously.

What is to say it can't? You are creating a whole new world, bit for bit and from atom to atom.
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