02-03-2013, 07:44 PM
Well, as Meer said, this is a democratic system. We're not here to idly try to interpret a 2 paragraphs primer on the world, we're here to make decisions about it. We're here to make the most interesting world to write in.
Just because something is in your nervous system doesn't mean that it can emulate feeling or senses. That's some excessively complicated crap and it might not have come along yet or if it has, it's rudimentary.
Just because a lot of the world is shitty doesn't mean that there isn't joy to be found in it. There's happy people in North Korea. They had bars in Russia when people were being hung in the streets. He's describing them dramatically, to help you understand a contrast, not laying down a dictate that everything is absolutely god-awful in the real world.
And yes, you can just do drugs and go back online. You can drink and go back online, but you can't go to a bar or, again, see something for real online. There is a thrill to being truly at a location when something happens. You can see a murder a million times on youtube, but when it happens right in front of you, it's different. That same goes for sports and fighting and everything else, there's a big difference when you're really there.
Again, people want and need real human contact. Me and my current girlfriend met online, and shockingly, that really wasn't enough. I wanted to be there with her, I wanted us to occupy the same space and breath the same air, even if we weren't actively interacting.
When the world is SO jacked in, people would even have an active rebellion to it at some level. They spend all day jacked into the net, moving around cranes and shit. I bet some (I'm not saying all, notice) would want to go the fuck outside and get a drink with their buddy.
Just because most JOBS exist in a virtual space doesn't mean that every goddamn thing is online. What's the purpose of a city if there is literally nothing done in a physical space? We'd just live in a bunker underground in little pods or something.
Now, my final point, it's not very interesting to write in a world that has no physical component. People wanted to write grounded characters with a dichotomy of power and mundanity, not write in a virtual computer space all the time. I will say, with 100% assurity, that I would not write in a setting where every single aspect of human interaction took place in a virtual space. It would get really fucking boring, really fucking fast.
Just because something is in your nervous system doesn't mean that it can emulate feeling or senses. That's some excessively complicated crap and it might not have come along yet or if it has, it's rudimentary.
Just because a lot of the world is shitty doesn't mean that there isn't joy to be found in it. There's happy people in North Korea. They had bars in Russia when people were being hung in the streets. He's describing them dramatically, to help you understand a contrast, not laying down a dictate that everything is absolutely god-awful in the real world.
And yes, you can just do drugs and go back online. You can drink and go back online, but you can't go to a bar or, again, see something for real online. There is a thrill to being truly at a location when something happens. You can see a murder a million times on youtube, but when it happens right in front of you, it's different. That same goes for sports and fighting and everything else, there's a big difference when you're really there.
Again, people want and need real human contact. Me and my current girlfriend met online, and shockingly, that really wasn't enough. I wanted to be there with her, I wanted us to occupy the same space and breath the same air, even if we weren't actively interacting.
When the world is SO jacked in, people would even have an active rebellion to it at some level. They spend all day jacked into the net, moving around cranes and shit. I bet some (I'm not saying all, notice) would want to go the fuck outside and get a drink with their buddy.
Just because most JOBS exist in a virtual space doesn't mean that every goddamn thing is online. What's the purpose of a city if there is literally nothing done in a physical space? We'd just live in a bunker underground in little pods or something.
Now, my final point, it's not very interesting to write in a world that has no physical component. People wanted to write grounded characters with a dichotomy of power and mundanity, not write in a virtual computer space all the time. I will say, with 100% assurity, that I would not write in a setting where every single aspect of human interaction took place in a virtual space. It would get really fucking boring, really fucking fast.
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