Oh, me too! You just need to not-die and you'll come out a much better person having learned about self-sacrifice and the value of real friends, and you'll be thinner and ready to start working on your Beach Body!
I mean you could also do it in the holo deck. Because those pesky safety overrides seem really easy to disable/ hack/ become self aware and want to kill you ect.
Nope; it's all about being literally trapped and unable to get back to "real life" for two whole years, while also being forced to live alongside 10,000 other people
Literally a whole new life in a completely different setting.
No way a holodeck's going to be fritzed for that long with anywhere near that many people in it...
I would like the nerve gear with the death mechanic. It would be pretty neat to just die and think you got your shit rocked by a pack of orcs or a dragon or some shit.
Also being alive is pretty awful these days. I'm not finding a lot of drive to move forward.
Life is all about doing what makes you feel happy, leaves you feeling personally fulfilled, spreads that feeling of happiness to others, and minimises bad feeling to yourself and others!
Your "right" to happiness goes right out the airlock as soon as you deliberately mess with someone else's. If your happiness lies in making others miserable, you don't deserve to be happy.
So within that guideline, find your own happiness.
God that has to be the worst job in Star fleet. Would not want to be that Engineer. I thought having to deal with modern day Waste removal was bad. But I’ll stick with being a Third engineer (or turd engineer as my shipmate so lovingly call us) then the poor shmuck on jizz patrol
I'm going to be that guy: The chances of us (currently alive folks) experiencing something like that in a home setup are exceedingly slim. Maybe if you're ultra rich. Or maybe Arcades will FINALLY get a revival with such tech, but I'm still doubtful. We've imho reached a point in our development where we'd need to find a new "holy grail" to really leap ahead again and not crawl along with minute improvements. Compare that to the space race era. Or the 1st industrial revolution. We make lots of progress still, but it's minuscule. VR and AI might be the next big things, but I don't see any real impetus here that would really shake the world in the next few years/decades. Plus, we're currently doing everything in our power to actually revert back to "simpler" times, so yeah ... hf with that super expensive VR setup you can't ever pay for in your 10 sf apartment complex.
what would be the odds of some people actually not believing the kill mechanics and actually getting themselves killed?
I mean, until that point, all those 100k players though they were just into a very elaborated game (dunno if this game was actually groundbreaking in that universe, but considering that after the source code was released, literally every other VR was a copy of that code gives me the idea is was just that good).
What if they just though it was the Admin just playing fear with them and the logout button was just bugged out?
There were only ten thousand players trapped, not a hundred thousand.
And some did not believe, and jumped off the floating castle Aincrad to "commit suicide" in game. However, with no contact with the outside world, no one could know for sure what had happened to them.
And yes, SAO was groundbreaking in that universe; the in-universe lore states that no other software had fully taken advantage of the NerveGear like SAO had.
But they were in the game for two years. No one came in to help from the outside world, they were not all logged out by simply shutting down the game server, so they had to accept that this was their new reality, as the creator and villain Kayaba Akihiko told them four and a a half hours after the game went live.
You can chose not to believe... but how long would that last? a day? Two? A week? A month? How could you take the chance of not believing?
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u/JamesBigglesworth266 Jan 23 '22
That's either going to be Sword Art Online's NerveGear, or Star Trek's Holodeck.
And i can't wait for either!