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Okay, so where to begin… SECOND LIFE… well I’m not gonna shit talk this Second Life GAME, due to that I just don’t know who I am going to offend. However when presented with Meadows’ (2008:51) argument, stating that the GAME is somewhat reality, I don’t quite know were to begin.
So ill start with the first statement “People in virtual worlds build things, use them, sell them, trade them and discuss them…”
Yes I agree with this point saying that these people playing this GAME do build things and sell things, however you can do the same thing in games like ‘Age of Empires’ and ‘The Sims’ yet no one’s claiming they are real. The only difference in this GAME is that your not so much playing against the computer, your playing against other people across the world, like ‘Halo’ on the Xbox… also not real.
“…When another person confirms what I am seeing, places value on it, spends time working to pay for it, buys it, keeps it, uses it, talks about it, gets emotional about it, and then sells it – this tells me there is something real happening.”
Once again, sound like the Sims to you??? That’s because that’s exactly what it is!
Although I will give the GAME makers credit for emotionally screwing with the players minds until they completely believe that the GAME is real. As apposed to ‘The Sims’ where the only thing that F’s with your head is when the GAME crashes and goes back to the desktop.
Yes players of this GAME can form an emotional attachment to this GAME however its not reality. That would be like an artist saying that the portrait they had been paining for 6 months was a real person because they had formed an emotional attachment to it, its still just a painting, masterpiece or not, the reality is it’s paint on canvas with a lot of blood sweat and tears poured into it. However there was most probably someone who was a real person that the painting is based on.
“…This tells me there is something real happening.”
Yes this is something real, a real emotional breakdown on the player’s behalf.
Or nicely put, a real emotional attachment to a character someone has created that they believe is the computer generated image of them self… majority of the time it looks nothing like them, might I add.
I MEAN, COME ON! THEY CAN FLY!!!!
Have you ever seen a person fly through the air like a Death Eater from Harry Potter?
“…The suspension of disbelief has become a grounding of belief”
Belief! That’s the word! Much better put it, in that the GAME is exactly that, BELIEF, not reality. Players BELIEVE that the GAME is real, that doesn’t make it real, it just means that they are crazy… simple as that. They become so wound up in this little virtual world that their mind plays tricks on them completely effing up their sense or reality and beliefs.
That’s all for now…
You know you love me
xoxo
