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Think the virtual self is at times an "escape" from self for many, not necessarily an ideal-self, but the self you can't always be in your day-to-day RL environment, for whatever reason. It's perhaps one of the reasons why simulation games like second life endure for so long, no?
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I agree. Bartle assumes you'll play an ideal self, but I think many will instead try out experimental selves. There is some level of ideal-ness in any experimental self-play, though. Perhaps pieces eventually drift back into your real self.
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I really like his approach. Still processing the idea that RL should be in fact seen as more of a VR escapism than a game... This reminds me of a post by a few days ago abt the importance of the simulated backstory on future experience of game character(s).
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Hmm, correction... actually the word important was never used, it was more playing around with ideas, really. But my point here was that the backstories" of current society are literally unraveling around us and the idea that reality is merely an agreement supports 's point.
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