What a lot of wasted time

Lysette

Lysette
Rock Hunter said:
....probably not the thread you're expecting, it's not supposed to be a click bait title - I just couldnt be bothered to waste much time trying to think of something better as it is still apt.

I've just bought Odyessy on Steam and whilst checking it had all gone through OK hit 'manage my DLC.' It seems I bought ED in Sept 2015 and Horizons in Jan 2018 and as I didn't start playing until Jan 2018, when I quickly upgraded to Horizons, I'm left feeling like I cheated myself of over two years of playing. I've got 5000 hours :eek: since I started so maybe it's a good thing as going by that rate I may have spent an entire year of my life in fake Space!

So, that title....wasted time not playing or wasted time not living? Yeah, think I'll leave that one unanswered.



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if it has been an entertaining experience the question is just would you have been able to fill those 5000 hours with something equally entertaining as well in "life"?- in a game you get entertainment in a compacted form - to get the same amount of entertainment "in life", it would take you like 2-4 times more time, because there is a lot of idle time in life, where you are just waiting for something exciting to happen. Not to talk about the amount of "down time" in life (hangover recovery. heartbreak, divorce you name it) following the entertaining part. And inbetween those tiny moments of happiness a lot of "wasted time" as well - life isn't entertainment in compacted form.

So, was it a waste of time?

Not to talk about that entertainment in life is expensive as well - let's say 5000 hours spent in a pub, at a rate of 2 pints per hour - 10,000 pints at about 9 AUD - 90,000 AUD or 70,400 US$. That is money you saved playing. Having a real life partner isn't that much cheaper as well. Most entertainment in life comes directly or indirectly with high costs. You escaped that in a way - so maybe it is a win, maybe it is not - it really depends on how you want to look at it.

(eventually you saved less, OZ isn't the cheapest place on earth)
 
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CMDR DragonHorn

CMDR DragonHorn
Old Duck said:
...but I can brag, "I lived in Skyrim for over a year, I've explored the desert and the mountains and the swampland of (whatever Red Dead Redemption land is called), I've flowing a freaking SPACESHIP to the edge of our galaxy!" and in my mind, some of these things are almost as real to me as reality. They also have a much smaller impact on the environment than me jetting around everywhere IRL.
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Just don't scream that out loud in the street, or they may call nurses.

But on grander scale, I concur.
 

thelion

thelion
My biggest concern is that if we are actually in a simulation, what moron is controlling my character?

Toodly Pipsky and stiff upper modem old beans, what what
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
CMDR DragonHorn said:
Just don't scream that out loud in the street, or they may call nurses.

But on grander scale, I concur.
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Watching Wandavision this morning (no spoilers), it dawned on me that if I had Wanda's powers, I probably would have turned my town into a planetary outpost, my house would have turned into a Type 7 and my car into an Eagle.

(My real life is surprisingly similar to RDO, so no need for chaos magic to create that reality.)
 

Pug

Pug
Old Duck said:
Though I confess that I HAVE wasted too much time in endless debates in this forum, for which I have nothing to show and not many happy memories (except for a few good threads I started in different days past). Seriously, this forum is a vampire.
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It can on occasion suck the Man Fat clean oot ye.
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CMDR DragonHorn

CMDR DragonHorn
Old Duck said:
Watching Wandavision this morning (no spoilers), it dawned on me that if I had Wanda's powers, I probably would have turned my town into a planetary outpost, my house would have turned into a Type 7 and my car into an Eagle.

(My real life is surprisingly similar to RDO, so no need for chaos magic to create that reality.)
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You rob trains, hunt game and kill people for the living? Dayum, that's harsh!
 

Lysette

Lysette
thelion said:
As we are all actually playing a simulation whilst actually being in a simulation, all points are moot, what what

Tatty bye old beans
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i don't think that our reality is a simulation - just a phenomena in what we call mathematics. it might be the nature of it, to create things like this including us by complex adaptation - think about it, there is nothing what isn't mathematical in our reality - so why do we expect it to be anything else but math?
 

Schmack

Schmack
Lysette said:
i don't think that our reality is a simulation - just a phenomena in what we call mathematics. it might be the nature of it, to create things like this including us by complex adaptation - think about it, there is nothing what isn't mathematical in our reality - so why do we expect it to be anything else but math?
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Love isn't mathematical. 2 people make infinite amounts of love, it doesn't add up. It will divide us, even though we multiply.
 

Lysette

Lysette
Schmack said:
Love isn't mathematical. 2 people make infinite amounts of love, it doesn't add up. It will divide us, even though we multiply.
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i think it is mathematical - just not in the normal complexity class, but some of the other ... hm, i guess we are at 480 currently or something in that range. That we might not be able to formulate it, doesn't mean it wouldn't be mathematical. hormones drive your desire for example - and are by principle just a bunch of numbers in a certain relation to each other - which we interpret as a molecule - but that is perception, just like all in ED is seen from your perspective there - but it is your perception interpreting the relation of colored dots on a screen as the game - but in the end all is numbers and relations. That is all there is imo - complex math, but just math.
 

Lysette

Lysette
Jukelo said:
What is love
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Well, I've actually seen a TED talk which was about the mathematical background of love. From my perspective it is an adaptive process which attunes pattern in both brains to each other which are interpreted by both as beneficial - it is questionable if that is a conscious or subconscious decision - i tend to assume it to be subconscious, where the conscious mind creates a rational reasoning after the fact for something what has happened by other reasons. So to me that is a complex adaptive process too.

it is a bit like falling in love is much different than people think it would be - it has 3 triggers - affection over a longer time, it takes for him to see the white in her eyes quite often during that time span and trigger 3 is her voice - it doesn't matter what she is saying, her voice is the trigger and he needs to hear it often - bang - fallen in love.

this is as well why women talk so much and men don't really listen to those words - not necessary, hearing her voice is the important part. And as well why lovers look so much into each other's eyes - he needs to see the white in her eyes - that is a very old mechanism - from all primates just humans have white in their eyes.
 
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