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My son built me a gaming computer recently. I used to be a hardcore gamer in the 90s but haven't played for well over 20 years until very recently. I am having so much fun as an older guy getting back into gaming and I have an endless library of good games to play. Its a really great way to spend an hour or two.

Well for fathers day my son bought me a used headset to try out, we just hooked it up today and holy #$@* its amazing. I cannot believe it, it is so neat. I have never had so much fun gaming before and better yet many of the games are really good exercise. Boxing games, musical rhythm games, spots games and golf. There is a military shooter game call Pavlo and it made me feel like I was back in combat. It felt so exciting and I'm pretty good at it. My son was amazed at how quickly I excelled at Pavlo.

The only thing I'm not enjoying is the loud mouths on some of these players. Little kids saying all kinds of terrible language. If you have a computer that can run games buy yourself one of these headsets. You will be transported to another world. I can put this thing on and jump into so many different worlds right in my living room. So amazing. Have any of you experienced this?

My son built me a gaming computer recently. I used to be a hardcore gamer in the 90s but haven't played for well over 20 years until very recently. I am having so much fun as an older guy getting back into gaming and I have an endless library of good games to play. Its a really great way to spend an hour or two. Well for fathers day my son bought me a used headset to try out, we just hooked it up today and holy #$@* its amazing. I cannot believe it, it is so neat. I have never had so much fun gaming before and better yet many of the games are really good exercise. Boxing games, musical rhythm games, spots games and golf. There is a military shooter game call Pavlo and it made me feel like I was back in combat. It felt so exciting and I'm pretty good at it. My son was amazed at how quickly I excelled at Pavlo. The only thing I'm not enjoying is the loud mouths on some of these players. Little kids saying all kinds of terrible language. If you have a computer that can run games buy yourself one of these headsets. You will be transported to another world. I can put this thing on and jump into so many different worlds right in my living room. So amazing. Have any of you experienced this?

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Yeah they are pretty good with the immersion as objects feel true to the real size and depth. VR will be better with higher resolutions and better graphics.

This is going to be a major problem, I can see people inventing a virtual life like that game Second Life years ago. It'll be so immerse, you will have your own house or spaceship to live in, but in reality you'll be living in your pod.

This is why zuckerjewberg is investing heavily into it, they are going to create a digital reality that will suck people into it, and it'll be as easy as putting sunglasses on.

Who will want to live in this real world when you can just escape to your own space, a space in VR that feels very close to the real thing. But it'll be on your space ship or a different planet.

People will rush home from work and then live in VR, while the real world around them burns and they become more enslaved. Not lifting weights, studying the jq, or becoming self-sustaining. Just consuming.

You will own nothing and be happy.

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This, exactly this, is why we’re almost definitely living in a simulation.

We are quickly approaching the point where video games will be indiscernible from reality. The NPCs will have their own intelligence and make their own decisions, rather than move about the game’s world on a pre-programmed code.

Given this, it’s inevitable that the sentient NPCs will eventually create their own video games, which will eventually be indiscernible from their reality. Eventually the NPCs in those worlds will create their own false reality, ad infinitum.

So we have to ask ourselves, in a universe that’s billions of years old where we have developed this type of technology in a few decades, are we really the first in an infinite line to create a fake reality? Or are we just one of the realities within the infinite line?

Odds are absurdly in favor of us not being the first. Like, nearly 100% likely. Obviously some society has to be the first, but once the chain is started they’re the only society out of billions, trillions, exponentially more, that actually exists in the real world. Crazy to think about

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Voluntary self inflicted real life self abortions.

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You are likely exactly right