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<blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5767020" data-attributes="member: 54707">I have a little problem. I've been seeing people say&nbsp; around here that gaming is not just gaming, but more like &quot;not real life.&quot; While&nbsp; others say, &quot;nothing about real life is even slightly like gaming, but the&nbsp; opposite is never true, except on the weekends when it ain't.&quot; (And who could&nbsp; blame anyone for reaching that conclusion even though it is patently absurd.&nbsp; Yet, just to be honest I don't really think anyone has patented absurd yet so&nbsp; it's probably still an open market. So we'll let that one go for the&nbsp; moment.)&nbsp; &nbsp;Others have been saying, &quot;there is no game at all, it's&nbsp; just a simulation.&quot; Still others, &quot;the Sims is not really a game either because&nbsp; I met my second cousin, first removed that way.&quot; And this could very well be&nbsp; true, I've seen that happen before, though the after dinner DNA testing was&nbsp; mostly inconclusive.&nbsp; &nbsp;Of course nobody really says these things because this&nbsp; is a message board and oddly enough that preludes auditory messages. For the&nbsp; most part anyway. Sometimes I imagine I can hear people's voices on the internet&nbsp; but that's usually just my ironing getting done. (That's an old CB radio joke -&nbsp; for you younger folks.)&nbsp; &nbsp;But back to the subject: If gaming is imaginary then&nbsp; that takes real effort to happen, but if it happens only in the imagination well&nbsp; then, I think you see the next step. Whaddya call that? I call it imagination&nbsp; but I think a better term would be, &quot;not really real to anyone without&nbsp; one.&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp;Then again I think if you have no imagination then this&nbsp; whole debate is pretty much unimaginative to ya. Or at least academic, which is&nbsp; the same thing in most colleges nowadays.&nbsp; &nbsp;See I have this theory that Hobbits were once a real&nbsp; species that interbred with Hyperboreans to produce the&nbsp; IntervestigialHyperHobboreal (that's why the Picts talk funny to this day), but&nbsp; I could never sell my paper to Soziologie und Arbeitensticken im Da Vaterland.&nbsp; By the way I'm pretty sure they went out of business not long ago, but if they&nbsp; didn't then let that be a lesson to ya. See, now we're right back to academics&nbsp; again. And it's a shame we gotta go there, because that's not my idea of how&nbsp; things work. At all. But it makes for great sitcoms.&nbsp; &nbsp;Anywho I forgot what I was saying.&nbsp; &nbsp;Which just goes to prove what I meant in the first&nbsp; place. Or did it?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack7, post: 5767020, member: 54707"] [FONT=Verdana]I have a little problem. I've been seeing people say around here that gaming is not just gaming, but more like "not real life." While others say, "nothing about real life is even slightly like gaming, but the opposite is never true, except on the weekends when it ain't." (And who could blame anyone for reaching that conclusion even though it is patently absurd. Yet, just to be honest I don't really think anyone has patented absurd yet so it's probably still an open market. So we'll let that one go for the moment.)[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Others have been saying, "there is no game at all, it's just a simulation." Still others, "the Sims is not really a game either because I met my second cousin, first removed that way." And this could very well be true, I've seen that happen before, though the after dinner DNA testing was mostly inconclusive.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Of course nobody really says these things because this is a message board and oddly enough that preludes auditory messages. For the most part anyway. Sometimes I imagine I can hear people's voices on the internet but that's usually just my ironing getting done. (That's an old CB radio joke - for you younger folks.)[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]But back to the subject: If gaming is imaginary then that takes real effort to happen, but if it happens only in the imagination well then, I think you see the next step. Whaddya call that? I call it imagination but I think a better term would be, "not really real to anyone without one."[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Then again I think if you have no imagination then this whole debate is pretty much unimaginative to ya. Or at least academic, which is the same thing in most colleges nowadays.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]See I have this theory that Hobbits were once a real species that interbred with Hyperboreans to produce the IntervestigialHyperHobboreal (that's why the Picts talk funny to this day), but I could never sell my paper to Soziologie und Arbeitensticken im Da Vaterland. By the way I'm pretty sure they went out of business not long ago, but if they didn't then let that be a lesson to ya. See, now we're right back to academics again. And it's a shame we gotta go there, because that's not my idea of how things work. At all. But it makes for great sitcoms.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Anywho I forgot what I was saying.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Which just goes to prove what I meant in the first place. Or did it?[/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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