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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4734111" data-attributes="member: 54707">Something I find really interesting is that Art and Business are running neck and neck for second place and have been since the beginning of the poll.A couple of other related ideas occurred to me when reading some of your responses:1. Suppose RPGs had never been invented. Suppose video and related games had never been invented. What would you be doing otherwise with the time you now devote to gaming and how would your life be different minus gaming?2. Last year I began to experiment with building a Second Life character. I did this for tow reasons. I wanted to see if the technology had developed to the point that it would make a viable expenditure of business energy and resources to build a Second Life character and business on that platform. Or in any related Virtual World. The second was that I was aware that for some time various foreign governments, as well as various business concerns were exploring the possibility (and actually had been active for some time) of using Second Life as a means of gathering both corporate and national intelligence and engaging in both corporate and governmental/agency acts of espionage (through Second Life). Now these were my particular reasons but many people of course develop Second Life characters for purposes of social interaction and for purposes of entertainment and communication in a manner they could not explore in other ways.Now given that do you think it is possible that gamers engage in gaming as either a form of Second Life (by that I mean a form of Alternative or Different life), or maybe even a Secret Life (by Secret Life I mean a life kept secret or unadvertised from basically most people other than the people with whom they game)? Do you see aspects of a Second and/or Secret Life in your gaming hobbies?</blockquote>

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