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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4734671" data-attributes="member: 54707">I may have not made that clear FL. I didn't mean a secret or second life as in an all-consuming or necessarily heavily time consuming life (though it might consume a lot of personal or psychological energy, attention, and thought/interest). Rather in the case of a second life I meant a sort of life that gives one the opportunities to explore doing things you might not could do otherwise, as in your normal life, even if only virtually, or in your imagination, and in the case of a secret life conducting a second life in secret.For instance in the case of undercover operations I have had a number of secret second lives, for obvious reasons. But also some people have entirely different second lives from their normal lives. For instance an accountant might Vad or LARP or go on archeological expeditions and no one much knows about these activities, but then again the person does nothing to hide these activities either.I know there is at least to some degree a Second Life aspect to some gamers (depending upon how much time and energy they devote to their hobby - for instance if a person were to die mysteriously and the police begin investigating the death would they soon discover, wow, this guy has a whole nuther life to which he devoted a lot of time and energy) but I was just wondering who looks at it in that way.Me too. That's a slightly different thread I intend to take up later, but as far as gaming goes I use it (gaming) for training purposes, to help solve problems, it gives me ideas for fictional stories, for inventions, and for a wide range of re-analyzing real world problems. Yeah, I use it for entertainment too, being helpful in the real world and being entertaining are not conflicting or mutually exclusive ends (and i often find that by approaching or mimicking a real world problem in-game I can do so in a loose, relaxed, open-minded way which helps with developing new or unusual solutions to test out), but mainly I use it for practical purposes. When I was a kid I used it for different things or ends. So I think end-use reasons can vary over time. Congratulations.</blockquote>

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