Quotes About Virtual

Going outside is highly overrated. —Anorak's Almanac, Chapter 17, Verse 32

A lot of gunters even questioned whether she was really female, but I wasn't one of them. Probably because I couldn't bear the idea that the girl with whom I was virtually smitten might actually be some middle-aged dude named Chuck, with back hair and male-pattern baldness.

Imagine that Dungeons and Dragons and an '80s video arcade made hot, sweet love, and their child was raised in Azeroth. If you're not already experiencing a nerdgasm at the thought, I don't want to know you." —John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author of Old Man's War

These items were nothing but ones and zeros stored on the OASIS servers, but they were also status symbols. Most items only cost a few credits, but since they cost nothing for GSS to manufacture, it was all profit.

Now, thanks to the ONI, I could. And I did.

Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation was a big place.

Creé Oasis porque nunca me sentí a gusto en el mundo real. No conectaba bien con su gente. Durante toda mi vida tuve miedo. Hasta el momento en que supe que llegaba a su fin. Fue entonces cuando me di cuenta de que, por más aterradora y dolorosa que pueda ser, también es el único lugar donde puede encontrarse la verdadera felicidad. Porque la realidad es real. ¿Entiendes? —Sí

Reality didn't feel any more real than the OASIS had just felt to me. My senses couldn't discern between the two.

I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked. I

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Everything about our online personas is filtered through our avatars, which allows us to control how we look and sound to others. The OASIS lets you be whoever you want to be. That's why everyone is addicted to it.

Begin morning run," I said to Max. "Bifrost track." The virtual gym vanished. Now I was standing on a semitransparent running track, a curved looping ribbon suspended in a starry nebula. Giant ringed planets and multicolored moons were suspended in space all around me. The running track stretched out ahead of me, rising, falling, and occasionally spiraling into a helix.

But over the past few months, I'd come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in a cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.

The OASIS would ultimately change the way people around the world lived, worked, and communicated.

In the OASIS, you could become whomever and whatever you wanted to be, without ever revealing your true identity, because your anonymity was guaranteed.

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Even though it was initially marketed as a new kind of massively multiplayer online game, the OASIS quickly evolved into a new way of life.

Azért hoztam létre az OASIS-t, mert soha nem találtam a helyem a valóságban. Nem tudtam, hogyan teremtsek kapcsolatot az emberekkel. Egész életemben féltem. Egészen addig, amíg fel nem fogtam, hogy hamarosan vége. Akkor értettem meg, hogy néha, bármennyire is rémisztÅ' és fájdalmas, a valóság az egyetlen hely, ahol igazi boldogságra találhatunk. És a valóság valós.

Ernest Cline

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virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation. At the end of the day, I was still a virgin, all alone in a dark room, humping a lubed-up robot. So I got rid of the ACHD and went back to spanking the monkey the old-fashioned way. I

This is the OASIS. We exist as nothing but raw personality in here. Art3mis:

She used to have to force me to log out every night, because I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked. I

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