Quotes About Virtual

Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton

Ernest Cline

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 the cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.

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.

Before I could protest, she laid a hand on my avatar's chest and muttered a few arcane words.

GSS—13th Floor—Vault #42–8675309.

And in addition to the credits, my avatar received an equal number of experience points for obtaining the coins.

a combination no self-respecting gunter would have trouble remembering.

The ONI's software and documentation have already been emailed to your private OASIS account

My haptic suit did its best to simulate the sensation of torrents of falling water striking my body, but it felt more like someone pounding on my head, shoulders, and back with a bundle of sticks.

These items were nothing but ones and zeros stored on the OASIS servers, but they were also status symbols.

READY PLAYER TWO

Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.

If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

I don't know, I'm still a little bit like, when you blend CGI well with real life, it's impressive, but if you remove real life completely, I still get pulled out of the movie a bit.

Ideally, you will never know that you're seeing a computer-generated car.

I identify with anyone who logged online in elementary school and never logged off.

I think technology gives the illusion that you are connecting with people, social media particularly.

When I first played 'Wolfenstein 3D,' it blew my mind. It had a big impact on me.

I see a bright future for the future of computing and its implications for games.

In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.

I'm a massive 'WoW' nerd, and gamer in general.

Games have fascinated me my whole life, starting with 'PacMan' on my uncle's PC. I moved up to classic Super Nintendo and then on to N64, and then XBox, DS and 'WoW.'