Quotes About Virtual

Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.

In games, he feels that he is "creating something new." But this is creation where someone has already been. It is not creation but the FEELING of creation. These are feelings of accomplishment on a time scale and with a certainty that the real world cannot provide.

The ties we form through the Internet are not, in the end, the ties that bind. But they are the ties that preoccupy.

For him, mastery of the game world is a source of joy.

And that's the challenge for all of us – to create warmth in a digital world.

Having your own character in a video game is pretty cool.

How much evidence would it take to convince us that something we consider improbable has actually happened? When does a hypothesis cross the line from impossibility to improbability and even to probability or virtual certainty?

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must "log on" somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

We're inseparable, games and I. If you cut me, I'd bleed pixels. Or blood. Probably blood, come to think of it.

I love Instagram and Facebook.

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

Indeed, though people increasingly learn and interact online, we retain a fundamental need to engage in person.

No one even has to leave their computer to find cool and interesting people to hang out with. Everyone is online in some form.

The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.

I don't actually go on the Internet that much.

The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.

The Internet is such... it's so not real. But it's big and it feels big when you're on it.

I live on the Internet.

I'm an Internet junkie.

A? vrea s? tr?iesc în lumea virtual?, dar am s? mor în cea real?.

to me my face in the mirror looked like a virtual fragment of my self that had been split in two. The self there was the one I hadn't chosen. It wasn't even a physical reflection.

RPGs are great for MMO transitions.

I'm quite good at Lego and Fifa, but they don't translate in the real world.

Hell, you can't smell nobody's breath through a camera. You almost can't even see their pimples. So you know that TV shit ain't real. Don't run ahead of me. Let me take my time and tell my story.