Quotes About Simulation

create fake citizen involvement

My brother and I are always playing F1 on the PlayStation and now I am going to be in one of those cars on the games!

Everything is destined to reappear as simulation. Landscapes as photography, woman as the sexual scenario, thoughts as writing, terrorism as fashion and the media, events as television. Things seem only to exist by virtue of this strange destiny. You wonder whether the world itself isn't just here to serve as advertising copy in some other world.' Jean Baudrillard

verisimilitude.

Do you think someday somebody will make a simulacrum of you and me? And we'll have to come back to life?

Romero's stepfather knew something was up when an officer working on a classified Russian dogfight simulation asked him if his stepson was interested in a part-time job.

There's nothing more satisfying than making someplace look like someplace else and nobody knows the difference.

I think the first things I did, I used to try to create digital versions of Dungeons & Dragons that would help me generate a character, that would roll the dice for me.

'Madden' is the closest thing to actually being on the field yourself. It's so ridiculously realistic. Before I play it, I honestly didn't understand. 'What's all the hype? It's a video game'. Then I sat down and played it, and you feel like you're on the field.

As a matter of a fact, though, I've never actually played a video game where I've played as myself.

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

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

I'm such a huge sports video game fan. These games are getting so realistic, it's amazing.

I've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up.

It's all so surreal seeing yourself in a video game.

I'm a big video game golfer!

Being in a video game just feels so cool.

I mean, I'm on a comic book. I'm in a video game. This is not real life.

I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.

Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real.

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

Basketball is like the one game I can't figure out when it comes to videogames.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Are you living in a computer simulation?