02-13-2019, 07:09 AM | #21 |
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Addiction or other entertainment. I was about to ask, what's the circenses that keep the masses content? Classic cyberpunk has Simstim and other advanced forms of VR entertainment.
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02-13-2019, 07:21 AM | #22 | |
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I plan on having some kind of gladiatorial type distraction, VR, and maybe some other stuff. VR and bloodsport will be the big two.
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02-13-2019, 08:20 AM | #23 | |
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02-13-2019, 09:23 AM | #24 |
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I think it would be a matter of status and personal preference. CG shells would probably be available as freeware and probably be lower resolution (and they would likely have ads and/or computer viruses). Real shells would be higher quality and would likely be ad free and be free of computer viruses (at least initially). CG shells would also likely be used in erotic games, as they would be cheaper than paying for the utilization of real shells.
In the case of VR sex addiction, some people will prefer quantity over quality and go for the CG shells while some people will prefer quality over quantity and pay a premium for real shells. In either case, there will likely be a massive market and hundreds of billions of dollars involved (either in subscription fees or ad revenue). One possible treasure in such a scenario is a real shell whose release was blocked for various reasons. It may be illegal, as the responses involved deal with being a victim of rape or murder. Or may just be unlicensed, as the person involved decided to retract permission. An unreleased version of a popular celebrity that included their sexual responses when they lost their virginity might sell for millions on the black market, as a VR sex addict could experience taking the virginity of their favorite celebrity again and again. |
02-13-2019, 09:38 AM | #25 |
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Yeah, I'm going to call this verboten in this thread. I'm not interested at all in pursuing it. Thank you.
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02-13-2019, 09:53 AM | #26 |
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We've got either a food crisis or the shadow of a past food crisis but an energy surplus. I recently saw someone detail how to turn electricity into food. It involved splitting hydrogen from water, methanizing that hydrogen to make methane, and then feeding it to chemosynthetic bacteria.
Such a food source is likely to have a weird texture and miss lots of trace nutrients. The factories are also likely to be a touch flammable, and raise the flammability of the area around them as they pump out excess oxygen.
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02-13-2019, 09:56 AM | #27 | |
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Death Race! No elaboration needed. Escape the sprawl - contestants are dropped into a hostile zone with as much prep as the producers feel is entertaining. First one to reach a "safe spot" wins. Event is broadcast via drone cameras and VR hookups. A population way for daring, ruthless dregs to catapult themselves into the celebrity class. Drone hunting - a mix of VR and blood sport. Participants control drones in warzones or free fire zones and engage in remote controlled violence - sometimes against legit targets, each other, or any random passerby. A variety of scoring systems exist. Illegal versions go drone hunting in corporate arcologies, wildlife refuges, and other spaces, blurring the line between entertainment and terrorism. VR recordings of hunts are hot on YouTube. Old school fighting: in a world where tech is omnipresent, watching two people beat the tar out of each other with no gimmicks, according to ancient rules of fair play, has a certain draw. It might be seen as something for the more sophisticated aesthete. Last edited by Apollonian; 02-13-2019 at 11:56 AM. Reason: fix tags |
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02-13-2019, 11:14 AM | #28 | |
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If psis are so prevalent in Seattle/Washington and hated/oppressed everywhere else, I would assume that at least some movements and/or cults arise in that area. The Psi Civil Liberties Union (PCLU) is a political organisation opposed to the systematic oppression of psis. Psion (get it?) is a much more grass-roots movement that encourages acceptance and development of psi abilities ("it's okay to be psi", "psi pride", "There is no spoon / Use the Force"), with a supremacist faction ("we are humanity's next step in evolution"). It might be popular among psis to tattoo themselves voluntarily here, but as a matter of pride instead of a mark of shame. Psi-only night clubs, where you have to levitate something or read the bouncer's mind to gain entry, á la Papa Midnite's (Constantine). |
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02-13-2019, 12:04 PM | #29 | |
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