I don’t see how virtual reality entertainment can really provide the same sense of satisfaction as shoving someone out once you’re done and having all the pillows to yourself.
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I’d say real, over virtual especially in context of recreation.
At one point before my capsuleer days, I was an avid participant in a few impact and battlesports(I think I still have an old regional title from back home sitting about somewhere…).
While that can be simulated decently well virtually, you still don’t experience quite the same visceral feeling of things the way you do in a real encounter.
I can’t compete in as many of them anymore due to how heavily augmented most of my clones are, but I still indulge in non-competetive circuits from time to time, where the rules are much more relaxed.
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One of the reasons I try to avoid virtual entertainments is that absolutely everything these days has annoying embedded advertising. Even with military grade filters this stuff pops up as if I have any care to fritter away money.
Amongst the cool air of the mountains, one can be free of the clutter of modern life. Although I was told that in the Federation, many national parks fund themselves with giant pop-up holoscreens as one walks through Nature’s beauty. Such sad lives.
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Both.
I prefer real.
But some things I can not do in reality. And some other things…it’s probably better if I don’t do them in reality.
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Both of course! In virtual I prefer those ground combat virtual-entertainment-game-things, I rarely get to do that these days for real since I spend most of my time on ships. Great fun.
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I want my virtual pornorama with big mama jamma, I use a punching bag to simulate being crushed.
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Ah, I see you’re a man of culture aswell.
I a very pro physical experiences. Virtual and be fun but what is the point of being immortal if you dont at least try and chase death.
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This pretty much.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve lately started to appreciate that Virtual does allow for some experiences that just can’t be done in reality, but people are way too quick to run to VR when there’s so much to do in New Eden itself. Terminal Velocity racin’, missile surfing, flare surfing, self powered low-grav flying, deep diving, sight-seeing some of the truly rare things like the eighty-eight year belt blossoming or the spirit caves that we still don’t quite understand.
… and so on, the list is long enough that I could spend the rest of my life just reciting it.
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Nothing beats walks in the forest during winter.
Don’t forget to bring a weapon.
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I prefer my entertainments to be real.
I prefer my self-destructive outlets to be virtual… with a hint of real. The best ones I’ve found so far are timed. They’re… let’s call it gray-market, because nothing’s really illegal for us… sims that use the pod implants… and the first thing they do is block access to your awareness (and memory) of your pod implants. It’s not that you can’t remember what you’ve done, but the mind just… shies away… from the idea that you’re immortal.
Imagine it: not having that safety net anymore. Not having that hideous, obnoxious feeling of safety in what you’re doing… and what you’re doing is almost always dangerous, to some degree.
Everyone seems to want ‘visceral’, but in the end, if it can’t really kill you for good… it’s all just a theme park roller-coaster. And those got dull a decade ago.
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Find one that doesn’t have safety harnesses in any of the rides. It gets more fun, trust me.
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Except, for us… they always will. What’s the worst that happens? We lose an hour or two?
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Yeah, I used to joke to people who found mining to be boring that they are doing it in the wrong place.
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What if i told you the whole world is virtual… 
It would explain so much.
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Entertainment is a waste of time.
However, I feel myself entertained enough when I do my professional or semi-professional duties.
I feel entertained in “real” when I destroy enemy vessel and see all these terrible people lose their worthless lives.
I feel entertained in “virtual” when I jump in galnet forums and show all these gallente bootlickers their place.
Though, before the War has started, I have to admit, I unfortunately wasted a lot of time on entertainment. And my pick for that would be - real. Just because virtual “kills” about 50% of the feeling you are to experience only by knowing it is virtual and nothing “bad” can happen. Even if it feels real, even if it looks real, it doesn’t feel as deep just because you know it’s not real.
Before the War, I liked to go on a hike,I liked stunts, hoverbikes, fighting games, swordfighting, tresspassing, competition physical activities, racing, climbing and ‘roofing’, and many other things.
I had a bit of ‘virtual’ ‘habits’ as well - it was mostly strategy games (chess, Go, combat tactics simulators) and… just don’t laugh. Math. Though I really doubt about the amount of virtuality these kinds of games offer, since they can be played both in real and virtual setting interchangeably.
Thus, as a conclusion: Real.
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This really does explain a lot.
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Caldari and Minmatar were talking in the bar. Minmatar asks: “What is this entropy you have mentioned?”
Caldari replies: “It is a quite simple concept. If you put a spoonful of vodka in a bottle full of sewage, you get sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage in a bottle full of vodka, you get sewage.”
Minmatar ponders for a minute a concludes: “I still didn’t get what entropy means, but I got that you are very wasteful. Because for us it is not two bottles of sewage. We call it two bottles of beverage.”