Not everyone has access to the real thing, there's a lot of lonely people out there and there are even those who prefer to form a connection and caring with someone before getting physical and they just can't find people their own pace that are compatible or can't get past the social pressures even when they do find someone or or or...VR is a great place for the less-confident, insecure, uncertain, jaded, repeatedly rejected, or simply unlucky (as well as a bunch of other qualifications) to get their feet wet without the emotional investment that they might not have the energy/capacity for in RL anymore.

Not in, I seriously don't need more stuff to my backlog >_<

What I'd do in a virtual world for 1 day? I'd probably go on an epic RPG adventure, either in a fantasy or in a scifi setting. Or do some parkour, Assassin's Creed style :D

I'm in. Thank you, +1.

People seem very upbeat about cyberspace.

Me --- with my luck --- I would probably spend the entire 24 hours chasing software and hardware bugs, and that's the optimistic scenario. The more realistic scenario is that they will be chasing me, and boy are they fast.

My first inclination would be to NOT "jack in," especially with the AI in control and the possibilities that can go wrong with that (so many examples, who wants to name some?), but also with the possible problems with the technology framework or other general bugs (that people like mrkgnao are so caringly and painstakingly trying to find and fix/eliminate) that that would cause a malfunction in my experience.

Plus, what are the studies done on the side-effects of such use. I'd like to know more! Would I get addicted to heroin for real if I tried some in VR? Theoretically of course, I don't think that's one of the things I would try. Hmmm, but, maybe!

I don't want to end up splattered into the side of a mountain when I go to sky-dive over the Andes because of a glitch in the feedback controls (maybe my brain is more sensitive and the "safe" level wasn't safe enough for my brain!), or have some evil hacker group disable the safeties and my wrestle with a tiger goes bad (oh, what a way to go, though!), or, you know, I get hooked on dope and life is ruined.

I wonder how that would go. Would I be able to maintain my addiction to exclusively VR, or would I maintain that for a while and then start to seek the real deal and get hooked in RL too? Would I maintain the VR addiction if I supplanted it with the RL addiction or do both? What are the effects on the brain and how do they differ from VR to RL? Let's do a study on...hmmm, who wants to volunteer?

If I could somehow be certain to avoid those things (more like the tiger fight, not the heroin stuff, I wouldn't volunteer for that - I'm just having fun/being funny there, I hope) and go in with the security and comfort and assured-ness of being not-affected when I came out, I'd go for it! What I would do, aside from tiger-fighting, is yet to come.

Who likes Tek-War?

Not in for the giveaway, awalterj. Still, thank you for it.
I'm not sure if you have seen or have already purchased it beforehands, but SiN Gold is now discounted by 70%.

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Will check against giveaway > failed.

This means that I am entering (thank you for the chance!), once again providing more good reasons for people to call me mad.

What would you do if you could spend 24 hours in full-feedback cyberspace (called "Trance" in the game)?

It depends. (I'm assuming that full-feedback means “feel it like it was real” but it doesn't imply permanent damage -at least, not physical.)

If the cyberspace was something everyone could freely use, I think I would try to simulate something that in real life would be very, VERY stupid and masochistic (something I would never do otherwise, knowing I could risk my actual neck).
For example, I would try to live a medieval siege or an attack action in more recent times, just to have an idea of what war could be and could have been; the full feedback should allow me to actually fear the pain, so to make everything more believable. It would be even better if I could remove my memory for a while and really believe that to be the truth.
Everyone keeps on talking about war and violence, but how many have really seen them? I think that if everyone had a chance to experience something similar to reality, maybe they would drastically change their opinions on the matter... I'm talking especially to you, average warmonger citizen. It's easy to feel a “patriot” when bullets are not flying near your ears.
If that was not possible -let's say, because the cyberspace is not intended for simulation of if the awareness of being in a fictional reality prevents to experience things as if they were real- I would still try to use the chance to learn something, being the useful, strange, innovative or simply weird, using the wide amount of interconnections to gain knwoledge that would be normally precluded to me.
I mean (no offense to others who might think differently): anyobody can often have pleasure and fun in their lifetime, so using a chance like this that way would feel a bit like a waste, when it could be used to grasp something outside my own physical limits.
I know I'd probably like to climb to places much too difficult for my real self to visit, or try some simulated space travel, since I always wanted to do that, yet I would do that not really for fun, but to experience something way out of my league bypassing each possible "handicap" thta rela life provides.
Also, one could argue that the momentarily merging between human mind and machine could be a great reward in itself, making the occurence already more than worthy in itself.

If the cyberspace was not something everyone could experience, but it was just a new window on a relatively unexplored world... I would probably go full evil.
So many information, all there to be manipulated by my mind and without serious defence systems... I think I would try to gather as much as I can from high-profile corporations, political parties and criminal groups, then start to sell them to their opponents. That way, I'll become filthy rich while they are going at each other's throats, and once they are weak enough I'll sell the info again to the hungry press, to expose them. After this is done and their reputation is irremediably damaged, I'll freely pass them to the authorities, too, so they are forced to prosecute them without the possibility to accept bribes.
Once this is done, I'll use the money I gathered to fund my own political movement, solve the problem and save the day.
Granted, it woldn't probably be thta easy, yet I'm quite sure that I would try: who would refrain to use such power, if a careful planning could wipe forme existence some of those who they consider enemies of the entire humankind?

Please count me in for the game.

I would spend all my time in cyberspace. First, breakfast at a michelin star cyber restaurant. Much better than the pancakes I would've made myself. Actual nutrition comes in intravenously. Next, exercise in an online wargame. Break for lunch on a scenic mountaintop far from the city I actually live in. Then, time for learning and explore the universe from satellite and probe feeds. Finally, dinner with a movie, except its immersed in the movie.

Does look like a good game, but not in.

Thx for the GA though :)

Can I please be entered for a chance to win Technobabylon? Thanks. If I could spend a day in cyberspace, I would activate full-feedback cyberspace, and I'd like to think I'd do something appropriately cool, but knowing me, I'd probably see a house-fly and find it to be so vivid and mesmerizing that I would run around like crazy, chasing the fly, before accidentally running into a wall and knocking myself out. I would then spend the next 23 and a half hours trying to recover from having run into the wall. That doesn't make me sound very cool, but it's probably what would happen!

I'm in, +1.

Partial feedback:
I would spend a morning set to Saturday at Hogwarts as a 6th or 7th years student.
The afternoon would be spent in Sunnydale as myself.
And then I would spend the evening at Cheers!, also as myself.
Full feedback:
The night would be spent with Jessica Biel and Julianne Moore.

I'm in!

Ever watch Lawnmower Man?

I'd extend my consciousness into cyberspace and, maybe not to take control of everything connected to it, but at least gain as much information/knowledge as I could.

Okay, I'm in!

Breaking down my 24-hour VR experience.

85% feedback I think will keep me safe but still experiencing the things quite intensely.

Early in morning I'd hike through the Andes mountains for a while, getting some great views. Then I get lifted in a jet and rise into the air a several thousand more feet and jump out (no parachute or anything) and free-fall for a while. 4 hours time probably?

Next I'd find my top 5 roads that I would think would be best for driving fast on, get some sort of performance vehicle of killer handling and speed, and go zooming down some roads for a good while. This would probably last 4 hours as well.

Jacked from the adrenaline, I think the only place to go next would be UP. I'd get some fighter jet lessons so I could take off and land, (hah all in a few hours time!), and go for a fighter jet fly session. Zooming over landscapes like the grand-canyon and the rockies, to south america to see the rainforests and rivers and waterfalls from high, to Iceland to see all of its wonders, where I might get out and explore a while. This would probably take most of the rest of the day, I'll say 8 hours.

Then I'd take a nap so I could wake up with a few hours left in the day to find some wild tigers to go try and be friendly with and see what happens there. I'd probably end up getting attacked, but I really really want to give it a try and VR would allow that, maybe I'd make a cuddly friend.

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