Real Life: The Full Review

[AgentZero]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Although I'm not sure I believe that 'believeable characters'...

Thanks, Narf. I am pretty unbelievable if I do say so myself.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Yeah, most people on the internet are completely unbelieveable.

[Randallw]

I have enough trouble with reality without having my suspicions that the whole world is only what I can see, the rest of the world is only shown when I access those areas, and that there are unseen people who organise how everything runs, verified.

[Renegade 13]

Randallw said:
I have enough trouble with reality without having my suspicions that the whole world is only what I can see, the rest of the world is only shown when I access those areas, and that there are unseen people who organise how everything runs, verified.

Wow. I thought I was the only one who thought about such things from time to time!

[Randallw]

Renegade 13 said:
Wow. I thought I was the only one who thought about such things from time to time!

If you too suspect you are in the Truman show then I suggest you get psychiatric help

[Renegade 13]

Randallw said:
If you too suspect you are in the Truman show then I suggest you get psychiatric help

I'll confess to not even knowing what the Truman show is!

[Randallw]

That's a slight surprise, but anyway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Show

basically, and I found this is actually a symptom of one of my ailments, because of what to you seem like unlikely coincidences together with a belief that you ARE the most significant/important person (The main character if you will. Probably because of an inability to consider other people to be "worth" as much as you, after all they're NPC's) you come to believe the whole world exists only to entertain/test the "player" and that coincidences don't exist but are the people behind the scenes controlling everything. It is important I believe to promptly ignore such nonsense otherwise you end up wearing a tin foil hat, accosting newsreaders and asking what the frequency the government uses to mind control you is

Edit: and at the risk of getting carried away I find it delightful that link I gave you also leads to the Alegory of the cave. A delightful little parable to convince you that the insane really do understand reality for what it is.

[Aurore]

Real life has many problems as a game. The grinding is awful. You have to spend 90% of your time engaged in pointless activities designed to enrich other players who spend most of their time sitting on their asses, simply to get enough ingame resources to continue playing.

That means that for the majority of the population of any teritory you spend so much time doing something you dont want to do that you dont have a lot of time for anything else.

The very unfair and often irreversible random starting conditions are a terrible flaw as well. If your startup has few resources, whilst it is possible for some skille dor lucky players to overcome the handicap, others startup with vast resources and have a totally different play experience.

I understand that in the past there have been PVP attempts to correct this, one in a territory called france and another in Russia, with varying degrees of success. No one has however been able to make the system even close to fair for any length of time.

Yes, the interface is great, yes the available options are *in theory* great, though most people dont get access to them, but the rules are very badly thought out, and the game is horribly unbalanced economically, politically, and as I said before, the grind makes almost any other game more appealing.

Avoid!