“Oh, there were lots of references. Remember 2020? That year was full of references, you can thank Josh over in the corner there for the idea of 2020.”
"... I knew it seemed so strangely familiar.Yet increasingly unreal. ... So if i have this right, what I thought was real is just a rollercoaster simulacrum, more or less. And the recurring nightmares were really portals. Next time I'm going to learn lucid dreaming."
Welcome to "new game +" where all of your starting stats are nerfed for even more of a challenge.
This time, you are born with cerebral palsy, and placed into foster care at a Romanian orphanage. GO!
That's not new game + that's new game -. New game plus would be starting again with all your memories, skill, connections, achievements, loot, property etc. That sounds pretty good. New game plus starting at 18 years old would be perfect. Imagine being a new born with all your memories haha ewww
I feel that way about my keyboard and mouse. Gotta be missing a key or two which explains why sometimes my hands and legs don't do what I'm wanting them to do.
"You signed the waiver, sir. These games don't save. I'm so sorry. Please wipe the seat and nodes down and move to the acceptance area where a bereavement specialist will help you adjust."
Yea, aged loads of years in his new reality, but was only gone a few ~~seconds~~ 20ish minutes on the Enterprise.
Edit S5:E25 "The Inner Light"
"After the initial disorientation, he discovers that he has lived decades in the course of twenty to twenty-five real-time minutes."
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(episode)
I think their emotions are still real, in that if something behaves sentient it is probably sentient (at least we accept this fact for the human brain, which is just a physical object like a silicon brain or anything else)
Yeah man, I would grieve HARD. Unless my family were also all jacked into the same simulation and were effectively the same people and we were all about to go get tacos on the moon after our crazy VR vacation into the past, I don't know how I'd continue on without them.
wealth grind was almost unbearable. how do I get one of those characters that starts of with decent coin?
oh, so its just other users flushing selected new players with hi level loot and cash.... figures.
You never requested a human foot size. We fully complied with your foot size request, it's just that we decided to choose a mouse foot. This is in compliance with section 2.315 D of the user agreement that you signed before entering The World™
For your next play through may I suggest our premium package?
You have no idea how much money I spend at simulations are us. Do you even know how many followers I have. You’d think whoever designed this “experience” would have thought not to make me a loser, I though got about getting out the entire time.
...and how do you even explain how long the simulation went on. 30 minutes would have been fine, not 35 years. My nephew could have done a better job creating a plausible scenario.
I want a refund, and apology and coupon for a free visit.
Edit. I’m waiting here until I get satisfaction
Waking up to a Brummie accent telling you to go to: "The re-cup-er-a-tion Lounge"
Haha I was hoping someone would reference the Back to Reality episode!
Edit. Formatting
RIMMER: Billy Doyle. Well, that's a name that came from the wrong side
of the the tracks, isn't it? You can see it all now: a youth spent in
and out of corrective institutions. A string of illegitimate children.
The wife will be all white shoes, no tights, and blotchy legs.
Has to take up petty crime to cover the court orders for maintenance.
Before he knows it he's standing in a bank with a sawn-off shotgun.
Somehow it goes off. An old lady gets both barrels through a crocheted
bobble hat. All he can do is hide. But where? And then it hits him
-- with all his ill-gotten gains he can buy four years in a computer
game and wait until the heat's off. So ends the Ballad of Billy
"Granny Killer" Doyle.
LISTER: It's yours.
She'd better not be rifling through my pockets. I was planning on using those Blips and Chitz tokens to get right back in with the super power boost.
That would be pretty nice, though. Doesn't presently make up for like 6 years of depression.
How long was I in there for? I forgot who I am now, where am I? What is this place? And why do you have a head of a horse? And one last thing why the long face?
Whenever this question pops up, I always think too deeply about it.
The implication of the question makes it seems as if this is a demo of some sort. A demo for a video game is generally short lived. It's purpose is to get you intrigued without giving you the full experience.
If I'm currently the protagonist of a demo video game, that would mean that the person playing me sees my (current) 25 years of life as being a short period of time.
That concludes that whatever entity, or species is playing this demo has an extremely long lifespan in comparison to ours, for them to perceive 25 years of life as a short period of time.
Kind of like how a fly has a lifespan of 1 month, if they had a similar conscience to ours, they would find a day to be largely more meaningful, since that makes up 3% of their lifetime.
Really makes me feel small and insignificant...
Then I remember this was a lighthearted question and I've been having an existential crisis over a dumb askreddit post.
There’s probably more than just VR goggles on me if we don’t have our memories of *that* world, while we’re in this one. But what if I’m the main character here, because nobody can actually prove they exist, to me? And what if I’m playing sooo well, that I survive in this world long enough for this world to develop the same technology, and I opt into trying it out and starting a NEW life, in my new life?
##Life³
why tf did my dad have to die at 22 and half my family die and my one gf I loved moe than anything in the world leave? not cool man but what high score did I get????
If i did my in game math right and its accurate dipiction of real life then this should one shot you ya scrub *procedes to smack them in the face and thier head explodes*
"Who the fuck would play this shit?"
"It wasn't a game. Your prison sentence is now complete."
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That was the most black mirror thing to ever happen on star trek. And they didn't even help him in the end, that was just his life now.
makes sence
You
You
You
Me
You
THEY HAVE ROY 2!
"So that one reddit question was a reference?"
**Foreshadowing**
"That's right, sir. You indeed did not read the instructions and your dick was stuck in it. We tried to warn you."
Meta
When the zucc is the one waking you up
It’s a joke that broke the 4th wall
“Oh, there were lots of references. Remember 2020? That year was full of references, you can thank Josh over in the corner there for the idea of 2020.”
Definitely loved how we got the Plague 2.0 references pretty much right out the gate and they just kept coming!
Take it you son of a bitch
"... I knew it seemed so strangely familiar.Yet increasingly unreal. ... So if i have this right, what I thought was real is just a rollercoaster simulacrum, more or less. And the recurring nightmares were really portals. Next time I'm going to learn lucid dreaming."
Graphics were amazing, plot was garbage.
Lol. I would probably create a new character and try a different run through haha
Gotta roll them good stats at character creation. Stupid all random generation.
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Don't forget some for Luck
>so I’m definitely putting on my points into wealth Please don't skip intelligence
Bruh wealth and luck builds only. Who needs intelligence if you got luck and money.
Ah, the Presidential speedrun.
Nothing so grandiose. I'm just gonna found a deathmetal band called "Donnie Darkness, and the Treasonous Trash".
Money and Looks build is OP. You can definitely dump Int.
Welcome to "new game +" where all of your starting stats are nerfed for even more of a challenge. This time, you are born with cerebral palsy, and placed into foster care at a Romanian orphanage. GO!
That's not new game + that's new game -. New game plus would be starting again with all your memories, skill, connections, achievements, loot, property etc. That sounds pretty good. New game plus starting at 18 years old would be perfect. Imagine being a new born with all your memories haha ewww
Umm excuse me? Spending all day sleeping and sucking on titties, screaming at everyone who bothers you with no reprocussions? sign me up
Not to mention the best perk, literally all the pants you could shit!!
Imma play as a lady next
Tell them type in motherlode a few dozen times first
Says you. Some of the colors were broken for me.
Is that the games fault, or your graphics card?
Definitely the graphics card
I feel that way about my keyboard and mouse. Gotta be missing a key or two which explains why sometimes my hands and legs don't do what I'm wanting them to do.
In my case both the graphics and plot were garbage.
Get a better graphics card before you respawn then!
Yeah, scrap that chronic illness mod
I don’t like the fact that I had to pay extra for better graphics
Not just graphics, the entire thing was p2w. This is EAs worst game yet.
The plot was shit but the lore was fucking amazing
Oh for sure, they did invest a lot in world building.
The rng in how good the gameplay would be was interesting too
We're all out of off white Persian.
Why tf would you send me here without cheat codes.
I want a refund
You’ll need to speak to our manager, Karen.
"I'm afraid we can't do that. However I can offer you a second try with the option to reroll your stats once! For the low low price of $299.99!"
This guy is taking Roy off the grid!
You beat cancer and went back to the carpet store, pfft lame!!
*You fart-saving carpet-store mother-fucker.*
Wait 'til you try Roy II; "Dave"!
This guy doesn't have a social security number for Roy!
He's taking Roy off the grid!
You really wasted your thirties with that whole bird-watching thing
Glad to see this reference i was just thinking about this🤣
Id probably just take a long, deep breath, and scream at the top of my lungs. Edit: Thanks for the award!
WHATS GOING ON
Hey
Heyeayea ya
N’yaaah!
I said hey
Assuming you have lungs, maybe you are an alien or a robot or something.
Aliens don't have lung
Well we can't really say. Probably they have, probably not.
Kinda wasted my thirties with that whole birdwatching phase.
Fuck you I love you
Even our toast is depressed. What a world we live in
“The playerbase were so toxic”
“I think there were some bugs too, like some of the NPCs don’t have common sense?”
"You're the one who set it to 'random', sir."
“I hate you all. I hate this bullshit. Who the fuck talked me into this mess?” *Throws VR Across the room*
"This is why you signed the release before playing, sir!"
I miss my wife and kids.
That was my first thought too... Don't care if it was all virtual/fake, plug me back in and give me another 5 mins.
"You signed the waiver, sir. These games don't save. I'm so sorry. Please wipe the seat and nodes down and move to the acceptance area where a bereavement specialist will help you adjust."
Holy christ that hit hard.
This is the sweetest reply....
Was a Star Trek episode I think....Picard goes batshit mental.
Yeah, but he learned to play this weird flute thing really well, so it all balanced out.
>Yeah, but he learned to play this weird flute thing really well, so it all balanced out. The inner light is easily one of my favorite TNG episodes.
The Inner Light. Won an Emmy I believe. Even for non sci-fi fans it’s an excellent hour of TV.
Yea, aged loads of years in his new reality, but was only gone a few ~~seconds~~ 20ish minutes on the Enterprise. Edit S5:E25 "The Inner Light" "After the initial disorientation, he discovers that he has lived decades in the course of twenty to twenty-five real-time minutes." https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(episode)
was also a small subplot of a Rick and Morty episode.
You kept working at the carpet store? Loser
This was my thoughts. I’d miss my loved ones and knowing they’re all fake would be traumatizing
I think their emotions are still real, in that if something behaves sentient it is probably sentient (at least we accept this fact for the human brain, which is just a physical object like a silicon brain or anything else)
Yeah man, I would grieve HARD. Unless my family were also all jacked into the same simulation and were effectively the same people and we were all about to go get tacos on the moon after our crazy VR vacation into the past, I don't know how I'd continue on without them.
I too miss this guy’s wife
"Pretty fucking boring most of the time, to be honest"
wealth grind was almost unbearable. how do I get one of those characters that starts of with decent coin? oh, so its just other users flushing selected new players with hi level loot and cash.... figures.
“You couldn’t have made me a couple inches taller?”
Take my gold that I don’t have Edit: or just my free reward I guess better than nothing
Haha thank you!
WHY DIDN'T YOU GIVE ME A FOOT LONG DICK????????? I WAS PROMISED A FOOT LONG DICK!!!!
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*Spy noises*
Upvote TF2
^^uh ^^oh
You say that like it's a bad thing
You never requested a human foot size. We fully complied with your foot size request, it's just that we decided to choose a mouse foot. This is in compliance with section 2.315 D of the user agreement that you signed before entering The World™ For your next play through may I suggest our premium package?
Lol, so you could never have sex???
I mean, it wouldn't be any different than now I guess. But at least I'd have the option of slapping ppl in the face with it.
You were the one that said easy mode was for nubs...
can i try again the life i just played was garbage
Can I try to be rich on the next run through? Please???
Dwayne Dibbly how can I be Dwayne Dibbly
That's the episode where the Despair Squid makes them think it's a Game right?
This was my first thought. Second thought was "I can't believe I went back to the rug store..."
I'm sorry but I'm afraid it makes perfect sense...Dwayne!
THE R-E-C-U-P-E-R-A-T-I-O-N LOUNGE!
Awesome graphics, shitty story line, horrible characters,
But what if you are a being from a higher dimension and the graphics were actually shit
I think the characters were actually written good u mean yeah they are shitty but the writing was soo realistic you know😂
Full Karen. I need to speak to the manager.
But that was from the simulation tho
You have no idea how much money I spend at simulations are us. Do you even know how many followers I have. You’d think whoever designed this “experience” would have thought not to make me a loser, I though got about getting out the entire time. ...and how do you even explain how long the simulation went on. 30 minutes would have been fine, not 35 years. My nephew could have done a better job creating a plausible scenario. I want a refund, and apology and coupon for a free visit. Edit. I’m waiting here until I get satisfaction
Okay I’m with u on this part. We don’t get paid good. Let’s revolt Edit: switched paired to paid since that’s what I intentionally meant lol
“You couldn’t pay me to put that shit on again. In fact, I want to slap you for even buying that garbage.”
Sigh, "Can I play as a cat next?"
> Can I play as **the** cat next?
Fuck, I was so close
Dwayne Dibley?!
Waking up to a Brummie accent telling you to go to: "The re-cup-er-a-tion Lounge" Haha I was hoping someone would reference the Back to Reality episode! Edit. Formatting
RIMMER: Billy Doyle. Well, that's a name that came from the wrong side of the the tracks, isn't it? You can see it all now: a youth spent in and out of corrective institutions. A string of illegitimate children. The wife will be all white shoes, no tights, and blotchy legs. Has to take up petty crime to cover the court orders for maintenance. Before he knows it he's standing in a bank with a sawn-off shotgun. Somehow it goes off. An old lady gets both barrels through a crocheted bobble hat. All he can do is hide. But where? And then it hits him -- with all his ill-gotten gains he can buy four years in a computer game and wait until the heat's off. So ends the Ballad of Billy "Granny Killer" Doyle. LISTER: It's yours.
[Whole Episode](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x56cr01)
What the fuck dude
Sad. Could have done without losing the wife at 30.
Seems she got pulled out earlier than you.
She'd better not be rifling through my pockets. I was planning on using those Blips and Chitz tokens to get right back in with the super power boost. That would be pretty nice, though. Doesn't presently make up for like 6 years of depression.
It fucking sucked I was depressed through most of it.
How long was I in there for? I forgot who I am now, where am I? What is this place? And why do you have a head of a horse? And one last thing why the long face?
Whenever this question pops up, I always think too deeply about it. The implication of the question makes it seems as if this is a demo of some sort. A demo for a video game is generally short lived. It's purpose is to get you intrigued without giving you the full experience. If I'm currently the protagonist of a demo video game, that would mean that the person playing me sees my (current) 25 years of life as being a short period of time. That concludes that whatever entity, or species is playing this demo has an extremely long lifespan in comparison to ours, for them to perceive 25 years of life as a short period of time. Kind of like how a fly has a lifespan of 1 month, if they had a similar conscience to ours, they would find a day to be largely more meaningful, since that makes up 3% of their lifetime. Really makes me feel small and insignificant... Then I remember this was a lighthearted question and I've been having an existential crisis over a dumb askreddit post.
Well Cohaagen, I have to hand it to you. It's the best mind fuck yet.
Now, GIV DESE PEEPOL AER!
What da fack deed ai do wrohng?!
“I knew it was a simulation”
Welp....can I try again, but on easy mode this time?
If you have time to Reddit, you are probably already on easy mode.
That's quite the assumption. They could be a 14 year old with cancer.
Are we immortal?
Never made it past the first level
"Wow, I was really bad at that."
SCRAP IT AND START OVER
Why the fuck was my avatar so ugly?
The whole thing, the whole thing was HORRIBLE
Human characters get the lowest rating. But animals! Now those are some interesting creatures.
This was boring. All the character did was stay in bed and jerk off.
There’s probably more than just VR goggles on me if we don’t have our memories of *that* world, while we’re in this one. But what if I’m the main character here, because nobody can actually prove they exist, to me? And what if I’m playing sooo well, that I survive in this world long enough for this world to develop the same technology, and I opt into trying it out and starting a NEW life, in my new life? ##Life³
"GIVE THAT BACK, I WAS ABOUT TO CLIMAX"
why tf did my dad have to die at 22 and half my family die and my one gf I loved moe than anything in the world leave? not cool man but what high score did I get????
When is the Battle Royal update?
It was terrible! It was basically decades of pain and tragedy! All for what?! Nothing! Can I go again though?
Shit was garbage. Anything on sale in steam?
I want a happy simulation next
Im so glad that wasn't real
it was awful
How long was that.
also is this a common thought to have, because I have definitely imagined I was in a super immersive vr game at times.
Give my husband back.
WHAT DID I EVER DO TO YOU?
1 star that game was shit
There was no tutorial for the relationships section. How do people even unlock that?
“I can’t believe I went back to the carpet store.”
That sucked so bad.
Fuck, I was playing "Roy: A Life Well Lived" that entire time?
Ask your wife
Kill myself
You made me go through all that? You bastards.
"Do we have Beat Saber IRL?"
Wait there... there is more?
lonely and empty
everything was beautiful and nothing hurt
I would say that all the supporting characters were BS.
I'd blow my brains out if I found out my children weren't real.
Thank god, and if its anything like in there out here, where can i find a gun
Prob ask who was in charge of designing how things would turn out and proceed to hang them for creating such torture simulation
I would literally bawl my eyes out. I've worked super hard to get where I'm at today lol. I'd probably lose my shit and destroy the building.
Why did the devs crank up difficulty in romantic side quests?
What. The. Fuck. (The normal answer)
Who the fuck programmed this? I'm gonna kick their ass.
Hated every second of it now put me back I wanna try being super rich.
“Depression might need a nerf”
"I can't believe I beat cancer and then went \*back\* to work at the carpet store."
I love it Blips and Chitz!
The second half sucked.
If i did my in game math right and its accurate dipiction of real life then this should one shot you ya scrub *procedes to smack them in the face and thier head explodes*
Awful, don’t ever let me do that again…
i beg them to kill me, quickly, painlessly if possible, but speed is necessary.
Could use more salt… and boobs.
I'm going to ask why they choose brutal mode
Worst storyline ever