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Zophia
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This was a random thought I had the other day. It is not meant to be taken too serious or to offend any views on what afterlife is.
But.
What if life is a strategy game or RPG of some sort and what really happens when we die is that we beat the game and unlocked free play mode?

Furthermore...

What do you think life would be like in a free play mode?

What would you do if you could do anything?

Is life an MMO or a single player with clever AIs?

If it is MMO, what would free play life be like with other people also able to do everything? Chaos? Or would it sort itself out to some sort of order?

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bretttrumpour
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What do you think life would be like in a free play mode?


It would be very crazy alot of people would be doing ridiculoas things like robbing stores killing people and what not.

What would you do if you could do anything?

I wouldent do anything different maybe get a better job insted of being a landscaper.



Is life an MMO or a single player with clever AIs?

I'll answer that later i dont know what MMO stands for.


If it is MMO, what would free play life be like with other people also able to do everything? Chaos? Or would it sort itself out to some sort of order?


I'll answer this one later aswell dont know what MMO is.
Graham
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if life was a single player i'd be sad because of loneliness but also happy to be like Neo from The Matrix

if it was MMO (probably is) then free play mode would be a power struggle.... it would be fun to see people create their own planets though

ligaboy
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That's the second coolest afterlife I've ever heard, next to the Scenario in the book elsewhere.

What would you do if you could do anything?


Anything? Fly
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1. I've always wondered whether or not we're in a computer being played by some government supercomputer running a simulation if what would happen at the end of the world, and what lead up to it's cause to see if they could stop it.

2. Implying that free play mode is never ending, life would be quite strange. Eventually life would become dull and boring, knowing that oneself had done everything.

3. I would become extremely rich and powerful. See what owning my own private army would be like.

4. A single player game run by some central character with all of us as AAI (Advanced AI). Which is why most of us are smart (To a certain extent), with almost no common sense (Something computers don't have).

Well, there's my thoughts.

loloynage2
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What do you think life would be like in a free play mode?


free...

What would you do if you could do anything?


Everything...

Is life an MMO or a single player with clever AIs?


I don't know whats AIs >.<

If it is MMO, what would free play life be like with other people also able to do everything? Chaos? Or would it sort itself out to some sort of order?


A cycle...first 100 years it could be chaos, and everyone is trying to be stronger then the other...after 100 years the strongest whit his clan (clan will obvious exist) will take power, and try to make order by his way....continues for 10,000 years until something big happens (like monster invasion)....big war....the strongest looses power, and everything starts back from the beginning...chaos for a other 100 years, and then a new strongest one goes for power, and the cycle continues until most of the planet population is dead....then it will be clans (like countries) taking his one territory. There will be one leader for every clan. and yea....the rest is a mystery...but its sure not going to be boring
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What do you think life would be like in a free play mode?


A lucid dream.

What would you do if you could do anything?


Find out the meaning of life and then become rich selling it xD People are stupid, they'll buy anything.

Is life an MMO or a single player with clever AIs?


I would have to say it's an MMO, other wise there would be too many games of life going on at once and the server would crash.

Anyway, I've thought about things like this before. Like what if when we dream we're temporarily looking into another dimension? It's real people, and sometimes it seems so insane because it's a different world with different rules.
Graham
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I don't know whats AIs >.<


artificial intelligence, a robot's "brain"
loloynage2
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artificial intelligence, a robot's "brain"


oh k...so i take MMO it would be much more fun >:3
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What do you think life would be like in a free play mode?


Well there would be different people doing different things, some making themselves gods, some trying to stop the "God Players", others just wreaking havoc, and some trying to be love gods.

What would you do if you could do anything?


I would turn everyone into 8-Bit characters >=)

Is life an MMO or a single player with clever AIs?


Judging by my answers it would be an MMO

If it is MMO, what would free play life be like with other people also able to do everything? Chaos? Or would it sort itself out to some sort of order?


Like I said there would be different things goin on, but mostly chaos.
Zophia
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I would have to say it's an MMO, other wise there would be too many games of life going on at once and the server would crash.
Actually everyone else would only exist as much as you perceive them, given that they are simply AIs and do not exist if you aren't interacting with them.

Those that interact with you are simply doing so because that's how the game works (like how some NPCs just randomly talks to you if you walk past).

So MMO = Everyone is actually real.
AI = You think everyone is real, but really it's just you.
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I would be kind of freaked out, but it would be cool, because then I could have mana and cast spells, lol.

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