Well, the only thing that is important to me is doing and being a part of things that I love. Whether it's a reality or a fantasy doesn't matter to me. One of the things I didn't like about the plot of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance was that Marche, was insistent on bringing his friends back to reality, even though they were much happier as they were.
I think that reality is what you make of it, you don't have to be interacting with real things for them to have meaning. And whether something is created with carbon or is just electronics in a virtual world, these things can both be real in their own ways. If someone makes a piece of art, whether it's on paper or only exists in a computer, it's both equally real. Only happiness is what matters. Does it really matter if what one is enjoying is real? I think that the lines between reality and fantasy and the online world will become blurred, anyway. There won't only be a lot of virtual reality everywhere, but augmented reality.
I think that living in the real world and virtual worlds can both be great. I want to completely change the way the real world looks with augmented reality, too. And change everything I see around me that makes me sad and replace it with something that makes me happy. And I want to get surgery and have the body I've always dreamed of having in the real world, too. I'd like to spend all day doing fun things and in happy raves and doing things I love in the real world, too.
I'm happy enough with both. But there are things I'd like to be able to do in a virtual world, and I'd like to take a vacation from the real world. I kind of wish my body was the way I would like it to be. It's really hard to have the body I would like to have in real life.
I don't think that real life is necessarily better than virtual worlds, though. Whether or not you like real life or virtual worlds better.
I'm also regretting coming back to NeoGAF a little bit. It is kind of reminding me of how sad real life can be right now. Going into that 'racial preferences' thread brought back a lot of bad memories for me that I had tried to get away from for several years. And it seems like in a lot of the threads I'm going to, it's very nasty. And everyone is ridiculing and calling awful things to everything I love and makes me happy. It makes me sad whenever I come in another thread and things I love are being put down and called creepy. So while I'm pretty happy, I after a month of being gone, I kind of regret coming back to NeoGAF just a little bit right now. So I think I may end up taking a break and leaving again for a few months.
I thought it would be fun to come in and express my feelings and opinions and what I love again. But as it turns out it just kind of made me sad and think about a lot of sad things. I think I'm pretty fine, but I may be in a less than perfect mood because I'm sad from the things I've read and thought here on NeoGAF right now. I probably went to the wrong threads, too, hehe.
But I'm perfectly fine, thank you. And I don't think that there's anything wrong with wanting to live in a virtual world. My disposition is that I'm happy when I'm around things and people that make me happy, and sad when I'm around things and people that make me sad. I think that's normal and how most people feel. Virtual and augmented reality would allow me to be around things that make me happy all the time, and less often around things that make me sad. And so I think that's great.
Sorry for the long-winded response.