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  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    1 year ago

    I accidentally wasted all of yesterday playing a video game (The Witcher 3) and have decided there are two aspects of video game life I wish happened in the real world.

    If time worked like it does in games life would be so much simpler. Make an appointment to meet up with someone at sunset, spend 40 years travelling the world and doing other stuff, still make it to the meeting on time! Or rushing urgently to the monster infested cellar with the house owner? They won’t mind if you spend time rifling through all of their possessions and looting everything that’s not bolted down on the way.

    The second main aspect is the incredible lifespan of food. Kill the reanimated corpse of a plague victim buried in a cave for the last 300 years, find they were carrying a ham sandwich, still good to eat! The real world I make a ham sandwich and its starting to get a bit sus by lunchtime.

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          As long as it’s only on the road nearby. Summoning a car to the middle of the office could cause problems.

          Just having the ability to summon a convenient parking spot would be pretty handy.

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        That would be good. Not having a commute and being able to pop over to France for a baguette at any time would be rather nice.

        Although I have spent way too much time thinking about the social consequences if that sort of ability was real. At the moment so much of what we do is organised around geographic limitations - we have local shops, groups etc. The fragmentation of society into different interest groups that happens already with improved communication would be even more dramatic, and if it was accessible enough to have in individual homes the entire concept of neighbourhood would disappear. Although we could potentially reclaim all the roads for parks and nature corridors as we don’t need them for transport any more which would be good.

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          I just want to be able to fast travel to work, my partner’s and home tbh. I don’t mind the travel to like the city or somewhere, but if it’s a place I frequent pretty regularly, then I want to have the ability to fast travel.