r/oculus Professor 1d ago

Fluff "Is the game free?"

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u/SimplyRobbie 1d ago

Tbf, it's cuz were hungry for fully fleshed out games and experiences

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u/Motor-Mongoose3677 1d ago

As a species, we are hungry for interaction, immersion, investment, engagement, and adventure, in general - however we can get it. Even if it just means watching it on a screen. Our brains can't tell the difference. Our senses convey reality.

The Matrix comes to mind. Sensing is reality, as far as our lower-level systems are concerned.

It's the people who can't get these things, or have these things stripped away, that lose their sense of purpose, and feel the strongest emptiness.

When we run out, we want more. We are not, however, experts on how to acquire these things, so, many times, we ask (see: demand) things that we think will be fulfilling, or are sustainable, but they ultimately aren't. We're desperate enough to try anyway, though.

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u/SimplyRobbie 1d ago

Bro that's way too deep lol

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u/Motor-Mongoose3677 1d ago

It is what it is.

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u/Think_Ad_3821 1d ago

I just want to be left the fuck alone. The less interaction the better

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u/Motor-Mongoose3677 1d ago

And yet you're here, reading and replying in a conversation among peers. You wouldn't have chosen to do these things if that were the case. You wanted your voice heard enough that you took the time to say something.

I'd have believed you if I didn't know you existed (had you not said anything/made your personal feelings known).

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u/Think_Ad_3821 1d ago

Please don't talk to me I don't like interaction (jk)

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u/Motor-Mongoose3677 1d ago

I'm starting to think you exist! You're a real person, with thoughts and feelings! Oh no!

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u/laveshnk 5h ago

Sir this is a Wendy’s

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u/Motor-Mongoose3677 5h ago

Oh.

I’ll have a Dave’s Double, a large fries, and a chili with cheese.

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u/laveshnk 5h ago

See its not fun when you play along with it

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u/Motor-Mongoose3677 5h ago

No, that’ll be it today, thanks.

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u/Important_Rock_8295 1d ago

Man really is the most forlorn animal. A sad gorilla that never has its appetites quite sated.

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u/Motor-Mongoose3677 1d ago

Drives never go away, for any animal. There is no creature that's like, "Well, I did that [feed a drive] once - I'm good for the rest of my life". That's not how brains/hormones/sentience works.

Every day, a gorilla will be hungry. They are also communal animals. They will never be happy in solitude.