Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch

Naethyn · Post by **Naethyn** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:56 am

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/scien ... 1344744000

I think it's a lot better than 20%!

kinghooter00 · Post by **kinghooter00** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:55 am

my brain would explode from thinking too deep into that...
very cool though...

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:19 am

there was a semi decent movie about this a few years ago (can't think of the name tho)

these guys would create a little virtual world (just a city I think) and then they'd go down and interact with the denizens. at some point one of the denizens came to an epiphany and went and found the border and realized he was a virtual person

he then in turn questioned the "creator" guy about whether or not he was real

then the main guy of course had nightmares and shit and went and checked out his world and found the boundary

then the scene pulls back to the "real" world with a bunch of scientists talking about how of all the worlds they created, this was teh only one that ended up creating their own virtual worlds, etc etc

kinda neat

Naethyn · Post by **Naethyn** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:29 am

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:30 am

nice work attempting to steal someone's graphix

Naethyn · Post by **Naethyn** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:31 am

I thought that was the movie you referenced?

The Kizzy · Post by **The Kizzy** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:44 am

impawards.com?

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:50 am

Tikker wrote:there was a semi decent movie about this a few years ago (can't think of the name tho)

these guys would create a little virtual world (just a city I think) and then they'd go down and interact with the denizens. at some point one of the denizens came to an epiphany and went and found the border and realized he was a virtual person

he then in turn questioned the "creator" guy about whether or not he was real

then the main guy of course had nightmares and shit and went and checked out his world and found the boundary

then the scene pulls back to the "real" world with a bunch of scientists talking about how of all the worlds they created, this was teh only one that ended up creating their own virtual worlds, etc etc

kinda neat

The 13th Floor or something right?

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:07 pm

Sounds like the Truman Show but sci-fi.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:41 pm

it came out 5 or 6 years before the truman sho

13th floor isn't ringing any bells, lemme check IMDB

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:42 pm

nope, not 13th floor, but that sounds pretty similar

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:56 pm

It was the 13th Floor. Guarantee it.

At the end the virtual guy takes over the real guy's personality and they go for a walk on the beach or some shit.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:04 pm

nope, wasn't 13th floor

at the end of the movie, the main guy tracks down the end of his "universe" and then the camera pulls back to the real real people (if that makes sense) and they talk about how it was odd that their virtual world created a virtual world

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:10 pm

Dark City?

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:13 pm

nope that wasn't it either

dark city was the one where the aliens rebuild the city slightly different everynight, yeah?