On World Builder:
But we do that all the time, whether in the Real World or the Virtual one. We, as humans, adapt our environment to ourselves as a matter of course.
Sometimes we build with Legos. sometimes we use bricks, sometimes we play Minecraft. Sometimes we paint flowers, sometimes we breed new ones, sometimes we Photoshop images to create the flowers from our dreams. It's part of our nature as humans!
Tolkien created his own world before Todd Howard created Morrowind. Children played with dollhouses before the Sims came along.
We build houses, we make babies, we plant carrots, we bake bread. We write poems, we act out stories, we sing bardic tales, we dance our emotions. We create virtual Utopias and Dystopias, we rearrange faces, we record songs, we pass on stories in pixellated form.
We are stories, we are poems, we are love and hate and fear and joy. We are too much reality to be unbound by our virtual experiences.
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