[MUD-Dev] Movies About MUDs & the Virtual Experience

[rayzam]

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From: "Michael Tresca" <talien at toast.net>
To: <mud-dev at kanga.nu>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 10:38 PM
Subject: [MUD-Dev] Movies About MUDs & the Virtual Experience

> This is not a particularly long list of movies of this type, but I
> think it's worth creating.  A lot of these movies, weirdly enough,
> end up being about the "mobs" that we code -- what if they had
> thoughts, what if they woke up and realized they were just part of a
> game. Still others deal with the impact of such virtual realities on
> morality and self.  In any case, it's food for thought -- perhaps
> this was done before, but I'll add my suggestions (sorry, I had to
> add the Matrix):

>   The Thirteenth Floor: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0139809
>   eXistenz: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120907
>   The Matrix: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0133093
>   Strange Days: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114558

There's a lot of fodder in Star Trek, via the holodeck. It occurs in
Next Generation and Voyager episodes [and not in Deep Space 9].

Examples:

  The Doctor on Voyager: knows he's a hologram[avatar], wants to
  become more and does. [Pinocchio Syndrome].

  Dr. Moriarity on TNG: hologram/avatar, does not know he is one,
  figures out how he is part of the ship, takes control, is in love,
  strikes a deal, etc.. [Revelation Syndrome]

  Leonardo DaVinci on Voyager: hologram/avatar, does not know he is
  one.  Gets taken by a group on a planet, and learns more about
  science/continues to create on a greater level. [Stranger in a
  Strange Land Syndrome]
 
  Holograms used as combat dummies by the Hirogen on Voyager: they
  rebel, start freeing holograms everywhere. Most cannot break out of
  their programmed genetic/stereotype traits. Only one can evolve
  beyond/break the programming. [Nature vs. Nuture]

  Holoaddiction: Lt. Reginald Barclay on TNG/Voyager. A series of
  stories where the holodeck fantasies, its characters, and his
  playing time take over his life, and the struggle to control it,
  also the reasons why he uses it so. [Net Addiction]

  Lt. Geordi LaForge & one of the creators of the Enterprise's
  engines. He creates an avatar of her from their data files in the
  holodeck to help him work out a problem. Falls in love. Deals with
  her only being an avatar. In a later story, he meets her for
  real. He expects her to be the same as the avatar he created/how she
  acted in the holodeck, and also treats her familiarly. The story
  then deals with how she deals with all this, and how he does. [Woman
  behind the Mask, who's really behind these characters and how much
  do we take from the games to real life]

     -rayzam

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