Look, man imma allow it this one, but this is really a novella and not a monomyth.
This reminds me of a guy I knew that went down the Virtual Reality porn rabbit hole, never to be seen again
I've lost contact, but I hope so. Even though it's pretty unlikely
I remember when EQ and WOW first launched a lot of people dropped out never to be seen again.
Good thing MMOs aren't as addictive nowadays. /s
Man even bought a sony phone with a 4k screen just so his VR porn looked better.
Definitely not okay folks
Aww, I had the perfect copypasta for this but can no longer find it. Some MGTOW type on Reddit/4chan ranting about how men would finally be freed from the tyrannical clutches of women after every man had access to "Hatsune Miku virtual sex experiences" and then develop interstellar travel and go to space
In late stage capitalism, relationship are meaningless and you can only decend into depravity from there.
The fourth stage is pure simulacrum, in which the simulacrum has no relationship to any reality whatsoever. Here, signs merely reflect other signs and any claim to reality on the part of images or signs is only of the order of other such claims. This is a regime of total equivalency, where cultural products need no longer even pretend to be real in a naïve sense, because the experiences of consumers' lives are so predominantly artificial that even claims to reality are expected to be phrased in artificial, "hyperreal" terms. Any naïve pretension to reality as such is perceived as bereft of critical self-awareness, and thus as oversentimental.
