Downloaded minds

[thtiger]

Eh, idk about this last one.
I mean, if the NPCs are life real people, just have the person you hate in your world, or "simulate" that you're taking over their world. No need to actually try messing with other people. It's not like you need to have contact with them ever again. You like your new friends, lovers, and famliy in your worlds so much better anyway.

That just reminds me, I wrote a list of wishes I could wish if I were to have 1 granted. This was one of them:

enter stories
    be able to enter any story
        even ones I write myself, fanfiction, cyoa...
    remain there as much time as I want
    have no consequences to me in the outside world that I wouldn't want
       like no time passing, or physical and psychological changes I woudn't want
    be able to save to resume later, or start from the beginning
    be able to take people with me
    have the choice to begin the story at any point as any character I want at any age

It's quite similar to this "create any world" power

James Hogan wrote at least one hard science fiction novel dealing with downloading minds into a virtual world. Went into the limitations and the hook ups. For instance you'd have no sense of smell due to it being pretty much a direct connection inside the brain.


The thing I found most interesting is that because your brain can operate far faster, especially when hooked into a computer, than your meat body can, you can process data two hundred times faster, in his world. so an hour in the real world would be two hundred in the virtual world.

I don't think you're taking into account how petty some people can be. We're not talking the population in general. I can assure you that if this were a real thing there would be people who'd want to troll other players/real people.

Think of the people who will wreck a webpage for no other reason than that they can.

It's just an option. There can be threads where the entire world centers around them, and everyone else is an NPC. Mind you, they'd want to make the NPC as close to real as possible, otherwise you're just talking slightly more sophisticated silicone dolls.