>>5925303>>5925760>>5925333>IT IS VALENTINE's DAY I DEMAND GOVERNMENT SUBSIDISED ROMANCEI had a revelation the other day, I think the contrivances of the virtual, the fictional, the artificial and the imaginary have genuinely surpassed the real; imaginary interactive experiences are genuinely better than the real thing.
So I was browsing... the "romance internet" (look, everyone has done this tee hee hee I am not at all abashed hehe) look it is just so convenient and frictionless and tantalising, like an endless infinite hall of mirrors except everyone is naked.
I came across a certain video, you can probably find it lol. It is not usually to my particular taste, I am usually more into... dungeon stuff hehe.
But as an ekphrasis, basically what it is, it is a POV first person view cut into three parts, the latter two being the... er... romance portions.
But the first video segment is COMPLETELY NONSEXUAL. It is just some American girl, she is not super attractive but relatively comely and vivacious and very cheerful, she is on a date accompanying you in first person view to the British Museum in London UK.
There is absolutely no sex stuff whatsoever, you are just looking at her (in first person view) on some sightseeing in the British Museum, surrounded by the bustle and crowds of casual tourists etc.
She just makes fairly commonplace cheerful conversation, it is all very ordinary.
Whilst I was watching this, I suddenly had an introspective reminiscence lol. Because you see, I actually did this exact thing. Except I had an invitation to a private view of the British Museum, it was from Bloomberg, they do these elaborate art gatherings and things. This was to the opening of the British Museum Afghanistan treasures exhibition (you can read about this online, it was over a decade ago) so I brought along someone, this was a really lavish and exclusive event, and it was actually... not as good even as the utterly banal and staged portrayal of the same experience in the special nonsexual "romance video" lol. Also I found out later the companion I brought along had already been seeing someone else (she did not mention this before accepting the invitation nooo) I felt a bit betrayed, but maybe it was all a silly desperate misunderstanding on my side hehe
>INVADE AFGHANISTAN, depose Taliban, PLUNDER and PILLAGE ENTIRE NATION>attempt to parade museum loot in front of prospective girlfriend??>it did not work, watch a PORNOGRAPHIC VIDEO instead, it is much betterSometimes I wonder if dungeonmasters or GMs in roleplaying games like doing what they do because they get to move fictional people / characters around in their heads and make them conform to aesthetic or behavioural mannerisms which they do not evince in reality.
But if you never even had the experience in the first place, how can you even tell what is real?
