this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
54 points (82.9% liked)

No Stupid Questions

37011 readers
1460 users here now

No such thing. Ask away!

!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.

All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.



Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.

If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.



Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.

If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.



Credits

Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!

The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

and why?

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Spider-man 2 (the recent one with Miles Morales, Kraven, and Venom) mainly because who wouldn’t want to be Spider-man

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No more worries about UPS. If your base grows too big and UPS drops, so will your brain's processing speed and you'll never notice a thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

hadn't even thought about that. Nice!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

So, I'd need more details. How exactly would my consciousness exist within the game? Would the game be subject to be modded or updated in the future? Like, Skyrim with mods is a good option, but World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy 14 would allow me to continue being social with real humans, but those latter games are very subject to future change.

Back on the 1st question, there's a significant difference if my consciousness occupies a random NPC or I become the equivalent of a player character. Also important: what would happen to me if the game crashed or the computer/servers went down for whatever reason?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Factorio, because the factory must grow.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

This is the only acceptable answer never ending factory and now space

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Plus multiplayer among like minded is fun.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Definitely want to be in a large open world game like GTA or skyrim so you have room to explore for the rest of eternity. A mmorpg would be a grind like real life, so it would feel familiar, but at least you could have magic. I think the answer depends on if you're a NPC or the main character in the game.

I still would probably pick Minecraft and spend eternity building working computers in the world, so I could play other games as well.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Minecraft sounds like a good choice — although lonely

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

While I might make similar choices, it still sound like a horror story. My immortal soul stuck eternally among the empty make-believe-people of GTA or the solitary existence of Minecraft?

I might still prefer the peace of non-existance.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Stardew Valley would be a nice place to retire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

This is my answer too. Nice small town woth an actual home. Sign me up.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A couple follow-ups, are we limited by the rules of the game, or is it like we're actually living there? Like if I'm in gta v, do i get to pick up a pencil and write a book, is everything in the game at real-life fidelity, or am i stuck with the regular game inputs and graphics?

Am i able to add mods to the game? Can i add new mods after my first startup? I would assume there's a way to reset or restart the game in case of bugs and softlocks so maybe there's a hub i can use to do those kinds of things.

I think i might pick gmod + mods. That way i could build some interesting projects in sandbox, play games that people make for it, maybe even watch some YouTube early on before compatibility breaks. I'd also have a 1:1 scale model of the multiverse to explore.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 Beach Volleyball.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Imagine living for all eternity with all that sand up your hoo hah.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I could sell pearls as a side gig.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Lol, thanks for that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Minecraft. But immortality in any case is kinda scary. SCP-7179

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Good one! Thanks for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Creative expression aside, it is vital that we remember that we cannot predict how the human psyche will react to a pseudo-utopia, so this is at best speculation. Doesn't mean it is bad speculation!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

A lot of people are already living in: Leisure Suit Larry

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

You got me thinking about the next stage.

How long could one live in GTA, knowing that everyone else is an NPC, before they became a monster that could not be safely pulled back into reality?

Let's be honest, if we know we're in a world with little to no consequence, and all the people around us will just respawn every day with no memory of what happened, we're probably going to do some fucked up shit just because we wouldn't get a chance in the real world. Could one retain their humanity living as a god in a fake world?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Is this like Death Becomes Her immortality where your meat suit is not invincible and no longer self-healing? If I didn't have to worry about painful and horrible disfigurement, I'd probably choose Skyrim. If I have to be careful, then something real chill like Travel Town.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Elite Dangerous. Ultimate sandbox. If by living within the game I could have all the little extras that the developers never put in, I'd be set, and take off exploring.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Harem Hotel, but only as the main character!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Roller Coaster Tycoon. I want to stay on Mr. Bones Wild Ride. 💀

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Minecraft. The world isn’t infinite, but it’s really damn big.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Sure but everything would be blocky and you would be stuck with villagers saying hmm all the time. Unless you decide to live alone with the lights always on so a creeper, enderman or zombie doesn't get you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Monster Hunter. They live in harmony with nature, no one ever really dies, and the food looks amazing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It would definitely have to be a MMORPG of some sort. Your biggest problem in this system will invariably be loneliness, and interacting 24/7 with NPCs will quickly show their cracks. You need a way of continually interacting with large numbers of real people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Meaning that you would be technically one of the NPCs.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Would Enter the Matrix be cheating? I could just plug in and go and do anything at that point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

r/outside

Why? Because I've now fooled you and don't have to be confined to a game cartridge. Muahahahaha.

(Side note: It's been a long time since I've been on reddit. I miss that community.)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge, obviously

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Shenmue; purely for the vibe and nostalgia... If you know, you know.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Pong. I just want to bounce.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

why would you want to be immortal? everything ends eventually, so why would you want to be the only one forced to stay?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I wouldn’t do it. Consciousness is like the worst thing I’ve experienced ever.

Also, this prompt might be better suited for [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Thank you. Just posted there as well :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Elder Scrolls Online

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Maybe Pac-Man. Wandering around a maze eating all day isn’t that different from my current life.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Black Desert Online, as if real life wasn't pay-to-win enough

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

base game Skyrim: Hell

my version of modded Skyrim: Heaven

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

WoW. Plenty to keep me occupied.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

CrossCode would be rather fitting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Something in-game scriptable, so I could mould it for variety. Space Engineers maybe?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And after a couple of days you get a message that your PCU just ran out...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Ah yes. I'd have to ask for uncapped PCU. Being part of the simulation, I'd not notice any lag as my consciousness would lag with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
load more comments
view more: next ›