Virtual art heist, vivid impressions

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Over the course of the three days, Knight and her crew played out the scenario piece by piece, sometimes meeting up in places like an Orlando restaurant to role-play a scene, and other times going into Olive to do the same, only digitally.

For instance, on Friday night, Knight and the crew members had a real dinner, deciding over their meal that they needed to go to a gallery where the painting she needed to retrieve was hanging. But the gallery was a virtual version of a real Orlando gallery. So later that evening, Knight logged in and met up with the crew members, and the group proceeded to play out, on the fly, the larger storyline.

For Knight, the experience of extending the game in the virtual space wasn't that much different than doing it in the real world.

"There's no question that all my synapses were firing in the virtual world and in real reality."

--Margot Knight, alternate-reality game heroine

"Because I had a headphone and I could talk to people, it was as if I was there," she said. "The only sense that wasn't working was my sense of touch, that feeling of knowing you're in a live place. But other than that, I could see, I could hear, and I liked that."

The good thing about using the virtual world, she added, was that it gave the crew, designers and other performers--such as those playing the roles of Knight's character's nemesis and a couple of police detectives--the ability to carry out actions that might have been risky in the real world, like breaking into a gallery on a public street and stealing a painting.

"You can take more risks in the virtual world," Knight said.

To Jane McGonigal, one of the best-known designers of ARGs, Wirth's project shows that virtual worlds can be used to advance storylines and that they have more than just a social purpose.

"It's always good to discover new things to do in virtual worlds, since a lot of people don't know what to do (there) when they show up," McGonigal said. "It's great to experiment with storytelling and games (and bringing) Web 2.0 (methods) of creating content into these spaces."

In the end, Knight and her team were able to outwit Knight's nemesis, but not before they had to take a supposedly forged painting off the wall of the art gallery in Orlando's city hall--the real one--and replace the artwork with one they had "stolen" the night before.

Of course, city hall security was in on the game, and turned the other way as the crew broke in through a rear entrance.

To Wirth, incorporating the virtual world into his game was a good way to experiment with nuances of daily life that are different in a digital space, yet remain remarkably similar.

He pointed to the fact that at one moment during the Friday night virtual-world element of the game, Knight and her crew had broken into the virtual-world gallery and were surprised to discover two police detectives walking down the street past the gallery.

In a flash, the group realized they had to hide, and they did so, ducking behind tables in the virtual gallery.

"It was really interesting that the detectives who were walking by the gallery in the virtual world that night actually made her get nervous and want to hide," Wirth said. "She didn't know they were coming by, and when she heard their voices outside (the gallery) she said she needed to hide, which is interesting given that it was a virtual world. (But) there was still an emotional response that happened."

[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

what a women!

Is peace worth a dame,is working for each other worth everything.
No just kidding thats not the topic.
If you could evolve yourself.
Year id grow a women give her a double tail that can collect up space energy(rocks/dust)
and use/absorb it.
Her fingernials would be able to swim in space at unimagnable speed.
The bridge of her nose would be able to vibrate and heal anywhere in her body.
and she would be charged with more chi than you can wave a glass of milk at.
Her eyes would also glow with the amazing things rapidly bumbbling up to the front of her powerful frontals.
She'd also have mega chi-energy teeth and ball tingling lips(just kidding honest).
I think the mesurments just span off the maths with this ideyzreal.

[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

The evolution of female pursuits

If you look at it in this Waring world its easy to make a women looking to care for people as to help.
Howevever women could achieve a whole lot more.
Putting a women at the top of a male dirven engineering industry is enevtably a mistake.
Infact putting a women anywhere other than absolute top(inside a pyrimid) you will you not uneash anything like her full potential because she ain't got the balls.

If you look in nature at animals that are more evolved to form, the women have taken many roles that harmonise with the men.
If you look where women have looked deep into science you'll notice some in physics that are wathching frozen light or observing for evidence positive chi forms in subspace.
So the point being, given enough space a women can explore and invent in her own way.
With all the potential of the internet and the world as it's evolving given a top education(tailered to help them over come their usual difficulties and strenghen their strenghs) women could do a lot for this world.
The only way to do this is to pay care and attention from this mans world and notice the difference women can bring and also keep an eye out for where clever ladies are blosoming and make sure the don't get bullied or msused.

Considering we're in a war machine this is hard but the rewards in terms of stabalising markets and exploring more areas will be lost if we do not protect the interests.
Female is a diffrent creature when allowed she will explore intelligence when abused she will choose the safe option.
Unlike a man who will just keep battling until he pops his head through.
In recent years a lot has been done for this image but it's still to much of a token jesture causing to many problems at the bottom line where women are more complacent as a result holding men down.

[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

Death of the sacred earth

This acidic pigmy chip can be so hertful.
No sooner has it learnt itself has it wanted to die and bring everying thing else down bar some rodents and such.
If you triangulated yourself in a computer you would be nothing more than an recorded instance of yourselves.
When you go out there and learn just how astonishing your galatical neghibours can be you'll be gutted.
Yes you do have the chance of growing it all back but what about the life thats here right now.
Why can't we develop an intelligent human migration process and work on the bases of true knowledge supporing the development of all human genia, making wiser usage desions and supoorting/regrowing the rest of life.
God is not worth fighting/abusing for it's not worth it one bit and will only serve to humiliate you in the end.
The home land is sacred and forests sacred they are more than just an effort for peace and it's people more than just a hand me down.
The wealthyist places on the planet is the wild bits how long will it take the pigme chimp to figre out it's mistake.
How much more diversity of life will suffer for the wars of similar creeds.
It seems we should never ask why and all assume the most valuable things on this planet are what we created just yesterday.
When we finnally make it to the stars if we do we will have access to all our exsistance and you'll see the truth because out negibours have surly stored it for us.
Then we will have to make up for lost ground.
Africa could be so Organicallytronically adapt and stunning but what does it look like to you on the salalite image.
It's never to late until we are dead.
I myself have been tryng quite a fw things and have had blocks demonstrating that more money is not the whole of the answer its fighting for the principle.
When they plonk me in that trianglulate afterlife it will be extreemly hard to fit me in there because i don't want heaven.
I have had my life threaened on numourous occations and never looked with hope for an afterlife(not a chance).
I see life as so much more than even langage is capable of yet.