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Who else loves these miniature trains?

A blog post about my adventures that day: Wilnecote, Middleton Lakes, Kingsbury & Echills Wood Railway

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Some pics I took when travelling to Stratford Upon Avon.

We passed the Cobbs farm shop in Snitterfield, the Welcombe Hill Obelisk, the Welcombe Hotel, Clopton Tower before making our way to the centre.

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All video games are imitation of real life. I understood this sentiment sometime ago, but this game really drives the point home.

It just feels like I am living another life. It’s an open world and I get to navigate around and explore every nook and cranny of the city and its outskirts. There are missions and side quests to complete, dialogues to have with partners, friends, enemies and strangers, random items to collect, and even hairless cats to pet.

You see, that’s life itself. No? No matter how visually enticing a video game is, it never beats real life. Every possible sensation a video game induces is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the equivalent in this reality.

Finding a random pot of cash in game is fun, but it’s even more exciting when you do so in real life. Or say you grabbed an apple off a food vendor in game, you can consume it and it will regenerate 0.5% of your health bar. Yet if you bite into a succulent Pink Lady apple in real life, not only does your body extract nutrients and satiate some of your hunger and thirst, you actually do feel the complete range of sensation of crisp, sweetness, tanginess and fullness that no video game will ever invoke in you.

Just think about it. Visualise and compare the two in your head.

Of course we are drawn to video games because it also minimises the penalty we experience. In Cyberpunk, you can commit unprecedented levels of mass violence and unlawful behaviour. Anything against the moral code of the civilised world can be acted out, to the extent the game allows.

When you get hunted down by the cops from the NCPD, you don’t die or get handcuffed as in the real world, you flatline and respawn from the last checkpoint.

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I haven't even finished the game, but it didn't take long for me to create a parallel between my experience of cyberpunk and my actual life. Does anyone have that feeling too?

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