Death is not really a passing, forgetting is an eternal demise.
What would it be like to finally find a "girlfriend" who died in 2 months in a racing game?
A few days ago, Pluto, a player in Forza Forza, posted a video of himself playing with virtual driver "BlueDreams4207" on Tiktok.
Notably, the account once belonged to his late girlfriend.
The beauty is gone, the data is still there
The story begins with the death of Pluto's girlfriend 2 months ago. After the death of his girlfriend, Pluto tried to trace her footprints in a variety of ways.
The famous racing game Forza series has an interesting "Drivatar" system, which generates an AI based on the player's game behavior, and when the player is offline, the AI with the player's ID can act as a virtual driver and compete with the player's friends.
The virtual rider system gives Pluto the opportunity to find a girlfriend, but it's not easy to actually achieve a match.
Pluto has more than 200 friends in his Xbox account, and Forza Horizon's "virtual driver" mode matches opponents randomly.
In order to match his girlfriend's account, he spent nearly an hour repeatedly restarting the game.
In addition, he posted on Reddit asking for help: "My girlfriend has passed away, can I play with her Drivatar?"
Netizens have expressed sympathy while supporting: in Xbox's friends directory, the girlfriend is marked as a special friend, which is easier to match by the game.
Finally, the kung fu paid off, and Pluto not only managed to find his "girlfriend", but also played games with her for nearly an hour.
Before the game crashes, Pluto and his girlfriend's "ghost" gallop through the game, pouring out his thoughts and pains, but she never responds.
Player Pluto now keeps his Tiktok account private, and the videos are not available to the public.
But that's fine, after all, not everyone is suitable to share this pain: when the account is not private, a lot of suicide content has begun to appear in the comments of the post.
Is this the future of the metaverse?
In fact, people's behavior on digital platforms is increasingly being stored in the form of clouds.
Whether it's content that people post, create, and share on social media, or record high scores in games, it leaves a more lasting digital footprint on the internet.
In addition to the story of the Forza player reuniting with his late girlfriend, netizens also led to a tear-jerking story 8 years ago.
This heartbreaking video is reminiscent of a similar story from 2014.
A user named "00WARTHERAPY00" shared an Xbox with his father as a child, and ten years after his father's death, he opened the Xbox again and found that in a racing game called Rally Sports, he kept the game record of his deceased father, and the game would turn the player's best score into a ghost rider in a simulated way, so that the player could challenge the best record in the game. He constantly chased after his father's ghost.
"I played and played until I could almost defeat the ghost, until I finally surpassed it. And then...... I stopped in front of the finish line to make sure I didn't just delete his traces. ”
For the story of finding loved ones in the game, twitter users began to reflect on the digital footprint and the future of the metaverse.
Players with similar experiences shared their story on Twitter: "My dad passed away in October last year, and we played the old version of Forza Horizon together for a long time. Dad would always run out of points and often ranked last, but the game level gradually improved.
After The release of Forza Horizon 5, my first experience was that my father's virtual driver finally appeared and played with me. I was in tears as I ran after my father's virtual driver."
One Twitter user said, "If something happens to me, my nephews and nieces will find me on the game line driving on the road in Mexico or the UK, and it's nice to think about it."
The twitterer, nicknamed "Born to Play Games," said, "If the game crashes while the protagonist of the story is playing a game like this, it's not the best of the year... So this story should educate developers to invest more resources and time in developing the game, and fully develop it."
Another guy said, "My daughter-in-law used to play Call of Duty Black Ops 2 with me on PS3. She couldn't press the handle after a stroke and died 5 years ago... I wish I could have a similar game record to reminisce about..."
"This is a first-rate metacosmic event. Although we are physically dead, our digital virtual people will continue to live."
"Video games always leave a lasting mark on us in unique ways, but that's just a separate phenomenon. It would be amazing if we could leave a clone of itself in the metaverse that was played to the best of its ability."
Others say, "That's pretty much the plot of the Ready Player One sequel."
The "digital ghost" lives forever
Searching for traces of deceased loved ones in the digital world sounds poignant, but with a hint of relief.
In the future, we may be able to become "digital humans" and live forever in the network.
The development of artificial intelligence has enabled more and more users to digitally store their living habits. In the future online world, there will be more "digital ghosts".
Perhaps, in the future, human beings can live forever in the form of digital clones.
Even if this Forza player and girlfriend can run a lap in a racing game, they can experience the fleeting joy of a loved one again.
And are you willing to be that piece of data?