What was your favorite immersive world when you were a teenager?

Was it the world of muggles, wizards, and more of Harry Potter?

Lord of the Rings, Middle Earth?

Westros, from Game of Thrones, the continent from the Witcher,

that's Star Wars Galaxy that's far far away.

Or maybe the world of ancient vampires finally coming out of the shadows and meeting the

rest of us lowly meat sacks and true blood. I would say favorite book, game, movie,

or TV show, but to many of us these collections of stories

were and maybe still are, so much more than that.

They're not just pieces of disposable media that we watch and quickly forget, they're

immersive and escapist worlds that we can enter and live in through

our imaginative minds eyes. They're places where we mentally spent so much time in that in some ways

these worlds felt every bit as real as our own.

Maybe still do.

When we concentrated enough, we could really picture ourselves living there.

Maybe we were superheroes.

Throwing fireballs, flying over the city, saving it from evil scores of women below

dreaming for the chance to be chosen by us what an ego stroke as kids sure we knew

that the world around us was real that our

world around us was real, that our parents could actually legally tell us what to do,

that if we walked out of class because our teacher was a

douche bag, you know there's gonna be consequences.

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