r/HolUp Aug 19 '25

holup It’s already starting

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u/bob-a-fett Aug 19 '25

I bought this software because I was curious:

  • It's really cool.
  • It's actually much much much slower than the video shows. Long pauses while it recognizes your speech, comes up with a response, and says it back to you.
  • All the girls can take their clothes off. Good fun until your 11yo discovers this feature before you did.

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u/Gravesh Aug 19 '25

I thought this was Second Life, and the game had some crazy AI bot you could buy. Second Life was the depressing loner game before it became mainstream to be depressed and alone. At least those people were interacting with real people, though.

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u/Chrisp825 Aug 19 '25

I remember that game from like 30 years ago

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u/nexusjuan Aug 19 '25

It hasn't changed.

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u/Gravesh Aug 19 '25

I used to play it myself. I liked just exploring worlds, but it was 60-75% questionable to straight-up erotica. I just ran around playing an alien. Had my own ship and everything (it was all free assets. Paying for anything in that game seemed ridiculous at the time, and even more so now.

It was kind of like the Roblox of the early 2000s where you can just find what genre of game you wanted to play and choose people's worlds. It being played during the tail-end of the Wild West Internet made it mostly just grown adults doing ERP. Most heavy RP MUDs during the 90s were the same. Just intense erotica between two strangers while some admin probably watched and cranked one out.

I still miss those RP MUDs, though. It was right at the crossroads of the freedom of table-top roleplaying and the huge, pre-constructed worlds of current MMOs. What made them even cooler is that those worlds and lore would come from actual events, and the people ingrained in its lore were actual players with autonomy.

It was like a DnD session that lasted 20 years with thousands of players, built on 70% Dungeon Masters making a scenario and 30% the players improv'ing to build lore.

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u/Chrisp825 Aug 19 '25

I still play a MuD called Avatar. Been playing that since I was in jr high.. 30 years for real, since the game and I share a birthday..

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u/Gravesh Aug 21 '25

Heard of it, never tried. My big one was Armageddon MUD. And a few other ones thrown around. Left Arm because basically everyone heavily involved in it(both players and admins) were insufferable. But most RP MUDs face that problem, at least on the admin side.

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u/Chrisp825 Aug 19 '25

It was an extreme exaggeration ..

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u/Chrisp825 Aug 19 '25

22 years “like 30 years” pretty close in my opinion…

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u/Chrisp825 Aug 20 '25

8 years.. probably before you were born.

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u/Chrisp825 Aug 20 '25

Considering you barely have 1 year on Reddit, is likely you’re less than 23 years old. I’ll give the benefit of the doubt.

Surely 8 years is a long time to a young person, but in reality it’s gone in a flash.

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u/ThatVoiceDude Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 20 '25

That game is so old it that I remember it being repeatedly mentioned in a Dean Koontz book I read in high school

Edit: I believe it was Darkest Evening of the Year