He did not know, for fear, if it would be a virus, and that would hurt his computer. Death was not possible in the Metaverse until the creation of Snow Crash. In the Metaverse, it was possible to fight, but no one was literally hurting anyone. It was possible to break up someone else’s avatar with whatever tools one could create. Hiro was able to fight with swords that he always kept with him. Hiro wrote rules where after you had "slain" an avatar, the avatar was thrown out of the Metaverse, and in reality the person could not re-boot into the Metaverse for a few minutes. With the invention of Snow Crash, all of that changed. Snow Crash was a virus that not only shut down your computer, it shut you down mentally as person. People entered the Metaverse so regularly-especially hackers- that subconsciously their has become a susceptible binary code in computers. Snow Crash affects the optic nerve and because of this the infected person loses control of their
He did not know, for fear, if it would be a virus, and that would hurt his computer. Death was not possible in the Metaverse until the creation of Snow Crash. In the Metaverse, it was possible to fight, but no one was literally hurting anyone. It was possible to break up someone else’s avatar with whatever tools one could create. Hiro was able to fight with swords that he always kept with him. Hiro wrote rules where after you had "slain" an avatar, the avatar was thrown out of the Metaverse, and in reality the person could not re-boot into the Metaverse for a few minutes. With the invention of Snow Crash, all of that changed. Snow Crash was a virus that not only shut down your computer, it shut you down mentally as person. People entered the Metaverse so regularly-especially hackers- that subconsciously their has become a susceptible binary code in computers. Snow Crash affects the optic nerve and because of this the infected person loses control of their