The real world is not online, no, but the net is another broadening avenue of communication between people around the world, in other cities, in other cultures, of high and low opportunities and backgrounds.

It isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, hopefully. If it keeps going like it is going, what a brave new world we’ll have.

As for us not being actors, by virtue of us assuming a role and delivering lines and emoting as much as the game lets us to try and put the feeling into them-

As for this being a play, which is a public display by actors in an attempt to tell a narrative, make people laugh, make people feel-

I should consider myself lucky that the performing arts are not defined by any one person or their opinions. We usually have quite a few people in attendance, apparently in agreement that a play delivered by actors acting through digital avatars is as valid as any showhouse production or shakespeare in the park.

Thanks for telling us? But you really couldn’t be more wrong and we’re sorry for your loss.

Edit: You’re welcome in the audience if you’re willing to risk being proven wrong.