Something (usually a fact of some sort) that's incredible true.
An example of real news is that Emelie is an excellent friend and a really cool and awesome person.
An example of real news is that Emelie is an excellent friend and a really cool and awesome person.
Dude I have some real news for you
Yeah? Let's hear it
Ya know that chic Emelie? Yeah, she's dope as f*ck, and a great friend too.
Yeah? Let's hear it
Ya know that chic Emelie? Yeah, she's dope as f*ck, and a great friend too.
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Get the Be so for real mug.The specific struggle to distinguish "real life" (RL) from digital, virtual, or fictional experiences, especially when the latter have profound real-world consequences. It asks: Is the community you build in an MMO "real life"? Are the emotions you feel in VR "real"? The problem highlights that "real life" is often a value judgment ("go live your real life") used to dismiss experiences that are emotionally or socially valid but don't involve physical co-presence. The line is porous because digital actions (a tweet, a crypto trade) now create irreversible RL outcomes.
Example: "My mom said my online friends 'aren't real life.' But when I was depressed, they were the ones who called in a wellness check that saved me. The Real Life Demarcation Problem means the call from a voice I'd only ever heard on Discord was the most consequential, 'realest' intervention of my life. The care was real; the medium was incidental."
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Get the Real Life Demarcation Problem mug.Similar to Real Life, but focused on practical consequences and material constraints versus theoretical, academic, or idealistic plans. It's the gap between a model and the messy, resistant context it's applied to. A policy might be logically perfect in a white paper but fail in the "real world" of perverse incentives, unexpected variables, and human irrationality. The "real world" here is constructed as the realm of harsh limits, testing whether an idea is robust or fragile.
Example: "My economic theory was flawless on the blackboard. The Real World Demarcation Problem hit when I tried it in my small business: a supplier got sick, a key customer was irrational, and regulations I'd never considered applied. The 'real world' wasn't just physics; it was the chaotic aggregate of everyone else's agency and luck, which my clean model had demarked as irrelevant noise."
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