I saw a different variation of this question on Space Battles many years ago. It asked if you would rather live in a small confined but comfortable area, the size of around 1000 square feet worth of living space, that was protected from an infestation of head crabs. Beyond the room there was a large building that was infested with the little bastards. Headcrabs, which are little alien beasts that can jump on your face, like a face hugger, and possess you by slowly feeding on your mind. While you are conscious it is controlling you, so you are immortal for as long as it is devouring you for whatever it's life span is, until it dies. Whatever it feels you feel. The only way to save you is if it dies, and if it dies, you die with it.
However the protected room possessed 1,000 square feet of living space. with plenty of video games, TV programs, etcetera to entertain yourself by. It possesses bad for your health but good for your taste buds kind of food, and mediocre sanitary supplies that would allow you live until your 70's or maybe just barely beyond that. You have infinite electrical power and running water, even the internet, but your identity is prohibited from the Computer software from being shared, and your location is out of range for anyone reach you anyway. However you could try to escape the massive building by moving past the room into the rest of the complex. If one of those things latch onto your head though you're screwed.
In this version, which I call "Headcrab Escape or Lonely Paradise, it's a lot different. You have a 3,000+ square foot little paradise of a world to live in for the rest of your life, which will be hundreds of years, up to 1,000 years old. You can eat basically whatever you want, you have indoor hot plumbing, infinite electrical power, the internet, and basically a small mansion like living space with all the comforts you could want, including video games, etcetera. The situation is the same as above, only you have hundreds of years to live alone. If you enter your small mansion like paradise where you will be the healthiest person who ever lived, knowing that you'll live longer than anyone else who ever lived, but will never meet another living person as long as you live, would you try to escape the infestation past your living area, or would you be content with living in your Lonely Paradise?
However the protected room possessed 1,000 square feet of living space. with plenty of video games, TV programs, etcetera to entertain yourself by. It possesses bad for your health but good for your taste buds kind of food, and mediocre sanitary supplies that would allow you live until your 70's or maybe just barely beyond that. You have infinite electrical power and running water, even the internet, but your identity is prohibited from the Computer software from being shared, and your location is out of range for anyone reach you anyway. However you could try to escape the massive building by moving past the room into the rest of the complex. If one of those things latch onto your head though you're screwed.
In this version, which I call "Headcrab Escape or Lonely Paradise, it's a lot different. You have a 3,000+ square foot little paradise of a world to live in for the rest of your life, which will be hundreds of years, up to 1,000 years old. You can eat basically whatever you want, you have indoor hot plumbing, infinite electrical power, the internet, and basically a small mansion like living space with all the comforts you could want, including video games, etcetera. The situation is the same as above, only you have hundreds of years to live alone. If you enter your small mansion like paradise where you will be the healthiest person who ever lived, knowing that you'll live longer than anyone else who ever lived, but will never meet another living person as long as you live, would you try to escape the infestation past your living area, or would you be content with living in your Lonely Paradise?
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