Infected Second Life and its many strange users/uses.

[WhoWhatWhere]

If I had a better internet (mine is shyte, no two ways about it), I'd totally give trolling SL a try. It sounds like a blast. Makes me wish I had known about it during the heydays when SA was still the leaders in trolling efforts.

It's got a surprisingly large learning curve. I never made it past a day or so before getting frustrated and giving up. Plus it's pretty expensive once you get bored with the free shit.

 

[Roast Chicken]

Oney's been playing SL, and it's hilarious:

 

[Womacker]

Oney's been playing SL, and it's hilarious:

You know, as far as second life citizens go, that's one of the less spergy ones I have seen. Besides getting a little too into his characer and doing that whisper yelling thing, he doesn't seem that bad.

Admittedly, all other things I know about Second Life are from either Esteban or Britbong.

 

[The Great Chandler]

Imagine if there's Third Life so that they can play a game within a game.

 

[ActualKiwi]

Imagine if there's Third Life so that they can play a game within a game.

A virtual machine within second life on which your character can play second life?

 

[The Great Chandler]

A virtual machine within second life on which your character can play second life?

ye

 

[Calling]

So some creator is apparently having an absolute fucking meltdown about RPers. Not sure of the context, since this is shit that was posted to the SL /vg/ thread, but it's pretty funny.

0 purchases again. Man, why did I bother serving humans for tears?

So would I get paid if I bent over for the idiots who slandered me? Apologized to the liars? Kissed their arses? Retracted my move to get OUT of a TOXIC roleplayers' community? Lied myself, as others lie?

F*ck that. That's codependency.

If my work is any good, it will stand alone and I will get paid. Unless you were all lying to me, and it isn't good, in which case I may as well actually quit, becayse that would mean you were all cunts anyway...

God, I really hate being the only halfway smart person I know.

My god. Someone actually bought something.Can't enjoy it, though. There's no consistency to profit any ore, where there has been for over a year.

And I tell you, this sudden lack of consistency is one reason I will never trust any fucking role player again. Not even MONEY is worthwhile if isn't paying the bills.

I'll just keep building stuff and putting it up for sale. If the cash float runs out, you're all fucked and so am I.

Just remember which of you cunts started this... hint: wasn't me.

Man, am I glad I never let any of you get your teeth into me in a relationship capacity. Now more so than ever.

You destroy my business, you are fucking dead to me. I hope I never meet any of you, because I will give you HELL for EVERYTHING.

There's also a second rant, but it's whiny so I left it out.

 

[Calling]

Given the context of the rant and the inclusion of the roleplaying community, the mention of the kissing of various quantities of ass and the fact that this person is proclaiming to be a content creator on a level meant to imply "quality", I'm inclined to take a shot in the dark and wonder if this isn't the owner of the Lab737 "store." She's been known in the past to belittle other members of the community who either one-upped her in terms of talent, or creators who looked to her for advice, which is a grave error considering that she's never had any formal training in the creation of 3D assets, nor does she have any respect for the fact that a 3D asset to be used in a virtual environment does not require 10,000,000 triangles. In fact that's an absolutely awful idea, when it comes to optimization.

It's actually not terribly rare at all for someone to learn just enough about the inner machinations of Second Life to actually start producing some ramshackle content that they attempt to peddle in one form or another, the problem is that almost as soon as someone reaches that "level", they suddenly feel that they're "better" than the other players. This is only reinforced by the fact that so many members of the community attempt to "buddy up" with them, because they believe it will garner them access to an uninterrupted supply of free, uniquely-created content, which for some odd reason is a highly-valued prize.

This can lead to someone developing an incredibly over-inflated ego in a very short amount of time, but then when a day or two goes by with absolutely no sales or feedback or what-have-you, they all but collapse when forced to come to terms with the fact that they're perhaps not that good. This is not something they rationalize particular well, and instead lash back at the community, blaming them for not seeing the brilliance of their "work."

There's a fairly sound chance that it's not her, but if you've a name to go by, there's a very sound chance they've stirred up various hornet's nests in the past. The landscape of Second Life's content creators is actually fairly small, (Assuming you only count those who can genuinely make their own, non-derivative works) and typically loaded to the gills with a plethora of people who think they're far better at what they do than they actually are.

And yes, I know far more about Second Life's community than is socially acceptable. :powerlevel:

Ah, sorry, should have given the name of the creator. I think he runs a store called N3kotech? Nekotech? Something like that? I don't know his actual name, that's just his store name. He makes stuff for the Rikugou avatar.

As for your observations about creators, you're pretty spot on. I mean, I don't know this kid's story at all since I've never heard of him before today, but you're probably right about him. The Rikugou doesn't have a lot of stuff made for it, or a lot of people using it, so his customer pool is small already. I think he had a few freakouts before too, so cut that pool down even further due to him alienating his customers, and suddenly, poof! no sales. It's like magic.

 

[Andrew Noel Schaefer]

Take it from me: It's not too challenging at all to make content for SL, especially if you have something else as a base. You have photoshop? ... No, Gimp? Yes, Gimp. Its free. There you go.

Now you too can be the next texture-making diva!

 

[PetalPinkPuppy]

Honestly, most creators who make things for UTI's avatars (which the Rikugou is) are drama cows who think they're hot shit so this doesn't surprise me. There's one creator who bats her eyes and asks for "honest reviews" but will flip her shit if anyone drops anything other than five stars on her marketplace stuff.

 

[Calling]

Honestly, most creators who make things for UTI's avatars (which the Rikugou is) are drama cows who think they're hot shit so this doesn't surprise me. There's one creator who bats her eyes and asks for "honest reviews" but will flip her shit if anyone drops anything other than five stars on her marketplace stuff.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you're talking about Black Heart? She and her crew are pretty funny. About a year ago, some of her buds made a blog calling out their own customers because their ads were incorrect.


If you're not talking about Black Heart and co., my bad.

 

[Clownshirt]

The McElroy brothers had their fun with Second Life not too long ago. There are four videos in total. While the videos trend toward the long side, I find them utterly hilarious and they do a great job of showing just how bonkers SL is. Of course, given that it is Second Life, just assume all of the videos are NSFW.

 

[PetalPinkPuppy]

Bingo

Black Heart and Feoh have both been known to be spergy, the latter hides her spergs from public but the Black Heart crew are proud of theirs. The whole tumblr deal is legendary at this point and the reason a lot of people broke away from Black Heart. Who wants to be associated with someone that big of a drama cow when they can get their no strings attached income elsewhere? The hilarious thing is that anyone who has been in Second Life for more than a few years knows that fads change - banking your business on one avatar type is suicide.

 

[Dismaying Tree]

Most popular modders in SL's anime community just glom onto Utilizator, since whatever he makes is guaranteed to be a bestseller. As long as that store's around, they're pretty much set.

 

[PetalPinkPuppy]

Most popular modders in SL's anime community just glom onto Utilizator, since whatever he makes is guaranteed to be a bestseller. As long as that store's around, they're pretty much set.

Long as they keep up with what's being demanded, yeah. Black Heart lost a lot of business not just over the tumblr deal but when their kemono boobies were no longer the only ones available. There's so much Black Heart drama that it could have its own thread. I swear I'm just in their store group for the future chimp outs.

 

[ColumbiaBinks]

I enjoy playing this game!
The only problem I've had with Second Life? Last week was my 18th birthday, and they didn't consider me an adult until 3-4 days later...so I couldn't get a house and access mature and adult regions during that time period.

 

[ActualKiwi]

I enjoy playing this game!
The only problem I've had with Second Life? Last week was my 18th birthday, and they didn't consider me an adult until 3-4 days later...so I couldn't get a house and access mature and adult regions during that time period.

So...the first thing you do after hitting 18 is look into mature/adult stuff on SL? Interesting choice..

 

[SpessCaptain]

A lot of disccusion is around people who know what they are doing on that site. Welcome to infected levels.

 

[It's HK-47]

I enjoy playing this game!
The only problem I've had with Second Life? Last week was my 18th birthday, and they didn't consider me an adult until 3-4 days later...so I couldn't get a house and access mature and adult regions during that time period.

You may perhaps be the first person in the history of the internet who did not lie about their age when asked if they were over 18. You're missing out on little, besides. If you're expecting a fantastic, expansive world of mystery and wonder to be laying beyond those A-Rated gates, you're in for a plethora of paltry, phallic surprises.

I legitimately do not believe that I can overstate the sheer quantity of poorly-rendered genitalia you have set before yourself. It is an insurmountable task to even begin to ruminate. You will be beset on all sides, outnumbered and outflanked in every conceivable facet or form of known and unknown genitalia, and you will rise above them, unblemished and unfettered, or sink into the endless, ebbing font of debauchery and idiocy.

Tread carefully, trust no one, and may the gods grant you mercy on the path you have chosen.

 

[ActualKiwi]

You may perhaps be the first person in the history of the internet who did not lie about their age when asked if they were over 18. You're missing out on little, besides. If you're expecting a fantastic, expansive world of mystery and wonder to be laying beyond those A-Rated gates, you're in for a plethora of paltry, phallic surprises.

There will be dicks. So many dicks. A sea of them. And it will get old fast.