Infected Second Life and its many strange users/uses.

[Optimus Prime]

I dunno, I still feel he'd be getting into a lot more drama than he can handle. Thus, resulting in more .

Not paticuarly. Based on what I can recall about Second Life, back when newspapers were still saying it was "cool" and "new" the way it works is that each player has their own peronal little island they can decorate to their heart's content and they control who gets in and out.

Chris wouldn't bother with the social features. He'd just use it as the ultimate, premium-paid sandbox to make his own little island nation.

 

[c-no]

Gotta jump in with this classic. This is Anshe Chung who is definitely a lolcow in her own right, hence the ED page.

Spoiler: 3D SEX DICKS

That was the first thing I heard about Second Life in regards to it being for lol-cows. Wasn't it said it was actually the husband of Anshe Chung that was using the character? One thing I could remember about Second Life was how a lol-cow got mad at the company, Linden Lab, would be "restrict teenagers from the Main Grid" as mentioned in said cow's ED article.

 

[Ravenor]

Still learning about this, so correct me if I'm wrong about something!

Spoiler: Opinion

This
whole thing is just sad... I don't know if it's just me, but it seemed like Second Life could've been something revolutionary. I'll admit that the concept itself is very interesting - creating a second life and actually making money off of it through jobs. This could've been revolutionary, but it was ruined.

It was ruined by child porn and idiots with inflated egos. Again, this whole thing is sad.

That's kinda how I felt about it when I had heard about it, I was really into Ultima online one of the first (if not the first) successful MMO's out there and it sounded like a good idea but I forgot about it for a bit then one of my friends (a personal lol cow) gave me the rundown on it and I am just glad I didn't even download the installer, and apart from the odd reference here an there I had forgotten about it until this thread.

It's a lot like anywhere on the internet, except you get free reign to play how you want/make the game what you want. Inevitably people are going to chimp out when they get too invested. I guess one of the things that makes it such a cesspool is because you have so many opportunities to get invested. Some people play the game for more hours in a day than they do anything else (including sleeping) so they're bound to get irritable when their fantasy life is disrupted.

Yea if you give people a chance to fulfil a fantasy life when they don't have a real life they are happy with in the first place they will go for the fantasy every time, It's a sadly worryingly dark part of the human condition that makes people feel so fed up and unhappy they would rather spend there time dedicated to a non existent fantasy world where they live out every desire than going out an doing something, I guess some people just feel trapped and find any way they can to escape.
Depressing thought really.

 

[Metagross]

(On mobile but I have to mention this.)

You don't get your own island for free. You have to pay a LOT for land. So much as renting a tiny space of land on someone's sim can cost $25-$50 a month. Owning a sim costs way more. The only way to build stuff if you don't own land is to go to a sandbox, which you have to share with everyone there and they usually get "griefed" and crashed frequently.

 

[Kršćanin Čendlervic]

Let us not forget the one and only esteban winsmore:

 

[SpessCaptain]

Spoiler

Theres a lot more birth videos.

 

[waffle]

http://archive.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-02/mf_goons?currentPage=all

Going on a trolling bonanza with the wired guy along was pretty much the best thing to ever happen in SL.

Lindon Labs' anti-troll stuff was so pathetic. If you opened an account and just let it sit for 4-6mo before raiding with it, it would take hours of hardcore trolling and literally hundreds of reports to get b&.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

I always thought it was a bit of a shame what happened to Second Life. I mean, it seemed like the ultimate sandbox where you could build all kinds of extremely cool shit and interact with it. You know, visit perfect replicas of interesting fictional locations like , I dunno, Hogwarts and Middle Earth and whatnot. Instead it's just the usual clusterfuck of sexual deviants and manchildren.

Maybe it shouldn't have advertised itself as a literal Second Life, it's obvious why it would attract people seeking an unhealthy kind of escapism.

 

[Mechanism Eight]

I always thought it was a bit of a shame what happened to Second Life. I mean, it seemed like the ultimate sandbox where you could build all kinds of extremely cool shit and interact with it. You know, visit perfect replicas of interesting fictional locations like , I dunno, Hogwarts and Middle Earth and whatnot. Instead it's just the usual clusterfuck of sexual deviants and manchildren.

Maybe it shouldn't have advertised itself as a literal Second Life, it's obvious why it would attract people seeking an unhealthy kind of escapism.

There are cool places you can find if you look hard enough, but it's rarely if ever worth it due to their underwhelming size, difficulty to access, being obscure as all fuck, or a combination of all of these.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Not paticuarly. Based on what I can recall about Second Life, back when newspapers were still saying it was "cool" and "new" the way it works is that each player has their own peronal little island they can decorate to their heart's content and they control who gets in and out.

Chris wouldn't bother with the social features. He'd just use it as the ultimate, premium-paid sandbox to make his own little island nation.

Ah, and here I thought he'd be mingling with the other freaks the game had to offer.

 

[OtterParty]

It gets even better when old politicians, the squarest squares you can ever find on the internet or... pretty much anywhere, try to use Second Life as a platform for their campaigns.

http://archive.wired.com/table_of_malcontents/2007/03/john_edwards_me/

Shortly before midnight (CST) on Monday, February 26, a group of republican Second Life users, some sporting “Bush ’08″ tags, vandalized the John Edwards Second Life HQ. They plastered the area with Marxist/Lenninist posters and slogans, a feces spewing obsenity, and a photoshopped picture of John in blackface, all the while harrassing visitors with right-wing nonsense and obsenity-laden abuse of Democrats in general and John in particular.

Highlights of that screenshot: Edwards in blackface and a 3D model of a shaved cat's ass (presumably the feces spewing obscenity in question)

 

[Randall Fragg]

Second Life sound like it would be fun if they just gave you an island for free and let you build to your hearts content, and you could control who gets in and out. Instead, they make you pay for the good stuff, and throw you into a depopulated wasteland of furfags, weeaboos, and pedophiles.

 

[Ification]

Second Life sound like it would be fun if they just gave you an island for free and let you build to your hearts content, and you could control who gets in and out. Instead, they make you pay for the good stuff, and throw you into a depopulated wasteland of furfags, weeaboos, and pedophiles.

This sounds like the perfect post-apocalyptic horror story.

 

[Rilakkuma]

Aw. I wanted to be the first to post Esteban Winsmore.

Have a guy sperging over Esteban telling him to punish an adult pretending to be a child in this guy's imaginary family.

 

[Broseph Stalin]

I feel like Second Life was made with good intentions, but ended up becoming a cesspit for weeaboos, basement dwellers, furfags, fetishists, etc. I've heard horror stories of people who sink thousands of dollars into their creations and act like total bigshots while playing the game, when in reality they're just a sad pathetic mess living in their parents' house. But there's one thing Second Life managed to give us: The legendary midget ogre...Ralph Pootawn.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ralph-pootawn

Sometimes the best things in life just involve poppin' open a brewski, smokin' a cigar, and watchin' a couple of 3d avatars have sex in their house uninvited.

 

[Danger]

Have a guy sperging over Esteban telling him to punish an adult pretending to be a child in this guy's imaginary family.

I love how in all these videos people always respond, "do something I'm right here." Like they really have the ability to punch eachother through their computers.

 

[GREEDY FIREMAN]

But there's one thing Second Life managed to give us: The legendary midget ogre...Ralph Pootawn.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ralph-pootawn

Sometimes the best things in life just involve poppin' open a brewski, smokin' a cigar, and watchin' a couple of 3d avatars have sex in their house uninvited.

I first heard of Second Life by clicking on a reference to Ralph on Encyclopedia Dramatica.

WARNING: HOT POLYGONAL SEX!​

Spoiler: ralph pls go

 

[EI 903]

I knew someone in SL back when I used to play who messaged me crying about being sexually assaulted. I was utterly horrified until I realized pretty quickly that she meant in-game. She was crying IRL and genuinely traumatized over something that could have been stopped by closing the window and relogging, or even pushing the teleport home button.

Some people get so far into it that that level of immersion isn't uncommon to see. Or at least wasn't when people were actually populating the servers. I could never wrap my head around it, but it was always something to behold.

 

[Sigyn]

I first heard of Second Life by clicking on a reference to Ralph on Encyclopedia Dramatica.
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Does anyone know if/how Ralph Pootawn is related to Vinny's Ralph Bluetawn? was it an homage to the original Ralph? I had never heard of the former until the ED article and then I was confused.

 

[c-no]

Considering Esteban Winsmore, there are some vids of this guy that may as well be shared:

Considering what this guy, it may as well be the only fun thing to do on Second Life, trespassing the homes of deviants and such in a game that was taken over.