Bateman
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The hell? No Patriotic Nigras love?
Infected Second Life and its many strange users/uses.
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Yes, my boy Charlie getting the attention he deserves.
Esteban was hilarious, but CHARGGELZ was my favorite. Hope he does a stream with Jessie3beards one day soon.
Edit: One of the classics...
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Britfags may be delighted to know that a London NHS Trust spent a six-figure sum on buying a Second Life island and building a virtual hospital and polyclinic.
https://secondhealth.wordpress.com/
https://secondhealth.wordpress.com/
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That 5:00 mark was the perfect example, and that dragon was pretty funny, seeing as how that guy tried to sound dark and threatening.
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Does Second Life still exist? I remember hearing about it when it came out and just finding it sad that people used it as a way of making them feel better about their pathetic lives... Never knew it didn't die off.
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I like to think of him as a spiritual successor, the Bioshock to Ralph Pootawn's System Shock.
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The best part is that the whole thing seems to be for very basic training and a place to administer surveys.
Red_Rager
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You'd be surprised. There was an attempt in the early 90's to make a virtual world. Ever heard of world's? http://worlds.com/
Do not let the website fool you, world's is very strange and the community seems to thrive on the weird. You can see a lot of left-overs from the 90s where companies tried to use it as part of their advertising: Aerosmith, Britney Spears, and Blaire Witch World. World's didn't catch on in the 90's and the company is now a patent troll but it was revolutionary for the time it as developed. If you want to check it out I recommend running it in a vm since it requires an outdated version of java to work. The server is still up.
Second life is an upgraded version of Worlds.
Virtual worlds have its place in simulations and modeling but when you want raw information you can't beat texts and videos. Why search through a virtual space when you can just go to google or use ctrl-f.
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They also held a virtual medical conference which IRL doctors attended as Second Life avatars. The keynote speech was given by a mermaid.
I think they just wanted to be involved with something that looked cool, threw a few hundred thousand at it, and then tried to work out what to do with it. Vague "patient engagement" is always a decent go-to in these situations...
This was back in 2007ish, I think, and the NHS temporarily had more money than they knew what to do with.
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Hahah yeah I've spent a couple of weeks over at Worlds.com sometime last year and the place was totally mindfucked, lmao.
Here are some random notifications from the top of my head in an incoherent order;
Controls are really old, like dusty old squared shit computer from the early 90s old (non WASD, only darts and pgUp + PgDown).
Everything looks plain as balls due to the fact that it's made in 95 something and to run the game you will actually have to de-grade your Java for it to run properly.
A thing amongst the users is to dress up like blood dripping horse freaks and talk all weird to be edgy creepsters to spook away newcomers.
Speaking of, the users are rarely active unless you live in areas around the US from my own experiences as a piss haired europoor.
Atmosphere in some of the worlds are absolutely fantastic though and i'd gladly give you a tour of my favourites if you so desire.
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It had more to do than real life I guess. Lots to explore and see. Trolling armies was fun too. But it was more exciting than wandering the suburbs.
My friends I met on there really let me learn that networking and computers was my passion.
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I remember a while back I took a communication class and the professor brought up Second Life one day. He, too, thought it was the way of the future. I already knew about Second Life and it's batshit community so I knew better, but he was trying to convince this entire class of people that this not only the best thing ever, but necessary. He kept arguing that people who are afraid to go outside need places like Second Life and you can "see a real concert" there. Unfortunately, because I was studying game design at the time, he kept trying to get me to join him in telling the class how "awesome" it is. I just kept shaking my head and say I rather go outside and he was getting pretty annoyed with me for not agreeing with everything he said.
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Second Life is soooo 2007! Sims is better and less retarded.
Sigyn
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Oh yeah, In worlds there's that Q guy. HE deserves a thread of his own, but he probably jerks off to the attention. Still probably a murderer though. It makes me question what kind of people like outdated games and why.
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I only know Second Life through reading this. As a result, I typically think of Second Life users as copies of this guy. A guy who belongs or has belonged to the many fandoms: old-time radio, prog rock, furry, anime, My Little Pony, .... Jaded after pursuing each of these intensely for years at a time, he impresses me with his drive to have and keep some obsession, any obsession, alive. Suffice to say, it culminates in his Second Life outbursts in passages like this:
kacey said:
(I heartily disagree.)
An archive of his biography is linked on the Fandom Wank page you refer to. It's well worth a read, although it doesn't directly refer to Second life. From what others have said, I imagine many users have felt the effects of isolation.
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Thanks I will do. I've been lurking for about 2 months and decided I quite like you guys.
Sorry to go OT again
Lets talk about how much SL has failed.
The hype was massive. Books and movies and articles were gushing over it for years. Companies and universities and even governments were buying space and paying people to build it up.
They had huge cash flow. All that hype had corporations dumping millions into land, plus regular shmoes giving their lunch money to get Lindenbux.
They had/have a rabidly dedicated core fanbase, willing to spend years of time and gobs of cash. It's a dev's dream to have whales this big.
Well shit, I guess they haven't "failed", so much as not delivered anything close to the hype.
Still, it genuinely could be something better than it is now.
I think it's a great cautionary tale about poor initial user experience. So many new users same the same things. It looks bad compared to any modern game. It runs like shit on even beast computers with ultra-fast internet. The UI is awful. It's boring. This was my experience and I stopped playing after 3 ours.
With all the cash they have, these seem like trivial problems. Throw some money at the graphics engine. Pay some people to make well optimized content. Put some high speed servers near the big cities and/or preload some of that nice content. Hire some UI designers and aim it at new players. Build a dozen areas worth visiting that don't run like ass(and have something to do besides watch characters animate poorly and clip into themselves) and they would have a hugely improved retention rate.
None of that is going to happen though. The devs bought into their own hype and since they have a more or less stable income, have no reason to change things for the better. I think they are going to go the way of Duke Nukem Forever. They will grind on, milking the whales, till they realize they don't have enough money to fix the problems, let alone make a new version. The butthurt will be great. People will cry about lost income, then cry more when they can't convert their bux back to food buying money. I think maybe 5 years before it's truly dead, but really I'm surprised it's gone on this long. I'd like to hear other's predictions about how long it can last.
The hype was massive. Books and movies and articles were gushing over it for years. Companies and universities and even governments were buying space and paying people to build it up.
They had huge cash flow. All that hype had corporations dumping millions into land, plus regular shmoes giving their lunch money to get Lindenbux.
They had/have a rabidly dedicated core fanbase, willing to spend years of time and gobs of cash. It's a dev's dream to have whales this big.
Well shit, I guess they haven't "failed", so much as not delivered anything close to the hype.
Still, it genuinely could be something better than it is now.
I think it's a great cautionary tale about poor initial user experience. So many new users same the same things. It looks bad compared to any modern game. It runs like shit on even beast computers with ultra-fast internet. The UI is awful. It's boring. This was my experience and I stopped playing after 3 ours.
With all the cash they have, these seem like trivial problems. Throw some money at the graphics engine. Pay some people to make well optimized content. Put some high speed servers near the big cities and/or preload some of that nice content. Hire some UI designers and aim it at new players. Build a dozen areas worth visiting that don't run like ass(and have something to do besides watch characters animate poorly and clip into themselves) and they would have a hugely improved retention rate.
None of that is going to happen though. The devs bought into their own hype and since they have a more or less stable income, have no reason to change things for the better. I think they are going to go the way of Duke Nukem Forever. They will grind on, milking the whales, till they realize they don't have enough money to fix the problems, let alone make a new version. The butthurt will be great. People will cry about lost income, then cry more when they can't convert their bux back to food buying money. I think maybe 5 years before it's truly dead, but really I'm surprised it's gone on this long. I'd like to hear other's predictions about how long it can last.
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A friend of mine wants me to play Second Life with her. She had played it for quite some time and had also joined a few clans here and there. She had told me that I could be anything I want to be, whether it's a Dragon or some weird human. But looking at the graphics and everything about the game, it looks pretty lame. I just don't really see the appeal. I try not to say Visuals are everything, but I rather play Runescape than SL. At least I'll have fun.
But it's quite fun seeing all the horrors that the SL's community have been doing at the game. I know people have actually gotten rich from the game, but I seriously had no idea how far people can get in that game.
But it's quite fun seeing all the horrors that the SL's community have been doing at the game. I know people have actually gotten rich from the game, but I seriously had no idea how far people can get in that game.
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- Feb 18, 2013
So, I installed this game one weekend a long time ago thinking it would be interesting to walk around and see for myself how fucked it really is.
I bump into this older lady with a southern accent (who plays a young sexy avatar, of course) who likes the way I present myself and offers to give me a tour. Her tour isn't too bad at first, just a visit to a few shopping centers, and "entertainment venues." Suddenly, she guides me into a type of red light district full of cyber prostitution and a porn museum. The porn museum had a range of pictures it was showcasing, from pictures of typical sexual intercourse, to more outrageous niche fetishes. The southern belle takes me to a movie theater located within the museum and starts venting about her personal life while a hardcore sex orgy movie was playing in the background. At the conclusion of her story, she offered herself up for a quick cyber. I politely declined.
I avoided the game for a bit after that encounter, but decided to screw around some time later. Somehow, when I logged back in this time, I found my way to a park area. I was approached at one point by a goth fairy avatar. She kept complimenting my appearance (my SL avatar's look) and asked if I was single. Playing along with her line of questioning, I said, "What if I was?" She immediately, responded by saying we could be boyfriend and girlfriend. She continued by saying that she would prove her love to me by letting me have my way with her in this park and had her character disrobe, except for the fairy wings (because that would be out of character). I politely declined.
I uninstalled after that.