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Yeah, anyone remember the Anshe Chung incident?
Infected Second Life and its many strange users/uses.
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Yeah, anyone remember the Anshe Chung incident?
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You mean the flying-penis bombardment?
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I do indeed. All during a supposedly serious interview.
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Ah yes I do. It was glorious. People were acting all super offended like someone killed their dog.
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The best thing is that was the event that tanked Second Life's reputation. The interview was meant to show the mainstream this super amazing programme that you can make money off of, but 4chan intervened and just attracted more of the trolls and sex perverts.
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Like Second Life ever had a chance at being anything serious to begin with.
They could have easily prevented all that through script protection or they could have laughed it off like the silly things that happen in SL but instead, they acted exactly how 4chan wanted and there went the 'mainstream' appeal.
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Luckily for Bitcoin, it doesn't have graphics, so it's hard to have a 2 minute video that proves it's full of degenerates and criminals.
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Actually, there are a few universities that host sims where you can get information on how to apply, study habits, etc. They're ghost towns now, but some people really believed in SL years ago. It's actually kind of sad, since the people who made those sims put a lot of thought into their builds usually.
Naturally, the only new sims popping up now are anime clubs and escort bars.
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Doesn't SL also run like Strikerwolf after doing weed? I recall most of the discussions I saw about it back in the day including a minimum 30% 'then my FPS shat itself and died' content.
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If your computer is shit, yeah. A lot of users aren't gamers and they think they can get away with an integrated video card and run it on the 'Ultra" setting. Even with a decent rig and card, SL has a tendency to lag out in any crowded place.
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Even with a fairly decent one, you're bound to get lag in any place that is fairly crowded. Also SL has a shit way of rendering things and users that are shit at building sims, so most places are still using prim builds from 2003. Add in about forty avatars, all wearing attachments that total up to around 200 polygons each, and your computer will burst into flames.
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But how many polygons are they without their genitalia?
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The red glowing stuff is a dick.
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Ray Streip
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Shit, you guys think everything mentioned here was fucked up? I've been exploring the seedy underbelly of Second Life for years now, nobody even mentioned the dolcett communities: basically, it's sexualized cannibalism with slavery sprinkled into it (because white people just love sexualizing slavery), really fucked up. I've been banned from a few Dolcett communities for stirring shit up in their sims, very unnerving Stepford Wives-ish shit.
You want to see hilarious tough-guy posturing? 90% of the hardcore ghetto 13-inch-dick-swinging black avatars in Second Life are actually the saddest group of white guys from the suburbs you'll ever meet. You want trannies? 90% of the "women" in Second Life are those same guys, there's even an innumerable amount of shemale sims and groups.
Oh, and how can I mention sex groups without mentioning that there's a metric fuck-ton of sex groups and sims to cater to your every sickening desire? Dolcett and shemales are just the tip of the iceberg, there's also pedophiles, scat, "toilet girls", Gor, emo shemale furry piss enthusiasts, and even hilariously-awkward rage-prone mouth-breathers occupying a slew of anal and MILF-themed groups that open group chat and try scoring pixel-vaginas by posting "sexy girls IM me pls" in hopes that some busty housewife/teen/furry will message him (they never do). There's even an infamous user who's spent 3+ years creating accounts and spamming group chats multiple times a day looking for "any girls who were submissive when younger to talk", he creates a new account every 3 days to 2 weeks because there's entire communities dedicated to reporting him, as the groups he compulsively adds his new accounts to paint himself out to be seeking an underage daughter to rape. And the scary part is he's still going to this day, still plugging away in those group chats (even though everyone I've ever met who's encountered him has said that the conversation goes nowhere so the fact that he's compulsively making new accounts every time he's banned is even creepier).
Oh, and there's rape-cabins tucked away about 1000 meters up in the air if you're lucky enough to find them, literally cabins textured with questionable fluid puddle textures on the floor of the tiny cages tucked away in a corner and beds with stained sheets and detailed handcuffs and the seediest video camera on a tripod you can imagine pointed right at the bed.
BUT I DIGRESS
Most of it is boring and the land is strictly rent-based unless you worked for the company, so most of the time you're going to find yourself walking along an empty road overlooking empty plots of land spare the occasional clunky circa 2005-2007 building or hanging out at public sims where people congregate. And, once again, people got wise to trolls and started floating their properties 500+ m up in the air, so it becomes a hunt after a while if you're really looking for the crazy shit.
People inaccurately explained Second Life earlier on in this thread, and the user experience itself is the reason Second Life failed to amount to anything: simply put, there's no purpose. It's not a "game", because games have an objective and rules and Second Life is pure, unfiltered virtual anarchy. You can buy land and spawn a house that you bought in the Marketplace, get a job (though honestly the only jobs that pay are dancing at clubs and being a stripper is commonplace) and start your own disturbing little pixel-family with some crazy 50-year-old woman playing your 4-year-old daughter, or you can walk the pixel-earth a squatter and fuck on the roof of an art museum from 2008 (if spawning rights are allowed on the land and you have sex furniture or huds). You could get suckered into Bloodlines, the still-miraculously-profitable vampire-themed pyramid-scheme-masquerading-as-a-game, which will introduce you to a slew of hilarious drama that comes with every clan that's still active. You could be a sentient roll of duct tape, a dragon, a 12-year-old chinese boy or any of your favorite superheroes and nobody will bat an eyelash, there's just no rhyme or reason to it and it'll cost you to do most of the things you seek to do. I mainly just log on and use it to IM friends that I've made on there while watching shows/browsing the web/posting on here in another window though, we don't really do much on there these days.
Oculus Rift has been talking about pairing up with Second Life to create an even-more immersive virtual experience, and given how mercilessly glitchy and lag-prone the entire playing experience is, the rage would be hilarious to watch. Oh, yeah: it's laggy as fuck too.
You want to see hilarious tough-guy posturing? 90% of the hardcore ghetto 13-inch-dick-swinging black avatars in Second Life are actually the saddest group of white guys from the suburbs you'll ever meet. You want trannies? 90% of the "women" in Second Life are those same guys, there's even an innumerable amount of shemale sims and groups.
Oh, and how can I mention sex groups without mentioning that there's a metric fuck-ton of sex groups and sims to cater to your every sickening desire? Dolcett and shemales are just the tip of the iceberg, there's also pedophiles, scat, "toilet girls", Gor, emo shemale furry piss enthusiasts, and even hilariously-awkward rage-prone mouth-breathers occupying a slew of anal and MILF-themed groups that open group chat and try scoring pixel-vaginas by posting "sexy girls IM me pls" in hopes that some busty housewife/teen/furry will message him (they never do). There's even an infamous user who's spent 3+ years creating accounts and spamming group chats multiple times a day looking for "any girls who were submissive when younger to talk", he creates a new account every 3 days to 2 weeks because there's entire communities dedicated to reporting him, as the groups he compulsively adds his new accounts to paint himself out to be seeking an underage daughter to rape. And the scary part is he's still going to this day, still plugging away in those group chats (even though everyone I've ever met who's encountered him has said that the conversation goes nowhere so the fact that he's compulsively making new accounts every time he's banned is even creepier).
Oh, and there's rape-cabins tucked away about 1000 meters up in the air if you're lucky enough to find them, literally cabins textured with questionable fluid puddle textures on the floor of the tiny cages tucked away in a corner and beds with stained sheets and detailed handcuffs and the seediest video camera on a tripod you can imagine pointed right at the bed.
BUT I DIGRESS
Most of it is boring and the land is strictly rent-based unless you worked for the company, so most of the time you're going to find yourself walking along an empty road overlooking empty plots of land spare the occasional clunky circa 2005-2007 building or hanging out at public sims where people congregate. And, once again, people got wise to trolls and started floating their properties 500+ m up in the air, so it becomes a hunt after a while if you're really looking for the crazy shit.
People inaccurately explained Second Life earlier on in this thread, and the user experience itself is the reason Second Life failed to amount to anything: simply put, there's no purpose. It's not a "game", because games have an objective and rules and Second Life is pure, unfiltered virtual anarchy. You can buy land and spawn a house that you bought in the Marketplace, get a job (though honestly the only jobs that pay are dancing at clubs and being a stripper is commonplace) and start your own disturbing little pixel-family with some crazy 50-year-old woman playing your 4-year-old daughter, or you can walk the pixel-earth a squatter and fuck on the roof of an art museum from 2008 (if spawning rights are allowed on the land and you have sex furniture or huds). You could get suckered into Bloodlines, the still-miraculously-profitable vampire-themed pyramid-scheme-masquerading-as-a-game, which will introduce you to a slew of hilarious drama that comes with every clan that's still active. You could be a sentient roll of duct tape, a dragon, a 12-year-old chinese boy or any of your favorite superheroes and nobody will bat an eyelash, there's just no rhyme or reason to it and it'll cost you to do most of the things you seek to do. I mainly just log on and use it to IM friends that I've made on there while watching shows/browsing the web/posting on here in another window though, we don't really do much on there these days.
Oculus Rift has been talking about pairing up with Second Life to create an even-more immersive virtual experience, and given how mercilessly glitchy and lag-prone the entire playing experience is, the rage would be hilarious to watch. Oh, yeah: it's laggy as fuck too.
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This makes me incredibly glad that I've never got around to installing it. And I doubt I ever will.
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Huh, I haven't heard from Second Life in years and I am surprised that it didn't fall into obscurity by now. Back when I tried it, I figured out that it took too much effort (and money) to do anything resembling fun in that 'game'. Essentially it is a pretty timesink. SL is like a cowclicker, when you stop 'playing' it, you realize how much time you've wasted on nothing and get mad about yourself.
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Please tell us more, I LIVE for this kind of drama!
Ahem. It basically sounds like Second Life is somehow an even more insane playground of madness and insanity than F-List. Which is honestly starting to look fairly chill in comparison, considering what I've observed in this thread so far.
One query I've got is what the game's creators have had to say about all this. LL was fairly open back in the day, but have they made any major comments about the state of their community in recent years? It sounds as if SL has basically gone from 'that virtual sim with all the pedos' to 'that virtual sim for pedos'.