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Esteban Winsmore is an inspiration.
Infected Second Life and its many strange users/uses.
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The best part of Second Life is griefing people on it.
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I never could get a good answer for this, but why do Second Life users get so angry when you refer to it as a game? I really do not understand how it's not a game.
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People take it very, VERY seriously. If you can understand that people actually get married on there and adopt fake children, then you can imagine it's more than just a game to them.
My time on sl was spent griefing. I also went into every interesting sub culture I came across, including the whole family dynamic. I made a half ass child avatar, put myself up for adoption, and this woman and her "husband" adopted me. It was amazing. They bought me all kinds of stuff and let me live in their house and didn't ask any questions. My "mom" broke up with men constantly and eventually got in a relationship with a man who was married irl and was hiding it from his wife. My "mom" also had her own kid irl but as far as I could tell no partner. They treated it like real life, the role play was spot on and they never broke character. Except for me. I didn't play the role of the child, I was just around and hardly spoke but they didn't care. I'd even say really strange, vulgar, things and still nothing.
Then some huge drama broke out and when they needed me most I dropped off the grid and went on to my next adventure. That was one hell of an experience. I didn't stay for very long obviously, but they gave me a lot of money that I ran off with. Holy shit they're probably really pissed about that.
My time on sl was spent griefing. I also went into every interesting sub culture I came across, including the whole family dynamic. I made a half ass child avatar, put myself up for adoption, and this woman and her "husband" adopted me. It was amazing. They bought me all kinds of stuff and let me live in their house and didn't ask any questions. My "mom" broke up with men constantly and eventually got in a relationship with a man who was married irl and was hiding it from his wife. My "mom" also had her own kid irl but as far as I could tell no partner. They treated it like real life, the role play was spot on and they never broke character. Except for me. I didn't play the role of the child, I was just around and hardly spoke but they didn't care. I'd even say really strange, vulgar, things and still nothing.
Then some huge drama broke out and when they needed me most I dropped off the grid and went on to my next adventure. That was one hell of an experience. I didn't stay for very long obviously, but they gave me a lot of money that I ran off with. Holy shit they're probably really pissed about that.
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This whole thing reminds me of an episode of the always great It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia called "Charlie Rules the World." In it, the Gang (the collective term for the main characters) becomes addicted to an MMORPG to the point where their lives literally start to revolve around it and they start to participate in some Game of Thrones-style scheming and backstabbing. At the very end, just when all the intrigue, drama, and betrayal is about to come to a head, (spoiler warning this shit because that's how much I love It's Always Sunny and want people to watch it) the one member of the Gang who didn't get caught up in the bullshit arrives and reveals that he has deleted all of their accounts (because they all use the same password; the Gang really isn't all that savvy) because they were acting weird.
Then the episode just ends in the most anticlimactic way possible because really, it's just a video game.
Then the episode just ends in the most anticlimactic way possible because really, it's just a video game.
Frank Rizzo
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I fucking love Sunny in Philadelphia. Thank you for mentioning one of my fav episodes.
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People make a living by selling their shit on second life.
Like, second life clothes. When I learned that a few years back I was flabbergasted.
It's nice to know the graphics haven't improved since it came out.
Like, second life clothes. When I learned that a few years back I was flabbergasted.
It's nice to know the graphics haven't improved since it came out.
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If it only wasn't so hard for a normal human being to control, then more people could get in on that action.
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Kršćanin Čendlervic
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One day he will own this forum.
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dem graphics
i dont think i could handle the lag
i dont think i could handle the lag
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Second Life is good and bad. Good because it gives an interactive way for legitimate organizations like financial firms or universities to present themselves online. Bad because of online prostitution and other weird shit. It bothers me how people take SL so seriously; just a virtual world and fantasy avatars for fun and self-expression. Also, from what I heard, there's more Brazilians in SL (I have nothing against them). Griefing a Brazilian means talking about funk music and twerking to them constantly. But the most disturbing part of SL is how people make relatively steady income from selling sex online even with penises and pussies from what I heard too.
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I met one of the two core guys behind SL years ago, not long after it came out. He seemed unsure as to what it was he'd created, from a "what is this monster that I have made?" point of view.
It turns out that the scripting interface is so horribly difficult to use because he'd written it, on a drunken bet, in a day.
He was equally weirder out by the sheer amount of sex stuff that was coming to the fore, even at that point. I also got a really strong "eh, whatever" vibe from him when the questions about anti-trolling countermeasures rolled in.
It turns out that the scripting interface is so horribly difficult to use because he'd written it, on a drunken bet, in a day.
He was equally weirder out by the sheer amount of sex stuff that was coming to the fore, even at that point. I also got a really strong "eh, whatever" vibe from him when the questions about anti-trolling countermeasures rolled in.
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If anyone is curious about how much things cost and how much money people put into it, this is a handy place to poke around on: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/?lang=en-US
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I remember they used to make a huge deal out of "OMG if this was real money instead of SL gold it would be worth exactly 2.4 million dollars".
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So like EVE without the interesting stories of betrayal and conflict behind that $2.4 million.
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In 2007 the guy I worked for read a bunch of news stories that were coming out about Second Life at the time and thought organizing a "virtual press conference" using it would be fun publicity stunt. I installed Second Life on my laptop at his request and we sat down to take a look at how it worked, I somehow moved us around the map and flew us into a random building. It turned out to be a torture-porn dungeon with avatars wearing cat ears.
We didn't hold the virtual press conference.
We didn't hold the virtual press conference.
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I remember some drama involving SL users insisting that what they uploaded are not game screenshots but "photographs".
I also saw someone trying to sell a Skyrim outfit that they didn't make and there doesn't seem to be a way to report it; that's messed up.
I also saw someone trying to sell a Skyrim outfit that they didn't make and there doesn't seem to be a way to report it; that's messed up.
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Storytime!
I used to be into SL because a former friend of mine introduced me to it. Hellblazer wasn't kidding when he said there's a sharp learning curve. If you don't have someone who's familiar with SL holding your hand, you are fucking lost. You basically have to find a tight-knit group and stick with them if you're actually "playing" SL "seriously".
I think that there's some good in SL if you know where to look. Some. The problem is that it's all too easy for some people to get immersed fully into that world. Two of my former friends, who are also in an online relationship, dropped all of their friends and completely immersed themselves in SL. Oh, and they're both involved in the furry community. Which is weird since one of them used to mock furries constantly.
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It's kind of sad, in a way. You have to wonder how much your life must absolutely suck to find yourself completely immersed in SL. Looking back at my short stint on SL, I think I can say that I was in a pretty bad place for those few months.
TL; DR Second Life. Not even once.
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I used to be into SL because a former friend of mine introduced me to it. Hellblazer wasn't kidding when he said there's a sharp learning curve. If you don't have someone who's familiar with SL holding your hand, you are fucking lost. You basically have to find a tight-knit group and stick with them if you're actually "playing" SL "seriously".
I think that there's some good in SL if you know where to look. Some. The problem is that it's all too easy for some people to get immersed fully into that world. Two of my former friends, who are also in an online relationship, dropped all of their friends and completely immersed themselves in SL. Oh, and they're both involved in the furry community. Which is weird since one of them used to mock furries constantly.
...
It's kind of sad, in a way. You have to wonder how much your life must absolutely suck to find yourself completely immersed in SL. Looking back at my short stint on SL, I think I can say that I was in a pretty bad place for those few months.
TL; DR Second Life. Not even once.
Edit: More Esteban
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