Infected Second Life and its many strange users/uses.

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Cosmos said:
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.
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What about the space turtle?
 
Valiant said:
I've actually watched a few of Esteban now live streams into Second Life, he unfourtunately doesn't stream anymore because apparently everyone knows him and singles him out from the start.

One of the unrecorded streams, he walked around asking to adopt a child, went to a shark-furry adult bar, got ejected and then when he spawned into a new area saw two people arguing right in front of an actual eight year child.
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Honestly, it's impossible for Charlie to stream SL and produce actual worthwhile content now. He streams 3-4 times a week on Twitch but never Second Life.
 
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I'm surprised that I never heard of the game until now. I don't know a single person that played this. I'm going to take it as a good thing now knowing the messed up stuff about it. I have to watch more videos on it. I saw a rage video and it made me laugh my ass off.
 
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I tried this thing out on two separate occasions. The first time, I wandered around a little, and then suddenly there were bouncing swastikas everywhere, until it either crashed/kicked everyone to remove the swastikas. The second time, it had a problem with my GPU that made everything purple. Apparently a common issue but I didn't feel like fucking around with my drivers so I gave up. It does seem like a thing that could be fun for creating shit in, but goddamn that documentary. The guy talking about his creepy pedobait little girl avatar as though she had a mind of her own and communicated with him was creepy as hell.
 
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@Betard I'll take you up on that offer. Didn't explore too much of worlds beyond the surface.[/QUOTE]

K, i'll tell you to join in when I myself am ready.
May take a couple of days for me to find all of the worlds.
 
LordDarkrai said:
I'm surprised that I never heard of the game until now. I don't know a single person that played this. I'm going to take it as a good thing now knowing the messed up stuff about it. I have to watch more videos on it. I saw a rage video and it made me laugh my ass off.
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I haven't heard about it until a few months ago in one of my classes. I believe I was reading an online textbook and it talked about how some people use Second Life to hold virtual press conferences, place ads, ect.

It's so weird to find that very same game is also home to all of these strange people.
 
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Seeing some of the videos from Charliezzz, the creator of Esteban Winsmore, can show how the RP gets taken too seriously as mentioned before. Here is one example:
Some griefers come in the form of ponies and the guy getting griefed wants them out so his avatar can sleep. One honestly wonders what the benefit of that would be. And honestly, why tell them repeatedly to get out when he or the owner of said place could kick them out.
 
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If you guys like Charlie's videos, he streams pretty regularly on Twitch. His name is charliewinsmore. He can't stream Second Life since it's banned on Twitch but he's a very entertaining guy and occasionally gives some good in-sight into his adventures on Second Life, including a few things he hasn't been able to put in videos because it was way too fucked up. He doesn't really play much Second Life at all anymore since, at it was said, he gets recognized easily. But also because he feels guilty about the way people react to those in his videos.

Apparently, the woman who ran the club in one of his early videos (the one he will own one day) had to shut down her club because the video led a bunch of people to it and they harassed her a lot. She'd been running the club for years before that. There were other things that happened due to his videos and he felt pretty guilty about it. Charlie is pretty adamant that he doesn't make these videos to make fun of or harass the people in SL, but rather to have fun getting reactions out of them interacting with his weird characters. A lot of people don't see it that way though.

I was wondering how long it'd take for a Second Life player to show up on here, it's a super weird place. I used to go on there to mess with people quite a bit but got banned from too many places so I stopped. It can be kinda hard to find the really odd places full of the real eccentric people, but once you do its pretty fun.

twitch.tv/charliewinsmore
^ Charlie's twitch. He talks somewhat regularly about lolcows too, mostly Chris-chan and DSP. He's very entertaining though, I highly recommend checking him out.
 
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stress sighs said:
The weirdest people I have seen so far are the duckfaced horse riders
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wtf is thaat for?
Red_Rager said:
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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Dude I really like the idea of exploring a decades forgotten virtual world from the dawn of the commercial internet. Especially with the failed attempts at advertising overrun with freak mutants. e I go to all the trouble of setting this up, what's the activity level there? Lots of people still use this thing you say?
 
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I played Second Life for a short while just to mess around with people, though I deleted my account when the weirdness got to be too much for me. There's a bunch of crazy people, that's for sure. After a certain amount of time, even my high tolerance for oddities couldn't handle the game anymore. I would go around as various dinosaur avatars, and some of them were pretty big. Needless to say, it got me banned on sight in some places, and trying to get into peoples' houses was pretty damn funny.

That was the only perk of people taking their RP too seriously -- listening to them scream about a giant Allosaurus trying to crash its way into their homes. It was especially funny when I accidentally interrupted two avatars having sex.
 
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I went to play today and I was looking for free clothes to wear on the second life exchange thingy. I found a mod that lets you be a diaper. I closed the game and all my browser windows and I am done with this game forever.
 
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I used to play a similar game back in the early years of the internet, but the avatars were just floating heads. It was equally as creepy. Wish I could remember what it was called.
 
I've been exploring SL the past couple of days. It's so surreal when I come across elaborate places with nobody else in them. It's like walking through an empty amusement park, and I love it.

Also, if you go to the SL store and search for child avatars, they will all be nude.

Do not use the second life store for anything.
 
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