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CalvinRichard Klein
Registered User
Join date: 21 Sep 2004
Posts: 160
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10-11-2005 06:06
A serious question, why do you continue to play secondlife? Why havent you gone onto another game? What is the first thing you remember doing in secondlife that got you hooked?
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Dnate Mars
Lost
Join date: 27 Jan 2004
Posts: 1,309
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10-11-2005 06:10
Freedom keeps me here.
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Willow Zander
Having Blahgasms
Join date: 22 May 2004
Posts: 9,935
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10-11-2005 06:14
Thats a great question, one I often find myself pondering.
Alots happened recently, both in my RL and my SL, and Iunno how many time's i've been a drama queen and im'ed my nearest and dearest and said i'm selling the sim and going... Yet... I never can bring myself to do it. I love SL, I love my friends, SO SO much, I have met SO many wonderful people on here, that really do brighten my day, and I can't imagine not talking to them AV to AV (yahoo just isn't the same sometimes yannow?). So what keeps me in SL are my friends, the love and fun I recieve from them. I also admire the content creators that keep making me poor. I love the new ideas people are always coming up with. My problem is, i'm lazy, and have the patience of a not very patient person, I try and build, I end up breaking mice, I try and photoshop and well lets just say the air turns blue. I KNOW I am a very capable person, I KNOW I could make something that would make people think I have talent, but, I just don't have the motivation to sit and take my time over anything, i'd rather be chatting... >.> We all get stuck in ruts, and try and justify leaving, some of us actually manage it, I don't think i'll ever be one of those people tho, scale back - maybe, leave - never. _____________________
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Dnate Mars
Lost
Join date: 27 Jan 2004
Posts: 1,309
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10-11-2005 06:14
Freedom to do what I want. I can build, buy, sell, and do most anything I want. I can also do nothing. That is why I am still here. That and business reasons.
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Jesrad Seraph
Nonsense
Join date: 11 Dec 2004
Posts: 1,463
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10-11-2005 06:52
Dhrama.
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Either Man can enjoy universal freedom, or Man cannot. If it is possible then everyone can act freely if they don't stop anyone else from doing same. If it is not possible, then conflict will arise anyway so punch those that try to stop you. In conclusion the only strategy that wins in all cases is that of doing what you want against all adversity, as long as you respect that right in others.
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Nolan Nash
Frischer Frosch
Join date: 15 May 2003
Posts: 7,141
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10-11-2005 07:02
I don't have a lot of choice in the matter...
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Tetrae Turner
Registered User
Join date: 14 Sep 2005
Posts: 36
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10-11-2005 07:11
These days it's mostly the building and the sightseeing. Althouhg I have a few friends as well.
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Margaret Mfume
I.C.
Join date: 30 Dec 2004
Posts: 2,492
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10-11-2005 07:35
Challenge, choice and availability. I can learn what I want by making whatever I choose as it fits my schedule.
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DogSpot Boxer
vortex thruster
Join date: 23 Aug 2005
Posts: 671
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10-11-2005 07:40
Pixel Sex?
 Ok, no, not really. I've developed some very good friendships in SL, including one that is now also a RL friend. That's the biggest draw for me. People. _____________________
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Katt Kongo
M2 Publisher
Join date: 9 Jun 2005
Posts: 1,020
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10-11-2005 07:44
My sweetie Phoenix, my best friend Maureen, a growing business, and a multitude of ideas about what's next...
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Seth Kanahoe
political fugue artist
Join date: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 1,220
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10-11-2005 07:45
...why do you continue to play secondlife? Hope. Why havent you gone onto another game? I have. Games. I lead a balanced online life - if that's not a contradiction in terms. What is the first thing you remember doing in secondlife that got you hooked? I built something, and somebody said it was good and they'd never seen anything like it before. And that made me grin. _____________________
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Newfie Pendragon
Crusty and proud of it
Join date: 19 Dec 2003
Posts: 1,025
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10-11-2005 07:48
Lack of viable alternative choice.
And a decent measure of hope that the Lindens will realization the growing amount of alienation they are causing, and do something about it before that viable alternative arrives. - Newfie _____________________
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Billy Grace
Land Market Facilitator
Join date: 8 Mar 2004
Posts: 2,307
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10-11-2005 07:52
What can I say... I am a lag addict!
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Kendra Bancroft
Rhine Maiden
Join date: 17 Jun 2004
Posts: 5,813
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10-11-2005 07:54
Ulrika has me locked in a cage in a Neualtenburg dungeon. Occasionally she gives me water and pecan pie.
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MJ Hathor
Purple Butterfly
Join date: 17 Mar 2005
Posts: 901
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10-11-2005 07:58
Just like Willow, I find myself asking that Question often. Moreso lately. If anything, I would only take a break. Second Life has been just that... a second life. Just like others, I've made friends in SL that would be impossible (due to the distance) to carry on a relationship irl and therefore stay.
SL is the first online 3d community that i've been in and for me there is no other comparison and don't plan to go try another. Its a loyalty issue with me I suppose. I guess I would feel like I was cheating on SL if that makes any sense lol.  MJ |
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Annah Zamboni
Banannah Annah
Join date: 2 Jun 2004
Posts: 1,022
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10-11-2005 09:53
Lag keeps me here. I tried moving but no luck.
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Einsman Schlegel
Disenchanted Fool
Join date: 11 Jun 2003
Posts: 1,461
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10-11-2005 12:24
These.... these... FORUMS!!!! ~gasp~!!!
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Jonquille Noir
Lemon Fresh
Join date: 17 Jan 2004
Posts: 4,025
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10-11-2005 13:00
Quite simply, SL offers a freedom of creation, coupled with interaction, that nothing else I've seen does. Lots of programs allow for creation, and lots allow for interaction, but only SL has managed to blend the two so seamlessly, (bugs notwithstanding) and have them rely so heavily upon each other.
It's the ability to create, and show off in the same program.  On a more personal note, there are some incredibly cool people I enjoy hanging out with. (Hi Friday night gang!) _____________________
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
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10-11-2005 13:13
I've found my home here. And home is where the heart is!
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Euterpe Roo
The millionth monkey
Join date: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 1,395
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10-11-2005 13:13
The people, people. There are some amazing folks in SL--smart, funny, cool, crazy, kind, inventive, creative--I have been blessed, really.
I was asked to leave, at one point (RL difficulty). I tried--really, I did. I just missed my in-world friends too much. I might have looked like a complete idiot announcing that I was leaving, then turning around and coming right back, but I don't care. What first made me want to stay? To quote a brilliant woman, my best friend in-world and out, "It is just the gosh-wowy-ness of the whole thing." That, and the first pos rate someone gave me for a textured prim I left in Morris on my second day in-world. _____________________
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Ingrid Ingersoll
Archived
Join date: 10 Aug 2004
Posts: 4,601
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10-11-2005 13:22
everything. diversity. the unexpected.
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Pol Tabla
synthpop saint
Join date: 18 Dec 2003
Posts: 1,041
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10-11-2005 13:27
The ladies. *wink*
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Shadow Weaver
Ancient
Join date: 13 Jan 2003
Posts: 2,808
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10-11-2005 13:30
Who said I was here?
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Everyone here is an adult. This ain't DisneyLand, and Mickey Mouse isn't going to swat you with a stick if you say "holy crapola."<Pathfinder Linden>
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Ingrid Ingersoll
Archived
Join date: 10 Aug 2004
Posts: 4,601
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10-11-2005 13:33
The ladies. *wink* Oh and Pol's forum avatar. _____________________
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Heuvadoches Naumova
Equus Exoticus
Join date: 6 Oct 2005
Posts: 174
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10-11-2005 13:48
I just want my MTV ....
Wait...wrong forum? *someone whispers in hir ear* Oh! Wrong decade...that's right, MTV doesn't play music anyway... Uhmm...Oh! I know, it's the people and the buildings and well, pretty much the unbound creative freedom one has to be whomever, whatever, whenever, however. Even with Double Stuff Oreos! You could even *BE* a giant Oreo.... What? Double Stuffed Oreos are good! Well...unless they're evil...and then they've got the red and black swirly filling....but sometimes it's hard to tell because that swirly can be hidden underneath a sprayed on layer of white. *blinks* Yes, I know I'm new (Less than 1 week at the time of this post). But if I didn't like this game, wait, is this a game? I wouldn't exist without this world......so I'm rather hesitant to call it a game...It is a wonderful social experiment! There we go.... *wanders off to spend more time on the grid* _____________________
Respectfully yours,
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