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Misty Rhodes
SL Muse
Join date: 5 Aug 2003
Posts: 312
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10-11-2005 13:51
their creativity, the beauty they surround me in, the Lindens, ..... and Reve, my partner.
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Kris Ritter on LL & Misty's Inventory: "what does the red bulb mean?" ... "it means Misty just opened her inventory & the rest of the grid is going down to about 50% capacity. We just need to ask the SF power grid to pump us another 50,000,000 megawatts & we'll be fine."
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Sitearm Madonna
Registered User
Join date: 6 Oct 2005
Posts: 535
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10-11-2005 14:02
why do you continue to play secondlife?
It lets me let my inner artist out (blinks). 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? _____________________
... software packages, acting in society... life creating, and accepted, and widely... spread throughout the world... freeing, liberating... allow... each person individual control and decision making... to create living structure... wherever they are. / Christopher Alexander, 1996
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Euterpe Roo
The millionth monkey
Join date: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 1,395
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10-11-2005 15:54
The ladies. *wink*  Buh, buh, buh. . . He's not a lady.  _____________________
"Of course, you'd also have to mention . . . furries, Sith Lords, cyberpunks, glowing balls of gaseous neon fumes, and walking foodstuffs" --Cory Edo
“One man developed a romantic attachment to a tractor, even giving it a name and writing poetry in its honor." MSN "  next week: the .5m torus of "I ate a yummy sandwich and I'm sleepy now" " Desmond Shang |
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Memory Harker
Girl Anachronism
Join date: 17 Jun 2005
Posts: 393
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Um, because ...
10-11-2005 16:56
... it's not a game, it's a place.
It's a very *different* sort of a place --- where physical laws are more mutable, where one can fly, where there's a greater outlet for diverse artistic expression --- which makes it, on the surface, initially more interesting than RL. And SL's got a *lot* of surface, as if by way of compensation for lack of depth. So just the avatar-mediated, immersive experience of it is ... um ... gosh-wow? Yes. It makes my sense of wonder HUM. And the people in here *are* the part that's truly deep; and they're as wonderful as the best people IRL, too (sometimes they're even the *same* people) (okay: person) (okay: *sigh*); and chatting inworld is very enjoyable for a print addict like me; AND I can hang out with friends from anywhere in this one place and not have to haul my lazy, post-dayjob ass out of the apartment, even. Also, I find that SL holds a helpful mirror up to RL (and vice versa), offering a sort of parallax view to what I and what I do are all about. If, as Socrates suggested, the unexamined life is not worth living, then my life, examined with the benefit of having a Second Life in this virtual world, is even more worth living than it would be otherwise. If something better than Second Life --- more hi-res, less laggy, better features --- ever comes along, and it, too, is a place and NOT a game ... well, that's up to the Lindens, I imagine: to always be at the forefront. And, in any case, as long as my friends are here, I'm not going elsewhere. Said the wordy one. |
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Roxie Marten
Crumedgeon
Join date: 18 Feb 2004
Posts: 291
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10-11-2005 17:25
For the most part I have moved on. I sneak in for prim attack and catch up with some friends. Finding online baseball and golf to be more interesting, less drama and b.s..
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Tateru Nino
Girl Genius
Join date: 13 Sep 2005
Posts: 312
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10-11-2005 19:50
People. It's people that both attract and repel me.
Plus, SL fulfills my basic criteria for a successful day, all on it's own.
Everything else is just a bonus. _____________________
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Bertha Horton
Fat w/ Ice Cream
Join date: 19 Sep 2005
Posts: 835
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10-11-2005 23:10
How many games are out there where I could play a fat character? There's Quake III Arena and SL. Most game developers of Everquest, FF XI, WoW, CoH and so on seem to think everyone thinks fatness is unattractive and deliberately leave it out of the customization.
The building and scripting is nice too and also isn't in those games either. (Maybe if they get around to doing "Carnage Heart Online"...) |
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Khamon Fate
fategardens.net
Join date: 21 Nov 2003
Posts: 4,177
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10-12-2005 05:34
This is why I'm here.
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