Say something nice about Second Life (a positive goodbye thread)

looks like the fora ain't dead yet. Some will certainly put that in the good thing aisle.

The creativity. Tonight I saw some fabulous clothes by Nu - I forget the rest of her name. (Don't really clothes shop much.) AND Bettie - with her collection of 40's and 50's couture.

This is just one example. The creativity, both seeing it from others and the chance to exercise it oneself.

coco

Thanks LLs for creating SL, i know it must be hard sometimes with all the negative comments you get but i have had so much fun in the last nearly 12 months and i feel that youve always done your best for me when ive needed your help.

99.9999% of the people i have met have been fun and interesting people, the diversity here is amazing. I have learnt so many new things and made some very good friends from all corners of the world and from many different creeds and cultures. I hope one day the help we give here to others will spill out over into RL and make RL a bit more of a fun and friendly place

Thanks for the forums, cos even through all the idiot posts there are some real gems and i hope that you keep them archived for years to come, they are a goldmine of information

Thanks for giving us SL to play and work on and i look forward to SL V5.0 and i will for one keep my Premium membership whatever happens and i look forward to carrying on the ride that is SL

Peace

My unique avatar.


Since I hate running into identical copies of my own avatar in other online games.

I've met my RL partner in SL.



And, unfortunately, josh.
Oh wait... this is a positive post.

I love it when people say "Oh! Hey nim, I read your posts on the forums a lot!" Though, I'd also like IMs every once in a while because I'm usually idle a lot of the time doing nothing. I'm free to IM! Free = good.

The creativity, that's what I like.

And the sunsets, I don't think I'll ever tire of those.

The laughter on the forums, by far funnier than a whole season's worth of sitcoms. The drama, too, juicier than any soap. And the sheer usefulness of the forums to me as a newb, I've learned so much about the history of SL, its prehistory as people migrated here from other worlds, its politics, its peoples, just plain How Things Work! Further, I've heard the voices of so many visionaries about where this little world might go next, or failing that, what the next little world might look like. This is an exciting time to be here...

Specifically these last few weeks, thanks to everybody involved in Burning Life, which has forced me to grow beyond the smaller space I'd been living in so far in SL. Guy and Jeska, the two most visible Lindens involved in making it happen. Seifert and Starax, my two most notable inspirations, Lumiere for the Library, everybody who just dropped in and took the time to IM or rate me - that's been a wonderful surprise for me, I feel like I've stayed invisible for too long! Also thanks to GavinLeigh, Hamlet, and a host of others who've blogged Burning Life and helped get the word out.

Yo Bobby! thank you for being the pushiest customer ever!!! Your patient tenacity has helped carry me outside my fearful little swamp - eternal tentacles of gratefulness are your!

And a hug and a kiss to my friends from the floating island... it does make a difference when you have a home, don't let anyone say otherwise...

there! that's what i give to the forums for posterity... Lindens, you made a bad move with this closing, it's not just your forums, they're ours too...

It doesn't suck as bad as furcadia.

Oh! Hey nim, I read your posts on the forums a lot!

I love the creativity, but most of all I love the friends I've made here, friendships that I can see lasting a lifetime. In fact, after finals this week I'm going to Indy to see some of them.

Niamh

I love the creativity too, it's given me an opportunity to express that side of my personality in new ways. I'm going to be adding to my rudimentary Photoshop skills by playing with Bryce, DAZ studion and Poser soon.

I've met some great people and found a community that I want to be a part of; both in Neufreistadt and the rest of SL.

SL is my first virtual world and it has encouraged me to explore others, NeverWinter Nights is the prime candidate for my next go.

SL has also been my (re)entry into gaming and I'm eyeing all those bright shiny boxes and portables and thinking how much my bank balance can stand!

SL? Huh, you mean there's another place? Love it! The day I joined I fell thru my monitor and haven't looked back.

I enjoy the ability to find out that I have some artistic creativity, it's something that I had never known about myself and it came as quite a shock!

Some of my best ideas have come not imagining what it might be like collaborating in a 3D space, but actually doing it.

Best examples:

Long Tail in 3D - ecoToroid
A Future E-Commerce Scenario
The Kirkyan Concept

Boring for many of you I'm sure, but it's what I've been waiting for since reading Gibson back in the 80's.

The creative aspect of SL has been a huge boon for me, as well. I never used to think of myself as an artistic person until I discovered creating textures in SL. However, I have extended that creative interest into real life artistic creations, including jewelry and card making, which has led me to spending hardly any time in SL of late, which I suppose is somewhat ironic.

The joy of holding a finished piece of jewelry in my hand which I can wear, give away or sell is priceless; the heartbreak of making a great texture in SL which can be immediately ripped off via a third-party exploit is daunting (to say the least).

Anyway, thanks for the creative inspiration, SL. Stay classy.

SL comes with Beryl Greenacre included. This is a good thing.

Definetely the people. I have been blessed to form meaningful friendships with some of the most amazing people I have ever met in my life, online or off. I also enjoy the Second Life as an outlet for my creativity - a blank canvas on which to both paint and exist, free from the constraints of reality. I believe that Second Life is cutting edge, not just technologically, but also socially. I am very excited about it's future, despite recent disappointments and set backs. Second Life will survive this. I am certain of it.

1. Live music in SL - rocks my world;

2. Meeting new people - especially those who realise just how much more than "a game" this place really is, and;

3. The way in which SL demonstrates the truth in David Weinberger's words:

"...we are rewriting ourselves on the Web, hearing voices we're surprised to find coming from us, saying things we might not have expected. We're meeting people we would never have dreamed of encountering. More important, we're meeting new aspects of ourselves. We're finding out that we can be sappier, more caustic, less patient, more forgiving, angrier, funnier, more driven, less demanding, sexier, and more prudish--sometimes within a single ten-minute stretch online. We're falling into email relationships that, stretching themselves over years, imperceptibly deepen, like furrows worn into a stone hallway by the traffic of slippers. We're falling into groups that sometimes feel like parties and sometimes feel like wars. We're getting to know many more people in many more associations than the physics of the real world permits, and these molecules, no longer bound by the solid earth, have gained both the randomness and the freedom of the air-borne."

(From Small Pieces Loosely Joined)

bumps, begging LL to reconsider not pulling the plug - the patient is showing sings of brain activity!! please won't someone think of the pie??!!??

Second Life has captured my attention and imagination like nothing else in my life. After over 3 1/2 years involved with it, I can't imagine leaving. Even when I take a break and go do other things, I am always drawn back to it and am never far away.

Something else that I really like... meeting and talking to people that are so far away from Australia, it's like those places only exist on TV for me.

I agree with Mocc here... live music is #1 for me in SL. So many talented people. I love seeing live shows, playing live shows, the little after-parties where the audio stream is passed around so people can play a couple of tunes around the campfire... just awesome. And I can support my SL habit by playing just one large-ish show a month (though I do play more than that)! I did my first headlining show at the Hummingbird on Saturday, and it was an incredible experience. So yeah... music community all the way.

No offense, but isn't everywhere so far away from Australia?

Exactly. Next stop south from my city is Antartica. So for me, it's amazing.

Almost two years ago I was sitting in the Welcome Area telling Sami Tabla that I wasn't an artist. I wasn't. I thought.

Then there came the day when I bought a pair of capri pants and Sami told me they were cute, but that I couldn't wear them with heels because I'd look like Peg Bundy. So, after spending countless hours looking for casual prim shoes and failing miserably, I decided to build my own. Me. The non-creative one.

It just snow-balled from there. I only have time to dabble at Creating, but I've dabbled in everything from flip flops to textures to structures to clothes. I AM creative and I AM an artist. But it took SecondLife for me to open my eyes.

Thank you SL! Thank you for expanding the horizons of my world, my imagination.