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His Grace
Emperor Of Second Life
Join date: 23 Apr 2004
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10-01-2004 13:19
do you watch more, less, or the same amount of tv since you've started sl?
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Maxx Monde
Registered User
Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 1,848
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10-01-2004 13:20
Much less, and the only time I had the tv on was for the debates - so I could make sarcastic comments in-world about it, of course
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Paolo Portocarrero
Puritanical Hedonist
Join date: 28 Apr 2004
Posts: 2,393
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10-01-2004 13:25
Significantly less time. We have to actually schedule a "movie night" to watch the NetFlix DVDs that pile up each week.
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Chip Midnight
ate my baby!
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 10,231
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10-01-2004 13:27
No real change. There's not much worth watching. I watch the Daily Show with John Stewart, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Penn and Teller's Bullshit. My ReplayTV is one of the best purchases I ever made.
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Siggy Romulus
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Join date: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 5,711
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10-01-2004 13:27
Same amount, but that was very little as I work in T.V.
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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
Posts: 8,616
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10-01-2004 13:29
Yes, my poor Tivo is overflowing and deleting Melrose Place reruns from SoapNet. It is quite depressing
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Jennyfur Peregrine
Whatever
Join date: 24 Dec 2003
Posts: 1,151
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10-01-2004 13:36
No I just pass less attention because the TV is on in the background sometimes...
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Juro Kothari
Like a dog on a bone
Join date: 4 Sep 2003
Posts: 4,418
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10-01-2004 14:04
Yes, but I never watched much TV in the first place. Although, I am now hooked on the 3rd season of Surreal Life. The Flavor Flav and Brigitte Nielsen thing is hillarious.
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Tito Gomez
Mi Vida Loca
Join date: 1 Aug 2004
Posts: 921
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10-01-2004 14:12
SL really has not changed my tv viewing. I hardly ever watch TV except on Sunday. Bears games during football season, and HBO Sunday nights (Sopranos, Six Feet Under, etc.).
But, it has totally killed any other gaming. Example, I bought Doom 3 a couple of days before I found out about SL. Since I started SL, I have not touched it again. Same with Day of Defeat. -tito _____________________
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Khamon Fate
fategardens.net
Join date: 21 Nov 2003
Posts: 4,177
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10-01-2004 14:13
i didn't watch a lot to begin with. but yes, i do watch less now because i'm inworld instead.
i stopped taping shows a long time ago because i never ever go back and watch them. _____________________
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Darko Cellardoor
Cannabinoid Addict
Join date: 10 Nov 2003
Posts: 1,307
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10-01-2004 15:10
Yes, but I never watched much TV in the first place. Although, I am now hooked on the 3rd season of Surreal Life. The Flavor Flav and Brigitte Nielsen thing is hillarious. haha. paris and myself have been addicted to the surreal life since season one. great stuff.  do you watch more, less, or the same amount of tv since you've started sl? less. like cwis our tivo is full of adult swim and daily show episodes begging to be viewed. _____________________
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Ferran Brodsky
Better living through rum
Join date: 3 Feb 2004
Posts: 821
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10-01-2004 16:20
I havnt owned a TV since ummm...
November... I started SL in Feb. So I guess I watch about the same amount. It really is hard to watch less TV than 0 hours a year |
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Aurican Sunchaser
Old as dirt
Join date: 8 Jan 2003
Posts: 16
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10-01-2004 16:23
My time spent watching TV dwindled long before SL.
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Teeny Leviathan
Never started World War 3
Join date: 20 May 2003
Posts: 2,716
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10-01-2004 16:26
Yes.
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Gwyneth Llewelyn
Winking Loudmouth
Join date: 31 Jul 2004
Posts: 1,336
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10-01-2004 16:26
i have NEVER owned a TV.
Just watch it at some friends' homes, once in a while. I remember those dotty colored screens. Funny _____________________
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
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10-01-2004 16:36
I hardly watch television shows anyway. A few shows like Dead Like Me, Joan of Arcadia, and The Apprentice 2 (altho I'm getting tired of it 'cuz there's not enough Donald...).
I do know SL is keeping me up wayyy past what should be an "irregularly regular bedtime".  _____________________
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Lash Xevious
Gooberly
Join date: 8 May 2004
Posts: 1,348
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10-01-2004 17:07
Less TV. I'm missing the shows I used to follow like the Apprentice or MAD TV reruns. Sometimes I turn it on just to have something up besides my computer. But I don't look at it.
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Sensual Casanova
Spoiled Brat
Join date: 28 Feb 2004
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Re: POLL: do you watch less tv because of sl?
10-01-2004 17:21
Originally posted by His Grace do you watch more, less, or the same amount of tv since you've started sl? whats tv? _____________________
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His Grace
Emperor Of Second Life
Join date: 23 Apr 2004
Posts: 158
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10-01-2004 20:29
i watch less.
i used to watch specific shows. but now i don't. occasionally i put it on for background noise (on cnn). but i haven't been paying much attention to it. _____________________
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Ironchef Cook
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Join date: 23 Jun 2003
Posts: 574
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10-02-2004 00:40
I think I watch more tv because of SL. Before SL, I played a standard MMORPG which basically takes up all your attention. Playing SL, I can kick back and watch TV while logged in and not worry about getting my group killed.
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Tanaquil Karuna
Aoi aoi kono hoshi ni
Join date: 19 Aug 2004
Posts: 279
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10-02-2004 01:03
Way, way less, but SL only plays a little role in that, given that I've been watching less TV since I've have internet at home. I don't even have TV where I live now (only a TV set + DVD player, which is all we need: only the movise we want to see, no more stupid shows! whee!).
Well, I suppose I can say at least that SL definitely takes up on the time I could be spending in front of TV if I hadn't anything else to do? _____________________
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 7,939
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10-02-2004 01:12
I dont watch TV at all. I have never been much of a TV watcher... I've always had computers and consoles, also books, board games, etc...
I go to the movies though. I watch the odd documentary at my gf's place, and since I visit my grandmother every sunday I am forced to watch some TV there TV is all about outdated content. I go to the movies, so there's precious little the TV can offer me. TV is free, and you certainly get what you pay for _____________________
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Olympia Rebus
Muse of Chaos
Join date: 22 Feb 2004
Posts: 1,831
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10-02-2004 08:10
Like many people already said, I never watched mucht TV in the first place, and now I hardly watch any. Actually my TV broke some time ago and I'm in no hurry to fix it.
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Beau Perkins
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Join date: 25 Dec 2003
Posts: 1,061
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10-02-2004 08:21
I have a TV right next to my desk and I usually have it on. All I watch is Red Sox and Football really tho. I watch the HBO sunday shows but those are over now and until Carnivale comes back in January I mainly just use the TV for backround noise.
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Helen Dayton
Registered User
Join date: 19 Mar 2004
Posts: 93
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10-03-2004 02:49
My TV viewing has dwindled over the last 6 years since I started playing my first multi-player online game, Air Warrior. I moved on to Aces High and recently discovered SL as well. I have enough trouble juggling my time between SL and AH, without watching TV too. It is often on in the background though, and sometimes I do half-listen to it, especially to soaps like Coronation St and Eastenders which I have been following for years. I never was one for watching TV exclusively though - even before online games I would usually be doing something at the same time, like knitting or cross-stitch.
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