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Sling Trebuchet

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10-10-2009 02:08

SL is an amplifier.
It amplifies the good as well as the bad.

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Maggie: We give our residents a lot of tools, to build, create, and manage their lands and objects. That flexibility also requires people to exercise judgment about when things should be used.
http://www.ace-exchange.com/home/story/BDVR/589

say Moo

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Join date: 14 Mar 2007

Posts: 284

10-10-2009 03:12

An internet based interactive/realtime communication platform, like e.g MSN ™, but with collaboration and 3d visualisation added.

Lota Lyon

Registered User

Join date: 5 Oct 2006

Posts: 245

10-10-2009 05:03

From: Scylla Rhiadra

On the basis of LL's takedown of Jokay Wollongong's SL Education site (which I've just found out about

), I'd have to say that SL is an idea with enormous creative potential . . . increasingly run by a pack of utter morons wearing corporate suits and carrying legal briefs.

Are these people INSANE?????

No, just incredibly stupid.

Sling Trebuchet

Deleted User

Join date: 20 Jan 2007

Posts: 4,548

10-10-2009 05:55

From: Scylla Rhiadra

On the basis of LL's takedown of Jokay Wollongong's SL Education site (which I've just found out about

), I'd have to say that SL is an idea with enormous creative potential . . . increasingly run by a pack of utter morons wearing corporate suits and carrying legal briefs.

Are these people INSANE?????

"People of Earth, your attention please. This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council.
Plans for the development of the outlying regions of the galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is scheduled for demolition.
The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you."

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Maggie: We give our residents a lot of tools, to build, create, and manage their lands and objects. That flexibility also requires people to exercise judgment about when things should be used.
http://www.ace-exchange.com/home/story/BDVR/589

Argent Stonecutter

Emergency Mustelid

Join date: 20 Sep 2005

Posts: 20,263

10-10-2009 06:03

From: say Moo

An internet based interactive/realtime communication platform, like e.g MSN ™, but with collaboration and 3d visualisation added.

That's like calling a restaurant an interactive/realtime communication platform with food added.

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Argent Stonecutter - http://globalcausalityviolation.blogspot.com/

"And now I'm going to show you something really cool."

Skyhook Station - http://xrl.us/skyhook23
Coonspiracy Store - http://xrl.us/coonstore

Kelli May

karmakanic

Join date: 7 Oct 2006

Posts: 1,135

10-10-2009 06:31

From: Argent Stonecutter

Five tonnes of flax.

I heard somewhere it was a floor wax and a dessert-topping.

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Do worried sheep have nervous ticks?

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Argent Stonecutter

Emergency Mustelid

Join date: 20 Sep 2005

Posts: 20,263

10-10-2009 06:33

From: Kelli May

I heard somewhere it was a floor wax and a dessert-topping.

And a snowmobile. Don't forget the snowmobile. The ice weasels will be sad.

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Argent Stonecutter - http://globalcausalityviolation.blogspot.com/

"And now I'm going to show you something really cool."

Skyhook Station - http://xrl.us/skyhook23
Coonspiracy Store - http://xrl.us/coonstore

Kelli May

karmakanic

Join date: 7 Oct 2006

Posts: 1,135

10-10-2009 06:35

From: Argent Stonecutter

And a flaming sword that burns all the way down to the pommel.

That would be useful at night when the ice-weasels come. Especially if you were trapped under a snow-mobile somewhere.

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Do worried sheep have nervous ticks?

Karmakanix@Sin-Labs http://slurl.com/secondlife/Circe/170/197/504
Karmakanix on SLX http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&MerchantID=61062

Pserendipity Daniels

Assume sarcasm as default

Join date: 21 Dec 2006

Posts: 8,839

10-10-2009 06:57

It's an asylum run by the inmates . . .

Pep ( . . . with occasional unhelpful intrusions from a bunch of quacks.)

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Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!

say Moo

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Posts: 284

10-10-2009 09:31

From: Argent Stonecutter

That's like calling a restaurant an interactive/realtime communication platform with food added.

not really, cos a platform is a virtual thing, while a restaurant is a physical thing.

Argent Stonecutter

Emergency Mustelid

Join date: 20 Sep 2005

Posts: 20,263

10-10-2009 09:48

From: say Moo

not really, cos a platform is a virtual thing, while a restaurant is a physical thing.

That's just an implementation detail.

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Argent Stonecutter - http://globalcausalityviolation.blogspot.com/

"And now I'm going to show you something really cool."

Skyhook Station - http://xrl.us/skyhook23
Coonspiracy Store - http://xrl.us/coonstore

Scylla Rhiadra

Gentle is Human

Join date: 11 Oct 2008

Posts: 4,427

10-10-2009 10:31

From: Sling Trebuchet

"People of Earth, your attention please. This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council.
Plans for the development of the outlying regions of the galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is scheduled for demolition.
The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you."

Oh, what an absolutely perfect analogy . . .

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Scylla Rhiadra

Yumi Murakami

DoIt!AttachTheEarOfACat!

Join date: 27 Sep 2005

Posts: 6,860

10-10-2009 10:50

A fascinating microcosm of the societal problem that RL also suffers from and that we never would have predicted.

Zena Juran

Registered User

Join date: 21 Jul 2007

Posts: 473

10-10-2009 11:06

Second Life is a dreamer's dreamworld in which you can share your dreams with other dreamers (or not).

Kaimi Kyomoon

Kah-EE-mee

Join date: 30 Nov 2006

Posts: 5,664

10-10-2009 11:16

From: say Moo

not really, cos a platform is a virtual thing, while a restaurant is a physical thing.

Maybe "reality" is just a really good virtual game you are playing. It includes amnesia so you can forget the real reality and totally immerse yourself.

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Kaimi's Normal Wear

From: 3Ring Binder

i think people are afraid of me or something.

Imnotgoing Sideways

Can't outlaw cute! =^-^=

Join date: 17 Nov 2007

Posts: 4,694

10-10-2009 12:50

I call it "home". (^_^)y

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Somewhere in this world; there is someone having some good clean fun doing the one thing you hate the most. (^_^)y

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ferguson/54/237/94

callianne Constantineau

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Join date: 15 Aug 2006

Posts: 8

10-10-2009 15:46

/me pushes open the door curiously, wandering in to leave a rare mark on almost abandonned forum.

SL is my very own private Eden where I can eat as many apples as I like and yet stay as long I wish because I created my dream and have my dreamer to share it with.

/me closes the door and calls her Adam back to her feet with his basket of apples.

Analisa Mounier

Registered User

Join date: 12 Nov 2005

Posts: 35

10-10-2009 18:56

From: Kelli May

A place to pretend to be someone you're not and find it's who you are.

Excellent description! And I agree

Marianne McCann

Feted Inner Child

Join date: 23 Feb 2006

Posts: 7,145

10-10-2009 20:10

"Second Life is like an analogy"

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"There's nothing objectionable nor illegal in having a child-like avatar in itself and we must assume innocence until proof of the contrary." - Lewis PR Linden
"If you find children offensive, you're gonna have trouble in this world

" - Prospero Linden

SuezanneC Baskerville

Forums Rock!

Join date: 22 Dec 2003

Posts: 14,229

10-10-2009 22:13

Second Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of prims, textures, sounds, fury, particles, videos and drama, signifying nothing.

When it first started all it had was sound and fury. The other features were added in later versions, drama being the first addition.

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So long to these forums, the vBulletin forums that used to be at forums.secondlife.com. I will miss them.

I can be found on the web by searching for "SuezanneC Baskerville", or go to

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Members: Ben, Catherine, Colin, Cory, Dan, Doug, Jim, Philip, Phoenix, Richard,
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Ann Otoole

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Join date: 22 May 2007

Posts: 867

10-10-2009 22:21

From: PeterPan Price

OK. Summarise SL in a single sentence.

You can be cynical, humorous or even affectionate.

I am going to cheat and quote someone else.

Second Life pretty closely resembles a cult for people that are psychologically weak enough to fall for it.

All you that got this far in this thread need to go don your surgical green robes and walk clockwise around the great burning life bonfire slapping the book of tao against your forehead while chanting "Your World Your Imagination" as one with the other slifies.

Kaimi Kyomoon

Kah-EE-mee

Join date: 30 Nov 2006

Posts: 5,664

10-10-2009 22:28

From: Ann Otoole

Second Life pretty closely resembles a cult for people that are psychologically weak enough to fall for it.

All you that got this far in this thread need to go don your surgical green robes and walk clockwise around the great burning life bonfire slapping the book of tao against your forehead while chanting "Your World Your Imagination" as one with the other slifies.

And THEN we drink the Kool-Aid?
Actually I'd rather have pie...

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Kaimi's Normal Wear

From: 3Ring Binder

i think people are afraid of me or something.

Pie Psaltery

runs w/scissors

Join date: 13 Jan 2004

Posts: 987

10-11-2009 08:29

From: Ann Otoole

Second Life pretty closely resembles a cult for people that are psychologically weak enough to fall for it.

All you that got this far in this thread need to go don your surgical green robes and walk clockwise around the great burning life bonfire slapping the book of tao against your forehead while chanting "Your World Your Imagination" as one with the other slifies.

From: Kaimi Kyomoon

Actually I'd rather have pie...

Second Life IS pie.

Kaimi Kyomoon

Kah-EE-mee

Join date: 30 Nov 2006

Posts: 5,664

10-11-2009 11:13

From: Pie Psaltery

Second Life IS pie.

And so are you!

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Kaimi's Normal Wear

From: 3Ring Binder

i think people are afraid of me or something.

Liam Donner

Dr. Horrible

Join date: 29 May 2008

Posts: 48

10-11-2009 17:23

...an exercise in frustration.

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I have a Ph.D. in horribleness!

What is Second Life?
Sling Trebuchet Deleted User Join date: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 4,548	10-10-2009 02:08 SL is an amplifier. It amplifies the good as well as the bad. _____________________ Maggie: We give our residents a lot of tools, to build, create, and manage their lands and objects. That flexibility also requires people to exercise judgment about when things should be used. http://www.ace-exchange.com/home/story/BDVR/589
say Moo ....... Join date: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 284	10-10-2009 03:12 An internet based interactive/realtime communication platform, like e.g MSN ™, but with collaboration and 3d visualisation added.
Lota Lyon Registered User Join date: 5 Oct 2006 Posts: 245	10-10-2009 05:03 From: Scylla Rhiadra On the basis of LL's takedown of Jokay Wollongong's SL Education site (which I've just found out about ), I'd have to say that SL is an idea with enormous creative potential . . . increasingly run by a pack of utter morons wearing corporate suits and carrying legal briefs. Are these people INSANE????? No, just incredibly stupid.
Sling Trebuchet Deleted User Join date: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 4,548	10-10-2009 05:55 From: Scylla Rhiadra On the basis of LL's takedown of Jokay Wollongong's SL Education site (which I've just found out about ), I'd have to say that SL is an idea with enormous creative potential . . . increasingly run by a pack of utter morons wearing corporate suits and carrying legal briefs. Are these people INSANE????? "People of Earth, your attention please. This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. Plans for the development of the outlying regions of the galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you." _____________________ Maggie: We give our residents a lot of tools, to build, create, and manage their lands and objects. That flexibility also requires people to exercise judgment about when things should be used. http://www.ace-exchange.com/home/story/BDVR/589
Argent Stonecutter Emergency Mustelid Join date: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 20,263	10-10-2009 06:03 From: say Moo An internet based interactive/realtime communication platform, like e.g MSN ™, but with collaboration and 3d visualisation added. That's like calling a restaurant an interactive/realtime communication platform with food added. _____________________ Argent Stonecutter - http://globalcausalityviolation.blogspot.com/ "And now I'm going to show you something really cool." Skyhook Station - http://xrl.us/skyhook23 Coonspiracy Store - http://xrl.us/coonstore
Kelli May karmakanic Join date: 7 Oct 2006 Posts: 1,135	10-10-2009 06:31 From: Argent Stonecutter Five tonnes of flax. I heard somewhere it was a floor wax and a dessert-topping. _____________________ Do worried sheep have nervous ticks? Karmakanix@Sin-Labs http://slurl.com/secondlife/Circe/170/197/504 Karmakanix on SLX http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&MerchantID=61062
Argent Stonecutter Emergency Mustelid Join date: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 20,263	10-10-2009 06:33 From: Kelli May I heard somewhere it was a floor wax and a dessert-topping. And a snowmobile. Don't forget the snowmobile. The ice weasels will be sad. _____________________ Argent Stonecutter - http://globalcausalityviolation.blogspot.com/ "And now I'm going to show you something really cool." Skyhook Station - http://xrl.us/skyhook23 Coonspiracy Store - http://xrl.us/coonstore
Kelli May karmakanic Join date: 7 Oct 2006 Posts: 1,135	10-10-2009 06:35 From: Argent Stonecutter And a flaming sword that burns all the way down to the pommel. That would be useful at night when the ice-weasels come. Especially if you were trapped under a snow-mobile somewhere. _____________________ Do worried sheep have nervous ticks? Karmakanix@Sin-Labs http://slurl.com/secondlife/Circe/170/197/504 Karmakanix on SLX http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&MerchantID=61062
Pserendipity Daniels Assume sarcasm as default Join date: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 8,839	10-10-2009 06:57 It's an asylum run by the inmates . . . Pep ( . . . with occasional unhelpful intrusions from a bunch of quacks.) _____________________ Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!
say Moo ....... Join date: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 284	10-10-2009 09:31 From: Argent Stonecutter That's like calling a restaurant an interactive/realtime communication platform with food added. not really, cos a platform is a virtual thing, while a restaurant is a physical thing.
Argent Stonecutter Emergency Mustelid Join date: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 20,263	10-10-2009 09:48 From: say Moo not really, cos a platform is a virtual thing, while a restaurant is a physical thing. That's just an implementation detail. _____________________ Argent Stonecutter - http://globalcausalityviolation.blogspot.com/ "And now I'm going to show you something really cool." Skyhook Station - http://xrl.us/skyhook23 Coonspiracy Store - http://xrl.us/coonstore
Scylla Rhiadra Gentle is Human Join date: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 4,427	10-10-2009 10:31 From: Sling Trebuchet "People of Earth, your attention please. This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. Plans for the development of the outlying regions of the galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you." Oh, what an absolutely perfect analogy . . . _____________________ Scylla Rhiadra
Yumi Murakami DoIt!AttachTheEarOfACat! Join date: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 6,860	10-10-2009 10:50 A fascinating microcosm of the societal problem that RL also suffers from and that we never would have predicted.
Zena Juran Registered User Join date: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 473	10-10-2009 11:06 Second Life is a dreamer's dreamworld in which you can share your dreams with other dreamers (or not).
Kaimi Kyomoon Kah-EE-mee Join date: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 5,664	10-10-2009 11:16 From: say Moo not really, cos a platform is a virtual thing, while a restaurant is a physical thing. Maybe "reality" is just a really good virtual game you are playing. It includes amnesia so you can forget the real reality and totally immerse yourself. _____________________ Kaimi's Normal Wear From: 3Ring Binder i think people are afraid of me or something.
Imnotgoing Sideways Can't outlaw cute! =^-^= Join date: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 4,694	10-10-2009 12:50 I call it "home". (^_^)y _____________________ Somewhere in this world; there is someone having some good clean fun doing the one thing you hate the most. (^_^)y http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ferguson/54/237/94
callianne Constantineau Registered User Join date: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 8	10-10-2009 15:46 /me pushes open the door curiously, wandering in to leave a rare mark on almost abandonned forum. SL is my very own private Eden where I can eat as many apples as I like and yet stay as long I wish because I created my dream and have my dreamer to share it with. /me closes the door and calls her Adam back to her feet with his basket of apples.
Analisa Mounier Registered User Join date: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 35	10-10-2009 18:56 From: Kelli May A place to pretend to be someone you're not and find it's who you are. Excellent description! And I agree
Marianne McCann Feted Inner Child Join date: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 7,145	10-10-2009 20:10 "Second Life is like an analogy" _____________________ "There's nothing objectionable nor illegal in having a child-like avatar in itself and we must assume innocence until proof of the contrary." - Lewis PR Linden "If you find children offensive, you're gonna have trouble in this world " - Prospero Linden
SuezanneC Baskerville Forums Rock! Join date: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 14,229	10-10-2009 22:13 Second Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of prims, textures, sounds, fury, particles, videos and drama, signifying nothing. When it first started all it had was sound and fury. The other features were added in later versions, drama being the first addition. _____________________ - So long to these forums, the vBulletin forums that used to be at forums.secondlife.com. I will miss them. I can be found on the web by searching for "SuezanneC Baskerville", or go to http://www.google.com/profiles/suezanne - http://lindenlab.tribe.net/ created on 11/19/03. Members: Ben, Catherine, Colin, Cory, Dan, Doug, Jim, Philip, Phoenix, Richard, Robin, and Ryan -
Ann Otoole Registered User Join date: 22 May 2007 Posts: 867	10-10-2009 22:21 From: PeterPan Price OK. Summarise SL in a single sentence. You can be cynical, humorous or even affectionate. I am going to cheat and quote someone else. Second Life pretty closely resembles a cult for people that are psychologically weak enough to fall for it. All you that got this far in this thread need to go don your surgical green robes and walk clockwise around the great burning life bonfire slapping the book of tao against your forehead while chanting "Your World Your Imagination" as one with the other slifies.
Kaimi Kyomoon Kah-EE-mee Join date: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 5,664	10-10-2009 22:28 From: Ann Otoole Second Life pretty closely resembles a cult for people that are psychologically weak enough to fall for it. All you that got this far in this thread need to go don your surgical green robes and walk clockwise around the great burning life bonfire slapping the book of tao against your forehead while chanting "Your World Your Imagination" as one with the other slifies. And THEN we drink the Kool-Aid? Actually I'd rather have pie... _____________________ Kaimi's Normal Wear From: 3Ring Binder i think people are afraid of me or something.
Pie Psaltery runs w/scissors Join date: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 987	10-11-2009 08:29 From: Ann Otoole Second Life pretty closely resembles a cult for people that are psychologically weak enough to fall for it. All you that got this far in this thread need to go don your surgical green robes and walk clockwise around the great burning life bonfire slapping the book of tao against your forehead while chanting "Your World Your Imagination" as one with the other slifies. From: Kaimi Kyomoon Actually I'd rather have pie... Second Life IS pie.
Kaimi Kyomoon Kah-EE-mee Join date: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 5,664	10-11-2009 11:13 From: Pie Psaltery Second Life IS pie. And so are you! _____________________ Kaimi's Normal Wear From: 3Ring Binder i think people are afraid of me or something.
Liam Donner Dr. Horrible Join date: 29 May 2008 Posts: 48	10-11-2009 17:23 ...an exercise in frustration. _____________________ I have a Ph.D. in horribleness!

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