The dating game?

It's a deal. We can couple it with my coffee table book - Crappy Builds in Second Life. Where I go around and snap photos of the worst garbage that I can find, blow them way up and print them on glossy pages that people can display in their RL homes. Maybe I could do a little commentary in the margins.

What's the over/under on how long it takes us to get sued?

Lemme see...I'd say between now and and Monday morning, taking into account how you Lawyers love to leave early on Fridays.

Are you ashamed of Second Life?

3.75 working days, not counting the time it would take for service.

Actually, it would be fun to gather up the letters and PDF them, then give copies out. People seem to like them. I wish I'd kept copies. I was afraid someone would subpoena me, so I erased all of them.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I've got a new computer and it keeps crashing, especially when in Second Life. I was gonna phone the computer hospital and then I realized that they may ask which program I was running.

I decided not to bother


I guess I fear that these days SL has an image of being a dating game for losers.

Are you ashamed of Second Life?

Yours lovingly,

2k


ps - bum sex?

seriousity (pat. pend.),

Dear Technical Support

18 months ago, I upgraded to Girlfriend 1.0 from Drinking Mates 4.2,
which I had used for years without any trouble. However, there are
apparently conflicts between these two products and the only solution
was to try and run Girlfriend 1.0 with the sound turned off.

To make matters worse, Girlfriend 1.0 is incompatible with several
other applications, such as Lads Night Out 3.1, Football 4.5, and
Playboy 6.9. Successive versions of Girlfriend proved no better.

A shareware program, Party Girl 2.1, which I tried, had many bugs and
left a virus in my system, forcing me to shut down completely for
several weeks.

Eventually, I tried to run Girlfriend 1.2 and Girlfriend 1.0 at the
same time, only to discover that when these two systems detected each
other, they caused severe damage to my hardware.

I then upgraded to Fiancée 1.0, only to discover that this product
soon had to be upgraded further to Wife 1.0. While Wife 1.0 tends to
use up all my available resources, it does come bundled with FreeSex
Plus and Cleanhouse 2002.

Shortly after this upgrade, however, I found that Wife 1.0 could be
very unstable and costly to run. Any mistakes I made were
automatically stored in Wife 1.0's memory and could not be deleted.
They then resurfaced months later when I had forgotten about them.

Wife 1.0 also has an automatic Diary, Explorer and E-mail Filter, and
can, without warning, Launch TurboStrop and Whinge. These latter
products have no Help files, and I have to try to guess what the
problem is.

Additional problems are that Wife 1.0 needs updating regularly,
requiring ShoeShop Browser for new attachments and Hairstyle Express
which needs to be reinstalled every other week. Wife 1.0 also spawns
unwelcome child processes that drain my resources. These conflict
with some of the new games I wanted
to try out, warning me that they are an illegal operation.

Also, when Wife 1.0 attaches itself to my Audi TT hard drive, it
often crashes. Wife 1.0 also comes with a rather annoying pop-up
called Mother-In-Law, which can't be turned off.

Recently I've been tempted to install Mistress 2003, but there could
be problems. A friend of mine has alerted me to the fact that if Wife
1.0 detects Mistress 2003, it tends to delete all of your Money files
before uninstalling itself.

When you tell them this, do you say "air-o-kraft" so they know you are spelling it aerocraft and not aircraft? I'm assuming you pronounce "guv-nah" so they don't think "governor" with the "r".

If I had never heard of SL and asked you and got this response, I wouldn't care what your income was, I'd be on the grid within hours.

In my researches about other virtual worlds, I found one that exists purely for people to have sex in. I didn't try it - that's not what I'm about, but the fact that it exists lets SL off the hook, I reckon.

The grid is getting more commonly known.
If I get the response of: "oh yeah I tried that, I think I have an account somewhere" I tell them I'm a private estate land baron.
Nuff said.
If I get the response of "Ooooh what is that? isn't that for... weird internet people?" I tell them this:
"I am the Guvnah of a small country - not terribly unlike Babar the Elephant. People play dollies and dress-up and house and play with trains and aerocraft and have tea parties. Sometimes they are tiny rabbits, ferrets or foxes, often in flowery hats or waistcoats."
This usually gets a fun reaction. If it's a derogatory reaction, I tell them what my avatar's income is, and its current rate of increase. That pretty much guarantees that they are little rabbits in waistcoats too, within 72 hours or so.

Aero. Craft.
It evokes the difference between Cessna 182's, and giant dirigible-fortresses that can control the entire world by laying siege to national capitals.
Subtle difference, but style points matter in such cases...

Aero. Craft.

It evokes the difference between Cessna 182's, and giant dirigible-fortresses that can control the entire world by laying siege to national capitals.

Subtle difference, but style points matter in such cases...

Style points always matter. I completely approve of the use of aerocraft in this case.

And Rebecca - I do all sorts of things in SL that I would never do in RL. I have a healthy desire to remain alive in RL, so I don't pilot aerocraft, jump off of buildings, set myself on fire, engage in gunplay, or any number of things that would make my continued existence unlikely. I also have a healthy desire not to humiliate myself, so I don't dance in RL - I look like an idiot with some sort of nervous disorder. I've been accused of scowling when I dance in RL. It's not a scowl - I'm concentrating so hard on not falling down that I can't even smile. In SL, I cut a pretty mean rug.

See? There's all sorts of things to do in SL that you wouldn't do in RL.

I had no idea about kink until I discovered sl. I plan on keeping it all to myself because I don't want to share it. I want all of that kink for myself. Well, I would share it with Trout but he is to scared.

OMG, this is making me laugh totally against my will.... I'm going to have to resign from NOW!

You really need to try a few of them Trout. I have always done the things that scare me the most and have found out that I really love a few of them. One of these days I will get in my car, drive up there and take you for your first flying lesson. Just do it once and I promise you will be hooked. I can cure that dancing thing for you too, all you have to do is let me lead for a bit.

You can try to teach me to dance all you want. Other women have tried as hard as they could. God knows I gave it every bit of effort I have. Nothing has worked. I stomp around like an ogre flapping my arms and scowling. It's awful. I'll just sit over in the corner with a drink and enjoy the music.

Oh c'mon now Trout, it's not about how you look on the dance floor, it's about having fun! So get your butt out of the corner, and go mow down the dance floor, I bet you enjoy it more than you are admitting!!

The harder I try not to derail threads, the more it seems that every thread I post in drifts off topic.

I love music. I love going out and listening to it. I like watching other people dance. I can't dance. There are things in life that you just physically can't do and sometimes you need to accept that. I also can't slam dunk a basketball, hit a 350 yard home run, or run a 4 minute mile. I accept these things with a bit of regret, but with all the grace I can muster. That's just life.

Derailments are inevitable around these parts, thats just life.

The harder I try not to derail threads, the more it seems that every thread I post in drifts off topic.