Taking sl too seriously
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Oryx Tempel
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07-20-2007 17:00
From: Daz Honey "Where's my Action Man?" "Up your ass, I'll never look like Barbie, Barbie doesn't have bruises" "Don't you mean Cindy Nancy?" I loved 'Sid and Nancy'... what a trippy movie |
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Daz Honey
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07-20-2007 17:05
From: Oryx Tempel I loved 'Sid and Nancy'... what a trippy movie hehe me and wynx whiplash still quote that movie after all these years  In the guidebooks for NYC the Chelsea Hotel is listed as a tourist attraction because of Sid and Nancy... "fings will be better once we get to America", "new York is america Sid..."
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Ace Albion
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07-23-2007 01:35
From: Sally Silvera You mean dolls don't need bathrooms? *scratches head Toilets have completely different uses in SL. 
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07-23-2007 04:04
From: Brenda Connolly I must admit that one of the smarter men I dated (There haven't been that manym sadly) had a good comeback. I would ask him "How much effort can it take for you to put the seat back down?" His response: "About as much as it would take for you to do it". Brenda, thats not smart, thats logic... a male traint. 
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Escaped Loon
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07-23-2007 06:09
the forums are more entertaining, hearing stories like these, than the "game" is
and im not crashing to desktop every 1/2 hour
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Brenda Connolly
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07-23-2007 06:45
From: Escaped Loon the forums are more entertaining, hearing stories like these, than the "game" is
and im not crashing to desktop every 1/2 hour True, the only danger is for some strange reason people seem to spit coffee a lot here, so I'd watch out for that.
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Avion Raymaker
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07-23-2007 07:51
From: Conifer Dada SL is doll's house, Barbie, Action Man, Lego, model railways, Simpsons, Dilbert, Star Wars, Burning Man Festival, all rolled into one big chatroom with music. I have mentioned to several friends (and probably shouldn't admit it on a public forum) that AT LAST we men have a legitimate way to play with our Barbies (I mean, our Kens) and our doll houses. This also brings back a lot of Lego memories for me. So far my doll house is somewhat Brady-like, with its 1960s stone and glass architecture and its conspicuously missing toilet. I just need a wood-panel station wagon and a blue-uniformed housekeeper spouting off goofy one-liners. |
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bilbo99 Emu
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07-23-2007 08:07
From: Brenda Connolly From: Escaped Loon the forums are more entertaining, hearing stories like these, than the "game" is
and im not crashing to desktop every 1/2 hour True, the only danger is for some strange reason people seem to spit coffee a lot here, so I'd watch out for that. I think there's been a marked increase in splashproof keyboard sales too! /me has brainwave! A new product - a monitor screen windscreen wiper!!!!
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Brenda Connolly
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07-23-2007 08:22
I never knew there were such things as splashproof keyboards..hmmm.
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bilbo99 Emu
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07-23-2007 08:26
From: Brenda Connolly I never knew there were such things as splashproof keyboards..hmmm. Oops! .. there goes the monitor again!
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Victorria Paine
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07-23-2007 08:32
From: Brandi Lundquist On the original topic, I'll say this...
SL is just a game in some ways, but there are real people behind the avatars acting on a personal level with other avatars. It's not a game where you interact with AI, so I'm sure for many, rl feelings will get involved at times. Keeping those feelings on an appropriate scale is something a person with a healthy RL should have no problem with.
Obviously, as Ava stated earlier the woman you speak of is mentally ill. She may have trouble judging boundries as a healthy minded person would. This sums it up well, I think. I see it as a case of two separate worlds, each of them "real" in its own way. The pixels and so forth are clearly not "real", and while I certainly appreciate the attention to detail and artistry that some people put into their avatars, I can't really see being "attracted" to an avatar as such -- as a reflection of the person, perhaps, but not in itself. At the same time, the personal interactions that take place in SL are very real because at the end of the day it is two real people interacting with each other in real time -- it creates its own reality, even if that reality is simply a mutually shared fantasy. Now, that reality is different from First Life by varying degrees -- some people have Second Lives that are similar in some respects to their First Lives, while others have two very different personas, each playing itself out in its own space. The key, for me, is not to try to say that "real feelings should not be involved in SL" because that's pretty impossible -- feelings *will* be involved when two people are interacting closely, even if it is only in text, unless you artificially step in and restrain yourself, or limit yourself. I prefer not to do that, because I see it as limiting. The key for me, rather, is to keep the two worlds separate from each other -- not by restraining what I think and feel in Second Life, but by maintaining a hard barrier between the two worlds, so that I can live fully, and feel fully, in each of them with as little bleedthrough as possible either way. It can be a challenge at times, of course, but I find that it's worth the effort because it allows me to be more fully present in SL, while also keeping SL in its proper perspective, in its proper sphere, so to speak. |