Drugs in SL?

*shakes head in utter disbelief, not knowing whether to laugh, cry, shout or go blind*

You know, I bet there's a potential market for drugs like Sliagra...and IM spam which goes something along the lines of..."Having Slerection problems? Slialis soft tabs will help you give him/her more pleasure".

If somebody sold a penis which had its impotent moments, I might actually buy one. I suppose you could employ somebody to disable scripting on your land just as you and your partner get ready to kick off, but that's not very private is it?

Anyway....

Did anyone play Everquest? (This is on topic, kinda....really )

One of the skills to increase was, of all things and I still don't know why, drinking. And of course for rp, the dwarves were generally a rollicking, drinking bunch with extra booze on hand to pass around.

When I was very new in the game, I was given a virtual drink by a friendly dwarf and in addition to my av stumbling around, what I saw on screen was very distorted as well. Not sure how that was built into the game, but I remember thinking my monitor had suddenly gone kaput.

(The more one increased their skill level in drinking, the more one could drink before the screen distortion set in.)

Snow Crash, anyone?

My next door neighbor in Caledon Eyre sells candies and such. After one eats them for a while, the avatar starts bounces up and down for a few seconds and the candy says "Sugar Rush!".

Perhaps I am easily amused, but I thought it funny. But do remember, this is SL. In RL consume chocolate only in moderation, and be very careful with the 70% cacao bars. Ask me how I know these things....

It's far superior to RL absinthe...it makes OTHER people see the green fairies around you, too!

i usually go on SL to relax, i also partake in a beer or two to help me relax as well. and everynow and then i might have something to smoke as well, in RL of course. on one such night while having a drink and a smoke which doesn't happen often i was wondering through some cave systems in SL and came across a strange man who showed me an SL mushroom patch. i bought one. he showed me how to take it, and bade me farewell, nice fella i thought, then me screen when funny.

some very cool paricle effects, noises in the distance, my AV doing strange things, i walked around those caves for a good hour or so befor i started to get sick of it. in the state i was in in RL it was a prety cool thing to see. i wouldn't do it all the time but i can deffinatly see why some people do especially if they are in a defferent state in RL.

-Crunch

It's kinda like the Coca-Cola Bottle Experience, except without the corporate sponsorship.

http://www.slnn.com/article/virtual-thirst-winner/

Ummmm... btw, you aren't really flying either. It just looks like you are on the screen

The fun's all virtual, unless, of course, you're actually havin' fun.

Now that I think about this...

I've just realized that sl is THE drug.

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I've seen one where the avatar will grip their stomach and lean over looking ill. Something along the lines that the candy made them sick to the stomach.

Actually, you aren't really flying on the screen, it is just a special effect of being in Second Life - the air itself will make you high and make you think you are flying. That is until you "sober up" occasionally and find yourself 200 meters underground and spinning.

Hi. Just wanted to throw in my two cents.

I am the creator of Seclimine. It is an interactive virtual drugs. It's interactive because it affects not only the avatar, but the user as well.

It's done through a hypnotic induction desinged to make you feel the effects of whatever drug the particular Seclimine represents (e.g., there's an LSD version, an X version, a pot version, and more coming).

Now I know I've opened a whole new can of worms here, but it really does work on a lot of people. And I'll admit, it's subjective. It works on most, not on all, but it is a lot of fun and most people I know tell me it's very dead on.

I tried to make these as realistic as possible, complete with rolling, hallucinations, and having your avatar (and maybe you ) act and say things you don't normal do act or say.

So they do exist -- to an extent.

with only (does the math) 34h and 00m left of 2007, and all we can talk about is drugs??!!!

Not only are their drugs or alcohol, but there is also hynotic brainwashing machines like those pictured online, reported to be quite influential. You can hynotize your slave to be a better slave....they report to be based on real hynotic techiqnue. Scary huh?

When is someone going to make a real alcohol substitute, a drink that gradually garbles your speech and distorts you vision, and ruins your ability to navigate through a 2m doorway.
I seen another game where this all happens and it is halarios, and you had to keep paying for drinks of course, no freebie version

I think the commonly used term for this in SL is "lag" ... and it is free for all.

I think someone slipped something into my Windlight viewer cocktail. I logged in and saw strange black rings in the sky, everything was kind of gray, and the vertex buffer stretching problem seems to be back again....hmm, I can't remember if I was on my desktop (ATI Radeon) or laptop (with the GeForce Go 6150). Why are my pants undone? omg...I feel violated....LL is that you smoking a cigarette over there?

The original Cartel was to do with Seclamine ... as was the original Crack Den (now there was some intense RP at times ... the new place just ain't the same!).

The mushrooms can also trigger random animations. As a newbie, I amused the hell out of Khayman Fate by going there and ending up licking my ... well, being quite catlike and going "WTF??".

"So now you know what they do" he said, laughing - and gave me a present for being so adorably innocent (presumably) ... yes it once was true ...

As to the drugs, the acid was quite amusing when at Eyes of Gaia ... which was pretty trippy anyway.

mmm, violated ... /me snaps out of it and gets on with some work

I'm at work ... and I have 11 hours of 2007 left. 2007 SUCKED ... 2008 is going to be amazing if I die trying to make it so ...

So in advance ... cheers!!

Here's a very important thing. It's the Peter Pan Principle: if people believe in something, it exists. Sure, you need a few special effects bits n bobs to trim it with to increase your catchment group - but the basic human principle is, if you label a packet of smarties with the worlds "illegal ecstasy" and sell them for 20 quid a go in a dark and noisy nightclub, people will absolutely believe they are high: they will act high, think high, their pupils will go like dinnerplates... from a pill-shaped piece of chocolate with a hard candy coating.

(not that I know anyone in RL who actually did this experiment. Dear me no. That would be immoral - and such a good moneyspinner!)

So: if it just takes a bit of suggestion, the right circumstances, and some kids candy sweets, to produce intoxication then for all intents and purposes, drugs are as "real" in SL as they are in RL. Humans can and do self-intoxicate (and self-addict) without any concrete and genuine help from drugs to get there - Sl drugs can therefore be as potent and as affecting as any other source of this state of mind.

Likewise with SL hypnotism: there's a load of overtly sexual hypnotic scripts out there and most of them are concerned with bridging the gap between your av and your RL behaviour - they are not something that happens to the av or the character, they happen to YOU. This whole blurred field of RP versus real effects reached a little crisis point earlier this year, when someone sent round a warning that an RL sexual predator was infiltrating the SL hypnosis groups - whether that's part of the RP, or a genuine warming, or just another wetware meme/virus, I dunno.

But it seems to me that SL "drugs" are not entirely in-game as a social phenomena, and should not be dismissed lightly just because some people have come up with rubbish ones.

Now here's the tragedy: in Australia, it's already 2008 - and I'm reading this thread!!! But I have to agree with you Cherry - 2007 was one of the suckiest years ever and I'm glad to see the back of it. At something after midnight in the Antipodes - double cheers!!

Don't know why, but any year that ends in an odd number doesn't seem to agree with me. Roll on 2008, but slowly, because I am dreading 2009........