Reasons to Love SL

We all have our issues with SL; drama, technical crap, whatever.

But what silly experiences really stand out to you as making SL more fun?

I'll start with an experience I had last night. I was wandering Grendels Birdworx with my partner when we ran across a cat avatar. My partner gushed over the detail as the cat rolled at her feet and purred. We started talking to the cat and friended the person behind the avatar.

And now we have a cat

The best part about adopting this cat: no litterbox. I told her to take it to the neighbor's sand box.

Only in Second Life. . .

Fair's fair. I got to adopt the big white dragon from Germany we met a few minutes later.

nothing silly ever happens to me in SL....

nope... not ever... never...

Finding my true love in a most unexpected medium.

Yeah, that about beats every single one of the glitches, singular or in aggregate.

Reasons to Love SL:

1. Nina Stepford

Well... For starters:

1. SL is an above-the-line way of internet socializing.

2. Graphicly, SL is also above average compared to others of the "same" kind.

3. A place where, thanks to both creators and users, you can literally do everything you want. (you may, and probably will, have to pay for it though)

4. The ability to easily create buildings, items and objects with a simple hud and in-game assistance. (although this can be debated, depending on the experience of the person who is creating, as well as how.)

5. Great time-waster.

The list goes on and on.

Aside from the incredible social interaction, what Fade touched upon. It enables rapid realization of ideas and concepts. And, even in today's increasingly sensitive social and political climate, you can still pretty much create what you imagine, and see it unfold before your eyes. What's better, others can see it, and experience it. Caledon comes to mind.

plenty of reasons to love SL, heck I met my hubby here

but you asked for silly

nothing silly happens to me, I never got gobbled by a dragon, or had a huge ice cream cone put over me, I never wore a box on my head, or heck even a horse on my head

I never messed up and had everyone laughing hysterically while I was DJing

none of those things and many more silly things ever happened to me

SL itself is Silliness Personified. People fly, teleport, live in houses is the sky. It's theatre of the absurd. That's it's charm.

It never ceases to inspire me. When I'm feeling sort of dead in the water in RL, I can explore all the things that people have realized from their imaginations and it renews me. I don't build or script or anything, but I can play in the theater of others' minds for a brief time and take away a wonderful sense of respect and admiration for what they do.

BTW - Birdworx is one of my fave's. Really wonderful work!

Someone can walk up to a person in a bar and say "wanna f__k?" and not get thrown out forcibly for it.

Hookers are the richest people in the entire world and have millions upon millions of lindens in their pocket(see: Anshe Chung).

God Bless Second Life. Where would we be without it?

Let me think...

Umm...

brb!

1)Friends, the 3 main one's who have been with me since I was starting out been through, thick and thin, who been incredibly generous and patient with me in numerous ways with me
2)Place to be creative and learn.
3)I have met some very wonderful and interesting people here, some I may never had opportunity to know if it wasn't for SL not all of them are friend list nor do I talk with regularly
but I still have very wonderfully warm feelings about meeting them.
4)Seeing content creators who make incredible things even if they are lesser known are not making tons of L, though I won't mention their names I don't want to embarrass or think I am stalking them.

I know you asked for silly things, and those do happen to me sometimes, but the main things that make me love SL are:

1. The chance to be with the man I love, in person (even if it's only a pixellated person), when we can't always be together in RL;

2. In SL I'm an architect. In RL I'm not. In SL I'm also an outlawed assassin, a model, rich, have five homes, and can basically be everything I can't/will probably never be in RL;

3. In SL I spoke to a baby dragon that was sitting in a basket carried by half a dozen flying hamsters the other day. In RL nothing so charming ever happens to me;

4. In SL I can fly under my own steam. In RL I'd need to buy an airline ticket. Also, in SL it takes me just a few seconds (lag and server issues permitting) to get halfway around the world. In RL I'd spend a day on a plane, in airports, in queues, and probably in dubious taxicabs;

5. In SL if anything horrible happens, I can just log off. In RL the 'quit' option doesn't exist. (Well it does, but it's permanent, and I don't choose to take that option.) Then again, in RL I don't often have the chance to wake up naked in the middle of a populated area, so it's give and take there...

6. In SL I can touch the ground once and raise a house. In RL I would need to be God before anything like that took place. and I don't think that's about to happen anytime soon;

7. In SL I can be chatting away to someone in the middle of the day, then they'll say it's time for them to get to bed. And I realise I've been standing in front of someone who is in Australia, or some similarly outflung place from me. And while that happens in other chat mediums, such as AIM or IRC, etc, having them there in person makes the realisation that much more of a, "Wow, this is amazing" jolt that I'd kind of lost when it comes to AIM etc;

8. Nobody else, apart from my fellow residents, understands it. Yes, that's frustrating sometimes when I want to tell my work colleagues about the amazing gig I saw last night, they ask me where I went, and I have to mumble, "Oh, it was in Second Life", but in a way I rather like having this place to escape to and not having them follow me or understand me. It's almost like being one of the Famous Five, and having a secret meeting place in an old shed at the bottom of the football pitch, where grown-ups aren't allowed.

9. If needs be, I can have sex while fully clothed in SL. In RL that would take a lot of wriggling and some amount of discomfort

silly things to love oops forgot, being ruthed when I have no shirt on

I've had a lot of very memorable experiences in SL.
A lot of it has to do with creativity and humour.


However, for "silly", i posted this story in another thread that was sparked by someon else's silly experience.

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A friend and I were standing at the edge of a Linden paved road in the old part of SL.
A big car ('auto' to some) pulls up and out hops a very diminutive biped moose.
He very politely inquired as to whether we would like to go for a ride and socialise.
He wasn't normally the pushy type, but he was trying to organise a better social life for his friend, the bear, who was sitting in the car.
We're not talking furries here. We're talking toons

We were on a land mission, so we politely declined and wished them well.
Off they shot with a screech of wheels!
I hope they found good sim crossings and hot babes
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The thread was:
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Summer, Buddy Holly, the working folly Good golly Miss Molly and boats. Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet Jump back in the alley and nanny goats.

I love SL as I earn lots of money for doing something I enjoy. This is a novel experience for me.

newcomer: hi, my names Bob. wats urs
bystander: Its above her head
newcomer: wat is?
bystander: her name
newcomer: where?
bystander: Above her head. Her name is above her head.
newcomer: oh yeah lol
me: Hi Bob =)
newcomer: Hi : )))

i'm getting married in 33 minutes... and we're engaged in RL since two weeks ago... 'nuff said.

I love SL, it's my home now, I just hook up to RL for an hour or two per day via a computer link!

But what are the reasons WHY I love it? Creativity, music, social interaction, silliness. I am quite silly, although I appear sensible!

Congratulations Lance!

I all of a sudden have the Mrs Robinson song running through my head.

o/` stroll around the grounds until you feel at home o/~

Reasons to Love SL

1. I don't have to give a crap about anything!!

Has anyone seen Joe DiMaggio?