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What Is The Single Biggest Thing You Have Learned From Your Time In Second Life?
Colette Meiji
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04-11-2008 09:30
From: 2k Suisei
i learnt that people really do cybersex


geez where have you been for the last 10 years?
Fand Aeon
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Join date: 17 Nov 2007
Posts: 258
04-11-2008 09:34
Things I have learned...

Ignore the negative and nasty people just like I do irl

Objects aren't important, People are.

and the most important....this is a game, you don't like it? You don't have to be here! No one is forcing you to stay.
Rioko Bamaisin
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Join date: 16 Aug 2007
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04-11-2008 09:38
From: Brenda Connolly
Wow. Coming from a Bostoner, that says a lot. You could just visit Hyannisport. Or watch C-Span.....


Most of the transplants here are the ones with the elitists attitudes. The born and raised are much more down to earth.:cool: I find this to be a common misconception of Boston as a whole.
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John Henry
Dancing With Myself
Join date: 16 Mar 2008
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04-11-2008 09:43
From: Marianne McCann
* Cherish and learn from the people you call your family: treat every day like it's the last

* Even the deepest friendships can unravel

* There's a difference between being childish and being child-like

* Nearly everyone eventually comes back

* There are no limits: simply things that haven't been done yet

* Many like to complain; few like to act on their complaints

* When people are given freedom to create, creativity flourishes

* Some people never make it past "newbie." This is okay.

* Everyone makes their own Second Life.

* Sometimes you don't choose what to do in SL; sometines SL chooses you

* You can't escape your passions.


I like you.
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Ricardo Harris
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04-11-2008 09:47
"What Is The Single Biggest Thing You Have Learned From Your Time In Second Life?"



Just how terribly bad some on-line gaming companies are in managing their games.
Marianne McCann
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Join date: 23 Feb 2006
Posts: 7,145
04-11-2008 09:49
From: John Henry
I like you.


Thankoo!

Mari
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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
Phil Deakins
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Join date: 17 Jan 2007
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04-11-2008 09:52
From: Cen Dagger
Modern science tells us that space and time are the same thing.
Two aspects of the same thing - not the same thing ;)
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Ricardo Harris
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04-11-2008 09:52
From: Rioko Bamaisin
Most of the transplants here are the ones with the elitists attitudes. The born and raised are much more down to earth.:cool: I find this to be a common misconception of Boston as a whole.





Boston? Ha!!!




NYC
Carolyn Crosley
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Join date: 19 Oct 2006
Posts: 332
04-11-2008 09:53
That emotions seem to be enhanced or magnified in here.
Colette Meiji
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04-11-2008 09:55
From: Carolyn Crosley
That emotions seem to be enhanced or magnified in here.


very true ...

Less reality check maybe?
Bodhisatva Paperclip
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Join date: 12 Jan 2007
Posts: 970
04-11-2008 09:55
I can fly.
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Georgie Pashinin
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04-11-2008 10:03
That Geogie IS the real me. : )
Rioko Bamaisin
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04-11-2008 10:09
From: Ricardo Harris
Boston? Ha!!!




NYC


?:o
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Imnotgoing Sideways
Can't outlaw cute! =^-^=
Join date: 17 Nov 2007
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04-11-2008 10:20
I learned that a 9 foot tall humanoid black fox with animated swirly eyes, smoke coming out of it's nostrils, spikes, horns, a 3 foot long uh.....(O_O), uncountable body piercings, spikes, horns, a strappy gimp suit, and drool dripping from a gag-ball can consider a 10 year old kid to be "weird". (^_^)
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Marianne McCann
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04-11-2008 10:40
From: Imnotgoing Sideways
I learned that a 9 foot tall humanoid black fox with animated swirly eyes, smoke coming out of it's nostrils, spikes, horns, a 3 foot long uh.....(O_O), uncountable body piercings, spikes, horns, a strappy gimp suit, and drool dripping from a gag-ball can consider a 10 year old kid to be "weird". (^_^)


Ai't it the truth! For all the times I've heard "kids are about the weirdest thing I've ever seen in SL!" in my time here, ya know?
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"If you find children offensive, you're gonna have trouble in this world :)" - Prospero Linden
Wildefire Walcott
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Join date: 8 Nov 2005
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04-11-2008 10:50
I learned that people are often more "themselves" here than they are or can be in the real world, for better or worse.

EDIT: Also, good thread. :)
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Ricardo Harris
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04-11-2008 10:57
From: Rioko Bamaisin
?:o




You not a baseballl fan, right?
Lindal Kidd
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Join date: 26 Jun 2007
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04-11-2008 10:57
From: Crystal Falcon
The single thing I've learned? That individually we may be very smart, but as a community we are completely irrational and filled with vituperation... :confused:


There's an old quote, "I love humanity. It's PEOPLE I can't stand!"
I'd turn it around. "I love people. It's the masses that p*ss me off."

And I'm with Lee. I've learned a lot about myself, both good and bad.
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Lindal Kidd
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Join date: 24 Jul 2007
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04-11-2008 11:05
People should be judged on the content of their character, their personality and their words. In SL, their RL looks mean nothing, their economic status means nothing and their geographic location means nothing. You can see the real person behind the avatar much more clearly, and that makes for wonderful, deep friendships with people you would never meet in real life. It makes me appreciate my friends here very, very much. Thank you all for teaching me so much about myself and for keeping me humble (even though it doesn't look like I am most of the time)
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Nibiru Republic
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Join date: 12 Mar 2008
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04-11-2008 11:05
what i learned from SL?

- stackig up another vote for not enough prims.

also, people ARE people no matter where we are. although i have sene SL participants are generally a good sect of people (that i've met so far anyway) - a kind of digital consciousness that i haven't seen on may forums.
Rebecca Hynes
I See numb3rs
Join date: 20 Feb 2007
Posts: 59
04-11-2008 11:09
I think Marianne says it best. And then of course there is Trout's two cents. I couldn't have said it better myself.

And I can't believe I gave credit in the same paragraph to: "out of the mouth of babes" and a lawyer! OMG what have I done.
Petronilla Whitfield
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Join date: 16 Jul 2007
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04-11-2008 11:28
I've learned that even though I was the department technophobe who could just about manage to turn her computer on and off to read email and process words, even I, when properly motivated, can learn enough about computers to have a happy SL. Seriously--I had never heard of a video card, didn't know *if* my computer had one, never mind what kind or how to find out what kind. I hadn't played a computer game (not that I'm saying SL is a only game, but a lot of its skills and vocabulary come from gaming) since a few unsuccessful attempts at keeping a suicidal Q-Bert alive--good lord!--twenty years or so ago. I have learned a tremendous amount in the last several months. SL has a pretty steep learning curve for those of us who are non-techies.
2k Suisei
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Join date: 9 Nov 2006
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04-11-2008 11:41
From: Petronilla Whitfield
SL has a pretty steep learning curve for those of us who are non-techies.


Don't be so hard on yourself. Even the Linden Lab programmers are still trying to figure it out.
Ty Gabe
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Join date: 1 Sep 2007
Posts: 217
04-11-2008 11:43
Most people have heard the old axiom, when discussing local weather conditions in particular, "Welcome to [insert town name here]. If you don't like the weather, come back tomorrow."

I've found, as a business owner in SL that this same axiom applies equally as well to my transaction history.
Lindal Kidd
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Join date: 26 Jun 2007
Posts: 8,371
04-11-2008 11:52
From: Trout Recreant
People should be judged on the content of their character, their personality and their words. In SL, their RL looks mean nothing, their economic status means nothing and their geographic location means nothing. You can see the real person behind the avatar much more clearly, and that makes for wonderful, deep friendships with people you would never meet in real life. It makes me appreciate my friends here very, very much. Thank you all for teaching me so much about myself and for keeping me humble (even though it doesn't look like I am most of the time)


That is so sweet...and so true.

/me hands Trout a big plate of warm toll house cookies with pecans.
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