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Midi Reifsnider
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Join date: 10 Aug 2007
Posts: 77
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10-23-2007 10:22
From: JessicaNichol Kappler That is a great video Garrett.  I discovered SL because of a positive TV report I saw last year and one of the people they focused on was Simon the founder of Wheelies. Yes abled bodied people like myself must strike a balance between RL and SL, but SL is a great place for people in your community to stretch your legs and get out and enjoy what the SL world has to offer. I am also able bodied, but I saw a presentation about Simon earlier this year and that was actually what made me want to join SL. I met him a few weeks ago (in SL) when I attended a virtual conference he spoke at, and he was every bit as interesting in person as he seemed when I had heard about him. One of the things I reaaaaaallllly like about SL is that we are all equal. I might never have had the opportunity to talk to Simon, or many of the other people I've met since joining, if I hadn't taken the plunge. It gives me a real thrill to be chatting to someone and then find out that they are on the other side of the planet, are of a culture I don't know, or are deaf, confined to a wheelchair or whatever. |
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Argent Asbrink
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Join date: 27 Jul 2007
Posts: 217
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10-23-2007 11:36
From: Kalderi Tomsen Argent, do I take it then that your SL experience has been less than positive? I don't know, something about your tone and reading between the lines..... *snorts* Odd thing. I used to be a very vocal proponent of LL's creation. But after seeing the company bulldoze through feature after feature, leave bugs unfixed, eliminate First Land, refuse to develop any coherent policy until they're threatened with lawsuits, and generally let the entire stewpot ferment and bubble over with greed when the rest of the world flooded in wanting to be the next "virtual millionaire"...I pretty much gave up. I have some friends...I don't spend as much time with them as I used to. RL is far more engaging than becoming lost in a solipsist fog of pixels. My good friend and I both bottomed out at about the same time on the place...after each of us was making presentations to our bosses about what a GREAT place Sl was...only to have it constantly crash, lag horribly, and otherwise behave like a meth-addled coke wh*re in front of pretty big audiences. Yeah...that was the home run that pretty much changed our feelings about LL and it's management of SL. If I want to get royally scr*wed by someone...all I have to do is wait for tax day in RL. In SL...it can be as simple as logging in to find your inventory gone...your friends list busted, your region not available, or on and on and on. The frustrations and pitfalls of SL slowly but surely overcame it's attraction. I still enjoy seeing what others can create - but those truly creative enterprises are rapidly becoming lost in a sea of unwashed mediocrity. I just refuse to be a cheerleader for LL anymore. Fool me once, ya know... |
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Conifer Dada
Hiya m'dooks!
Join date: 6 Oct 2006
Posts: 3,716
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10-23-2007 13:12
I've been canvassing some thoughts from RLs and report back that when you find that SL or any other virtual world is taking over your life to the extent that you lose interest in things in RL that should be important to you, it's time to step back a little. Like, I mean, us avatars can only do so much for you RLs, we're not superhuman!!!!
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