Sims names can be confusing . . . read the descriptions

When I am exploring sims, I search for things that I am interested in to see how close they come to RL. I have visited some amazing sims. Well, I should have paid more attention to the description on the last sim that i visted. My own fault for what I walked into.

There are certain movies that I can watch over and over again. One is the movie about the great Zulu nation of Africa. I was so excited when I found a sim that was based on the events surrounding the great Shaka Zulu and his tribe. So, I tp there and find that it warns that you could be captured if you entered. In my SL mind, I am thinking, "I am a black avie, I am safe. They were upset with the British for tricking Shaka out of valuables by presenting hair dye as a sort of fountain of youth." (That may not make sense to you unless you saw the movie). Any Who, I go in and see these wondeful huts and great landscape and then I see the natives. Black Men and white women. We all kind of stand there in silence for a bit. Me looking like Diana Ross with my big hair and slinky dress and them dressed in loin cloths and leaves. Of course, I am the first to speak and state that I don't exactly fit in. They were extremely nice and laughed with me. One of the guys directed me to go back and read the sim description. It was a sim that was more geared towards a more risque type of thing for interracial couples. My gift to someone newer than myself is to READ THE SIM DESCRIPTIONS!!!!

Very nice!! **applaudes**
We all have to make those mistakes, you have one worth re-telling!
At least it wasn't a combat sim.

One of my earlier "oops" moments was entering a combat sim as a crow...I lasted a whole 9-10 seconds before someone killed me - I'm sure I must have made quite a few people laugh.

I agree...read the descriptions well before assuming anything...

So this is a sim for Tribal African men and white slave women?

So less like Shaka Zulu and more like Shaka Gor?

I am still laughing over it. Yeah, I have even gone into a combat zone (not reading the sim description) with my beautiful Angel Blades that my love had made for me and they all had automatic weapons 0_0! Yeppers, I died that day in less than 5 seconds. Can't believe they shot at a poor, little crow.

The Queen was once a slave and she is just a doll. I did not get to witness any RP so I am not sure if it was anything like Gor. Maybe more of a place to fulfill some fantasy they have for 30 minutes or so and then they go back to wherever. In Gor, those folks are there for hours in rp.

I also love the movie and book Memoirs of a Geisha. Should I even attempt to search it?

The whole scenario is hilarious and offensive to me at the same time, on so many levels. I really don't know if I should be laughing or rolling my eyes.

A friend of mine told me about these places. I found it incredible personally, since I come from an area which is so interracial and this kind of role play seems so ludicrious to me. Its so common and normal to see mixed couples. But ok, to each their own. We all have our kinks. I have my own too

What really cracks me up, is the recognition that probably none of these "tribal" men are black in RL. Probably just another bunch of pasty white guys, like they are everywhere else, living out just another fantasy.

But it sure makes for an amusing story! Thanks for telling us about it Emuna

That's a rather unkind way of refering to white men.

My guess is that it refers more to the fact that in real life they are living in their parent's basements with no natural light, and sitting in front of the computer or TV all day thus getting no tan - rather than some kind of 'racist slur' against white people.

just the pasty ones.

Emuna hugs Carl and kisses him on the forehead. "Vanilla is a very good flavor", she whispers to him before she tiptoes back to the italian fella she left asleep in bed.

I have been laughing so hard at myself over this that it was only fair that others have the same opportunity. Now play nice before we all have to join hands and sing We Are the World.

Men don't really need to wear pasties, do they?

It's slightly off topic, but I must say I like your approach to Second Life. I was out teleporting more or less at random using the big map just a moment ago, and stumbled upon this interesting island, Okapi (which I think is the name of an African antelope of some sort that has nothing at all to do with the sim itself).

There is a reconstruction of neolithic ruins that have been excavated in Turkey. If I tried to write the name of the actual place, you would probably come back with "Bless you." or "Gesundheit!" but it really gives me some idea of what it must have been like in neolithic times. And I didn't even have to travel to see it.

There is also a museum and an activity sandbox. And not a slave -- or anyone else for that matter -- in sight.

I just thought it was a cool synchronicity that I had just found this place at the exact same time I was reading about your own quest for a Virtual Geographic experience. This is the sort of thing that Second Life could excel at, if only there was enough interest.

only in PG sims

Thanks Weston. Now I have a new trick! I have never used the big map to go exploring.

The women too

Oh for sure! I thought about that hours after I wrote it

Thanks for defending me Broccoli, not that I thought it needed defending. Seemed fairly obvious what I meant when you consider the target audience.

So, those black men that I saw, in SL may really be white men in RL and those white women I saw, in SL may really be black women in RL? Emuna sighs. I guess I was the only one that different. I am the same color in both worlds. Anyone got any green skin? I need to live out my fantasies as SL intended. I always thought that aliens had it easy.