I use a laptop for SL - or I did until it just stopped running SL for no apparent reason.
Anyway, the beauty of running a laptop is that when I'm on SL I'm also doing real life things. I'm cooking. I'm watching TV. I'm in a train station. I'm in the bath sometimes. Sometimes I do these things without being on SL though - I'm funny like that.
My point is that having a laptop allows me to indulge my twin passions for hot pixel grinding action and n00b baiting without having to sacrifice a normal life. Essentially, SL can be on in the background while I'm living real life (to the max!)
Do you multi-task like this? Or do you allot your self SL time and real life time separately?
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Conan Godwin
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11-25-2007 19:54
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Alicia Sautereau
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11-25-2007 19:56
Rl?
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Oryx Tempel
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11-25-2007 19:59
Um yeah so hey where's the poll? My answer would be "yes, I multitask while in SL."
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Conan Godwin
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11-25-2007 19:59
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Conan Godwin
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11-25-2007 20:00
Um yeah so hey where's the poll? My answer would be "yes, I multitask while in SL." Polls are a copout. They're just a way for people to avoid answering the question properly. I want posts, dammit! Plus, I forgot to do one. _____________________
hateful much? dude, that was low. die. . |
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Alicia Sautereau
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11-25-2007 20:01
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Dancien Graves
Not Nice
Join date: 12 Sep 2007
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11-25-2007 20:03
When I'm downstairs and on SL it's hooked up to my big screen so I can see it from anywhere, that and a wireless mouse and keyboard make doing RL stuff pretty easy while on SL.
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Susie Boffin
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11-25-2007 20:04
hot pixel grinding action and n00b baiting
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Okiphia Rayna
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11-25-2007 20:12
Or do you allot your self SL time and real life time separately? I give myself so many hours each day for sleep. The rest, unless disturbed, is SL time. =P _____________________
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Conan Godwin
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11-25-2007 20:15
hot pixel grinding action and n00b baiting What is that? Just the rotten, semen-stained underbelly that, like an iceburg of grot, makes up the bulk of Second Life underneath it's clean but paper-thin surface. _____________________
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Conan Godwin
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11-25-2007 20:16
When I'm downstairs and on SL it's hooked up to my big screen so I can see it from anywhere, that and a wireless mouse and keyboard make doing RL stuff pretty easy while on SL. I kid you not people, I once used SL while on a treadmill at the gym. Seriously. I'm not joking. Technology rocks. _____________________
hateful much? dude, that was low. die. . |
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Joseph Abel
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Join date: 20 Aug 2006
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11-25-2007 20:18
I kid you not people, I once used SL while on a treadmill at the gym. Seriously. I'm not joking. Technology rocks. I find myself coveting your wireless... Shameless of me, I know. _____________________
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Conan Godwin
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11-25-2007 20:19
I find myself coveting your wireless... Shameless of me, I know. I don't pretend that the bandwidth was great mind you. _____________________
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Dancien Graves
Not Nice
Join date: 12 Sep 2007
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11-25-2007 20:28
I kid you not people, I once used SL while on a treadmill at the gym. Seriously. I'm not joking. Technology rocks. Screw that noise, when I'm at the gym it's just my mp3 player and a book. |
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Anti Antonelli
Deranged Toymaker
Join date: 25 Apr 2006
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11-25-2007 20:38
Heck no, I can barely keep up with an IM and an open chat with 3 or 4 people.
Unless you count eating, drinking and smoking, in which case I am the Multitasking MASTER!!!!!!11111 |
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Rhaorth Antonelli
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11-25-2007 22:35
never thought of taking the laptop to the kitchen when doing chores LOL
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Tarina Sewell
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Join date: 20 Jul 2007
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11-25-2007 23:11
Not sure if a laptop in the bathroom, or tub is such a good idea.. No I dont multi task.. the laundry piles up, the dishes are growing something.. the cats litter box is full and my dog has fur all over the rug... Of course i dont have a laptop that can run SL.. it would be nice to take it along whilist I fold the dishes, walk the cat put the dog out and of course put the clothes in the dishwasher...
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Void Singer
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11-25-2007 23:25
sorry too busy multitasking on the computer to add RL in the mix.... much...
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Ann Launay
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11-25-2007 23:27
Conan, dude, if you're going to mock the ResMod in your sig, could you at least do it with better grammar?
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Tegg Bode
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11-25-2007 23:38
Hey there's enough people complainging of SL issues and not being able to login without encouraging them to all start trying to run SL on secondhand laptops using cheap wireless plans
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Cherry Czervik
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11-25-2007 23:56
I like going on trips alone, big believer in seeing many cities and how people organise themselves. Fascinating.
Only trouble is, come the evening, the hotel is invariably miles from anywhere (hence cheap trip = often 5 star but somewhere with business custom during the week). I could go sit in the hotel restaurant or bar with people, but that doesn't appeal as my fellow single female travellers are often telling everyone who will listen about their hardcore trips to dangerous places ... and the couples are often in thier 60's and 70's and from the West Midlands. That will only mean something to people who have ever been on a bus full of old ladies in the Birmingham area and have the scars to prove it. Shudder. Next trip, will be in a Dutch hotel which if it has satellite will rock (Dutch TV in hotels often means a channel or two from half of Europe. including the BBC). Next trip, the lappy is going with me so I can get my Maoz from outside Amsterdam Centraal Station and get back to my hotel to discuss the things I have bought there that day *weg*. |
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bilbo99 Emu
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11-26-2007 00:44
Tarina and to a point, Void say it for me. I'm a desktop user and spending so long in SL anyway of an evening and weekend (can't log on at work - shame!) my RL replaces the gym when it drags me away from the leatherbound computer chair. I might go and make a coffee whilst in AFK mode but if I'm in-world, it's usually 100%.
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Kelly Kuiper
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11-26-2007 00:54
That will only mean something to people who have ever been on a bus full of old ladies in the Birmingham area and have the scars to prove it. Shudder. /me nods in agreement and shivers at the memory of a particularly traumatic incident on a 61 involving a bag of Werther's Originals and someone's ill-fitting false teeth. Like others here, I have anough difficulty keepingup with SL when i'm concentrating 100% on it. Same for RL. So it's best for me to keep the two separate. |
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Sandy Carver
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Join date: 7 Nov 2007
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11-26-2007 00:59
I run SL on a laptop and have wireless connectivity in my house but never carry it around with me. I have the laptop on the living room floor, TV usually on mute behind it listening to Virgin radio or something similar on SL.
As a relative newcomer I have found myself trying to limit my SL time as it is worryingly addictive. I've started telling myself that I HAVE to log off at 8pm in the evenings, when I have to eat or I might die!! Being a self confessed house work addict though, SL never gets in the way of that!!!! I'm like Bilbo in that I don't run SL World at work and so I have to survive 9 to 5 with the forums. /Hi Bilbo. I've kept the hangout bar clean in your absence!! Had to borrow a sponge. |
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Sandy Carver
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11-26-2007 01:00
/me nods in agreement and shivers at the memory of a particularly traumatic incident on a 61 involving a bag of Werther's Originals and someone's ill-fitting false teeth. LOL NICE!!! Morning Kelly! |