Things My Mother Should Have Taught Me

Okay, this was a real exercise I had to do when I was in trouble in my boarding school (if I use that term you all should know what I mean).

Anywho, I'd have to come up with a suitably contrite couple of paragraphs and sound ashamed and repentant. Then the Mistress/Master would get it in and either mark it (if they were being particularly mean that day) or wing it over to the wastebin if they wanted to get home for a quick shag with the Missus.

Meanwhile, I would be left in the refrectory rubbing my pen-wearied hand and wondering what I 'd missed for supper. I'd go to bed hungry and weeping (NOT! - they werent THAT mean)

BUT, my point here is - what do you wish you had found out before it was too late in sl?

I never knew you could hide groups, I never knew you could make sexballs transparent, I never knew I could be "recorded" when I had innocent conversations with lovers. I didnt know about all kinds of stuff and I have had a whole learning thingie to experience.

So share some of your knowledge here - what do you wish you had known before it was too late?

Alts

Ummm... nothing?

I've managed to avoid major disaster and embarrassment and I'm not big on creating drama, so it's all been a pretty smooth ride.

Sorry I can't offer something more compelling, lurid or exciting.

I wish I'd found out how posh Jig was! Boarding school? Good grief woman!

have to agree..it's been a fun experience just learning it all..i've had some bad times but those only made what i needed to know stick in my mind that much with experiencing them..
for the most part it's been fun learning this world..

Not to talk to funny people on the internet. I routinely tell my kids to log off because there's bad people on the internet at night

SL ... don't hoard freebies - it's cr*p you don't need.

That I am really not very good at urban role play. I don't have a clue about urban life. I wasted a good deal of time trying because I thought it would be easy. I could do far better role playing an alien from another world since I nearly am one in real life, but most sci-fi and fantasy role playing scenarios require way too much reading and prep and rule following. I just don't take well to that.

Far better to take SL's entire grid as one big role playground, a universe where anything can happen, where I contribute my little bit here and there, and have all the other resident's amazing creativity to enjoy too.

Scripting: 1) Things often don't work as documented, 2) If they're documented, 3) And might stop working at all, 4) But you can't do much interesting, useful or fun without your own host anyway.

SL: 1) More and more people insist it is a 'game', 2) Which it might as well be the amount LL play around, 3) And it's just not flexible or stable enough for anything serious, 4) Except virtual-meetings/classrooms, 5) Which anyway aren't that good without whiteboards, shared displays, etc. 6) But, hey, LL just don't want the non-corporate customers anyway, although they'll tolerate a few people 'playing' as long as they stay out of the big-ticket customers' way.

That emotions can become much more intense much quicker than one would think.

Yes.

And . . . voice changing technology is much more advanced than I'd ever have imagined.

(See the "Sex in SL" thread . . .)

I did notice that.

*hugs*

Thanks!

Actually, it's all good now. We are friends.

(This seems to be "true confessions" day for me on the forum. Think I'll just shut up now . . . )

That geeks were so illiterate.

Pep (and that so many of them were over-emotional, irrational "females".)

Anything you say can and will be used against you. Even if you never said it and someone else makes it up. (=_=)y

Yes, Pep . . . it's a very thick volume, and swelling by the moment . . .

That kinda turns me on, actually.

/me thinking of Jig in a School Girl outfit

As I've said here before............Building in the dark and screwing up,even though I saw neighbors building with no problems.

And then found out you could change the time of day,

What a plonker.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww . . .

That it is POSSIBLE to find ones soul mate in an online situation. I always thought that was bunk till it happened to me. Been together 4.5 years and still going strong (RL and SL).

as for a specific SL thing: Alt click Pan is your best friend.

Wow! That's both very cool, and very impressive!

That this supposed wonderful Emerald viewer is not so wonderful after all.

Through an incident that occurred the other night I've learned that it doesn't make a hill of beans difference if you've denied your friends the ability to map you. Anybody can map you, even if you're not on their friends list. Yes, I do have absolute proof of such.

It started when a friend (who doesn't have that ability) showed up INSIDE my orb-protected skybox, where he has never been invited, instantly, because he teleported there. When I asked him how he got there, he said he used Emerald's tools to do so.

Through further conversation, after I gave him a thorough dressing-down for his behavior, I discovered (from a texture he sent me of a screenshot he took of the tools in question), that he had people listed he could map and teleport to their location, that he'd never even spoken to before!

So much for people who claim that Emerald has helped close some exploits that people can use for things we don't want them to.

Also the creators of the Emerald viewer have already told my friend that making any changes to this particular intrusive addition they have written into their client is of absolutely no priority to them at all. Well perhaps they might change their tune if we get the population of SL to tell them that they're extremely far off the track on that point.

I echo this.. the finding a soul mate as I too found mine in SL...3+ years for us, married 3 years this coming April.

as for what do I wish I knew then, that I know now... I wish I had found SL when it first started and that I was in on the group floor, and a lifetime member... to be there when the first cube was rezzed, the first upload made, to be at the beginning of this brave new adventure.

(but, if I was, my life (RL) might not be as it is now... so all in all, I like how it worked out)

I wish to hell she'd been at mine! Would have made things quite a bit more interesting and enjoyable. Plus, I'd have learned a few things a bit earlier!

/me nearly faints. Please say it wasn't Ojai

The attachment I developed for my home and the loss of it that my partner and I felt. Then the jubilation when Will called me at work irl and said guess what I got for you when you get off from work. I logged on, and there he stood on the sim he purchased along with a improved version of our home. Then he says, my woman happy now!

Wow, what a soulmate I have!