Question for the Vamps

pot, meet kettle

What I want to know is... can this solve the philosophical zombie paradox?

Wow... you're right! We should be ashamed of ourselves, complaining over trivial matters in a virtual world, when the REAL world is falling apart. Take the forums down now. Lindens, switch off SL now. We will all donate our L$ to a good cause.

Let's look at ourselves and make a change!

-_-

It's going to be bad enough waking up here in the USSA on January 21st

I just signed up on SL about a week ago....I remember not know ANYTHING about the place, but had heard of it before, so i thought I'd see what it was all about. Anyways, the first person that helped me out was a vamp, she treated me like I was her own daughter. She told me where to go, helped me out with clothing, AO's and the like and answered all my questions. She told me she was a vamp, and never even offered to "bite" me...she's a very nice, generous lady and I am proud to have met her. Thank you Linda!

i am more than relaxed and far from aggravated..it would take a lot more than a forum thread to make that happen lol

you say you played a month...great you got out when you saw what it was about..Happy for you \0/ yay!!
then again one minute you are saying you have minions now it's only one?? just going off of what you said..
yay to all of that..

my point was this..
If you walk into a bloodline thread and tell people you used to be bloodline then start laughing at them and you are gonna get some negative feedback you won't like..

as far as the Gaza strip and Iraq thing..i don't wake up there but have plenty of friends that did and still do..it comes with living in the Volunteer state... nice try though on the whole guilt trip attempt thing..i give you a 5 for effort ..only because you didn't say you were from there..that would have surely been an 8 lol

And you don't need to take me seriously..Because i don't take you seriously lol
it's the internet

ya i heard we are gonna get some big speech..i sure hope my income tax return makes it here before anything goes into affect

Lets be real, your AV does not have a soul, it is made of pixels, if you got bit and your "soul" is a number on a website, who cares. If people want to spend their time going round biting as many AVs as they can and stealing pixels souls, why does it matter

Why do we have to be real? It is a fantasy world, I say lets be unreal

To many people it IS a game, some of us don't take it that seriously. I don't think someone is "wrong" if they consider SL to be a game, it's a game to me, I don't expect you to have the same opinion as me.

hmmm certainly is some unreal reactions to vamps

Pixel Rights! Pixels are people too!

Certain vamps only - they are like the Brittany Spears of vamp-hood. There are classier types around for sure

Fixed for you

i have no problem dealing with them myself most times..but i get tired of my freaked out friends that think they are going to be hacked because someone told them they are on some stupid data base..i get IM's all the time..i am always making friends with new people to SL..so i hear a lot of bite stories..

so i have to sit there explaining how hacking works and how even if they had their IP they would still have to have all these other elements to make a hack happen..that their bank account information is safe and that nooooo nobody is gonna see their pictures or get their passwords to anything...that SL for the most part is safe and to just AR the from now on..

it's not the people that know how things work that get freaked out..it's the ones that don't know and get scared that i feel bad for..it takes more than a good hour or two sometimes to explain how things work to someone that is not so good around computers..

it's like spyware or a virus to them..they feel they have been hacked in sl mainly because Most don't either remember it happening or were conned into it..

i don't think anything is good if it is scaring the crap out of people like that..
all for points in some silly game..

i understand some think it is a game or look at it as a game..thats fine.but no place does it say it is a game..it does say it is a virtual world..
would it be right of me to think..ok this is a shoot'em up game..i'm gonna see how many points i can get in your sim?
i would be banned for griefing..if i harrass you i can be banned if i do anything to disrupt your sl experience i can be banned..
there is no dying here or points or end game or levels to complete..
i can respect people that want to play their game here..but if i don't want to play then i shouldn't be spammed with it all the time to play it..
they want to play certain games there are sims for that..
this one takes it outside and goes all over sl spamming for points..

Like trailer trash vamps lol

Fair enough, people should not be spammed, I agree.

Personally I think I've encountered two vamps, they asked if they could bite me, told me what it was. I politely declined, they were most gentlemanly about it, no harm done. I have not been spammed by vamps, so it’s had no impact on me. Infact, there are two vamps on two parcels where I live, they seem to be ok.

This thread got boring.


Toodles!

Comment remove because it was incredibly offensive. Ta ta!

the bite requests i have gotten some have been polite...some just never know when to quit..
I've had people friend me trying to set me up for bites acting as my friend IMing me everyday just chatting ..but always bringing up me being a vamp..after saying no the IM's stop lol
Every once in awhile they will try again and i remind them i am not interested..
no biggy really..

myself i really don't care if i ended up on some data base ..i am probably on a lot of them that i don't know about..

i've been hacked a few times and had pictures thrown all over the net before..
it was all my fault that it happened because i gave remote access to someone out of trust..
i can understand the scare people get thinking something secrete may get loose or someone may be snooping in their system or getting to their bank accounts ect..

i think if people were more informed about how these data bases work and how their sl name will only give their sl name and maybe an sl IP..they may be less likely to freak out..
the net is a scarey place to some that don't understand it and that first big scare can really scare the daylights out of them..
i think if most knew it was just their sl name and nothing more than that,then maybe people would be a bit more relaxed when they find out they are on their data base..

i'm sure some of these vamps explain it to the people they bite and victims say yes that would be fun to play..bite me..lol all fine and dandy..
Thats two people walking away with a smile in a good exchange..

there are just a lot of high score junkies playing that will do what ever it takes making the good ones look bad..

if i said they were all bad which i may have said someplace ..then i admit that was wrong of me to say..
i've met some polite ones and i've met a lot of irritating ones..when i see these threads only the irritating ones come to mind or the people i get IM's from that are freaked out..

i just wish most would explain to their victims about how it works with this data base so a lot of us didn't have to..

Which part of "It's a database made from publicly accessible data and a trivial matter" are YOU struggling with?

Oooooh, the name of a bunch of pixels which does not exist in the real world is in a data base ... big whoop.

"you think secondlife is a game well you are wrong..bloodlines is a game and quake is a game and half life is a game...Secondlife is a virtual world..big difference..because there are real businesses in here and real communication going on in here and companies communicating back and forth..then you have these spampires running around outside of their RP zones forcing their RP on everyone tricking them to be a part of their game like it was playstation here or something.."

Frankly,it does not matter how many people view Second Life as being 'real'. The fact is that the only 'real' element is the person behind the keyboard ... Nothing else. Your Avatar looks like you? Big deal: The Avatar does not exist. Incorporated a business based on what you do in Second Life? Big deal: It is based off of something that does not exist in the real world.

When you get right down to it: Knowingly or not, you ARE Role Playing AND playing a Game. WoW is touted by some to be a Virtual World .. that does not make it so. Linden Lab marked second Life as a Virtual World as a marketing scheme, that is all it is.

To fall for such a scheme and whole heartedly believe it shows a certain lack of an ability to seperate what is real and what is not.

Enlighten me. Which part of "Take your **** fairy land game and shove it up your virtual ***" could be made more clearer?

did i say it was real??or did what i say just fly over your head??
it is a 3d platform made for communication that you can do many things in..nothing more than a 3d chat..
i don't role play on yahoo or msn and i don't role play here..
you can call it what you wish or act like you know what you are talking about but you are way off if you think i think this is a real person running around in pixels..
save the speech for someone who is out of touch..

you want to look at it as a game go right ahead..but don't turn it around that i am looking at my avatar as something real..
by invested in an avatar i meant in things either purchased or uploaded for business..
if you think there is no RL business going on in sl then you are the one that is out of touch..