I can't understand this appeal of "playing" in sl. Why do it? Okay, I understand its potential for chatting while picking someone up, but avis can't send body signals and facial language to each other in sl like we can in real when we are on the any floor and "in da groove". In sl, a relatively short movement sequence is repeated ad infinitum and clumsily at that. I also appreciate that people who are confined by a disability can experience something of the "dance experience".
But really, people, why submit yourself to the horrors of lag and self-abuse by waving a pixel hand around and doing a St. Vitus dance imitation when you could be having sex with your partner in comfort of a private sim or a public nude beach?
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Sony Swords
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08-22-2009 10:40
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Smith Peel
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08-22-2009 10:41
This gonna end even worse than the other one.
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Scylla Rhiadra
Gentle is Human
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08-22-2009 10:45
Is this REALLY necessary? We all get the point: it's been made ad nauseam in the real thread.
Frankly, this really is starting to look like persecution. Can we just drop it now? _____________________
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08-22-2009 11:33
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There's, uh, probably a lot of things you didn't know about lindens. Another, another interesting, uh, lindenism, uh, there are only three jobs available to a linden. The first is making shoes at night while, you know, while the old cobbler sleeps.You can bake cookies in a tree. But the third job, some call it, uh, "the show" or "the big dance," it's the profession that every linden aspires to.
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Shu Zemenis
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08-22-2009 11:39
Take it easy ppl, i think he's only posting as a joke.
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Sony Swords
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08-22-2009 12:38
Take it easy ppl, i think he's only posting as a joke. shhhhh.... don't tell my secrets. I want honest, serious answers. As longer the better  |
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Conifer Dada
Hiya m'dooks!
Join date: 6 Oct 2006
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08-22-2009 13:12
It's like with collecting decorated porcelin thimbles or Pokemon cards, chasing storms or spotting rare birds or trains. One doesn't have to do SL if one doesn't want to! One's free to choose not to be part of it!!!!
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Pussycat Catnap
Sex Kitten
Join date: 15 Jun 2009
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08-22-2009 13:22
We should all just crawl back into the single particle that existed before the big bang.
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Imnotgoing Sideways
Can't outlaw cute! =^-^=
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08-22-2009 13:41
I don't play SL, I live it. Playing is for games. Games are boring. (^_^)y
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Void Singer
Int vSelf = Sing(void);
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08-22-2009 14:00
pretend this is a long rant about the freedom to do whatever the hell I want to with my free time. also pretend I care what anyone else thinks of that =)
PS A better joke would have been "Why post on RA? a TRULY sad commentary on... well, everything" _____________________
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Tod69 Talamasca
The Human Tripod ;)
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08-22-2009 14:08
I don't play SL, I live it. Playing is for games. Games are boring. (^_^)y Then you need a better computer!  _____________________
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Kokoro Fasching
Pixie Dust and Sugar
Join date: 23 Dec 2005
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08-22-2009 14:29
I can't understand this appeal of "playing" in sl. Why do it? Okay, I understand its potential for chatting while picking someone up, but avis can't send body signals and facial language to each other in sl like we can in real when we are on the any floor and "in da groove". In sl, a relatively short movement sequence is repeated ad infinitum and clumsily at that. I also appreciate that people who are confined by a disability can experience something of the "dance experience". But really, people, why submit yourself to the horrors of lag and self-abuse by waving a pixel hand around and doing a St. Vitus dance imitation when you could be having sex with your partner in comfort of a private sim or a public nude beach? You need a real computer and O/S then..  I am using O/S2 and am getting 150FPS almost everywhere, and able to do long complex actions easily! |
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Sony Swords
Linux Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
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08-22-2009 17:29
You need a real computer and O/S then.. I am using O/S2 and am getting 150FPS almost everywhere, and able to do long complex actions easily! |
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Windsweptgold Wopat
Registered User
Join date: 24 May 2007
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08-23-2009 05:27
If one things things in SL is a sad commentary on life then one has to ask why are you in SL yourself?
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Novis Dyrssen
Girl Geek
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08-23-2009 05:42
Is this a thinly disguised survey?
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Aeslyn Dae
over and out
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08-23-2009 06:09
Is this a thinly disguised survey? Or just thinly disguised, badly timed and rather limp satire.  -- Aes |
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Sony Swords
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08-23-2009 08:15
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Sredni Eel
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08-23-2009 08:17
I like cupcakes.
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08-23-2009 08:19
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Czari Zenovka
I've Had it With "PC"!
Join date: 3 May 2007
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08-23-2009 08:30
If one things things in SL is a sad commentary on life then one has to ask why are you in SL yourself? My sentiments exactly. Note to self: Read the forums AFTER I've been up awhile, enjoyed a good day and have eaten; NOT while I'm waiting the one hour to eat after taking my thyroid meds, blood sugar at rock bottom low, and barely awake. _____________________
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Sony Swords
Linux Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
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08-23-2009 08:36
Image shows the typical reaction when U meet "smart" people in RL? |
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Jig Chippewa
Fine Young Cannibal
Join date: 30 Oct 2006
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08-23-2009 09:30
I can't understand this appeal of "playing" in sl. Why do it? Okay, I understand its potential for chatting while picking someone up, but avis can't send body signals and facial language to each other in sl like we can in real when we are on the any floor and "in da groove". In sl, a relatively short movement sequence is repeated ad infinitum and clumsily at that. I also appreciate that people who are confined by a disability can experience something of the "dance experience". But really, people, why submit yourself to the horrors of lag and self-abuse by waving a pixel hand around and doing a St. Vitus dance imitation when you could be having sex with your partner in comfort of a private sim or a public nude beach? You see, it doesn't really work does it, Sony? Straight plagiarism never does ring "true". You have to get "edgier" than that. IM me and I'll give you lessons. _____________________
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Sony Swords
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08-23-2009 09:54
You see, it doesn't really work does it, Sony? Straight plagiarism never does ring "true". You have to get "edgier" than that. IM me and I'll give you lessons. I am open for new ways - feel free to teach me in public (my IMs get caped) |