10 Ways you know your addicted to SL

I believe on that occasion I was a white-tail deer.

Bucking the trend, so as to speak.

And then moved the baby to the trash.

Or... did that happen in RL? O.o



It's for WoW people, but its the same point to be made anytime people say 'those games are just wasting your time':

http://www.wow.com/2009/02/12/wow-is-the-new-third-place/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10161861-62.html

- but note how the reporter in the second article treats the professor as if she's some sort of wacko trenchcoat mafia crackpot...

Short version: Technology is changing the way humanity interacts faster than we can keep up, and as a result, the generational divide is become more and more severe with generations being defined by a smaller and smaller subset.

On CBS-radio yesterday, which I listen to during my commute, they had a psychologist warning about how all these young whipper-snappers are texting too much, and how it will harm their ability to interact.
- My response: if they don't text enough, they won't be able to communicate with each other when they grow up and take over. Get on the badnwagon or get off the planet.

Counting how many prims in the table during a meeting and mumbling too many prims. Just dont do that lol. You get odd looks.

Bec

I was driving on the freeway over the weekend to visit friends across the bay and over the hills...

I hit a bend and there are thousands of tiny leaves on the street blowing in a low pattern in the wind, not lifting into the air... just sparkling.

My first thought?

"OMG, I am -so- going to lag on this turn with that poly count..."

Then I mentally blinked and grinned at myself.

I was invited to a wedding - by a couple who met in one of my builds.

The bride's wedding gown had a train about 50 miles long. It was fine going up to the ferret/dj/priest in the couples-wedding animation, but when she moved about up there it was like a huge lightsabre that zapped everyone in the vicinity.

They held the ceremony in a club owned by one of their friends.
Nobody turned the Sploder off.
So the matrimonial vows were interrupted at intervals.

I say there thinking "Gawd! I love SL!!"

i have to admit..number #1 but the rest no not at all oO..

Well, I found myself using Mari's phrase "Big ol' boogerhead" in a business email. Does that count?

Hahaha I found myself THINKING it in a business meeting......sure it counts!

Lucky you. Trout refuses to certify me.... I'm thinking I broke the scale!

On topic: I often find myself looking at objects (the kitchen table, the couch, another house), thinking about how I could design it in SL, right down to envisioning where all the prims would go, what shape and size they'd be, and so on.

1. You spend at least 4 hours a night on SL
2. You have gained weight and don't care
3. You probably don't wash as much as you used too or take any pride in your appearence
4. You don't see much of your RL friends, and only really interract with people at work
5. You neglect your Spouse, Kids and RL friends and don't care, because you have so many cool virtual buddies
6. You use the word noob and make fun of them, even though in RL they would be the ones who laugh at you
7. You have had a virtual wedding and really took it seriously, making your own vows in front of a virtual priest.
8. You have purchased a prim baby, gone through the pregnancy, had a baby shower and decorated the nursery (probably the saddest sickest one of all)
9. You have a really meaningful and inspiring quote in your profile that is really a message meant for the lover who has just left you.
10. This post doesn't make you stop and think about how sad your life has become because you really believe that SL is your life.

A pretty harsh way of putting it, but sadly also true.

Not sure when you were there last, but they did a remodel after Ike which helped out some ... not a lot, but some.

Save your money next time and eat at Mark's American Cuisine on Westheimer. Better food at half the price ... with a prim heavy build.

Then answer it with your own 10 experiences. That #3 is a real kicker.

Good thing you have that hose, eh Harris?

I am now thoroughly addicted to making sculpties, so I look at things in RL and think how I could have made it with just one prim.

I didn't say it was bad, it was just odd looking from a prim perspective. Like they'd made it from cylinders and profile-cut cubes.

Heh... You should see ~MY~ Emails. (^_^)y

Yay!

Counts as far as I'm concerned!

11. You log in to Resident Answers forum for your first and only post, in order to mock others in the sad attempt to feel better about yourself. Since all of those things signify having spent a great deal of time in-world yourself.

11. You realize that your destiny lies in your mother's basement and it makes you feel so bad about yourself you need to point at everyone else (most of whom are NOT living in their mother's basement and most likely bathe frequently) and insist they are as bad as you.

Couldn't agree more, I've spent loads of time in world, and yes I guess I am as sad as everyone else here, but we do all have to realise it don't we before we can start to salvage our real lives.

Right, all this technology is an insult to our true nature. We need to stop hiding in houses and cars and cities and towns and deal with the real world on its own terms, tooth and claw, thighbone and stone axe, as our evolutionary forefathers meant us to do.

You are so correct Arqent but I think it will be extremely hard for people, SL may only have about 3 years mileage left in it, but I'm sure there will be many other computer based products released to replace it and keep people locked away in cyber prison.

Don't worry, when civilization collapses we'll all have to live in the real world at last!

not if it collapses after we've all gotten ourselves jacked in. this plug in the back of my head is just itchin' for technology to catch up to it...

when you recognize the snippet of music during 'weather on the 8s' as devo's 'gut feeling'... ;0