If SL euphoria has passed, what brought you back to RL?
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Deira Llanfair
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06-25-2009 06:44
From: 23rdDjin Negulesco personally, i don't believe the topic question can be answered.
anyone who has been deprogrammed back into RL wouldn't be reading the forums. That's true in a way - but thre are others who have successfully integrated SL into RL. It's a tool for the job.
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Tarina Sewell
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Join date: 20 Jul 2007
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06-25-2009 06:58
the dust bunies in my bedroom that make me sneeze at night. and my SL partner going on a vacation.. I find myself logging and and just kinda sitting in my sky box thinking... what now...
I will say, I think I have a mental inability to not become addicted to internet/video games etc.. I remember when AOL started I was on constantly, I did that for about 2 years met some cool people, some I am still friends with.. But I got bored when all the idiot spammers and pervs came on.. (when they made it free)
Then unreal tournament.. ebay (selling not buying) and now SL.... going on 2 years next month and the flavor is not as sweet anymore, and every time I pay my tier I think for god sake (insert real name) that is a fkin car payment.....(my ford is paid for but I saw a commercial for a sniny new convertable I could buy for 300.00 a month) hmmm......
I had hoped to sell from ebay in SL to, but.. Im frankly scared anyone here (aside from a certain few) would know where i live and such...
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Ephraim Kappler
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06-25-2009 07:40
From: Pserendipity Daniels This place is much better than soap opera or even "reality" tv ...) You're missing my point, Pep: I detest soap operas and reality television. |
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Pserendipity Daniels
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06-25-2009 07:45
From: Ephraim Kappler You're missing my point, Pep: I detest soap operas and reality television. I don't think you are going to find the next William Shakespeare in sl, Ephraim. Pep (Not even Arthur Miller)
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Brenda Connolly
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06-25-2009 07:46
From: Pserendipity Daniels I don't think you are going to find the next William Shakespeare in sl, Ephraim.
I don't think you'll find even the next William Shatner in SL.
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Ian Nider
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06-25-2009 08:29
What jolts me back is downers in SL, how much I can feel them and that they matter, like a night club that nearly ended up on my border, I was bloody spinning, then when it sorted I was on a happy little building spree, a new veranda, just that immersion stuff I 'spose.
And on TV, yeh, I don't watch it much anymore...
Oh Shats & Shakespeare I reckon we will find their equals or betters here as easy as anywhere else.
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Ephraim Kappler
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06-25-2009 08:41
From: Pserendipity Daniels I don't think you are going to find the next William Shakespeare in sl, Ephraim. I wouldn't expect to, Pep. However, I fully expect to get a good deal more out of the experience than recycled soap and reality television. When I go out hunting for playmates I find it's a dead end for 95% of the time but that elusive 5% of folks who click and know how to collude in a story built between lines of chat is well worth the effort. I'd even go so far as to say that if my success rate were any higher I probably would get so immersed that I'd lose my RL in something like the manner described by the OP. |
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Pserendipity Daniels
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06-25-2009 08:43
From: Ephraim Kappler I wouldn't expect to, Pep.
However, I fully expect to get a good deal more out of the experience than recycled soap and reality television. When I go out hunting for playmates I find it's a dead end for 95% of the time but that elusive 5% of folks who click and know how to collude in a story built between lines of chat is well worth the effort.
I'd even go so far as to say that if my success rate were any higher I probably would get so immersed that I'd lose my RL in something like the manner described by the OP. Oh, role play.  Pep (You should have said; I wouldn't have been so concerned.)
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Ephraim Kappler
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06-25-2009 08:50
From: Pserendipity Daniels Oh, role play. Well if it isn't roleplay, it's just FaceSpace in 3D and that's not my bag at all, but established notions of in-world RP where you get dumped with notecards of do's and don'ts and lists of other players limits don't work much for me either. Guess I'm a fussy sonofabitch. |
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Czari Zenovka
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06-25-2009 10:35
From: Pserendipity Daniels If you do adjust your timing and see me before I see you please feel free to suggest a dance . . . Pep ( . . . or run like hell, of course!  ) Why Mr. Daniels...I would be honored by a dance.
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