What surprises you most in-world?

I discovered that you can spend two hours bouncing around the mainland roads, stark naked on a spacehopper, without meeting another soul.

Not to derail the "Bis have more choice" thread, but I was wondering whether extended roads are any real use in an environment where teleporting is ubiquitous (the only time I couldn't use tp for any length of time I couldn't get across the boundary of the sim I was in by walking, flying or anything) and redeployment of the land would be better than offering highways for pursuits which could be just as well done on non-blacktop routes.

CENSORED!

Don't be silly. Then they would be wearing Asslights.

Why people need top wear the "face lights, body lights". They do nothing to make the AV look better when they are going through the AO poses.
I have been tempted to ask the person if they really do think the sun shines out their arse .

Not to derail the "Bis have more choice" thread, but I was wondering whether extended roads are any real use in an environment where teleporting is ubiquitous (the only time I couldn't use tp for any length of time I couldn't get across the boundary of the sim I was in by walking, flying or anything) and redeployment of the land would be better than offering highways for pursuits which could be just as well done on non-blacktop routes.

I am not trying to be contentious, honestly, just wondering.

Ditto! Bad face lights ruin people's builds. I can't believe how bright some people's are and they don't even notice. The good news is, in the RC1.21 you will be able to shut off other people's attached lights. Yay!

Going from the sublime to the ridiculous ... I admit I'm surprised by the number of women who are bisexual. If only it were like that in RL, back when I was young and single! (Perhaps it was and I just didn't know it.)

Of course, yes, I do figure that a significant number of these are RL men. But the proportion is surprisingly high even if I restrict it to those who I have good reason to believe are RL females.

Not to mention how kinky so many are ... but of course, kinks are easy to enjoy in SL where there are no practical issues to interfere.

I'm also surprised by the number of people who get intensely jealous or posessive. But I shouldn't be, that's just us dragging our emotions along with us, and without that what fun would it be anyway?

Sorry for dragging the conversation into the gutter, but gutters can be fun.

Also surprised so many men choose to be women..I suppose cause they like watching an attractive woman do stuff. Though I do understand the urge to upgrade.

I always thought that was what they were called since most who seem to wear them are...

Have you tried a face light? I have and I love what it does for my Av. There are no shadows on my av face and she looks awesome whenever and where ever she is. I think face lights are awesome and everyone should have one. I guess its personal preference.

I have ponder why some people have it harder then others, i.e in rl children living on trash, some kids and Adults have one episode after another in their life that makes them feel put down or bullied, etc while others have never experienced others being critical of them, usually have one success after another, seem to have more positive things happen then negative.
Those people probably would also see SL in same way but I don't know.
But think some people are better at not see mistreatment and only see the good, while others have become more sensitized to looking and experience negative things regardless of their reality SL or RL.
Not sure why I know I tend to see the negative more then positive myself.
I have never been good at creating new realities regardless of the reality I am in.

But most people's facelights are faaaar too subtle. Little dim things that don't do any good at all. I mean, if you're going to wear a light, make it a LIGHT. Someone recently gave me one that fits the bill completely:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20573914@N02/2868076794/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20573914@N02/2868077162/

here's something that surprised me just yesterday ...

I discovered that you can spend two hours bouncing around the mainland roads, stark naked on a spacehopper, without meeting another soul.

lol! um ... the Bouncing Bi Babes??

I know a man who decided to change to a female avatar, simply because a LOT of women in SL either (a) want to partner, (b) want to be supported, or (c) hope to take a relationship to RL. He had created an extremely nice looking male avatar and couldn't keep the women away. While that may sound like a treat to many, this man is married, and all he wanted to do was play the game, maybe get laid occasionally, and just have a good time. After the third woman "fell in love" and wanted to partner after their second date and started asking about RL issues, and suffering a broken heart when he reminded her that he was married and that wasn't changing, he gave up. He became a female avatar and hasn't looked back.

It's funny to see how things have changed over the years, when I first started playing on line games back in 1999 (Everquest) many girls would play male characters to avoid getting harrasred. If you *ever* let on you were a RL female you would have a hoard of basement dwelling acne ridden teens with testosterone overload wanting to "group" with you.

It was so bad that if I was asked "R U a RL Female?" I would say "No, i'm a 50 year old long distance truck driver from Texas, but if you want I can be on your porch in a dress in less than 24 hours" ..... worked every time.

I discovered that you can spend two hours bouncing around the mainland roads, stark naked on a spacehopper, without meeting another soul.

It's funny to see how things have changed over the years, when I first started playing on line games back in 1999 (Everquest) many girls would play male characters to avoid getting harrasred. If you *ever* let on you were a RL female you would have a hoard of basement dwelling acne ridden teens with testosterone overload wanting to "group" with you.

It was so bad that if I was asked "R U a RL Female?" I would say "No, i'm a 50 year old long distance truck driver from Texas, but if you want I can be on your porch in a dress in less than 24 hours" ..... worked every time.

This constantly surprises me. The lack of people. I know there is much more land than when I started 2 years ago, but it's still so sparsely populated and mostly deserted. And it feels emptier because people don't come up and chat like they used to. I guess I should take off the "stay back!" sign.

This week I did try checking out a clump of green dots on the map to see what the event was and discovered another covey (herd? flock? murder?) of bots locked up in a room. They wouldn't talk to me either.

Oh the dreaded ASL. When I get that in world I am most nostalgic (and hitting the X).

My answer depended on how surreal I was feeling aka "233 of your earth years/indeterminate, as we exchange a cloud of spore/I'm in universe 9" - or more likely and still just as effective "penguin".

I'm surprised at how many people must never look at the edges of prims in their builds. Almost every build I've seen has at least one exposed face with a texture grotesquely stretched across it and several other prims that are overlapping just enough to produce nasty texture join lines. Folks, all that attention to detail costs is a little bit of time, so why not spend it?

Also surprised so many men choose to be women..I suppose cause they like watching an attractive woman do stuff. Though I do understand the urge to upgrade.

lol! um ... the Bouncing Bi Babes??

I know a man who decided to change to a female avatar, simply because a LOT of women in SL either (a) want to partner, (b) want to be supported, or (c) hope to take a relationship to RL. He had created an extremely nice looking male avatar and couldn't keep the women away. While that may sound like a treat to many, this man is married, and all he wanted to do was play the game, maybe get laid occasionally, and just have a good time. After the third woman "fell in love" and wanted to partner after their second date and started asking about RL issues, and suffering a broken heart when he reminded her that he was married and that wasn't changing, he gave up. He became a female avatar and hasn't looked back.

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Also surprised so many men choose to be women..I suppose cause they like watching an attractive woman do stuff. Though I do understand the urge to upgrade.