Tell something silly (or dumb!) from your newbie days

When I was a newbie, I sent an AR to LL, thinking they would do something about the problem.

LOL, I did that to Lexxi accidentally ... two days ago.

Hmm. Well. Let's see.

- Thinking that a "prim skirt" would be demure and ankle-length (prim and proper, of course!)

- Thinking that someone with "Celebrity" as their title might actually be a celebrity in SL.

- Playing with a Wyvernclaw wand and thinking, "Hey, SL doesn't need any other magic!"

- Creating a wearable prim billboard but then saying, "Nah, it'll just be antisocial to ask people to wander around other people's land wearing ads, I don't do this after all".

- Creating a cube which, when sat on, shrank itself to the smallest possible size and then fired itself along the X axis with a couple of thousand newtons of force. I went through about 3 sims and 5 people's houses before the crash from network underflow.

- Getting really jealous about Four Seasons and then going there and finding it deleted by the landlord because the builder refused to include camping chairs. That was a hard lession about jealousy and also about what is and isn't popular in SL.

- Accumulating something like 8 submissives because I thought people wanting to "serve me" were offering to help me out. When I later found that they were apparantly expecting me to pay for and build a house and fill it with torture equipment, this sort of vanished. (I was a domme at one point, but not that kind... I guess you could probably file that under "dumb" too. )

Oh, and not really newbie time, but..

- Trying out about 4 3D graphics packages at the time when sculpties were coming in rather than accepting that I am not a 3D artist.

Oh, I did that on purpose. I turned it physical, the box. Course I rolled around and ended with head buired because the box was raise up then edit box closed.

I still remember, fondly, when Trout crashed his biplane on the weather sim, and I then and there made a wheelchair. Turned it physical, and rolled down the hill. Again and again. Some of the funniest, fun time I've had in SL. Wheelchair looked horrible. I had to edit move it to the top of the hill. It "rolled" down the hill by flipping end over end, not on wheels. I still do not think of myself as a builder. But that was a lot of fun.

LOL My friend has a chihuahua named 'Kilo' and he's an absolute sweety.....but lemme tell ya, this poor little dog lives up to HIS name, he's got a kilo alright!


I remember so little from my early days.....probably blocked a lot out. The first thing that springs to mind was when I had my first apartment and I went absolutely insane trying to position my furniture with the grab/drag feature. I didn't know yet about using edit and so I probably spent hours getting my bed to sit level and my couch to face the right way.....doh! That and beng so proud of myself for creating my first outfit from scratch using the library texturesi......lol it was sooooo bad.

My ex-Fiancee & I were trying out SL together.

She TP'd somewhere then sent me an invite.

We found what we thought were Poseballs to make you sit on a bench.

We clicked on them & found ourselves in a sexual position, which was funny till some "guy" came over & joined in.

Exploring SL on my own, I found a neat looking, but empty, Club. Looked like some kind of cartoon animal anime club...... till I went inside & discovered what a "Yiffing" club was.

Trying on random freebies in private, nakies, wearing a really bad hair and some blingy hooker heels .... ..Opened the next box and when the landmark popped up I hit "teleport" instead of "delete".

(Except I did this a month ago, not 2 years ago.)

I forgot my account password after being away from SL for half a year. So, I made a temporary replacement account using the stupid "Sideways" name.

(^_^)y

First day inworld, stumbling around on help island, I suddenly walk over the rails of a bridge and find myself standing in water. I can't move. Well, I thought that was "game over" somehow, that I had died. Tried logging back in the next day and was sad to see my avatar was still in the water. But hey! I could move again!

I later realised I probably couldn't move because I had accidentally entered a space or a letter in the local chat bar. Doh.

having spent my first few months logging in to an "exotic dance" club (where I met my partner - eventually lol) I decided to buy my first 512.... man I sweated over that! Uploading RL cash .. OMG what am I doing?? Still I went for it, bought the plot, then decided I needed a house.... so I bought a 89 prim "Victorian" house with only a partial floor between the ground and 1st - you had to fly up to reach the next floor. Imagine.... I eventually made some stairs with the remainder of my prims. So I could go upstairs, but there was nothing there when I got there LOL

Then of course I decided an outside pool would be nice, so started terraforming..... the rest is history as they say.

And it took me forever to realise you could rent/lease parcels on private estates...

Inc

I spent 4 days on Help Island before venturing out on to the mainland.

I thought when you died (on damage enabled land) that your avatar died forever and you had to make a new one.

I thought my avatar stayed in-world when I signed out, so I used to teleport home to Hyles and sit between my favorite trees before I signed out.

Funny thing... Even though I never thought about it that way. I still walk away before teleporting and keep a hiding place just for logging off. It simply feels better. (^_^)y

My first little home was on a lovely beach sim. While trying to learn how to place furniture, I shot so many chairs, tables, plants, etc. way off my parcel; later to find out they were ending up in the neighbors houses, under the water, all over the place. It was so bad that a couple of my neighbors wandered over one day and offered to place the stuff for me. LOL

Met a great gal, my sweetie and I when we were about a week old here. She took us under her wing, rented us a house for barely any $L, put us in her rental group, showed us where to camp at her land to earn $L, and told us to feel free to pick from the money tree.

I pulled up the tree. Had no idea, right clicked on it and when it said "take", I took.

Even worse, after I told her (in tears) what I'd done, that I didn't know how to put it back... she replaced it. I told my partner what happened, and lo and behold.. Eli ALSO yanked up the tree.

She was so patient with us, bless her heart!

Hmmm. I was wearing the default system skin and wondered why I didn't at least have nipples. So I mentioned it to a friend who was also relatively new but was learning how to make things. Next thing I know, he's made undershirt nipples for me. I was thrilled. I felt complete.

Then maybe a week later I discovered Sexy Carmela (sp?) at Sarah Nerd's and OMG it had naughty bits built in.

It never dawned on me to ask my friend why he didn't know about skins or didn't tell me.

I have a friend who always walks out of clubs instead of poofing out. And I do feel better TP'ing home before logging off.

I do that most of the time, especially if the landing point is outside. If I had to walk IN the door, I walk OUT through the door.

I almost always TP home before logging off. I have even been known to relog after a crash just so I could TP home to log off.


Dog names (FL): I have a Shih-Tzu named "Doberman". It amuses me to no end to have a 14-lb lapdog named Doberman. The name really shaped his 'tude - he's VERY brave ... as long as he is behind a closed window looking out. He owns me. *grin*


OK, the dumb newbie stuff... I originally TPd off O.I. by clicking on the sign, but I didn't understand about LMs or using the map - I just walked around. When I fell through a prim (musta been a sim crossing) and got trapped under the floor of a building and couldn't walk or fly out I thought it was game over. Assuming that I had to make a new account to "start again" evolved into an infatuation with alts ("Hi, my name is Drivin, and I'm an altoholic..."

After my second account learned about how to TP, I logged back in as Drivin Sideways and freed myself from under the building!

Then, for some reason I had learned how to box things up and set them for sale long before I learned how to give an item by dropping it on someone's profile or calling card.

So ... when I had something I wanted to transfer between Alts I'd box it up, set it to $L0 and leave it in a special place next to a bench at the Mauve sandbox. Then I'd quickly log in as the other alt and hurry to get there before someone else bought/took the item.

Damn, I'm almost embarassed to tell that.

I thought this too.I made a secret room that I went in before logging off.LOL

That reminds me of when I went to a new zoo that had opened up. I got there and was *so* disappointed to find that there were no animals at all except one dog.

Pep (That's right; it was a Shih-tzu. )

*rimshot*

Another newbie experience I'm reminded of: I rented my first place a couple of months in (so not entirely a newbie). It was a great deal - an unfurnished Japanese-style house by a lake and very cheap for the number of prims. I set about furnishing it with freebie stuff, which involved rezzing dozens of pieces of furniture to see what they looked like. Once I'd decided which I liked, I started deleting the others.

Right-click, delete. Right-click, delete. Right-click, delete. There were lots, so I was busy clicking around the place as fast as I could. Right-click, delete. Right-click, delete. Right-click, delete. Ri... WHERE THE HELL IS MY HOUSE!

I was really embarrassed to have to go to my landlady and tell her I'd deleted the house, even though I was /fairly/ sure she wouldn't have lost it.

And then the next day, I did it again. Genius.

When I was about a month old, I found this really neat beach ball at a yard sale that you could actually play with, so I bought it. Thank goodness I can't remember how much I paid for something that I almost immediately discovered was already in my inventory.

My first days/weeks in Second Life were nothing but fail. (I am counting from this av, not the original forgotten-name av from, yes...2003.)

Let's see. I remember making hair, makeup and skin tone in appearance mode, and - wow was I happy when I figured out I could make clothes and shoes there, too!

The first Clarissa had bright red hair (I thought it looked best of the other system hair) lavendar eye shadow, and PINK zebra stripe hot pants, midriff top and matching knee high chunky heeled boots made from the appearance mode. Sizzlin!

Later, I wanted to be more conservative, and have another outfit. So I made "jeans" and a blue top with a sheer panel in back. When someone at the infohub (Ahern, pretty sure) pointed out in IM that I could detach that, I felt injured and said "I like it like that." Looking back, it looked like t.p. coming out of my jeans...

As for getting around. I didn't know how. I asked people, and they either said "fly" or "click on the map." I asked where to go and someone gave me the name of what turned out to be a strip club. It was empty but since the only way anyone told me to get around, was to type in the name of a place, or click the map, and the map around the hub was a bit empty, I would type in the name of that place and then click around the map near it once I got there.

When I tried to fly, I ran into buildings, ran into trees, got caught at (probably) sim borders, bounced back, ended up stuck spinning in mid air, or even in the sea. Once I was trapped in the sea for days and couldn't figure out how to get out of there. I still don't remember how I finally got out of the sea. I felt such despair thinking I had ruined my game forever. I thought you got one avatar and that was that. Because the sign in page said "choose your name carefully - you won't get another one!" I tried to pick a name that sounded pretty and 'normal' but not so everyday that everyone would have the same one. (I didn't know about one name per game yet either, I guess.)

I went to some island with a parrot on it and I think I got money but then the island took it back when I 'voted' on things. When I asked someone what I could do about it they said 'nothing.'

After some time I logged in again and was still in the 'supermodel' shape and fairy outfit some kind women in a dungeon (another map click mishap) had given me, but still in system hair and skin. I had tried wearing hair they had given me, but it didn't fit, or something. I remember thinking I must look so hot, and I didn't look like the other 'noobs' but couldn't figure out why no one else seemed to think so...except apparently fellow noobs who would occasionally walk up with a "want to do the sex?"

Got offered a job in a strip club, (the one the 'helpful' person at the hub had told me to go to) and didn't know I could say no. So I got up on the pole, wore the silks I was given that I thought the guy was sooo generous to give me (and partly why I felt obligated) that I now realise are the Freebie mall silk pack, and clicked the pole poseball to dance. I got no tips, the place was nearly empty.

Walked around with the strip club's group tag on my head for weeks, embarrassed everywhere I went. I felt like a marked, scarlet woman. I felt like I shouldn't be out and about with 'decent' people who were just being too nice to say anything. I finally asked some friendly-looking female avatar how to take that "sign off my head" and she told me. Phew! Now I didn't have to go back there. I think I went back to tell the place "I quit" but no one was ever there, so I just thought, okay. (I never got paid anything anyway!)

Oh and lots of boxes on my head, and dressing while crouching behind big signs or trees or wherever I could find something big enough to hide my tall av behind...

I remember the people who helped me and the people who didn't (not by name, except one woman was called Doc something) and it's how I try to treat or not treat newbies to this day.