Want a baby in secondlife? Be careful
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Adam Zaius
Deus
Join date: 9 Jan 2004
Posts: 1,483
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11-20-2005 22:53
From: Koyuki Michabo Koyuki Michabo Industries is here to solve all of your bulk baby needs!
Due to our automated production methods we can fill any demand for babies no matter how huge. We keep a large number of babies in stock at all times so you'll never be waiting, and our production methods make baby creating cheaper. That's a saving we pass straight on to you, the customer!
Order your baby (or indeed box(es) of babies) today!
Special discounts for bulk orders!
Pictures follow: Bahaahahahahahaha. |
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RICX Curie
Jeweler
Join date: 21 Apr 2004
Posts: 26
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11-20-2005 23:06
concidering the topic of this thread its been interesting, dunno if its my favorite cartoon or my worst nightmare, i laughed, i cried, and Koyuki Michabo ur scary, want a job?
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Mulch Ennui
15 Minutes are Over
Join date: 22 May 2005
Posts: 2,607
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11-20-2005 23:36
From: Phoenix Psaltery (Sheepishly raising hand) I am.
P2 This is soooooooooo old. Grow up. ME (cubed)
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Richie Waves
Predictable
Join date: 29 Jun 2005
Posts: 1,424
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11-21-2005 00:41
um.. these babies are annoying anyway.. I was forsed to mute SL the other night when 2 women arrived into a club with them strapped onto their chest.. u can mute the chat spam they make.. and the baby sounds are cute for like 15 seconds.. after that its elmuto SLooh.. >.>
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Moopf Murray
Moopfmerising
Join date: 7 Jan 2004
Posts: 2,448
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11-21-2005 00:52
From: Angela Robertson Well my dreams of having babies with my hubby here are dashed. I've picked up everything in the nursery, I am wearing black as if in mourning, for I am mourning the death of a baby never to be. Now I have to explain to my hubby when he gets home, that his son will never be. Not sure I can ever go through this again. This truly has broken my heart. I'm sorry, my darling. I think you have issues that need to be dealt with. Maybe you should learn to appreciate the difference between the non-delivery of a group of scripted prims and the loss of a baby in RL. Personally, I find your attitude rather frightening and would suggest you need to get a grip on reality. EDIT: Oh yeah, you've had bad service from this mercahnt, but please keep it in perspective. |
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Garnet Psaltery
Walking on the Moon
Join date: 12 Apr 2005
Posts: 913
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11-21-2005 01:03
I think it's time people were a little kinder to someone who is suffering. It doesn't matter what you 'gamers' think of prim babies or pixel relationships, here is someone genuinely upset. Angela, I'm sorry you're having a hard time. If this upset relates to a RL difficulty then it's going to take a while to adjust; if it's a matter of SL only then take comfort in the fact that things happen very quickly here. You'll most likely feel better quite soon.
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Moopf Murray
Moopfmerising
Join date: 7 Jan 2004
Posts: 2,448
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11-21-2005 01:11
From: Garnet Psaltery I think it's time people were a little kinder to someone who is suffering. It doesn't matter what you 'gamers' think of prim babies or pixel relationships, here is someone genuinely upset. Angela, I'm sorry you're having a hard time. If this upset relates to a RL difficulty then it's going to take a while to adjust; if it's a matter of SL only then take comfort in the fact that things happen very quickly here. You'll most likely feel better quite soon. Tell that to the people who've lost babies in real life and let me know what they say. Quote this person's comments to them. They're nothing short of distasteful and indicative of not appreciating the difference between the virtual world and that of reality. If this person has really been so affected as to be in mourning for a bunch of scripted prims then their grip on reality is somewhat thin. I'm sorry but complaining about bad service from a merchant in SL is one thing, and being upset and annoyed by that is totally understandable, and she's obviously experienced bad service. But to go as far emotionally as this poster has over a bunch of scripted prims verges on the insane. Some people get so wrapped up in their Second Life that it's scary. |
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Selador Cellardoor
Registered User
Join date: 16 Nov 2003
Posts: 3,082
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11-21-2005 01:12
Garnet,
I agree. I sometimes find it worrying that there are so many people in the world who seem incapable of feeling empathy for anyone with a different mind-set from their own.
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Richie Waves
Predictable
Join date: 29 Jun 2005
Posts: 1,424
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11-21-2005 01:17
Hang on.. the "loss" factor in the original post was a joke!! no way shes serios >.<
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Noel Marlowe
Victim of Occam's Razor
Join date: 18 Apr 2005
Posts: 275
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11-21-2005 05:29
Perhaps, we are taking this matter too lightly. I mean this is special, magical moment in SL. As the baby is born, the doctor takes the umbilical cord and then clicks Tools->Unlink...
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Enabran Templar
Capitalist Pig
Join date: 26 Aug 2004
Posts: 4,506
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11-21-2005 05:31
From: Richie Waves Hang on.. the "loss" factor in the original post was a joke!! no way shes serios >.< Are you sure? Because a lot of people who seemed to know the OP were pretty indignant that anyone would even dare to take this lightly. |
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Sensual Casanova
Spoiled Brat
Join date: 28 Feb 2004
Posts: 4,807
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11-21-2005 06:41
From: Koyuki Michabo Koyuki Michabo Industries is here to solve all of your bulk baby needs!
Due to our automated production methods we can fill any demand for babies no matter how huge. We keep a large number of babies in stock at all times so you'll never be waiting, and our production methods make baby creating cheaper. That's a saving we pass straight on to you, the customer!
Order your baby (or indeed box(es) of babies) today!
Special discounts for bulk orders!
Pictures follow: Omg I have never laughed so hard in my life! |
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Rose Karuna
Lizard Doctor
Join date: 5 Jun 2004
Posts: 3,772
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11-21-2005 07:03
From: Selador Cellardoor Garnet,
I agree. I sometimes find it worrying that there are so many people in the world who seem incapable of feeling empathy for anyone with a different mind-set from their own. I agree too. SL is different things to different people. Prims assembled into symbols can be very powerful. I can think of people who have left Second Life because of Symbols made of prims. I can't help but be reminded of the first person that I remember seeing with a baby in SL. She really had lost a baby in RL, that's why she made babies in SL. Maybe it was a way to work through things, I'm not sure. I do know that when I started SL I was very homesick and so one of the first things I created was my old home back in Kamloops. I don't know why but somehow it made me feel better, like painting a picture of it. Maybe that's what Angela's doing and she's upset because the person she was counting on to deliver the canvas was a crook. .
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Taylor Jacobs
Registered User
Join date: 7 Jul 2004
Posts: 51
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11-21-2005 07:07
I don't think it was a joke either. She was quite upset and very into the role play.
I know there are couples that really like this concept of expecting a baby. We see it when women come in looking for prefabs with enough space for nursuries. For some the woman generally is unable to have children in real life for one reason or another. These prim babies fill a need emotionally with them until the real life need can be filled. Granted a good many are just in love with the idea of being preganant and having the perfect baby.
Anyway, its obvious the OP was extremely upset over this, and though we can say she is "out of touch" I'm sure we all have things in this world that we see as important that others would claim WE are out of touch with reality about.
Let's cut the woman some slack here....the real issue is a company that is taking advantage of these couples and not providing what they advertise and with the respect and customer service it should have.
Didn't a member of the Metaverse Messenger run into some very poor customer support recently and reported it on the forums for advice and support? I think we could all say, why does anyone need a prim house, but the fact is, she did, she paid a lot of money, and she expected a certain level of customer support when there were problems. Seems to me, that is all this woman is asking for as well.
Taylor...a man that after living through two pregancies with is wife, knows to not mess with a nesting woman.
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Five Axon
Registered User
Join date: 15 Nov 2005
Posts: 1
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Highly amused!
11-21-2005 07:11
Stop the ghosts in Pacman from stalking me! Let me eat the dots unfettered.
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Elgyfu Wishbringer
The Pootler
Join date: 27 Nov 2004
Posts: 659
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11-21-2005 07:15
I have lost six babies.
Mine were in real life though.
You complaints about being treated badly by a seller are fully justified.
But in real life there is no one to complain to.
You are 'heartbroken' over the late delivery of a prim baby?
Forgive me for not being able to sympathise on that one.
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Brooklyn Davis
Owner, Parallax View
Join date: 15 May 2005
Posts: 226
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11-21-2005 07:16
Im very sorry to hear how these people treated you honey. Someone I used to be very close with in SL went through the same thing with the same place. They were rude to her and they did the ssme thing about no record of her paying if I remember correctly. They also did the whole " we dont work on weekends" thing and she had to wait for her baby until the next day. This may just be a pixelated place, but the people behind the avies are real. For some this is a game, for some its the only way they can be with people they really care for, and if a prim baby is something that will bring 2 people closer somehow, or make them happy, then i am all for it. My r/w husband and I are currently 4000 miles apart. SL is the only place right now where I can hold him, and be in the same room with him and all that. The prim baby thing isnt for us .. we have 6 kids between us in the r/w ... but if it works for other people then RIGHT ON for them. Its sad that the almighty Linden is so important to some people that they would forget that there are real people with real feelings behind those store bought skins. SHAME ON THEM and BIG HUGS to you and your hubby honey. Dont mourn what wasnt, look forward to what will be. All the best to you and yours. Brooklyn From: Angela Robertson I was thrilled when I got married. I had dreams of marital bliss and many babies. Just a few short weeks after I got married, I went to a well known baby place and I oohed and ahhed over all the cute baby things, the sweet sounds that the babies made, the adorable little babies themselves. I asked my hubby if we could start our family. When he agreed, I made the purchase of the baby. Only the baby, though. I was told that since it was only the baby, that it wouldn't take long. Excellent! I made my own shapes, since that is what I do. My friends and my hubby shared my excitement. We couldn't wait on the birth of our first son. Friends were giving me gifts, my mother in law was spoiling me to no end. I even bought us a new house. Made one of the rooms off the master bedroom into an adorable little nursery with a set that I had bought at the clinic. Such a beautiful nursery. As the weeks progressed, I decided to ask about the status of the baby. It worried me a little when I was asked my due date, but I shrugged it off. Okay they are a very busy clinic, tons of babies, with also furniture and other things as well. I patiently gave my due date and was told the baby would be given to me on that date. Well yesterday was that date. November 19th. Friday night I asked about the baby and I was told they dont work on the weekends. Uh oh. What now? Then I was asked to give them a new notecard with the baby information on it and that the baby would be sent to me as soon as possible. When I went to send it, the person with whom I was in IM with had gone offline. Ack! Ok, shrug it off, dont worry. Well yesterday was my due date. I got online to an offline message asking what my question was and about the notecard. Hmmm... Ok... now I was beginning to worry. So when I responded, they were offline but I went on to explain the situation. I didn't get a response. Well today I am still without a baby. They dont work on the weekends. HMmmm... nothing was said about my not getting my baby if my due date falls on the weekend! Well in short, they will have my baby ready for me by 430 pm tomorrow... and I am not even sure that my hubby will even be here to enjoy the event... and furthermore they tell me they have no record of my ever paying!!! Well my dreams of having babies with my hubby here are dashed. I've picked up everything in the nursery, I am wearing black as if in mourning, for I am mourning the death of a baby never to be. Now I have to explain to my hubby when he gets home, that his son will never be. Not sure I can ever go through this again. This truly has broken my heart. I'm sorry, my darling. |
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Abrah Sullivan
The Instigator
Join date: 15 Nov 2005
Posts: 51
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11-21-2005 07:21
I laughed a little... because for a minute I thought I was reading a real newspaper article, then I looked up and saw "Second Life Forums".
On the other hand, I am sorry that you paid lindens and were taken. It's too bad that people have to be shadey here... but it's like I always say, you can tell a person's true self by how they act over the internet - when all of the physical dangers are removed (IE: Getting hit in your mouth for smarting off) then the true person comes out. So in short, if I see your "Baby's doctor" I'll hit him with my car... my first life car, and send him to the first life hospital.
I can make you a baby, but I'm still learning out to build, so it might be a ball prim and a tube prim ..but I'll add gurgling and crying sounds for you.
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Starax Statosky
Unregistered User
Join date: 23 Dec 2003
Posts: 1,099
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11-21-2005 07:46
I don't post very often on the forums. I find it far too easy to upset people. Anybody who knows me, knows just how silly and impulsive I can be. On the forums, It seems that there is always somebody that is going to take offense, even at the most trivial of posts.
What we have here is somebody who is doing something unusual (becoming attached to a prim baby, or rather, not becoming attached) and letting other people know about it. Now this is probably her only mistake. Isn't it unreasonable to expect people to understand when you're doing something unusual?.
For example, I've become quite attached to the lightbulb that is lighting the room I'm sat in. We go back quite far, when this lightbulb finally goes pop and darkness falls upon me. It will be a very very sad day. But I'm not going to be coming onto the forums expecting people to understand my sadness over the loss of my lightbulb. I just know you would all look at me like I've lost more than just my lightbulb. That would be understandable.
So if we do something unsusal, should we be publicizing it and then expecting people to understand?
Cue lightbulb jokes.
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Modesty Kent
Registered User
Join date: 28 Jan 2005
Posts: 16
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11-21-2005 07:51
First off, I'm very sorry, Angela.
To the rest of us... for some this is a social medium, for others a creative outlet, a way to make RL money, for others, maybe like myself, its a way of writing a story.
You will all agree (and perhaps be relieved that I believe this) that I am not my avie. And I dont RP in SL as much as I RP in other games I play (in others I am NEVER OOC). Either way, I write my character's life. When you RP enough, like when you write a book or a novel or a play, your character develops sorta its own personality. Maybe hard to understand for some, but you let your character be and react to something as it would, not yourself. To me it makes it easier to play these games. There is no real emotional attachment, when you log off, you step out of it. You care for the people you play with, of course, but its really cool when you can even RP an argument with someone straight faced, and seemingly genuine, because you know and the other player knows its somethign between characters, not players.
Angela has every right to be upset, to deal with this the way she sees fit. If she wants to RP this all the way through, and not just be upset about bad customer service, its her choice and I dont think she should be shot down for it or made fun of...
we all live in fantasy here. I'm sure few of us have made avies that look exactly like us. Few of us go to nightclubs everynight (unless you take your laptop with you and plug it in some obscure corner....), few of us dress like we dress our avies... oohh.. wait...any of you got a HOVER BIKE IRL??? I WANNA RIDE!
As far as the "company" goes, maybe a BBB would be good in SL... or a mediator system, not unlike a court. I know for one thing, next time I pay a large amount of money for anything in SL, I'm getting the EXCEL print out off the website.
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Lordfly Digeridoo
Prim Orchestrator
Join date: 21 Jul 2003
Posts: 3,628
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11-21-2005 07:52
From: Starax Statosky
Cue lightbulb jokes.
How many prim babies does it take to screw in a lightbulb? 2. One to rez limb by limb, and the other to come late with the lightbulb in its hand.
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Sensual Casanova
Spoiled Brat
Join date: 28 Feb 2004
Posts: 4,807
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11-21-2005 07:52
From: Starax Statosky I don't post very often on the forums. I find it far too easy to upset people. Anybody who knows me, knows just how silly and impulsive I can be. On the forums, It seems that there is always somebody that is going to take offense, even at the most trivial of posts.
What we have here is somebody who is doing something unusual (becoming attached to a prim baby, or rather, not becoming attached) and letting other people know about it. Now this is probably her only mistake. Isn't it unreasonable to expect people to understand when you're doing something unusual?.
For example, I've become quite attached to the lightbulb that is lighting the room I'm sat in. We go back quite far, when this lightbulb finally goes pop and darkness falls upon me. It will be a very very sad day. But I'm not going to be coming onto the forums expecting people to understand my sadness over the loss of my lightbulb. I just know you would all look at me like I've lost more than just my lightbulb. That would be understandable.
So if we do something unsusal, should we be publicizing it and then expecting people to understand?
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Anastasia Cooper
Sexy Chica
Join date: 11 Dec 2004
Posts: 31
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Awww
11-21-2005 08:05
Well all I gotta say is Good luck with your child I know how it feels to lose a baby and I am not talkng about SL but I have really good thoughts and I know you will get a child someday but it might take time ignore all these people that are rude they dont have a life so they have to try to ruin yours I hope everything turns out great Im rootin for you
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Sebastian Skye
Second Life Resident
Join date: 20 Nov 2004
Posts: 89
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11-21-2005 08:36
I feel for the OP. I also feel for the RL people who have had similar losts. But come on, the Forum for Second Life. If we apply this line of thinking, we wouldn't be able to complain about anything in Second Life.
I lost a house in Second Life that was no copy/transfer. Do I not file a bug report because people lost their houses in New Orleans?
I can barely move in SL because of 1.7 generated lag. Do I not complain because there are people in real life who can't at all?
Someone advertised furniture that looked real but sucked in world. Do I not complain because there are people in rl who are ripped off every day?
This person had a valid complaint within the confines of this world. Anyone who has told her not to complain because of similar real life issues, should now refrain from complaining about anything in Second Life.
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Cocoanut Koala
Coco's Cottages
Join date: 7 Feb 2005
Posts: 7,903
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11-21-2005 08:49
From: Garnet Psaltery I think it's time people were a little kinder to someone who is suffering. It doesn't matter what you 'gamers' think of prim babies or pixel relationships, here is someone genuinely upset. Angela, I'm sorry you're having a hard time. If this upset relates to a RL difficulty then it's going to take a while to adjust; if it's a matter of SL only then take comfort in the fact that things happen very quickly here. You'll most likely feel better quite soon. What Garters Aplenty said. (I have been waiting for an opportunity to use that! I just love that anagram!) coco |
