Give us some Press Release Quotes!

Hi everyone,

We are working on the press release for next week's E3 conference (which will include a bunch of big SL news), and want to feature you all as prominently as possible.

One way we'd like to do this is to include a quote from one of you that shows off SL and our collective commitment to it. I'd like to invite those who would like to be quoted to reply to this thread with ideas. So something like:

"Oh Boy in SL you can do anything, like my hidden underwater cave and actual working sharks" - Philip Linden.

Well anyway that's the idea, but I suspect you can come up with things that are much better

Bear in mind we'll only have room to put in one quote, and might not use anything we see on the thread, but please if you are interested send us some ideas!

Thanks,

CEO Philip

"In SL you can do anything, be anything and create anything! Its like living in a dream but never waking up!"

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"Second Life allows me to be creative in a glitter-free and shaven-dog way."

"Before SL, I went outside, now I can't even remember what grass smells like. Please help me"

no? ok, how about:

"SL is the place you dreamed about after reading Snowcrash and Neuromancer"

"Second Life is the closest thing to having your own Star Trek 'Hollow Deck'"!


"For all of the fans of Virtual Reality movies from the 80's and 90's our time has come. Second Life gives us the VR world of our dreams."

"If you loved ReBoot!, The Matrix, Lawnmower Man, or Virtuosity, and always wanted to have your own VR world, well, now you can with Second Life."

"If you can Dream it, you can Experience it, Build it, Play it, or Be it in Second Life."

"Start your own Second Life, its what virtual reality is all about."

- Mickey Roark

(punctuation, grammar, and spelling are yours to change if you wish)

"Be ready to be addicted"

"in 5 months I was asked ASL only once"

"Feeds your creative self with less mess and doesnt take up precious closet space with a bunch of trendy high cost tools and supplies"

"After five months, most games are stale and boring with nothiing new to learn or do. Five months in SL and I'm just scratching the surface of possibilities."

"I left on vacation and came home with a pocket full of ideas scrawled on napkins. I couldnt wait to get back home and log in"

Second Life is like a piece of clay, yours to yours to shape and mold into anything you want, and then make it fly!

Tracey Kato

"Almost as good as sex but without the expense of having to buy costly vegetables."

In 5 months I built a wizards staff, a wizards tower, 2 homes, an island, an Arcade and Casino, arcade and gambling games, a Church with a grave yard and the common room of an Inn. I have destroyed the tower and the homes, and moved the Arcade. I have joined 2 city communities, an 1800's haunted village community, and created a community of my own. I have met hundreds of people from all over the world and won lotteries. I have taken classes and taught classes, been to townhall meetings, house warming parties, lottery drawings, trivia competitions, sports games, and game shows. And I've only started.

- Ama Omega.

Its long hehe. Edit as you see fit if you want.

"Other games use the phrase "The only limit is your imagination." Second Life is the only place where this is actually true."

"Whenever I want to escape the stressful world of real life, Second Life is always there to lift my spirits up."

"Second Life redefines the term "unlimited possibilities" and sets a new precedent for the online gaming world."

"I can build a box!" (Seriously, someone else should have caught this before me, lol )

"What happens when your real life becomes everything you've ever wanted it to be? Second Life happens."

'SecondLife has totally ruined my abiltiie to play video games. All I want to do is create my own paths, rather than follow someone else's trail.'

'I play so much, my girlfriend jokes about which is actually my first life!'

'um... sorry can't talk right now... busy... SecondLife...'

'Second Life... well it's not better than my first, but it is damn close to being just as much fun!'

"Second Life gives you the freedom of creation, while you are stuck in other games just choosing limited avatars, in Second Life you can create your own avatar, you can be a giant chicken if you want "
-Hikaru Yamamoto

"Alot of games get a bad rap with people saying that that guns are being used in real life bacause of the game, well I find myself looking at real life to influence what I build in Second Life" .....hmmm how many primes would it take to build this in SL?

SL is the closest thing to a full reality experience game, next to being plugged in to a matrix style interface."

Second Life challenges all accepted boundaries of interactive online gaming; it offers so much to so many. The reclusive bohemian works a new piece of art in a mountain retreat, the social butterfly hits the raves in their latest nightwear, the wolfpack wargamer leads a squad into the bush to test a new defense grid. Lead or follow, build or explore, work or play; Second Life takes the game "out of the box" and puts it where it belongs...in your hands.

and/or

Other games cling like shrink wrap once you get used to the creative freedom of Second Life. I can breathe!

Let your imagination carry you away, I did

"I cant believe it. you can really make anything! I saw a flying hippo yesterday while traveiling around second life!"

Be prepared to give up your first life...




fen-

"Great friend's wounderful places unlimited possibility's can you think of any thing better?"

"What the mind perceives, Second Life can achieve."
"It's like the real world, only better. And no bathroom breaks."
"Real life now has competition."

and, of course,

"Second Life: The only place where you truly control your destiny."

Have you ever thought, "Well, if it was up to me I would've done it this way or that way." Two words: Second Life.

This is a Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying SIM, not a MMORPGame. Your world can be what you make it. You're in YOUR world now.

"Still not sure why they are calling it 'second' life."

"In Second Life we build more in two hours than you do all day"

"People moved to America for freedom of religion. People move to Second Life for freedom of the mind"

"I used to do this in my head as a kid. Remember how hard it was to get good props for make-belive back then? Well not anymore. Come relive your childhood!"

"Second Life, where building a watch is a feat, and growing wings is not."

"Give back my first life!"

"If I spend any more time in here I'll be calling reality Second Life instead."

"I'm currently working on a script that will let me use 'llSetRealLife() = False'."

"Neo eat your heart out!"

"The Green Lantern's got nothin on me!"

"Wow... I kinda feel like god...."

Vonnegut wrote "We are what we pretend to be..." and nowhere is that more true than in Second Life.

In here, the faces we put on for the world become reality, and how we interact shows our selves. As in real life (RL) we are still judged somewhat on appearence, but that form is what we choose to make it. Age, income, sex, race, even species are what we choose to be, and it is on those terms that we are defined.

I entered not knowing what to expect and my first questions (which I've since heard repeated by several others) were: how do I play? What do we do?

Answer: Nearly anything. Want a frag-fest with a variety of traditional and exotic weapons? Head for the outlands, suit up and slay. Want to play a few simple card or casino games? There are plenty to choose from. Want to explore a clothing-optional lifestyle? There are places for that. Want to shop? Clothing and furnishing stores abound. Want to invent things that work as you imagine? Do it.

What SL excels at is social interaction. More than chat rooms, it is a place to meet people and kick around in fantastic settings. In a week, I've made a variety of friends including a demoness that lives in a sylishly-furnished crypt, a fairy who lives in a hollow tree, and an eccentric inventor who lives in a mansion complete with private shark-infested beach. I'm going with an angelic thing myself, and am fashioning a cathedral-like home in the clouds.

If you want it, buy it or build it. The resources are there, the laws of physics can be bent, people always seem willing to help, and you can be as creative as you've dreamed. If you can't find it, you can build it or just wait a week and see if someone else does.

In short, this is an alternate reality you can play in, much less restrictive than the structure of MMORPGs. They are all, to some extent, fantasy given form; but here it is YOUR fantasy that can be implemented.

Just living in this world for a time is a pleasure and a wonder.

"I have seen chairs and stadium seats appear out of nowhere just by a single command, hot-air balloons, trap doors invisible to the naked eye, police-training style target practices... a small Japanese town just a bit away from a city crafted in the stylings of William Gibson's visions; virtual recreations of national monuments and giant statues of angels and goddesses... all in a world that you can fly like a superhero and quite possibly come the closest to having the power of a god or goddess, shaping portions of this world to your own tastes... and not after reaching a certain level, but having the tools available to you immediately".

"I am more popular in Second Life than I ever have been in my whole first life"

"Second Life is the closest thing to an actual Utopia than the real world could ever hope to achieve in eons of existence"

"This like soooooo doesn't suck"

heh


"Tonight I'm gonna ride a gondola through the streets of Venice. Fly a hot air balloon to Japan for tea. Create my own MMORPG in a cyberpunk city. Then I'll decide what to do tomorrow. You can't imagine it until you experience it, but it's real, it's here, and it's now. Come join us!"