"Playing" Second Life? What do you call it?

Yeah, I guess my standards of "working somewhere that won't look ridiculous on my resume later" and "is actually subject to any labor laws or codes of conduct enforcible by the state so I have even the slightest amount of protection if the shit hits the fan" are a little high!

I refuse to accept that the job market is so bad that the best work you can find is playing a computer game all day. Shit, even places like McDonalds-level jobs can offer health benefits. They might suck but it's more than SL's gonna give you!

RL is a very uncertain existence,and has been since the first life forms appeared several billion years ago. SL is a very uncertain existence too.

People who go out of their way to dump on someone driven to make money from this place so they can stay home with a troubled child like the poster above need to understand what contemptible scum they have become in the service of their disgustingly small and vicious, neurotic egos, and go become enforcers for loan sharks, or the kind of scum who turn unemployed ghetto people out into the gutter for a paycheck, or maybe help the Taliban kill the people they regard as moral inferiors.

Either way, we need fewer of the scumbags who lurk to dump on people the least bit less "successful" (whatever the hell THAT means in a world where you play the cards you are dealt in life). Those here who fit that description, please do SL and us normal human beings a favor, and go get a job in RL pulling the fillings out of the teeth of pitiful victims who have no defense against you for money. We here in SL will flourish far better without you than with you. Better yet, get cancer and die, in intolerable pain, slowly, and let us watch, ok? We won't make any money off it, but we will enjoy it.

Actually, my work in SL has intrigued people, some of whom are former clients for graphic design work. I work for myself, /with/ someone who is not my employer. I work the hours I choose and am quite content with my schedule and interaction.



Uh, sure, sweetcheeks. McD's is going to provide health benefits. That's "reality".

Let's sit you down and discuss this like adults for a moment, shall we?

I live in a somewhat isolated area. The gas to go to a minimum wage job, combined with child care for my kids (especially the youngest, who isn't what most people consider "normal" would render any minimum wage job a negative income. I would lose money by working outside the home, whereas my current income in SL is largely profit.

I also enjoy what I do in SL, and see no detriment to my resume or my children because of it; my time with the girls, in fact, has made them much happier than the brief time they spent in day care.

So how you doin'?

Not bad, babe. Not bad.

We just picked up the keys to the new place. I'm gleeful.

Actually, my work in SL has intrigued people, some of whom are former clients for graphic design work. I work for myself, /with/ someone who is not my employer. I work the hours I choose and am quite content with my schedule and interaction.

Uh, sure, sweetcheeks. McD's is going to provide health benefits. That's "reality".

Let's sit you down and discuss this like adults for a moment, shall we?

I live in a somewhat isolated area. The gas to go to a minimum wage job, combined with child care for my kids (especially the youngest, who isn't what most people consider "normal" would render any minimum wage job a negative income. I would lose money by working outside the home, whereas my current income in SL is largely profit.

I also enjoy what I do in SL, and see no detriment to my resume or my children because of it; my time with the girls, in fact, has made them much happier than the brief time they spent in day care.

But if there's someone else somewhere who can do what you do... you ain't got nothin'.

SqueezOne, post some more. Earn the contempt of even more people.

I dump on very few people in these forums. The ones I do dump on, IMO, richly deserve it. I do not act otherwise.

I have seen trollers here. I have seen intellectually dishonest people here, some in the service of their financial self-interest, and some in the interest of their ideological stands they take for their own neurotic needs. I sometimes dump on them, and when I do, it is because I feel honored to do so.

And some are really sick. I think you are in that category. Go take your pathetic rationalizations about your vicious posts in this thread elsewhere. See a therapist, if one can stand to talk to you. Otherwise, eat rat poison. But leave normal, healthy human society alone. Things are tough enough to deal with, without the likes of you. You are subtracting from the sum total of human knowledge.

What about using SL as a platform for creative and artistic expression?

I'm a RL creative working in the fields of video and art direction.

In SL, I'm learning new photography techniques and new post-production (Photoshop) skills I haven't ever tried before in RL. I'm probably learning more new things about Photoshop with SL-based projects than any new skills I've gained with RL projects in the past several years. (Thanks to inworlders Baron Grayson, yann Mip and Torley Linden for your influences, inspirations and guidance.)

I'm learning about machinima (virtual filmmaking), the different ways to produce it inworld and how to develop those projects for viewing on the internet -- and eventually how to "broadcast" it back in SL, as well.

Finally, I'm currently in rehearsals for a theatre production that someone in SL wrote specifically for an SL-related subculture. I'm learning about virtual world stagecraft, too. Theatre in SL. Yeah.

How cool is all that?

I have a "to do" list of a bunch of things I still want to explore in SL. For example, I used to be a DJ in RL and I want to do that here again. I love museums and I have a really cool idea for one that I'm going to build and promote. And, lately, I've decided that I want to learn how to make jewelry. Really, really cool jewelry. Edgy looking stuff.

My SL partner recently told me about his hobby of restoring antique furniture. He's started to build furniture in SL now.

And we've both talked about opening an SL sports bar together, with things like sports videos and an ESPN audio feed. That is, if we can figure those things out.

There's a lot more going on inworld than just "socializing." Anybody who thinks otherwise needs to get out of the clubs and malls a little more often.

I know I come across pretty blunt sometimes and that a lot of people can't take it very well, but why should I stifle my opinion because of others' weaknesses? I explained why I felt what I felt and addressed the issues brought up in response to my opinion. Simple as that.

Because there's a good chance you'll get the banhammer.

Incidentally, you've inferred that a *very* good friend of mine, someone who I know is a *hero* of a parent, and likely to sacrifice her enjoyment of life to that thankless cause permanently, is an unfit parent.

I have only one request of you, sir. PLEASE join secondcitizen.com. I'll have a resident answer awaiting you there.

I say I've been playing in SL when that's what I've been doing. Heh, but most the time? It's hunting (big game?), investigating, working, doing, "ripping SL a new one", dialoging the improvements, attending classes (pertaining to: SL[x,y,z], FL, AR*, and the future)

SL is a new shore. Regardless weather it dies tomorro, it clearly undeniably begins to articulate how we shall express ourselves. (Lord knows we need a lot of help there).

Is that a job, a game, a carreer, or a calling? I can't say. But that i dain to spend my time here regardless of financial reward; Would that be cause to "rip me a new one"? Heh, I dare you to try.






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hey Har was going to put you on my buddy list but wanted to ask first. no emails so's i askin here.

Because there's a good chance you'll get the banhammer.

Incidentally, you've inferred that a *very* good friend of mine, someone who I know is a *hero* of a parent, and likely to sacrifice her enjoyment of life to that thankless cause permanently, is an unfit parent.

I have only one request of you, sir. PLEASE join secondcitizen.com. I'll have a resident answer awaiting you there.